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Green Dayw/ The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, The Linda LindasGeodis Park; Nashville, TNAugust 30, 2024 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Undoubtedly one of the most successful, popular, and influential bands in not only punk and pop punk, but rock history in general, legendary California trio Green Day recently returned to Nashville for…

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Formed in the late ’80s in the Bay Area of California while still just teens, seminal punk and pop punk trio Green Day exploded into the cultural zeitgeist with their 1994 third album and major label debut, Dookie. Helping usher in and then subsequently influence a new wave of mainstream interest in punk rock, Green Day became…

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Formed in the late ’80s in the Bay Area of California while still just teens, seminal punk and pop punk trio Green Day exploded into the cultural zeitgeist with their 1994 third album and major label debut, Dookie. Helping usher in and then subsequently influence a new wave of mainstream interest in punk rock,…
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Icons of ’90s alternative rock, responsible for some of the most influential and successful albums of all time, Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins have hardly ever disappeared throughout their 35-year run (save for a six-year split at the start of the millennium), but it seems like every few years they recapture headlines, whether it’s for the…

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Icons of ’90s alternative rock, responsible for some of the most influential and successful albums of all time, Chicago’s Smashing Pumpkins have hardly ever disappeared throughout their 34-year run (save for a six-year split at the start of the millennium), but it seems like every few years they recapture headlines, whether it’s for the…
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Since first reuniting more than a decade ago, albeit with a very different lineup, iconic ’90s alt rock act The Smashing Pumpkins have made their way to Music City a handful of times. However, tonight, July 20, when they headline Bridgestone Arena, it’ll be the first tour 3/4 of the original lineup, Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy…
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As we told you earlier this summer, reunited post-hardcore trailblazers Thrice have been touring extensively in support of their new comeback album, To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere, and will pass through Nashville for the first time in eight years later this month, Sept. 29 at Cannery Ballroom. In the midst of their current whirlwind of promotion and…
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It’s Record Store Day! It’s Record Store Day! It’s amazing that it is Record Store Day! It’s also crazy to think that we’re already rolling through April, and, before you know it, we’ll be immersed in summer festivals. There is a bunch going on this weekend for the RSD celebrations with your favorite local…
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After a more conventional summer run, which brought them to Nashville last year with Marilyn Manson, alt rock legends the Smashing Pumpkins have announced another leg of their “In Plainsong” acoustic tour, which is set to span across 19 cities this spring in handpicked, traditional theaters, and will showcase reworked selections from the group’s entire discography, performed acoustic and…
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This post is not about Miley Cyrus and her VMA performance. You’re welcome. While there are lots of great reaction videos and parodies of what may go down as the most bizarre and insensitive display of cultural appropriation in modern music, you’re tired of hearing about it aren’t you? Me too. So, dear readers,…