
Formed over a decade ago while all students at USC, Los Angeles indie pop trio MUNA found an instant kinship as friends and collaborators, fusing their eclectic musical backgrounds- punk, prog, country, ska- into something much more poppy, indie, electro-laced, and hook-laden. Made up of singer and multi-instrumentalist Katie Gavin, and guitarists and multi-instrumentalists…

Now in its 57th year, the annual Nashville Film Festival returns to Music City this week, Sept. 24-30, boasting tons of incredible feature films, documentaries, shorts, world premieres, student films, creator panels, awards, and much more! More modestly sized compared to some of the flashier fests around the nation like Sundance, Tribeca, or SXSW,…

Los Angeles alt rock and melodic hardcore group Militarie Gun were never supposed to exist. Helmed by singer and Pacific Northwest hardcore scene vet Ian Shelton, Militarie Gun began as a creative outlet during Covid lockdown, arriving at a time Shelton’s Seattle-formed buzzy hardcore group Regional Justice Center were winding down as a burgeoning pursuit…

Few bands from the emo, pop punk, and post-hardcore boom of the 2000s are more beloved or more enduring than Taking Back Sunday, whose first three LPs- 2002’s Tell All Your Friends, 2004’s Where You Want to Be, and 2006’s Louder Now– are all stone-cold classics of that era, and have undoubtedly become nostalgic millennial touchstones in the…

Singer, songwriter, producer, and performance artist Peaches exploded to fame with her transgressive, sex-positive, and attention-grabbing now-classic debut album, The Teaches of Peaches, in 2000, having recently relocated from her native Toronto to Berlin (where she’s largely remained since), after honing her sound in the late ’90s, and becoming a defining artist of the…

Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, better known by her stage name Tove Lo, grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, drawn to music from a young age. Though her earliest influences were more grunge and rock, and she even formed a math rock band after attending a prestigious arts high school, Lo’s transition to…

It’s been more than five years since Memphis-born, formerly Nashville-based indie singer-songwriter Julien Baker released her third solo album, Little Oblivions. She’s certainly been busy in the interim, though, first reuniting with her supergroup boygenius for 2023 debut full-length The Record, which attracted a massive wave of new attention and fans, sent the group…
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Toronto-bred, Los Angeles-based artist Jutes first began cultivating his genre-bending fusion of metal, alternative, R&B, pop punk, and hip hop in the mid-2010s (more hip-hop-heavy to start, and more rock infused as the years have passed), eventually inking major label deal in 2020, and attracting buzz through a series of EPs and mixtapes. Traction…
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Chance the Rapperw/ La ReezyThe Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TNAug. 30, 2026 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. It has been a strange and somewhat turbulent past decade for famed hip hop artist Chance the Rapper, but there’s no denying that back in 2016, when he released his third mixtape, Coloring Book, which…
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Formed initially as high schoolers in Los Angeles, indie pop group Atta Boy released their first album, Out of Sorts, after their first year of college in 2012, not expecting it to reach many people outside of their immediate friends and family. To their surprise, though, the project managed to grow and find a…