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Still reeling from positive praise for their most album, 2017’s Deadbeat Graffiti, beloved blues rock duo Black Pistol Fire are set to return to Music City for the first time since that same year, May 7 at Mercy Lounge, along with fellow Austin rocker (and veteran of our Acme showcase series) Emily Wolfe. An electrifying and celebrated live force, if you haven’t…
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Returning to Nashville for their third headlining show in just as many years, this time in support of their highly-anticipated recent sophomore LP The Darker the Weather // The Better the Man, Austin electro pop rock duo MISSIO are set to once again headline The Basement East on May 7, along with two fellow need-to-know Austin duos on the rise:…
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Since making his stunning debut with last fall’s first full-length, Love, Nostalgia, Nashville’s Dreamer Boy, the latest musical outlet for local artist Zach Taylor, along with his producer and collaborator Bobby Knepper, has been drumming up buzz throughout the blogosphere and beyond, with festival appearances and a string of buzzy tour dates clocked in recent months, as well as…
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The impressive, hard rocking yet pop accessible, artsy, and eclectic latest project of Mary Timony (Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag), DC’s Ex Hex have been an important fixture in the underground rock scene since first springing to life five years ago with their acclaimed debut. Out in support of their recent, long-awaited sophomore effort, It’s Real, the band are…
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Two distinctly different but equally impressive local transplants, both with genre and era defying sounds honed from years of nomadic living and artistic evolution, Australian, eclectic, Americana singer-songwriter Ruby Boots and Mississippi born, genre-bending rocker Indianola are set to play a special, intimate show at The High Watt on May 2. Though both now Nashville based, it’s not often we get…
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French-Algerian, Paris born, San Francisco raised, Brooklyn based singer Lolo Zouaï only just released her debut full-length, High Highs to Low Lows, but if you were lucky enough to get into her at any point in the past couple of years since first making her debut in the modern alt r&b and pop sphere, you’ve surely seen…
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Though her famed, long-running group Against Me! have made their way to Nashville plenty of times in recent years, frontwoman Laura Jane Grace is primed to make her solo debut in Music City with side project Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers later this month, April 28 at The Basement East. Not totally dissimilar from her main gig,…
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Few musical reinventions have been as stunning or as gratifyingly well-executed as Caroline Rose‘s turn from alt-Americana up and comer to full-fledged synth-punk-pop-feminist rock badass with her stellar 2018 sophomore effort LONER. Quirky, darkly funny, self-assured, and unique, Caroline Rose has never seemed more in tune with her own artistic self-expression, and when she last…
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Young, LA based, internet-bred, bilingual, bedroom pop and alt r&b breakout Omar Apollo only got his start in music a few years ago, but, already, is a buzzworthy name in the contemporary indie pop scene, earning critical acclaim for his 2018 debut EP Stereo, and this year’s brilliant followup, Friends. Set to make his Music City debut April 23 at Exit/In,…
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Though they’ve been around for almost a decade, the past couple of years have been particularly transformative for New Orleans genre-bending funk, soul, r&b, hip hop, and jazz rooted outfit Tank and the Bangas. If one instance could be highlighted in particular on their organic rise, it would be winning NPR’s competitive Tiny Desk Concert…