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Local Americana five-piece Georgia English and the Jukebox Kids have just independently released their debut full-length, Good Girls, and are one of the many bands set to play Nashville’s Ink N Iron festival in August. English developed her rootsy soul sound busking as a teenager in the subway stations of San Francisco, and her humorous Americana will fit in…
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Los Angeles-based mariachi band Mariachi El Bronx, the alter ego of acclaimed hardcore punk group The Bronx, mix the traditional Mexican genre with indie pop on their new album Mariachi El Bronx III. The eight-piece group have been getting some positive attention for their new record, which is being hailed their best yet. The band have…
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Bluesy vintage pop songstress Whoa Dakota has just released a new video for her single “Banshee,” which is a taste of her forthcoming EP I’m a Liar, due out Aug. 6. The video was shot by Chris Gil and Gavin Shea at Handmade Studios here in Nashville, using flashing lights that suit the more poppy, electronic aesthetic of the…
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Ambient local supergroup lylas have just released the track “Sensual People” from their upcoming record Warm Harm. The rotating cast of the players include members of Stone Jack Jones, Lambchop, Coupler, Natural Child, and The Features, as all of lylas serves as a sort of song-making collective for singer/banjo player Kyle Hamlett. “Sensual People” came…
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R&B singer ZZ Ward is showing off a poppier, more electronic sound on the two songs she’s released from her upcoming record This Means War, “Love 3X” and “Lonely.” That first single has been remixed by five different big-name producers, with one remix being released each day this week. This is a new direction for…
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Fast-rising local up-and-comers the all-girl alternative pop band Daddy Issues just released their debut record on Infinity Cat, and are opening up for Elvis Depressedly, Mitski, and Eskimeaux at The End on this Saturday, July 11. Mitski and Eskimeaux are both New York-based indie rock female solo projects with recent acclaimed records under their belts, Bury Me at Makeout…
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The dream of the nineties will be alive in Nashville on 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. The group split up after frontwomen and founders Nina Gordon and Louise Post got into…
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You know those lucky people who brag about having seen your favorite band back when they were playing tiny clubs? For me it’s the jerks in Detroit who got to see The White Stripes play the Gold Dollar back when they were still married and Jack White was making chairs for his day job. Well,…
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The Melvins. Photo by Gary Acquaro. The Melvins w/ Le Butcherettes Exit/In; Nashville, TN July 5, 2015 Review by Jacqui Sahagian. Photos by Gary Acquaro. On Sunday night, grunge pioneers the Melvins rocked a sold-out house at Exit/In, the packed crowd of punks, metalheads, and general rock and roll fans of varying ages exhibiting how many boundaries the…
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Folk singer Rhiannon Giddens of the critically acclaimed string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops released her T Bone Burnett-produced debut solo album Tomorrow Is My Turn to rave reviews earlier this year and has just been announced she’s making a stop at Marathon Music Works on Wednesday, Oct. 7 in support . Tomorrow Is…