Subject: Portland (Oregon)

• Cool Kids: Nashville Hosts Two of the Coolest Record Stores in America (According to Paste Magazine)

  June 19, 2008

• Kings of Leon to Play Nashville Municipal Auditorium Nov. 19

  August 6, 2008

• Meet in Three: Chris Freeman

  August 8, 2008

• In True Metallikatz Fashion

  August 13, 2008

• Massive Nights: The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Tour

  August 18, 2008

• Silver Jews Play Exit/In October 12

  August 20, 2008

• Those Darlins Keeping Busy, Support Charlie Louvin, Dan Auerbach & O'Death

  As you may have heard, The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach is goin' it alone, at least for a spell. But enough about that dude. Joining him on tour early next year will be Murfreesboro's own Those Darlins, who have a record of their own (“Wild One” b/w “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin”) and will also be on tour this fall with O'Death, including a stop at Exit/In on Dec. 1. Full Darlin itinerary after le jump.

  November 18, 2008

• Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008

  In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling variations on what were once sure things while desperately searching for career exit strategies that don't involve tall buildings, open windows and running leaps. As a result, fringier artists have ha

  December 24, 2008

• Ready to Pop

  Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships splash down

  October 16, 2008

• Experimental Dental School, Deerhoof, The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers and more

  November 6, 2008

• Annuals to Play Exit/In Mar. 6

  Remember that hot minute-and-a-half when Annuals were the biggest deal in the history of the indie rock Internets since CYHSY? No? Maybe you were over them before you were into them; they were, after all, birthed into the public consciousness through the love canal we know as Pitchfork, which called them "some fantasy hybrid of Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, and Broken Social Scene," and had earned more stripes toward the exalted title of "most overhyped band ever" before their debut album was

  January 20, 2009

• The Dude Who Wrote That Song

  February 26, 2009

• Murmur at Rymer Gallery

  Flesh and Blood

  January 1, 2009

• Time Lapse/Mythos at Vanderbilt's Ingram Studio Art Center

  October 9, 2008

• Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

  Action taken in solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  October 25, 2007

• Foe’s Gold

  Menomena’s Brent Knopf talks Portland, prettiness and dealing with ridiculous questions

  October 25, 2007

• Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

  Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  October 18, 2007

• Our Critics' Picks

  September 6, 2007

• Frito Bandito

  One thing Mexicans are prone to steal: low-paying jobs from lazy-ass gabachos

  March 1, 2007

• For Those About To Rock

  We salute the Southern Girls Rock ’n’ Roll Camp

  August 14, 2003

• Love-Hate Mail

  August 3, 2006

• The Spin

  March 2, 2006

• Media: Radio On

  Radio Free Nashville looks back on its tumultuous start

  December 29, 2005

• Layoffs at City Paper

  The daily cuts 40 percent of its edit staff

  November 24, 2005

• The Spin

  November 24, 2005

• Finely Woven

  Nashville Ballet opens 20th season with typically diverse but unified program and a mounting sense of excitement

  October 6, 2005

• Kosher Veggie Tales

  Beloved vegetarian eatery on Vanderbilt campus undergoes a few changes

  September 1, 2005

• Heart of Darkness

  Sleater-Kinney's latest album plunges into the abyss

  June 30, 2005

• Weaving Franklin's Web

  The charming little town south of here has big WiFi plans

  May 5, 2005

• Volunteers Rising

  Former Nashville punk band From Ashes Rise take “Tennessee Hardcore” nationwide

  December 4, 2003

• News Briefly

  There is life after Metro Council

  December 4, 2003

• Ready for More

  Sleater-Kinney return with monumental One Beat; Coldplay avoid “The Radiohead Effect”

  September 19, 2002

• Courthouse Designer Named

  Architect Michael Graves wins a bizarre, 11-hour design competition for the federal courthouse

  September 19, 2002

• An Artists' Haven

  Neuhoff is emerging as a sort of utopia for Nashville's artistic community

  March 21, 2002

• On the Grille

  Empty Green Hills restaurant space reactivates

  January 24, 2002

• A Bad Development

  Growth projections spell more sprawl unless regional planning improves

  May 24, 2001

• Love/Hate Mail

  Writing wrongs

  May 17, 2001

• For the Record

  Oh, how we long for a cool little record store

  December 2, 1999

• Booking Space

  April 9, 1998

• Road Kill

  August 21, 1997

• Six Nights to Rock

  November 28, 1996

• Westward Ho!

  March 21, 1996

• The Dead Weather to Tour, Play War Memorial July 30

  The Dead Weather announced today that their debut album, Horehound, will be given unto us on July 14, by way of Third Man Records/Warner Brothers. As rock bands often do, the D.W. will hit the road in support of the album. (The tour is said to be "kicking off" in Louisville June 11, even though there's over a month between that show and the next one, at the 9:30 Club in D.C. on July 13.) What this means for Nashville is that The Dead Weather will bring their four pieces of "dirge rock" to our o

  May 11, 2009

• Deleted Scenes to Tour, Play The End June 1

  Deleted Scenes leave their homes in the East tomorrow and make their way in our specific direction, as they head off on tour behind their album Birdseed Shirt. In addition to possessing one of the year's finest titles, the album scored an 8.0 on a particular website named after an agricultural tool. Here's a song, which serves as a pretty good demonstration of what the band does well: Deleted Scenes - "Fake IDs" [MP3] The songs seems to stumble forward over the repeating keyboard figure, the r

  May 20, 2009

• JEFF the Brotherhood to Play With Monotonix at Exit/In Oct. 17, Tour With Shonen Knife & Ted Leo

  ​Fraternal favorites JEFF the Brotherhood are out on the road off and on through November, showing the nation that The White Stripes aren't the only two-piece residing in Middle Tennessee. Their current itinerary sees them going up and down both coasts and in-between with strings of dates opening for Shonen Knife and Ted Leo. They will be appearing with Israeli firestarters Monotonix at Exit/In on Oct. 17--a show that promises to be a cardiovascular romp to say the least. The band's upcom

  August 14, 2009

• The Raconteurs Nominated for CMA Award

  The fucking musical event of 2009! In early 2006, a whip-smart blues musician from D-troit packed his bags, threw caution to the wind and headed Nashville-way with dreams of becoming a big ole country star in his heart. The landscape of Music City was forever changed. Today, that lofty flight of fancy has blossomed into an undeniable reality as Jack White and his wily Raconteurs have just garnered their first Country Music Association Award nomination. The band's collaboration with Ricky Skag

  September 10, 2009

• Elliott Smith Tribute at Mercy Lounge

  October 15, 2009

• Figure 8 off 8th: Elliott Smith Tribute at Mercy Lounge Oct. 18

  You know what sucks? When you come across a really brilliant and worthwhile video that some local artists posted in order to promote an upcoming charity show, but then you see they've only uploaded it to Facebook--thus, no embeddy, and if you aren't on Facebook, no watchy either. Well, Caitlin Rose, Korby Lenker, Jordan Caress of Korean Is Asian, Josh Foster of Parachute Musical and Don Gallardo put together this fantastic cover of Elliott Smith's "Say Yes" that you can view if you're on Faceboo

  October 16, 2009

• Passion Pit to Tour, Play Vanderbilt April 24

  Aw.​Boston-based indie popsters Passion Pit announced today they are going on a U.S. tour that includes Nashville. More specifically, they'll apparently be playing at Vanderbilt on April 24. One would assume that means an appearance at the annual Gathering of the Flip-Floppalos, Rites of Spring, but the schedule over there hasn't been updated yet, and it's a bit early for official announcements from that camp. Vandy does occasionally put on students-only shows, but this seems too close to

  January 8, 2010

• Portland Street Food Flavors Culinary Conference

  If you are culinary professional -- you do something with food, for money -- you could be in the IACP, the international Association of Culinary Professionals. There are lots of food-oriented professional associations, but the IACP is the awesomest one, if only for its incredible annual conference. Just take a look at the program for this year's conference, April 20-24 in Portland, Oregon. ​There's more in just one day of this four-day conference than you can reasonably take in. But you c

  February 4, 2010