Work by Six One Trïbe, Brian Brown and lots of others in Nashville’s hip-hop community is setting the stage for the genre’s next 50 years

Snooper, Be Your Own Pet and many more made 2023 a phenomenal year for punk in Nashville

Another historic year in local rock featured releases by Annie DiRusso, Paramore, Be Your Own Pet, Bully, Ben Folds, and many, many more

Talking with stellar instrumentalists Ellen Angelico, Spencer Cullum, Mike Hicks and Jo Schornikow

From the Nashville Jazz Workshop to Easy Eye’s superb ‘Tell Everybody!’ compilation and beyond, local jazz and blues fans had a busy year

Success for onetime underdogs like Zach Bryan, Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll stands in contrast to hateful garbage from folks like Jason Aldean

Developments in the ongoing stories of Exit/In and Cannery Hall punctuated a year overflowing with live music

Talking with Kenny Smoov, Rashad Rayford, Erica Hayes Schultz and Jason Eskridge about the challenges facing Nashville’s Black music communities

Looking back at the lives of Jerry Bradley, Richard Griffin, Liz Theils, Frank Sass and others who made an impact on Nashville music

From Bully and Be Your Own Pet to Allison Russell and Joy Oladokun, here are our favorite local LPs of the year