Immediately, the combination of southern rock and anti-establishment politics seems contradictory. The hillbilly rhythms and big all-balls-no-brains guitars smack of good-ole-boy to me–a skinny dude who went to a high school filled with no-neck jocks who worked on acquiring dumber, more country accents. If you’re going to sound like a good-ole-boy then your raging against good-ole-boys isn’t going to go over well.
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Venus Hum — the electro-pop trio of Kip Kubin, Tony Miracle and Annette Strean — may very well be Nashville, Tennessee’s ambassadors of goodwill. At once, they defy expectations of what a “Nashville” band sounds like and represent all the great things about the city’s music scene. Though no Nashville-bred pop-electronica movement surrounds them, Venus Hum share the diligence, intelligence and superb song-craft of every great band from the city.
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