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Working on your weekend plans (and sticking around town rather than heading to Franklin for Pilgrimage Fest)? Per usual, we’ve got you covered! Check out all of our top show picks in This Weekend in Nashville!
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We’ve been buzzing about it for months, and the week has finally arrived, as we prepare to head to Franklin’s Park at Harlinsdale this weekend, Sept. 22 & 23 for the fourth annual Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. We had a blast at years one, two, and three, and with an expanded lineup, new performance areas and amenities, and additional changes…
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Returning for the first time in a couple of years for their biggest Music City headliner to date, LA skater punks FIDLAR are set to play the Cannery Ballroom with two promising Canadian acts on the rise, grunge rockers Dilly Dally and garage punks NOBRO, tonight, Sept. 21. While it’s been a few years since FIDLAR followed up their beloved, eponymous debut with…
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Kevin Griffin at Pilgrimage 2016. Photo by Mary-Beth Blankenship. It was only a few years ago that Better Than Ezra frontman and accomplished songwriter and producer Kevin Griffin was out for a jog near his home in Franklin (having recently relocated from Los Angeles, and, before that, his native New Orleans), when he gazed upon the picturesque…
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Made up of duo Kate Wakefield, an ex-opera singer turned experimental cello and vocal loop performer, and Daisy Caplan, a longtime figure in the Kentucky and Ohio underground punk and indie scene, best known as the former bassist for defunct beloved outfit Foxy Shazam, up and coming Cincinnati duo Lung have had an impressive run in just…
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Arguably the biggest modern star of the rap world, beloved Canadian artist Drake returns to headline Bridgestone Arena tonight, Sept. 18 for a run in celebration of his huge new double album, Scorpion, a buzzy worthy and epic-in-scale tour with breakout group Migos they’ve dubbed Aubrey and The Three Migos (Aubrey Graham is Drake’s birth name, and the one he…
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Celebrating his first proper full-length in more than a decade, this year’s excellent return to form You’re Not Alone, hard rocking positive party god turned larger-than-life personality Andrew W.K. returns to Nashville Sept. 25 to headline The Basement East, along with edgy local duo Birdcloud. Now nearly 20 years since first breaking into the mainstream, W.K. is a figure you’ve almost…
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A new supergroup of sorts, featuring beloved singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, and R.E.M. guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Peter Buck, alt rock newcomers Arthur Buck came together quickly last fall after a chance meeting in Mexico turned into an impromptu jam, and, eventually, an album, which the duo will bring to life on the road for the first time with…
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Legendary Smiths guitarist (and subsequent member of Modest Mouse, The Cribs, The The, and so many other projects) Johnny Marr has, after decades of various musical endeavors, been devoting his focus to a solo career since breaking out with 2013’s excellent The Messenger, which he followed up with 2014’s Playland and this year’s Call the Comet, his best album yet.…