WNXP Podcasts
Interviews and music stories from WNXP, Nashville's Music Experience.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 282
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Record of the Week: Chappell Roan 'The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess'
On The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess Chappell Roan balances piano ballads about leaving home to achieve her dreams and lusting to meet an ex with outright bangers about the joy of starting a li…
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Mon 27 Nov 2023
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Stephen Sanchez
It’s been a big year for Nashville’s non-country music scene from the triumphant return of emo powerhouses Paramore to the rabid response to indie queen Mitski. But there’s only one artist who’s rack…
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Tue 31 Oct 2023
Record of the Week: Deeper 'Careful'
Chicago-based quartet Deeper is currently touring in support of their third full length and our Record of the Week Careful! WNXP’s Celia Gregory spoke with the band when they stopped in Nashville ear…
00:07:29 |
Mon 23 Oct 2023
Record of the Week: Vagabon 'Sorry I Haven't Called'
Laetitia Tamko’s speaking voice is as sultry and instantly soothing as her singing voice, and that’s saying something. Connecting with me via Zoom from Paris, where she was touring with Arlo Parks, t…
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Mon 09 Oct 2023
Record of the Week: Tre Burt 'Traffic Fiction'
Some of Tré Burt’s earliest musical memories are from watching “The Temptations” television miniseries, and listening to recording artists like Prince, Michael Jackson, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, War, …
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Mon 02 Oct 2023
Record of the Week: Ratboys 'The Window'
On this album, The Window, Ratboys recruited one of most sought after producers in indie rock, Chris Walla. He produced breakthrough records like The Decemberists’ The Crane Wife, Tegan and Sara’s Th…
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Tue 26 Sep 2023
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Allison Russell
It was big news when the founder of Rolling Stone magazine spelled out his view that the musical geniuses are white men, and artists who happen to be Black or women don’t have much to say that’s wort…
00:07:58 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Record of the Week: Nation of Language 'Strange Disciple'
Brooklyn-based trio Nation of Language has referred to their new full-length record as one for the emotional “wayfarer.” They elaborated on the theme that pervades their third LP Strange Disciple and…
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Tue 12 Sep 2023
Record of the Week: Jalen Ngonda 'Come Around and Love Me'
Jalen Ngonda has described his music as modern soul and R&B, while trying to fit the Beach Boys and the Beatles somewhere in between. The DC-born, London-based singer-songwriter’s music could sound l…
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Tue 05 Sep 2023
Record of the Week: Becca Mancari 'Left Hand'
On “Over and Over,” the first single released from Becca Mancari’s Left Hand, they relive an important, early phase as a queer and gender expansive person: They call back to the youthful disregard an…
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Mon 28 Aug 2023
Record of the Week: Snooper 'Super Snooper'
Nashville band Snõõper’s debut LP is not a concept record preaching the gospel of exercise. But the group does punch above their weight.
Having formed just three years ago, the first songs and video…
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Mon 21 Aug 2023
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Be Your Own Pet
Back in the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet frenetically tuneful punk sneered at the trappings of adulthood with snottily on-the-nose wit. After a 15-year hiatus, the second lineup reunited and recorded M…
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Thu 17 Aug 2023
Record of the Week: Mick Jenkins 'The Patience'
After a collection of mixtapes starting in 2012 with The Mickstape, Mick Jenkins released his breakout project The Water[s], prequel to his third mixtape Trees & Truths. Despite releasing bodies of w…
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Mon 14 Aug 2023
Record of the Week: Janelle Monae 'The Art of Pleasure'
The Age of Pleasure is that “paradise found,” where she can, and does, love quite freely. “We’re in the Age of Pleasure baby, the Age of Pleasure,” Monáe reinstates to me over Zoom. On her last album…
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Tue 08 Aug 2023
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Bully
The bulk of Bully, the musicial monkier of Alicia Bognanno, fourth full-length LP Lucky For You serves as “one big love song to” 80-pound Shepherd-Husky mix named Mezzi. So when Mezzi passed away las…
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Fri 28 Jul 2023
Feature: Lo Naurel reinvention on "Draft Pick"
Plenty of other artists have communicated significant matters through name changes this century. (Think: ANOHNI shedding Antony for a name that aligns with her identity as a trans woman; The Chicks d…
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Mon 24 Jul 2023
Record of the Week: Bonny Doon 'Let There Be Music'
Bonny Doon’s new record Let There Be Music is our Record of the Week. It’s a sunshiny record, dare I say breezy with its “ohh sha laa laa”s and “nah nah nah nah”s. It’s a cold beer on a hot day kind …
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Mon 17 Jul 2023
Record of the Week: Palehound 'Eye On The Bat'
Before Palehound released “The Clutch,” a rippin’ rock song and the first single off of their new LP, Eye On The Bat, we’d most recently heard the vocals and elevated guitar work of El Kempner as one…
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Mon 10 Jul 2023
Record of the Week: Killer Mike 'Michael'
Michael is Killer Mike’s most personal and vulnerable album to date — an audio biography of the nine-year-old Michael Render on the album cover, a boy with a halo and devil horns over this head dream…
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Mon 03 Jul 2023
WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month: Six One Tribe
Hip-hop is known as aspirational music. Six One Tribe, Nashville’s largest hip-hop collective, is living its own version of that. The group is working to accomplish what once seemed impossible for th…
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Wed 28 Jun 2023
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