![[TICKET+ SIGNED VINYL GIVEAWAY] The Rapture w/ The Cribs | Oct. 1 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Rapture-2025-1800.jpg)
Formed in California late ’90s (though most closely associated with New York, where they moved early on and where they broke out as a band), The Rapture were one of the forerunners of the dance punk and post-punk revival that swept the rock scene in the 2000s, first capturing widespread attention with their single…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] The Dare w/ atlgrandma | Oct. 3 @ Exit/In](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Dare-2025-1800-Credit-Anna-Zina.jpg)
LA born, Seattle raised artist Harrison Patrick Smith is best known now as his musical alias The Dare– an electrifying and much-discussed dance-punk and electropop project which sprung to life with buzzy debut single “Girls” in 2022, and has attracted significantly more attention over the past year thanks to his association with Charli XCX-…
![[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)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)
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)
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…