We’ve been keeping tabs on The Saint Johns since 2012, when Louis Johnson and Jordan Meredith started the project upon moving to Nashville. We hosted them at one of our Acme showcases, took you on the road with them through our three part tour diary, and have been hyping the release of their upcoming debut full length, Dead Of…
Our friends at Mercy Lounge are turning 16 this year (though they don’t look a day over 10, yet are still somehow able to drink), and are delivering the presents to us, the music fans. Over two consecutive Friday nights (Jan. 22 and Jan. 29), starting at 8pm, they will be hosting two jam…
It’s another weekend packed with local shows highlighting some of the best that Music City has to offer. A few of these artists are promoting some incredible upcoming albums that you should all be excited about, but we also have another edition of DANAFEST featuring an all out romp of some of the best…
One of the most exciting events of 2015 was the opening of The Basement East, which brought a proper 400-ish cap venue to Nashville’s growing East Side. Since the venue’s grand opening blowout back in April, the bills have continued to astound, featuring incredible shows like a couple of unexpected Cage The Elephant dates, metal gods…
Our friends at Palaver Records are celebrating the third anniversary of their weekly Palaver Thursdays show series TONIGHT, Jan. 14 in a blowout fashion. The super-sized event features 19 artists over both stages at their typical spot of fooBAR, as well as across the street at The East Room, and includes blog faves like Tetherball, Allen Thompson, Kim…
We introduced the new sounds from CHALAXY to you when we premiered their single, “Dizzy,” back in May of 2015, and the new record sporting that track, titled Pronoia, just dropped today. It’s a doozy of reverb doused, experimental psych rock jams that are sure to put CHALAXY on the map with new listeners…
Welcome in 2016, and welcome in a full slate of shows around Music City this weekend. Apparently, the holiday lull is over for all of us, as we dig into a loaded local weekend of great tunes. Head below to get your 2016 off to a good start, with all of our staff picks…
We told you to snag up tickets in a hurry for the Nashville return of Kurt Vile & The Violators on Feb. 25. It seems that a number of you heeded that advice, because, after selling out Exit/In, the show has been moved to larger sister venue Marathon Music Works. All original tickets will be honored, and…
As we have for the past few years, we have ranked all of our collective favorite records of 2015 from both a National and Nashville perspective. To come up with a list, our staff nominated their top local records, and then we had a vote to rank the results. If you saw our Best National Records of 2015…