Hannah Cron

2 weeks ago | nashvillescene.com | Hannah Cron

Playing 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 15,at The Basement EastBetween lessons, lectures and extracurricular activities, young people everywhere lose themselves in daydreams of stardom, imagining crowds roaring as they score a buzzer-beater or fans cheering as they shred a wicked solo. Few experience the realization of these fantasies as acutely as Los Angeles rockers The Linda Lindas.

2 weeks ago | nashvillescene.com | Hannah Cron

Record Store Day takes place at indie record stores across Nashville on April 12 See the full list of special releases at recordstoreday.comYou’ve known the drill since 2008: It’s April, and Record Store Day is here. We’ve got the details on everything happening around town on Saturday, April 12, and all the hot special releases you won’t want to miss.

1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Hannah Cron

Forever Is a Feeling out Friday, March 28 Playing April 29-30 at the RymanWhen was the last time you read through the credits of a record you love? With the rise of streaming’s on-demand take on listening, most listeners probably know the names of only the artists they listen to. Some artists create entire albums with no outside input; that’s increasingly feasible with advances in music-making technology.

1 month ago | nashvillescene.com | Hannah Cron

Most of the subjects of this week’s People Issue have achieved recognition from work they’ve done here in Nashville — but this one made waves last year some 7,000 miles away on a remote island in Fiji. Sam Phalen spends most of his days working as a Tennessee Titans reporter for A to Z Sports. He moved to Nashville for school in 2019, graduating from Lipscomb University in 2022. As a lifelong fan of Survivor, Phalen started applying for the show as soon as he turned 18.

2 months ago | nashvillescene.com | Hannah Cron

Nashville is known to most as the Music City, and has become a city of big dreams and a mecca for those with aspirations of celebrity. That identity is a part of Nashville’s DNA, but it’s also left a skewed view of success in its wake. “Making it” in Nashville is measured by metrics here that are simply nonexistent elsewhere. For the hyper-successful — the Taylor Swifts and Garth Brookses of the world — it’s a catapult to international fame. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.