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Alabama Shakes, Sturgill Simpson, Run the Jewels, More Announced for 2017 Sloss Fest
Since its debut in 2015, Birmingham, Alabama’s Sloss Fest has fast become a formidable, regional musical event, boasting a balanced, eclectic, weekend slate of performers in historic Sloss Furnaces. The fest returns for its third year July 15-16, once again overlapping with the similarly-geared Forecastle Fest in Louisville, with which it shares some performers, forcing Nashvillians to choose…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] July Talk w/ Mona & Little Junior | Feb. 9 @ The High Watt
Riding high on the buzz from their fantastic 2016 sophomore effort Touch, Canada’s July Talk are fast becoming a must-know band in the alt rock world, renowned for their excellent live show and musical versatility. After a busy past year, the group are set to return to Nashville to play The High Watt on Feb. 9, a spot they last headlined…
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Pinegrove to Play The End May 10
Much like the Saddle Creek scene of the early ’00s, nothing about Montclair, NJ’s Pinegrove overtly screams “pop punk,” and, yet with a sound and sensibility at least adjacent to and influenced by that scene, and signed to tastemaking label Run For Cover, they’ve found more press and embrace from the DIY punk community in their…
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Thursday to Play Marathon Music Works April 5 w/ Touché Amoré & Basement
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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Sturgill Simpson, Phantogram, Spoon, More Join 2017 Forecastle Fest
Getting a surprise early jump on festival season, Louisville’s long running Forecastle Fest, one of our favorite events year after year, announced its impressive 2017 lineup back in December, with an absolutely stacked bill of LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Cage the Elephant, Run the Jewels, Conor Oberst, Modern Baseball, Beach Slang, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Farro, and…
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The Cool Kids to Play The Basement East Feb. 18 with Pell & Jung Youth
It’s been a decade since Chicago hip hop duo The Cool Kids erupted onto the scene, their contemporary meets old school, eclectic, expansive sound primed for the MySpace generation. After gaining fast and widespread buzz with their debut EP The Bake Sale, a slew of mixtapes, and their one and only studio LP, 2011’s When Fish Ride Bicycles, the…
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Atlanta’s Wrecking Ball to Skip 2017, Return For Third Installment Next Year
If you read our glowing review of last year’s second annual Wrecking Ball festival in Atlanta, which also served as an early farewell to the original home of long-running, famed club The Masquerade, then you already know how much we’re looking forward to its return. Originally intended to be a 25th anniversary bash for The Masq in…
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Queen + Adam Lambert to Play Bridgestone Arena Aug. 2
Comparions to the late Freddie Mercury have surrounded Adam Lambert since the moment he first rose to national prominence in season nine of American Idol in 2009, during which remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor also first joined him for a televised performance, sparking the genesis of what would become a more permanent pairing. A few…
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[REMINDER] Catch Chancellor Warhol w/ Zach Taylor, ESCPE, & Billy Cave | Saturday, Jan. 28 @ The High Watt
One of our absolute favorite local musicians, and one we’ve been covering since our earliest days, multifaceted hip hop artist Chancellor Warhol released his highly-anticiapted new EP, Until the Light Takes Me, last fall, and seems to be diving headfirst into a busy 2017, teasing more new music and multimedia ventures, and celebrating a prominent national commercial…
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Coheed and Cambria to Play ‘Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV’ in Full May 3 at Marathon Music Works
Though their first two albums earned them an unprecedented indie following, it was inarguably Coheed and Cambria‘s third full-length, the weird, sprawling, proggy, emo-tinged, spaced-out concept album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, that catapulted the group to the national spotlight, setting the course for them to become festival…