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Live on the Green Changes Schedule, Expands Site, Extends Hours for 2014
Announced earlier this afternoon, in a ceremony hosted by Lightning 100 and featuring Nashville mayor Karl Dean, the annual Live on the Green music festival is set to return once again this year, albeit with a few changes. Breaking the traditional six-week model, the 2014 season will run for just four weeks, beginning on August 14.…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: The Bouncing Souls
Bonnaroo Artist | The Bouncing Souls Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | TBD Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up, paying special attention to…
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Phin Win 2014 Music City Mayhem Competition, Will Play Live on the Green
This year’s annual Music City Mayhem competition has come and gone, and local indie rockers Phin have emerged the winners! Hosted by Lightning 100, the competition received over 340 submissions, which were narrowed down to 32. The final four were selected by fans, bracket style, then pitted against each other in a battle of the bands style live…
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Members of Sex Pistols, *NSYNC, Incubus, Destiny’s Child to Bring ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ to Bridgestone
File this under “so weird it’s awesome.” Andrew Lloyd Weber’s classic rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, has been reimagined as an epic arena tour, and will hit the road this summer for a run of North America. The cast includes a motley crew of Sex Pistols’ frontman Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd, former…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Ty Segall
Bonnaroo Artist | Ty Segall Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | TBD Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up, paying special attention to the…
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Jack White Breaks World Record, Officially Drops New Single “Lazaretto”
If you’re a Jack White fan, then you undoubtedly already know that the Nashville-based singer attempted and succeeded in breaking the world record for fastest studio to store record release over the weekend, as part of a Record Store Day engagement at his own Third Man Records. Completed in a jaw-dropping three hours, 55 minutes,…
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Bonnaroo Club Stage Band of the Day: Skinny Lister
Bonnaroo Artist | Skinny Lister Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | TBD Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. In addition to main stage acts, we also want to be sure to give the…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Okkervil River
Bonnaroo Artist | Okkervil River Bonnaroo History | 2009 Stage & Time | TBD Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. We’ll start from the bottom and work our way up, paying special attention to the…
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Nashville 2014 Record Store Day Releases
Record Store Day is upon us. The annual (er, bi-annual, if you count RSD Black Friday) event takes place tomorrow, April 19, and it’s primed to be another great year. Like anything music-related, Nashville goes all-out for the independent store celebration and, in addition to the many great (and free) performances happening around town, which we…
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Don’t Miss Augustana w/ Twin Forks | Tomorrow (April 18) @ Cannery Ballroom!
When last Twin Forks performed in Nashville, they were joined on stage by a surprise guest: Augustana frontman (and, apparently, current sole member) Dan Layus. It seems only fitting, then, that the two groups would return together. When we first announced this show, it was scheduled for Mercy Lounge TOMORROW night, April 18, but has since been subject to a venue…