After a weekend of events surrounding Bonnaroo and Juneteenth, a busy week in Nashville surrounding live music, outdoor activities and Nashville Pride Festival. Former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month Erin Rae performs her new album Lighten Up at the Basement East on Thursday night and six-piece Indie Rock band The Nude Party performs Saturday […]
“Welcome to the mess,” Erin Rae said lightly as she answered her door – she’d sent advance notice through reps that the place was in disarray. “We’re in the process of moving and by ‘we,’ I mean ‘me.’ I’ve carved you a trail to the back of the apartment.” The folk-country singer-songwriter led the way […]
Nashville Artist of the Month Erin Rae has officially mastered the art of cosmic country. Produced by Jonathan Wilson in his Topanga Canyon studio, Rae’s latest effort Lighten Up represents a shift in her musicianship. Much like the lyrics of 2018’s Putting On Airs, the follow-up explores topics like personal growth and mental health, but with a psychedelic tinge […]
Sure, Erin Rae made a pilgrimage out west to ruggedly pastoral Topanga Canyon to record her new album Lighten Up with Jonathan Wilson producing, and trekked to a former monastery-turned-studio in Wisconsin to make the album before it. But just as she searched out landscapes and settings where she and her collaborators could tend her […]
Sometimes it’s the small gestures in music that convey the greatest insight. There’s ample proof in the singing and songwriting of Erin Rae, a Tennessee native who started life in smalltown Jackson, taking in her parents’ easy harmonizing at home, then cut short her college studies to focus on voice and guitar lessons and open […]
Black Rainbows is a departure from Corinne Bailey Rae’s previous work. She almost didn’t put her name on the album to create some separation between the jazz-tinged, sunny pop hits people are used to hearing. But she wanted share what her passion has been for the last several years, the objects inside Stony Island Arts […]
This is Celia subbing in for Marquis Munson with another edition of Nashville Public Radio’s What Where When-sday — keeping you up to date with the happenings in Nashville this week. Tonight WNXP Presents Erin Rae at The Blue Room, you can see Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Depeche Mode at Bridgestone Arena on […]
It’s been a big year for Jobi Riccio, and her musical journey is just beginning. After fellow Americana-adjacent artists like Erin Rae inspired her to move to Nashville, Riccio is experiencing the magic and community that only happens in Music City. The Colorado-bred singer, songwriter recently made her Newport Folk Festival debut where she was honored […]
Record Store Day is a day where we celebrate brick and mortar record stores across the world and in our own home cities. In order for the Record Store Day powers that be to get us into said record stores they entice us with a list of releases that are only available on said Record […]
Every intro to a year end list will let you know how foolish it is to rank the top albums of any year, and they are right because the best albums are the ones that last beyond this year. But lists like this are a part of that journey. They also serve as a time […]