It feels like 2024 just got started, but it’s already time to look back on what happened in this thing we call “Nashville music” via our Year in Music issue.
In this issue, we get perspective via a conversation with revered singer-songwriter and bandleader Brittany Howard after a year of touring around What Now, as well as Nick Carpenter, whose Medium Build project has skyrocketed in the wake of his LP Country and EP Marietta. We also count down our writers’ 10 favorite local albums and review happenings in hip-hop, country and rock, as well as jazz, blues, soul and R&B. Plus, we take stock of the people we lost and the ever-changing venue landscape, and we hand over the mic to folks across the kaleidoscope of local music for their take on what went down this year. —STEPHEN TRAGESER, MUSIC EDITOR
Catching up with the masterful artist about her Grammy-nominated LP ‘What Now,’ her new hardcore project and more
From Jack White and Brittany Howard to R.A.P. Ferreira, Katie Pruitt and beyond, here are our favorite local LPs of the year
The local music scene on the local music scene
Talking with the singular songsmith about shaping his powerful catalog
Releases from Jack White, The Black Keys, Cage the Elephant, Brittany Howard and more made it another stellar year for Nashville rockers
Nashville’s jazz, blues, soul and R&B communities preserved traditions and evolved them in 2024
Six One Trïbe, Daisha McBride, R.A.P. Ferreira, Chuck Indigo and more showed off Music City’s rich rap talent
A highlight reel including releases from Jett Holden, Alice Randall — and yes, Beyoncé and Post Malone
Drkmttr becomes a nonprofit, The Pinnacle sets opening, two studies release key data on local music and more dispatches
Looking back on the impact of Kris Kristofferson, Mary Sack and many more
Brittany Howard
