Making Noise
WPLN - Nashville Public Radio2023 was the 20th anniversary for Lovenoise, the Black-owned, Nashville-based concert promoter that has radically altered the city’s live landscape. Lovenoise has expanded opportunities for Black music makers doing contemporary, original music in Nashville, especially hip-hop and R&B, and served multiple generations of the city’s previously underserved audiences.
This four-part narrative series tells the story of Lovenoise: its past, present and plans for the future.
2023 was the 20th anniversary for Lovenoise, the Black-owned, Nashville-based concert promoter that has radically altered the city’s live landscape. Lovenoise has expanded opportunities for Black music makers doing contemporary, original music in Nashville, especially hip-hop and R&B, and served multiple generations of the city’s previously underserved audiences.
This four-part narrative series tells the story of Lovenoise: its past, present and plans for the future.
Leveling Up
By the early 2010s, Nashville was exploding as a destination for tourists and new residents. If Lovenoise wanted to make a difference in a city on the rise, they’d need to figure out how to tap into that growth — and try to make sure music-makers holding down the R&B and hip-hop scenes didn’t get left behind. Or pushed out.