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Arts, Culture & Music

Networking in Nashville in the name of advancing women’s audio careers

jewly hight

July 28, 2025

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Women’s Audio Mission finds that, “too often, recording studios and boardrooms can be uncomfortable spaces for women, especially young women that are just getting started, and that’s something that absolutely must change.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: equity, Joy Oladokun, Linda Perry, music industry

‘Buckingham Nicks’ bombed in 1973. Then it became used vinyl treasure

The Associated Press

July 27, 2025

Warner Music Group has announced that it’s reissuing the lone album recorded by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when they were just a duo. The couple later joined Fleetwood Mac for its most successful lineup. “Buckingham Nicks” bombed when it came out in 1973. But its cult status only grew over the decades.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: music industry, vinyl, Warner Music Group

Margo Price makes her defiant return to Nashville on ‘Hard Headed Woman’

Stephen Kallao|Miguel Perez

July 25, 2025

The alt-country star’s upcoming album, out Aug. 29, is the first record that Price has made in Music City, her home for more than 20 years.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville

New album honors the National Symphony Orchestra, snubs Trump’s Kennedy Center changes

Justin Barney

July 23, 2025

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Pop pianist Ben Folds’ new record is a celebration of the National Symphony Orchestra, and a protest against President Trump’s changes at the Kennedy Center.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Ben Folds, Kennedy Center, music

If AI in music sounds like sci-fi, this Nashville law professor is the expert to explain the latest

jewly hight

July 15, 2025

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AI-powered tools in music-making have proliferated. So have lawsuits brought by record labels and publishing companies. It’s contentious territory that’s still large unregulated, and in many ways, unprecedented.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, copyright law, music industry

Shaved, channeled, chopped and sectioned: How old cars show off new shapes in kustom kulture

Tasha A.F. Lemley

July 9, 2025

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What is kustom culture in the world of cars? This Is Nashville’s managing editor went to the “Redneck Rumble” in Lebanon to ask around.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Features, WPLN News Tagged With: car culture, Lebanon, subcultures

What does it take to pull off the Nashville concerts you love? Meet the Wrangler

Justin Barney

July 9, 2025

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When you go to a live show, you expect to see a spectacle — and behind the scenes, there’s one person responsible for bringing this production to life, wrangling dozens of people and fixing daily snafus.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Music Citizens, WNXP Tagged With: Music Citizens, Production Manager, Sylvan Esso, Wilco

Veterans and civilians bond over beers and bluegrass at Nashville’s American Legion Post 82

Kristin M. Hall, AP

July 8, 2025

An American Legion post in Nashville attracts more than just veterans. Post 82 is where Grammy-winning musicians share beers with locals and veterans alike over the sounds of classic country and bluegrass.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: American Legion, dance, live music

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after move by Blackburn

The Associated Press

July 1, 2025

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, ELVIS Act, Marsha Blackburn, music industry, One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Big Freedia is going to take Nashville Pride to the club … and to church

jewly hight

June 26, 2025

When Big Freedia returns to Nashville Pride this weekend, she’ll add in an element that may seem antithetical to booty-shaking: her version of sanctified gospel music.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Big Freedia, music, Nashville Pride

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