The Round Table

When I think of music mashups, I think of Girl Talk – or I did. However, Gregg Gillis isn’t the only mash artist on the block.

Enter: DJ Earworm, who has created this year’s hottest mashup track, using Billboard’s top 25 songs of the year. Not only is this track hot as hell, I would go so far as to say it’s better than most of the songs that make it up. (Except, of course, Kelly Clarkson, since we adore her)

Regardless, these tracks have found able hands on the part of DJ Earworm, who – literally – wrote the book on music mashups.

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This past weekend, a few friends and I piled in a jeep and trekked to  North Carolina for a brief escape from the daily grind. We received a tip that one of my favorite indie artists, Tony Lucca, was performing at The Evening Muse in downtown Charlotte on July 4th with another group called The Benjy Davis Project so we figured we catch the show.

Since we’re always in search of good, new music, we arrived early to watch The Benjy Davis Project who opened for Tony. We were very impressed as we were treated  to a flawless set, which began with Benjy Davis performing a few acoustic numbers solo. He was later joined by his backing band including Mic Capdevielle (drums), Matt Rusnak (bass guitar), and Jonathan Lawhun (electric guitar).

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