Category: Concert

Rip Gerber Teams with Zoë Barry for an Unstoppable Mix of Love, Loss, and High-Speed Thrills in “Limited Speed”

Nashville has never been short on storytellers, but few blend grit and glamour as seamlessly as Rip Gerber. His latest single, Limited Speed, takes listeners on a high-octane journey through the push-and-pull of a love moving at mismatched tempos, joined by professional race car driver Zoë Barry for the ride. In a city where slow-burn […]

August 8, 2025
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Orchid in the Ivy releases a punk rock cover of “Beds Are Burning” in a world grappling with change

Orchid in the Ivy’s punk rock cover of the Midnight Oil classic “Beds Are Burning” could not have come at a better time, in light of ongoing global dynamics, despite coming nearly four decades after the original. “The song explores the challenges Aboriginal Australians have faced, including the loss of land linked to developments such […]

August 7, 2025
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Long Live the Thing

Netflix syndrome. Most of us suffer from it, even if we’ve never heard of it. It’s the phenomenon of spending massive amounts of time scrolling through online content, trying to choose what you want to watch. But rather than making a decision, you become frustrated and overwhelmed, settling on watching something you don’t really want […]

August 6, 2025
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THE ARTIST

One evening in the spring of 1985, as we were preparing our second issue (having, initially, seriously, forgotten we had to do that, so were now scrambling), I walked into Art Director George DuBois’s office and he was talking to a skinny, fresh-faced young man. “Look at these,” said George, handing me some paintings. I […]

August 6, 2025
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Now Hear This: Aug. 2025

Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography.  Photo Courtesy of Hog Ryder […]

August 5, 2025
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Have a Safe ‘Trip’

In 1953, renowned author and notorious drug experimentalist William S. Burroughs made a trip to the Amazon rainforest on a quest for yagé, a name for the plant Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as ayahuasca. “This is not the chemical lift of C, the sexless horribly sane stasis of junk, the vegetable nightmare of peyote, or […]

August 5, 2025
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