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Nashville

  • Voice Choices

    May 2, 2012

    OWN THE NIGHT

    Lady Antebellum get mushy 
at Radio City Music Hall

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Q&A: Lambchop's Kurt Wagner On Vic Chesnutt, Chopin, And How The Internet Is The Biggest Thrift Store Of All

    Kurt Wagner, ringleader of Lambchop, stops to chat with me for a few minutes outside his tour van. He's in White Plains, on his way to Philly, and he has about a cigarette break's worth of time. Thankfully, he's as verbose and animated in conversation as he is muttering, inscrutable, and downright p ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 11, 2012

    Hot Chelle Rae

    Kurt Wagner, ringleader of Lambchop, stops to chat with me for a few minutes outside his tour van. He's in White Plains, on his way to Philly, and he has about a cigarette break's worth of time. Thankfully, he's as verbose and animated in conversation as he is muttering, inscrutable, and downright p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2011

    Q&A: Pujol's Daniel Pujol On Jack White, Refusing To Be Sad And Angry, And "E-Merican Realism"

    Jonathan Kingsbury​Daniel Pujol formed Pujol about two years ago, and he has put out ten releases—singles, EPs, and full-length albums—in that short period. When Pujol (the band) isn't touring, writing or recording, Pujol (the guy) is playing the Nashville circuit with his other ba ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 2, 2011

    Drive-By Truckers

    Jonathan Kingsbury​Daniel Pujol formed Pujol about two years ago, and he has put out ten releases—singles, EPs, and full-length albums—in that short period. When Pujol (the band) isn't touring, writing or recording, Pujol (the guy) is playing the Nashville circuit with his other ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Q&A: Yelawolf Talks Dubstep, Harmony Korine, and Trunk Muzik 0-60

    Hannibal Matthews​Yelawolf began the year with the mixtape Trunk Muzik and he's wrapping up his 2010 with a major label EP, Trunk Muzik 0-60, out today. Between the internet release of his mixtape and the EP's arrival in stores, Yelawolf signed to Interscope records, toured with Wiz Khalifa, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2010

    Bob Dylan's 'Nashville Skyline' -- People Are Missing the Point!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 1, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 29 Obvious Believers by Robert Christgau I think people are missing the point of "Nashville Skyline," which is as it should be, since they were probably supposed to. The beauty of the album is that it is tota ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Peaches Hot House's Nashville-Style Hot Chicken

    ​The specialty of Peaches Hot House--the new Southern restaurant in Bed-Stuy--is the Nashville-style hot chicken, a regional dish rarely seen outside of Tennessee.

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2010

    'Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents Anders Osborne & Tab Benoit'

    ​The specialty of Peaches Hot House--the new Southern restaurant in Bed-Stuy--is the Nashville-style hot chicken, a regional dish rarely seen outside of Tennessee.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Nashville Flood Proves to Rightbloggers: Obama Hates America, White People

    Even if you don't know much about rightbloggers, you probably know that since time immemorial conservatives have blamed the nation's problems and Democratic Administrations on something called the Liberal Media. This nefarious press syndicate (of which the Village Voice is considered a charter membe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Now That Chely Wright is Out, Will Nashville Let Her Back In?

    ​That's the question posed by the New York Times, which reminds us that the country world tends to be an unforgiving place where artists are generally not allowed to be that different--or at least not to flaunt their differences so freely. But as the article also notes, Chely was an outsider ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Peaches HotHouse Is Open and Serving Nashville-Style Hot Chicken

    A couple of weeks ago, Ben Grossman and Craig Samuel opened Peaches HotHouse in Bed-Stuy. As the Feed reports, it's the sister restaurant of Peaches, Grossman and Samuel's third restaurant (after the Smoke Joint and now-defunct Little Piggy Market), and serves such Southern treasures as cornmeal fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Just for Men: Yet Another Recipe Resource Aimed at Dudes

    Dude, where's my cookbook?​It appears that male-centric recipes -- as in, the kind created by men for men -- continue to be the gimmick du jour. Last week brought news of a new testosterone-driven cooking magazine and recipe website. Now, a press release for a cookbook for men is being circula ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 19, 2010

    Robbie Fulks & Jenny Scheinman

    Dude, where's my cookbook?​It appears that male-centric recipes -- as in, the kind created by men for men -- continue to be the gimmick du jour. Last week brought news of a new testosterone-driven cooking magazine and recipe website. Now, a press release for a cookbook for men is being circula ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Nashville Scene Poll Reveals "The Mount Rushmore Of Country Music's Future"

    ​A tip of our metaphorical cowboy hat to our Nashville cohorts, who've unveiled their annual country critics' poll and further underscored the supremacy of Brad, Miranda, Taylor, and Jamey. "With Paisley and Lambert, Swift and Johnson completed the Mount Rushmore of country music's near future ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Interview: JEFF The Brotherhood's Jake Orrall on Leather Pants, the Nashville Scene, and Almost Breaking His Neck

    Bekah CopeJamin and Jake With their savage follicles and beer-soaked, bruised take on punk, Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood seem like the type of boys that would steal both your whiskey and your sister's virtue, and still earn a standing invitation to play your basement. But this might be an unfai ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 22, 2009

    Mat Kearney+Diane Birch

    Bekah CopeJamin and Jake With their savage follicles and beer-soaked, bruised take on punk, Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood seem like the type of boys that would steal both your whiskey and your sister's virtue, and still earn a standing invitation to play your basement. But this might be an unfai ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2009

    Brendan Benson

    Bekah CopeJamin and Jake With their savage follicles and beer-soaked, bruised take on punk, Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood seem like the type of boys that would steal both your whiskey and your sister's virtue, and still earn a standing invitation to play your basement. But this might be an unfai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Re-Viewing Films With Diminishing Returns

    ​Since I've already seen every movie ever made, I have to watch them all over again or I'll have chunks of unfilled time on my agenda. But in doing so, something very dispiriting happens sometimes. When I re-view movies that blew me away when I was younger, they don't always hold up! Yes, Nas ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 24, 2009

    Daryl Glenn & Jo Lynn Burks

    ​Since I've already seen every movie ever made, I have to watch them all over again or I'll have chunks of unfilled time on my agenda. But in doing so, something very dispiriting happens sometimes. When I re-view movies that blew me away when I was younger, they don't always hold up! Yes, Nas ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    Todd Snider

    ​Since I've already seen every movie ever made, I have to watch them all over again or I'll have chunks of unfilled time on my agenda. But in doing so, something very dispiriting happens sometimes. When I re-view movies that blew me away when I was younger, they don't always hold up! Yes, Nas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2009

    Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Gloriana's "Wild at Heart"

    Last week's prediction: Nothing like this again, unless iTunes wants a revolt. Sometimes, you get a real child-slavery vibe from these young, recently formed Nashville acts. From the official Gloriana bio: "We spend most of our time rehearsing and writing at our band house in Nashville. Most nigh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    New York Named Least Manly City

    The compulsive listmakers at Sperling's Best Places have come up with "America's Manliest Cities." The #1 butchtown is Nashville, and at the bottom of the list of 50 towns is New York. Nashville took the warm, sticky crown with "its high number of NASCAR enthusiasts" and "popularity of hunting and f ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    Erin McCarley

    The compulsive listmakers at Sperling's Best Places have come up with "America's Manliest Cities." The #1 butchtown is Nashville, and at the bottom of the list of 50 towns is New York. Nashville took the warm, sticky crown with "its high number of NASCAR enthusiasts" and "popularity of hunting and f ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 31, 2008

    COUNTRY GOT SOUL

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2008
  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008
  • Voice Choices

    August 5, 2008

    Lucero+Justin Townes Earle

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2008

    Country-Rap: A Secret History

    Courtesy of Lady Antebellum

  • Voice Choices

    May 13, 2008

    HILLBILLY STOMP

    North meets South at the Garden

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2007

    The CMAs: A Running Diary

    North meets South at the Garden

  • Music

    May 22, 2007

    The Clutters Don't Believe a Word

    Boppy quartet constructs a man-made Rockaway Beach in Tennessee

  • Music

    February 20, 2007

    Nashville Outcasts Don't Get as Far Out of Town as You Might Think

    Boppy quartet constructs a man-made Rockaway Beach in Tennessee

  • Film

    November 21, 2006

    A Critics' Duet on 'Nashville'

    From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    The CMA Awards: A Running Diary

    From the 'Voice' archives: Remembering Robert Altman through the words of Voice critics past

  • Music

    October 17, 2006

    Noise from the Front

    Actual audio from the Voice music section, October 25 through 31, 2006

  • Music

    August 29, 2006

    The Lush-But-Dour Duality of the Southern Thing

    Actual audio from the Voice music section, October 25 through 31, 2006

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2006

    Country Music Grapples With Race

    Actual audio from the Voice music section, October 25 through 31, 2006

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2005

    Backstage at the Country Music Awards

    Actual audio from the Voice music section, October 25 through 31, 2006

  • Music

    October 18, 2005

    Back to the Meat-and-Three

    Country folkie maps a gorgeous line from Nashville to New York

  • Music

    July 26, 2005

    Grandiose and Ascetic

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    Sons of the South Act Like Cunts Well and Get Confused Poorly

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    July 27, 2004

    Son of a Big Star Mucks Up Nashville With Murder and Puke

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    October 28, 2003

    Enemy of Nashville Shakes Texas All Night Long

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    December 17, 2002

    Crazy/Dutiful

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    April 23, 2002

    Replacement Party Tonight!

    Nashville hunks appropriate past and confuse bystanders

  • Music

    July 17, 2001

    Brand New Men

    Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

  • Music

    September 14, 1999

    Formula Racing

    Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

  • Music

    May 25, 1999

    Love and Industry

    Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

  • Music

    October 13, 1998

    Hello Dolly

    Hillbilly Hunks Cope With Changing Gender Roles

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