Madi Diaz has a lot going on. Since her reign as WNXP’s Nashville Artist of the Month a couple of years ago, she’s been co-signed by MUNA and Waxahatchee. Her friend Kacey Musgraves jumped on a duet. She was picked by Pitchfork as a top album and Rolling Stone recently proclaimed this “the year of […]
It may seem impossible to write the perfect breakup album, but Nashville’s Madi Diaz did just that with History Of A Feeling, her first full-length in seven years. The LP, her fifth, captures the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies heartbreak and growth, all the while reflecting on Diaz’s very personal experiences with the subject matter. Featuring […]
When Madi Diaz, our Nashville Artist of the Month for August, recorded her striking new album, History of a Feeling, she and producer Andrew Sarlo didn’t see the need to add much embellishment to her vital, bare-skinned performances. You can hear why in this exclusive video of Diaz singing two of the songs, “Nervous” and […]
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Madi Diaz didn’t always grasp how to capture the unraveling of complicated emotions in her writing and delivery, but she certainly does now, as she displays during the chorus of “New Person, Old Place” from her new album History of a Feeling. “What use to hurt doesn’t hurt anymore,” she sings, trailing off with relief. […]
It’s the mark of a true artist, like WNXP’s Nashville Artist of the Month for August, Madi Diaz, to grasp and genuinely appreciate what goes into others’ work. An accomplished songwriter herself, who’s made refined albums, including the forthcoming History of a Feeling, and supplied other singers with material, she created a playlist of songs […]
Local artist Lilly Hiatt’s sixth album, and her fourth on the Nashville-based New West label, is called Forever and that prompted a very fruitful theme for this mixtape we make together on WNXP. Lilly joined me virtually on the same day she was leaving to perform on the Outlaw Country Cruise. She brought some “songs […]
“Surely, it’s not still happening,” I texted a friend a couple of weeks ago. I was referring to a conference I’d been planning to attend before L.A. was besieged by wildfires, but I might as well have meant The Grammys. The 67th edition of the American recording industry’s pinnacle of pageantry is still moving ahead. […]
What, you think you’ve heard this one before? If you’ve listened to WNXP in past weeks and months and the song you recognize is one of the below tunes released in 2024*, then you are absolutely right. You’ve probably heard it on 91.ONE, your home for music discovery in Music City. We certainly had our […]
In 2024, through 50 Records of the Week, 12 Nashville Artists of the Month and countless interviews On The Record, the WNXP staff has spent hours upon hours listening to music released this year. To compile our top 30 albums of 2024, we’ve taken each of our staff’s top 10 albums and crunched the numbers. […]