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Record of the Week: Anna B Savage 'inFlux'

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2023/04/24

On her new album, in|FLUX, London-based artist Anna B Savage zigs where many musicians zag. in|FLUX is all low end. There is a clarinet, a low saxophone and what sounds like a leopard’s growl. Lean in and you might hear a chime way in the background or something unexpected altogether. Savage’s parents are singers. Both classical. On in|FLUX, her poetry is in the forefront, but from first listen the element that catches you is her voice. It’s settled and comfortably low, yet somehow it still

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Record of the Week: Wednesday 'Rat Saw God'

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2023/04/11

The band Wednesday stitch together the details of their lives with triumphant guitar riffs and tragic lap steel. They see the big by zooming into the small bits of life in and around North Carolina. Their new album is our Record of the Week, Rat Saw God. In it, Wednesday are authors of a new Southern Gothic.

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Record of the Week: The War and Treaty 'Lover's Game'

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2023/04/04

Lover’s Game, the first The War and Treaty full-length released on a major country label Mercury Nashville, the two work up naturalistic, slow-burning, piano-driven arrangements of several of their originals, songs that spill over with devotion or need or take on the relational labor of giving comfort instead of slipping into cruel indifference. The Trotters sing them with a grown-up sense of pacing and phrasing, lingering here and there on meaning that’s hard to express. Webpost

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05:28

WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Michigander

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2023/03/31

Last year was shaping up to be great for Michigander. The Michigan born, Nashville-based artist was set to release an EP It Will Never Be The Same, he’d booked his first, major headlining tour and was about to mark a career milestone with the song “Stay Out of It” entering a top ten radio chart. But a pair of life-changing accidents altered the course of his career and revealed an unexpected source of support. Webpost

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07:55

Record of the Week: The Hold Steady 'The Price of...

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2023/03/28

The Hold Steady celebrates its 20th anniversary with the release of their ninth studio album 'The Price of Progress.' Singer, songwriter and frontman Craig Finn said that recording these songs together felt like a homecoming for him and his bandmates Bobby Drake, Tad Kubler, Franz Nicolay, Galen Polivka and Steve Selvidge. After swapping song stems and lyrics remotely, the six-piece got together in Rhinebeck, New York to make a joyful noise in-studio. There, they rejoined Heavy

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08:49

Record of the Week: Caroline Polachek 'Desire, I Want...

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2023/03/14

Pop artist Caroline Polachek brings her addictive beats, synths and vocal acrobatics to Ryman Auditorium for her American tour in support of her newest LP called Desire, I Want To Turn Into You. On a February day she was preparing to play in Paris, after some show cancellations due to winter illness, Celia Gregory snagged some time Zooming with a rested-up Polachek, one of modern music’s inarguable “It Girls,” to discuss her songwriting process and multiple interpretations of the album’s

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18:07

Record of the Week: De La Soul's '3 Feet High and...

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2023/03/07

Interview with author Dan Charnas about the impact of De La Soul's 1989 debut album '3 Feet High and Rising' ahead of their catalog release on streaming services. Webpost

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WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: R.A.P. Ferreira

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2023/02/28

Rory Allen Philip Ferreira is an artist with a bit of mystery. He’s lived in eight different cities and gone by five different names. He’s never had a publicist or a PR campaign, and yet he’s been acclaimed by The New York Times and The Needle Drop and his records sell for $150 a piece. Let’s dive into the myth of our Nashville Artist of the Month, the uncompromising artist, R.A.P. Ferreira. He’s a poet of scholarly whimsy, rapping casually and poetically about Rhonin, paladin, 1950’s beat

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07:15

Record of the Week: Sunny War 'Anarchist Gospel'

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2023/02/14

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Sydney Ward, known as Sunny War, says there are two sides of her. One of them is very self-destructive and the other is trying to work with the other half to keep things balanced. From a devastating break-up and the loss of her father, the conflict of pain and preserving, the balance between a break-up album and an uplifting project, this became the theme for her fourth album Anarchist Gospel. Webpost

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06:49

Record of the Week: White Reaper 'Asking For A Ride'

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2023/02/07

One of the first singles released from the long-time-coming 4th LP of Louisville, Kentucky band White Reaper, called Asking For A Ride, was the track “Pink Slip,” which laments: “Hard to believe us when we grow up so slow.” Sure, the eternal youth modeled and perpetuated by a thrashy, bratty, moshy rock band is alluring in even the best of times and we can all agree the times since their last record, 2019’s You Deserve Love, have been anything but “best.” It would be easy and forgivable to

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WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Samia

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2023/01/31

On Honey, Samia’s second solo album, the indie singer-songwriter has actually refined and defined her voice by venturing away from that sort of certainty. By envisioning how differently someone else might have perceived an interaction and letting her questions for them hang in the air, she’s subtly enlarged the scope of her songs. Senior music writer Jewly Hight spoke with her about choosing that approach, and a number of other decisions she made on her way to this point, beginning with

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Record of the Week: R.A.P. Ferriera '5 To The Eyes...

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2023/01/30

Being good at talking is what makes R.A.P. Ferreira, full name, Raury Allan Phillip Ferreira a great rapper. “5 to the Eye with Stars” is a line Ferreira lifted from vocalese master Kurt Elling. Five to the eye is a knockout punch. Like Elling, you might call Ferreira’s artform vocalese. Bending words into abstraction, using context clues to fill in the details, landing a syllable in an unpredictable way is the through line of Ferreira’s work. Webpost

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Record of the Week: Adeem the Artist 'White Trash...

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2023/01/24

Adeem the Artist’s 2021 album Cast Iron Pansexual, rendered with shaggy charm and a mixture of DIY and old-time string band sensibilities, was celebrated within the coalescing community of queer roots music devotees. They brought their strengths and insights together more fully on White Trash Revelry, a collection of keenly knowledgeable and arresting songwriting delivered over spirited, full-band arrangements with a charisma that can feel needling, mischievous or vulnerable. Webpost

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