Where there’s Smoke there is fire and Tony Stewart is definitely on fire right now after winning the first two Chase races of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

Taking the checkered flag for the 2nd Chase race, the Sylvania 300 run at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Tony Stewart

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Welcome to the Friday Music Blog on the Indie Republic Network. Since starting here I’ve been exposed to so many styles, genres, and types of music.

Meeting and interviewing artists who are ascending to the top of their game is a heady and addictive situation.

Music has long been a

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In a wild ride the Wonderful Pistachios 400 from Richmond International Raceway that marked the last race of the regular season produced some of the season’s best action to date.

Although the outcome of the race led to a Chase line-up that was unchanged from the green flag time period,

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Welcome to the Friday Music Blog on the Indie Republic Network.

Music is universally understood, appreciated, and used.

Through music communication is fostered and similarities and differences melt away.

Each week a different topic asks for selections from your point of view.

This is a place to expose, enlighten, and

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Earlier in the week Tony Stewart had dismissed himself as a serious contender for the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase. Monday’s running of the rain-delayed Geico 400 from Chicagoland Speedway left Tony Stewart negating his former statements with the first win of the Chase and his first win of the...

With muscles rippling and jaw clenched Houston Alexander brings fear and apprehension to his opponents in the cage, allowing doubt to override their senses and get them off balance. Houston Alexander has the might to back up his menacing presence and the ability to dispose of his conquest quickly and...

Welcome to the Friday Music Blog on the Indie Republic.

This week a legendary artist passed away who penned some of the greatest songs in Motown and music history.

Nick Ashford, half of the duo Ashford and Simpson, along with his wife Valerie Simpson, wrote classics like “Ain’t No Mountain

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