![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Yo La Tengo & Built to Spill | July 11 @ The Ryman](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Yo-Le-Tengo-Built-to-Spill-1200.png)
Two of the most beloved and essential indie acts of the ’90s, New Jersey’s Yo La Tengo and Idaho’s Built to Spill, are preparing to kick off a co-headlining tour, bringing them to Nashville this Friday, July 11 for a performance at The Ryman Auditorium. No strangers to Music City- YLT were last in…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Jet w/ Band of Skulls | June 10 @ The Ryman](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Jet-2025-1200.jpg)
One of the defining bands of the garage rock revival of the early 2000s, Australia’s Jet formed in 2001, and became massive worldwide stars following the release their debut album, Get Born, in 2003. Though lumped in with peers like The Vines, The Hives, The White Stripes, and The Strokes, Jet’s sound was always…
![REVIEW: Lucy Dacus w/ Katie Gavin & jasmine.4.t | 4.29.25 @ The Ryman Auditorium [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Lucy-Dacus-The-Ryman-4-29-25-Credit-Mary-Beth-Blankenship-8.jpg)
Lucy Dacusw/ Katie Gavin, jasmine.4.tThe Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TNApril 29, 2025 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. While we’ve been Lucy Dacus fans since her Nashville-recorded debut album, No Burden, arrived almost a decade ago, and have seen her play some memorable shows over the years, from intimate spots like The High…
![REVIEW: Japanese Breakfast w/ Ginger Root | 4.28.25 @ The Ryman Auditorium [PHOTOS]](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Japanese-Breakfast-The-Ryman-4-28-25-Credit-Drake-Boling-1.jpg)
Japanese Breakfastw/ Ginger RootThe Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TNApril 28, 2025 Review and photos by Drake Boling Japanese Breakfast’s first-ever show at The Ryman Auditorium was nothing short of continental as Michelle Zauner and co. played a set featuring their entire new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) and many fan-favorites. To say I…

Though, undoubtedly, the massive success of her supergroup boygenius’ 2023 debut full-length, The Record, helped propel singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus to new heights of fame and mainstream recognition, the Virginia-born, folk-tinged indie rocker has been releasing incredible solo music now for a decade. Raised in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, and a several-year resident of…

The indie pop project of musician, director, and author Michelle Zauner, who cut her teeth performing in the Philadelphia indie and emo scene in groups like Post Post and Little Big League, Japanese Breakfast is a project initially born from grief, which has blossomed into a personal, earnest, and primary outlet of artistic expression for a phenomenal…
Los Angeles hard rock outfit Badflower sprung onto the scene just over a decade ago (though several members had been playing together for a number of years already, first meeting as teens), attracting label interest and buzz beyond their native SoCal almost instantly thanks to their hard-hitting, energetic live show, and inking a major…
Accomplished both as a pop artist in her own right, and a in-demand collaborator with artists like Quinn XCII, Louis the Child, Noah Kahan, Kygo, The Band CAMINO, and more, from pop to EDM to indie to folk, singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler has, perhaps, had no collaboration more successful or acclaimed than those with friend…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Mat Kearney w/ Darren Kiely | Sept. 19 @ The Ryman](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mat-Kearney-2024-1800-Credit-Orchee-Sorker.jpg)
Though he born and raised in Oregon, and began making music while attending college in California, Nashville is both where singer-songwriter Mat Kearney first felt inspired to pursue music as career (after coming to town on a whim to help his friend and producer Robert Marvin move), and also where he’s lived for most…

Joan Jett & the Blackheartsw/ Karley Scott CollinsThe Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TNAugust 25, 2024 Whether you’ve seen her rocking arenas, stadiums, and amphitheaters in support of fellow legends like Motley Crue and Def Leppard, Journey, The Who, Bryan Adams, Heart, Styx, or, most recently, Alanis Morissette, across Nashville over the last decade, Joan Jett…