Aside from the recent release of new single “Sugar,” and some intermittent national tour dates, 2014 has been a relatively quiet year for local electro rock outfit Five Knives, who have been hard at work on completing their upcoming new full-length. We’re not even sure if they’ve played a proper hometown show since late 2013, when…
Ahead of her two-night return to Bridgestone Arena, Sept. 25 and 26, pop megastar and sometimes Nashville resident Taylor Swift has debuted a new music video for “Blank Space,” the latest single from her chart-topping new album, 1989. Cinematic in its scope, the Joseph Kahn directed vid chronicles a wasp-y love struck Swift dealing with the build up and…
First announced back in July, New York post-punk revivalists Interpol are set to return to Nashville tonight, Nov. 11 for the first time in nearly four years for a performance at Marathon Music Works, hot on the heels of the release of their comeback album, El Pintor. Supporting the acclaimed group will be indie group Hundred Waters. It’s not too late to…
Har Mar Superstar, The Pizza Underground w/ Candy Boys, Toby Goodshank fooBAR; Nashville, TN November 5, 2014 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Former child star Macaulay Culkin and his band/performance art collective The Pizza Underground stopped by The High Watt last week to play pizza-themed covers of classic Velvet Underground compositions, utilizing instruments like pizza boxes,…
Nashville’s Better Off, who, like Free Throw, Courtesy Drop, Nest, and a handful of other acts, are helping place Music City squarely in the midst of newfound critical discussion surrounding an incredible new national wave of emo and pop punk, are fresh off a high profile tour with New Found Glory, and have just debuted…
During a recent tour, Nashville pop/garage punk rocker PUJOL stopped by famed Seattle radio station KEXP to perform four tracks, “Manufactured Crisis Control,” “Pitch Black,” “June Bug,” and “Youniverse,” and to chat for a brief interview. “June Bug” is new to us, while the other three songs appear on the singer’s latest full-length, KLUDGE. We recently…
Nashville’s Tesla Rossa are set to drop their long-awaited eponymous debut full-length this Tuesday, Nov. 11. Leading up to its release, the rockers have already debuted several singles, including “Kinetic,” which we exclusively premiered last week. Now, just days before the album drops, the band have given us one final preview, in the form…
A couple of months back, we brought you “Little Lover,” the first single and music video from Nashville electronic folk duo Foreign Fields‘ upcoming new album. And, while and title and release date for that album have yet to be announced, the group are back with another taste in the form of new single and Skyler…
Listed by Billboard as the most successful r&b/hip hop artist of the last 25 years, and the most successful r&b artist in history, singer, controversial public figure, and certifiably eccentric person R. Kelly is set to return to Nashville for the first time in several years, for a Dec. 5 performance at Municipal Auditorium in support of his twelfth album,…