If you’re looking for a little mid-week excitement to spice up your normal routine, head to Queen Ave Art Collective tonight, Oct. 21. The lineup begins with locals Danny Melonz and includes Majesty, Iji and Murfreesboro’s Awesome Shirt. This show is jam-packed with DIY goodness and a good mixture of locals, touring veterans, and…
The Bay Area jazz-folk-rock party band The California Honeydrops have been one of northern California’s best-kept secrets, bringing joy to festivals for years, and they’re making a stop at The Basement tonight, Oct. 21 with Americana five-piece Georgia English & the Jukebox Kids. The Honeydrops are just coming off the release of their fourth full-length,…
Grace Potter w/ Lake Street Dive Ascend Amphitheater; Nashville, TN October 10, 2015 Review by M. Olivia Burd (@nashweekender). Photos by Johnny Giles. Disclosure: In college, I was enamored by Grace Potter and a true fan of her music with The Nocturnals, and her new album Midnight is an unfamiliar departure for me. Addendum: Lake Street…
If you haven’t seen of Montreal in Nashville lately, you really have no one to blame but yourself. Not only will tonight’s show be their second Mercy Lounge show just this year, but it will mark their 11th in the last 10 years in Music City. Seeing them on Cannery Row has become a yearly…
Modest Mouse w/ Hop Along War Memorial Auditorium; Nashville, TN October 13, 2015 Review by Carson O’Shoney. Photos by Jen Silver. Modest Mouse have been circling the waters since their last Nashville show, at The Ryman in 2007. Since then, they’ve played Knoxville (2010), Chattanooga and Memphis (earlier this year), and even Louisville’s Forecastle Fest (this…
Warren Haynes w/ Chessboxer, Gill Landry The Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TN October 13, 2015 Review by Julian Ciany. Photos by Brad Hochstetler. Last week was one hell of a good one for live music in Nashville. As the summer weather is finally dying down and fall is starting up, the concert schedule is remaining just as…
Leon Bridges w/ Kali Uchis Marathon Music Works; Nashville, TN October 13, 2015 Review by Meagan Whitney. Photos by Emilia Paré. Leon Bridges already announced a return to Nashville, March 2 at The Ryman, for which tickets are almost gone. While shows at the Ryman are always special, reverent experiences, the sold out show that Bridges played at Marathon…
Baltimore singer-songwriter/21st-century classical composer Dan Deacon will headline Star Party’s Witching Hour Halloween Trip-Out at The East Room this Friday, Oct. 23. Tickets for the event, which kicks off at 8 p.m. and will include yoga exercises, professional huggers, a viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show played backwards and an opening set by Nashville’s own Pineapple Explode, cost…
This has been a big year for local favorites All Them Witches, to say the least. Not only are the psych rockers gearing up for their first big label release, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (out Oct. 30 via New West Records), but they also just took off for a headlining tour across the U.S. Part of said…
Out in support of one of the year’s best releases, British art rock outfit Django Django are set to play Nashville proper for the first time ever next month, Nov. 3 at Cannery Ballroom with Wild Belle. The band’s hypnotic 2012 debut, Django Django, remains one of our favorite efforts of that year, and their latest, Born Under Saturn, has been on heavy…