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Bonnaroo unveiled its full 2017 lineup (save, presumably, for the Club Stage bands) earlier this year, featuring the likes of U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Weekend, Chance the Rapper, Lorde, The xx, Glass Animals, Tegan and Sara, Car Seat Headrest, The Front Bottoms, The Orwells, White Reaper, Cage the Elephant, Margo Price, and many more. And, last…
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Diamond Carter, The Daybreaks Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN February 28, 2017 Review by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Photos by Jake Giles Netter. Our long-running, free, bi-monthly Acme Feed & Seed showcase series is well into its third year, and still going strong! For our Feb. 28 installment, we were pleased to welcome back local Americana/folk mainstay Diamond…
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Celebrating the release of their debut full-length, landmark, Minnesota indie popsters Hippo Campus are set to play The Basement East tonight, March 22 with Miami’s Magic City Hippies and local favorites ELEL. Though they’ve played Nashville twice the last two years in a row, more often as a supporting act, for great bands like The Mowgli’s, JR JR, and Saint Motel, this marks Hippo Campus’s biggest Music…
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After a bit of a break from music throughout the ’00s, eccentric, eclectic British glam rock icon Adam Ant mounted a comeback a few years ago, complete with the release of his sixth solo album and first in almost two decades, Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter, in 2013. Since then,…
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We’ve been huge fans of Waxahatchee, the musical vehicle of skilled songwriter and Alabama native turned Brooklynite turned Philadelphian Katie Crutchfield, since her lo-fi 2012 debut American Weekend, and delighted in watching her stature rise and sound evolve with 2013’s buzzy Cerulean Salt, as well as her latest, 2015’s Ivy Tripp. With a punk and folk-tinged indie sound, and…
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Against Me! w/ Mobina Galore, Typesetter The Hi-Tone Cafe; Memphis, TN March 9, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Being the giant fans of punk outfit Against Me! that we are, we recently decided on a whim to sneak over to Memphis, to catch the group at The Hi-Tone Cafe, for an intimate affair they…
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Best known for founding and co-fronting seminal Philadelphia punk group The Dead Milkmen, eclectic punk pioneer Joe Jack Talcum has been even more prolific in his solo work over the last several decades, largely opting to self-record and self-release tapes throughout the ’80s and ’90s, while also taking part in other projects like The Low Budgets. After…
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Before New Nashville was all the rage, and many, many years before our little site was even an idea, a power pop group with retro flair called Jetpack had an impressive early run, earning comparisons to fellow locals The Features (and undoubtedly influencing bands that formed soon after, like The Pink Spiders), meshing ’60s pop and rock…
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Celebrating the release last week of their stunning debut album, This Is All Pretend, Memphis group Pillow Talk return to town tonight, March 18 for a performance at Cafe Coco, supported by a trio of amazing local acts, Slow and Steady, YØUTH, and Kacie Williams. Of many fantastic and under the radar shows happening all over town this weekend, this…