Alvvays’ new album, “Blue Rev” set a new benchmark for the genre of power pop, said Pitchfork in their glowing review of the Toronto band’s third album. And they are right, “Blue Rev” shimmers at 14 songs and a tight 39 minutes. The album took over five years, and in this interview Rankin reminds us […]
Caitlin Rose is the first to arrive at the neighborhood pub. “We usually sit kind of in the back,” she says, gesturing toward the porch where music blares from the PA. “There’s this one long table, but they’re jamming out over there.” She used to pop in fairly often, but now considers herself more of a “surprise regular”: […]
It’s not hyperbole to refer to the musical output of Australian band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard as (Guided by Voices notwithstanding) unparalleled — at least in modern times, at least for a rock band, and a band that’s been together for just over a decade. In October 2022, the experimental-psych sextet released three […]
Pairs of songs requested for the November 10 #ThematicStatic show included pop, classic R&B, ’90s alternative, trip-hop and a whole gamut of sounds and sentiments — all twice as nice aired two by two. So nice, in fact, we repeated the theme on November 17 to accommodate more of your great requests! Listen to both […]
Never judge a book by its cover, or judge someone’s outfit — because they might have great music taste and you might want to start a band with them. New-ish Nashville trio Veaux, consisting of brothers Aaron and Dominick Wagner and Andrew Black, are performing this Thursday at Brooklyn Bowl for WNXP’s Two Year Anniversary […]
For some people, the pandemic presented a time to sit back and self-reflect as the world locked down but for Aaron “Son Little” Livingston, forced isolation was an excuse to do what he often wants to do anyway — hibernate and focus. The unexpected “freedom” of lockdown set the stage for his latest project Like […]
Ariel Bui is an 11-year veteran of the Nashville indie music scene, and she’s back with her first record since her self-titled 2016 LP. It’s called Real & Fantasy, and it’s a garage rock collection of tunes composed almost entirely pre-pandemic on her electric guitar with the intention to record and perform them with a […]
Each September, thousands of roots-rock, folk, bluegrass and alt-country fans from all over converge in Nashville for the weeklong Americana Music Association conference and festival, jumping from panel discussions to parties with music venues across the city hosting showcases. The biggest show of the week is always the Americana Honors and Awards ceremony Wednesday night […]
We’ve probably never been more primed to look and listen for messages in music, some indication of where a performer stands and who they stand with, what causes they want to draw attention to and what controversies they’re keen to comment on. Parsing of lyrics has become an intense, communal internet activity, and so has […]
If you were a fan of live, alternative rock in Nashville in the early nineties, you knew of the band Chagall Guevara. Yes, the name is a conscious conjuring of an aesthetic and an ethic that fuses the painter Marc Chagall and the revolutionary, military theorist Che Guevara together. Think surrealist guerilla artfare. Chagall Guevara […]