Nashville – Washed Out’s set at Exit/In began with “Entrance,” the first track off the new album, Paracosm. Ernest Greene walked on to the stage about a minute into the song, just as it sounds like the gates of heaven are opening with harps and cooing angels to greet those who enter. Half a goofy
Nashville – Music City Roots is a weekly show created to bring together artists whose music carries on traditional roots music in some form. Deer Tick, Deep Dark Woods, and Tristen most recently performed quick-fire sets for the show along with a few other Nashville acts. The show is broadcast live over the radio and
Nashville – Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden like to do things a little differently. Their new album, The Shape The Color The Feel, is due out in February of 2014, and it promises to be anything but a typical album release. The music will be accompanied by a slew of musicians, producers, filmmakers,
Nashville – Chvrches debut album, The Bones of What You Believe, was released just over two months ago. In two months, word about the trio’s 80s, synthpop sound spread from the UK to the rest of the English speaking world. Nashville hopped right on the wave. Chvrches played a sold out show at Exit/In. This
Nashville – There must be something in the water causing the musical renaissance “Down Under.” Add Streets of Laredo to a budding list of new bands from Australia and New Zealand who’ve come out recently. The Naked and Famous, Vance Joy, Tiny Ruins, Courtney Barnett, Hiatus Kaiyote, and Lorde (a contender in our Newbie Awards)
Nashville – The Weeks don’t have a problem being compared to Kings of Leon. Lead singer Cyle Barnes told Irish Music website GoldenPlec, “If you’re going to be compared to somebody, that’s not a bad band to be compared to.” It’s a good thing they don’t mind because Barnes’ voice and his band’s wily guitar
Nashville – Jared Bartman is as much a poet and folklorist as he is an orchestral arranger. The power of song lyrics don’t often translate well to the written page, but this is not the case for Bartman. Listening to his new album, Misery Makes Strange Bedfellows, is like taking a hot air balloon to
Nashville – Maps is the third full-length album from Jerome Alexander, the multi-talented British artist who goes by the moniker Message to Bears. The album sounds as though Alexander never came down from the slow-motion, rainbow clouds he rode on his first album, Folding Leaves. Acoustic guitar, synth, and Auto-tuned vocal loops fold over each other, creating visceral soundscapes that are just right for
Nashville – Channy Leaneagh appeared on stage at Mercy Lounge through a haze of smoke. She’s beautiful in an androgynous way. Her presence is both pixie-like and commanding. She is the unwilling star of the band Polica, the electronic group who first raised hairs in 2011 with the evocative album Give You The Ghost. Leaneagh’s
Nashville – The rough-and-tumble blues rock of Houndmouth has been hot in Nashville lately. We figured we’d better catch their show at Mercy Lounge to see what the buzz is about and see if they’re ready to join ranks with other neo-blues players like The Black Keys and Kings of Leon. The four-piece band from