While the great Americana Festival strums on throughout the weekend, if you don’t feel like spending any money to hear a great variety of Americana-influenced tunes for an entire evening, come out to The Building tonight and BYOB for the GonzoTXTN-hosted Eastside Americana Rock and Roll Showcase featuring the great honky-tonk singer Greg Garing, Graham Wilkinson &…
Strokes offshoot Julian Casablancas+The Voidz are set to release their debut LP, Tyranny, this Tuesday, Sept. 24, via Casablancas’ own Cult Records, but, shortly after the release of their debut single and music video, the group have made the record available in full for an early stream. Fans of The Strokes and Julian’s prior solo work should…
Nashville psych/grunge duo JEFF the Brotherhood have a new EP of covers, Dig the Classics, due out Sept. 30 via Warner Bros., and we’re finally getting an early taste in the form of a fairly straightforward but appropriately fuzzy cover of the Pixies’ classic “Gouge Away.” The record will also include covers of Beck, My Bloody Valentine,…
Photo via Wondering Sound. It appears that it will take not one, but two new vocalists to replace late GWAR frontman and founding member Oderus Urungus (a.k.a. Dave Brockie), who died of an accidental heroin overdose earlier this year. After taking several months to regroup, the part-band part-performance art collective brought former member Mike Bishop (who,…
A lot can happen in a week, apparently. We literally just told you that seminal indie rockers Guided By Voices were set to return to Nashville on Oct. 24 for a date at Mercy Lounge, but, as announced yesterday, that show will no longer be happening, nor will any other scheduled performance, because, once again, Guided By Voices have called it…
Friends and electronic music fans, hold on to your seats, because we’ve got some exciting news for you: the upcoming Bonobo show at Marathon Music Works has been combined with soul collective Jungle for a fantastic evening of dance. The event is still scheduled to take place on Sunday the 28th of September, but…
The Oak Creek Band Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN September 16, 2014 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve surely heard by now that every Tuesday night, we’ve been hosting a free showcase at new downtown restaurant and performance space, Acme Feed &…
Pictured: Jim Lauderdale, Amanda Shires, Don Was, Jason Isbell, Joe Henry, Brady Blade, Buddy Miller, Rosanne Cash, Joachim Cooder, John Leventhal, Ry Cooder, Parker Milsap, The Milk Carton Kids, the McCrary Sisters, Paul Janeway (of St. Paul & the Broken Bones) and Rhett Miller. Photo: Getty Images for Americana Music. Americana Music Honors &…
As we told you earlier this month, hip hop supergroup Run the Jewels, which consists of acclaimed rapper Killer Mike and producer/rapper EL-P, are set to return to Exit/In this fall, Oct. 22. The show comes just days before the Oct. 27 release of the duo’s sophomore full-length, RTJ2, and, now, thanks to Adult Swim’s “Singles” series, we have…
Since signing to Mom+Pop and re-releasing their debut album, Youth, earlier this year, Nashville’s Wild Cub have been on a seemingly unstoppable path to success, touring the country, garnering critical praise, and making countless festival and television appearances. As you may recall, the group premiered a music video for the European release of their single “Colour” earlier…