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.
Peter Rowan w/ Sam Grisman Project Performing Old & In The Way at Ryman Auditorium — Jan. 9, 2025 Paul Cauthen at Ryman Auditorium — Jan. 25, 2025 Hippo Campus at Ryman Auditorium — Jan. 28, 2025 Hans Zimmer at Bridgestone Arena — Feb. 2, 2025 Father John Misty at Ryman Auditorium — Feb. 14, […]
The live-streaming event will include performances from Nashville-based artists like Ben Folds, Langhorne Slim, Larkin Poe, Nicki Bluhm and Nicole Atkins.
Joy Oladokun and Mercy Bell grew up trying to exist as members of multiple communities whose boundaries, organized around race, culture, region, class, religion or sexuality, didn’t always overlap. For them, contemporary folk music made self-expression and a sense of belonging not seem mutually exclusive. From opposite sides of the country — Arizona in Oladokun’s […]