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REVIEW: Live on the Green ft. Dispatch, The Wood Brothers, Mt. Joy, and Roscoe & Etta | 8.9.18 [PHOTOS]
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Live on the Green w/ Dispatch, The Wood Brothers, Mt. Joy, and Roscoe & Etta Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 9, 2018 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Brendan Donohue. Kicking off its tenth season, the annual Live on the Green free festival series returned this week to Public Square Park, setting the bar high for yet another…
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No Country’s Guide to Tomato Art Fest 2018
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Heading into its 15th year, Tomato Art Fest has long been a quirky, beloved East Nashville staple, celebrating the local music and art community with tons of artisan vendors, free live music, vaguely and outright tomato themed activities, and more. The annual event returns this weekend, Aug. 11, with a special Kick-Off Concert and various early activities…
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[REMINDER] Catch Bit Brigade w/ The Daytona Machines & The Mad Gear | TONIGHT @ Exit/In
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With news that Nintendo’s retro box the NES Classic has been outselling flashier current-generation video game consoles this summer, it’s clear that video game nostalgia is all the rage. If that love for old Nintendo games has hooked you as well, then you’re going to want to meet Athens group Bit Brigade. Adopting conventional rock…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sleigh Bells w/ Torres | Aug. 19 @ The Basement East
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On the heels of a tour supporting Weezer and the Pixies which recently passed through town, and after a last-minute postponement of a planned headlining date earlier this year, Brooklyn noise pop duo Sleigh Bells are making their way back to Music City for a proper headliner, their first in several years, Aug. 19 at The Basement East, out…
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Art + Friends Spotlight: Canon Blue
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As we previously announced, famed local alt rockers Paramore are currently winding down the record cycle (or “era,” as they like to dub it) for last year’s phenomenal fifth album, After Laughter, which, over the past year, has included surprise stops at Exit/In and The End, a headlining outing at The Ryman, and the group’s debut at Bonnaroo,…
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Live on the Green Kicks Off 2018 Season Aug. 9 w/ Dispatch, The Wood Brothers, Mt. Joy, and Roscoe & Etta
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It feels like we were just bidding the 2017 season of Live on the Green farewell, but, here we are again, ready to kick off another exciting year of the annual free outdoor fest this Thursday, Aug. 9 at Public Square Park. Per the format adopted a few years back, Live on the Green will run four consecutive Thursdays and culminate…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Cake & Ben Folds w/ Tall Heights | Aug. 21 @ Ascend Amphitheater
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Teaming up for an epic, if somewhat oddball, pairing, two acts who first found fame in the mid-’90s, alt rockers Cake and singer-songwriter Ben Folds, will soon embark on a co-headlining summer tour, which brings them to Folds’ home of Nashville Aug. 21 for a performance at Ascend Ampitheater with electro-folk up and comers Tall Heights. Cake’s first Nashville show proper in seven…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Franz Ferdinand w/ POW! | Aug. 14 @ Cannery Ballroom
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There was a time (the bulk of their career, in fact) that Scottish post-punk realists turned indie dance rockers Franz Ferdinand never played Nashville, but, with a stellar new LP in tow, Always Ascending, the group are set to make their return after just one year, to headline Cannery Ballroom on Aug. 14! Along with buzzy up and coming San…
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[REMINDER] Catch Nahko and Medicine for the People w/ Raye Zaragoza | TONIGHT @ Marathon Music Works
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Out in support of both frontman Nahko Bear’s personal, transcendent “prequel” work, 2017’s My Name Is Bear, as well as their last “current,” full band-geared effort, 2016’s HOKA, Portland folk and world music outfit Nahko and Medicine for the People will return to Nashville tonight, Aug. 4 for their largest Music City headliner to date, at Marathon Music Works. With support from socially-charged…
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Catch Joan of Arc w/ Curt Castle | TONIGHT @ The High Watt!
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No family is, perhaps, more influential or inextricably linked to Chicago’s indie scene as the Kinsellas. Beginning in the late ’80s with seminal emo outfit Cap’n Jazz, brothers Tim and Mike (and sometimes their cousin Nate) went on to innovate and reinvent with so many now-classic subsequent projects, the former with Friend/Enemy, Everyoned, Make…