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Hong Meow is a hipster event planning superpower that puts on the best, under-the-radar parties in East Nashville at The East Room. Tonight’s shindig features five local bands: blues/funk group Oh Grandpa, female-fronted indie rock band Dr. Jungle Cat, blues duo Black Venus, folk singer-songwriter Elijah Newman, and glam folk solo artist Tree Read. Comedian Mary Jay Berger will be the MC…
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Vintage pop singer Whoa Dakota is celebrating the release of her new EP I’m a Liar at The Basement tonight, Aug. 6! If you caught her video for the lead single “Banshee,” you’ve already gotten to hear the more electronic, poppy direction the bluesy singer has taken with her new music. If you caught her at…
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Five of our favorite local up-and-coming artists are playing The East Room tonight, Aug. 3 for just $5, which is just why a venue like the East Room is so great. Dark dance songstress Lust and the Black Cat is headlining a night that also features heavy blues duo Black Venus, garage rock couple The Blue Velvets,…
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Rockabilly singer Jessica Lee Wilkes is a throwback artist inspired by the rock and roll and rhythm and blues made in the 1950s. Wanda Jackson is allegedly a fan, and Wilkes is certainly inspired to be a modern rockabilly femme fatale similar to that legendary songstress. Wilkes cut her teeth playing bass in the group…
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Veruca Salt w/ Charly Bliss, American Dream Mercy Lounge; Nashville, TN July 21, 2015 Review by Jacqui Sahagian. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. A close-to-sold-out crowd packed into the Mercy Lounge on Tuesday night to witness the reunion of nineties garage-pop cult icons Veruca Salt, who drew an incredibly enthusiastic response despite making the rowdy audience wait nearly…
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We’ve already been telling you lots about vintage pop singer ZZ Ward and her upcoming show at Marathon Music Works on September 4 in promotion of her upcoming sophomore album This Means War. She’s released two singles from the album, “Love3X” and “Lonely,” the first of which has been remixed by five different producers,…
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There’s a new AmericanaFest show coming to downtown Nashville’s newest outdoor venue, the Ascend Amphitheater, and the lineup is doozy for any fan of country or Americana music. This one-time-only mini fest will take place on Saturday, September 19 and will feature the Coal Miner’s daughter herself Loretta Lynn headlining, along with performances from the likes of…
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The dream of the nineties will be alive in Nashville tonight, July 21 when alt-pop band Veruca Salt play Mercy Lounge in support of their first new record with their original lineup since 1997’s Eight Arms to Hold You. Pop punk band Charly Bliss and local western dream pop act American Dream will open. We’ve filled you in…
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Elvis Depressedly. Photo by Gary Acquaro. Elvis Depressedly w/ Mitski, Eskimeaux, Daddy Issues The End; Nashville, TN July 11, 2015 Review by Jacqui Sahagian. Photos by Gary Acquaro. A very young crowd turned out at The End on Saturday night for a stacked bill of sad indie pop-rock featuring three touring acts and the local darlings Daddy…