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Bonnaroo 2021 Canceled
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After days of being soaked by fallout from Hurricane Ida, Bonnaroo 2021, set to take place this weekend, Sept. 2-5, has, unfortunately, been abruptly canceled. Though weekend weather for the festival proper initially appeared promising, the sustained rainfall throughout the week has rendered the sold out fest untenable for the amount of traffic and…
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Anticipating Wet Grounds, Bonnaroo Reduces Camping Capacity, Offers Refunds; Show Still On
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Well, it seems our post about Bonnaroo weather earlier this evening and the cautious optimism we expressed might’ve been somewhat premature. While it’s still true that the festival’s Thursday-Sunday duration remains clear on the forecast, the amount of rain the grounds are expected to sustain this evening and potentially through Wednesday, which already caused…
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Bonnaroo Delays Tuesday Entry, But We’re Cautiously Optimistic About the Weekend’s Forecast
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In the wake of Hurricane Ida’s devastation in Louisana and its continued path inland, and with the tragic flood in nearby Waverly still fresh in our mind, it’s hard to look at any weather forecast with positivity at this moment. However, for the tens of thousands of Tennesseans and beyond who will soon be…
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Bonnaroo Drops 2021 Festival Map- Here’s What’s New
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In less than a week, Sept. 2-5, the 20th-anniversary installment of Bonnaroo will commence, returning after a year off, and delayed later into the summer than its typical June timeframe. Due, no doubt, to the challenges and uncertainties of pulling off a major music festival during a pandemic, a lot of things are happening…
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Bre Kennedy Announces Debut LP, ‘Note to Self,’ with a Pair of New Singles, “Boundaries” and “Milestones”
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It’s hard to believe that in less than a week, after a more than two-year absence, we’ll be back on the farm in nearby Manchester for the 20th-anniversary installment of Bonnaroo! If you’ve been keeping up with the site and our socials lately, you’ve seen that we’re hard at work helping you prepare with…
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New Outdoor Venue FirstBank Amphitheater Gears Up for Innagural Season
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It’s been nearly 15 years since the closure of Starwood Amphitheatre, the area’s premier outdoor venue space for two decades, the absence of which left Music City without one of the most essential components for summer tour season. While some great, albeit much smaller, amphitheaters have appeared in Starwood’s absence, when the news first…
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Kacey Musgraves Announces New Album, Accompanying Film ‘star-crossed’
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When she released her last album, 2018’s genre-bending, award-winning, critically lauded masterpiece Golden Hour, Nashville’s Kacey Musgraves was a newlywed. And when her highly-anticipated fourth album, the just-announced star-crossed, drops next month, it’ll have been a year since her divorce from fellow local singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly was finalized, an event that clearly fundamentally shaped…
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Musicians Corner Announces September Sundown Lineup
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After canceling in-person events for all of 2020 (like every concert and festival series), and adapting to the pandemic by going virtual with a series of streaming performances, free, all ages, long-running musical showcase series Musicians Corner returned back in June with its first in-person event since 2019, hosting a three-day comeback celebration in…
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Local Venues, National Festivals and Promoters Roll Out New Safety Requirements as Covid Cases Rise
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While our outlook for the summer had been initially cautiously optimistic, when, throughout the spring, vaccine rates were rising and Covid-19 cases on the decline as live music returned to some resembling normalcy, the spread of the Delta variant in recent months has, of course, made enhanced safety and caution a necessity once again,…
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Travollta Bring the Summertime Vibes with Dance-Punk Debut “Topo Chico” | See Them TONIGHT @ The East Room!
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Summertime-primed, tropical dance-punk vibes? Check. A groovy and bright new music video? You know it. Endearingly silly and lightly Daft Punk-esque alter egos? They’ve got that too. And finally, an ode to the hippest, most refreshing sparkling mineral water around, bringing some much needed escapism as we grasp for normalcy this summer? Just what…