By the standards of the 2020s, when younger audiences metabolize music so quickly that performers need to keep a constant flow of memeable, streamable content coming, Brittany Howard‘s been laying low. Since wrapping the tour promoting her 2019 solo album Jaime and commissioning remixes of it from peers, she’s resurfaced only a handful of times […]
There’s a slightly accusatory tone to Megan McCormick’s song “Wasting My Time.” Sometimes dwelling on and repeating lines, other times hurtling through them in a blur, she’s singing about an intimate mismatch between people. Their feelings and intentions were fundamentally incompatible, and she fears that she squandered precious time and energy trying to bring them […]
Nashville’s R.A.P. Ferreira, a whimsical rapper known for his wordplay, and also a former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month, dropped an eight-song, nineteen-minute album that was composed, written and recorded in the last seven days at his record store, Soulfolks Records and Tapes here in Nashville. The title of the album is ASIATIQUE BLACK […]
This theme doesn’t need an introduction, not really. What huge proportion of recorded music is about the end of relationships? You really came through with requests, so we stretched this one over two weeks, also. Listen to both shows here, where you can stream the archives (👇). We welcome your stories and requests anytime at […]
Before Palehound released “The Clutch,” a rippin’ rock song and the first single off of their new LP, Eye On The Bat, we’d most recently heard the vocals and elevated guitar work of El Kempner as one half of the duo Bachelor. Kempner teamed up with Melina Duterte of Jay Som to form the supergroup […]
“If we hear some old adage or southern euphemism, we expect it to be honest and valuable to us, but sometimes it’s really not,” Jason Isbell tells me as we sit in two different places in middle Tennessee, connected by Zoom. Isbell is talking about the song “Cast Iron Skillet,” in which he delivers bits […]
On What Where When-sday this week, we’ve got recommendations for live music — as always — but also a special evergreen kind of option for belly laughs and musical education right here in Music City. You might check out The Flaming Lips performing their fan favorite record Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots in full on […]
Nashville Public Radio recently launched a new daily update to keep Middle Tennesseans in-the-know about regional and national news, plus all the Music Discovery goodness happening over here on WNXP. In celebration of this spotlight on our fair city — and I hope you’ll sign up to receive The NashVillager here — we took a […]
Fans of the music made by celebrated songwriter and Southern rocker Jason Isbell have come to expect that he’ll tell it like it is, through lyrics illustrative of his complicated past but also of his present values, which are reflected in a robust social media presence, too. More vulnerable than tweeting, though? Having cameras rolling […]
At Monday night’s Love Rising event in Nashville, Tenn., artists including Allison Russell, Jason Isbell, Maren Morris, Joy Oladokun and Amanda Shires, along with drag artists, united against new legislation targeting drag performances and transgender people.