After an excellent season opener last week, Live on the Green is rolling on with some serious momentum, as the second week of the 11th season of the annual, free outdoor fest goes down tonight, Aug. 22 at Public Square Park. Once again boasting an exciting and stacked lineup, this season will feature performances from the likes of Grace Potter,…
If you’re Gen Xer, you might primarily think of multi-faceted Chicago hip hop artist Common as an underground, profound alternative MC who came up under the moniker Common Sense. If you’re a millennial, you might first associate him with Kanye West, No I.D., and his breakout mainstream and award-winning LPs of the mid-00s. And if you’re…
After immediately hooking us in with her 2017 debut, I Love You Like a Brother, providing one of the best surprises of last year’s Bonnaroo, and delivering one of the year’s coolest, most underrated efforts in her latest, The Best of Luck Club, we’ve been dying to see Australian alt/indie singer on the rise Alex Lahey play a…
Live on the Green w/ Gary Clark Jr., The Strumbellas, Yola, and Lucie Silvas Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 15, 2019 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Andrew Ha. Kicking off its eleventh season, the annual Live on the Green free festival series returned Thursday to Public Square Park, setting the bar high for yet another exciting year. With…
If you haven’t yet heard, two East Tennessee local beverage staples, Johnson City founded brewery Yee Haw Brewing Company and Gatlinburg moonshine purveyor Ole Smoky Distillery, both who’ve had a presence in Music City and beyond for a long time, recently teamed up to jointly open a Nashville home base, a cool new SoBro…
While careful not to call it a breakup, Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard recently announced that she’s putting her famed southern blues rock group on hold for the time being, in order to try her hand at making music under her own name, with a forthcoming debut album, Jaime, set to arrive on Sept. 20. The most…
If you’re a fan of vibey, rootsy, worldly, yet pop accessible tunes, brought to life by honed and jam-infused live performances, then Florida’s The Hip Abduction are definitely a group who should be on your radar. Out in support of brand new fourth album To the Ends of the Earth, the buzzy band are set to headline Exit/In tonight, Aug. 17,…
Versatile, genre-bending, timeless, and prolific, with a solo career spanning 20 years, prominent and beloved collaborative groups like She & Him and Monsters of Folk, and a seasoned run as a producer, songwriter, and composer, Portland’s M. Ward is, without a doubt, one of the indie folk scene’s most important modern fixtures. Still buzzing from last…
It feels like we were just bidding the 2018 season of Live on the Green farewell, but, here we are again, ready to kick off another exciting year of the annual free outdoor fest tonight, Thursday, Aug. 15 at Public Square Park. Adopting a somewhat condensed timeframe this year, Live on the Green will newly run for three consecutive Thursdays and…
A true pioneer of funk thanks to his seminal ’60s and ’70s group The Meters (who remain intermittently active to this day), legendary artist George Porter Jr. has, over his six decade spanning career, cemented his legacy as one of the preeminent performers of his generation, prolifically weaving between high-profile session and collaborative work, several great post-Meters…