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[PREVIEW] SQÜRL @ Third Man Records | Tuesday, March 31
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If you’re at all familiar with the movies of independent director Jim Jarmusch, you might know that he has a special relationship with local rock star Jack White, having featured both Jack and Meg White in Coffee and Cigarettes and having used the Detroit house White grew up in for Only Lovers Left Alive. You might…
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Check Out Rock Doc “Revenge of the Mekons” at the Belcourt This Weekend
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It’s not very often we tell you guys to go to the movies, but this weekend there’s a very special film playing at the Belcourt that should be of interest to any fans of punk rock or really musical underdogs in general. Revenge of the Mekons is a new documentary about the British punk…
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[PREVIEW] Lucette w/ Justin Wells @ William Collier’s Tonight For Free!
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Folk country singer Lucette works in that dark Americana tradition that’s influenced by the authentic roots of country music and plays like a Southern gothic novel on vinyl. If that sounds like your cup of sweet tea, she’s playing the small bar William Collier’s (located in the Marathon complex) tonight for free. Fifth on the…
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Stone Jack Jones Releases Eerie Album ‘Love & Torture’ w/ In-Store @ Grimey’s
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Nashville solo artist Stone Jack Jones releases his sophomore album Love & Torture today, and from what we’ve heard, it’s taking traditional Americana and blues sounds that Jones has experimented with in the past to some very dark places. Jones has stared death in the face on more than one occasion due to a rare blood…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Steve Earle w/ The Mastersons @ City Winery 3.7.15
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Steve Earle. Photo by Brad Hochstetler. Steve Earle, The Mastersons City Winery, Nashville, TN Saturday, March 7, 2015 Review by Jacqui Sahagian Photos by Brad Hochstetler On Saturday night we caught the second night of alt-country legend Steve Earle‘s sold-out two-night stand at Nashville’s new and swanky City Winery. Opening were husband-and-wife duo The Mastersons, who count themselves…
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Alt Country Icon Steve Earle Playing Sold-Out Two-Night Stand at City Winery This Weekend
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If you like alternative country, then any of the artists you listen to owe a debt to genre pioneer Steve Earle. Earle arguably created the style in the late 1980s under the tutelage of Townes Van Zandt, and wrote songs that were recorded by legends including Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, the Pretenders,…
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If You Like Butts, Check Out Thelma and the Sleaze’s New Video
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Photo by Jake Giles Netter Thelma and the Sleaze are the most gloriously sleazy cock-rock band in all of Music City, and they’ve just released a new music video for the single “Maria” from their Heart Like a Fist EP. The clip serves as the official debut of their new four-piece line-up, as the…
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Third Man Announce “Get Behind Me Satan” Vinyl For Record Store Day
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Third Man Records brightened everyone’s dreary Tuesday when the label announced that finally, for the very first time, The White Stripes‘ fifth album Get Behind Me Satan will be available on vinyl just in time for Record Store Day 2015. Due to strange legal loopholes and a desired live rerecording that never happened, the record…
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[PREVIEW] Rock & Roll Bash w/ Secret Club, The NICNoS, The Cunning, & Megan Ruger @ 12th & Porter TONIGHT
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12th and Porter has put together a wildly diverse lineup for what they’re calling a Rock & Roll Bash tonight featuring one of our favorite new local punk bands, Secret Club. A lot of bands that would make Joey Ramone spin in his grave label themselves “punk” anymore, but Secret Club actually sound like they…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] JD McPherson w/ Dylan Pratt | 2.20.15 @ Mercy Lounge
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JD McPherson. Photo by Mick Leonardi. JD McPherson w/ Dylan Pratt Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN February 20, 2015 Review by Jacqui Sahagian. Photos by Mick Leonardi. Despite an official warning from the mayor and an ice storm the likes of which Nashville hasn’t seen in years, on Friday night the Mercy Lounge was packed with a…