No strangers to Music City (last year alone they headlined The Ryman and Live on the Green, and hosted a special record release show at The Basement East), Los Angeles folk rockers Dawes are continuing their rapid ascent, still reeling with support from last year’s fifth album We’re All Gonna Die, with a two-night return to The Ryman…
The most visible member of massively successful British boyband One Direction, and the latest to mount a solo career, following the group’s 2016 hiatus, singer Harry Styles has made a splash over the last month with the release of his highly-anticipated debut single, “Sign of the Times,” and appearances on Saturday Night Live and The Graham Norton Show. With sonic…
Nine months after first unveiling “Punishment,” the lead single from last year’s Zone, beloved local garage rock duo JEFF The Brotherhood recently gave the single an overdue music video treatment, and it’s one of the long-running band’s most interesting spots ever. Directed by Jen Uman and Grant Davis, and shot in Bathinda, Punjab, India, the video stars “reverse driving…
SoCal garage/psych rocker Ty Segall is currently enjoying his biggest wave of attention ever, following the release of his eponymous ninth album (that’s ninth under his own name, and like 50th if you count his various releases with numerous projects), a followup to last year’s buzzy Emotional Mugger, produced by Steve Albini. Aside from recently appearing as an…
With a career that spans the course of six decades, living legend Loretta Lynn has a legacy that is too monumental and influential to sum up with a simple paragraph. Sometimes called the “Queen of Country Music,” and for good reason, Lynn was a pioneer in a male dominated music scene, and, with over 60…
With new fourth album Snowdonia, Florida bred indie rockers Surfer Blood begin something of a new chapter. Now many years removed from the chillwave movement they helped popularize, and throughly settled into more indie, surf-tinged territory after flirting with electronic and garage rock elements over several releases, the band take on a more focused, and straightforward sonic direction,…
As we’ve previously addressed, and as you’ve no doubt noticed if you’re dialed into the DIY scene, many of Nashville’s most prominent DIY spaces, arts collective, and house venues have disappeared or hit pause in recent months, following a wave of stricter enforcements in the wake of the tragic events of Oakland’s Ghost Ship late…
Fresh off a tour with Diet Cig, and gearing up to release their debut full-length, Deep Dream, May 19 via Infinity Cat, local grunge pop trio Daddy Issues have treated us to yet another brand new single, “Locked Out.” Following biting ode to terrible exes “In Your Head,” and the more serious reflection on the realities of the trauma and…
Since first catching them at The End early last year, then being blown away by their summer performances at both Shaky Knees and Wrecking Ball, we’ve been pretty obsessed with Brooklyn by way of New Paltz, NY poppy, punk duo Diet Cig. Having just wrapped a tour with local faves Daddy Issues, and celebrating their brand new,…
What started as an annual celebration of all things vinyl, marked largely by niche indie releases and celebrating independent stores, has ballooned to become a cultural phenomenon, now in its tenth year, known as Record Store Day. Set to take place Saturday, April 21, the music lovers’ holiday not only brings a massive number of new, collectible,…