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No Country Presents continues our weekly takeover at Lower Broadway’s hippest restaurant, lounge, retail, and event space, Acme Feed & Seed. Each week we bring you a FREE Tuesday night showcase, featuring some of our favorite emerging local and national talent! The curated showcase runs from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. each week, and has featured everything from folk to funk to…
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Whether or not you’re especially excited for it (typically, we’re not), you probably know that the annual CMA Awards, billed “country music’s biggest night,” are taking place this week in Nashville (if you didn’t know that, might we recommend that you avoid downtown for a few days). Though a major awards show, the CMAs are typically…
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New songwriter project Mechanical Royalty make their debut with a cover of Bill Withers’ much-loved classic “Ain’t No Sunshine,” which we’re thrilled to premiere. For the rework, Mechanical Royalty spin ominous and textured tones to compliment vocalist Stephanie Middleton’s slick delivery. Collaborators Charles Alexander and Michael Lovett teamed up with Middleton after all three…
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Local blues rock duo Natural Forces are set to release their second full length, It Takes All Kinds, on Black Friday, Nov. 27. Andrew Kahl (drums/vocals) and Josh Washam (vocals/guitars), as so many in Nashville did these days, grew up on opposite ends of the country, and began melding their unique backgrounds into Natural Forces at…
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The Mumzees’ sound is something you can get lost in. Soaked in reverb, the distorted guitars are as fuzzy as they possibly could be; the lyrics are often unintelligible but somehow manage to still be catchy. Their music can be droning at times, but in the best way possible. And while the debut album…
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Out in support of one of the year’s best releases, British art rock outfit Django Django are set to play Nashville proper for the first time ever tonight, Nov. 3 at Cannery Ballroom with Wild Belle. The band’s hypnotic 2012 debut, Django Django, remains one of our favorite efforts of that year, and their latest, Born Under Saturn, has been on heavy rotation…
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More than three years after their last Nashville club date, acclaimed prog rockers Coheed and Cambria have finally announced a return to Marathon Music Works, on March 15 with Glassjaw and Silver Snakes. Coheed did make a Music City stop this summer, to headline Ink N Iron Fest, but we’d wager you probably missed that one, since, well, no one was there. Out…
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In recent months, we’ve brought you a handful of tracks from indie pop songstress Vanessa Carlton, who just released her fifth full-length, Liberman, on Oct. 23 via Dine Alone Records, after teasing some fresh material over the summer with an EP, Blue Pool. Newly a resident of Nashville (and wife to Deer Tick’s John McCauley), Carlton filmed her…
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Following in the footsteps of *repeat repeat, Bradley Warren, Jr., Vinyl Thief, Guthrie Brown, Phin, Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes, Parlour Tricks, Phox, BZRK, Moseley, and CAPPA, buzzworthy local hip hop artist Jung Youth, who you’ve undoubtedly seen us rave about over the last several months, partnered up with our pals at local apparel and lifestyle brand DCXV to participate…
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Just last month, twenty one pilots performed to a sold out crowd at The Ryman Auditorium, their largest Nashville outing to date, following sold out appearances at 3rd & Lindsley, Cannery Ballroom, and Marathon Music Works in years prior. Proving their momentum to be nearly unstoppable, especially considering the breakout success of this year’s Blurryface, the alt/indie/rap/electropop duo have…