The Black Opry website launched with zero connections to the industry. But its influence has grown to the point that it’s helping build careers through its newly launched record label.
A ballroom scene has been quietly growing in Nashville. And it’s about to have its coming out party.
The Legendary Iconic House of Ebony has put on several smaller balls in the city in recent years, but the one they’re bringing to the National Museum of African American Music tomorrow night will be their most visible display to date.
CMA Fest got its start with fan club parties, but what does that look like for a new generation?
From custom trucker hats to branded cocktails and selfie photos with singers, here’s what fans can expect from one up-and-coming duo.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise evolves to keep going
The vast majority of bands that start in a college dorm room — playing the likes of dive bars and keg parties — don’t last past graduation.
AI music isn’t going away. Here are 4 big questions about what’s next.
Tennessee just passed the first U.S. law regulating generative AI in music. But the technology, adept at copying real artists’ voices and styles, is moving too quickly for one law to keep up with.
Nashville tech startup provides new licensing and tracking tools for the AI era
In the age of generative AI, the music business is becoming something much closer to a tech business. Now a new Nashville tech startup called ViNIL has rolled out a digital licensing and tracking service that wouldn’t have been needed just a few years ago.
Tennessee proposal aims to protect musicians from AI voice impersonation
It’s not every day that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee convenes a who’s who of the state’s music industry. But he did on Wednesday at historic RCA Studio B to announce that Tennessee will be the first state to pursue legislation on artificial intelligence in music.
Hip-hop artist Brian Brown has his own way of repping Nashville
It’s tradition for hip-hop artists to rep the places, people and scenes they come from with fierce displays of pride. But in Brown’s music, including his new album, “BBGonProfit,” released in December, he makes a subtler art of speaking to and for his city, watchful and witty from where he stands on the fringes of Nashville’s powerful music industry and booming economic growth.
What 2023 was like for Nashville’s busiest hip-hop collective
It was barely over a year ago that the Nashville hip-hop collective Six One Trïbe released its first album as a group and put on its first real show. But that was merely a prelude to the group’s incredibly productive 2023.
Groundbreaking puppeteer fills her hip-hop kids’ album with characters
At this point in hip-hop’s half-century evolution, it’s practically tradition for artists to pack their projects with guest features. But on Spaceships & Dreams, the debut album from Megan Piphus, the verses, hooks and vamps are spread among such an array of voices that it’s actually credited to a group: May & Them Pups. Sure, […]
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