The post-Bonnaroo radius clause free show announcements just keep rolling in. Another one of our festival faves, England’s Glass Animals have announced a Music City return, Oct. 8 at Marathon Music Works! As you may recall, the poppy, indie, experimental, psych rock group brought the house down late last year at Exit/In, and their upcoming show, honed by another…
Celebrating the release of their long awaited and highly anticipated sophomore album, Another Eternity, which finally arrived back in February (and proved well worth the wait), Canadian synthpop duo Purity Ring have just announced a fall world tour, which includes a Sept. 8 show at our very own Marathon Music Works– the group’s first Music City outing in more than two…
Earlier this week we sat down with local garage/blues punk rockers That’s My Kid to talk about music, life and the grind of trying to make it as a band in Music City. Although they are still shopping for a label, the group are generating a lot of buzz around town after the release…
Sol Cat, Future Unlimited, Chrome Pony Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN June 9, 2015 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival; Manchester, TN June 14, 2015 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Every single Tuesday since last summer, we’ve been teaming up with hip downtown restaurant and performance space Acme Feed & Seed to host…
Milk is good for your bones and MELK is good for your ears. Our favorite local protopunks are opening for Wisconsin-based garage-psych band The Rashita Joneses at Springwater on Saturday, along with local indie rockers Caligulove and psychedelic rock band also out of Wisconsin Filter Free Rodeo. If you saw MELK around the time they played…
Babes in Toyland are the legendary ’90s riot grrl band credited by many with essentially inventing the riot grrl genre, from the kinderwhore look of tattered baby doll dresses and bow barrettes to the aggressive feminist message played within the punk/grunge sound coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Almost 30 years after they broke…
Though his global fame is relatively newfound, British singer-songwriter James Bay is no stranger to Nashville. Not only did he perform in Music City for the first time last fall, opening for a pair of Hozier shows at Exit/In on the cusp of Hozier’s own superstardom, but he also recorded his debut full-length, Chaos and the Calm,…
Red Bull Sound Select is hosting their June showcase with Ben Nichols (of Lucero), Ryan Culwell, and Somebody’s Darling at The Basement East – TONIGHT, June 18. If you RSVP, you’ll pay $3, but, if not, it will be $15 at the door. Note that entry is not guaranteed once the venue’s capacity is reached,…
By now we hope you’ve heard, our live events production wing, No Country Presents, has taken up residence at Lower Broadway’s hippest new restaurant, lounge, retail, and event space, Acme Feed & Seed, where we’ve been bringing you a weekly, FREE, Tuesday night showcase, featuring some of our favorite emerging local and national talent. The curated showcase runs…
We’ve been hip to HalfNoise, the ambient, indie, electro rock project of former Paramore drummer Zac Farro since just about day one, and it’s been amazing to watch Farro really come into his own as a songwriter and performer over the past several years, first with his debut EP, then last year’s incredible full-length, Volcano Crowe.…