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Interviews and music stories from WNXP, Nashville's Music Experience.
Interviews and music stories from WNXP, Nashville's Music Experience.
‘For once, we’re having fun over here’: Bon Iver on what may be his last record
There are legends and elders in music, and then there’s T Bone Burnett. He’s produced more than his share of historic projects over the last six decades.
Even the biggest artists need a place to start. And this one guy has created a place like that.
An album she’s been making for a decade, Kyshona new album 'Legacy' goes back multiple generations of her family history as she discusses the album's concept and importance of family.
Most bands that start in a college dorm room don’t last past graduation. Not Rainbow Kitten Surprise. The group came close to calling it quits, but its willingness to evolve has kept it going for well over a decade. Leading up to the new album “Love Hate Music Box,” R-K-S underwent profound change.
This Saturday, the Strawberry Jubilee makes its return. Courtney Cotton oversees marketing at the Nashville Farmers Market spoke about the event and Sunday is, of course, Mother’s Day.
With this newfound success, Arlo Parks took an even more introspective approach on her highly anticipated sophomore effort 'My Soft Machine.'
Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Eric Slick, best known as the drummer for Dr. Dog, released his second solo record 'New Age Rage' in April.
WNXP’s Nashville Artist of the Month for April is Phosphorescent. The man behind that project is Matthew Houck. Over two decades he’s compiled a library of songs, some of the best are anthems, epic in scope and often dealing with melancholy
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss It’s Giving Global’s Cinco De Mayo event at Golden Pony. Taking place on Sunday, the event will feature DJs spinning Latin and global sounds with food and clothing vendors.
Nashville punk/garage rock band Gloom Girl MFG joined Celia in-studio to discuss the release of their EP 'Polycrisis' track by track.
Everybody’s been talking about how Beyoncé’s new album spotlights Black country and cowboy traditions. But even before she teased that project, author and songwriter Alice Randall had already announced her own book and album, both titled “My Black Country.”
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Black Opry Presents Three-Year Celebration Honoring Alice Randall at City Winery.
The high-demand 20th Anniversary Transatlanticism and Give Up tour, co-headlined by Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service in celebration of their respective records first released in 2003, has extended into 2024 with a stop at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on April 29.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Earth Day N’ The Hood with Jaffee Judah, executive director of Recycle & Reinvest.
The songs that make up “Package Pt. 2” from Gustaf are a logical continuation of the powerful debut LP by the NYC five-piece, with more loud, in-your-face punk songs but also some surprising detours into experimental grooves.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss OZ Arts’ anniversary bash with Executive and Artistic Director Mark Murphy.
It’s ease and beauty sound tracked many people’s pandemics and made Waxahatchee a much larger success. It was a record that sounded like an artist no longer trying, but finding their truest self.
Leeds’ four-piece Yard Act discuss their second album 'Where's My Utopia.' The disco-inspired dance-rock album drastically expands on their post-punk minimalism.
There are number of series making hip-hop, soul and R&B more available to Nashville crowds. From NashFeels, Motown Monday, Sunday Night Soul, among others. But there is one that’s making its return this weekend that captures the essence of hip hop from the late 80s and early 90s.
This week for What Where When-sday, we talk to some of the organizers behind Linking Arms for Change, which will form a human chain from Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital to the capitol tonight. Organizations like Moms Demand Action and local clergy have announced their attendance.
While the music industry has labeled them as “shoegaze,” Hotline TNT’s sound expands far beyond what that description would suggest.
Adrianne Lenker is reaching the status of folk hero. Her stick-to-your-gut, freewheeling attitude is one that Adrianne Lenker brings to her new solo album, “Bright Future” our Record of the Week.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss The Rock and Roll Playhouse plays the Music of The Beatles at Brooklyn Bowl on Sunday.
New Orleans based artist Britti had the vision she would work at a Guitar Center in Nashville and that was how she would get discovered.
The trio known as Blonde Redhead formed in New York City in 1993, therefore just celebrated 30 years together with the release of their fall 2023 release called Sit Down for Dinner, the band's first full-length in nine years.
Posthumous music releases are tricky. Especially for the creative decision maker left behind. You’re navigating loss, assumption, expectation, doubt... all without input from the voice.
It’s Saint Patrick’s Day this weekend! So this week for What Where Wednesday, we are highlighting Music City Irish Fest.
Jenny Lewis is playing the Ryman Auditorium this Wednesday March 13. It's a venue that she's played before but this will be her first time playing it as a Nashville resident.
Philly hardcore? Indie? Punk? band Mannequin Pussy is our Record of the Week on WNXP.
This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Charles “Wigg” Walker’s Soul Brunch at Acme Feed & Seed with co-owner Lauren Morales and drummer for the Nashville soul legend Pete Abott.
Jess Awh’s band is Bats and their new album, “Good Game Baby” is our Record of the Week.
Legendary hip hop trio De La Soul released the 35th anniversary of their debut album 3 Feet High and Rising featuring some previously unreleased records.
Lovenoise is no longer alone in its mission.
This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Analog Soul - A Celebration of Making Noise with Jewly Hight and Nicole Kemp.
Real Estate, a band with New Jersey roots but now spread out around the country, convened in Nashville to lay down their sixth LP, 'Daniel.'
Can Lovenoise scale up as Nashville explodes?
This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Regeneration Live at The Blue Room with jazz trumpet player Rod McGaha and Nashville hip-hop artist Mike Floss.
Keyon Harrold has showcased his trumpet playing for various artists in the studio and on the road. He has branched out into his own work with his trumpet front and center on his latest album Foreverland.
Lovenoise works to fill a void
This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Music In My Neighborhood with Kimberly Kraft McLemore, VP of Education and Community Engagement for the Nashville Symphony.
Madi Diaz walks us through several tracks on Weird Faith, expanding on the big picture themes she tackles in songs like “Kiss the Wall,” “God Person” and “Obsessive Thoughts.”
How a Sunday night party change Nashville music.
This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Chuck Indigo: Live From $ville with Carlos Partee, owner of Cashville etc.
'Big Sigh' is the fourth LP by British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marika Hackman, and her first original material in several years.
"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. Subscribe now!
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Black History in Music: Work, Worship, and Celebration at Jefferson Street Sound Museum with Lorenzo Washington, founder and curator, and Karen Lynn Coffee, vice president.
Katy Kirby received acclaim far and wide after the release of 'Cool Dry Place.' Now signed to Anti- Record, Kirby has a new expansion of sound on the latest project "Blue Raspberry.'
Outside of being one of Nashville's most prolific MCs, Brian Brown's passion outside of music is sports.
After undergoing renovations for the new space, the new Cannery Hall is set to start running shows starting tonight. General manager Brent Hyams discuss the process and vision for the venue.
Ty Segall is inarguably prolific. The indie rock artist will drop his 15th full-length album, Three Bells, early this year.
Our guest this week is Rachel Scarbrough, a former Nashville resident who’s worked with Ground Control Touring to bring Saturday’s Abortion Access Benefit at DRKMTTR to fruition.
Nashville singer/songwriter Alanna Royale uses her classic soul and R&B influences to explore the highs and lows we universally experience in life while sharing her own personal experiences on her latest album.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss the 31st annual Let Freedom Sing with Dr. Jeffery Ames, director of choral activities at Belmont University and conductor of the event.
After the success of the song "If I Were A Fish" with her partner Corook, Olivia Barton's big hearted songwriting is on full display on her EP 'Big Sad.'
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month Brian Brown has a keen eye on those who’ve been shoved aside in his changing city.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Analog at the Hutton Hotel with Director of Programming Meredith Dimenna.
This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss a booze-free option to bring in the new year with Stephanie Styll, owner of Killjoy, Nashville’s first booze-free beverage shop.
This week for What Where When-sday, we (WNXP's Marquis Munson and WPLN's Rachel Iacovone) set out to show you a different side to the holiday pop-up scene.
Senior music writer Jewly Hight spoke with Nashville-based puppeteer Megan Piphus who released her first album this year.
Six One Tribe’s founders gave senior music writer Jewly Hight the rundown on what made them Nashville’s busiest hip-hop collective in 2023.
This past spring, Nashville artist Corook had an emotional day. Then put on a green frog shaped bucket hat, spent 10 minutes writing a silly song, uploaded 50 seconds of it to TikTok and changed their life.
On The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Chappell Roan balances piano ballads about leaving home to achieve her dreams and lusting to meet an ex with outright bangers about the joy of starting a little drama.
Stephen Sanchez tapped into a multi-generational audience with the throwback sound. While Sanchez is not alone in achieving virality it’s how he’s handled the spotlight and who he’s shared it with that sets him apart.
Chicago-based quartet Deeper is currently touring in support of their third full length 'Careful!' WNXP’s Celia Gregory spoke with the band when they stopped in Nashville earlier this month.
Vagabon third album 'Sorry I Haven't Called' is not a record about grief. in fact it’s quite whimsical, sassy, sexy – but most of these songs were born out of the chosen solitude she afforded herself to mourn the loss of a dear friend and musical collaborator, Eric Littman, back in 2021.
Tre Burt especially cherishes those musical moments he was able to share with his grandfather Tommy Burt, who was the inspiration for Tré’s third album 'Traffic Fiction.'
The Window maximizes the ten years of Ratboys coming together to make the transformative album of their career.
Allison Russell’s recent work from her new album to her community organizing transcends limitations.
Brooklyn-based trio Nation of Language has referred to their new full-length record as one for the emotional “wayfarer.” They elaborated on the theme that pervades their third album Strange Disciple.
Jalen Ngonda music can sound like call back to the days of Motown and Stax Records and you can hear those elements on his debut album Come Around and Love Me.
On “Over and Over,” the first single released from Becca Mancari’s Left Hand, they relive an important, early phase as a queer and gender expansive person.
Nashville band Snõõper’s debut LP is not a concept record preaching the gospel of exercise. But the group does punch above their weight.
Be Your Own Pet has reunited and recorded Mommy, a nervy new album that's funkier, keener and muscular than any of BYOP's previous work.
Mick Jenkins latest record 'The Patience' is appropriate for the patience he had to endure to get to this stage of his career.
'The Age of Pleasure' is an island of Black beauty, somewhere in the humid Caribbean, where it’s always golden hour, fresh fruit is being served in abundance to a beautiful group of people who do not make a distinction between friends and lovers.
The bulk of Bully, the musicial monkier of Alicia Bognanno, fourth full-length LP Lucky For You serves as “one big love song to” her 80-pound Shepherd-Husky mix named Mezzi.
Instead of a Record of the Week, we focus on the reinvention of Lauren McClinton under her new name Lo Naurel.
Bonny Doon’s new record 'Let There Be Music' is decidedly happy and sounds like a group of friends who are relaxed and comfortable in their identity as a band.
Eye On The Bat, a 10-song collection written around and largely about that holiday break-up, finds Palehound once again excelling at the plainspoken.
'Michael' is Killer Mike’s most personal and vulnerable album to date — an audio biography of the nine-year-old Michael Render on the album cover, a boy with a halo and devil horns over this head dreaming about being an emcee and the challenges he would have to go through to get there.
Hip-hop is known as aspirational music. Six One Tribe, Nashville’s largest hip-hop collective, is living its own version of that.
Jason Isbell continues to illustrate powerful songwriting on the latest 400 Unit project 'Weathervanes.'
'Joy’All' is Jenny Lewis’s fifth solo effort, her first full-length release since the pandemic. Splitting time between Los Angeles and Nashville, her mostly solitary quarantine experiences gave her a lot to think and sing about in the tunes that make up the album.
Peter One story from Africa's Ivory Coat releasing a successful album in the 1980's before moving to the United State and finding a more stable career in nursing. In his mid-sixties he released his second album, “Come Back to Me” in May.
Durand Jones takes listeners on a journey through his views of the history and his own personal experiences in his hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana on his debut solo album Wait Til I Get Over.
Pearl & The Oysters moved to Florida with two carry-ons full of tiny instruments and made “Coast 2 Coast” an acid trip of a journey to outer space.
'All of This Will End,' is beautifully illustrative of Indigo De Souza’s recent shifts in mindset, the people from whom she draws support and/or inspiration, and as a result in songwriting.
For 'Proof of Life,' Joy Oladokun didn’t break her of DIY recording habits so much as vastly expand her cast of collaborators and enable her to pursue a wider array of sonic ideas.
Listening to Blondshell’s self-titled debut can feel like a punch to the gut. The relatability in Sabrina Teitelbaum’s lyrics may explain the instant buzz behind her latest project.
Devon Gilfillian is having a moment through his activism, his latest album release, and WNXP's Nashville Artist of the Month.
On her new album, in|FLUX, London-based artist Anna B Savage zigs where many musicians zag.
The band Wednesday stitch together the details of their lives with triumphant guitar riffs and tragic lap steel. They see the big by zooming into the small bits of life in and around North Carolina.
The War and Treaty's new album 'Lover's Game,' the Trotters work up naturalistic, slow-burning, piano-driven arrangements of several of their originals.
The Michigan born, Nashville-based artist Michigander discusses a pair of life-changing accidents that altered the course of his career.
The Hold Steady celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of their ninth studio album 'The Price of Progress.'
Caroline Polachek discuss her songwriting process and multiple interpretations of the album’s title 'Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.'
Interview with author Dan Charnas about the impact of De La Soul's 1989 debut album '3 Feet High and Rising' ahead of their catalog release on streaming services.
Rory Allen Philip Ferreira is an artist with a bit of mystery. He’s lived in eight different cities and gone by five different names.
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sydney Ward, known as Sunny War, says there are two sides of her. One of them is very self-destructive and the other is trying to work with the other half to keep things balanced the subject of her new album 'Anarchist Gospel.'
As White Reaper prepared to release Asking For A Ride and we touched base with Ryan Hater and Sam Wilkerson about this collection of tunes.
Samia’s second solo album, the indie singer-songwriter has actually refined and defined her voice by venturing away from that sort of certainty.
Being good at talking is what makes R.A.P. Ferreira, full name, Raury Allan Phillip Ferreira a great rapper. “5 to the Eye with Stars” is a line Ferreira lifted from vocalese master Kurt Elling.
Adeem the Artist talks about his new album 'White Trash Revelry,' a collection of keenly knowledgeable and arresting songwriting delivered over spirited, full-band arrangements with a charisma that can feel needling, mischievous or vulnerable.
What Where When-sday: The Forge Front Lawn
September 17, 20255min 55sec
The Forge Nashville is a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 with their mission to advocate for artists and makers and provide a pathway and place to pursue their craft in the community.
Located on 217 Willow Street, The Forge offers a makerspace, wood and metal shops, art gallery, private creative offices, and artist studios. This Saturday The Forge Front Lawn will be a celebration of all the makers and artists who call The Forge their creative home and future makers of the space.