Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising Exhibit Opening Celebration at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame

Nancy PoseyNov 17, 2025November 17, 20250

Just two hours from Music City, the pioneers of what became known as the Muscle Shoals Sound long ago gave notice to the music world that the road runs both ways. While Nashville was already a destination for aspiring musicians, by the sixties and seventies, recording artists, producers, and movers...

Of Monsters and Men at The Pinnacle

Jess GruneisenNov 13, 2025January 11, 20260

Of Monsters and Men bring a dreamlit Mouse Parade to Nashville’s Pinnacle on November 10th. The Mouse Parade drifted into Nashville on Sunday night. Painting the evening with a soft glow of colors that seemed to mimic the Northern Lights. The Icelandic band just released their new album All...

MerleFest Announces 2026 Lineup

Nancy PoseyNov 13, 2025January 11, 20260

November 11, 2025 (Wilkesboro, NC) –– MerleFest, presented by Window World, released the initial lineup for its 2026 event, to be held April 23–26 on the campus of Wilkes Community College. Fourteen-time GRAMMY winners Alison Krauss & Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas, will return to the MerleFest stage for the...

Parcels at Ascend Amphitheater

Jess GruneisenNov 4, 2025January 11, 20260

All Hallow’s Eve at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater was a perfect evening of fun costumes and a disco glow dance party. Cowboy superheroes, sad clowns, and a gaggle of minions swayed under the lights as Parcels closed out their headline run. The Australian-born, Berlin-based five-piece turned the riverside venue into a...

Norway’s Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra to Headline Dee’s on October 27

Nancy PoseyOct 25, 2025October 25, 20250

In the U.S. for a two-month fall tour, Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, an 8-piece Norwegian band, will play Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge on Monday, October 27 @ 9pm, following Kyle Tuttle at 6pm. Together for more than a decade now, the members of HBO got their start as friends playing covers....

Sam Bush and Tim O’Brien @ Harken Hall

Nancy PoseyOct 24, 2025October 24, 20250

Madison’s Harken Hall, open less than a year, may be a little off the beaten path for a Nashville area music venue, but with its lovely stone-and-wood-beamed construction and ample free parking, the hall offers an attractive and comfortable setting for live music. On Wednesday, October 22, bluegrass legends Sam...

Scorzari’s Sidereal Days (Day 1) Circles Back with New Songs from Years Past

Nancy PoseyOct 17, 20250

While working on his newest album, the first in a two-part series, singer-songwriter Bill Scorzari considered the concept of the sidereal day—a period of time about four minutes shorter than the solar day, Noting that the sidereal day is measured in relation to the earth’s position to the stars rather...

Everclear at The Caverns

Jess GruneisenOct 6, 2025January 11, 20260

Deep in the woods of Pelham, Tennessee, The Caverns turned into a natural echo chamber for a night of alt-rock nostalgia. The underground venue’s walls amplified every drum hit, chorus, and shout from the crowd. Detroit’s Sponge kicked things off with a gritty, confident set. By the third song, Glue,...

The Lumineers’ Automatic World Tour Turns Bridgestone Into a Glowing Folk Cathedral

MCMM STAFFOct 5, 2025October 5, 20250

“Ho Hey” once soundtracked my 4 a.m. drives through freezing Kansas — me and my best friend in a beat-up Chevy, half awake but alive. More than a decade later, hearing it echo through Bridgestone Arena in Nashville felt like stepping back into that memory, only bigger, louder, and wrapped...

The Rise of the Roach Tour Hits Franklin: Rage, Healing, and 2000s Rock Glory

MCMM STAFFOct 3, 2025October 3, 20250

Traffic was brutal — it seemed like every single child of the ’90s was heading to FirstBank Amphitheater — but the moment I walked in, I knew I’d made it to the right place. The Rise of the Roach Tour is a full-throttle celebration of Papa Roach’s legacy — a...

CMHOF&M Nashville Cats Program Honors Jerry Douglas

Scruggs Fest Announces 2026 Line-up

A Rainy Nashville Night with The Strumbellas