Lightning 100

%CODE1% Aaron Lee Tasjan, the charmingly self-deprecating underdog of an East Nashville songwriter, can handle his business. Young gun Tasjan—who cut his teeth playing lead guitar in late-period incarnations of The New York Dolls and...

%CODE1% Described as “wildly earthy,” Shelly Colvin's earliest collaborations were in Los Angeles, writing and performing with groundbreaking, genre-bending pioneers of the California country-rock movement, Herb Pederson, Chris Hillman and JD Souther. Now in Nashville,...

CODE1 The Record Company write and play raw, sincere rock n' roll. Influenced by the rough honesty of their heroes--bluesmen like John Lee Hooker, early punk bands like The Stooges, and rock greats like The...

%CODE1% After driving almost every US highway, and playing over 2,000 shows worldwide, Kieran McMullan has unusual stories to tell. Over the past 11 years, he has shared the stage with Ed Sheeran, Mat Kearney,...

%CODE1% The Cordovas are Joe Firstman, Lucca Soria, Jon Loyd and Graham Spillman. Based in Nashville, TN, Cordovas sound is based in harmony, song and musicianship. Firstman released two albums on Atlantic Records in the...

%CODE1% MYZICA, the brainchild of producer Micah Tawlks and singer Isaaca Byrd, is the latest indie pop duo to come out of the Nashville music scene. In the spring of 2014, after a few weeks...

%CODE1% Formed in 2010 in Nashville, Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes released their first full-length studio album, Civilized Man, in 2011. Civilized Man went on to be listed in the top 100 albums of...

%CODE1% Originally hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Civil Twilight started as a trio that drew parallels with The Police and very early U2, Muse, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. The now four-piece rock band, consisting of the brothers Andrew and Steven McKeller plus Richard Wouters and...

%CODE1% Koa may hail from Nashville, Tennessee, the country music capital of the world, but the seven-piece band is more interested in groove than twang. Founded by childhood friends and songwriting duo Chase Bader and Conor...

For nearly 17 years, Yonder Mountain String Band has redefined bluegrass music, expanding the traditional acoustic genre beyond its previously established boundaries by steadily pushing the envelope into the realms of rock n’ roll...

%CODE1% Soulful Narratives. Heartfelt Songwriting. Tightly-woven Instrumentation. Harmonies Rooted in Years of Friendship. Blending the foregoing, Trout Steak Revival pushes the envelope on a progressing genre while drawing creatively from the many canons of American...

%CODE1% The Lonely Biscuits are an alternative rock band hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. The band is comprised of Grady Wenrich (vocals, guitar), Sam Gidley (drums), and Nick Byrd (bass). The Lonely Biscuits formed in August...

%CODE1% SIMO is an adventurous rock & roll trinity, a thriving creative partnership completed by JD Simo’s combustible guitar playing and soulful vocals, and Let Love Show the Way is a game-changing album from a...

Charlie Abbott is a singer/songwriter currently living in Nashville Tennessee. Charlie's new EP entitled "Watch Me Explode" will be his 5th solo release to date. Never to be confined by genre, on "Watch Me...