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Formed 15 years ago in Indianapolis, progressive metal outfit The Contortionist have, across four full-lengths and four EPs, earned a solid reputation for being one of the best, most consistent acts in the modern metal scene. They’ve toured with the likes of Hatebreed, All Shall Perish, Protest the Hero, Between the Buried and Me, Nothing…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] NIKI w/ sundial & Valories | Oct. 4 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/NIKI-2022-1200-Credit-Gabriel-Chiu.png)
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Hailing originally from Indonesia, and at one time based in Nashville, where she studied music at Lipscomb (before more recently settling in LA), breakout pop singer NIKI gravitated towards making music at a young age, inspired by American pop and r&b artists like Taylor Swift and Destiny’s Child. After signing to 88rising and earning…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Lagwagon w/ Grumpster | Sept. 23 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lagwagon-2019-1800-Credit-Ilkay-Karakurt.jpg)
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Formed in 1989 in Southern California, punk outfit Lagwagon became a staple of the underground punk, skate punk, and melodic hardcore scene of the ’90s, a musical movement that would see peers like The Offspring and NOFX rise to mainstream success, and acts like Green Day achieve superstardom, while also helping influence and inform…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] The Dead Daisies w/ Enuff Z’Nuff & Joecephus and The George Jonestown Massacre | Sept. 14 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Dead-Daisies-2022-1800.jpg)
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Founded a decade ago by Australian guitarist and businessman David Lowy, hard rock supergroup The Dead Daisies have had something of a rotating roster of musicians from iconic outfits (largely from the ’60s-’80s) over the years, with their lineup currently rounded out by drummer Brian Tichy (Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Billy Idol), lead guitarist Doug…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Ginger Root w/ King Pari | Sept. 13 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Ginger-Root-2022-1800.jpeg)
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The brainchild of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, video editor, and multimedia artist Cameron Lew, Ginger Root has been an organic and wholly self-sufficient success story, forged over several years of homegrown, independently released efforts, which helped him find early buzz. After signing to Nashville’s Acrophase Records, 2020 record Rikki helped the Southern California-based project break…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Tessa Violet w/ Will Joseph Cook & daysormay | Sept. 12 @ Eastside Bowl](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Tessa-Violet-2022-1200-Credit-Sarah-Pardini.jpg)
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Though, early on, she found attention online as a vlogger and media personality under the moniker Meekakitty, for the past decade or so, indie pop singer Tessa Violet has been mostly focused on making music under her own name, met with early buzz for her self-released 2014 debut Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled. With 2019’s Bad Ideas, however, Violet…
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It’s been a decade since German singer, songwriter, DJ, and producer Marius Lauber, who’d spent his teens performing in indie and garage rock bands, first debuted his solo, indie electronic project Roosevelt. Combining his more rock rooted past with a love of disco, techno, electronic, and dance music, Roosevelt has honed his genre-bending and…
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Since forming in 2008, Torrance, California’s Joyce Manor have, like many of their peers in the contemporary punk scene, managed to achieve both organic, indie punk authenticity and broader critical recognition from outlets once too “cool” to cover anything that might be labeled pop punk or emo a decade ago (that “emo revival” is really just…

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Though, early on, she found attention online as a vlogger and media personality under the moniker Meekakitty, for the past decade or so, indie pop singer Tessa Violet has been mostly focused on making music under her own name, met with early buzz for her self-released 2014 debut Maybe Trapped Mostly Troubled. With 2019’s…