Returning to Nashville for the first time in a couple of years, with their latest, weirdest, best, and most topical album to date, Twerp Verse, in tow, indie rockers Speedy Ortiz are set to headline The High Watt on May 10. Along with experimental, multi-instrumentalist and rapper Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, as well as soulful, genre-defying up and comers Zenizen, this is…
Oklahoma indie rockers BRONCHO formed in 2010, making a strong debut with 2011’s Can’t Get Past the Lips. Rereleased in 2013, just before snagging placement on HBO’s Girls, the band were beginning to find a significant amount off buzz by the time of their sophomore effort, Just Hip Enough to Be a Woman, in 2014. Combining elements of early…
The solo vehicle of 19 year old Baltimore based indie rocker Lindsey Jordan, Snail Mail absolutely blew us away with her 2016 debut EP, Habit. The earnest, lo-fi, folk-informed effort is a personal, raw emotional masterpiece of an album, and firmly established Jordan as an artist to keep an eye on before she was…
In support of each of their previous two albums, Scottish synthpop trio CHVRCHES have played Nashville, graduating from an electrifying debut at Exit/In in 2013 to a phenomenal 2015 stop at Marathon Music Works (which featured a very memorable guest appearance from Paramore’s Hayley Williams, sparking an entire reworking of one of their singles and an…
Although it’s been over a year since Donald Glover effectively musically reinvented his Childish Gambino alter-ego with a transcendent, Grammy winning, critically lauded masterpiece of a third album, Awaken, My Love!, a soulful, psychedelic, adventurous and retro r&b departure from his more alternative hip hop earlier output, the record is still resonating hard with its extended cultural…
As you know, we’re pretty obsessed with Nashville’s flourishing, creative, and ever-growing pop scene, which, over just a few short years, has grown into one of the most relevant, communal, and noteworthy collections of pop artists in the nation. Tonight, April 26, our friends and fellow pop purveyors at Pøpsquad are hosting an especially stacked sampling…
Initially formed in 1989 by alt rock legend Kim Deal during a brief hiatus between the Pixies’ classics Doolittle and Bossanova, The Breeders soon became Deal’s primary musical outlet, following the former group’s disbandment in 1993, the same year The Breeders dropped their breakthrough, beloved sophomore effort Last Splash. A quick hiatus in 1995 gave way to a revolving lineup…
Indie/folk tinged, Katie Crutchfield-helmed project Waxahatchee, and folk/Americana group Hurray for the Riff Raff, led by Alynda Segarra, have crafted some of our favorite albums and played some of the best shows we’ve seen of the past several years. Both bands we’ve had an eye on since their early days, the two acts have passed through Nashville…
One of Nashville’s most exciting success stories of the last few years, neo-soul, Americana, and blues rock crooner Anderson East broke out in a big way with his excellent, Dave Cobb produced 2015 effort Delilah. In the three years since, East has continued to remain a prolific fixture around the Nashville scene, but has…