Category: Artist Feature
Extensive catalogue found at Bryce Harmon, Author at The Murfreesboro Pulse.
Contributing F&P Authors found in Category, “Local Writing.”
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Final Day of the Weedeater, Conan, and Telekinetic Yeti Tour at Hop Springs, Opened by Local Murfreesboro Band, Torsion.
On April 29th, the Hop Springs taproom was filled with eager fans as Weedeater performed on stage, joined by Conan, Telekinetic Yeti, and local band Torsion. This was the 26th show and final day of Weedeater‘s 29-day tour. Weedeater faced hurdles that kept them from playing at Hop Springs twice before; first, they were…
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Rooster Blackspur: Girl BLues w/ solutions, The 5-Spot album release, 2/17/26
From the frozen, northern bayous of Anchorage, AK, down the American west coast of autonomy, in search of a perfect fit, solo heavy-stone, folk troubadour songstress, Rooster Blackspur, got to Nashville some wisdom and moons ago to finally hold an album release show, rounding off a solid array of four Rooster albums over the course…
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The Protomen. April 27th, 2024 – June 18-20, 2026, Marathon Music Works
w/ FOLLOWING-ALONG AUDIO, WHILE YOU READ ALL MUSIC ON F&P PAGES IS DOWNLOADABLE AT THE AUDIO BAR DOTS Epilogue-ing The Protomen: Act I‘s elaborate-to-epic and tear-jerkingly, “Nintendo, synth-rock, guitarme opera,” (“guitar army”), originally out of a Middle Tennessee State University’s Recording Industry Major’s end-semester project, “Due Vendetta,” played live at the Mass Comm. building, fall semester…
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The [East] Band, Live at The Basement East, 11/22/25
A Nashville and surrounding area collective of musicians gathered at The Basement East, November 22nd, 2025, for an annual/semi-annual stage production of The Band’s 1974 cinematic rock concert documentary, The Last Waltz, which detailed the final concert of a short-run, world influence after conflicts with early credit deteriorated the sentiments of their namesade, according to…
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Fingernails Are Pretty’s last hoo-rah: All Female Foo Fighters Rage Against Privacy Terms, Jan. 9, 2026, The Basement East
Nashville all female, trans and non-binary, tribute-to-Foo-Fighters supergroup, Fingernails are Pretty (hashtags “equality,” “foofighters,” “allarewelcome,” “inclusivitymatters”) played the quartet’s final show, January 9, 2026, at East Nashville venue, The Basement East, hosting an evening of conglomeration, culmination, and raw power to curate a lineup with openers, Take the Power Back, an [all female] tribute to…
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Turning the corner at Peck: MTSU’s Walnut Grove pre-game w/ Medium Build
Murfreesboro, TN – With similar pregame celebratory spirit as this year’s homecoming parade, a revisited, yet revamped, “Walnut Grove,” hosted a pre-game celebration, Party In The Grove, within “Peck Forrest,” between south Peck Hall and the OG Student Administration building on the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) campus as MTSU Blue Raiders (1-6) hosted Jacksonville…
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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 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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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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The Second Drummer Drowned: MJ Lenderman, 9/19/24 – 10/6/24 – 2/7/25, The Hard Quartet @ Brooklyn Bowl, 3/21/2025
Bricktown, Fort Worth – “Asheville country”-rock, quintet-to-septet, MJ Lenderman & The Wind, reassembled in a promotional tour for singer, songwriter, guitarist, MJ Lenderman’s 5th studio album, Manning Fireworks, released out of Anti- Records and Epitaph Records, September 6, 2024. As MJ Lenderman & The Wind’s Manning Fireworks tour has been increasingly “sold out” at mjlenderman.com…
