WNXP Podcasts

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Analog at the Hutton Hotel with Director of Programming Meredith Dimenna. Located on West End Ave, Analog provides an intimate space for artists and songwriters to engage and interact with their audience, giving them an up-close and personal experience while also featuring recurring events from Super Felon, Southern Rounds, and Analog Soul on Sundays...

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss a booze-free option to bring in the new year with Stephanie Styll, owner of Killjoy, Nashville’s first booze-free beverage shop in the Wedgewood-Houston area. Killjoy will host A NYE PARTY at The Eastsider and she joined me to discuss the event and how the idea for the shop came together. 

This week for What Where When-sday , we (WNXP's Marquis Munson and WPLN's Rachel Iacovone) set out to show you a different side to the holiday pop-up scene. Yes, we've compiled them all in our interactive map below, but the places we stopped on our personal bar crawl were away from the downtown rooftops, all offered food and were two-out-of-three family friendly.

Late last year, the Nashville hip-hop collective Six One Tribe released its first album and put on its first real show. Senior music writer Jewly Hight says that was just the prelude to the group’s incredibly productive 2023. She went back to TRIBE headquarters to get the rundown on what the former Nashville Artist of the Month accomplished over the last 12 months. Webpost

In 2021, Nashville-based Megan Piphus made headlines, when she became the first Black woman puppeteer on Sesame Street. That led to another big milestone: her first album, “Spaceships & Dreams.” Senior music writer Jewly Hight says that , too, is a head-turning project, a hip-hop kids album with a colorful cast of guests. Webpost

This past spring, Nashville artist Corook had an emotional day — then put on a green frog shaped bucket hat, spent 10 minutes writing a silly song, uploaded 50 seconds of it to TikTok and changed their life. The comments on the video, now viewed more than 19 million times continually say how wonderful it is to see someone who is so authentic and fun. But Corook says that for them to figure out who...

On The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Chappell Roan balances piano ballads about leaving home to achieve her dreams and lusting to meet an ex with outright bangers about the joy of starting a little drama on a Saturday night and ditching basic dudes for super-ultra-modern-girls like herself. Webpost

It’s been a big year for Nashville’s non-country music scene from the triumphant return of emo powerhouses Paramore to the rabid response to indie queen Mitski. But there’s only one artist who’s racked up a billion combined streams on a single song. Stephen Sanchez tapped into a multi-generational audience with the throwback sound of “Until I Found You.” It was a hit on the radio, YouTube, and yes...

Chicago-based quartet Deeper is currently touring in support of their third full length and our Record of the Week Careful! WNXP’s Celia Gregory spoke with the band when they stopped in Nashville earlier this month. The 13-track album marks Deeper’s debut on the revered indie label Sub Pop and demonstrates a wow-worthy evolution of their already tight sound. While the post-punk outfit calls to min...

Laetitia Tamko’s speaking voice is as sultry and instantly soothing as her singing voice, and that’s saying something. Connecting with me via Zoom from Paris, where she was touring with Arlo Parks, the artist who makes music as Vagabon greeted WNXP’s Celia Gregory smiling, seated in the borrowed bedroom of a friend’s child. It was just days after the release of her third LP Sorry I Haven’t Called,...

Some of Tré Burt’s earliest musical memories are from watching “The Temptations” television miniseries, and listening to recording artists like Prince, Michael Jackson, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, War, and Bobby DeBarge. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter especially cherishes those musical moments because he was able to share them with his grandfather Tommy Burt, who was the inspiration for Tré’s...

On this album, The Window , Ratboys recruited one of most sought after producers in indie rock, Chris Walla. He produced breakthrough records like The Decemberists’ The Crane Wife , Tegan and Sara’s The Con , and both Transatlanticism and Plans for his former band, Death Cab For Cutie. Walla’s touch on The Window maximizes the ten years of Ratboys coming together to make the transformative album o...

It was big news when the founder of Rolling Stone magazine spelled out his view that the musical geniuses are white men, and artists who happen to be Black or women don’t have much to say that’s worth hearing. Allison Russell is one Black woman whose artistry and activism is taken seriously, and after last week’s Americana Music Awards, she has the trophy to show it. She’s also WNXP’s Nashville Ar...

Brooklyn-based trio Nation of Language has referred to their new full-length record as one for the emotional “wayfarer.” They elaborated on the theme that pervades their third LP Strange Disciple and connects its ten robust, synth-forward tunes.

Jalen Ngonda has described his music as modern soul and R&B, while trying to fit the Beach Boys and the Beatles somewhere in between. The DC-born, London-based singer-songwriter’s music could sound like a call back to the days of Motown and Stax Records and you can hear those elements on his debut album Come Around and Love Me . But it wasn’t digging through crates or going through his parents...

On “Over and Over,” the first single released from Becca Mancari’s Left Hand , they relive an important, early phase as a queer and gender expansive person: They call back to the youthful disregard and fleeting bravado felt after they escaped the rejection of the religious world in which they were raised, found a new home in chosen family and an uninhibited way of presenting themselves. With longt...

Nashville band Snõõper’s debut LP is not a concept record preaching the gospel of exercise. But the group does punch above their weight. Having formed just three years ago, the first songs and videos born out of COVID infections and forced off-work time for singer Blair Tramel and guitarist Connor Cummins, they’ve landed incredible opening slots and generated loads of hype for a new band, here and...

Back in the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet frenetically tuneful punk sneered at the trappings of adulthood with snottily on-the-nose wit. After a 15-year hiatus, the second lineup reunited and recorded Mommy , a nervy new album, funkier, keener and muscular than any of BYOP’s previous work. Webpost

After a collection of mixtapes starting in 2012 with The Mickstape , Mick Jenkins released his breakout project The Water[s] , prequel to his third mixtape Trees & Truths. Despite releasing bodies of work dating back to those collections of mixtapes, EPs, and albums from The Healing Component and Pieces of a Man . It was after his third album Elephant in the Room where he knew something had to...

The Age of Pleasure is that “paradise found,” where she can, and does, love quite freely. “We’re in the Age of Pleasure baby, the Age of Pleasure,” Monáe reinstates to me over Zoom. On her last album, Dirty Computer , Monáe’s alter-ego Jane 57821 led a group of Black femme dissidents who broke free from The New Order, the totalitarian group of oppressors, and now they are living and loving in the...

The bulk of Bully, the musicial monkier of Alicia Bognanno, fourth full-length LP Lucky For You serves as “one big love song to” 80-pound Shepherd-Husky mix named Mezzi. So when Mezzi passed away last year it upended Bognanno. It’s still a characteristically loud collection of tunes drenched in distorted guitars but it also captures the tenderness Bognanno felt and still feels now in Mezzi’s absen...

Plenty of other artists have communicated significant matters through name changes this century. (Think: ANOHNI shedding Antony for a name that aligns with her identity as a trans woman; The Chicks distancing themselves from a regional term that romanticizes the old, segregated South; Yasiin Bey retiring the moniker Mos Def in favor of owning his personal evolution and conversion to Islam.) Lo Nau...

Bonny Doon’s new record Let There Be Music is our Record of the Week. It’s a sunshiny record, dare I say breezy with its “ohh sha laa laa”s and “nah nah nah nah”s. It’s a cold beer on a hot day kind of record. It’s as comforting as a worn-in porch chair. It an album that is decidedly happy and sounds like a group of friends who are relaxed and comfortable in their identity as a band. Webpost

Before Palehound released “The Clutch,” a rippin’ rock song and the first single off of their new LP, Eye On The Bat , we’d most recently heard the vocals and elevated guitar work of El Kempner as one half of the duo Bachelor. Kempner teamed up with Melina Duterte of Jay Som to form the supergroup and deliver the stand-out 2021 record Doomin’ Sun . But just as the recording of Doomin’ Sun was fini...

Michael is Killer Mike’s most personal and vulnerable album to date — an audio biography of the nine-year-old Michael Render on the album cover, a boy with a halo and devil horns over this head dreaming about being an emcee and the challenges he would have to go through to get there. From drug dealing in Atlanta on the song “Something for Junkies” to saying his mother, Denise, was dead for the fir...