For another edition of What Where Wednesday keeping you up to date with the happenings in Nashville this week. Some of the highlights include WNXP favorites like Sudan Archives, Steve Lacy, Madi Diaz, Lizzo, and a whole lot more. Find out information about those events on our website wnxp.org/events. Our special guest for What Where […]
Haven’t you heard? Crying is the new “holding it together.” Human beings are built to emote and what better way to shed tears than to music written about crying, you know? Despite the sad boi (and grrl) song selections, this set we made together is quite powerful, and may even get you dancing. So stream […]
Fall Frenzy Live Music Preview This week, WNXP DJ’s combed through a totally PACKED fall concert calendar and picked some of their favorite artists making their way to Nashville. We started the show by highlighting some of our former Nashville Artists of the Month headlining around town including Soccer Mommy, Briston Maroney, New Respects, Adia […]
“Out with the bangs, in with the twang,” Olsen taps into ’70s country influences on her latest full length. Angel Olsen has carried the “sad girl indie” label for nearly a decade, despite how much her sound has evolved. She’s veered from the early lo-fi folk sounds of her 2012 debut Half Way Home to […]
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 […]
New music releases are still trickling in amongst the deluge of holiday releases but for shows like the New Music Experience it’s the time of year for year-end lists, lookbacks and best of’s. Last week in tribute to our Winter Fund Drive we had WNXP founding listener-members pick their favorite discoveries of our first year […]
While we are very thankful for everyone who listens to the show, works on the show and supports the show (including our sponsor Tennessee Brew Works) we did not skip ahead —like retailers already playing Christmas music — and do a Thanksgiving-themed show. That said, music lovers have plenty to be thankful for with new […]
Josh Gilligan approaches his work in both music and film with a sense of reverence and respect for the art.
It’s that time of year in the music world where we all — magazines, websites, radio stations, podcasts —look back and make lists. Everyone has been putting out their picks at the 6-month mark of 2021 and for this week’s New Music Experience the staff of WNXP pull together a playlist of our favorites so […]
This week the New Music Experience features no guests, no interviews, no special critic’s picks – it’s just new music full-on for a full hour. There are new releases from some of our WNXP favorites ala Madi Diaz, Lucy Dacus and Tkay Maidza and we play catch-up on some songs that fell through the cracks in recent weeks. The playlist features minimalist songwriter pop and maximalist indie R&B. Songs that sound exactly like you’d expect from certain […]