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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Common w/ Maimouna Youssef | Aug. 22 @ The Ryman
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If you’re Gen Xer, you might primarily think of multi-faceted Chicago hip hop artist Common as an underground, profound alternative MC who came up under the moniker Common Sense. If you’re a millennial, you might first associate him with Kanye West, No I.D., and his breakout mainstream and award-winning LPs of the mid-00s. And if you’re…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Death Valley Girls w/ Moonwalks & Spodee Boy | Aug. 9 @ Mercy Lounge
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Dark, eclectic, buzzworthy, and embodying the punk and garage rock spirit on eras past, breakout Los Angeles group Death Valley Girls have released some of the best, most unadulterated rock records in recent years, honing a wild and thrilling live show along the way. The group are set to headline Nashville’s own Mercy Lounge on Aug. 9 (possibly their first…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] The King Khan and BBQ Show w/ Thelma and the Sleaze | Aug. 9 @ The Basement East
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Long-running, cult favorite, seminal doo wop punk duo The King Khan and BBQ Show (featuring garage rock favorite King Khan and fellow Canadian garage punk trailblazer Mark Sultan, a.k.a. BBQ), have been a bit more intermittent in activity in recent years, balancing their respective solo and side projects, while still finding time every few years to…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] The Pink Spiders w/ Sexx & Smart Objects | July 29 @ The High Watt
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One of the original, breakout rock acts of Nashville’s early ’00s scene, before the city’s current boom in population and broader genre interest, garage rock and power pop trio The Pink Spiders saw a spectacular rise and untimely fall, at one point to positioned to the the next big thing. After almost a decade of relative dormancy, the…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Mandolin Orange w/ Bonny Light Horseman | Sept. 6 @ The Ryman Auditorium
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Out in support of their sixth and, perhaps, best LP to date, Tides of a Teardrop, beloved North Carolina folk/Americana duo Mandolin Orange are set to return to The Ryman Auditorium later their summer for not one, but two headlining dates, Sept. 6 & 7. Joining the band on night one is a new supergroup with an unbelievable pedigree, Bonny Light Horseman,…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Julia Holter w/ Ana Roxanne | July 20 @ The Basement East
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Over five full-lengths, most recently last year’s masterful double album Aviary, Los Angeles based experimental art pop singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter has emerged as one of the most interesting, compelling, and genre-bending artists in recent memory, moving from electronic-infused bedroom pop to avant-garde and baroque to orchestral-infused, lush, and experimental, along the way earning critical…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Brittany Howard w/ Becca Mancari | Aug. 19 @ The Ryman Auditorium
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While careful not to call it a breakup, Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard recently announced that she’s putting her famed southern blues rock group on hold for the time being, in order to try her hand at making music under her own name, with a forthcoming debut album, Jaime, set to arrive on Sept. 20. The most…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Sebadoh w/ Eleanor Friedberger | July 18 @ Exit/In
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Though they’ve more or less been back in action for over a decade, despite juggling other projects like frontman Lou Barlow’s Dinosaur Jr., long-running lo-fi indie rock faves Sebadoh took their time crafting a followup to 2013’s excellent comeback LP Defend Yourself (their first record since ’99), returning earlier this year with perhaps their finest album in decades, Act…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Hop Along w/ Kississippi | July 13 @ The Basement East
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Still out in support of last year’s stellar new full-length, Bark Your Head Off, Dog, Philadelphia punk and emo infused indie rock outfit Hop Along return to Nashville for the second year in a row, July 13 at The Basement East, on the heels of an opening-day set at Louisville’s Forecastle Fest. With support from another longtime favorite, fellow Philadelphian,…
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[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Charly Bliss w/ Emily Reo | July 9 @ Mercy Lounge
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A longtime site favorite, grungy, Brooklyn power pop outfit Charly Bliss wowed us with some early Music City stops several years back, supporting Veruca Salt and appearing at The Stone Fox on tours before they’d even released a proper full-length. It’s been a couple years since the band last made it to Nashville, however, most recently…