The Nashville Scene Podcast

In our 24th episode — the final episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Andrew Leeper, Tom Johnstone and Will Minkoff of Nashville Severe Weather. As outlined in Scene reporter Hannah Herner’s recent cover story , NSWX has been tracking severe and winter weather events in Davidson and Williamson counties for a little more than 15 years. In this epi...

In our 23rd episode — the fifth episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Scene arts editor Laura Hutson Hunter, along with Daniel Jones of OZ Arts and Kindling Arts. For the latest Scene cover story , Laura spoke with several Nashville artists and arts organizations about how federal funding cuts are affecting their operations and outlook. In this e...

In our 22nd episode — the fourth episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by local media personality Big Fella to talk about Juneteenth. Expanding on a conversation Big Fella recently had with Scene arts editor Laura Hutson Hunter , we chat about the history of Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, as well as the details of this year’s Juneteenth...

In our 21st episode — the third episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene associate editor Logan Butts and the Belcourt Theatre’s Stephanie Silverman and Allison Inman to talk about the historic arthouse theater’s 100th anniversary. As with our recent cover package on the Belcourt , we get into the theater’s rich history as well as ho...

In our 19th episode — the first episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene reporter and Williamson Scene managing editor Nicolle S. Praino and state Rep. Harold Love (D-Nashville) to talk about this year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly. Rep. Love speaks with us about which bills did and didn’t pass at the Capitol ( much of...

In our 19th episode — the first episode of our fourth season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by longtime Scene contributor Chris Chamberlain, as well as Olivia Britton, executive director of the Music City Food and Wine Festival. In the episode, we talk about our Food & Drink issue, which features 48 classic Nashville dishes, from fish and chips to banana splits. We a...

In our 18th episode — the sixth and final episode of our third season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Lorenzo Washington and Karen Coffee of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum to talk about the enduring legacy of their historic North Nashville neighborhood. The museum, which was founded in 2011, will celebrate its Third Annual Lorenzo Washington Gala on Thursday, April...

In our 17th episode — and the fifth episode of our third season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by comedian and artist Josh Black, whose exhibit No Love Lost is currently on display at Julia Martin Gallery in Wedgewood-Houston . Black talks with us about Nashville’s art and comedy scenes, his decision to relocate to Chicago later this year and more. Follow Jerome Moore on...

In our 16th episode — and the fourth episode of our third season — co-host D. Patrick Rodgers is joined by Scene reporter (and Williamson Scene managing editor) Nicolle S. Praino and Scene reporter Eli Motycka to talk about last week’s special session of the state legislature. (Sadly, co-host Jerome Moore was under the weather when we recorded this one.) In the rapid-fire session, called by Gov. B...

In our 15th episode — and the third episode of our third season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by musician Saaneah, who’s featured in this week’s issue . In the issue, our annual Country Music Almanac , we also speak with Fancy Hagood and poll our critics on what’s happening on the country landscape . With Saaneah, we talk about her contribution to Alice Randall’s My Bla...

In our 14th episode — and the second episode of our third season — co-host Jerome Moore and Scene managing editor Alejandro Ramirez are joined by poet and organizer Ciona Rouse. As Alejandro wrote in a recent feature , despite Nashville’s thriving poetry scene, Nashville doesn’t have a poet laureate. We talk about that, local poetry events, our most active poets and more. Follow Jerome Moore on In...

In our 13th episode — and the first episode of our third season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Scene music editor Stephen “Goose” Trageser to talk about our Year in Music issue . We cover our Top Local Albums Critics’ Poll (or maybe the “Top Albums From Locally Based Artists Poll”), our chat with cover star Brittany Howard and more. Follow Jerome Moore on Instagram (...

In our 12th episode — and the final episode of our second season — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by M. Simone Boyd and the Rev. Dr. Margreat Smithson to discuss the new podcast We Are North Nashville . Boyd is a local storyteller, artist, activist and occasional Scene contributor , and Rev. Smithson serves the congregation at Watson Grove Baptist Church. With We Are North...

In the fifth episode of our second season — and our 11th episode overall — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene associate editor Cole Villena and Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell to talk about transit. As noted in our Aug. 22 cover package “Your Move, Nashville,” Davidson County voters will vote yes or no on “Choose How You Move” in November. The proposed $3....

In the fourth episode of our second season — and our 10th episode overall — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene contributor Margaret Littman to discuss this week’s cover story, “Venues of Their Own: Meet Music City’s Women-Run Venues.” Also joining us are sisters Lauren and Kendall Morales, whose business TomKats Hospitality is behind Acme Feed & Seed and...

In the third episode of our second season — and our ninth episode overall — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by author and Nashville Scene contributor Betsy Phillips to discuss her new book, Dynamite Nashville: Unmasking the FBI, the KKK, and the Bombers Beyond Their Control . Betsy discusses the work as a Scene columnist that led her to writing the book, the far-reaching im...

In the second episode of our second season — and our eighth episode overall — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene reporter Eli Motycka to discuss this week’s cover package , which is all about the state, federal and local elections on Aug. 1. Aside from one Metro Nashville Public Schools board seat , the Davidson County general elections are all but decided,...

The Nashville Scene Podcast is back for Season 2! In the first episode of our second season — and our seventh episode overall — co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers are joined by Nashville Scene/Nashville Post reporter Hannah Herner and Nashville Scene/The News reporter and photographer Hamilton Matthew Masters to discuss our June 27 cover story, “Turning the Corner: Second Avenue Reckons...

In the sixth episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast , co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers speak with contributor Brittney McKenna about the third and final installment in her three-part series , “The Other Nashville.” Over the past year, Brittney has checked in with members of Nashville’s unhoused community — as well as outreach workers like The Beat’s Darrin Bradbury — to find out what l...

In the fifth episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast , co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers speak with staff reporters Hannah Herner, Kelsey Beyeler and Hamilton Matthew Masters about this year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly. As the legislative session winds toward its close, we speak about bills that have been filed related to abortion, education, vaccines, culture-war issues,...

In the fourth episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast , co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers speak with staff reporters Kelsey Beyeler and Eli Motycka about ongoing protests at Vanderbilt University. As we’ve covered heavily in recent weeks,  pro-Palestinian activism on campus this semester has been met with bureaucratic opposition . That came to a head in late March, when a sit-in at Kirkl...

The third episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast is another two-parter. In our opening segment, co-hosts Jerome Moore and D. Patrick Rodgers speak with former Scene reporter — and current Nashville Banner reporter — Steven Hale about his book Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber . Out March 26, Death Row Welcomes You centers on the community of advocates Ha...

How much surveillance power will Nashville give its police? What’s a license plate reader? What’s Fusus? How much are Nashvillians already being watched? In the second episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast — co-hosted by Scene editor-in-chief D. Patrick Rodgers and Deep Dish Conversations host Jerome Moore — staff reporter Eli Motycka joins us to talk about this week’s cover story. In his story —...

What's a neighborhood association? Why do they form? How do they affect things like housing density and "quality of life"? In the first episode of the Nashville Scene Podcast — co-hosted by Scene editor-in-chief D. Patrick Rodgers and Deep Dish Conversations host Jerome Moore — contributor Nicole Williams joins us to speak about this week's cover story. In her story, "Gatekeeping the Neighborhood,...