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The federal minimum wage is $7.25. According to Zillow, the median price of rent in Nashville is $1,600. Do math, and the numbers don’t look great. “That’s some bleak shit,” Nashville artist REMMI says in her latest single “Minimum Wage.” The appropriately-titled track alternates between a hustler’s optimism to grind it out and the…
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Nashville’s enjoying a creative boom of artists moving here to create music outside of the country sphere, and there’s no shortage of new discoveries. Alongside the influx of recent transplants, longtime residents continue to innovate and evolve. When The New Schematics vocalist Cory Bishop moved here in 2007, the rock scene was having a…
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That Speedy Ortiz would release a new LP in 2018 comes as both a surprise- the band kept uncharacteristically mum throughout the writing and recording process until new single and video “Lucky 88” dropped last week- and an obvious assumption (they were due, as nearly three years have passed since their excellent sophomore effort, Foil Deer). In fact, the…
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With the ability to blend pop country sensibilities and traditionalist country sounds, push progressive social viewpoints, and flaunt kitsch, nostalgic western wear like no other, Texas raised, Nashville based breakout singer Kacey Musgraves bucks convention in the mainstream country world, and seems the obvious heir to the new Nashville country crown (we hold plenty of more…
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By now 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 between Farro’s 2010 departure from Paramore and his return to the renowned group last year, HalfNoise has, so far, released two full-length albums and two EPs,…
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Decisiveness might be on the decline in 2018. We have unlimited options of bars to drink at, people to meet, songs to listen to, and movies to watch. If we struggle to make up our minds, what does that say about us? That’s one of the questions Nashville alt pop band COIN asks in…
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We first introduced you to local rockers Chico when we premiered their debut EP, Pipe Dreams, a few years back. Then a relatively new act, the band have spent their time since honing their sound, cementing their lineup, and becoming a permanent fixture in the DIY show scene, garnering attention for their eclectic sound, which could largely…
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We all grow at our own pace, and sometimes it takes pop music and a little heartbreak to take a big leap forward. That’s what happened with Nashville pop artist Clinton John when writing his new single, “Let’s Not Be Kids.” Nashville’s own Super Duper produced the confidently vulnerable jam, and we have the…
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Aside from a Christmas cover and the occasional remix or collaboration, we haven’t heard anything new from eclectic local indie rockers and longtime site faves ELEL since their 2016 full-length debut Geode, which, itself, already felt familiar upon release, as many of the tracks had been kicking around for years as demos, one-offs, an EP, and part…
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Buying diamonds can easily end up being a mess of clarity charts, industry abbreviations and hilariously bad TV commercials. While we don’t know much about the jewel hustle, “Diamond Fool (feat. Ian Munsick)”by Marshall Magic is a certified 24 carat pop jam. The first original track by the Nashville pop duo has a treasure…