
After around a dozen performances at Bridgestone Arena over the past decade, pop megastar and former/sometimes Nashville resident Taylor Swift has opted to elevate to stadiums rather than multi-night runs at arenas for her biggest and most epic tour yet, in support of last year’s smash sixth album, Reputation, which sees her return to Music City tonight, Aug. 25 at Nissan Stadium, headlining the massive…
One of the most beloved and iconic groups in modern punk, Chicago’s Alkaline Trio formed over two decades ago, finding swift success in the underground scene thanks to a pair of phenomenal and fan-favorite early albums and relentless touring, before breaking through to broader mainstream recognition with 2001’s From Here to Infirmary and Good Mourning, which hit just as…
After first reemerging from hiatus in 2016, and releasing their comeback album, Cry Cry Cry, last year, beloved indie rockers Wolf Parade are set to return to Nashville for the first time since 2010, to headline The Basement East tonight, Aug. 24 with buzzy Chicago indie punks Lala Lala. Along with favorites like Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade were an…
Natives of Atlanta, Microwave‘s frequent trips to Music City managed to catch our eye a few years back, and after the 2014 release of their incredible full-length debut, Stovall, we definitely weren’t the only ones singing the group’s praises. Funneling punk sensibilities into an indie and eclectic sound, also channeling elements of emo and post-hardcore, the band were able…
Music’s most famous married duo, pop and r&b icon Beyoncé and hip hop trailblazer Jay-Z teamed up back in 2014 for their first joint tour, dubbed On the Run. A critical and commercial smash, though only a few short years ago, the outing feels like a lifetime when you consider everything that’s happened in the pair’s lives since. Mere…
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,…
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 tonight, Aug. 21 for a performance at Ascend Ampitheater with electro-folk up and comers Tall Heights. Cake’s first Nashville show proper in…
Live on the Green w/ Cold War Kids, Car Seat Headrest, Colony House, *repeat repeat Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 16, 2018 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Amber J. Davis. After a great (and slightly rainy) first week, which included Dispatch, The Wood Brothers, Mt. Joy, and Roscoe & Etta, Live on the…
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 tonight, Aug. 19 at The Basement East,…
It’s a cool week for concerts at Third Man Records, and, after an intimate turn from indie rockers Franz Ferdinand last night, tonight‘s Blue Room show, Aug. 16, is an especially exciting one for punk fans. Austin’s A Giant Dog, who supported dates on Jack White’s Boarding House Reach tour earlier this year, are bringing their brash, vulnerable, and…