2025 was a year of fundamental change in Nashville’s food scene. Our city is changing fast, and a food scene is often a directional indication of where it is headed.
NashVillager Podcast holiday edition: Radio as a visual medium
How can a WPLN music story transport you somewhere new?
Curious Nashville: Why did a Nashville bank release a Christmas album?
The album cover intrigues: A choir in red robes singing in the lobby of a bank lobby, with the conductor standing behind a desk of deposit slips. By how did it come to be?
5 albums that represent the evolving sound of Nashville in 2025
Nashville has long been more than country music. The Nashville artists on these five albums are untied to genre or legacy, moving forward with completely new sounds.
Tom Waits tribute Get Behind the Mule raises $20,000 for Second Harvest
One night, legendary doorman Dave Knoll was sitting on the back steps of the OG basement complaining about all the musical tribute shows in Nashville. You know, the ones where multiple musicians play the music of one artist. Dave’s buddy asked him, “What tribute show you would actually pay to see?” Knoll said, “Tom Waits.”
Bonnaroo lineup arrives for June 2026 festival
Rain forced Bonnaroo to cancel almost all of its shows last year, but the festival is back with a new lineup for 2026.
Curious Nashville: Why do we have Chicago-style gyro restaurants?
How a simple question about gyros in Nashville led to epic revelations about how regional food styles come into existence — and the role of one entrepreneur in changing gyros forever.
Live Nation announces new venue in Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood called The Truth
The new venue will hold 4,400 people and enters into an increasingly competitive segment of the music booking industry in Nashville.
Nashville musician Blood Root processes grief through guitar pedals in new album
Nashville is full of music gear heads. But in Taylor Wafford’s hometown of Havelock, North Carolina musicians didn’t come through town. They definitely didn’t hang out, analyzing pedal boards. When she moved here, she found a community — and a sound — by tapping a guitar pedal.
Nashville’s Eric Slick reimagines Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” like no AI ever could
For Halloween, Nashville indie rock musician Eric Slick released a five song, orchestral suite, covering Rob Zombie’s very un-orchestral hit, “Dragula.” The project started as a joke. But Slick took the piece so seriously that it transcended to a work of art.
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