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Dashboard Confessional to Play The Ryman May 11
Earlier this year, now-local emo trailblazers Dashboard Confessional played a sold-out, very special five night residency at The Basement East (along with a surprise acoustic show at The Basement), featuring support from an exciting crop of up and coming local bands, the cap-off to an intimate club tour, before hitting the road for a larger summer…
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Margo Price to Play The Ryman May 19, 20, & 23 [UPDATED]
File under: inevitable but exciting- Nashville’s own Margo Price, whose musical rise over the past couple of years has been meteoric, will headline The Ryman Auditorium for the first time ever on May 19. As we’ve covered extensively, Price broke through to national acclaim with her solo debut, the phenomenal Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, just last year, and followed it up…
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Big Surr Host Farewell Show | TONIGHT @ Little Harpeth w/ Couches, Hari, & Mateja
A longtime local mainstay, breezy, poppy, grungy indie rockers Big Surr sprung onto our radar with 2010 debut EP Miss You Most, and proceeded to become an indispensable part of Nashville’s DIY scene, before slowing down as frontwoman Helen Van returned to her native Ohio for grad school then briefly relocated to San Fransisco, before finally settling back…
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See Janet Jackson’s State of the World Tour | TONIGHT @ Bridgestone Arena
After putting the second half of her massive Unbreakable World Tour on pause at the start of last year to focus on the birth of her son, Eissa, r&b/pop megastar Janet Jackson is currently in the midst of a huge run of makeup and new dates, now dubbed the State of the World Tour. While Jackson already made it to Nashville…
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Catch Becca Mancari w/ Good Buddy & Bermuda Triangle | TONIGHT @ 3rd & Lindsley
Earlier this fall, on Oct. 6, local indie country/folk rock singer-songwriter and longtime site fave Becca Mancari released her debut full-length, Good Woman, a dreamy, road-worn, forlorn, and confessional culmination and documentation of several years of travel and transformative life experiences, funneled into an absolutely beautiful and earnest masterpiece, a triumph of a debut that should be on…
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[REMINDER] Don’t Miss The Dream Syndicate w/ Elephant Stone | TONIGHT @ The High Watt
Touring on their first album since 1988, and one they’ve spent five years reunited and working towards in an organic and inspired way, seminal LA post-punk outfit The Dream Syndicate are set to play The High Watt tonight, Dec. 7 with Canadian psych rockers Elephant Stone, for what appears to be their first Music City outing in at least three decades.…
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Catch Trophy Eyes, Free Throw, Grayscale, & Head North | TONIGHT @ The End
’90s nostalgia is all the rage right now, and Australia’s Trophy Eyes seem unabashed in borrowing visual and sonic cues from the decade. Their sound, however, lands more in the realm of pop punk, with flourishes of angst and melodic hardcore peppered in. The group are still out in support of last year’s fantastic…
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[REMINDER] Don’t Miss The Districts w/ Harpooner & Sun Seeker | TONIGHT @ Mercy Lounge
Out in support of their third and best LP to date, Popular Mechanics, Philadelphia eclectic indie rock outfit The Districts are set to return to town for the third time in just as many years to headline Mercy Lounge tonight, Dec. 3. Joining them are two local faves, retro pop outfit Harpooner and buzzy indie and folk-tinged outfit Sun Seeker, for one solid show…
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Simple Plan Celebrate 15 Years of ‘ No Pads, No Helmets…’ | TONIGHT @ Cannery Ballroom w/ Hit The Lights & Patent Pending
15 years ago, Canadian pop punks Simple Plan erupted to international fame, thanks to their infectiously catchy and well-timed debut, No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls, which hit right at the moment pop punk was about to become the dominant force in rock for a few years (thanks to the breakout success of acts like Blink-182, Green Day,…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Black Pistol Fire w/ Cobi | Dec. 8 @ The Basement East
Out on the road in support of their excellent new album Deadbeat Graffiti, beloved blues rock duo Black Pistol Fire return to Music City on Dec. 8 for a Basement East show along with soulful pop standout Cobi. An electrifying and celebrated live force, if you haven’t yet seen what BPF can do in person, you should remedy that immediately, whether you’re…