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Louisville’s Forecastle Festival is one of our favorite annual events; a manageably-sized, well-curated, extremely fun and organized festival in a nearby city we love to visit. Returning for 2022 after two years off due to the pandemic, the fest- initially founded in 2002- trades its traditional July timeframe for Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29,…

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Easily one of our most-anticipated albums of the year, local indie rock breakout Soccer Mommy is set to drop her third full-length, Sometimes, Forever, on June 24. Produced by Daniel Lopatin, the record follows 2020’s critically-adored and Grammy nominated Color Theory, as is being described as the singer’s “boldest and most aesthetically adventurous work…

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Atlanta plays host to some of the region’s best music fests, and annual late-summer event Music Midtown is always one of the city’s coolest happenings. We recently ran our 2022 Music Festival Guide, highlighting some of the year’s best nearby, regional, and national events, but at the time Music Midtown hadn’t yet reveled its…

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For indie rock fans of a certain age, beloved Portland outfit The Shins‘ debut album, Oh, Inverted World, is a bona fide classic and a formative soundtrack of ’00s millennial youth culture (and, of course, single “Caring Is Creepy” was part of a literal millennial touchstone soundtrack and film, Garden State, a few years…

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Livestreams of major music fests have become an increasingly popular in-home offering in recent times for fans who can’t attend in person. And though they started off as a pretty basic and straightforward affair, they’ve become significantly more advanced in the last couple of years, as the pandemic forced musicians and concert promoters to…

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It’s been a minute since we’ve updated you about indie rock outfit Copeland, who formed in Lakeland, FL more than 20 years ago, and now count Nashville as their home for several members. Since reemerging in 2014 after a four-year split with their excellent fifth album Ixora, Copeland’s activities have been somewhat intermittent (they…

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We’ve barely had time to scratch the surface on rapper Kendrick Lamar‘s new album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, which just dropped today and already feels like another instant classic from one of hip hop’s most important figures, and he’s already graced us with some more huge news: a tour! Set to kick…

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A week before they kick off their years-in-the-making reunion tour, iconic emo rock trailblazers My Chemical Romance have returned with their first new song in eight years, “The Foundations of Decay.” The band previously split in 2013, and released a final single, “Fake Your Death,” as part of a greatest hits compilation a year…

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Icons of ’90s alternative rock, responsible for some of the most influential and successful albums of all time, Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins have hardly ever disappeared throughout their 34-year run (save for a six-year split at the start of the millennium), but it seems like every few years they recapture headlines, whether it’s for the…

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Over the past several years, we’ve watched Louisville’s Jack Harlow go from a cool, regional teen rapper who delivered some impressive sets at festivals and small clubs around the area to a bona fide superstar, earning hit singles, Grammy nominations, collaborating with stars like Lil Nas X, and performing on SNL. Since breaking out…