It’s almost like Death Cab For Cutie was born to play the Ryman Auditorium. Ben Gibbard’s lapsed ...
Celebrating the End of Classes with Smallpools, Grizfolk, and Vinyl Theatre at Exit/In
At 3pm yesterday, I turned in the final assignment of my college career. Partially to celebrate and ...
I Hope I Age Like Stevie Wonder
When my mom found out Stevie Wonder was coming to Nashville, she wanted me to go so badly that she ...
Years & Years is Electrifying Britain. Next Stop, America.
Like my colleague Brandon Bout, I made sure to catch a live show over Spring Break. ...
Nate Banks’ Debut Single a Valentine’s Day Treat
Today belongs to the love songs. And with his debut single "Some People," Nate Banks has made his ...
Gentrification is taking the Music out of Music City
Nashville calls itself Music City; it’s the moniker that supposedly separates our home from ...
Rapchat: Now YOU Can Join the Underground Rap Scene
Here at WRVU, we're all about the underground music scene, whether we're introducing you to fresh ...
Nine Years Later, System of a Down Still “Mezmerizes” Me
It may be surprising to see a retrospective of a nine-year-old nu metal album on this blog, ...
Shake It Off or Take It Off (of Spotify): Interpreting Taylor Swift’s Bold Move
I'm sure by now you've all heard the news: Taylor Swift has removed all of her music from Spotify. ...
Remembering Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon
On this day nineteen years ago, four of Blind Melon's five members woke up expecting to play a show ...
Local Acts Shine at Exit/In–Monday, October 6, 2014
Exit/In is one of Nashville's most famous and beloved venues. One look above the bar at the wall of ...
Periphery @Exit/In Tonight #MetalIsMusicToo
For those of you there on that fateful afternoon in Rand almost two years ago, you remember it as ...
The Evolution of Matisyahu
Today, Vanderbilt will host its most esteemed musical visitor, excluding Rites and Quake, since ...
Kid Freud: A Rising Vandy Band
It’s rare that you find a prodigious band coming out of Vanderbilt. Vampire Weekend met at Columbia ...
A First Look at the Rites of Spring Battle of the Bands
It's that time of year again at Vanderbilt. The Student Alumni Board is passing out free shirts at ...
Rap for a Reason: A Conversation with Shadower
It's safe to say that regardless of whether or not you think Kendrick Lamar got robbed at the ...
Introducing…Your All-2000s Bad Music Squad!
I spent the majority of my spring break plastering the walls of a cinderblock building in the Puerto ...
The Case Against the Star-Spangled Banner
It's Olympics time, and that means patriotism is at a relative high here in America. So is the ...
Super Duped: The Decline of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
If you grew up a rock music fan in the first decade of the 2000s, as I did, the Red Hot Chili ...
Crafting the Contemporary Music Taste
Music is an inescapable fact of life. It streams from our computers like a waterfall; it fills the ...
Campy Music (and some other stuff)
Hey everybody, It's been one of those weekends that wasn't any sort of break from the action of ...