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2025 Year In Review

Middle Tennessee in memoriam, 2025

By Blake Farmer

December 18, 2025

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Mary Elizabeth Vinett died on November 21, 2025, and her family decided her 90 years on the planet deserved more than the average obituary. So they tried to capture her essence starting with the first paragraph. 

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5 albums that represent the evolving sound of Nashville in 2025

By Justin Barney

December 11, 2025

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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.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: 2025 Year In Review, Chuquimamani-Condori, Fossil Creek, Jarren Blair, Local music, Nashville, Nickname jos, Snooper

Our most popular episode of 2025: The HBCU we never knew

By Mary Mancini

November 26, 2025

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This time of year, we like to recommend some of the best podcasts of the year. So we’ve sprinkled a few recommendations throughout the show today while we let you enjoy our most downloaded episode of the year. It’s about the history of the historically Black university that we never knew – Roger Williams University. Nothing […]

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Thanks for fresh podcasts — our 2025 podcast recommendations for you

By Megan Jones

November 24, 2025

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It’s that time of year when Nashville Public Radio staffers give listeners a peak into what we’re listening to, right in time for the Thanksgiving holiday and travels.

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