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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Fred Again…, Pretty Lights, & More to Play Bonnaroo 2024
It’s been a revitalizing past few summers at Bonnaroo– the region’s preeminent music festival- which returned in 2022 after a couple years of pandemic and weather related postponements and cancellations, and saw attendance rise once more to pre-pandemic levels last summer with a sold out weekend, a year that both felt like a return…
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City Winery Property Sold to Developers for $21 Million: “This Allows Us to Expand and Grow”
In what’s becoming all too familiar a scenario as our city is rapidly transformed by high-dollar development and soaring real estate prices, downtown music venue, urban winery, and restaurant City Winery has been sold to a developer group for $21 million with the aid of experts similar to the Bunbury Property Manager. Founded initially…
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Jenny Lewis to Play The Ryman March 13
Few artists have been as integral or prolific in the indie rock scene of the last 25 years as Jenny Lewis, who, across multiple projects and an incredible solo career has cemented her legacy as one of the all-time greats. Born in Las Vegas and for many years based in Southern California (though, notably, she…
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Laura Jane Grace to Play City Winery March 17
Most famous for fronting beloved, long-running Florida punk outfit Against Me!, rocker Laura Jane Grace has proven herself to be just as impressive and essential as a solo artist, since, spurred by the pandemic, her band went on an indefinite hiatus in early 2020. While, technically, Grace released her first solo EP way back…
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Experimental Rockers Swans to Play The Blue Room April 16
Formed in 1982 and born out of New York City’s fascinating no wave scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s, genre-bending, experimental outfit Swans originated with and have consistently been helmed by singer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. Renowned in their early days for their noisy, industrial, intense and abrasive sound and nihilistic and…
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Say Anything Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Emo Scene Classic ‘…Is a Real Boy’ May 19 at The Ryman
To simply peg Say Anything as an emo or pop punk band, or merely a product of the explosive 2000s pop punk scene, would be to sell short their long, nuanced, and expansive history, throughout which they’ve become one of their era’s greatest rock bands, period. Helmed by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Max Bemis, the group formed in 2000,…
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Bleachers to Play Two Nights at The Ryman, May 28 & 29 with Samia
Though, undoubtedly, Jack Antonoff’s introduction to many came thanks to his role as 1/3 of breakout indie pop outfit fun., the prolific New Jersey artist’s career dates back much, much further. Antonoff cut his teeth in the Garden State’s rich punk scene, dabbling in a variety of projects before forming Steel Train, his first group…
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Trailblazing British Shoegaze Outfit Slowdive to Play The Caverns May 8
Ahead of their time, or at least at odds with their era, English dream pop/shoegaze outfit Slowdive were never particularly hailed by critics or understood by their label during ’89-’95 initial run. Formed by lifelong friends Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead, Slowdive erupted onto the scene while still in their teens, crafting sweeping, ambient,…
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The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie Bring 20th Anniversary ‘Give Up’ and ‘Transatlanticism’ Tour to Bridgestone Arena April 29
If you were an indie rock fan in 2003 (or a teen in the aughts in general), no two albums perhaps better defined that year than The Postal Service‘s Give Up and Death Cab for Cutie‘s Transatlanticism, made all the more impressive by the fact that both bands were fronted by the same man:…
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Green Day to Play Geodis Park Aug. 30 with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, The Linda Lindas
Formed in the late ’80s in the Bay Area of California while still just teens, seminal punk and pop punk trio Green Day exploded into the cultural zeitgeist with their 1994 third album and major label debut, Dookie. Helping usher in and then subsequently influence a new wave of mainstream interest in punk rock,…