No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 7.14-7.20

It was a busy week for us in preparation for last weekend’s Forecastle Festival, and there were plenty of great shows going on around town too.  We also had the exciting news of the release of our Podcast featuring Ben Elkins of ELEL!  If that’s not enough, Vinyl Thief just released their debut album Fathoms, Summer NAMM happened, a bunch of great fall shows were announced, and a slew of new videos hit the interwebs!

In case you missed anything, here’s a recap of everything we covered last week on the site:

• NEWS: Summer NAMM kicked off at the Music City Center.
• NEWS: Interpol announced Marathon Music Works date this November!
• NEWS: fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff will come to the Cannery Ballroom with his solo project Bleachers late October with Wild Cub.
• FEATURE: This Weekend in Nashville: Check out our staff picks of the must see shows around town!
• FEATURE: No Country for New Nashville Podcast: ELEL
• REVIEW: After we experienced Avers performance at The High Watt, we also go to sat down for an interview afterward, check it out here!
• REVIEW: We went over to the Exit/In to catch Man Or Astro-Man? with Sallie Ford and Wray.
• REVIEW: In case you didn’t make it, we have everything you want to know about the Beck performance at the Ryman!
• REVIEW: Dumpstaphunk, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Kansas Bible Company and more brought on week 5 of Nashville Dancin! (w/PHOTOS)
• REVIEW: We caught Music City Roots’ first night in The Factory with Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Humming House and more (w/PHOTOS)!
• FORECASTLE: 10 can’t miss Sunday bands!
• FORECASLTE: 10 can’t miss Saturday bands!
• FORECASTLE: 10 can’t miss Friday bands!
• FORECASTLE: Nashville to Forecastle with Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
• SHOWS: Fauna Halo performed at The East Room with French Lips, The Trinity Schill Kill and Secret Club.
• SHOWS: Blues band SIMO took over The High Watt with Jack Pearson.
• SHOWS: Dwight Yoakam, Justin Townes Earle and Kristin Diable and The City performed under the stars at Woods at Fontanel.
• SHOWS: Rock n’ Soul band Magnolia Sons brought there massive sound to The High Watt.
• SHOWS: Folk-pop duo And The Giraffe played fooBar with Bear In The Campsite and Moes Anthill.
• SHOWS: Week 6 of Nashville Dancin’ continues with Hayes Carll, Rayland Baxter, James Wallace and the Naked Light and The Oak Creek Band.
• SHOWS: Curtis Harding, PUJOL and The Black Lips performed at Exit/In.
• SHOWS: Nashville’s Whitherward performed an EP release show at The Row.
• SHOWS: Marissa Nadler and Stone Jack Jones performed at The Stone Fox.
• SHOWS: Music City Roots featured Amy LaVere, Mike Farris, Nichole Atkins and Rachel Davis at their second show at The Factory.
• SHOWS: Avers took over the High Watt with The Jahnies.
• SHOWS: Man or Astro Man? performed at the Exit/In with Sallie Ford and Wray!
• SHOWS: Me Jane performed at the Springwater Supper Club with DJ Citrin3, Pale Pools and Jungle Fever.
• RELEASE: Pang dropped a new single ahead the of upcoming EP Pretend !
• RELEASE: Daniella Mason released a new electropop single “Shade of You.”
• STREAM: Listen to Vinyl Thief‘s debut album Fathoms ahead of it’s release this week!
• STREAM: Belmont’s own The Orchardist released new music!
• VIDEO: Rockers The Grayces released a new video “Drop In A Bucket” ahead of fall release.
• VIDEO: Singer-Songwriter Jenny Lewis shows off star-studded music video for “One of the Guys.”
• VIDEO: The Apache Relay premiered new video for “Katie Queen of Tennessee.”
• VIDEO: PUJOL premieres video for “Youniverse” and performes at Exit/In.
• VIDEO: Check out “You Know Who” by The Stateside Menace.
• FUN: Hump Day Diversion: 20 Roman Candles

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