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With a mission to bring “together the 12South/Belmont /Hillsboro Village communities for the best in local food, art, shopping, pups, music & more,” the Sevier Park Fest hosted in, where else, Sevier Park, has become a great annual tradition. An all-day, all ages, free Saturday event is slated this year for May 5, with a variety of great local…
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Out in support of their gorgeous, nuanced, and melancholy 2017 album Sleep Well Beast, Brooklyn indie/post-punk icons The National, easily one of the most universally lauded rock acts of the last decade, are set to make their long-overdue return to Nashville tonight, May 3 for a performance at Ascend Amphitheater. Making this show all the more essential, buzzy…
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Since Volunteer’s debut EP release in 2015, the Nashville based indie pop/rock project from Cory Quintard continues to steadily gain steam. We praised the release of sophomore EP The World Is Ours last year for its ambitious and emotional storytelling, and we added 2018 single “Money” to our Nashville Spotify playlist. With new release…
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Returning to Nashville for the first time in a couple of years, with their latest, weirdest, best, and most topical album to date, Twerp Verse, in tow, indie rockers Speedy Ortiz are set to headline The High Watt on May 10. Along with experimental, multi-instrumentalist and rapper Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, as well as soulful, genre-defying up and comers Zenizen, this is…
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The solo vehicle of 19 year old Baltimore based indie rocker Lindsey Jordan, Snail Mail absolutely blew us away with her 2016 debut EP, Habit. The earnest, lo-fi, folk-informed effort is a personal, raw emotional masterpiece of an album, and firmly established Jordan as an artist to keep an eye on before she was…
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In support of each of their previous two albums, Scottish synthpop trio CHVRCHES have played Nashville, graduating from an electrifying debut at Exit/In in 2013 to a phenomenal 2015 stop at Marathon Music Works (which featured a very memorable guest appearance from Paramore’s Hayley Williams, sparking an entire reworking of one of their singles and an…
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Although it’s been over a year since Donald Glover effectively musically reinvented his Childish Gambino alter-ego with a transcendent, Grammy winning, critically lauded masterpiece of a third album, Awaken, My Love!, a soulful, psychedelic, adventurous and retro r&b departure from his more alternative hip hop earlier output, the record is still resonating hard with its extended cultural…
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As this weekend is approaching, with perfect spring weather, it’s going to be hard to pace yourself for the evening, but with a slate featuring legacy acts, buzzy indie acts, and some top-notch local talent, you should definitely make the effort. Head below to see our top picks for this weekend, and get out to…
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Blog favorite and general all-around badass Patrick Sweany has announced his sixth LP, Ancient Noise, which is set to drop via Nine Mile Records on May 11. A followup to Sweany’s excellent 2015 release Daytime Turned to Nighttime, our early listen to the record reflects on the singer’s continued maturation, not only as a musician, but as a man. Today,…