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It’s been an eventful few weeks for local artist Hayley Williams, who, while taking a momentary breather from fronting beloved and long-running alt rock outfit Paramore, has been rolling her first proper solo release. After teasing the title Petals for Armor, eventually revealed to be an LP due out May 8 via Atlantic, Williams made a…
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Raised in a musical family and surrounded by talented songwriters from a young age, Nashville native Hank Compton, like so many prodigious young performers, cut his teeth in the blues scene, performing in groups, drawing accolades, and gracing impressive stages while still a teen. 2018 debut solo single “What You’ve Put Me Through,” however, marked a…
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Anyone dialed into the local pop scene knows that Nashville is awash with exciting artists. And though, while it’s true that most new local pop we come across is, at the very least, very good or even excellent, it’s much more seldom that we encounter a young artist who is, without a doubt, so…
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Since winding down a lengthy, world tour cycle in support of their stellar (and career-best) 2017 fifth LP After Laughter, a run which ended with an epic, hometown celebration dubbed Art + Friends in late 2018, acclaimed Nashville alt rock outfit Paramore have been understandably quiet. At the time, singer Hayley Williams told us in an…
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Back in the fall, we premiered local indie pop singer-songwriter Bre Kennedy‘s anthemic single “Broken Record,” a tune that dominated our playlists for months, and an excellent followup to her buzzy debut EP, last spring’s Jealous of Birds. At the time, we also announced that Kennedy was hard at work on her followup, which, excitingly, arrived today!…
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Since winding down a lengthy, world tour cycle in support of their stellar (and career-best) 2017 fifth LP After Laughter, a run which ended with an epic, hometown celebration dubbed Art + Friends in late 2018, acclaimed Nashville alt rock outfit Paramore have been understandably quiet. At the time, singer Hayley Williams told us in an…
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When Caroline Rose first came onto our radar, with the release of her 2014 debut LP I Will Not Be Afraid, we counted her as a promising, albeit fairly conventional, alt-country and Americana rocker. But with her incredible, breakout sophomore LP, 2018’s LONER, Rose bucked everything she previously established, and reinvented herself as a sarcastic, ambitious, self-assured, quirky,…
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If you’ve been dialed into Nashville’s indie underground in recent years, there’s a good chance you’re already familiar with Kacie Williams, who, a couple years ago, adopted her current artistic moniker Touma, and regularly appears on bills at clubs and DIY spots around town, performing with some of our favorite acts in the indie rock,…
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Nashville pop artist, songwriter, and vocal superstar Daniella Mason got a whole squad together in the video for her single “Woman Lover Powerful.” The visual production features heavy hitters in the Nashville music community: Cam, Alanna Royale, Bantug, Sinclair, Jamiah, Robyn Harris, Nightbirde, Jacqueline Day and Carine Abraham. The all-star affair shows a studio…
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As you may recall, last summer we introduced you to local folk punk transplants Elijah Newman & The SideEffects, premiering a music video for “Free Born,” the title track from their forthcoming EP. With that record finally slated to arrive Nov. 15 via Wiretap Records, the group are set to debut another track, “The Flipside,” officially out on…