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Vans Warped Tour Returns to Nashville June 29
Entering its 22nd consecutive year, premier summer traveling punk fest the Vans Warped Tour has unveiled its dates for 2016, once again returning to Nashville on June 29. This marks Warped’s third year back, after an extended absence from Music City, following the closure of the Starwood Amphitheatre. While only dates, not venues, have been announced at…
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Adele to Play Bridgestone Arena Oct. 15 & 16
After breaking nearly every conceivable sales record with her new album 25, English soul singer Adele has finally announced the massive North American tour we’ve been eagerly awaiting for years. Set to kick off in the summer of 2016, the run will encompass a whopping fifty-six shows, at least two and as many as six in every…
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[REMINDER] Catch RDGLDGRN w/ Chancellor Warhol & Duckwrth | Saturday, Dec. 12 @ The Basement East
The Nashville hip hop scene, both the local artists and the hip hop acts who pass through, often doesn’t get nearly enough credit for just how flourishing it is these days. We hope if you read this site, your musical tastes are eclectic, but, if you happen to stick more to the rock end of…
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2016 Grammy Nominations Announced, Nashville Artists Earn Nods
Nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced this week, and, unsurprisingly, Nashville artists are strongly represented for yet another year. While local noms, per usual, skew strongly towards the mainstream country, gospel, americana, bluegrass, and Christian realm, we were very excited to see nods for The Dead Weather (among two other Third Man noms),…
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Cage the Elephant Return to The Basement East Dec. 19
Another day, another exciting announcement from Cage the Elephant. The Nashville-based rockers, who drop their fourth album, Tell Me I’m Pretty, next week, on Dec. 18, are slated to return to intimate East side showspace The Basement East, where they played a surprise set earlier this year, on Dec. 19. Tickets are ON SALE NOW, so grab…
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CAPPA Caps Off a Huge Year with Buzzworthy New Single “Goddess”
Unleashing one final single to cap off her massive 2015 run, which saw the release of a debut EP, a trio of music videos, a viral-hit cover of TLC’s “Scrubs,” remixes, mashups, and standalone tracks, unstoppable local pop force CAPPA apparently saved the best for last- a bold, huge, hypnotizing banger appropriately called “Goddess,” which premiered today via…
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Cage the Elephant to Host Free Tumblr IRL Event Dec. 16
Just a little over a week until the Dec. 18 release of their highly-anticipated, Dan Auerbach produced fourth album, Tell Me I’m Pretty, acclaimed Nashville-based rockers Cage the Elephant are gearing up to unleash new tunes on the world with a series of special events. We already told you about their Dec. 17 Grimey’s in-store, and, now, the…
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Carly Rae Jepsen to Play Cannery Ballroom March 14
If you only know Canadian indie pop starlet Carly Rae Jepsen for her breakout 2011 hit “Call Me Maybe,” and haven’t yet spent time with her latest effort E•MO•TION, you’re sorely missing out. Adopting a more mature, electropop sound not dissimilar from indie staples like CHVRCHES, Jepsen’s new LP is essentially a love-letter to the ’80s, even…
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Hawthorne Heights, Mest, The Ataris to Play Rocketown Feb. 2
Ten years anniversary tours have been all the rage lately, and bands from the pop punk, emo, and post-hardcore scene of the mid-’00s have been especially enjoying this chance to bring you a huge bout of nostalgia. The latest act hopping on the trend is Ohio screamo/post-hardcore outfit Hawthorne Heights, who will celebrate ten years…
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Ra Ra Riot to Play Exit/In March 13
Just weeks after news that their fourth album, Need Your Light, will arrive Feb. 19 via Barsuk Records, and following the release of two new tracks, lead single and opening track “Water” (a collaboration with Rostam, of Vampire Weekend fame) and closer “Suckers,” New York indie rockers Ra Ra Riot have announced a spring tour, which hits Exit/In on March…