
Just weeks after wrapping her epic, months-long, record shattering North American Eras Tour (which we reviewed back in May when it stopped in Nashville), and as she begins taking the show around the world throughout the next year, before returning for another North American leg in the fall of 2024, pop megastar (and sometimes…
It’s been 10 years nows since Alicia Bognanno first sprung onto the Nashville scene as Bully, blowing us away with her fiery early performances at local haunts like The Stone Fox (where she used to run sound before her music career took off) and making a stunning introduction with Bully’s eponymous first EP in…
If you’ve been following No Country for awhile, you should be more than familiar with halfnoise, the solo musical vehicle of Paramore drummer Zac Farro, a longtime local fave and friend of the site. Formed and cultivated more than a decade ago, between Farro’s 2010 departure from Paramore and his return to the renowned group in…
It’s been almost 15 years to the day since Long Island-formed indie rock and pop duo The Narrative sprung onto the scene with their debut EP Just Say Yes, earning the band- vocalist and keyboard player Suzie Zeldin and vocalist and guitarist Jesse Gabriel- instant praise, a passionate fanbase, and a buzz within the…
Between Blink-182, Sad Summer Fest, Manchester Orchestra and Jimmy Eat World, and more, it’s been a phenomenal summer for fans of the 2000s pop punk and emo scene, and that trend continues with an absolutely stacked lineup tonight, Aug. 25 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium, for a tour dubbed the All-American Wet Hot Summer Tour,…
Drawn to music from a young age, R&B and pop singer Kiana Ledé first experienced a taste of success after winning a Kidz Bop sponsored talent contest in 2011, as a teen, landing a major label record deal with RCA, and moving to Los Angeles from her native Arizona in pursuit of serious go…

It’s been less than four years since beloved, eclectic singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey last played Nashville, in late 2019 at Municipal Auditorium in support of that year’s lauded sixth album Norman Fucking Rockwell!! Incredibly, in the time since, she’s released three additional albums- a pair of folk and Americana inspired LPs, Chemtrails over the…
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Queens of the Stone Agew/ Phantogram, The ArmedAscend Amphitheater; Nashville, TNAugust 19, 2023 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Hannah Laney. It’s been nearly a decade since legendary rockers Queens of the Stone Age last played Nashville, then in support of their fan-favorite 2013 album …Like Clockwork. And though they did release another record,…
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A No Country favorite since first catching our ear many years ago, indie project Touma is the musical vessel of talented local artist Casey Williams (who you might also recognize from stellar indie/emo outfit No Dancing, among other projects). Though her musical journey has been lifelong, and she’s been a fixture in the Nashville scene for…
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Though the duo that make up indie pop outfit Tommy Lefroy, Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis, initially hail from Michigan and Vancouver, respectively, and currently call London home, it was actually right here in Nashville that they first met, bonding over a shared love of groups like boygenius while both working independently as songwriters.…