The 16th annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is just over a month away, June 8-11 in Manchester, Tenn., and that means the last few details for this year’s fest are finally rolling in. Following the main stage lineup announcement, the comedy slate, preliminary daily lineups, the introduction of a “new” stage, the announcement of this year’s Club Stage performers, news…
Leading up to the release of his debut EP, The Sad Bastard, a collection of songs that didn’t quite fit the direction of also in-the-works first full-length, Posthumous Release, Kellen of Troy, the solo vehicle of former Apache Relay (RIP) fiddle player turned solo artist and multi-insturmetnliast Kellen Wenrich, recently teamed up with us to premiere first…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…