Thursday night was a hot one in Music City, as Americanafest continued all over town.
For us, that meant hanging out at 1 Cannery Row, whose venues — Cannery Ballroom, Mercy Lounge, The High Watt, and One — featured enough diverse musical offerings and electricity in the air to feel like its own festival within the larger scope of the city’s week-long celebration.
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After a couple weeks’ hiatus, the Daily Spinn is back!
In keeping with tradition, we’re using our New Episode Release Day (N.E.R.D.) Daily Spinn to highlight our latest guest.
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Late last year, Americana artist Katie Cole released her EP, Things That Break Pt. 1. We chatted with her about the EP, as well as her experience coming to the U.S. and working with some of the industry’s biggest names over the years.
Since then, the Melbourne, Australia native has kept quite busy. She has spent a good portion of 2019 touring Europe and then the U.S. with The Smashing Pumpkins, and accompanied frontman Billy Corgan on his solo run. All the while, she has been as tireless as ever working on her own projects.
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It’s probably a good time to mention that we’re going to be on vacation next week. So, aside from this being the last new UMC20 playlist of the month, it’s the last update period until September. We’ll hit you with the best of August when we get back the day after Labor Day.
(Don’t worry, though. We’re cooking up some fun for you while we’re gone. More on that later in the week!)
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Listening to ALew, it’s easy to recognize a young artist brimming with potential. The Pennsylvania native showcases emotive, proficient guitar work alongside an ambitious cross-section of vocal styles, with the overall mission of changing the world through musical messages of love, unity, and positivity.
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Celebrate independence this holiday week with 20 fresh tracks from another explosive array of indie artists.
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Tom Pino is a storyteller. So, when the New York native headed west for a new life in Los Angeles, the events that led him there surely provided more than enough inspiration.
That inspiration has been packaged up in Brooklyn, a five-track EP rooted in pop rock sensibility and colored in with shades of blues, roots, and Americana.
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We dial up the power with today’s Daily Spinn, featuring a commanding statement from one of Nashville’s most notable rising soul artists.
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This week’s UMC20 Spotify playlist is a spectrum on independent music wonders sure to captivate you.
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Earlier this year, we here at UMC had a chance to sit down with MICVH for an enlightening conversation about, among many other things, her debut EP, Singularity. During that conversation, she told us that the EP is a representation of “all the things that exist within me.”
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