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Matthew Logan Vasquez’s new “Personal” music video is just that. Vasquez wrote the song, which rocks just as hard as the rest of his new album, Solicitor Returns, when he was just 19 years old, and the video features his mother and her friend lip syncing and posing as his backing band. You may have seen…
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Celebrating the release his Jim James-produced sixth album, Ouroboros, out today, March 4 via RCA Records, acclaimed folk rock singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to perform lead single “Hey, No Pressure.” As previously announced, LaMontagne will return to Nashville July 29 for a performance at Ascend Amphitheater, and tickets finally went on-sale to the general…
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As you surely know, we spend a ton of time bragging about Nashville’s flourishing electro pop scene, which we couldn’t be more excited about. Sometimes we get so stuck on what’s happening here, though, that we forget to fill you in on the best up and coming electro pop at the national (or international)…
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Local candy-surf rockers *repeat repeat have been building anticipation for their upcoming sophomore LP, Floral Canyon. They released the first single, “Mostly,” a few months ago, and then announced that they would be part of 3rd & Lindsley’s 25th Anniversary celebration that will be taking place in April. Today, they have dropped a political statement with their…
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This year’s Road to Roo competition, different from the similar “Road to Bonnaroo” competition of years past, kicked off last night with the first half of the first round of performers, of which four will advance to the semifinals: OJR, Heavy Sole, Jess Nolan and Roots of a Rebellion, selected by a combination of fan voting and industry judges. Four out…
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Neon Indian (a.k.a. Alan Palomo) dropped the long awaited followup to 2011’s Era Extraña last October with the well received VEGA INTL. Night School. The new record was a four year effort of polishing the Neon Indian sound into an album brimming with cleaner funky guitars and mid ’90s dance beats, yet it retains the…
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Yeasayer have announced a new album, Amen & Goodbye, due out April 1, their fourth overall and first since 2012’s well received Fragrant World. It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost ten years since the Brooklyn based experimental electro rockers burst onto the scene with their smash hit “2080” in 2007, and are…
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The presence of heavy metal in Music City seems to be on the rise in 2016, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see it spike. The latest, best metal tour coming to town features some of the scene’s finest metalcore, alt metal, and prog metal, new and old, as Killswitch Engage tour in support of…
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Parquet Courts are already running the promo circuit in support of their upcoming fifth LP, Human Performance, due out April 8 via Rough Trade. The NY based lo-fi rockers stopped into Conan last night to drop a new single from the record titled “Berlin Got Blurry,” and fans of the band are going to immediately connect with…
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Pop punk and emo are certainly having a moment of renaissance, and we couldn’t be more excited about the new crop of talented national acts emerging from the scene in recent years, chief among them, and certainly skewing more on the pop punk side of the spectrum, State Champs and Neck Deep, who, as we told you…