Let’s not beat around the bush. Freakin’ Weekend VIII — the last hurrah for local blog and label Nashville’s Dead’s annual pre-SXSW celebration of parochial punk gone national — was pretty weird. And ...

But 2014's Freakin' Weekend V was about partying on, dancing and immersing ourselves in the sounds of Music City's freak scene — The Spin was simply doing our best to keep up. After inhaling a burger ...

Very few musical gatherings during the crowded summer festival season have been going on as long as CMA Music Fest, which launched under the name Fan Fair in 1972 and now descends upon Nashville just ...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run,” one of rock and roll’s great statements, is a song that contains multitudes. On Saturday night in Nashville, pop-punk maximalists Diarrhea Planet offered it up as a ...