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Indie Folk Legends Bright Eyes Play Brooklyn Bowl with Lullaby for the Working Class Tonight, Oct. 12
Though he’s been prolifically making music with a whole host of projects for more than 30 years (despite only being in his mid-40s), from solo work to short-lived emo outfit Commander Venus to cult punk band Desaparecidos to indie pop gem Park Ave. to folk supergroup Monsters of Folk to Phoebe Bridgers team-up Better Oblivion…
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Post-Punk Trailblazers Public Image Ltd Play First Nashville Show Ever Tonight, Oct. 9 at Brooklyn Bowl
While he probably will, inevitably, always be known as the vocalist for legendary punk group the Sex Pistols first and foremost, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten) was really only in that band for its original short but massively influential three-year stint, returning for a couple of reunions in the ’90s and ’00s, but not…
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The Legendary Johnny Marr Headlines Brooklyn Bowl Nashville with His Lordship, Tonight, Sept. 21
When Johnny Marr first played Nashville, back in 2013, we covered it extensively (this writer is a self-proclaimed Smiths superfan), including a week of articles leading up to the show, where we examined the legacy of Marr’s iconic former band, his fraught relationship with former bandmate Morrissey, his various post-Smiths projects, a profile on…
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Pop Punk Legends The Starting Line Play First Headlining Nashville Show in Decades, Tonight, Aug. 30 at Brooklyn Bowl
If you’re a millennial who loved the pop punk scene of the 2000s, there’s a strong chance Philadelphia’s The Starting Line hold a special place in your heart. Never quite as big a household name of some of their Warped Tour and Alt Press peers like New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy, or Paramore,…
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Indie Pop Duo Tennis Bring Farewell Tour to Brooklyn Bowl Tonight, June 7
After 15 years and seven great albums, husband and wife indie pop duo Tennis have decided to call it quits (to be clear, just to the band, not their marriage), feeling that they’ve said everything they’ve wanted to say and achieved everything they wanted to achieve as a band. Before going on indefinite hiatus…
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![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Baby Rose | May 7 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/BABDBADNOTGOOD-2024-1800-Credit-Ivan-Narez.jpg)
[TICKET GIVEAWAY] BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Baby Rose | May 7 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
Canadian jazz, hip hop, and electronica genre-benders BADBADNOTGOOD first met while studying music in college, quickly bonding over a love of subversive hip hop artists like Odd Future and MF Doom, and achieving early viral attention for their instrumental covers of rap songs. Their debut album, BBNG, would drop in 2011, featuring a mix…
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![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory w/ Love Spells | April 25 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sharon-Van-Etten-2025-1800-Credit-Devin-Oktar-Yalkin.png)
[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory w/ Love Spells | April 25 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
It’s been more than 15 years now since folky, indie rock singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten made her stunning introduction with 2009 debut album, Because I Was in Love, and more than a decade since she broke out to wider recognition (and first captured our attention, as an early No Country favorite) with 2012 third…
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![REVIEW: MJ Lenderman & The Wind | 1.25.25 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MJ-Lenderman-Brooklyn-Bowl-1-25-25-Credit-Drake-Boling-4.jpg)
REVIEW: MJ Lenderman & The Wind | 1.25.25 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville [PHOTOS]
MJ Lenderman & The Windw/ Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse BandBrooklyn Bowl; Nashville, TNJanuary 25, 2025 Review and photos by Drake Boling I hear them calling out in the streets. “Please, we are begging you. Please be normal about MJ Lenderman,” they cry out. “No,” I whisper back. “I can’t.” At their recent stop…
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Seminal Punk Group X Bring Farewell Tour to Nashville’s Brooklyn Bowl Tonight, Oct. 25
Formed in 1977 in Los Angeles, seminal rockers X are lauded as one of the most important acts in the first wave of American punk, with their debut album, 1980’s Los Angeles, and legendary followup, 1981’s Wild Gift, frequently counted among the best records of all time. The later, in fact, was praised as album of the year…
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![REVIEW: Magdalena Bay w/ Nourished by Time | 9.25.24 @ Brooklyn Bowl [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Magdalena-Bay-Brooklyn-Bowl-9-25-24-Credit-Drake-Boling-1.jpg)
REVIEW: Magdalena Bay w/ Nourished by Time | 9.25.24 @ Brooklyn Bowl [PHOTOS]
Magdalena Bayw/ Nourished by TimeBrooklyn Bowl; Nashville, TNSeptember 25, 2024 Review and photos by Drake Boling When I say Magdalena Bay sounds like music beamed in from the future, you might have some sense of what that could entail. But that still can’t prepare you for what the future contains. But maybe it’s actually…