Returning to town for their first headlining show of the year, after a supporting spot with MISSIO a few months back, and marking their first Music City stop since the release of buzzy new LP No Place Is Home, eclectic alt rock up and comers Welshly Arms are set to headline Exit/In on Oct. 10! A bill stacked with…
Out in support of their fantastic, nuanced, and essential recent fourth album, High as Hope, London’s Florence + the Machine are set to return to Music City for the first time in three years to play their biggest local headliner to date tonight, Oct. 2 at Bridgestone Arena with buzzy, young electropop up and comer Billie Eilish. Now more than a decade…
Celebrating a new album, a shifted lineup, and their most radical sonic departure to date (good luck pegging them an Americana band with anything on their latest LP), Indiana’s Houndmouth are set to return to town for the first time in a couple of years to headline Mercy Lounge [note: previously scheduled for Marathon Music Works; previously purchased…
It’s been seven years since we first introduced you to local indie group Best Friend, who, from their (and our) earliest days, we watched grow from a lo-fi surf rock teenaged outfit to a more indie, shoegaze project, releasing several albums along the way, and maintaining regional buzz. In later years, and through last year’s…
Formed in 1991 by frontman and only constant, Trever Keith, SoCal group Face to Face are best known for being a seminal act in the ’90s punk scene, finding prominence during that decade’s pop punk explosion, notably breaking out with 1995 sophomore LP Big Choice. As the punk and pop punk scene has ebbed and flowed in the…
Boasting an expanded new lineup and celebrating their 13th LP and first in two years, Magick Songs, local garage and psych rock icons turned experimental, art rock weirdos JEFF the Brotherhood are returning to the east side for the first time in awhile, to headline The Basement East on Oct. 9! A JEFF show, especially with new tunes in tow,…
Most often when an artist announces a “double album release,” you think of a bloated LP with twice as many tricks. For eclectic, impressionistic local alternative rocker Tony Raney, however, it’s a much more ambitious undertaking: the simultaneous release of two distinctly different records, Soft & Dirty and Zoonosis, each with their own distinct sonic and thematic…
Punk/glam/hard rock icon Billy Idol made history more than a decade ago with the 1985 release of his remix album, Vital Idol. Years before dance-floor primed remixes were widely in vogue, Idol helped cement the vibrancy of the genre in the late ’80s, all the while continuing to release his own seminal original work, and has…
Still celebrating the recent release of his fantastic new full-length, Wished Out, My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, a favorite of the local scene, is set to headline Mercy Lounge on Oct. 6 with genre-bending instrumental duo Steelism. One of the first must-see local shows of the fall, Broemel, has, as a solo artist, established himself as a captivating, thoughtful, and ever-evolving…