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Warren Haynes w/ Chessboxer, Gill Landry The Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TN October 13, 2015 Review by Julian Ciany. Photos by Brad Hochstetler. Last week was one hell of a good one for live music in Nashville. As the summer weather is finally dying down and fall is starting up, the concert schedule is remaining just as…
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Baltimore singer-songwriter/21st-century classical composer Dan Deacon will headline Star Party’s Witching Hour Halloween Trip-Out at The East Room this Friday, Oct. 23. Tickets for the event, which kicks off at 8 p.m. and will include yoga exercises, professional huggers, a viewing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show played backwards and an opening set by Nashville’s own Pineapple Explode, cost…
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This has been a big year for local favorites All Them Witches, to say the least. Not only are the psych rockers gearing up for their first big label release, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (out Oct. 30 via New West Records), but they also just took off for a headlining tour across the U.S. Part of said…
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Did you realize that there’s a world-class avant-garde festival that happens just down I-40 every year? If you didn’t know, now you do – Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival is one of the most diverse, classy and exciting festivals in the entire world, and it’s just a short drive from Nashville. The lineup for this year’s…
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Photo by Andrea Behrends. If you’ve been following this blog for long, the name Charlie Abbott is probably familiar. He’s been running around town with The Cunning, and has been with Bad Cop for even longer. You also may remember that we recently had Charlie out to perform at Acme for one of our weekly showcases,…
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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 next month, 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…
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Local troubadour Beau James Wigington dropped his debut solo release, Indigo Road, in May of this year under the moniker Beau James, and it marked a departure from his previous work with his band The Heavy Heavy Hearts. He traded in the heavy hitting, hard driving blues rock, and bared his soul with some…
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Destroyer w/ Jennifer Castle Mercy Lounge; Nashville, TN October 10, 2015 Review by Chris Clancy. It’s been four and half years since we last got an album out of Destroyer, the ongoing project of Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Bejar (though I suppose there was the just-for-laughs stopgap EP, Five Spanish Songs, back in 2013). That’s…
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Ian Ferguson, Walking Man, Zach Vinson Acme Feed & Seed; Nashville, TN October 13, 2015 Words by Jacob Ryan (@GonzoWithGusto). Photos by Jake Giles Netter. We would like to continue to welcome all of you reading this out there in Music City and beyond to Acme Feed & Seed every Tuesday night, for the weekly showcase from…
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While the buzz of the weekend might have been SoundHarvest yesterday in Centennial Park, there are still plenty of other great shows going on around town as well. Just a few blocks from where the fest took place, our our good friends at Lightning 100 are bringing one of our favorite groups to town. Alternative country…