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Two of the most beloved acts in the indie and emo scene of the 2000s, Arizona alt/emo rockers Jimmy Eat World and hard-hitting, genre-bending Atlanta indie outfit Manchester Orchestra are currently in the midst of a co-headlining summer tour, which brings the groups- both no strangers to Nashville in recent years- to Ascend Amphitheater…
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Hailing from Los Angeles by way of Little Rock, Arkansas, multifaceted rapper, singer, and producer Kari Faux first broke out to wider acclaim with mixtape Laugh Now, Die Later nearly a decade ago, capturing the attention of prominent creatives like Childish Gambino (who remixed a track and would go on to collaborate with Faux…

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By the time her major label debut, Heard It in a Past Life, arrived at the start of 2019, Maryland born and now LA-based pop singer Maggie Rogers had already been met with a whirlwind of buzz, thanks to two early self-released folk albums, a 2016 viral video of Pharrell Williams hearing her music…

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From 1995 to 2018 (with an abbreviated final installment in 2019), the Vans Warped Tour was the preeminent, traveling summer festival for fans of punk, pop punk, emo, and punk adjacent music, creating an influencing an entire subculture and standing synonymous with the scene, for better and for worse. Over the years, other tours…
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Formed initially as a multimedia school project of friends Diva-Sachy Jeffrey and Alex Headford while attending London’s BIMM Institute, duo Jadu Heart was initially a conceptual fusion of r&b, pop, hip hop, and electronic music, where the pair performed in masks and wrote music as their theatrical alter egos Dina and Faro. Drawing buzz…
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First Aid Kitw/ The Weather StationThe Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TNJuly 12, 2023 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Though they hail from Sweden, indie folk sister duo First Aid Kit have been no strangers to Nashville throughout their career, and, in fact, have made it to Music City on tour around the…
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Arguably one of the most singularly influential acts in ’90s and early ’00s pop punk, who, along with peers like Green Day, helped catapult the genre in the mainstream, San Diego trio Blink-182 came together more than 30 years ago as a scrappy punk band, breaking into the mainstream with 1997 sophomore effort Dude Ranch, before…

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Nearly seven years after wowing us with one of the most impressive and electrifying stadium shows we’ve ever witnessed, in support of her modern masterpiece, Lemonade, and five since she returned for a co-headlining performance with her husband Jay-Z, iconic r&b megastar Beyoncé makes her highly-anticipated return to Nissan Stadium tonight, July 15, on…
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Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Now that we’re a year and another fest removed, we think we can confidently say that last year’s Bonnaroo was weird. It was always going to be- between Covid postponements and cancelations in 2020, the festival’s first-ever rainout in 2021, and an attempt to scrap the…
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While we’ve seen many new festivals emerge (and several vanish) in recent years, there’s hasn’t been a whole lot of innovation in the space, which, these days, almost always consists of dozens of artists performing in one spot with numerous stages over several days. For awhile, touring festivals like Warped Tour, the original Lollapalooza,…