Author Archives: Michael Eades

Please Vote Nashville Powers Your Trip to the Voting Booth

Early voting is now underway in Nashville for the State and Federal Primary, County General and Oak Hill Municipal Election. If you wanted to vote by absentee mail-in ballot, the window has closed for registering your vote to be submitted. However, no matter how you choose to vote – in-person or by mail – there’s […]

Stereo Specter – “Golden” [Premiere]

Optimistic music is hard to come by. Or, rather, listenable optimistic music is hard to come by. When an artist is aiming for that uplifting feeling it generally comes with the baggage of being overly corny, forced euphoria or, even worse, a completely empty gesture. With “Golden,” the latest single from Stereo Specter, all of […]

205: Don’t Shy Away from the Political

Another massive dose of local music for you spanning a variety of genres. Hope you’re in the mood for some wildly upbeat dance-y jams, some ominous hip-hop, some politically fueled indie rock and many many points in between because that’s what we’ve got in store for you. Treat yourself to plenty more from Pet Envy, […]

Lackhoney – SWEETS

It’s a well understood notion that creativity is often bred by limitations. When you’re feeling stuck, create some arbitrary guidelines for yourself and see what comes out. Try recording an album entirely with children’s instruments or write an album about Tommy Boy or just be a Halloween band. Or, if you’re Aly Lakhani, aka Lackhoney, […]

Kent Osborne – Underestimated

Underestimated by Kent Osborne Released in early May, 2020, the latest from Kent Osborne is a double single for “Belly of the Beast” and “Obsolete” that manages to deliver an impressive combo of absolutely brutal and completely zoned out. Both tracks are surprisingly short with their sub-2-minute runtime but that gives them the leverage to […]

Support DRKMTTR and the D.I.T. Ethos

Independent venue DRKMTTR has launched a Patreon complete with unique backer rewards. Support them to help them survive to the other side of the quarantine. As noted in our piece about the formation of the National Independent Venue Association, independent music venues are in trouble. In Nashville alone there are approximately twenty venues that are […]

Join Far Out Fest Digitally

2020 has seen a slew of festival cancellations and reshufflings; Bonnaroo moved to September, Big Ears was flat out cancelled, Record Store Day transformed into a series of drops and that’s just the very tip of the iceberg. No Country For New Nashville has an exhaustive list of those changes if you’re morbidly curious. One […]