
No Country For New Nashville
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While Nashville is known as "Music City USA", this is a pretty small market if you aren't in the country music scene. Our mission with this blog is to raise awareness about the independent music scene in Nashville by spotlighting the great bands that are budding around the Music City, and to attract more of the national acts to swing through Nashville.
No Country For New Nashville
6d ago
It’s been a decade since eclectic, multifaceted singer, actress, and model Sky Ferreira released her debut album- and one and only full-length thus far- Night Time, My Time, a critically lauded, fan-favorite classic of early 2010s synth pop and indie rock. It’s been something of a tumultuous period since, with false starts, delays, and label ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
3w ago
Informally formed over 20 years ago, the first incarnation of Wolfmother officially came together in 2004, released a self-titled debut EP that same year, and subsequent eponymous, breakthrough full-length album a year later (its worldwide release would be delayed until 2006). A smash in their native Australia, Wolfmother went on to achieve platinum status and worldwide acclaim, including a ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
3w ago
Hailing from Leamington, Ontario, though he’s spent much of the last several years in Nashville (as well as Toronto), singer-songwriter Billy Raffoul developed a love for music at a young age, immersed in performance and exposed to lots of rock and spirit by his musician father, Jody Raffoul. By his teens, Billy was honing his ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
3w ago
Formed in the late ’80s in the Bay Area of California while still just teens, seminal punk and pop punk trio Green Day exploded into the cultural zeitgeist with their 1994 third album and major label debut, Dookie. Helping usher in and then subsequently influence a new wave of mainstream interest in punk rock, Green ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
Part of an exciting wave of bands that emerged at the start of 2010s, at the time dubbed the “emo revival,” who helped breathe new excitement, a return to a DIY ethos, and a more grounded and scrappy sound much needed after the pop punk and emo scene of the 2000s had morphed into a ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
What began nearly 20 years ago as a side project for singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Casey Crescenzo during his first tenure in post-hardcore outfit Receiving End of Sirens (who, though currently inactive, have reconvened a couple of times over the years since their 2008 split), New England progressive, experimental, indie rock outfit The Dear Hunter ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
Formed in 2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Death from Above 1979 (who went by Death From Above for a few years at the start, then again from 2017-2020) first started turning heads with the release of a series of EPs in the early ’00s, before really breaking through with their explosive debut, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, in 2004 ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
In support of her recently-released, deeply personally, and musically adventurous fifth-album, Gag Order, famed pop singer and native Nashvillian Kesha is currently in the midst of a fall run of shows, and is set to return to Nashville for her first hometown headliner in six years (after a planned 2020 date was cancelled due to Covid), a pair ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
Mixing influences of psychedelic rock, hard rock, stoner, and blues rock, All Them Witches are one of the most diverse and dynamic bands to emerge from Nashville’s local scene in the last decade. The foursome gained an early reputation for their thrilling live shows, mostly built on their musical chemistry and ability to jam rather than solely ..read more
No Country For New Nashville
1M ago
It hasn’t even been a year since famed English indie art pop outfit The 1975 last played Nashville, headlining Municipal Auditorium last November in support of then-new fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language. In the months since, the band- who’ve become something of a generation-defining group over their prolific last decade, since erupting ..read more