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Hailing from Leamington, Ontario, though he’s spent much of the last several years in Nashville (as well as Toronto), singer-songwriter Billy Raffoul developed a love for music at a young age, immersed in performance and exposed to lots of rock and spirit by his musician father, Jody Raffoul. By his teens, Billy was honing…

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Formed in the late ’80s in the Bay Area of California while still just teens, seminal punk and pop punk trio Green Day exploded into the cultural zeitgeist with their 1994 third album and major label debut, Dookie. Helping usher in and then subsequently influence a new wave of mainstream interest in punk rock,…
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Part of an exciting wave of bands that emerged at the start of 2010s, at the time dubbed the “emo revival,” who helped breathe new excitement, a return to a DIY ethos, and a more grounded and scrappy sound much needed after the pop punk and emo scene of the 2000s had morphed into…
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It’s been over a year since local indie rock breakout Sophie Allison, better known as her musical alias Soccer Mommy, released her phenomenal third album, Sometimes, Forever– undoubtedly one of the most buzzed about records of 2022. It’s been a whirlwind of a year since, with Soccer Mommy embarking on tours, supporting some stellar artists (like…
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What began nearly 20 years ago as a side project for singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Casey Crescenzo during his first tenure in post-hardcore outfit Receiving End of Sirens (who, though currently inactive, have reconvened a couple of times over the years since their 2008 split), New England progressive, experimental, indie rock outfit The Dear…
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Formed in 2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Death from Above 1979 (who went by Death From Above for a few years at the start, then again from 2017-2020) first started turning heads with the release of a series of EPs in the early ’00s, before really breaking through with their explosive debut, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, in…

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In support of her recently-released, deeply personally, and musically adventurous fifth-album, Gag Order, famed pop singer and native Nashvillian Kesha is currently in the midst of a fall run of shows, and is set to return to Nashville for her first hometown headliner in six years (after a planned 2020 date was cancelled due to Covid), a…
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Mixing influences of psychedelic rock, hard rock, stoner, and blues rock, All Them Witches are one of the most diverse and dynamic bands to emerge from Nashville’s local scene in the last decade. The foursome gained an early reputation for their thrilling live shows, mostly built on their musical chemistry and ability to jam rather than…

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It hasn’t even been a year since famed English indie art pop outfit The 1975 last played Nashville, headlining Municipal Auditorium last November in support of then-new fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language. In the months since, the band- who’ve become something of a generation-defining group over their prolific last decade, since…
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Over the past 20 years, “emo” has come to mean anything vaguely pop punk, emotional, or 2000s Hot Topic-esque, but there was a time before that 2000s mainstream explosion when the term was a much more rigid and specific genre denotation. Initially springing out of the DC hardcore and post-hardcore scene of the ’80s,…