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[NO COUNTRY PREMIERE] Stereo Specter Make Sci-Fi Splash in New Video for “Soul Sucker”
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The brainchild of local producer and multi-instrumentliast Jordan Dean, Stereo Specter is a project that’s been bubbling for at least a year (you might have heard some love on Lightning 100 already), but are really eyeing 2017 as broader launching ground, as Dean prepares to release a new lush, indie/electro-pop EP and a series of a stylish,…
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Jess Nolan Drops Live Acoustic Video for “Change” | Catch Her Feb. 20 @ The Basement
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Jess Nolan is a local singer-songwriter we’ve had our eye on for awhile. Between last year’s Road to Roo competition, where she made it to the Nashville area finals, and our interview and premiere of her debut EP Strike A Match, last fall, regular readers should be no stranger to Nolan’s soulful, r&b sound. Ahead of a Feb. 20 full band show…
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Mac DeMarco to Play Marathon Music Works May 17 | Hear Two Tracks Ahead of New LP
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The rise of lo-fi/slacker/indie rocker Mac DeMarco over the last few years has been exciting to watch. While we happened upon him around the time of his earliest solo works, mini album Rock and Roll Night Club and full-length debut 2, the eclectic, Canadian born singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist first seemed to nab broader mainstream recognition with 2014 sophomore LP Salad Days.…
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Alabama Shakes, Sturgill Simpson, Run the Jewels, More Announced for 2017 Sloss Fest
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Since its debut in 2015, Birmingham, Alabama’s Sloss Fest has fast become a formidable, regional musical event, boasting a balanced, eclectic, weekend slate of performers in historic Sloss Furnaces. The fest returns for its third year July 15-16, once again overlapping with the similarly-geared Forecastle Fest in Louisville, with which it shares some performers, forcing Nashvillians to choose…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] July Talk w/ Mona & Little Junior | Feb. 9 @ The High Watt
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Riding high on the buzz from their fantastic 2016 sophomore effort Touch, Canada’s July Talk are fast becoming a must-know band in the alt rock world, renowned for their excellent live show and musical versatility. After a busy past year, the group are set to return to Nashville to play The High Watt on Feb. 9, a spot they last headlined…
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Pinegrove to Play The End May 10
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Much like the Saddle Creek scene of the early ’00s, nothing about Montclair, NJ’s Pinegrove overtly screams “pop punk,” and, yet with a sound and sensibility at least adjacent to and influenced by that scene, and signed to tastemaking label Run For Cover, they’ve found more press and embrace from the DIY punk community in their…
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Thursday to Play Marathon Music Works April 5 w/ Touché Amoré & Basement
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Formed two decades ago in New Brunswick, NJ, seminal post-hardcore act Thursday, who rose to fame in the early ’00s adjacent to the booming emo and pop punk scene, found a loyal and widespread fanbase after breakthrough 2001 effort Full Collapse. Channeling dark and earnest lyrical themes and a heavy, visceral, and driving musical style, the group…
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Sturgill Simpson, Phantogram, Spoon, More Join 2017 Forecastle Fest
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Getting a surprise early jump on festival season, Louisville’s long running Forecastle Fest, one of our favorite events year after year, announced its impressive 2017 lineup back in December, with an absolutely stacked bill of LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Cage the Elephant, Run the Jewels, Conor Oberst, Modern Baseball, Beach Slang, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Farro, and…
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The Cool Kids to Play The Basement East Feb. 18 with Pell & Jung Youth
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It’s been a decade since Chicago hip hop duo The Cool Kids erupted onto the scene, their contemporary meets old school, eclectic, expansive sound primed for the MySpace generation. After gaining fast and widespread buzz with their debut EP The Bake Sale, a slew of mixtapes, and their one and only studio LP, 2011’s When Fish Ride Bicycles, the…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Premiere New Single “Better Off” | Catch Them April 30 at Exit/In
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Indie rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will release their fifth LP, The Tourist, on Feb. 24. Based on the smattering of first singles, including the recently released “Better Off,” the band appear to be rediscovering the sound that made them a staple of the ’00s indie scene with the release of their seminal self-titled debut more…