It’s Tomato Art Fest weekend, and tens of thousands will be flooding into East Nashville for the annual homage to the late summer fruit. For those that don’t like to orelebrate botanical delights, there are plenty of other options on the platter to satiate your musical desires. Head below to check out all of…
Tomato Art Fest is coming up this weekend, Aug. 12 & 13, and, once again, we are here to help you get acquainted with the musical aspects of this year’s events on Friday and Saturday. Friday night features the “Block Party” in Five Points. While Saturday features three stages of music that will bring you pretty much anything…
As we’ve been telling you for weeks, standout local songwriter Cory Branan is set to host a very special evening of music tonight, Aug. 12 at The Basement East. The show will surely feature a healthy does of Branan’s excellent 2014 release No-Hit Wonder, and will showcase the artist’s ability to pogo between alt-country,…
The Jack White juggernaut has slowed down in the past year, after the Nashville based rocker announced that he would be “taking a break from performing live for a long period of time.” However, that hasn’t slowed White from helping to launch a record player into space, releasing a documentary on the recording industry, and,…
We’ve been riding on high with anticipation for Carl Broemel‘s new solo record since the first singles began surfacing. Some may know Broemel for his work with My Morning Jacket for the past decade now, but the Nashville resident appears to have incorporated his highly acclaimed guitar work with songwriting to match in his upcoming album,…
New York via central California rockers The Mystery Lights have been bringing their version of heavy fuzz infused rock, which conjures images of 60’s psych and 70’s punk, in some form or other for years. Now with a new home at Daptone imprint Wick Records, The Mystery Lights have been making the rounds in…
Save, perhaps, for Bonanroo (which shares the same production team) there is no other regional festival we can say that, without a doubt, we will attend every year without fail, and can count on to be as well-curated, well-organized, and endlessly fun as Forecastle Fest. We’ve made the trip four years in a row now, falling…
As we told you weeks ago, local rockers The Pink Spiders will reunite at Mercy Lounge on Saturday, Aug. 6 with their original lineup to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their major label debut, Teenage Graffiti. The 18+ show gets started at 9 p.m., and, as of our writing, $10 tickets are still available, but we are likely to…
Local boogie rockers Savoy Motel, made up of members of Cheap Time and Heavy Cream, have been pinging our radar for a while now, and we just can’t get enough of their new video for garage-y/glam inspired track, “Souvenir Shop Rock,” off of their upcoming self-titled debut LP, set to drop Oct. 21 via What’s…
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir has spent his life redefining music, and he gave us a taste of that as he helped close out Bonnaroo this summer. Just on the heels of touring with Dead & Company, Weir has announced his first solo album of original material in over 30 years. What’s perhaps more…