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Creature Comfort & Airside Compete in FREE Road to Roo State Finals | TONIGHT @ Acme Feed & Seed
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After last week’s Road to Roo 2017 City Finals, the month-long, bracket-style battle of the bands competition comes to a close with the State Finals tonight, April 5 at Acme Feed & Seed. Whittled down from an initial 16 local competitors, just one band from Nashville, Creature Comfort, remain standing, and they’ll compete against Memphis winners Airside (who went through a…
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Catch A Will Away, Slow and Steady, Pocket Science, & Pale Lungs | TONIGHT @ The End!
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Out in support of the recently-released debut full-length, Here Again, Connecticut’s A Will Away have come a long way from their more conventional pop punk roots. After expanding their sound with 2015 EP Bliss, the group, who channel a style in the vein of the pop punk resurgence of a few years ago, where a wave of young and…
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See Thursday w/ Touché Amoré, Basement, & Wax Idols TONIGHT @ Marathon Music Works | Nashville Is The Reason After!
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Formed two decades ago in New Brunswick, NJ, seminal post-hardcore act Thursday, who rose to fame in the early ’00s adjacent to the booming emo and pop punk scene, found a loyal and widespread fanbase after breakthrough 2001 effort Full Collapse. Channeling dark and earnest lyrical themes and a heavy, visceral, and driving musical style, the group…
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[NO COUNTRY PREMIERE] Volunteer Gets Personal on Sophomore EP ‘The World Is Ours’
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Shortly after beginning to make sweeping indie/pop rock music under the moniker Volunteer in 2014, Orlando, FL native Cory Quintard relocated to Nashville, where he’s since been busy cultivating Volunteer’s sound and building a passionate fanbase. The project’s first EP, The World Will Begin Again, arrived in early 2015, spawning several singles that managed to drum up buzz…
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Justin Timberlake, Eddie Vedder, Ryan Adams, More Announced for Epic 2017 Pilgrimage Fest
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When Justin Timberlake signed on as a partner and producer ahead of last year’s second annual Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, we hoped that that mean that the Memphis native turned local resident, who, along with his creative director Trace Ayala, joined festival founders and producers Kevin Griffin, Brandt Wood, and Michael Whelan, might eventually headline, or at…
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Don’t Miss Karen Elson w/ Odessa | TONIGHT @ Third Man Records!
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Seven years after her debut, The Ghost Who Walks, singer Karen Elson is finally prepping to release a followup, Double Roses, this Friday, April 7 via 1965 Records. A self-proclaimed “post-divorce” record, intentionally crafted away from Nashville in an effort to recapture her Englishness, Elson’s latest marks a shift to much more personal songwriting, and in addition to producer Jonathan Wilson, features contributions from…
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Bash & Pop to Play The High Watt May 24
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Following the 1991 disbandment of punk greats the Replacements (who briefly returned a few years back, before fizzling out once more in 2015), and several years before his near two-decade tenure in Guns ‘N Roses (which only came to an end when the group’s classic lineup mounted a reunion last year), the great Tommy…
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Cory Branan Recruits Laura Jane Grace, Dave Hause for New Single “I Only Know”
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As the April 7 release of local alt-country singer-songwriter Cory Branan‘s fifth album, ADIOS, inches closer, the singer, who really let his long-running punk roots flourish on what’s described as his “death record,” has made the whole thing available to exclusively stream via Noisey. Following folkier first single “Imogene” and recent heartland punk-leaning “Another Nightmare in America,” Branan unveiled another…
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Betty Who to Play Exit/In Aug. 25
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On the heels of her sophomore LP, The Valley, Australian born, New York based rising pop starlet Betty Who has expanded her “Party in The Valley” tour with a second leg of shows that returns her to Nashville for the first time in more than two years, Aug. 25 at Exit/In. After erupting onto the scene thanks to early single…
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PWR BTTM Premiere “Answer My Text” Video | See Them June 13 at Mercy Lounge
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We’ve been buzzing for a few months now about PWR BTTM‘s June 13 return to Nashville, where they’ll perform at Mercy Lounge, as well as the queer, New York punks’ forthcoming sophomore LP Pageant, for which they’ll be out in support. After unveiling upbeat, punk-leaning lead single and video “Big Beautiful Day,” the duo dropped a dramatic, anthemic ode to…