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Celebrating the release of his stunning new album, If I Should Go, recorded right here in Nashville, singer-songwriter City and Colour, the live moniker of Dallas Green, is set to perform at War Memorial Auditorium on Dec. 13 with Bahamas, his first Music City outing since helping kick off Live on the Green last year, and first proper headliner since playing The Ryman…
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Pop/R&B superstar Rihanna, who may or may not be dropping a pseudo-surprise new album this week, has just announced her first Nashville performance ever, March 18 at Bridgestone Arena. And, while we’d kill for the supporting acts on the European leg of this trek (Big Sean and The Weeknd), her Music City stop is still respectably rounded out…
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Last month, we told you that acclaimed local rockers Cage the Elephant were gearing up to release their fourth full-length and highly-anticipated followup to 2013’s Grammy nominated Melophobia, called Tell Me I’m Pretty, on Dec. 18 via RCA. Their first LP not to be helmed by longtime producer Jay Joyce, Pretty pairs the band with local Black Keys frontman and acclaimed producer…
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Metalheads rejoice: one of the best heavy acts of today, Richmond’s Lamb of God, are teaming up with ’80s thrash metal pioneers Anthrax for a winter tour, which hits Marathon Music Works on Jan. 20! The fact that LoG, who rose to prominence in the early ’00s, are top billing above one of the big four, really speaks to their…
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Australian hard rock trio Wolfmother, who, this year, celebrated the 10th anniversary of their eponymous debut album, are gearing up to release their fourth LP, Victorious, on Feb. 19. A followup to 2014’s New Crown, the record was produced by Brendan O’Brien, and features frontman and primary songwriter Andrew Stockade handling the bulk of instrumental duties, with session legends…
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For a number of years, East Nashville Underground served as a quarterly, weekend-long, drunken get-together; a showcase of some of Nashville’s finest up and coming artists (many of whom have gone on to do some very impressive things since) that grew out of its basement beginnings to literally putting The East Room on the map. It’s…
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For a number of years, East Nashville Underground served as a quarterly, weekend-long, drunken get-together; a showcase of some of Nashville’s finest up and coming artists (many of whom have gone on to do some very impressive things since) that grew out of its basement beginnings to literally putting The East Room on the map. It’s…
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Returning to Nashville for the first time in two years, breakout electronic rock act AWOLNATION play War Memorial Auditorium for the first time next month, Dec. 4, along with two decidedly more alt rock-leaning bands Highly Suspect and Red Sun Rising. Co-presented by local alternative station 102.9 The Buzz, and billed as “The Buzz Swanky Sweater Christmas Jam,” tickets for this pre-holiday…
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Just a day after Gulf Shores, AL-based Hangout Fest dropped their full 2016 lineup shockingly early, Dover, DE’s annual Firefly Music Festival has heated up the 2016 festival arms race, unveiling their entire lineup a staggering seven months ahead of the event, presumably to put pressure on holiday ticket buyers, and to benefit from a…
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Kicking off the festival announcement season astonishingly early (seriously y’all, can we at least get through the holidays?), Gulf Shores, Alabama’s Hangout Music Festival just made a surprise announcement of their entire (or at least close to entire) 2016 lineup this morning, before most regional events have even launched pre-sales. The annual, beachfront event returns May 20-22,…