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While we still technically have three more weeks of summer, and it sure still feels like it outside, Labor Day and the start of September have us thinking fall. And, while the fall already promises to be jam-packed with incredible shows, releases, festivals, and more, we’re still enjoying the remains of what has been…
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Less than a week after he announced a Nov. 20 headlining performance at The Ryman with Cory Branan, Nashville folk/Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle has made his upcoming fifth album, Single Mothers, available to stream early, thanks to the good folks at NPR. After a nasty public falling out with short-lived label home Communion, Single Mothers arrives via Vagrant on Sept. 9. Stream Single Mothers HERE.…
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While we’ve mostly sat by on the sidelines, watching the drama unfold, since June, Music Row’s historic RCA Studio A, which, for the last 12 years has been leased and operated by Ben Folds, has seemingly been in jeopardy, changing hands to a new owner, Brentwood developer Tim Reynolds, ousting Folds as a tenant,…
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’90s nostalgia is all the rage these days, and, though bands have been participating in that trend to varying degrees of success, Nashville’s own Diarrhea Planet have just taken the crown. We can all go home now. In their new music video, produced by and premiered via Nylon, the local rockers went to New Jersey to…
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In the latest edition of our No Country For New Nashville Podcast, we sat down with founding Superdrag member John Davis and producer Nick Raskulinecz to chat about Davis’ musical past, subsequent side projects, and new band, The Lees Of Memory. We also premiered a new Lees Of Memory track, “Reenactor,” ahead of their upcoming album, Sisyphus…
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As we told you earlier this summer, indie supergroup Broken Bells are slated to perform Sept. 29 at Nashville’s own Ryman Auditorium, along with ex-Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser. The duo, which consists of The Shins’ James Mercer and superproducer/Gnarls Barkley member Dangermouse wowed us this summer at Bonnaroo, and their sophomore LP, After the Disco, has been in constant rotation since its release earlier…
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After a falling out with his short-lived new label home late last year, local folk/country/Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle is back and prepping to release his fifth album, Single Mothers, Sept. 9 through Vagrant. We told you more about the album and brought you a taste of single “”White Gardenias” earlier this summer, and, now, we have…
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*repeat repeat & Pang Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN August 26, 2014 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve surely heard by now that every Tuesday night, we’ve been hosting a free showcase at new downtown restaurant and performance space, Acme Feed & Seed, featuring…
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Much to the surprise of fans (including ourselves), Canadian dance punk duo Death from Above 1979 announced earlier this year that a followup to their beloved 2004 debut, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, would finally arrive this fall, a decade later. Dubbed The Physical World and due out Sept. 9, the sophomore LP comes a few years after the…
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As we told you earlier this summer, newly reunited New York post-punk revivalists Interpol are coming to Nashville’s own Marathon Music Works this fall, Nov. 11, in support of their forthcoming fifth album, El Pintor. While the record isn’t officially slated to drop until Sept. 9, the good folks at NPR have made it available to stream a couple weeks early. We’ve…