Nashville still attracts musicians who love a pedal steel and a broken heart, though they are adding distortion. It’s led to a growing group of Nashville musicians making alt-country.
What Where When-sday: “Showmance, A Musical about a Musical” by The Theater Bug
The Theatre Bug is a nonprofit organization that does original plays and musicals with kids in kindergarten through 12th grade year-round. This week, the group presents its original musical “Showmance.”
Traditional Appalachian ballads are reimagined in new audio drama, podcast series
A podcast series takes traditional Appalachian ballads about train wrecks and murder and transforms them into radio plays.
Thousands of independent musicians join lawsuits against AI companies
Revelations about music databases that AI companies might have accessed have prompted independent musicians to join a pair of class action lawsuits.
‘It just takes some time:’ How an MTSU violinist’s Jimmy Eat World cover wound up in DC’s ‘Supergirl’
For DC’s “Supergirl,” it wouldn’t be at all weird for a Nashville musician to show up in the credits. But the details matter: The movie features a version of the Jimmy Eat World hit “The Middle,” performed by a violinist, singer and recent grad from Middle Tennessee State University.
Besides writing hits, these nominees helped remake their industry
Nominations for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame always include hit-making heavyweights. That latest group is notable thanks not only to the quality of their catalogs, but the profound and reshaping influence they’ve had their industry.
‘The Odyssey’ is drawing crowds out around the clock to see it in IMAX 70mm
The hottest ticket in town right now is for a movie: “The Odyssey” is in theaters. And there is only one screen in all of Nashville where you can see it as director Christopher Nolan intended, in 70 millimeter IMAX.
Nashville chef influencer sizzles with local burger reviews
It’s Burger Week in Nashville. Sixty restaurants around town are offering burgers for just $8 and competing for votes. And in the past year, one Nashville Burger influencer has been bringing business to local burger joints.
Banjo virtuoso Tray Wellington has been honing his bars
The award-winning banjo player and producer Tray Wellington is known for breaking boundaries, infusing folk and bluegrass with jazz elasticity. His new album finds him flexing his hip-hop fluency.
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