Founded by famed Ohio emo and post-hardcore outfit Hawthorne Heights, and named for the single that put them on the map nearly 20 years ago, “Ohio Is For Lovers,” Is For Lovers Festival is one of several clever, nostalgic celebrations of the emo and pop punk scene of the 2000s that have popped up…
While alt pop duo Between Friends formally began under their current moniker in 2017, the duo have been making music together in some form or another for nearly their entire lives, and that’s because they’re siblings and best friends, Brandon and Savannah Hudson. Though born in Miami, the Hudsons’ family relocated to Los Angeles…
Chicago born bedroom pop artist Claud Mintz, who makes music as Claud, started out self-releasing songs to SoundCloud and honing their dreamy, homegrown sound as an introverted teen. Upon arriving at Syracuse University, Claud (who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns) made a new best friend in Josh Mehling, forming the dream pop duo Toast…
Icons of ’90s alternative rock, responsible for some of the most influential and successful albums of all time, Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins have hardly ever disappeared throughout their 35-year run (save for a six-year split at the start of the millennium), but it seems like every few years they recapture headlines, whether it’s for the…
For nearly 30 years, musical comedy duo Tenacious D have been a beloved institution in the rock scene, rising to prominence in the 2000s while the group’s Jack Black also became a household name as a comedy movie star (his bandmate, Kyle Gass, has also appeared in numerous films and TV shows over the…
Bullyw/ Bev Rage & the DrinksBrooklyn Bowl; Nashville, TNAugust 31, 2023 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Since instantly asserting herself as one of the most exciting new rock artists in Nashville a decade ago with her frenetic, punk spirited, grungy eponymous debut EP, Bully– the musical alias of singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] $uicideboy$ w/ Ghostemane, City Morgue, Sematary, & Ramirez | Sept. 19 @ Bridgestone Arena](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Suicideboys-2023-1800.jpg)
Made up of cousins Ruby da Cherry and $crim, New Orleans hip hop duo $uicideboy$ have been one of the biggest underground success stories of the last few years, rising from the online buzz of self-produced, independently released and incredibly subversive mixtapes to selling out giant shows nationwide, collaborating with stars like Travis Barker, and becoming one…
![REVIEW: Ghost w/ Amon Amarth | 8.27.23 @ Ascend Amphitheater [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ghost-Ascend-Amphitheater-8-27-23-Credit-Hannah-Laney-4.jpg)
Ghostw/ Amon AmarthAscend Amphitheater; Nashville, TNAugust 27, 2023 Review and photos by Hannah Laney Swedish hard rock and metal band Ghost put on an incredible performance at their recent return to Nashville at Ascend Amphitheater. It was their biggest headlining show in Music City yet, and met with much praise and a sold out…
If you’ve been following No Country for awhile, you should be more than familiar with halfnoise, the solo musical vehicle of Paramore drummer Zac Farro, a longtime local fave and friend of the site. Formed and cultivated more than a decade ago, between Farro’s 2010 departure from Paramore and his return to the renowned group in…
It’s been 10 years nows since Alicia Bognanno first sprung onto the Nashville scene as Bully, blowing us away with her fiery early performances at local haunts like The Stone Fox (where she used to run sound before her music career took off) and making a stunning introduction with Bully’s eponymous first EP in…