If you’re a regular No Country reader, chances are you’ve already heard us rave about local singer-songwriter, former site contributor and Acme showcase alum Lauren Strange. If not, well, now’s our chance to fix that for you. She’s playing tonight at The High Watt with Atlanta rockers The Howling Tongues and local vintage/soul singer-songwriter Reuben Bidez and it’s guaranteed…
Piano pop singer-songwriter and unofficial Nashville hero Ben Folds shared another new song this week from his upcoming album with New York City based sextet yMusic. “Phone In A Pool” combines the signature melodies and light-hearted lyrics that Folds is known for with the various strings of yMusic, creating whimsical chamber rock that is…
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Grimey’s Parking Lot; Nashville, TN 7/17/15 Review by Julian Ciany. This past Friday, Jason Isbell released his much anticipated follow up to his critically acclaimed 2013 album Southeastern, entitled Something More Than Free. To celebrate, he performed the album to a packed crowd behind Grimey’s Record store in…
Civil Twilight w/ HalfNoise, MYZICA 3rd & Lindsley; Nashville, TN July 16, 2015 Review by Meredith Galyon. Civil Twilight is among one of the many bands to relocate and take Nashville as their home base in the last few years, and they’ve been making waves this summer with shows at Grimey’s and 3rd &…
Ahead of the release of their highly anticipated sophomore LP, Every Open Eye, due out Sept. 25, Scottish synthpop trio CHVRCHES have announced a return to Nashville, for the first time since their incredible sold out performance at Exit/In in 2013, set for Oct. 27 at Marathon Music Works! Over the last few years, CHVRCHES have quickly gained a…
Jesse Malin has been releasing solo albums for over a decade at this point, and you should have heard him by now. If you haven’t, you might be familiar with the D Generation, the New York based homage to glam punk, which he founded and fronted beginning in the early 1990s and who reunted…
The dream of the nineties will be alive in Nashville tonight, July 21 when alt-pop band Veruca Salt play Mercy Lounge in support of their first new record with their original lineup since 1997’s Eight Arms to Hold You. Pop punk band Charly Bliss and local western dream pop act American Dream will open. We’ve filled you in…
Maybe you missed seeing your favorite band in the ’90s. Maybe you weren’t even born. It’s okay! Everyone deserves a second chance. After releasing The Heart is a Monster, their first album in almost 20 years, last month, historic grunge three-piece Failure are coming to Nashville tonight, July 21 to tear up 3rd & Lindsley with industrial rock outfit Queen Kwong. Whether you’ve been…
In anticipation of his forthcoming album, Momentary Masters, set to be released July 31, The Strokes’ own Albert Hammond Jr. has released a music video for his new single “Losing Touch.” The video shows Hammond Jr. being chased by Death, and the opening scene uses an exchange from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, in which…
British blues/folk singing and songwriting crooner George Ezra is returning to Music City on Wednesday, Sept. 30, where he’ll be gracing the stage at The Ryman Auditorium for the second time this year. We told you all about his last Nashville visit, playing warm-up for Hozier (read this post) back in March, but now Mr. Ezra…