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Festival season is still a few months away, but, already, anticipation is heating up for this year’s stellar slate of nearby events. One of the most-anticipated 2019 lineups of all comes from from Louisville’s Forecastle Festival, a longtime No Country Favorite, which takes place July 12-14 at the city’s downtown Waterfront Park, a picturesque downtown setting for incredibly well-organized event. Forecastle…
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Touring in support of their first album in eight years (though they’ve been reunited for awhile), Rhode Island noise rock staples Daughters are set to play Music City for what appears to be the first time in at least a number of years tonight, Feb. 21 at Mercy Lounge with experimental, underground noise rock favorites Wolf Eyes and buzzy, rising Chicago industrial electro-goth…
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Now 15 years into their existence, instrumental Chicago based trio and longtime staples of the post-rock and post-metal scene, Russian Circles are set to return to Nashville for the first time since an unlikely but awesome Ryman appearance in support of Mastodon in 2017, for their first Music City headliner in as long as we can remember Feb.…
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Fans of jam-worthy funk, dance music, and EDM take note, Marathon Music Works is boasting one stacked lineup of unique performers tonight, Feb. 16, headed up by Kansas EDM meets funk and jazz infused brotherly duo The Floozies, who’ve had a huge and buzzworthy couple of years. Tapped for support are buskers turned beloved brass house trio Too Many…
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After springing back to life in 2016, and steadily showing how a proper reunion is done in the years since, with festival appearances easing into tour dates (including a 2017 return to Nashville), personal mending, attention to fan service, and the foresight not to overstay their buzz, beloved New Jersey post-hardcore icons Thursday are ready to wind…
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Nearly 20 years into their run, and well over a decade since breaking out to critical acclaim and commercial success, Atlanta indie/noise/garage/ambient punk/art rock outfit Deerhunter are back with their first album in four years, the stunning, recently released Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? In support, the group return to Nashville for the first time since 2016, this time…
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Though hardly a new musical fixture, profound and genius English artist Dev Hynes has found immense critical acclaim for his latest, r&b and electronic drenched solo vehicle Blood Orange, particularly since the release of last year’s stunning fourth album Negro Swan, widely regarded as one of if not the best album of 2018. On tour for…
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What began as something of a bedroom recording vehicle for principal songwriter Taylor Lowrance, local shoegaze-y, dreamy, poppy, and folk-tinged indie outfit Hari The Band have steadily become a buzzworthy underground fixture in recent years, rounded out by Ben Crannell and Brennan Walsh, who Lowrance met while performing in other projects within the Nashville indie scene (most notably, Shy…
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Buzzy local group Oginalii have seen their sound evolve from the stripped-down acoustic stylings of frontperson Emma Hoeflinger back in the project’s earliest days in 2013, to a hard to pin down, sludgy, hazy, psych-tinged, hard-hitting, genre and era spanning flavor of rock and roll across two EPs and a handful of songs, earning them a reputation…
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Celebrating their first album since 2014, which drops today, Feb. 14, the same day they play Nashville tonight for the first time in years, headlining The Basement East, Florida bred and now semi-local indie/alt rock fixtures Copeland have, with new effort Blushing, crafted their best record in years, and one that feels like a stunning encapsulation of the vast catalogue that came…