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SIMO. Photo by Derek Martinez. Fans of blues-rock guitar virtuosos are in for a treat tonight at The Mercy Lounge. Not only will SIMO be melting our faces off in a deluge of rock intensity, but they somehow got the legendary Jack Pearson to open the night. JD Simo, singer and guitarist for SIMO,…
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Remember last summer when we bragged on local indie dream pop band Pang after the release of their catchy summer jam “Summer Daze?” It’s been a long year since the release of Follow Your Dreams, and now, the recent college graduates are back in full swing. A followup EP titled Woman, Girl is set…
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We’ve spent the past week helping you get familiar with all of the Nashville acts making the trek to Forecastle Festival this weekend in nearby Louisville, KY. While we’re incredibly proud of all of our hometown talent, we also wanted to showcase some of the other artists this year’s incredible lineup has to offer, so, as…
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By contributor Jacqui Sahagian If, like me, you’re having a hard time waiting for The Dead Weather to release their promised third album next year, Nashville based, female fronted, hard rockers The Grayces are prepping to release their new album this fall to fill your girl-fronted hard rock void. The Grayces’ new record, Westing,…
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At last week’s Nashville Dancin’, we got down to some pretty groovy funk, but this week is coming back strong with a genre a bit more familiar to the Nashville scene: the singer-songwriter. Tonight’s installment of the free concert series will see Hayes Carll, Rayland Baxter, James Wallace and the Naked Light, and The Oak Creek…
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It’s mid-July, and that means two things: (1) it’s still continuing to warm up and (2) it’s time for the Summer National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Trade Show. This will be the second year in a row that the conference is being held in the new Music City Center. Much like a goldfish…
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The Row is putting on a night of fun music for their diners and music fans, and one of the shows will be Nashville’s Whitherward. Tonight is the band’s EP release show for their debut album, Stardust, which is available online starting today. Tonight will be haunting and beautiful when Whitherward takes the stage at 7PM, and it’s…
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Nashville and Atlanta acts are coming together tonight for a party at Exit/In. Come out and join us as we witness the indie punk rock of Pujol with the sweat dripping gritty soul of Curtis Harding and the fuzz infused Atlanta garage rock of The Black Lips. We are pretty excited about this show tonight. So, if you are looking…
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Back in the spring, Nashville’s The Apache Relay released their eponymous third album, and, in the months since, have been amassing newfound attention on a national level, thanks, in no small part, to breakout lead single “Kate Queen of Tennessee.” We’ve been rocking the record for months, and couldn’t be more proud of seemingly unstoppable path…
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Surely, you know by now that indie singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis has a new solo album, The Voyager, in the works, which is set to arrive July 29. Largely produced by Ryan Adams, with contributions from Beck and Johnathan Rice, the release is Lewis’ first solo endeavor in six years, and, so far, has spawned two singles. The…