box Iconic spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone is getting renewed attention for helming the score to Quentin Tarantino’s new western The Hateful Eight. The soundtrack just picked up the Golden Globe for best original score and has been nominated for an Oscar, ten years after Morricone received the supposedly career-capping honorary Academy Award in 2006 for…
Foot-stompin’ folk rockers Smooth Hound Smith are about to release their latest full-length effort, Sweet Tennessee Honey, this Friday, and we are excited to give you an exclusive sneak peak at their highly-anticipated new project a little early! Zack Smith and Caitlyn Doyle have been crafting their own mixture of blues, bluegrass, rock, funk,…
As winter finally seems to have settled in, we’re already starting to long for summer, with more major festival announcements arriving nearly every single day. One biggie is still yet to drop, however: Bonnaroo. Counting down the days until the lineup for the nearby fest arrives, we’ve been working our way through this season’s…
Though local songstress Brooke Waggoner won’t officially release her fifth album, Sweven, until this Friday, Jan. 15, you can hear it full a little early right NOW thanks to Flood Magazine! A persistent local favorite, you may know Brooke for her work with Jack White (as a contributor pianist on both of his solo albums, plus a member…
Always eager to add to the real local music scene conversation, we’d like to introduce you to the latest addition to an ever growing roster of kickass garage rockers inhabiting Music City. Goth Babe is the brain child of the very talented Griffin Washburn, and his righteous brand of lo-fi psychedelic fuzz is the perfect way to shake…
We introduced the new sounds from CHALAXY to you when we premiered their single, “Dizzy,” back in May of 2015, and the new record sporting that track, titled Pronoia, just dropped today. It’s a doozy of reverb doused, experimental psych rock jams that are sure to put CHALAXY on the map with new listeners…
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve heard new music from The Electric Hearts, but the wait is over friends. The outfit we last fell in love with in the release of their 2013 EP The Life And Death Of Fritz Pepper is back in support of their newest full length, Soundtrack, which drops on Dec.…
The psych-pop quartet (three girls, one guy) Idle Bloom have been on our radar for awhile, rising from the ashes of Fancytramp to make something even better. Their split 7″ with Churchyard “Fare Fumo,” as well as their growing reputation for a kick-ass live show, have left many more than just us wondering when we’d…
The hype has been building around Cage The Elephant’s fourth full length, Tell Me I’m Pretty, due out on Dec. 18 via RCA. They’ve already dropped singles “Mess Around” and “Trouble” from the Dan Auerbach produced follow up to 2013’s Grammy nominated Melophobia, and they just announced the first chance to get a taste of…
Looking for holiday gifts? This Nashville Indie Spotlight compilation album may be the perfect gift, particularly for far away friends who still think that Nashville is all country music. The compilation, now in its fourth year on Tone Tree Music, features twenty four tracks from twenty four of Nashville’s hottest commodities, and regular readers…