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Between Blink-182, Sad Summer Fest, Manchester Orchestra and Jimmy Eat World, and more, it’s been a phenomenal summer for fans of the 2000s pop punk and emo scene, and that trend continues with an absolutely stacked lineup tonight, Aug. 25 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium, for a tour dubbed the All-American Wet Hot Summer Tour,…
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Drawn to music from a young age, R&B and pop singer Kiana Ledé first experienced a taste of success after winning a Kidz Bop sponsored talent contest in 2011, as a teen, landing a major label record deal with RCA, and moving to Los Angeles from her native Arizona in pursuit of serious go…

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It’s been less than four years since beloved, eclectic singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey last played Nashville, in late 2019 at Municipal Auditorium in support of that year’s lauded sixth album Norman Fucking Rockwell!! Incredibly, in the time since, she’s released three additional albums- a pair of folk and Americana inspired LPs, Chemtrails over the…
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Queens of the Stone Agew/ Phantogram, The ArmedAscend Amphitheater; Nashville, TNAugust 19, 2023 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Hannah Laney. It’s been nearly a decade since legendary rockers Queens of the Stone Age last played Nashville, then in support of their fan-favorite 2013 album …Like Clockwork. And though they did release another record,…
![[NO COUNTRY PREMIERE] Touma Feels Haunted by the Ghost of Loss in New Single and Video, “Overture”](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Touma-2023-2-1800-Credit-Carly-Butler.jpg)
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A No Country favorite since first catching our ear many years ago, indie project Touma is the musical vessel of talented local artist Casey Williams (who you might also recognize from stellar indie/emo outfit No Dancing, among other projects). Though her musical journey has been lifelong, and she’s been a fixture in the Nashville scene for…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Tommy Lefroy w/ Haley Blais | Oct. 5 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Tommy-Lefroy-2022-1800.jpg)
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Though the duo that make up indie pop outfit Tommy Lefroy, Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis, initially hail from Michigan and Vancouver, respectively, and currently call London home, it was actually right here in Nashville that they first met, bonding over a shared love of groups like boygenius while both working independently as songwriters.…

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Cincinnati born, Brooklyn forged indie rockers The National are a rare example of a band, especially in this fast-moving contemporary musical landscape, who only seem to have become more culturally relevant and creatively refined in middle age, boasting a long and celebrated career that can roughly be defined by three distinct periods. There’s the…

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Since returning from a pandemic pause a couple years ago, long-running, free, all ages, bi-annual concert series Musicians Corner has been going strong, resuming its Spring and Fall showcases full of multi-genre local and national talent in Centennial Park. This year’s Spring series did come with a slightly tweaked schedule, running from mid-May through…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sun Room w/ Venus & the Flytraps | Sept. 15 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sun-Room-2023-1800.jpg)
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Formed in 2020 amidst the pandemic lockdown (it’s still rather trippy to see post-Covid artists who are already so accomplished), Southern California surf and garage rock outfit Sun Room sprung onto the scene that same year with their debut EP, Sol Del Sur, quickly following it up the next year with sophomore effort Somewhere…

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Initially founded in 2021 as Queerfolk Fest, but since widened to a broader range of genres and renamed simply Queerfest, the local celebration of LGBTQ+ identifying artists returns this weekend as an expanded two-day, multi-stage event, boasting 13 great performers between showcases Friday, Aug. 11 at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge and Saturday, Aug. 12…