![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Youth Lagoon w/ Valley James | April 18 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Youth-Lagoon-2025-1200-Credit-Tyler-T-Williams.jpg)
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An artist we’ve been obsessing over and writing about since his debut album way back in 2011, Youth Lagoon is the musical alias of Idaho-based eclectic and experimental pop artist and producer Trevor Powers. The project initially began in Powers’ early 20s, with debut album The Year of Hibernation recorded during a holiday break…
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Formed in the early ’90s in New Braunfels, Texas, alt pop rockers Sixpence None the Richer released two early albums to some modest success in the Christian rock space, before 1997 third LP, eponymously titled Sixpence None the Richer, catapulted them into superstardom (albeit more than a year after its initial release) thanks to the…
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Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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Now in its 55th year, the annual Nashville Film Festival returns to Music City this week, Sept. 19-25, boasting tons of incredible feature films, documentaries, shorts, world premieres, student films, creator panels, awards, and much more! More modestly-sized compared to some of the flashier fests around the nation like TIFF, Sundance, or Telluride, Nashville’s…
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Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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Though she’s only 23-years-old, breakout, soulful English r&b and pop singer Lola Young has been writing music for more than a decade, and first began attracting attention as a teen, winning a national open mic contest at 13, and attending famed creative and performing arts institute The BRIT School, in the footsteps of icons like…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] of Montreal w/ Tele Novella | June 28 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/of-Montreal-2024-1800-Credit-Shervin-Lainez.png)
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Part of the beloved, Athens, GA-centric Elephant 6 collective, which yielded countless seminal bands of the ’90s, indie and psych-pop genre-benders of Montreal were formed in 1996 by frontperson, creative helmer, and only constant member Kevin Barnes. Initially influenced by retro, 1960s inspired psych pop, the band debuted with 1997 LP Cherry Peel, and…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Aidan Bissett w/ Casey Baer | May 10 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Aidan-Bissett-2024-1200-Credit-Charlotte-Alex.jpg)
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Rising indie rock and pop star Aidan Bissett has had an impressive few years, from finding online buzz while self-releasing DIY songs and covers in 2020 during the Covid lockdown, to landing a major label record deal and releasing his first EP, More Than Friends, the following year, breaking through to even more mainstream…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Billy Raffoul w/ Peter Raffoul, The Indiana Drones | Nov. 11 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Billy-Raffoul-2023-1800-Credit-Vanessa-Heins.jpg)
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Hailing from Leamington, Ontario, though he’s spent much of the last several years in Nashville (as well as Toronto), singer-songwriter Billy Raffoul developed a love for music at a young age, immersed in performance and exposed to lots of rock and spirit by his musician father, Jody Raffoul. By his teens, Billy was honing…
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The musical alias of Nashville based singer-songwriter Austin Sawyer, Drumming Bird has been honing his sound for several years now, fusing lush indie rock, wistful Americana and folk, and cosmic, earnest, and introspective alt-country. After a couple of strong early efforts in 2019 debut album Great Smokey Love and 2020 followup Ocoee, Sawyer really…