Subject: Vancouver

• Pete Yorn to Play Cannery Ballroom July 16

  Anyone disappointed that Pete Yorn's stint as the opening act for Coldplay ends June 4--two days before the band hits the Sommet Center with Kaiser Chiefs in tow--can take solace in the news announced today that Yorn will come to Nashville and headline The Cannery Ballroom on July 16. Yorn will be touring behind his latest album Back and Fourth, due out June 23, and with the services of a new band: Joey Kennedy on keys, Scott Seiver on drums and Jonny Polonsky, Mark Noseworthy and Zak Schaffer o

  June 1, 2009

• An Open Letter to Mark Knopfler

  July 21, 2008

• Have May Town Developers Seen the New America?

  July 30, 2008

• In True Metallikatz Fashion

  August 13, 2008

• Because Vowels Have No Place on the Dancefloor: MSTRKRFT Return to Nashville

  August 21, 2008

• Monday Night vs. The Greatest of All Time

  I once knew a band from Vancouver with a strange name: Trail vs. Russia. Pretty cool band, in the Shellacky, claustrophobic, bass-heavy mold, and very nice people. I just thought their band name was, you know, overly arty or something. Then I learned the story: A tiny little Canadian town (Trail) once challenged the Russian national team (Russia) to a game of hockey. And won. Instantly cool band name, even though I don't care about hockey. (Picture is only tangentially related.) Anyway, in the

  January 5, 2009

• Really North America

  Turns out we're Canada's Mexico

  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

• What's Your Function?

  October 9, 2008

• Mountain Music

  March 6, 2008

• La Dolce Vita

  Matt Allen brings free sweet treats to Bonnaroo

  June 14, 2007

• Taxi Driver

  Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard talks Postal Service, songwriting and Seattle

  May 10, 2007

• Aloha, Manitoba

  Canadian singer-songwriter Luke Doucet moves to Nashville—for the weather

  February 1, 2007

• Ray Condo, 1950 - 2004

  The Quiet Death of a Half-Nuts Rockabilly

  April 29, 2004

• Love-Hate Mail

  November 16, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  OLEANNA

  March 2, 2006

• Reeling Them In

  Why even films about Elvis and the Bell Witch aren’t filmed in Tennessee—and what we can do

  October 20, 2005

• Love And Hate Mail

  The South always gets the blame

  June 2, 2005

• Into the Great Beyond

  Distilling old sounds into something undeniably contemporary, Jolie Holland approaches heavy subjects with a transcendent touch

  August 5, 2004

• Having

  Flower power

  May 20, 2004

• Love/Hate Mail

  Need some study hall?

  April 15, 2004

• Party People

  Majesticons brilliantly satirize these heady, shirtless, bling-bling times; also, new releases from The Be Good Tanyas and Massive Attack

  April 3, 2003

• Sports Desk

  From the Scene’s desk at McCabe Pub

  January 16, 2003

• A Lesson Before Dying ♦ Opening Oct. 10

  Music

  October 10, 2002

• 24 Hour Party People ♦ Opening Friday, 10/4

  Music

  October 3, 2002

• The Junk Boys Cometh

  Two local businessmen are in the junk business for the short haul

  July 4, 2002

• Mary Chapin carpenter/Shawn Colvin/Steve Earle ♦ Saturday, 8/4

  Music

  August 2, 2001

• Dr. N. Ramani ♦ Friday, 6/1

  Music

  May 31, 2001

• A Fine Weave

  Belmont program offers rare chance to hear top-notch chamber music in ideal setting

  March 1, 2001

• Get Shorty

  October 15, 1998

• Booking Space

  April 9, 1998

• Weighted Down

  March 26, 1998

• Monkee Business

  April 24, 1997

• Making Progress

  April 17, 1997

• Music Notes

  April 3, 1997

• Working Man's Muse

  April 18, 1996

• The Final Round

  November 23, 1995

• 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

• Japandroids deliver no-frills noise rock

  July 2, 2009

• Japandroids, Canta Natal and Sound&Shape at The End 7/2/09

  It's unspoken protocol at The End: Show up late and expect to stay late. (Weekdays be damned!) But last Thursday, that rule apparently didn't apply to garage punk duo Japandroids, who trekked down from Vancouver and were unexpectedly (even to the band) given one of the opening slots. On the one hand, this made for a no-fuss show without having to wait out a couple unknowns, but it was pure luck that we didn't miss out on more when we sauntered in at the tail end of their first song. But no harm,

  July 6, 2009

• Japandroids, Nilsson Night, Cream, 8 off 8th and more

  July 9, 2009

• Love-Hate Mail

  July 16, 2009

• Kings of Leon Certified Platinum

  Two's a trend, right? First Paramore, now Kings of Leon rock open those platinum gates, for so long rusted shut for any rock act out of Music City. Perhaps it's time to consider the Nashville Curse broken forever. Who'd've thunk it? From the release: RCA Records is proud to announce the RIAA certified platinum status of Kings of Leon's fourth studio album Only By The Night. This is the first platinum record for the band in the United States. This fall, the Grammy Award-winning band will embark

  July 22, 2009

• Road Trip to Memphis: Built to Spill at Minglewood Hall Oct. 21

  ​Built to Spill's new album There Is No Enemy (their first in three years after 2006's You In Reverse) comes out Oct. 6. They've scheduled a fall tour that kicks off in Oregon in 10 days, taking these masters of bendy, heartfelt bombast down the West Coast and to states like Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. States just like ours, only in cities that will make us feel like shit when we find out that they won't be playing in Nashville, but Memphis. What's Memphis ever done for anybody? I kid. Hey, wo

  August 10, 2009

• The Brown Note: Spring Hill Spider Party's Derrick Brown Addresses Monday Night's Fiasco

  Photo by Lance ConzettSHSP's Derrick Brown​By now you've all either put together or witnessed first-hand that the secret guest of Monday night's 9 off 8th at Mercy Lounge was notorious tongue-in-cheek body-pop troupe Spring Hill Spider Party. Not Kings of Leon. Not Radiohead. Not Creed. Spring Hill Spider Party. For fans of SHSP and regulars at Mercy, it was basically just a pretty funny little surprise. For others...well, we'll just say not everyone was doubled over with laughter. Spider

  August 20, 2009

• Super Secret Special Guest to Appear at Tonight's Mercy Lounge AMA Show [Updated]

  This is how Dubya reacts when he hears his favorite song!Update: It is indeed John Fogerty, who posted to his Twitter account: "HEY TONIGHT: @AmericanaFest - who's in town for the fest? Drop by Mercy Lounge 9PM/Nashville-2nt for special guest performance...;-)" Hey, tonight there's gonna be a secret show, tonight. By day's end, you'll either know me as the boy who cried wolf (again!), or the dude who let you know which Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee you have the opportunity of seeing in a

  September 16, 2009

• Best of Nashville 2009: Music

  October 15, 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

• Kings of Leon to Open for The Features at Exit/In Feb. 5? [Updated]

  Update 10:28 a.m.: The Features camp says the rumor is not true, and that Majestico and Cortney Tidwell will open the show. If you've played in a local rock band any time in the last decade, then you know that there's no better gig to get in Middle Tennessee than opening for The Features. If we're to believe the British press, it's a gig so coveted even superstars-on-sabbatical Kings of Leon want in on the action. This weekend, both NME and The Daily Mirror reported that KoL are secretly slat

  January 11, 2010

• A Hollywood feature employs locals to tell a Music City story the right way — for once

  March 11, 2010