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Chappell RoanFirstBank Amphitheater; Franklin, TNOctober 1, 2024 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. There is, perhaps, no single artist (certainly not in the pop space) having a more spectacular 2024 than Chappell Roan, whose debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, dropped just over a year ago to positive,…
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Made up of bassist Laura Lee, guitarist Mark Speer, and drummer DJ Johnson, genre-bending and acclaimed Houston, Texas trio Khruangbin first formed in the early 2010s, after Lee and Speer had previously met and collaborated around Texas, and served as backing players for electronic artist Yppah, before deciding to make music together full-time and…
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For more than a decade now, LA by way of Seattle electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist Robert DeLong has been dazzling us with his dance-primed, lush, and off-kilter musical stylings, informed by his background playing in indie and pop punk bands, a sensibility which sets him apart (and keeps him more instrumentally-rooted) than some of…
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Magdalena Bay‘s Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin first met as teens in their native Miami, bonding over shared musical influences and forming an early prog rock band. It was a few years later though, after reconnecting in college and eventually relocating to Los Angeles, that Magdalena Bay was born, pulling influences from synth-pop, alt-pop,…
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Now in its 55th year, the annual Nashville Film Festival returns to Music City this week, Sept. 19-25, boasting tons of incredible feature films, documentaries, shorts, world premieres, student films, creator panels, awards, and much more! More modestly-sized compared to some of the flashier fests around the nation like TIFF, Sundance, or Telluride, Nashville’s…
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Accomplished both as a pop artist in her own right, and a in-demand collaborator with artists like Quinn XCII, Louis the Child, Noah Kahan, Kygo, The Band CAMINO, and more, from pop to EDM to indie to folk, singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler has, perhaps, had no collaboration more successful or acclaimed than those with friend…
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It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years now since trailblazing and ionic power pop and alt rock outfit Weezer sprung onto the scene with their eponymous debut (more commonly referred to as the “Blue Album,” due to its cover and to the fact that they’ve released several more colorful self-titled albums since), an…

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One of the most exciting rock groups to come out of the UK in the last decade, frenetic and layered punk outfit IDLES first formed in 2009 in Bristol, England, where frontman Joe Talbot and bassist Adam Devonshire- friends from attending school together previously- had moved for university. Though they commanded a local following early on,…
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Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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A cult favorite band of the millennial pop punk scene, and one whose influence and legacy has only seemed to grow in the nearly-two-decades since they first called it quits, alt rock and pop punk outfit Something Corporate have been slowly staging a full-on reunion since news first broke that they’d appear at last…