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Live on the Green Kicks Off 2018 Season Aug. 9 w/ Dispatch, The Wood Brothers, Mt. Joy, and Roscoe & Etta
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
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
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
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!
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…
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Don’t Miss Sucré & DK the Drummer | TONIGHT @ The Basement East!
What began as a sort of solo/side project for stellar singer and multi-instrumentalist Stacy King, towards the end of her time with famed former group (and sibling act) Eisely, Sucré has, every few years, seemingly gone through a creative, sonic, and personnel revision, landing on the stylish, layered, electro-laced sound they’ve recently adopted. Sucré’s gorgeous debut…
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Ron Gallo Announces New LP, Nov. 17 Basement East Show | Hear “It’s All Gonna Be OK” Now
Though he cut his teeth a decade ago with eclectic, Philadelphia based group Toy Soldiers, local rocker Ron Gallo has been both cultivating an impressive solo career and cementing his place as a fixture in the Nashville scene since relocating to Music City a few years back. After an exploratory first record, RONNY, not long after his…
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Fucked Up to Play The High Watt Nov. 13
Since first springing out of the Toronto underground hardcore scene nearly two decades ago, prolific outfit Fucked Up have become one of the most interesting, enduring, and constantly evolving acts in the scene, attracting critical acclaim and a cult following along the way. Though it’s been four years since their last formal full-length, 2014’s Glass Boys, Fucked Up…
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Alanna Royale Debut “Cruel Cruel World” Video Ahead of New LP | See Them TONIGHT at Basement East!
We’ve written about breakout local act Alanna Royale more times than we can count at this point (since literally their first show), and for good reason- they’re one of the absolute best bands to emerge from Music City in recent years. After moving from Boston in the summer of 2012, frontwoman Alanna Quinn-Broadus and guitarist Jared Colby quickly and organically formed…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Bit Brigade w/ The Daytona Machines & The Mad Gear | Aug. 10 @ Exit/In
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…