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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard w/ Mild High Club Cannery Ballroom; Nashville, TN September 26, 2017 Review by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Photos by Amber J. Davis Rowdy Aussie psych/garage punks King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard recently kicked off their North American tour in Music City, blowing the roof off a sold out performance at Cannery Ballroom…
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Harry Styles w/ Cam, Muna The Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TN September 25, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. At 23 years old and nearly two years removed from the hiatus (or split, or whatever you want to call it) from the group that made him famous, One Direction, young, English musical phenom Harry Styles, who also…
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Many of our region’s best festivals were already firmly established before we ever started covering them. Many others we watched emerged with promise, only to disappear after one year, a testament to just how hard it is to pull off an event at this scale, in an increasingly saturated summer music landscape. From the…
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Depeche Mode w/ Warpaint Ascend Amphitheater; Nashville, TN September 18, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Though, in their near 40 year run, they’ve never ceased to be a band, English electronic and new wave legends Depeche Mode had only managed to make it to Nashville once in their many years of touring, in May of 1988…
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Live on the Green 2017 Weekend Finale Public Square Park; Nashville, TN September 2-3, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain, Jacob Ryan, and Lorie Liebig. Photos by Jake Giles Netter and Amber Davis. Though intended to be a 3-day weekend finale, as with the past several years of Live on the Green, the remnants of Hurricane Harvey…
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Live on the Green w/ Spoon, Portugal. The Man, The Weeks Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 24, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. After setting a high bar with a great first night featuring St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Arkells, and upping the ante last…
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Live on the Green w/ Local Natives, Real Estate, Minus the Bear Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 17, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Amber J. Davis. After setting a high bar with a great first week featuring St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Arkells, Live on…
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Live on the Green w/ St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Arkells Public Square Park; Nashville, TN August 10, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Jake Giles Netter. Kicking off its ninth season, the annual Live on the Green free festival series returned last week to Public Square Park, setting the bar…
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Dylan McDonald & the Avians, The Rooks, Jeff Carl Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN July 25, 2017 Review by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Photos by Nolan Knight. Our long-running, free, bi-monthly Acme Feed & Seed showcase series was really cookin’ recently, when we returned to the three band format, to give you guys as much live music…
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As we’ve been saying every year since our first time covering in 2013, Louisville’s Forecastle Festival is one of our absolute favorite music fests- not just in the region, but in the whole country. It’s not the the biggest or flashiest event of its kind, and you’ll frequently find its performers at many other festivals, but it…