Held annually at the end of Pride Month, the long-running Nashville Pride Festival is an important celebration of our city’s LGBTQIA community, and has, since beginning with a parade in 1988, grown to become a huge and revelrous affair, complete with performances from big-name musical acts. This weekend, the festival returns to Public Square Park on June 24 &…
Now in its ninth season, Nashville’s annual Live on the Green music fest is set to return Thursday, Aug. 10, spanning, as it has for the last several years, across four weeks, Aug. 17 & 24, ending with an epic three-day Labor Day weekend event Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Per usual, LOTG is all ages, totally FREE, and features a variety of local…
After the surprise recent release of epic single “Run,” and its hilarious accompanying music video, we knew the Foo Fighters were gearing up to make good on the promise of new music, and that tour news would inevitably be on the way as well. Today we got confirmations of both, and, lucky for us, the band are making…
Experiencing something of a second wind, LA’s Rooney, now effectively a solo vehicle for frontman Robert Schwartzman, are set to return to return to town June 28 for a performance at The High Watt, less than a year after their first Music City show in ages, itself part of a run in support of their first album in six…
Though Tampa, Florida’s Merchandise adopt a nearly impossible to pin down sound, rooted in pop, shoegaze, noise rock, and post-punk, their origins actually trace back to the punk and hardcore scene, adding a definite earnestness and aggression, if not directly inflicting what they’ve become, while still maintaining something of a cult following in the punk world.…
As we’ve mentioned before, The Movie Gang are a Franklin-based group of friends and movie buffs, founded a year and a half ago and featuring New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert, who periodically host screenings of cult classic films at the historic Franklin Theatre. Among their selections, the group have showed favorites like like Mean Girls, Karate Kid, Willy Wonka…
The original guitarist and co-founder of seminal (and criminally under appreciated) New York proto-punk outfit Television, Richard Lloyd has been fostering a fantastic solo career for nearly just as long. Though he left the reunited Television a decade ago, Richard still possesses much of the band’s original spirit and musical knack, and continues to tour solo, his…
Partially Nashville based alt/indie/electro rock icons MUTEMATH recently announced their fifth album, Play Dead, with an epic new single “Hit Parade,” which both calls back to the band’s earlier, fan favorite work, and infuses their time and influences on the road and in collaboration with twenty one pilots last year, boasting huge hooks and progressive instrumentation to stunning,…
The latest project from precocious 16-year-old high school student Lydia Night, Los Angeles group The Regrettes are fast establishing themselves as a formidable force in the rock scene, combining an affinity for retro pop and doo-wop with grungy, contepomnry garage punk stylings, all laced with unabashedly feminist themes and riot grrrl vibes. Though definitely raw and reflective…
We’re fresh off of another amazing Bonnaroo, and our summer festival season is in full swing. Next up for us is Louisville’s Forecastle Festival, which takes place July 14-16, 2017 at the city’s downtown Watefront Park, and is one of our favorite fests in the nation, with its picturesque downtown setting and incredibly well organized setup! Forecastle revealed its initial…