WNXP Podcasts

Jasmine.4.t’s album, “You Are The Morning” is so much more than a debut album and our Record of the Week. Behind the record, is a story that includes getting ripped off by a promoter in Bristol, a happenstance booking, journeying through self-actualization, being embraced by Boygenius, and making a historic recording in one of the United State’s most famous studios.

This week for What Where When-sday we discuss Nashville’s newest venue, The Pinnacle, opening Thursday night with Kacey Musgraves. We discuss different elements of the space — including parking. 

After songs like “Mirage” and “Dirty Dancer” saw huge streaming numbers, Orion Sun landed herself on countless “artists to watch” lists, and her debut was one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2024. The 14-song collection exceeded expectations and garnered the LA-based R&B artist fans across the globe. With her sensual delivery of vulnerable topics like heartbreak and self-discovery,...

"The things that were so scary in life just become a part of it." Finding peace in every day's horrors is the theme of Bartees Strange's wonderful new album, Horror which is our Record of the Week on WNXP.

It’s not just because the late Ted Lucas shared a hometown with Third Man Records co-founder and co-owner Ben Blackwell that the Detroit native became obsessed with reviving Lucas’ music. But that surely sweetened the pot. The one and only solo LP by Lucas, self-titled and from 1975, is re-released on vinyl and with digital extra tracks on February 21. We learned more about the artist and these so...

Liberia-born, Tennessee-based artist Mon Rovîa began his career making music more adjacent to alternative R&B. But it was after he stripped his songs back to a simple, binary presentation of voice and ukulele, that his music began connecting deeply via livestreams on TikTok. Fans and big time influencers were drawn to his meditative melodies and spiritually inquisitive, often uplifting lyrics....

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Requiem for Colour , a musical, literary and visual journey happening at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Belmont University this Tuesday. 

The synth-tastic indie rock quintet called New Translations (formerly known as Jive Talk) formed in Nashville by way of the chemical reaction of old friends combined with new acquaintances and a heavy dose of eastside bar magic, tale as old as time. They’ve since signed with local label War Buddha (led by two members of country rock trio The Cadillac Three) and recorded the majority of these new t...

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss a panel discussion and musical performance celebrating Nashville soul singer Johnny Bragg happening at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday. 

Our Record of the Week is from Freak Slug, which is the musical identity of Xenya Genovese. Her album, "I Blow Out Big Candles" is effortless, catchy and honestly, just a really fun time. She will be in Nashville playing at The Blue Room on March 18th.

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss the National Museum of African American Music’s Black History Month programming happening throughout the month of February. 

Recording artist Neko Case -- with more than a quarter-century as a solo artist and as a member of The New Pornographers -- has just published her memoir, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You . Hear Case in conversation with Celia Gregory about the book. A new full-length album is expected later this year.

British funk group Cymande’s journey to Renascence has multiple different layers. From a successful debut album in 1972. Going on an extended hiatus only a couple of years later and a rediscovery of their music thanks to the early stages of hip hop with breakbeats and samples. Cymande returned with their first album in 41 years back in 2015 and now they’ve returned with a new album Renascence, thi...

English Teacher’s highly anticipated LP This Could Be Texas is a perfect debut, even earning the esteemed Mercury Prize. The Leeds quartet held little to nothing back across the 13 song collection. With piano refrains, guitar riffs and poetic lyrics, the album defies genre, toeing the lines of post-punk and indie-prog and everything in between. It’s expansive and sonically spacious without feeling...

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss 615 Indie Live happening this Saturday at various independent music venues across Nashville with Chris Cobb, the president of Music Venue Alliance Nashville . 

Dublin four-piece SPRINTS lives up to their band name with their frenetic, garage-punk sound. The fast-paced energy of their music is equally matched by frontwoman Karla Chubb’s intense lyricism. The band’s debut full length Letter To Self “transforms pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength.” Chubb tackles issues like bodily autonomy, mental health and social injustice...

The core members of NYC band Rubblebucket, Alex Toth and Kal Traver, joined us to talk about their seventh LP, 'Year of the Banana,' which is WNXP's Record of the Week the same week the group returns to Nashville on tour.

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss the Echo Chamber Music Series at the Parthenon . It’s happening this Sunday with Sista Strings, followed by two more shows in February and March. 

British singer-songwriter and guitarist Nilüfer Yanya released her third LP, My Method Actor , in September of 2024 and it made loads of reputed Best of the Year lists come December. We caught up with the artist on tour in October and discussed the record’s symbolism, her continued collaboration with producer Will Archer, her fandom of PJ Harvey and more. Now it’s WNXP’s Record of the Week.

The British-born, Nashville-based artist Yola has a new EP called My Way. That’s a fitting title for the work of a singer and songwriter who’s resisted labels that others have put on her throughout her career. WNXP’s Marquis Munson talked with the Nashville Artist of the Month about showing another side of herself musically. 

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — with celebrations happening at Schermerhorn Symphony Center this weekend and the National Museum of African American Music on Monday. But this week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Nashville MLK Day with different events happening today through Monday. Cheryl Mayes is part of the planning committee.

Intense emotion expressed through slamming guitars is the hallmark of Ok Cowgirl's new album, "Couldn't Save Us From My Gut," our Record of the Week on WNXP. We caught up with lead singer Leah Lavigne on a porch in East Nashville to talk about it.

This week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Woven Nashville: An Evening of Music, Art, and Conversation hosted by Chuck Beard and Jason Eskridge happening tomorrow at the Frist Art Museum with special guest singer-songwriter Shannon LaBrie and host of WPLN's This is Nashville Khalil Ekulona. 

Magdalena Bay is an imaginative duo from LA who released “Imaginal Disk” an album chalked full of wild production and smooth beats that ended up on many End of the Year lists, including ours. Our Record of the Week is "Imaginal Disk" by Magdalena Bay.

Live music this week ranges from R&B with Eric Roberson at City Winery to a collection of artists at the Blue Room for Juanaroo and Mollaplooza. For more events, head over to WNXP.org/events . But this week for What Where When-sday , we discuss Sound Journey featuring Kayce Laine happening at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.