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After two celebrated and award winning records released under his own name, 2013’s Southeastern and 2015’s Something More Than Free, Alabama native turned breakout Nashville songwriting fixture Jason Isbell has reconvened with his backing band The 400 Unit for a new album, The Nashville Sound, set to arrive June 16 via Southeastern Records. Produced by Dave Cobb, who also helmed Isbell’s last two…
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Celebrating the release of their debut full-length, landmark, Minnesota indie popsters Hippo Campus are set to play The Basement East on March 22 with Miami’s Magic City Hippies and local favorites ELEL. Though they’ve played Nashville twice the last two years in a row, more often as a supporting act, for great bands like The Mowgli’s, JR JR, and Saint Motel, this marks Hippo Campus’s biggest Music…
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After last week’s second Road to Roo 2017 preliminary round, the bracket-style battle of the bands contest enters the semifinals tonight, March 14 with a first round at The Basement East (and concludes with the second half of the semifinals March 23 at 3rd & Lindsley). Of the eight remaining bands from the initial 16, four were chosen…
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Louisville indie/psych rockers and festival faves My Morning Jacket have announced a summer run of tour dates, which brings them back through Music City for another gig at Ascend Amphitheater, the site of their last Music City outing in 2015, on July 7. While other supporting acts for the run include The Record Company, Gary Clark…
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We gave you the heads up on this one last week, with the added bonus of a chance at free tickets. Now the time has come, and tonight, March 14 multi-instrumentalist Cameron Avery (of Tame Impala and Pond fame) will stop in on Music City to perform at The Basement with help from Lylas and Chase Cohl. Avery…
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Out in support of their new and fourteenth album Oczy Mlody, something of a return to form after years of weirder releases and collaborations, seminal neo-psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are set to return to Nashville March 29 for a performance at War Memorial Auditorium. Numerous festival outings aside, it’s actually been ages since the band played a proper, headlining,…
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If you’re a fan of Atlanta based garage punks The Black Lips, or semi-local supergroup Diamond Rugs, than you’ll recognize Ian Saint Pé, who now makes solo music simply as Saint Pé. About three years ago, after ten years of touring the world with the Lips, and two records and tours with the Rugs, Ian decided…
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In some of the site’s earliest days, we covered New Jersey’s Delicate Steve, then a mysterious and talented rock and roll newcomer, as he played to ever-increasing local crowds and rising buzz three years in a row. It’s been about four years since Steve last played Music City, however, and just as long since his…
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A homecoming of sorts after a ten-day spring tour, rising local talent Pale Lungs return to their own house/DIY showspace Dad’s Garage in Murfressboro tonight, March 12 along with tourmates and Detroit natives Mover Shaker. Celebrating the recent release of their debut full-length, Michigania, Mover Shaker’s genre-bending style weaves between math rock, noise rock, and alternative, with shoegaze-y tones and a…
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Right behind the more high-profile (and more controversial) final night of the final Freakin’ Weekend fest, another show just as deserving of your attention is happening tonight, March 11 at Cafe Coco. Dubbed “Nashville Emo Night” (but not the DJ kind), four fantastic touring acts are stopping over on their way to SXSW, and for just…