Nashville Indie Music Blog

  • Vinyl Thief & The Black Cadillacs, The End, Friday Night in Nashville

    This Friday is another big night of local music in Nashville.  I’ve told you about Canon Blue and friends playing over at The Basement, and we also have White Rabbits playing at Exit/In.  But, it is that time of the season, and I have a rock show with a holiday tinge and a bit…

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  • M83 to play Nashville’s Marathon Music Works on May 15th

    I know the warm weather of May seems a long away when it is snowing outside my window right now… but, this is going to be an awesome show.  M83 just announced a North American tour today with supporting act I Break Horses, AND…. that will include a stop at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works…

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  • Third Round of SXSW Bands Announced

    The SXSW lineup is beginning to fill out, and, of course, It is freaking massive. In the initial lineup announcement, Nashville was represented by The Ettes, Matthew Perryman Jones, PUJOL, & Turbo Fruits.  We we can now add the names of Nasvhille’s The Apache Relay, The Black Belles, Cory Branan, David Mayfield Parade, &…

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  • New Music Releases 12/6/11

    This will probably be one of the last weeks of any notable new music releases this year before the holidays start.  Most everyone is talking about the Black Keys release of El Camino today, but there are a few others that you might want to consider as well.  I’ve given you a run down…

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  • Get to Know: Diamond Rugs

    Supergroup news… Deer Tick leadman (and new Nashville resident) John McCauley has joined up with Ian Saint Pé of Black Lips, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Hardy Morris of Dead Confederate, and Bryan Dufresne of Six Finger Satellite to bring us a side project known as Diamond Rugs (you think that could come from,…

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  • Mr. Gnome, The End, Tonight In Nashville

    Loud, melancholic guitar rock.  Man, I could eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and that why I’m going to see Mr. Gnome tonight at The End in Nashville. Mr. Gnome are a two piece indie rock band out of Cleveland, OH.  They’ve been putting out records since 2006, and have an awesome new…

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  • Nashville’s Marathon Music Works opens tomorrow night…

    Everyone has been talking about the opening of Nashville’s newest mid-sized venue, Marathon Music Works.  There was the contest to name the venue, and, those of you that voted correctly, have surely been getting the emails about the upcoming Wanda Jackson/Black Belles show to thank you for participating.  We’ve been getting updates about their…

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  • News and Notes

    It’s time to reboot the Steve Jobs machine, which means I need to clean off my desktop.  Here’s what I am looking at on Halloween morning. Loutallica Do you remember last week when I (and the rest of the world) shredded the Lou Reed / Metallica collaboration?  This headline in Spin Magazine “Metallica Already…

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