Nashville Music Blog

  • The Best Music Films of 2012

    Happy New Year everyone! Hope you’re not still nursing that hangover from last night. My first post of 2013 is actually going to be one more look back at 2012. Although music is an essential part of film, the number of films actually about music each year is comparatively pretty small. And the number of good films about…

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  • No Country’s Best Nashville Shows of 2012

    We’ve already given you our favorite “National” Records and favorite “Nashville” Records from 2012. It’s time for our primary staff writers to give you their picks for the pee-their-pants-with-happiness live music highlights from the past year (Bonnaroo sets not included). We see lots and lots of music, but we can’t see it all. Leave…

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  • 2012’s Guilty Pleasures

    As a site, we’ve brought you lists of our favorite National Albums and Nashville Albums of 2012. Those picks are a pretty balanced representation of the diverse taste of our principal contributors. We’ve also got a Best Nashville Concerts of 2012 list going up shortly, which is a compilation of our favorites (since we go to…

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  • No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 12.24-12.30

    The holidays slowed us down a bit this week. But don’t worry, we’ll be back to normal next week as we enter 2013. We have lots of new and exciting things planned for the new year, and we’re all incredibly excited to continue to grow and expand the site! We can say that 2012…

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  • TWiN – New Year’s Edition | 12.28.12-1.1.13

    Is everyone already holiday hungover? There’s not too much happening around town this weekend which must mean folks are resting up to party extra hard for NYE this year. In case you need a warm-up before the music note drops, Andrew suggests some options to keep you busy before the big night AND then…

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  • No Country’s Best Nashville Records of 2012

    Yesterday, we threw out our two cents with our favorite “National Records” of 2012, and today it’s all about Nashville. Check out our picks for our best Nashville records of 2012 from the No Country team. Stick around and soon we’ll break down our individual staff picks for 2012 concerts. Yesterday, we posted full…

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  • No Country’s Best Records of 2012

    Everyone else is doing it, so I guess that means that we need to do it too. Yes, mom, we would jump off a bridge with everyone else if they were doing it.. because, that’s how we roll. So, we’ve broken down our lists into our favorite “national releases of 2012” and our “Nashville…

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  • Tom Waits sends his holiday love

    I was sitting up nursing a glass of really nice scotch after the family called it a night on Saturday, and stumbled upon a rerun of a 1978 Austin City Limits broadcast featuring Tom Waits.  I couldn’t imagine a more fitting end to a night of family than relaxing on the couch with a…

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  • Check Out These 12 Holiday Music Samplers!

    It’s holiday music time, and I am pretty worn out on the holiday standards by this point in the season.  So, how about we give you a little gift of new, free holiday music from the folks over at Noise Trade.  What’s the rub you ask?  If you want to download these records to…

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  • No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 12.17-12.23

    In case you missed it, here’s everything we covered this week on the site: NEWS: The Nashville Pioneers announced their first official press conference. No Country live streamed the event, then brought you the highlights with a post-conference feature and video. INTERVIEW: We interviewed Last of the Horsemen. INTERVIEW: We sat down with Spoken…

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