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This weekend, Nashville (by way of Mississippi) rockers The Weeks will be taking over Mercy Lounge for a two-night stand, featuring two different fantastic local and regional openers each night. Can you think of a better way to spend your last weekend before the holidays kick into high-gear? We can’t. Check out the schedule below: FRI (11.22): The…
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We love covers here at No Country — Diversions, especially. From our birthday celebration focus on Beck’s Song Reader (relive the magic) to our extensive coverage of every imaginable iteration of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (recall it), we can’t resist the opportunity to revel in fresh approach on tried and true tunes. And thusly, we…
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After a bit of a breather, California punk outfit AFI (short for A Fire Inside) returned with a killer new album, Burials, and their first U.S. tour in over four years, earlier this fall. Fans are clearly clamoring for more, as the group have just announced another leg of shows, this time including a Nashville stop, Jan. 25 at Marathon…
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Speaking of bands that just recently got the nod to be showcase performers at 2014’s SXSW, Ha Ha Tonka is amongst that crew of just announced acts, and they are performing in Nashville tonight. This band pinged our inbox and radar a few months ago, and we’ve been waiting for this Nashville date to…
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Moogfest returns to Asheville, NC, April 23-27, 2014. In previous years, the electronic music festival (intitially during the last weekend of October) was a joint production between Moog Music and AC Entertainment. When Moog Music decided against leasing the name out to AC in 2013, the two went their separate ways. AC put on Mountain…
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Though they now reside in Portland, and before that called California home, folk rockers Quiet Life will, to me, always be a little band from New London, Connecticut. I first had the pleasure of meeting them sometime around 2005 in Virginia, where I was booking shows and they were just getting started with tiny tours of…
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This weekend, Nashville (by way of Mississippi) rockers The Weeks will be taking over Mercy Lounge for a two-night stand, featuring two different fantastic local and regional openers each night. Can you think of a better way to spend your last weekend before the holidays kick into high-gear? We can’t. Check out the schedule below: FRI (11.22): The…
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When we first told you about Los Angeles sister act HAIM, they only had one EP and a looming Bonnaroo debut under their belt. That EP, last summer’s Forever, great in its own right, proved only a taste of what HAIM would achieve with their new, debut full-length, Days Are Gone. The product of a lifetime of…
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This Friday, Nov. 22, legendary guitarist Johnny Marr is set to perform at Nashville’s very own Marathon Music Works with Meredith Sheldon. Whether you know him from The Smiths, Modest Mouse, The Cribs, The The, The Healers, Electronic, or any of the other numerous projects Marr has been associated with, it’s indisputable that the famed performer is one of the…
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BLACK LIPS w/ Tweens and JP5 Exit/ In; Nashville, TN November 10th, 2013 Words by: Jacob Ryan (@gonzowithgusto) Photos by: Jake Giles Netter There’s no better way to polish of a booze fueled weekend romp than a punk rock Sunday. Of course, there should always be some form of pre-game before you really tie…