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What Where When-sday: The 5 Spot

Marquis Munson

October 4, 2023

This week for What Where Whens-day our special guest is Travis Collinsworth, co-owner of The 5 Spot in East Nashville. The venue has been around since 2003. Collinsworth started as an employee for the original two owners before buying in with another staff member Todd Sherwood in 2006. The 5 Spot features a wide array […]

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: What Where Whens-day

Listen: Inside Mitski’s surprise concert at the Belcourt Theatre

Justin Barney

September 14, 2023

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Passionate Mitski fans flew in from all across the country to sit in a movie theater and listen to Mitski’s new album “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We” a full week before its release on Sept. 15. The event read, “Listening Event and Film selected by Mitski – NOT A LIVE PERFORMANCE.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Belcourt Theatre, Mitski, WNXP

How Mya Byrne paved her long, winding road to country music with grit and sparkle

jewly hight

May 1, 2023

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, “Rhinestone Tomboy.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, music, Mya Byrne

AndréWolfe’s ‘Wolves Don’t Howl They Sing’ is WNXP’s Record of the Week

jewly hight

February 21, 2023

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From the title of AndréWolfe’s new album, “Wolves Don’t Howl They Sing,” to its tone of bruising disclosure and its cover image of a single wild canine turning from the pack to bellow at the sky, he plays out the radical reorientation that he’s undergone with his own musical expression.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: nonnarrated storytelling

From Kendrick Lamar to Diarrhea Planet, Bonnaroo’s lineup blends national headliners and regional favorites

Justin Barney

January 10, 2023

Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Zed’s Dead, Liquid Stranger and Odesza are the headliners for Bonnaroo this summer. The lineup for the festival in Manchester, Tennessee, came out Tuesday.   

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Bonnaroo, Exit/In, music, Paramore, Sheryl Crow, WNXP

That’s a wrap: Listen to Nashville Public Radio’s top songs of 2022

WPLN Staff

December 3, 2022

It’s that time of year streaming services remind us all of the musical journey we’ve each been on for the last 365 days. Here are the songs that snagged the top spot for Nashville Public Radio staffers.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: music, Spotify

Naomi Judd embodied the role of country music’s ‘mother’ — and helped to expand it

jewly hight

May 4, 2022

Alongside her daughter Wynonna, Naomi Judd, who died on April 30, willed one of the most riveting acts in country music into being through persistence and sacrifice.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Naomi Judd, The Judds

New ‘For Love & Country’ documentary gives Nashville’s Black artists the microphone

Paige Pfleger

April 10, 2022

Country music has always been Black music. That’s the idea that a new documentary called For Love & Country explores.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: country music, music industry, The Black Opry

Russian sanctions cause a ‘worldwide tube panic’ as amp makers scramble to find the key component to quality sound

Paige Pfleger

April 4, 2022

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Russian sanctions against the United States are having an impact on a niche corner of the music industry in Nashville.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: amp, music business

An East Nashville record shop is the latest example of a small business trying to gain ownership in a rapidly growing city

Paige Pfleger

November 16, 2021

The owners of The Groove say they need to raise nearly $500,000 by January to remain in place.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Growth, music, music business, Real Estate

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