Soundland

  • Soundland starts Wednesday!

    It’s a big week of music in Nashville, and it looks like the rains should clear out by the end of the week for Soundland.  Do you have your wristband yet?  What are you waiting for?  This is a showcase of about 100 performers, many of them local, that are all primed to take…

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  • Saturday news and notes

    I’m taking the weekend to catch up on stuff…. and to relax and watch football….. and to revel in how awesome Papa, Nobunny, and Girls were last night.  But, I wouldn’t want to leave you guys hanging with nothing to do.  So, I’ll let you look through some of the stuff that is sitting…

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  • Nashville’s Acts Play Privately For You!!!

    You can watch almost anything on the internet these days. Like this stupid person, or this incredibly lucky person, or this hedgehog walking through the grass listening to the XX.  There’s also a plethora of great music that you can watch on the internet these days like Tiny Desk Concerts, La Blogotheque, and YouTube…

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  • 10 of Spin’s Top 30 Fall Tours are coming to Nashville!

    Happy Saturday morning, Nashville! Spin magazine just released an article summarizing the top 30 tours that you should see this fall.  I went through this list and found the acts that will be coming to Nashville this fall.  We have already talked about most of them, but it is a Saturday and you have…

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  • JEFF The Brotherhood has been busy…

    Trying to keep up with JEFF The Brotherhood is getting harder and harder.  Mostly gone are the days of finding the Nashville brothers jamming at a house party, or at some beyond tiny dive bar.  They just finished a tour with Pentagram (that you might have seen at Nashville’s Exit/In), they just played a…

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  • Soundland is soon, do you have your wristband?

    Nashville’s version of the famed Austin music festival South by SouthWest (SXSW) is right around the corner. While on a smaller scale, the 4 day, 11 venue, 100 artist festival will take Nashville by storm starting on September 21st with a kickoff performance by Jonny Corndawg, Dawes, and M. Ward at the War Memorial…

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  • Blitzen Trapper and Dawes, Mercy Lounge, October 19

    How did one of my favorite bands slip onto a calendar without me knowing.  I scour calendars, blogs, websites, and twitter all day long looking for bands to get excited about, and somehow I missed this announcement?!?  Blitzen Trapper is coheadlining with Dawes and opener The Smoke Fairies at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge on October…

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  • Dear Soundland, Please invite GIVERS!, kthnxbye

    Dear Soundland, I just had an idea!  Why don’t you invite GIVERS to your festival?  I saw them at Bonnaroo, and they were awesome!  They are such an upcoming, fun band, and provide the perfect sounds for a summertime festival like yours!  Have you heard their happy, little debut album In Light?  It’s really…

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  • Soundland filling out its schedule…

    Soundland (formerly known as, Next Big Nashville) is continuing to fill out the line up for the September 21-24 festival in Nashville.  We first brought the news of the initial Soundland lineup to you a few weeks ago.  Well, the lineup continues to grow with the addition of Foster The People, Yelawolf, Big K.R.I.T.,…

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  • Initial Artist lineup announced for SoundLand

    Next Big Nashville’s SoundLand will be taking over various Nashville venues from September 21st to 24th.  Initial artist announcements include M. Ward, Ghostland Observatory, Justin Townes Earle, JEFF the Brotherhood, Bonobo, Dawes, Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Pujol, Paper Route, Caitlin Rose, Jessica Lea Mayfield, and Chancellor Warhol. You can head over to…

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