Oscar Lindsey – Sunshine Tour
You’re my fire / You’re my muse, opens the title track of Oscar Lindsey’s new album, his voice bare, vulnerable and wistful. You’re everything. The harmonica whines. Stakes are set. All that I could lose. Lindsey sees the songs on ‘Sunshine’ as a seminal push into adulthood, describing the collection as “every phase of an early-twenty-something’s fucked-up love story.” Those opening lines relay a lesson hard-learned. To love something so wholly that you fear its end—it’s an internal war we all wage at some point. And Lindsey is no stranger to battling his own brain, “especially when it comes to making decisions,” he says. “I have a me who’s looking out for me, and another me who’s sabotaging my life.” ‘Sunshine’ is less an embodiment of its namesake than a plea for light. Lindsey wrote much of it during Nashville’s historic 2026 ice storm, which exploded transformers across the city, wreaked havoc across the landscape, and left residents in the frigid dark for nearly two weeks. Lead single “Metal Through Her Lips”—a standout track hailed by Ones To Watch as “a complex and entirely captivating work of art” which rapidly racked up more than a million streams—emerged from that odd and trying moment of mandatory hibernation. “I wrote the song in a hotel lobby,” shares Lindsey. “So I had to sing really quietly.” He was going through a breakup, a swirl of interpersonal volatility underscored by natural disaster. He penned his struggles into vivid poetry—She puts ink on her skin, blowin’ sugar in the wind, tastes like cinnamon / She invests her time like a bank credit line that pays her dividends—and enlisted local friends to record upright bass, harmonium, and trumpets. The result is a vibrantly spirited song, spun from a moment that otherwise seemed rather dead. Lindsey descends from a long line of formidable songwriters. His grandfather’s name is listed in the discographies of Pirates of the Mississippi and The Byrds, while stars like Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift count Lindsey’s parents as collaborators. “I never felt like I had a different childhood,” he says, considering the hitmaking backdrop of his home life. “I was exposed to a lot of music, but it just felt normal to me. I think when you’re young, you look at what your parents do and you’re like, oh, that’s so lame, just because they’re your parents.” Though he’s grateful for their influence in retrospect, Lindsey looked outside his parents’ catalog for inspiration in those formative years. “Around age fourteen, I was completely obsessed with Bo Burnham. I learned all his songs on piano—that was how I started to play.” Lindsey, though articulate, leans far less on verbosity than Burnham. The very sound of his voice, an evocative tenor, does most of the telling—bright and bending at the edges, an earnest wobble at the center, occasionally resolving into an endearing mumble. He sings with an emotional purity reminiscent of indie rock icons like Ben Kweller and Alex G. From gritty indie romps to fragile ruminations, cathartic melancholia to cheeky bops, Oscar Lindsey’s fifth full-length glows with warmth. “Sunshine was what I wanted most in those cold dark winter days when I was writing these songs,” he says. And with this album, he created it for himself—and for us.
River City Rejects Record Release
You know ’em – you love ’em — but not this record, YET! Come celebrate the release of your favorite hardcore street punks’ new record.
The Hooligans Holiday Fest
Proceeds to benefit Moving Veterans Forward
Kaylee Rose
Kaylee Rose is a bold Nashville-based singer-songwriter who has a unique style that blends many sounds across the musical spectrum. She is blazing her own trail as an independent artist, passing over 50 million streams, and gaining over 2 million followers on social media. She is recognized by Meta as one of their top creators, recently surpassing over 1 million followers on Facebook. She brings her brand of high-energy country music to every performance, from solo acoustic gigs to full-band shows and has opened for established country artists such as Morgan Wallen and Kip Moore.
Evandale’s Ugly Sweater Party!
ABOUT EVANDALE: Unapologetically loud, undeniably authentic, and built for the stage, Evandale brings rock ’n roll back to its roots with a modern edge. Fueled by thunderous drums, gritty guitar riffs, soaring vocals, and massive three-part harmonies, the Omaha-based hard rock band combines infectious hooks with an explosive, high-energy sound. Since forming in 2017, the award-winning band has established itself as a force in the Midwest rock scene, sharing stages with national acts including Poison, Buckcherry, Dirty Honey, Pop Evil, and Black Stone Cherry. With a growing catalog of anthemic originals and an electrifying live show, Evandale proves that authentic rock ’n roll is alive and well. ABOUT OF THE SKIES: Hailing from Omaha, NE, and signed to Good Life Records, Of The Skies delivers a powerful fusion of modern hard rock and alternative metal that balances crushing heaviness with atmospheric depth. Thunderous drums, driving guitars, and haunting screams collide with celestial vocals, immersive synths, and textured melodies to create a sound both punishing and ethereal. Blurring the lines between aggression and ambience, Of The Skies crafts a sonic experience that is as emotionally captivating as it is relentlessly heavy.
The BlindEye Electric Jamboree with Smokebreak
Ninth Key
Ninth Key is the collaborative project between platinum-certified songwriter, producer, and artist Joshua Landry (Lø Spirit) and acclaimed hip-hop artist Ekoh. Rooted in the emotional intensity of early-2000s nu metal and alternative rock, the duo reimagines the era’s unmistakable energy through a modern lens. Melding massive guitars, cinematic production, vulnerable lyricism, and hip-hop influences into a sound that feels both nostalgic and unmistakably current. Drawing inspiration from the records that defined a generation, Ninth Key captures the raw emotion, angst, and catharsis that made the genre timeless. Their music bridges the worlds of rock and hip-hop with soaring choruses, hard-hitting verses, and deeply personal storytelling that speaks to listeners navigating identity, loss, mental health, and resilience. At its core, Ninth Key leverages nostalgia as a reminder to reconnect with what matters most. In a world where algorithms shape identity and self worth, online personas now overshadow authentic human connection. The project challenges listeners and music culture itself to rediscover its roots and remind us of who we are beyond a screen. It’s a call to rediscover real relationships, real emotions, and embrace the imperfect moments that make us who we are.
Alex Cameron
I. In New York City on his thirteenth birthday, planes fell from the sky and crashed into the World Trade Center. This had nothing to do with Alex Cameron. He wasn’t there. He was in Australia. By the time the planes hit, it wasn’t even 9/11 anymore. It was 9/12. This has been the secret rhythm of his art. One day ahead of a most terrible, but inevitable truth. II. Alex Cameron’s new album is called “Late to Set.” “Late to Set” was born of 9 forgotten long form screenplays written between the year 2022 and 2025. Rejected by the studios, lost to the LA wildfires, the charred remains fragmented and saved in songs of deep confusion and regret. III. “Late to Set” is Al’s fifth album. Production credits include Mark Perkins, Zach Dawes and Maxim Ludwig among others. IV. Al once told me that a lie is never funny, but the truth is always funny. V. The album was completed on an avocado ranch in California after LA started burning in January 2025. VI. This is the world our fathers feared. “What a joy!” says Al. VII. The dissection of art is murder. Vivisection is the dissection of something while it’s still alive. You do that to something you don’t believe has a soul. VIII. REDACTED IX. Some lines, couplets and quatrains “I put on a tonne of weight/For a role I didn’t get/Aye/Now I’m always late for set” “You 3D print a guillotine/And then you tear the statue down” “Every puddle needs a drop of rain/Everybody needs a little pain” “I ordered a hooker to my home/And I yelled at my family/I have seen the childhood drain/From my own son’s face” “Jesus never had no doctor/He never had Covid-19/He never voted for Obama/And he never had no vaccine” “I’ve been selling your location for cash” “I am a violent man” X. I once read a book called Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham. It’s about the differences between bonobos and chimpanzees. If you throw an empty cardboard box into a room full of bonobos, they’ll all fuck each other silly and generously share the box. If you throw that same box into a room full of chimps, they’ll kill and kill and kill until the last one gets the box. We share 99% of our DNA with both. Al once told me that a lie is never funny, but the truth is always funny.
Tyler Anthony
Left of the Dial
A night of covers with Left of the Dial (The Replacements) and Surfer Rosa (The Pixies)