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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] David Wax Museum w/ Violet and the Undercurrents | Dec. 10 @ 12th & Porter
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A longtime site favorite, breakout Mexo-Americana duo David Wax Museum have managed to make it to Nashville at a semi-regular clip as their presence has grown in recent years, but, if you didn’t make it to their City Winery show back in the spring, or you’re just eager for another helping, the group are set to return Dec.…
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No Country’s Bonnaroo 2017 Lineup Rumors, Speculation, and Predictions
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Every winter, as the year winds down, we look forward to the holidays and begin our Bonnaroo speculation, in anticipation of our favorite fest’s official lineup announcement. While the annual event, which takes place June 8-11 in nearby Manchester, TN, is still seven months away, the 2017 pre-sale launched the day after Thanksgiving, and will conclude this Friday, Dec. 2 at…
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Don’t Miss Rainbow Kitten Surprise & Amasa Hines | Tonight @ Exit/In
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It’s been on a few months since rising Boone, NC indie rock outfit Rainbow Kitten Surprise last played Nashville, and they are back tonight at Exit/In along with a rising band from our western border, Little Rock, AR indie rockers Amasa Hines. The show gets started at 9 p.m., and tickets are still available for…
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*repeat repeat, ELEL, Blank Range, & Okey Dokey Play The Basement East Tonight for $3
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Lightning 100 continues their well received Thunderground series at the Basement East tonight with a handful of local bands that most readers of this site should be incredibly familiar with. Longtime blog faves *repeat repeat, ELEL, and Blank Range will be joined by upstart psych pop outfit Okey Dokey for what feels almost like…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Kool Keith w/ Kosha Dillz | Dec. 11 @ The Basement East
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With a celebrated, varied career spanning more than two decades, its seems likely that beloved rapper Kool Keith has, at some point, performed in Nashville; however, if this is the case, we certainly can’t find any evidence of it. Set to make either his debut or long-overdue return, Keith is not just playing Music City on Dec.…
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Forecastle Fest Plots 2017 Dates, Lineup Announcement Coming Tuesday
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‘Tis the season… for festival announcements! We just told you yesterday that Alabama’s Hangout Fest surprise announced its stacked 2017 lineup, early last month Knoxville’s Big Ears unveiled what’ll be one of the first happenings of the season, and, of course, a few other further away events like Florida’s Okeechobee and new South Carolina…
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Nikki Lane Gears Up for New Album with “Highway Queen” Video, Tour Dates
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Gearing up to release her highly-anticipated new LP Highway Queen, the followup to 2014 Dan Auerbach-helmed All or Nothin’, on Feb. 17 via New West Records, local alt/outlaw country meets southern rock starlet Nikki Lane recently unveiled a new video for her forthcoming record’s title track. Co-produced by Lane and Jonathan Tyler, and recorded in Nashville and Texas, the album…
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Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, MGMT, Sigur Rós, More Announced for 2017 Hangout Fest
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In an ever competitive and increasingly crowded space, the bulk of major summer fests, at least the ones in our general region, have taken to, at the very least, putting tickets on sale ahead of the end of the year. Full lineup announcements, too, have started happening earlier and earlier, and Gulf Shores, Alabama’s Hangout Music…
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Vince Staples to Play Marathon Music Works March 7
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Hailing from Long Beach, California, rising young rapper Vince Staples made an early splash due to associations with Odd Future and Mac Miller, as well as his own trio Cutthroat Boyz, and was met with widespread acclaim as he began releasing mixtapes throughout the last several years. By the time of 2014 debut EP Hell Can Wait, and…
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Watch NSFW Version of Flaming Lips’ New Video for “How??” | Catch Them March 29 at War Memorial Auditorium!
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As we recently announced, seminal psych rock outfit The Flaming Lips are gearing up to release their 15th album, Oczy Mlody, on Jan. 13, and, in support, will play War Memorial Auditorium on March 29. A purported return to form, the group, whose trippy, ever-evolving live show is stuff of modern legend, seem to be channeling their renaissance period of…