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Alt Pop Breakout Maggie Miles Chats Inspiration, Process, and Performing Live | See Her May 12 @ The High Watt!
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Feature by Tess Schoonhoven. Photos by Jesse Lendzion, courtesy of the artist. Hailing originally from Northern Virginia, alt pop up and comer Maggie Miles first arrived in Nashville in 2019, and released her debut album, Am I Drowning or Am I Just Learning How to Swim, in the midst of the first summer of the…
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[INTERVIEW] Chad Gilbert Chats New Found Glory, Life in Nashville, and His Inaugural Breakfast-Themed Punk Rock Festival, BreakFEST
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By Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Chad Gilbert is a busy guy. “When I’m off tour I don’t want to be stir crazy, I want to contribute,” he explains, between bites of toast and avocado slices. We’re meeting for breakfast at a local cafe, situated in historic downtown Franklin, the idyllic community just 20 miles from…
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We Chat With Lasso Spells Ahead Of Their “High Noon” Event Tonight @ Mercy Lounge
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After thoroughly enjoying them during an installment of our No Country Presents showcase at Acme last summer, we’ve been following local psych/Americana rockers Lasso Spells intently (we even helped them release their first ever music video late last year). Over casual beers, we recently chatted with Brett Dudash, one half of the nucleus of Lasso Spells, about the show…
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[INTERVIEW] The Wild Feathers Discuss Their New LP, Nashville, and What’s Next
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We’ve been raving over the rock and roll sound from The Wild Feathers since they released their stellar self-titled debut back in 2013. After almost three straight years on the road, the group returned to their hometown of Nashville to record their follow-up, Lonely is a Lifetime. We sat down with band members Taylor…
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No Country For New Nashville Podcast | Episode 12: Kevin Griffin
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In the latest edition of our No Country For New Nashville Podcast, we sat down with Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin, who co-founded the upcoming Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, which kicks off its inaugural year in just a few short weeks, Sept. 26 & 27 right down the road in Franklin, TN. While Kevin’s decades…
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No Country For New Nashville Podcast | Episode 11: firekid
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In the latest edition of our No Country For New Nashville Podcast, we sat down with Dillon Hodges, the singer, songwriter, and musical mastermind behind electro-bluegrass project firekid. Prepping to release his debut album under the firekid moniker on Sept. 25 (through Atlantic Records, no less), Dylan told us all about growing up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama,…
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Meet That’s My Kid in an Exclusive Interview; See Them Perform Tonight @ The Basement
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Earlier this week we sat down with local garage/blues punk rockers That’s My Kid to talk about music, life and the grind of trying to make it as a band in Music City. Although they are still shopping for a label, the group are generating a lot of buzz around town after the release…
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No Country For New Nashville Podcast | Episode 10: HalfNoise
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In the latest edition of our No Country For New Nashville Podcast, we sat down with local singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentlist Zac Farro, who played drums in Paramore from 2004-2010, and, for the past five years, has been making music on his own under the moniker HalfNoise. Just months after the release of his debut LP, Volcano Crowe,…
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No Country For New Nashville Podcast | Episode 9: Five Knives
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In the latest edition of our No Country For New Nashville Podcast, we sat down with vocalist Anna M’Queen and producer/multi-instrumentalist Zach Hall, of local electro-rock outfit Five Knives. Celebrating the June 2 release of their full-length debut, Savages, out via Red Bull Records (from which we premiered a track called “Elevator” last week), the band are set to play…
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[Interview] No Country Chats Backstage with J Roddy Walston
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J Roddy Walston. Photo by Matt Cairns. We’ve already been gushing about last Thursday’s incredible high energy rock show at Exit/In, and how headliners J Roddy Walston & The Business made sparks fly out of our ears, but you might not have heard about our little micro-adventure. Already having been interviewed by Lightning 100, squeezing in time…