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What Happens When a Label Deal Goes Right and the Band Breaks Up Anyway?new

Sometimes for bands, the stars align just right. Labels clamor for the artist. The terms of the deal are more than fair. Offers for maximum-exposure tours abound, and press is eerily pitch-perfect. And the whole thing goes to hell anyway.

Nashville Scene | Tracy Moore | 06-05-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Be Your Own Pet, record labels

Hey, Young Nashville Band—Want a Major-Label Deal? Read This Firstnew

If the Nashville curse used to be that no local rock band could snag a record deal, then perhaps now the curse is that they can. It's staying afloat afterward that has proved most elusive.

Nashville Scene | Tracy Moore | 06-05-2009 | Music

Tags: Nashville, record labels

A Power Shift Within Nashville's Musicians Union Signals Changing Timesnew

To onlookers, Local 257 became a battleground far larger than Nashville's city limits, in a sort of proxy grudge match for control. At stake was leadership of the fourth largest local in the world's largest trade organization for professional musicians.

Nashville Scene | Brantley Hargrove | 03-20-2009 | Music

Tags: Nashville, American Federation of Musicians Local 257, Dave Pomeroy, Harold Bradley

Roy Orbison and His Nashville Recordings, 20 Years After His Deathnew

With the 20th anniversary of Orbison's death on Dec. 6, and with the recent release of a career-defining box set, Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll, it's an apt time to reflect on how several of pop music's most timeless and artful songs unexpectedly emerged from a small Nashville recording studio on 17th Avenue.

Nashville Scene | Michael McCall | 12-05-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Nashville, music history, Roy Orbison, The Soul of Rock and Roll, Fred Foster

The Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady Consummate Their Mutual Crushnew

For a certain breed of rock fan -- those who like their rock literate and loud -- this tour is a wondrous fantasy, Hanukkah come early, OMFG. But for all the mutual man love going around, the two bands don't necessarily seem like a logical pairing.

Nashville Scene | Lee Stabert | 10-31-2008 | Music

Tags: The Hold Steady, The Drive-By Truckers

The State of the Pink Spidersnew

After flirting with fame and fortune, Nashville's most decadent local rockers The Pink Spiders lost a major-label deal and two of the three founding members -- so now what?

Nashville Scene | Cody De Vos | 08-01-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Pink Spiders

Pop Wizard Kyle Andrews' Excellent New Album Turns Up the Volumenew

The DIY maestro's second full-length is a marvel: crisp, quirky, studio-quality pop recorded using little more than a laptop. Meet the future of the music industry.

Nashville Scene | Lee Stabert | 07-25-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Kyle Andrews, Real Blasty

Is Metallica's Bonnaroo Appearance a Sign of the Apocalypse?new

You naysayers can go down with a whimper, but we are offering what we feel is the last, best hope for the survival of mankind: a guide for hippie-metalhead diplomacy.

Nashville Scene | Jack Silverman | 06-13-2008 | Concerts

Tags: music festivals, Bonnaroo, heavy metal, concerts, Hippies