Category: Features
Extensive catalogue found at Bryce Harmon, Author at The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Contributing F&P Authors found in Category, “Local Writing.”
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Ben Becker, Live at Liquid Smoke, Valen-2/14/26:
:20, “Here’s trouble,” said Dr. Jennifer Massie! Lil’ Jennie Dickens!… [Levi: “Look at that ‘stache!”] F&P: I heard you guys were having a get-together [gushy stuff and hugs; Levi: “it’s a get-together, now,” as we all three embraced for the first time in years]. [From a somewhat a musically-driven/developed friendship-around-communal backyard-firepit visited by a multitude…
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Vinyl pop-up, Phonoforever@The Lab, 12/7/25 -next pop, Cedar Glade, Murf, 7pm -11pm, for Barz in the Boro, 2/7/26
F&P: What mix you guys have going on, right now? Shane Petty, Phonoforever: Oh, I’m just playing around,” Shane says. F&P: Catalogues over here on the left of everything, or- Shane: -Are you the guy that drove far away? F&P: No, I meant to get here at 4:20, because I wanted to see what you…
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Boro Fondo 2025: As Cocky as a Nuclear Family, We Pedal.
Murfreesboro, TN – Murfreesboro’s annual, non-profit, music, cycling and arts festival, Boro Fondo Festival, took place, this year, Septembers 19 – 21, organized by a group of volunteer, event staff featuring area bands playing along at a preset route of stops down Main St., Saturday, September 20, 2025 from beginning festival venue, almost-51-year-old, Century 21…
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Full Throttled Music and Bikes at Big Daddy’s Rock Festival: TN Blues Mob Confirmed on new John Carpenter series.
A manifold of motorcycles [with a mix of local club patches] rolled into Big Daddy’s Handlebars for an inaugural, all-day, live music festival, Big Daddy’s Rock Festival, featuring a lineup of six, area-local bands including Rebels Opera, Rattle Trapp, Hammerhead, Pull, Tennessee Blues Mob, and Rising Up Angry, with Evil Twin performing before Nashville, 70’s…
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The Laboratory Mixes Up Murfreesboro’s Art and Music Community.
A diverse lineup of bands, including Section 1, Carburator, Scex tape Massacre, and Wound Flower, jammed the basement of Murfreesboro square cannabis dispensary, The Laboratory, August 22, 2025, for a newly established music and arts venue curated by area artist and muralist/Laboratory manager, Ryan Frizzell, August 22, 2025. While local vendors set up shop in…
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The Murfreesboro-Local, Punk/Metal Scene (Pt. 1): The Folk & Proper Newspaper version, online
Murfreesboro, Tenn. – (This) coverage of the Murfreesboro, TN area’s Punk and Metal scene of the Twenty-Twenties began trying to fix the sub-genric description, “glitch rock,” or “glitch punk,” to area “post-hardcore/glitch-metal/math-punk group,” Circuit Circuit’s debut, Circuit Circuit EP, within the February 2022 issue of area-monthly, [the] Murfreesboro Pulse. Area music reviews of the time…
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RCLS-TN: The Show
Murfreesboro, TN – The Rutherford County Library System was recently caught up in legislative recording decorum/parliamentary procedure during two Spring meetings (3/17/25 Rutherford County Library Board meeting and 4/9/25 Rutherford County School Board meeting) prior to the county being sued by ACLU-TN and Pen America the following week (filed 4/16/25) for First Amendment rights violations.…
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Amber Lelli: local artist/MTSU grad/understudy of Alan LeQuire, the guy who did the Athena statue in the Parthenon. The gallery she works out of is having a big thing in June honoring the anniversary of the making of Athena. I think her being a Blue Raider might be of interest. Let me know what you think and if it can get into the paper. Also, if you need me to send it to a different spot let me know.
By William Womack Let’s assume the question was posed, “Where does someone start if they want to learn more about the local Middle Tennessee art scene? The answer is quite simple: Mt. Juliet sculptor, printmaker, and marquetry artist, Amber Lelli, is a graduate of Murfreesboro’s Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), who has lived and honed…
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Flowers for a Place
Story by Matt Ward To the current residentsUpstairs Apartment302 Locust St.Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee No doubt you wonder why a stranger has sent you flowers. It is, in this instance, not because of who you are, but because of where you are-a modest little upstairs apartment that has much significance for me. Please let me tell…
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Whitewash Chronicles, cont’d (2nd installment)
with sweat running off his forehead and down his face. Now it was getting to be crunch time. If we didn’t get a really good ride now we weren’t going to make it to Ft. Myers. We would be doomed to spending the night out in the open and sleeping in a ditch somewhere along…
