The Murfreesboro Pulse, a strikingly eye-catching answer to All the Rage, is positioned to be Murfreesboro’s premiere entertainment rag.

And unlike the painfully hip Rage with its cabal of 38-year-old writers pretending to be twenty-somethings, The Murfreesboro Pulse is actually written and edited by snarky college students. Who would’ve thunk it?

The debut issue hit newsstands around town recently, and the layout is colorful and easily accessible.

The Pulse features blog-esque pithings on the MTSU Recording Industry student-dominated music scene (not nearly as sarcastic as NashvilleZine, mind you) with a smattering of capsule reviews of movies released over Christmas break. Just don’t tell the kids that Chattanoga’s alternative weekly is also named The Pulse.

Filling the void of MTSU Sidelines’ canned entertainment tab, Flash, The Murfreesboro Pulse might have what it takes. Of course, the real test comes when Flash refugees Alan Laidlaw, Brandon Morrison and one Fritz Lang (that’s me) finally unravel The Little Man ’zine in a few weeks.

To the Pulse staff: you better watch your back, bitches.

? Joey Hood a.k.a. TV on the Fritz

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