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Have you ever had the thought, “what if a few members from The Head and The Heart, Hypercolor, The Mason Brothers, and Farm Vegas were to all get together and write an album?” Your prayers have been answered. Come out to The High Watt tonight at 9PM to catch Avers, 18+ for only $10, with…
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We know it’s April 1, but Jack White isn’t foolin’. Just in time for Bonnaroo, the Nashville rocker will drop his sophomore solo album, which he’s been teasing for months, Lazaretto, June 10, via Third Man and Columbia Records. A followup to 2012’s critically-aclaimed Blunderbuss, Lazaretto‘s lead single and title track will arrive later this month. For…
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Hello, y’all. My name is Tia. I’m a native Nashvillian and a musician from the East. I’m new here at No Country—it’s a pleasure to meet ya. I absolutely, positively, LOVE a man in bellbottoms. Sweat and polyester. Meeooow. I have a theory that the louder the music is–the tighter the pants get. What…
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Some of you might have seen our call for new contributors last night on THE Facebook. One of the responses we received was from Nashville’s Lauren Strange, and her writing sample submission was too good to pass up. Hopefully, you will be reading more from Lauren in the near future, but, in the meantime,…
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It’s been a long time coming, but indie rockers Vampire Weekend are finally releasing their new album, Modern Vampires of the City, on May 6. We previously brought you the art and track listing, and told you about their clever announcement of the details. Now, right after debuting some new tunes at SXSW, we’ve FINALLY…
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The last time French robot helmet-donning EDM duo Daft Punk released a proper studio album, Skrillex was still just a kid named Sonny who played bass in a screamo band, an up-and-comer named Deadmau5 had just released his very first album independently, and fellow French duo Justice were still two years away from their debut. As much…
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It’s been a trying few years for Franklin natives Paramore. In late 2009, the band released their most mature and critically well-received record to date, Brand New Eyes. The record subsequently went gold, and spawned five singles for the band, yet came with the cost of internal turmoil behind the scenes. One year later, founding…
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2013 is shaping up to be the year of unexpected comeback, apparently! First Bowie, then The Postal Service, and now we’ve got two more for you: this morning ’90s/’00s darlings Justin Timberlake AND Destiny’s Child made unrelated announcements of new music! Timberlake’s last release was 2006’s critical and commercial breakout FutureSex/LoveSounds. The singer has…
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Now that the holidays have settled and everyone’s back in the swing of things, I wanted to go ahead and bring you the second part of our December Release Spotlight. As I mentioned in our New Release Spotlight | December 2012, Part 1, December is the slowest month for record releases. Rather than scrape together…