[TICKET GIVEAWAY] BADBADNOTGOOD w/ Baby Rose | May 7 @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville

Canadian jazz, hip hop, and electronica genre-benders BADBADNOTGOOD first met while studying music in college, quickly bonding over a love of subversive hip hop artists like Odd Future and MF Doom, and achieving early viral attention for their instrumental covers of rap songs. Their debut album, BBNG, would drop in 2011, featuring a mix of originals as well as covers of legends like Nas, Gang Starr, and Flying Lotus, drawing praise for its modern approach and fusion of jazz and hip hop, and leading to collaborations with the Odd Future stalwarts like Tyler, the Creator (they’d even back Frank Ocean the following year at Coachella). 2012 followup BBNG2 would continue to build on the template of their debut, tackling covers like Kanye West and Earl Sweatshirt, and branching out from hip hop to cover the likes of Feist and My Blood Valentine, along with more genre-bending jazz originals, all recorded in long-take studio sessions. 2014’s III marked both their first album of all originals, and last all-instrumental release for a decade, with the following year’s Soul Sour seeing the band team up with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah for a collaborative effort, and shifting towards a much more hip hop forward style.

Over the past decade, BBNG have increasingly become a collaborative and production-focused endeavor, tapping a litany of guests for 2016’s IV, a widely-acclaimed album which helped attract the band more mainstream attention than ever, and produced their best-known song to date, “Time Moves Slow” featuring Sam Herring (which saw a resurgence of interest after VANO 3000 sampled it in 2021). Since then, they’ve only released two original LPs, 2021 largely-improvisational psych-jazz effort Talk Memory, and last year’s epic, instrumental and conceptual Mid Spiral, something of a return to form, originally released in three digital suites. Don’t let their album slowdown fool you though; the band have stayed busy as producers and collaborators in recent years, working with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Daniel Ceasar, Kali Uchis, Turnstile, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Baby Rose, have earned multiple Grammys, and have been touring and appearing at fests, heralded for their incredible live show.

Despite spending a lot of time on the road, though, and appearing at nearby fests like Bonnaroo, BADBADNOTGOOD actually haven’t played Nashville often- seemingly just once, back in 2017- which makes their latest Music City outing, May 7 at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville in support of Mid Spiral, an even more essential event. Tickets are still available right here while they last, and soul and R&B singer Baby Rose, whose 2024 EP Slow Burn was helmed by BBNG, will open the show. We’re excited to announce that we’re also giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky winner as well; preview the lineup and enter below!

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BADBADNOTGOOD and Baby Rose will perform Wednesday, May 7 at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville. The show is 18+, begins at 8 p.m. (doors at 6 p.m.), and tickets are available to purchase for $50.30.