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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Pilgrimage Festival 2016
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Photo by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Many of our region’s best festivals were already firmly established before we ever started covering them. Many others we watched emerged with promise, only to disappear after one year, a testament to just how hard it is to pull off an event at this scale, in an increasingly saturated summer music…
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No Country’s Guide to Pilgrimage Fest 2016: 14 Can’t Miss Sunday Bands
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We’ve been buzzing about it for months, and the week has finally arrived, as we prepare to head to Franklin’s Park at Harlinsdale this weekend, Sept. 24 & 25 for the second annual Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. We had a blast at last year’s inaugural event, and expect year two to be bigger and better in every way, thanks…
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New On Our Spotify Playlist: Grace Potter, PHANGS, Truitt, The Arcs & More
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Our main goal at No Country is to share music from our favorite local artists and touring acts that hit Nashville. Now you can get straight to listening on our Nashville Spotify playlist. Local music additions: “Cul De Sac” by PHANGS “Fallback” by Truitt “Hopeless” by John Cyrus “New Money” by Leagues – Playing 3rd…
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[REVIEW + PHOTOS] Forecastle 2016
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Save, perhaps, for Bonanroo (which shares the same production team) there is no other regional festival we can say that, without a doubt, we will attend every year without fail, and can count on to be as well-curated, well-organized, and endlessly fun as Forecastle Fest. We’ve made the trip four years in a row now, falling…
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No Country’s Guide to Forecastle 2016: Nashville Roundup
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This weekend, July 15-17, 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 2016: 10 Can’t Miss Saturday Bands
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This weekend, July 15-17, 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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Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Violent Femmes, More Announced for 2016 Pilgrimage Festival
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Shortly before tickets are slated to go on sale (10 a.m. CDT right here), and following a late night tease that had us putting our Scrabble brains to use, the first wave of performers for the second annual Pilgrimage Music & Culture Festival in nearby Franklin have been confirmed by Billboard. Set to return to The Park at…
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Forecastle Expands 2016 Lineup with Ghostland Observatory, The Arcs, Pokey LaFarge, & More!
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As if the initial lineup announcement for this year’s Forecastle Fest, returning July 15-17 to Louisville, wasn’t exciting enough, a slew of additional artists have just been announced. Electro-funk outfit Ghostland Observatory, Dan Auerbach fronted supergroup The Arcs, Americana sensation Pokey LaFarge, and beat master Baauer top the additions to the already stacked lineup, featuring The Avett Brothers, Alabama Shakes,…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 1.11 – 1.17
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The new year is obviously in full swing, because this week brought a seemingly endless barrage of show announcements, new releases, and news items. We’ll forgive you if you missed a few, because we barely remember even covering them all. By now you know the drill, read on for everything we covered last…
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The Arcs Drop ‘Making a Murderer’ Inspired Track “Lake Superior”
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Did you spend the holidays binge-watching Netflix’s addictive new true crime docuseries Making a Murderer? So did Dan Auerbach and his bandmates in The Arcs, apparently. Inspired by the show, which induced “a few sleepless nights,” the band wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered a hypnotic new tune last week called “Lake Superior,” which focuses on Making a Murderer central…