Two exciting, rising acts, LA folky, indie group Mt. Joy, who just made their Bonnaroo debut last month, and Illinois indie rocker Trevor Sensor, whose recent debut LP should be a staple on your summer playlist, are set to play The Basement tonight, July 20, and given the buzz surrounding both acts, it might be the last chance to see them…
As she gears up to release her sophomore LP and first for Matador Records, ambient, indie rocker Julien Baker continues to be an unstoppable force, touring the world, sharing the stage with big names like Death Cab for Cutie, Conor Oberst, The Decemberists, and Belle & Sebastian, and generally riding high on the well-deserved buzz surrounding her…
Squarely entering the territory of “punk legacy act,” goth-leaning pop punk legends AFI seem to be adopting a pattern of emerging every few year to renewed interest, new music in tow and ready to tour. They last hit Nashville three and a half years ago, and will return tonight, July 19 in celebration of their eponymous, return to…
Just days after wowing us in Louisville at Forecastle Fest (and a year after an epic comeback at Bonnaroo), beloved Brooklyn dance punk outfit LCD Soundsystem have expanded their fall U.S. tour to include an Oct. 20 stop at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, their first time ever properly playing Music City. The legendary band, led by scene veteran James…
This weekend, July 14-16, marks the return of Louisville’s annual Forecastle Festival, one of our favorite regional musical events. From its humble beginnings in 2002, Forecastle has grown to become a national festival fixture, drawing 10s of thousands of attendees each year to the picturesque downtown Waterfront Park, for three days of music, art, activism, and, of course, Kentucky…
Out in support of their new seventh album Whiteout Conditions, Canadian indie rock supergroup The New Pornographers are set to make their return to Music City this Sunday, July 16 at Exit/In, for their most intimate local performance in years. The New Pornos alone are a perfromance you don’t want to miss, but making this evening all the more essential is the…
This weekend, July 14-16, marks the return of Louisville’s annual Forecastle Festival, one of our favorite regional musical events. From its humble beginnings in 2002, Forecastle has grown to become a national festival fixture, drawing 10s of thousands of attendees each year to the picturesque downtown Waterfront Park, for three days of music, art, activism, and, of course, Kentucky…
By virtue of being an acoustic duo in the emo/indie punk space usually reserved for gang vocals and power chords, California’s This Wild Life are already something of an anomaly, but with their latest LP, Low Tides, they prove even more resistant to being put in a box. Out in support of their latest, the band return…
This weekend, July 14-16, marks the return of Louisville’s annual Forecastle Festival, one of our favorite regional musical events. From its humble beginnings in 2002, Forecastle has grown to become a national festival fixture, drawing 10s of thousands of attendees each year to the picturesque downtown Waterfront Park, for three days of music, art, activism, and, of course, Kentucky…
Ahead of his highly-anticipated third full-length, White Noise, recently announced to arrive Sept. 22, beloved Seattle-based indie folk/rock singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen has announced an Oct. 26 show at Cannery Ballroom, where he last played in 2015, as part of a lengthy fall tour. The product of an ambitious and long writing and recording process, helmed by producer Nate Yaccino and with…