WNXP Podcasts

L.A.-based indie artist Hana Vu's sophomore record 'Romanticism' explores the inner workings of her mind at age 22. Working with producer Jackson Phillips ( Day Wave), Hana Vu layered synths and beats under her strong vocals and alt-grunge rock leanings on this follow-up to her acclaimed debut LP 'Public Storage.' Her tour stops in Nashville July 30.

There are legends and elders in music, and then there’s T Bone Burnett. He’s produced more than his share of historic projects over the last six decades. This year, he put that care into an album of his own. Reporter Justin Barney went to Burnett’s house to find out how the WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month keeps finding new life in old things.

Nathaniel Rateliff dropped by WNXP in advance of his band, The Night Sweats, releasing its fourth record South of Here on the Stax label out of Memphis on June 28. After performing an early album single "Heartless" solo acoustic, Rateliff sat down to talk about making this record with producer Bradley Cook, getting on top of his perfectionist-leaning anxiety, is his native Missouri the South (?) a...

The East Room opened up in 2012 in East Nashville. The independent venue has been a space for up-and-coming local and touring artists as well as a space for dance parties, theater and comedy acts. This week for What Where When-sday our special guest is Taylor Cole, talent buyer and GM of the venue. 

Aaron Frazer fell in love with soul music dancing around his living room to Michael Jackson playing on the turntable as a kid. But, in a way, his love of soul amplified thanks to hip-hop and the first CD he ever owned, Will Smith’s 1997 album Big Willie Style . Frazer got a soul education at the age of nine listening to the interpolation of “Just the Two of Us” by Bill Withers, Smith’s “Men in Bla...

In Nashville, there are more people who work in the music industry per capita than any other city in the world. It’s the perfect setting for Music Citizens, a series about the people behind the scenes who make music work.  Episode 1 is about Bruce Fitzpatrick, owner of The End. We’re doing this series at a time when independent music venues like The End are in trouble. And it’s all precariously he...

Interview: Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill

Daisha McBride was just messing around when she started posting raps from her MTSU dorm room about a decade ago, but quickly got serious about her hip-hop career. She could’ve chased trends, or a record deal. Instead, she’s learned to veer away from what doesn’t work for her while steering towards what does. The paradox is that her new project, an EP titled People Like Me , offers both the cleares...

WNXP and Nashville Public Radio are proud to announce a new podcast series about the people in the music industry who make music work: Music Citizens . Each episode will explore the behind the scenes jobs of music's working class and the folks who do them. Episode one features The End’s owner/operator Bruce Fitzpatrick, “The Lifer.” Music Citizens launches its first episode on Thursday, June 20, o...

Donald "DJ" Johnson is the percussionist for, and one third of, the Texas trio Khruangbin, which released its fourth studio LP called A La Sala in April. The band that draws inspiration from funk, soul and psychedelic rock made all across the globe is currently touring the states and playing A La Sala front-to-back. They also play Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee June 14. Hear Johns...

Saturday is 615 Day with a daytime event happening at the National Museum of African American Music, and at night, our subject for this week’s What Where When-sday: 615 Day at The Basement East. WNXP spoke with Gee Slab of Six One Tribe about the event. 

Before his show at City Winery Nashville on Monday, Terrace Martin, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, joined us to discuss when he fell in love with music, his creative process, working with Dinner Party, and what to expect from his live show on Tuesday. 

 In honor of Black Music Month, this week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Sound Makers happening throughout June at the National Museum of African American Music with Dion Brown and Noelle Taylor. 

Brother duo Hermanos Gutiérrez's second LP for Nashville-based label Easy Eye Sound is called Sonido Cósmico , which finds the instrumental guitar band leaving the desert and ascending to space thanks to their trusted blood relative synchronicity you just can't fabricate, plus the help of extra instrumentalists in Music City. Hear the conversation with Estevan and Alejandro  Gutiérrez from WNXP's...

 This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Blue June Music Fest with John Vincent III. Happening at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, the touring one-day music fest will highlight folk, Americana, roots and country through local and non-local artists from Cece Coakley, Kara Jackson, and Vincent himself. He joined us to talk about how the event came together. 

Jack Antonoff has produced albums for Taylor Swift, Lorde, St. Vincent and FKA Twigs in the past couple years, he even co-produced the most recent Kendrick Lamar diss track, but what is a Jack Antonoff album like when he is in front of the mic instead of behind the producers booth? The result is our Record of the Week on WNXP.

Mannequin Pussy is impossible to ignore. Sure, the name catches your attention immediately, but the music holds you hostage. The Philadelphia rock band combines power pop with punk to create unapologetic, in-your-face anthems. On paper, the combination shouldn’t work, but Mannequin Pussy’s latest album I Got Heaven proves time and time again that it does, weaving in and out from lush harmonies and...

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Mindful Creative “Off the Record.” Taking place at 100 Taylor on Thursday, the mix and mingle for the creative community of Nashville will be a vinyl show and tell, discussing your favorite records and the art that inspires us to create. Kaylah Symone, the founder of Mindful Creative, spoke to us about the event.

 When you hear the title of Chicano Batman's latest album, Notebook Fantasy , you might be reminded of that time in school when your imagination took you in another direction from the subject the teacher was teaching. As our minds would float off into these hopes and dreams, as young people, we would use our notebook to illustrate those ideas.  Guitarist Carlos Arevalo says it represented this tim...

Office Dog is a newer band out of Auckland, New Zealand — just now about to embark on its first U.S. tour in support of New West Records labelmates Nada Surf — born from the solo artist burnout of singer-songwriter-guitarist Kane Strang, who sought the collaboration of friends Mitchell “Mitch” Innes (drums) and Rassani “Ras” Tolovaa (bass). Office Dog’s debut record is called ‘Spiel’ and we spoke...

Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden were in their early twenties when they painted their faces for the album cover of their decade-defining album Oracular Spectacular in 2007. They were self-proclaimed psychonauts exploring the subconscious unknown though heroic doses of psychedelic drugs, looking to find what any twenty-year-old is looking for, the answers to life. And what did they find? The...

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Creative Girls Rock Expo: Broken Crayons Still In Color at Tennessee State University with founder and CEO Charmin Bates. The organization based in Nashville mission is to educate and empower young girls to utilize their creative talents in unique ways. In honor of Mental Health and Wellness Month, this Saturday they are offering a Creative Girls Roc...

Former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month Kyshona has a collaborative songwriting program called Your Song whose mission is helping people find their voices through songs, writing their story, and find healing through songwriting. On her latest album Legacy , our WNXP Record of the Week, she does just that. An album she’s been making for a decade goes back multiple generations of her family legacy...

Most bands that start in a college dorm room don’t last past graduation. Not Rainbow Kitten Surprise. The group came close to calling it quits, but its willingness to evolve has kept it going for well over a decade. Leading up to the new album “Love Hate Music Box,” R-K-S underwent profound change. Senior music writer Jewly Hight reports it’s the band’s first project since singer Ela Melo transiti...

This Saturday, the Strawberry Jubilee makes its return. Courtney Cotton oversees marketing at the Nashville Farmers Market spoke about the event and Sunday is, of course, Mother’s Day. So, if you don’t have plans yet, listen up. Nashville Public Radio’s resident foodie Rachel Iacovone is here to save the day.