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2013 is really flying by, huh? As we enter the second half of the year, we just wanted to once again thank all of you for reading, sharing, and supporting us. 2013 has truly been No Country’s best year ever, so far, and we can’t wait to see what the next six months have…
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Man, things in West Virginia seem pretty grim. Tucked in the Appalachian mountains of southern West Virginia, Oceana, is a small, once thriving coal-mining town, has fallen victim to the fast spreading scourge of prescription painkiller Oxycontin. As the coal industry slowly declined and times got tough, a black market for the drug sprung…
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It seems to me that there are a few types of musical couples in the world. First, there are the gag-me-with-a-spoon, “why did you have to go and break up the Beatles,” John-and-Yoko type couples. Second, there are the incredibly badass, Jay-Z and Beyonce type, that you just know are poised to launch their…
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Live on the Green, the free, annual, six-week concert series held in Nashville’s Public Square Park has announced its lineup, dates, and schedule for the 2013 season. In what might be its strongest season yet, the series will include headliners Michael Franti & Spearhead, Local Natives, Matt & Kim, Matt Nathanson, Robert Randolph & The…
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We’ve already spent a bit of time chatting about the fantastic singer / songwriter Josh Ritter at Cannery tonight, when we did our ticket giveaway earlier this week. Congrats to our winners of that contest, and, for those that didn’t win, you can still grab tickets to see that show tonight. However, if that…
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Mike Kinsella, who performs under the stagename Owen, is, for all intents and purposes, an OG emo artist. As in, Kinsella was instrumental in the emo movement before the e-word started carrying such negative connotations (and ended up becoming as generic a blanket adjective as “punk”). In the early ’90s, Kinsella was a member of emo pioneers…
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You may recall that a few weeks back we brought you a boatload of diverse takes on Daft Punk‘s “Get Lucky” – and folks just kept on keepin’ on loving what will undoubtedly be the song of the summer, spawning so many new covers and re-imaginings of the jam to the point where our…
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Along with the announcement of a new album, AM, due out Sept. 10 via Domino, British indie rockers Arctic Monkeys have announced a North American tour, which includes an Oct. 10 performance at Marathon Music Works in Nashville! The show falls almost exactly two years after the group’s last stop in Music City, at War Memorial Auditorium. Tickets for the Monkeys’ Marathon…
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Apparently, it is another week of giveaways over here. We are still running a contest for tickets to catch Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, and now here is another contest to give away tickets to see three of our favorite local acts on the same bill! It’s an unbelievably packed weekend of…