Former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month Bren Joy has a flawless ability to deliver silky smooth vocals and grooves that makes it nearly impossible to believe he is just beginning his budding career. Joy’s independent debut Twenties made enough of an impression that it earned a deluxe reissue with label backing earlier this year. […]
It was just a year or two ago that Bren Joy was rummaging around in his parents’ Nashville attic and found vinyl LPs that both raised and answered questions for him. “I was cleaning some stuff out, looking for something else,” he recalled, “and I saw countless, countless boxes of records and I’m like, ‘What […]
There’s a lot going on just beneath the surface of Twenties, the debut project that Bren Joy dropped independently during college and reissued in a deluxe version with label backing earlier this year. You can hear him fleshing out how he relates to young adulthood, masculinity and Black excellence. He’s ruminative about romance, shrewd about […]
More than once during our recent Zoom interview, Bren Joy spoke of “worlds.” It wasn’t the cosmos he was talking about, but his creative process. When the Nashville-raised twenty-something fleshes out a song idea, he’s thinking of multiple layers, of the overall effect, of how complete a musical experience he might be able to offer […]
A.G. Sully grew up in Hartselle, Alabama, just a few hours away from Nashville. She describes it as very small and very conservative, but it’s a place that shaped the independent artist to become who she is today. “It’s taught me a lot, I’ve kept a lot of my same morals and values, but it’s […]
We are honored to uplift Black voices year-round and in celebration of the legacy of MLK, today we’re rebroadcasting conversations with and stories about Black artists you may have missed the first time. Listen through 8 p.m. CT on Monday, January 17, and find all sorts of interviews, features and news stories here on WNXP.org. Nashville […]
As the small team at Nashville’s Music Experience, immersing ourselves in new music and then sharing the best cuts with WNXP listeners is not just our job, it’s our calling. Music discovery is our mission. So while we decided to forego a ranked list or countdown after our first full year on-air, we did round […]
While Marquis Munson was on Kanye watch for the album that never came, The New Music Experience— supported by Tennessee Brew Works — still managed to find new music that actually made its way out into the world. Prince and Big Red Machine are among the headliners. Morning host Celia interviews WNXP Record of the […]
In continued celebration of the first episode of the new Nashville Public Radio podcast called Music Citizens — which highlighted the longtime and varied work of Bruce Fitzpatrick, the owner-operator of small capacity Nashville club The End — I asked listeners to recall some of their favorite shows from this space on The Rock Block […]
Record stores participating in Record Store Day 2024 Grimey’s — 1060 E Trinity Ln, Nashville, TN 37216Vinyl Tap — 2038 Greenwood Ave, Nashville, TN 37206The Groove — 1103 Calvin Ave, Nashville, TN 37206Swaggie Records — 211 Union St, Nashville, TN 37201The Great Escape Nashville — 5400 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37209The Shop Vintage & Vinyl […]