Adam Faucett performs “Come Down To Sparkman” at 12th and Porter during SoundLand. Video produced by Gold Sounds Entertainment. Shot by Patrick Ritchie and Houston Mathews. Edited by Houston Mathews.

Photo highlights from Nashville’s SoundLand Music Festival, featuring Justin Townes Earle, Ghostland Observatory, The Low Anthem, Jason Isbell and more.

    Photo highlights from Nashville’s SoundLand Music Festival, featuring Those Darlins, JEFF The Brotherhood, Jessica Lea Mayfield and many more.

(Yes, yes, y’all: Yelawolf comes to SoundLand) If you were to ask the folks at Next BIG Nashville’s SoundLand, they would agree: This is the first time the festival has ever had a great hip hop show on the schedule. Not that there haven’t been great hip hop acts – Memphis’ Skewby and Huntsville, AL’s [...]

Everyone remembers Next BIG Nashville right? Of course you do (see our our great mini-documentary from 2010 if you need a refresher). Well it appears graduation day is this coming September, as the event has now been billed “NBN presents: SoundLand 2011,” and it’s shaping up to be even more awesome than we originally thought. [...]

Nashville’s Soundland, brought to you by the producers of Next Big Nashville, has announced the lineup for their inaugural event. Among the amazing acts topping the bill are M. Ward, Dawes, Ghostland Observatory, Justin Townes Earle, and JEFF the Brotherhood. Also on hand will be Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Caitlin Rose, Jessica Lea [...]

And now something completely different. This September, the organizers of the popular music conference Next BIG Nashville will debut SoundLand, a four-day extravaganza boasting “music, art, field trips, and fun.” There will also be music business panels and artist-lead workshops. Participating artists will be announced shortly, but will include a healthy sampling of local talent [...]

Kurt Allison lost more than $70,000 worth of gear in the Nashville flood of 2010. The lead guitarist for Jason Aldean’s band had more than 10 guitars – not to mention a wealth of amps and some pedal boards – stored at Soundcheck Nashville, a music gear storage facility close to the Cumberland River that [...]

On Wednesday in Nashville, the digital marketing agency Rockhouse Partners, which has helped a host of clients like the Nashville Predators, Ryman Auditorium, Next BIG Nashville, and Churchill Downs with digital marketing, brand activation and sponsorships, announced that their company would be acquired by the Raleigh-based ticketing company Etix. One of Rockhouse’s partners, Kevin Brown, [...]

Chris Stapleton of The Jompson Brothers came by our offices on Music Row to discuss Next Big Nashville, the benefits of air conditioning, the birth of his new band, and what it’s like to be a musician in this town’s current musical climate. Born in the garage and built for the arena, The Jompson Brothers [...]

Photo by Matt Elam Tallest Trees, who recently starred in our Next BIG Nashville Mini Documentary and are also featured in the new Nashville-centric Nylon Magazine spread, had much more to say about music in Music City than we had room for in our festival re-cap video. In the complete interview below, Thomas Samuel and [...]

Ernest Greene, who goes by the moniker Washed Out, is from rural Georgia, but a little over a year ago he put some music up on his MySpace page and it got noticed by a few important blogs and music websites. Blending dance and disco samples with psyched-out, druggy vocal harmonies, the songs eventually turned [...]