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Bonnaroo Artist | The Lemon Twigs Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | Thursday | That Tent | 9:45pm As we’ve been doing for the past several years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorites acts from from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2017 lineup. As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a…
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One of our favorite rising acts (and the headliners of, without a doubt, the craziest Acme show we’ve ever hosted), Louisville’s White Reaper are out in support of their awesome, evolutionary new album, The World’s Best American Band, which will bring them back to Nashville May 12 for their largest local show to date, at The Basement East! With support…
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As we told you last week, One Direction’s Harry Styles, the latest former boy band star to make a pivot towards a more adult-geared solo career, is set to play Nashville’s own Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 25, currently just the third show ever on the young singer’s first solo tour. Tickets will inevitably be nearly impossible to get ahold of…
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Celebrating the recent release of their first album in five years, Moh Lhean, genre-bending indie rockers WHY? are in town tonight, May 3 with support from local favorites Chaos Emeralds, for a Blue Room show at Third Man Records, set to be recorded live. Fronted by Yoni Wolf, since becoming a proper band over a decade ago WHY? have have found…
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Famed local rock outfit Paramore sprung back to life last month, with the surprise release of a new single, “Hard Times,” and news that their long-awaited fifth album, After Laughter, recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A and produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, will finally arrive May 12 via Fueled By Ramen. As the new record’s debut inches closer, the band…
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After bringing both alt metal titans Tool and weirder alt/experimental project Puscifer to town last year, and appearing solo at City Winery in support of his memoir, eclectic (and incredibly busy) rocker Maynard James Keenan is back tonight, May 3 to Bridgestone Arena to complete the whole set, returning with his alt/hard rock supergroup A Perfect Circle for their first tour…
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A breakout force in Nashville’s emo/indie punk scene of the last few years, Free Throw garnered national attention with the release of their debut LP, Those Days Are Gone, in 2014, and have been touring the world since, sharing the stage with bigger and bigger acts, all the while maintaining their DIY ethos and punk roots, channeling a pure, unabashed love…
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Before we get into Father John Misty‘s new video, without a doubt one of his Father John Misty-est efforts of all time, a quick PSA: if you haven’t yet bought tickets to the indie rocker’s Sept. 26 debut at The Ryman, which we told you about last month, and have any desire to go, you’d better buy those tickets NOW,…
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As we told you earlier this spring, resident breakout Americana singer Jason Isbell is preparing to release a new album, The Nashville Sound, June 16 via Southeastern Records, reconvening with backing band The 400 Unit after a two-album hot streak alone, with 2013’s Southeastern and 2015’s Something More Than Free. Produced by Dave Cobb, who also also helmed those two efforts, and recorded at…
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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 just announced a huge run of makeup dates, plus a ton of new ones, set to commence later this year and now dubbed the State of…