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Though they’ve circled around us in nearby cities and festival spots, seminal Florida-bred punks Against Me! haven’t played Nashville proper in about three years. That changes tonight, Oct. 20, when the group, still buzzing from last year’s excellent new LP Shape Shift with Me, return to headline Cannery Ballroom, with support from buzzy LA punks Bleached and Canadian alt rock trio The Dirty…
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Fresh off a run of arena dates supporting Green Day (during which we snuck to Memphis to catch an amazingly intimate off-day show), and currently in the midst of a lengthy international tour, seminal punk outfit Against Me! show no signs of slowing down, following the release of their fantastic seventh full-length, Shape Shift With Me, last fall.…
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Against Me! w/ Mobina Galore, Typesetter The Hi-Tone Cafe; Memphis, TN March 9, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Being the giant fans of punk outfit Against Me! that we are, we recently decided on a whim to sneak over to Memphis, to catch the group at The Hi-Tone Cafe, for an intimate affair they…
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While they graced us with both a headlining and co-headling show in 2014, seminal punk outfit Against Me!, whose seventh full-length Shape Shift With Me arrived last fall, seem long-overdue for a Music City return. We’ve gotten our fix at festivals (Forecastle in 2014, Bonnaroo in 2015, Shaky Knees in 2016), but nothing beats catching the unparalleled, long-running,…
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This weekend, May 13-15, marks the return of Atlanta’s annual Shaky Knees Festival, now in its fourth year. Amidst a busy summer landscape chock full of more events than ever, Shaky Knees shines as a beacon of well-curated, affordable weekend fun, counting acts like My Morning Jacket, At the Drive-In, Jane’s Addiction, Deftones, The 1975, Florence +…
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While neither claim Nashville as their primary residence these days, Music City still did, undoubtedly, play huge part in establishing the careers of pop megastars Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift (the former was born and raised here and the later relocated before launching her career). And, while we don’t aim to bring you every tiny tidbit of news about…
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This week, we’ve brought you our top National albums of 2014 and our favorite releases from Nashville artists of this year. Today, we polled those of our crew that wanted to participate for their favorite live local shows of 2014. We included Bonnaroo in this list, and added in a few of our favorite shows…