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Cincinnati born, Brooklyn forged indie rockers The National are a rare example of a band, especially in this fast-moving contemporary musical landscape, who only seem to have become more culturally relevant and creatively refined in middle age, boasting a long and celebrated career that can roughly be defined by three distinct periods. There’s the…

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Since returning from a pandemic pause a couple years ago, long-running, free, all ages, bi-annual concert series Musicians Corner has been going strong, resuming its Spring and Fall showcases full of multi-genre local and national talent in Centennial Park. This year’s Spring series did come with a slightly tweaked schedule, running from mid-May through…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sun Room w/ Venus & the Flytraps | Sept. 15 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Sun-Room-2023-1800.jpg)
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Formed in 2020 amidst the pandemic lockdown (it’s still rather trippy to see post-Covid artists who are already so accomplished), Southern California surf and garage rock outfit Sun Room sprung onto the scene that same year with their debut EP, Sol Del Sur, quickly following it up the next year with sophomore effort Somewhere…

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Initially founded in 2021 as Queerfolk Fest, but since widened to a broader range of genres and renamed simply Queerfest, the local celebration of LGBTQ+ identifying artists returns this weekend as an expanded two-day, multi-stage event, boasting 13 great performers between showcases Friday, Aug. 11 at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge and Saturday, Aug. 12…

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Two of the most beloved acts in the indie and emo scene of the 2000s, Arizona alt/emo rockers Jimmy Eat World and hard-hitting, genre-bending Atlanta indie outfit Manchester Orchestra are currently in the midst of a co-headlining summer tour, which brings the groups- both no strangers to Nashville in recent years- to Ascend Amphitheater…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Kari Faux w/ Ivy Sole | Aug. 4 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kari-Faux-2023-1200-Credit-Bucci.jpeg)
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Hailing from Los Angeles by way of Little Rock, Arkansas, multifaceted rapper, singer, and producer Kari Faux first broke out to wider acclaim with mixtape Laugh Now, Die Later nearly a decade ago, capturing the attention of prominent creatives like Childish Gambino (who remixed a track and would go on to collaborate with Faux…

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By the time her major label debut, Heard It in a Past Life, arrived at the start of 2019, Maryland born and now LA-based pop singer Maggie Rogers had already been met with a whirlwind of buzz, thanks to two early self-released folk albums, a 2016 viral video of Pharrell Williams hearing her music…

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From 1995 to 2018 (with an abbreviated final installment in 2019), the Vans Warped Tour was the preeminent, traveling summer festival for fans of punk, pop punk, emo, and punk adjacent music, creating an influencing an entire subculture and standing synonymous with the scene, for better and for worse. Over the years, other tours…
![REVIEW: Beyoncé @ Nissan Stadium | 7.15.23 [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Beyonce-40-Nissan-7-15-23-Credit-Julian-Dakdouk-3-scaled-1.jpg)
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BeyoncéNissan Stadium; Nashville, TNJuly 15, 2023 Review by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Photos by Julian Dakdouk, courtesy of the artist. In 2016, Beyoncé played one of the greatest shows we’ve ever witnessed in Nashville, when she brought her extravagant, critically-acclaimed Formation World Tour to Nissan Stadium. The artistry and magnitude of that performance (and the album it…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Jadu Heart w/ Moto Bandit | July 26 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Jadu-Heart-2022-1800.jpg)
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Formed initially as a multimedia school project of friends Diva-Sachy Jeffrey and Alex Headford while attending London’s BIMM Institute, duo Jadu Heart was initially a conceptual fusion of r&b, pop, hip hop, and electronic music, where the pair performed in masks and wrote music as their theatrical alter egos Dina and Faro. Drawing buzz…