This week’s Music to Your Ears dishes up the 411 on shows in genres ranging from poppy garage-punk to doomcream R&B to indie rock to folk. Listen to tracks from featured acts below. Synchro Studio • Low Culture • Pregnant, Again • Harbors • Downplay Music • Sat Jan 12 • 7:30 pm • $6 • ALL-AGES!
southern rock

Ryan Maddox
Music to Your Ears
Whether you’re hankering for poppy garage-punk, doomcream R&B, folk or Southern rock, Music to Your Ears has you covered.
V.20 No.41 |
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A Non-Skynyrd Fan Reflects on Going to a Skynyrd Concert
What? I Can't Hear You.
I never really got that whole "southern rock" thing. Lynyrd Skynyrd in particular. "Free Bird" seems like it has to violate several international treaties dealing with wanton cruelty.
V.19 No.9 | 3/4/2010

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Trainwreck
Tenacious D’s Southern rock spin-off pulls into town
Do you love bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and ZZ Top as much as you love a fine woman with a towering perm who wears jeans cut so high the fabric reaches past that perm? Would you rather drink a six-pack of Bud on a lawn chair in the bed of your truck than sip wine at one of those fancy Olive Gardens? Does your arm bear the symbol of freedom that is an eagle sheathed in the American flag? If you answered any of these with a spirited “Shit Yeah!,” then read on, y'all.