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Hailing from Dallas, Texas, booming, percussive, and genre-bending hip hop artist BigXthaPlug got serious about music after a brief college football career was halted due to legal troubles, ultimately leading to a short stint in prison, during which the rapper began writing lyrics and entertaining more grand musical ambitions. Bursting onto the scene with…
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Long Beach bluesy indie rockers Cold War Kids first got together, and nearly just as long since they exploded onto the scene to an unheard of level of buzz with their debut, Robbers & Cowards, winning over legions of fans and critics alike and becoming one of…
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Los Angeles hard rock outfit Badflower sprung onto the scene just over a decade ago (though several members had been playing together for a number of years already, first meeting as teens), attracting label interest and buzz beyond their native SoCal almost instantly thanks to their hard-hitting, energetic live show, and inking a major…
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The brainchild of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, video editor, and multimedia artist Cameron Lew, Ginger Root has been an organic and wholly self-sufficient success story, forged over several years of homegrown, independently released efforts, which helped him find early buzz. After signing to Nashville’s Acrophase Records, 2020 record Rikki helped the Southern California-based project break…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] moony w/ Ethansroom & nickname jos | Oct. 16 @ The East Room](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/moony-2024-1800.jpg)
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Since landing in Nashville in early 2021 and launching his solo project moony, Seth Findley, who spent his youth in Singapore and teens and young adulthood in Texas, and fronted bands before going solo, has become one of Music City’s most essential alt-rock fixtures, capturing our attention with a series of great early EPs…
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For more than a decade now, LA by way of Seattle electronic artist and multi-instrumentalist Robert DeLong has been dazzling us with his dance-primed, lush, and off-kilter musical stylings, informed by his background playing in indie and pop punk bands, a sensibility which sets him apart (and keeps him more instrumentally-rooted) than some of…
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Accomplished both as a pop artist in her own right, and a in-demand collaborator with artists like Quinn XCII, Louis the Child, Noah Kahan, Kygo, The Band CAMINO, and more, from pop to EDM to indie to folk, singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler has, perhaps, had no collaboration more successful or acclaimed than those with friend…
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Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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Though she’s only 23-years-old, breakout, soulful English r&b and pop singer Lola Young has been writing music for more than a decade, and first began attracting attention as a teen, winning a national open mic contest at 13, and attending famed creative and performing arts institute The BRIT School, in the footsteps of icons like…
![[TICKET GIVEAWAY] Mat Kearney w/ Darren Kiely | Sept. 19 @ The Ryman](https://nocountryfornewnashville.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mat-Kearney-2024-1800-Credit-Orchee-Sorker.jpg)
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Though he born and raised in Oregon, and began making music while attending college in California, Nashville is both where singer-songwriter Mat Kearney first felt inspired to pursue music as career (after coming to town on a whim to help his friend and producer Robert Marvin move), and also where he’s lived for most…