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A longtime site favorite, breakout Mexo-Americana duo David Wax Museum have managed to make it to Nashville at a semi-regular clip as their presence has grown in recent years, but, if you didn’t make it to their City Winery show back in the spring, or you’re just eager for another helping, the group are set to return Dec.…

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Every winter, as the year winds down, we look forward to the holidays and begin our Bonnaroo speculation, in anticipation of our favorite fest’s official lineup announcement. While the annual event, which takes place June 8-11 in nearby Manchester, TN, is still seven months away, the 2017 pre-sale launched the day after Thanksgiving, and will conclude this Friday, Dec. 2 at…
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With a celebrated, varied career spanning more than two decades, its seems likely that beloved rapper Kool Keith has, at some point, performed in Nashville; however, if this is the case, we certainly can’t find any evidence of it. Set to make either his debut or long-overdue return, Keith is not just playing Music City on Dec.…
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‘Tis the season… for festival announcements! We just told you yesterday that Alabama’s Hangout Fest surprise announced its stacked 2017 lineup, early last month Knoxville’s Big Ears unveiled what’ll be one of the first happenings of the season, and, of course, a few other further away events like Florida’s Okeechobee and new South Carolina…
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Returning for its sixth year, our pals at tastemaking local label Infinity Cat have brought back their annual Rarities Sale, which offers a ton of unique and rare rock goodies, proceeds from which go to benefit the Southern Girls Rock & Roll Camp. This year’s haul offers some of the coolest finds yet, including a guitar, tons…
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Gearing up to release her highly-anticipated new LP Highway Queen, the followup to 2014 Dan Auerbach-helmed All or Nothin’, on Feb. 17 via New West Records, local alt/outlaw country meets southern rock starlet Nikki Lane recently unveiled a new video for her forthcoming record’s title track. Co-produced by Lane and Jonathan Tyler, and recorded in Nashville and Texas, the album…
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As we previewed earlier this year, Brooklyn psych folk outfit Woods stopped by Third Man Records’ Blue Room in May, for a special performance in support of their latest, City Sun Eater in the River of Light. As is tradition for the bulk of Blue Room shows, the whole intimate affair was captured live, and is set…
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It’s so secret that we’re huge fans of local country starlet Margo Price, whose career we’ve followed closely since her Buffalo Clover days, and, if you’re familiar with Price, then you surely know she’s had a huge year, thanks to the well-deserved and widespread success of her debut, solo, revivalist country masterpiece, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter. Of late,…
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In an ever competitive and increasingly crowded space, the bulk of major summer fests, at least the ones in our general region, have taken to, at the very least, putting tickets on sale ahead of the end of the year. Full lineup announcements, too, have started happening earlier and earlier, and Gulf Shores, Alabama’s Hangout Music…
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Hailing from Long Beach, California, rising young rapper Vince Staples made an early splash due to associations with Odd Future and Mac Miller, as well as his own trio Cutthroat Boyz, and was met with widespread acclaim as he began releasing mixtapes throughout the last several years. By the time of 2014 debut EP Hell Can Wait, and…