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Stevie Nicks, Tool, J. Cole, The Chicks, & More to Play Bonnaroo 2022
Bonnaroo is back! And when it returns June 16-19 to nearby Manchester, Tenn., for its 18th installment (and 21st year), it’ll be the first in three years, after a sold out 2020 lineup was postponed then canceled due to Covid-19, and last year’s later-than-usual planned Sept. event was heartbreakingly rained out at the last…
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Rashad thaPoet & S-Wrap Show Spoken Word Ambitions With ‘The Other Side’
Nashville spoken word and hip-hop artists Rashad thaPoet and S-Wrap are making a Grammy move.
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Mercy Lounge Complex to Close in 2022 (But They Plan to Relocate)
After 19 years, several venue additions, and thousands of memorable shows, the Mercy Lounge complex, one of Nashville’s most beloved and important independent venues, home of 8 Off 8th and Road to Bonnaroo, the site of several No Country live events, and friend of the site since our earliest days, has announced that they…
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Kacey Musgraves to Play Bridgestone Arena Feb. 11; Watch Her New Video for “justified” Ahead of ‘star-crossed’ LP, Film
We recently told you about Kacey Musgraves’ highly-anticipated fourth album, star-crossed, which is set to arrive this Friday, Sept. 10, along with an ambitious and stunningly-produced accompanying film of the same name, which will stream on Paramount+. A followup to critically lauded masterpiece Golden Hour, star-crossed serves as both a divorce album, chronicling the…
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Bonnaroo 2021 Canceled
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
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
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
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”
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
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…