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Music City, get ready to welcome back Austin based psychedelic fuzz rockers The Black Angels, who will be making their presence felt at The Basement East on Wednesday, April 26, just days after the release of their new album Death Song. With help from Brooklyn based, like-minded brethren A Place to Bury Strangers, this promises to…
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Sure, Nashville has finally earned praise for its rock scene in recent years, but it’s time for the city’s impressive and ever-growing roster of pop artists to get their time in the spotlight. Local music community PØPSQUAD has been doing their part to bring together pop singers, songwriters, and fans here in town. Now, they’re presenting a bill…
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We already gave you the heads up on the triumphant return of local psychedelic soul trio SIMO to The Basement East on Friday, April 14, where they’ll preview their highly-anticipated forthcoming album, but now we are happy to report their gig has rounded out its lineup, featuring soulful singer-songwriter Devon Gilfillian and blues picker Quinn DeVeaux in the warmup spots.…
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Like many groups who disappeared for decades, only to resurface a generation later, beloved British sensation The Zombies might be hard to keep up with. Muddied further by decades of imposer acts trying to play under their name, the band, who initially broke up in 1967, reunited intermittently in the ’90s, and have been in full reunion…
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Violin virtuoso K Ishibashi, better known by his pseudonym Kishi Bashi, has been earning rave reviews for his latest album, 2016’s Sonderlust. The inventive and raw record showcases the orchestral pop sound he’s known for, with more lyrical maturity and incredibly complex soundscapes. He’s bringing his impressive live show to The Basement East on April 7 with an opening set from charismatic indie…
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Producer, composer, label head, DJ, and one-half of short-lived group Darkside, Chilean American artist Nicolas Jaar wears a lot of hats, and, with a prolific number of releases and collaborations over the past few years, most recently last year’s full-length Sirens, he’s earned more than enough cred to justify his numerous endeavors. Mixing experimental and Spanish influences with…
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Celebrating the release of their debut full-length, landmark, Minnesota indie popsters Hippo Campus are set to play The Basement East on March 22 with Miami’s Magic City Hippies and local favorites ELEL. Though they’ve played Nashville twice the last two years in a row, more often as a supporting act, for great bands like The Mowgli’s, JR JR, and Saint Motel, this marks Hippo Campus’s biggest Music…
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Out in support of their new and fourteenth album Oczy Mlody, something of a return to form after years of weirder releases and collaborations, seminal neo-psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips are set to return to Nashville March 29 for a performance at War Memorial Auditorium. Numerous festival outings aside, it’s actually been ages since the band played a proper, headlining,…
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There’s some news out of Australian psych rock gods Tame Impala’s camp, and although the band haven’t announced a new album just yet, one member will be dropping a solo record this Friday, March 10. Multi-instrumentalist Cameron Avery (who’s also known for his work with the band Pond) is touring the U.S. and Europe in support,…
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It’s been four and half years since beloved alt rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. last made an appearance in Nashville, and, thankfully, not much has changed for the reunited and rejuvenated rockers in the time since, other than the release of yet another great late career effort, last year’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not. As announced…