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Justin Timberlake, Fall Out Boy, More to Crash This Week’s CMAs
Whether or not you’re especially excited for it (typically, we’re not), you probably know that the annual CMA Awards, billed “country music’s biggest night,” are taking place this week in Nashville (if you didn’t know that, might we recommend that you avoid downtown for a few days). Though a major awards show, the CMAs are typically…
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[REMINDER] Don’t Miss Django Django w/ Wild Belle | TONIGHT @ Cannery Ballroom
Out in support of one of the year’s best releases, British art rock outfit Django Django are set to play Nashville proper for the first time ever tonight, Nov. 3 at Cannery Ballroom with Wild Belle. The band’s hypnotic 2012 debut, Django Django, remains one of our favorite efforts of that year, and their latest, Born Under Saturn, has been on heavy rotation…
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Coheed and Cambria to Play Marathon Music Works March 15 with Glassjaw
More than three years after their last Nashville club date, acclaimed prog rockers Coheed and Cambria have finally announced a return to Marathon Music Works, on March 15 with Glassjaw and Silver Snakes. Coheed did make a Music City stop this summer, to headline Ink N Iron Fest, but we’d wager you probably missed that one, since, well, no one was there. Out…
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Vanessa Carlton to Play 3rd & Lindsley Dec. 17 | Watch Her New Video for “Operator”
In recent months, we’ve brought you a handful of tracks from indie pop songstress Vanessa Carlton, who just released her fifth full-length, Liberman, on Oct. 23 via Dine Alone Records, after teasing some fresh material over the summer with an EP, Blue Pool. Newly a resident of Nashville (and wife to Deer Tick’s John McCauley), Carlton filmed her…
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Watch Jung Youth Perform for DCXV’s Latest “Shop Session” | Catch Him Nov. 5 at The High Watt for FREE!
Following in the footsteps of *repeat repeat, Bradley Warren, Jr., Vinyl Thief, Guthrie Brown, Phin, Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes, Parlour Tricks, Phox, BZRK, Moseley, and CAPPA, buzzworthy local hip hop artist Jung Youth, who you’ve undoubtedly seen us rave about over the last several months, partnered up with our pals at local apparel and lifestyle brand DCXV to participate…
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twenty one pilots Announce Aug. 7 Show at Ascend Amphitheater
Just last month, twenty one pilots performed to a sold out crowd at The Ryman Auditorium, their largest Nashville outing to date, following sold out appearances at 3rd & Lindsley, Cannery Ballroom, and Marathon Music Works in years prior. Proving their momentum to be nearly unstoppable, especially considering the breakout success of this year’s Blurryface, the alt/indie/rap/electropop duo have…
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Diarrhea Planet Perform Live for Alt 983, Get Their Own Two Boots Slice | Catch Them Halloween at @ War Memorial Auditorium!
Ahead of their Halloween night performance at War Memorial Auditorium with JEFF the Brotherhood and Ranch Ghost, which we’ve been telling you about for months, local party rockers Diarrhea Planet recently stopped by Alt 983 to perform “Warm Ridin’” from 2011’s Loose Jewels and “Platinum Girls” from last year’s Aliens in the Outfield EP in the station’s Direct Auto Insurance Garage. A co-sponser of the show…
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Cage the Elephant Premiere “Mess Around,” Unveil ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ Cover Art
As we previously announced, local (via Bowling Green) alt rockers (and one of our favorite live bands in the world, bar none) Cage the Elephant are gearing up to release their highly-anticipated fourth full-length and 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…
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The Runaways’ Cherie Currie to Host Devil’s Night TONIGHT at Third Man!
Third Man Records’ biggest party of the year, Devil’s Night, just keeps getting better and better! The annual soiree, which takes places tonight, Oct. 30, is always full of surprises, and this year boasts a big one: Cherie Currie, best known for fronting seminal rock band The Runaways, will serve as the evening’s special host, presiding over a…
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[REMINDER] Catch X Ambassadors w/ Kevin Garrett & Stokeswood | Sunday, Nov. 1 @ Marathon Music Works
Nashville (and, it seems, everywhere else) can’t get enough of X Ambassadors. The New York group, celebrating the release of their buzzworthy full-length debut, VHS, are headed back to town this Sunday, Nov. 1 for a performance at Marathon Music Works (upgraded from Exit/In), along with Kevin Garrett and Stokeswood. Their third Music City outing this year, and fourth since last fall, X…