It feels like it’s been a little while since we last sent you to an El El show, so we’d be remiss if you didn’t bring you the scoop on Ben Elkins and friends’ latest activity. The poppy, eclectic local rockers, one of our favorite up and coming acts in town, will be performing…
We told you about this show when it was announced a few weeks ago, and there’s no shortage of excitement about it on our end. Cat Power’s most recent release Sun was featured on our list of top 10 records of 2012. And, based on the number of entries in our recent contest, a lot of you are stoked…
The Journey’s Noise Tour hits Nashville this evening, bringing an eclectic electronic/dance/hip hop-leaning lineup of 3OH!3, The Summer Set, Wallpaper., and New Beat Fund to The Cannery Ballroom. Though many of you are probably at least casually familiar with the headliners, it’s this bill’s opening acts, Wallpaper. and New Beat Fund, that have us the most excited (and warrant a…
As we’ve told you on several occasions, noise pop duo Sleigh Bells will be stopping at Marathon Music Works in Nashville on Friday, Nov. 8, on tour in support of their brand new album, Bitter Rivals. Sleigh Bells’ hyperactive, loud, larger-than-life, face-melting live show will receive a much-needed counter-balance in the form of subdued, etherial, post-rock/experimental opener Doldrums.…
Mountain Oasis Music Festival Ashville, North Carolina October 25-27, 2013 Review by Sarah Sharp If you checked the Instagram, you saw that we had a blast at Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit in Asheville, NC, this past weekend. Unfortunately, we couldn’t be everywhere all at once, but we hopped around as much as possible.…
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust w/ Chris Scruggs Exit/In; Nashville, TN October 22, 2013 Words by: Jacob Ryan (@Gonzowithgusto) Photos by: Jake Giles Nutter Sometimes the best shows aren’t the ones you’ve been making plans for months in advance but rather the ones you stumble upon by accident or circumstance. I’ve had my mind…
J. Roddy Walston & The Business w/ Reignwolf & The Wans Exit/In, Nashville, TN October 27, 2013 Photos by Jake Giles Netter We’re huge fans of J. Roddy Walston & The Business here at No Country. After first stumbling (literally) upon them at a tiny off the beaten path stage at Bonnaroo, we instantly…
Salvador Dali Parton (featuring Winston Marshall [Mumford & Sons], Justin Hayward-Young [The Vaccines], Gill Landry [Old Crow Medicine Show], Mike Harris [Apache Relay], and Jake Orrall [JEFF The Brotherhood]) Various Venues, Nashville, TN October 27, 2013 Review by Matt Hall and Philip Obenschain Photos by Jake Giles Netter Several of us No Countrians were checking…
Even if you’re not into adult-alternative roots/jam-rock, you have to respect bands like Carbon Leaf. Though the genre experienced a renaissance in the ’90s with the rise of names like Blues Traveler and DMB, it remains perhaps the most “blue-collar” domain of popular music. Blue-collar not necessarily in terms of the genre’s audience, but…
We often tell you about various punk and pop punk shows. Though that scene and its many offshoots and subgenres is fairly diverse in its own right, more often than not, the pop punk-related tours that pass through contain several bands who ultimately sound fairly similar in style. That is not the case for tonight‘s show…