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Bonnaroo Artist | Zipper Club Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | Thursday | Who Stage | 5pm As we’ve been doing for the past several years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorites acts from from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2017 lineup. As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a spread…
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Hosted the first Thursday of every month, Lighting 100’s Thuderground is a great way to catch some amazing and well-curated local and national talent at The Basement East for just $5, thanks to a variety of sponsors. For their latest showcase, tonight, May 4, Lightning welcomes friends of the site and breakout local indie rockers Paper Route to headline, still…
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We are full steam ahead through spring with the 2017 season of our long-running showcase series at Acme Feed & Seed, settling into a new format that includes rotating DJ sets ahead of largely two-band bills going forward. Our next all local show will take place Tuesday, May 9, and it will feature the multi-faceted indie rocker Kellen of…
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Two of Europe’s finest metal bands, both with a penchant for more progressive influences, both formed in the ’90s, and both celebrating critically-acclaimed 2016 albums, Sweden’s Opeth and France’s Gojira are set to kick off a small co-headlining spring run with a date right here in Nashville tonight, May 4 at War Memorial Auditorium. Between Opeth’s expansive, progressive, and death metal…
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Bonnaroo Artist | The Lemon Twigs Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | Thursday | That Tent | 9:45pm As we’ve been doing for the past several years now, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with many of our favorites acts from from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2017 lineup. As we dig through the entire schedule, we’ll highlight a…
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One of our favorite rising acts (and the headliners of, without a doubt, the craziest Acme show we’ve ever hosted), Louisville’s White Reaper are out in support of their awesome, evolutionary new album, The World’s Best American Band, which will bring them back to Nashville May 12 for their largest local show to date, at The Basement East! With support…
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As we told you last week, One Direction’s Harry Styles, the latest former boy band star to make a pivot towards a more adult-geared solo career, is set to play Nashville’s own Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 25, currently just the third show ever on the young singer’s first solo tour. Tickets will inevitably be nearly impossible to get ahold of…
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Celebrating the recent release of their first album in five years, Moh Lhean, genre-bending indie rockers WHY? are in town tonight, May 3 with support from local favorites Chaos Emeralds, for a Blue Room show at Third Man Records, set to be recorded live. Fronted by Yoni Wolf, since becoming a proper band over a decade ago WHY? have have found…
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Famed local rock outfit Paramore sprung back to life last month, with the surprise release of a new single, “Hard Times,” and news that their long-awaited fifth album, After Laughter, recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A and produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, will finally arrive May 12 via Fueled By Ramen. As the new record’s debut inches closer, the band…
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After bringing both alt metal titans Tool and weirder alt/experimental project Puscifer to town last year, and appearing solo at City Winery in support of his memoir, eclectic (and incredibly busy) rocker Maynard James Keenan is back tonight, May 3 to Bridgestone Arena to complete the whole set, returning with his alt/hard rock supergroup A Perfect Circle for their first tour…