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Brother Man, Niles Rooker Trio, Mike Ferrera Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN Septemper 27, 2016 Review by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Photos by Nolan Knight. Our long-running, free, bi-monthly Acme Feed & Seed showcase series is still going strong, and the last installment on September 27 had a distinct blues lean. We were pleased to welcome acoustic…
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Photo by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Many of our region’s best festivals were already firmly established before we ever started covering them. Many others we watched emerged with promise, only to disappear after one year, a testament to just how hard it is to pull off an event at this scale, in an increasingly saturated summer music…
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Car Seat Headrest w/ The Lemon Twigs Mercy Lounge; Nashville, TN September 7, 2016 Review by Matt Hall. Photos by Jake Giles Netter. Buzzy indie-rockers Car Seat Headrest made a triumphant return to Nashville to a packed house at Mercy Lounge recently, and we were there to capture the evening. They were joined by the flamboyant duo…
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Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. When The Wrecking Ball hosted its inaugural fest last year, no one, least of all the promoters, seemed to expect it to become an annual tradition; instead, it was a punk-centric celebration of 25 years of an Atlanta landmark, The Masquerade. Another thing The Ball surely didn’t anticipate, even if…
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Photo by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Live on the Green 2016 Weekend Finale Public Square Park; Nashville, TN September 1-3, 2016 Review by Meredith Galyon, Matt Hall, Philip Obenschain, & Jacob Ryan. Photos by Nolan Knight, Mary Beth Blankenship, & Jen Silver. How does it all come to an end so fast? It feels like Live on…
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J. Human, PHIN, Stelle Amor Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN August 23, 2016 Words by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Our long-running, free Acme Feed & Seed showcase series has switched format for 2016, running monthly/bi-monthly now, but that doesn’t mean that the showcase is ever lacking in awesome local, and sometimes national, talent. For the Aug.…
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Live on the Green w/ Dawes, Kurt Vile & The Violators, The Record Company Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 25, 2016 Review by Matt Hall. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Live on the Green continued last week for another edition of their already unbelievable 2016 season. They followed up the first two weeks of Andra Day, Allen…
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Live on the Green w/ Jenny Lewis, Passenger, JR JR Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 18, 2016 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Last Thursday, Live on the Green continued what is shaping up to be an unbelievable 2016 season, returning for a second week on the heels of a fantastic debut with…
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Dixie Chicks. Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for PMK. Dixie Chicks w/ Vintage Trouble, Smooth Hound Smith Bridgestone Arena; Nashville, TN August 17, 2016 Review by Mary-Beth Blankenship and Philip Obenschain. Photos by Kevin Mazur for PMK. It’s been almost exactly a decade since beloved country trio the Dixie Chicks last played Nashville, also at Bridgestone Arena,…