As 2016 fast approaches, Nashville venues have began staking claim, and announcing their offerings for your choice of the last concert you’ll see in 2015. Famed showspace The Ryman decided to really throw a curveball this year, and have unveiled something totally new and different…. just kidding, they’re bringing back tried and true local bluegrass/Americana rockers Old Crow Medicine…
Live on the Green w/ Moon Taxi, The Delta Saints, Greg Holden Public Square Park; Nashville, TN September 3, 2015 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Jake Giles Netter. Officially crossing the halfway mark in another wonderful season of Live on the Green (these things fly by quicker and quicker every year, right?), week three ramped…
Returning to Nashville for the first time in almost three years, Canadian “future pop” duo Purity Ring are out in support of their incredible new album, Another Eternity, and will perform TONIGHT, Sept. 8 at Marathon Music Works for their largest Music City headliner to date! Exciting, enigmatic up and coming synthpop singer HANA is slated to open, and tickets are still…
Late last year, Florida indie rockers Copeland sprung back to life after an extended hiatus, with news of a long-awaited fifth album, Ixora. At the time, the band, who had moved on to other projects and are now spread across different cities (including Nashville), seemed unable to tour, plotting only a handful of one-off shows, including a…
While new(ish), upscale, local showspace City Winery is often known for its softer, folkier, more formal events (which we frequent), TONIGHT, Sept. 6, they’re upping the punk, with legendary Los Angeles group X (whose genre-bending, country and roots later material makes them uniquely well-suited for the space), for a rare “standing room” show. Joined by Dead Rock West, the original…
Genre-bending, boundary pushing Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor return to Nashville for their first headlining show in three years later this month, Sept. 19 at Marathon Music Works (notably, Godspeed played Bridgestone Arena with Nine Inch Nails in 2013) with Xylouris White, out in support of their new album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. With a live show like no other, a loyal…
Out in support of their first new full-length in eight years, Everybody’s Coming Down, Omaha indie rock/folk outfit The Good Life return to Nashville for the first time in years to perform TONIGHT, Sept. 4 at The High Watt. Out with Big Harp, the side project of their own bassist Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, the band are channeling a more energized, rock-leaning sound…
The 2015 season of Live on the Green has already reached its halfway point, following two fantastic first weeks boasting memorable performances from Lord Huron, Shakey Graves, and Elliot Root and Cold War Kids, J Roddy Walston & The Business, and Houndmouth. Keeping the ball rolling on the annual, free, outdoor fest, which now takes place over four weeks,…
Beloved indie/alt/pop punk group Motion City Soundtrack recently wound down the 10th anniversary tour cycle for their classic 2005 release Commit This to Memory, and now, free of nostalgia, are pushing full speed ahead in hyping the release of their long-awaited sixth album, Panic Stations, which is set to drop Sept. 18 via Epitaph. The group came out…
A month back, we premiered a fun summer track called “Ice Cream Man” from local experimental rapper on the rise Justin Donahue, better known as Jung Youth, ahead of his spot opening for some Wu-Tang legends. Today, Donahue is back with another banger, this time teaming up with local electro-rock duo Cherub for bombastic, insanely catch new…