Not a bad week for new releases, eh? It’s been 10 years since Canadian dance punk duo Death From Above 1979 made a splash with their beloved full-length debut, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, and, finally, against all odds, they’re prepping to drop a long-awaited followup, The Physical World. We’ve given you a taste of the first…
As we told you earlier this summer, The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas is back with a brand new side project, Julian Casablancas+The Voidz (not to be confused with the singer’s solo endeavors from a few years back), and, in addition to announcing their debut album, Tyranny, slated for a Sept. 24 release via Cult Records (pre-order here for…
Just a week ahead of her full-length debut, Goddess, due out Sept. 9 via Harvest Records, LA electropop/r&b singer on the rise, Banks, has unveiled another new track from the album (the fifth official single this year), “Someone New.” Unlike previous releases, which lean heavily on electronics and ambient, atmospheric production, “Someone New” showcases a softer,…
Mere months after Jeff Tweedy made his pseudo-solo Ryman debut under new moniker, Tweedy, the frontman and the band that made him famous, Wilco, have announced a brief fall run of 20th anniversary dates, which will return them to the Mother Church for a two-night stand: Oct. 21 and 22. The band have also detailed plans for their…
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…
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.…
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,…
’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…
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…
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…