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We’ve loved Stone Jack Jones’ creepy gothic Americana since he released his sophomore record Love & Torture this spring. Filled with eery laments and trance-like meditations on heaven and hell, the album is a dark roots record informed by Jones’ own brushes with death. After the mini crime-drama video for the first single “Circumstance,”…
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We’ve been big fans of Justin & the Cosmics since seeing the anachronistic rock and rollers close out the LP release show for labelmate Pony Boy, and we’re not the only ones who have been chomping at the bit for their debut full-length Schooly Dreams. Their debut EP Home, Boy was considered one of the…
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Philly born naturally lo-fi indie rocker, Kurt Vile (with backing band, The Violators) has announced his first stop in Nashville in two years, this time at Exit/In on Feb. 25. Vile is touring in support of his stellar 5th LP, b’lieve i’m goin down, which dropped via Matador Records on Sept. 25 of this year, and…
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Returning to Nashville for the first time in two years, breakout electronic rock act AWOLNATION play War Memorial Auditorium for the first time next month, Dec. 4, along with two decidedly more alt rock-leaning bands Highly Suspect and Red Sun Rising. Co-presented by local alternative station 102.9 The Buzz, and billed as “The Buzz Swanky Sweater Christmas Jam,” tickets for this pre-holiday…
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Just a day after Gulf Shores, AL-based Hangout Fest dropped their full 2016 lineup shockingly early, Dover, DE’s annual Firefly Music Festival has heated up the 2016 festival arms race, unveiling their entire lineup a staggering seven months ahead of the event, presumably to put pressure on holiday ticket buyers, and to benefit from a…
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Singer-songwriter Zeke Duhon has taken the fast track to success since relocating to Nashville in 2013. We told you in the precursor to his recent appearance at our No Country Presents showcase at Acme Feed & Seed about his signing with Big Deal Records and working with Grammy winning producer, Charlie Peacock. We followed…
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‘Tis the time of the season to give thanks, and Nashville’s Tim Easton has teamed up with The McCrary Sisters, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Megan Palmer to drop a pretty special cover of Bob Dylan’s “Whatcha Gonna Do?” as a means of raising awareness for the Nashville Rescue Mission. The video, filmed by No Country…
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Reno Bo has already dropped one of our favorite albums of 2015 with his Lessons From A Shooting Star. If you haven’t totally immersed yourself in that gem, stream it on Spotify, then buy a copy on iTunes or at a local record store. Then he shocked us with the release of a digital…
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We have a couple of internationally well known bands playing in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Mercy Lounge: Family of the Year with opener Kaleo will play starting at 8pm. You are not going to want to miss this show! Family of the Year just got off a summer tour with Lord Huron and played at…
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It seems like this has been the year for 10 year anniversary tours; Motion City Soundtrack, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and several others have celebrated their beloved album’s anniversaries in Nashville already, and Seattle-based post-hardcore/alternative rock band Emery are up next tonight, Nov. 18 at Rocketown. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since…