It’s the final week of July and there’s plenty of live music, sports and even wrestling to keep your calendar full until August. Legendary rapper and Geto Boys’ member, Scarface is performing at the Brooklyn Bowl for his farewell tour with Nashville rapper Brian Brown opening. On Thursday night Grammy nominated indie pop breakthrough band […]
From some of our earliest ages — maybe being read to at home, if we were so blessed, then exploring school libraries (remember the Scholastic Book Fair and the pure jubilation of those days?!) — flipping through real books assists in our development as people. On Thank You for Libraries Day, we celebrated access to […]
In Instagram footage of Brassville’s very first performance back in 2019, four founding members of the band can be seen taking a distinct sonic strategy to the streets of Nashville. They chose an evening when they knew that NFL draft festivities hosted by the city would draw the tourist hordes, and set up on a […]
The wider Christmas Day theater release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically-acclaimed Licorice Pizza followed some early screenings at Nashville’s beloved indie theater, The Belcourt, during a week the movie’s breakout star — a musical performer in her very first feature film, Golden Globe-nominated, too— Alana Haim was set to introduce it to an audience in […]
Plenty of rappers who’ve been in the game for a while understand that establishing their place in an ever-expanding lineage requires not only referencing and paying homage to the sounds and figures that preceded them, but engaging with new ones rising up. The impulse to evolve might propel an artist through multiple, distinct aesthetic eras. […]
Increasingly, the week-ahead opportunities are almost too numerous to reduce for a short “recommended by WNXP and Do615” list on the radio — what a great problem to have, right, Middle Tennessee? Do615’s Chris and Zach joined Morning Host Celia to highlight various live music opportunities at The East Room (prog rock and glam rock […]
Pop music has its expected moves, its reliable strategies to get a musical payoff by making the melody’s apex the main event. Torres isn’t interested in reserving her intensity for the high notes. She engineered the chorus of “Don’t Go Puttin’ Wishes In My Head,” a muscled-up power-pop song on her ravishing fifth album, Thirstier, […]
Once Cautious Clay named Peter Gabriel as an influence during our interview, I couldn’t unhear the British art pop icon’s impressions all over Deadpan Love.
We asked WNXP listeners for Black musical artists they consider most influential, and we received far more requests than we could fit in an eight-song Thematic Static set.
The live-streaming event will include performances from Nashville-based artists like Ben Folds, Langhorne Slim, Larkin Poe, Nicki Bluhm and Nicole Atkins.