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No Country’s Guide to Bonnaroo 2018: Nashville Roundup
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Bonnaroo week is upon us, and, as we prepare to head down to Manchester this weekend, June 7-10, for what is shaping up to be a stellar 17th year for the nearby event, and as we wind down our 2018 Artist Spotlight series, we wanted to help you get ready by taking it a step…
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No Country’s Guide to Bonnaroo 2018: 20 Can’t Miss Friday Performers
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Bonnaroo week is upon us, and, as we prepare to head down to Manchester this weekend, June 7-10, for what is shaping up to be a stellar 17th year for the nearby event, and as we wind down our 2018 Artist Spotlight series, we wanted to help you get ready by taking it a step…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Forecastle 2017
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As we’ve been saying every year since our first time covering in 2013, Louisville’s Forecastle Festival is one of our absolute favorite music fests- not just in the region, but in the whole country. It’s not the the biggest or flashiest event of its kind, and you’ll frequently find its performers at many other festivals, but it…
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No Country’s Guide to Forecastle 2017: Nashville Roundup
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This weekend, July 14-16, marks the return of Louisville’s annual Forecastle Festival, one of our favorite regional musical events. From its humble beginnings in 2002, Forecastle has grown to become a national festival fixture, drawing 10s of thousands of attendees each year to the picturesque downtown Waterfront Park, for three days of music, art, activism, and, of course, Kentucky…
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No Country’s Guide to Forecastle 2017: 10 Can’t Miss Saturday Performers
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This weekend, July 14-16, marks the return of Louisville’s annual Forecastle Festival, one of our favorite regional musical events. From its humble beginnings in 2002, Forecastle has grown to become a national festival fixture, drawing 10s of thousands of attendees each year to the picturesque downtown Waterfront Park, for three days of music, art, activism, and, of course, Kentucky…
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Watch 2017 Grammy Speeches, Backstage Moments, & More from Nashville Artists
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Ahead of the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, we brought you a Nashville guide to all of the local performers and nominees, then, during and after the show, we recapped a list of winners, with a focus on those hailing from Music City. Despite boasting a whopping 84 categories, only about 1/10 of all Grammy Awards are…
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A Nashville Guide to the 2017 Grammys
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The 59th Annual Grammy Awards air tonight, Sunday, Feb. 12, and, per usual, Nashville artists are strongly represented, both in nominations and performance slots. Though local nods, as always, skew strongly towards the mainstream country, gospel, americana, bluegrass, classical, and Christian realm, nominations for favorites like Cage the Elephant and Jack White, pseduo-Nashville rockers Alabama Shakes, pop star transplant Justin Timberlake, and,…
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Alabama Shakes, Sturgill Simpson, Run the Jewels, More Announced for 2017 Sloss Fest
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Since its debut in 2015, Birmingham, Alabama’s Sloss Fest has fast become a formidable, regional musical event, boasting a balanced, eclectic, weekend slate of performers in historic Sloss Furnaces. The fest returns for its third year July 15-16, once again overlapping with the similarly-geared Forecastle Fest in Louisville, with which it shares some performers, forcing Nashvillians to choose…
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Sturgill Simpson, Phantogram, Spoon, More Join 2017 Forecastle Fest
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Getting a surprise early jump on festival season, Louisville’s long running Forecastle Fest, one of our favorite events year after year, announced its impressive 2017 lineup back in December, with an absolutely stacked bill of LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Cage the Elephant, Run the Jewels, Conor Oberst, Modern Baseball, Beach Slang, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Farro, and…
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Watch Sturgill Simpson Perform “Keep It Between the Lines” and “Call to Arms” on ‘SNL’
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As we recently announced, breakout local alt-country revivalist Sturgill Simpson, whose brilliant third album A Sailor’s Guide to Earth is up for two Grammys next month, appeared over the weekend as the musical guest on the new year’s first episode of Saturday Night Live, following in the footsteps of fellow Nashville acts Chris Stapleton and Margo Price, who both made…