Matthew Leimkuehler

Y’all haven’t *experienced* parasocial until you’ve seen a family of midwesterners root for their football team on Thanksgiving.

Something good comes along, then it’s gone: Farewell, Todd Snider. When I moved to East Nashville in 2012, legend had it that if you wanted to find Todd Snider, all you had to do was go to Drifter’s BBQ in Five Points, and he’d be there at the bar. Nashville always h...

Wrote about Todd Snider, East Nashville and how the more things change, the more they change.

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RIP Todd Snider. One of the greats, an unheralded songwriters' songwriter and a genuine character. Loved and proselytized for almost as long as I've been a music critic. A guy not only influenced by Prine/Kristofferson/Jerry Jeff but he seemed to come out of the same world.

Crank up ‘East Nashville Skyline’ today, y’all. RIP to a true folk hero.

Got ‘em.

That time of year!

THE TRUTH vs. THE PINNACLE

A heated WWE match or a face-off against new midsize venues in Nashville? We’ll never know.

“IU alumni have withdrawn more than $1 million in donations to the university because of the administration’s actions.”

Need some Steve King for Halloween? Gotcha covered.
THE INSTITUTE (MGM + thru AMAZON PRIME)
1922 (Netflix)
GERALD'S GAME (Netflix)
LISEY'S STORY (Apple+)
And tonight: IT: WELCOME TO DERRY (HBO)
You can find other stuff, too. If you're brave enough.

Cam Ward-Will Levis-Malik Willis.

Music City? More like Muggy City, amirite

Mercury Revs Up Catching up with rocker Maddie Kerr in the studio as she and her band get ready to kick off a big tour with Arcy Drive.

Matthew Leimkuehler drops in on Maddie Kerr and Mercury in the studio, in advance of the indie rockers’ sold-out kickoff show at The Basement East for a tour with Arcy Drive.

Fun one from @mattleimkuehler.bsky.social. I have to admit I wasn't familiar with the group before he pitched, but they sound great. Catching them in the middle of shooting live-in-studio footage ... ahead of the formal release of some earlier live-in-studio material, ha.

The first time I covered Tyler Childers, he was playing the early afternoon slot at Hinterland in Iowa. Now when he tours, he’s headlining *two* nights at a a stadium in Nashville. Unreal.

Wrote about the unstoppable Winona Fighter for this year’s Best of Nashville! Dig into the list for that + a ton of other excellent suggestions from people who care about your city.

Wow!! I just received $80 million in seed capital for my startup that provides critics with new identities, addresses, and social security numbers after they lightly criticize Taylor Swift's new album.

file under: music journalism, in general

@grammarpurist.bsky.social

It’s that time of the year in the south when I’m just so tired of sweating.

YouTube video by NPR Music Turnstile: Tiny Desk Concert

I brought Turnstile to the Tiny Desk @npr.org

There's horns and piano. Ska and Motown renditions of songs u luv. Brendan stage dives. A mini mosh ensures.

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Andy Ogles Threatens Nashville With National Guard Deployment Tennessee's 5th Congressional District rep nonsensically claimed that the mayor is 'using the city as an outpost for international gangs'

I see Ogles wanting to deploy the National Guard in Nashville and I raise deploying the Rock City Guard to his house:

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Opinion | No Matter How Hopeless It Seems, We Should Press for Better, Stricter Gun Laws The prevalence of mass shootings in America is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, but we are not powerless to act.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Among the many tragedies of the Minneapolis school shooting is how commonplace a story like this has become,” German Lopez writes. But “the prevalence of this problem is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, and we are not powerless to act.”

10 years later, it's still a joy to fall into Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Emotion' Emotion cemented Jepsen as a niche star and was acclaimed for its sense of drama and unabashed schmaltz. It's also a trove of songs about one particular emotion less associated with her cutesy image.

Emotion cemented Jepsen as a niche star and was acclaimed for its sense of drama and unabashed schmaltz. It's also a trove of songs about one particular emotion less associated with her cutesy image.

Daniel Donato Prepares for His Mother Church Debut Talking to the cosmic country singer-songwriter and guitarist ahead of the release party for his new LP ‘Horizons’

And @mattleimkuehler.bsky.social catches up with Daniel Donato about cutting his teeth with a band of aces he calls "my Zeppelin" in the shadow of the Ryman to now headlining the Mother Church (with an after-party at Robert's).

“Which game are you calling?”

“I’m CALLING BOTH!”

Kevin Harlan! The voice of a childhood filled with noon kickoffs on CBS (before the Chiefs became … whatever the Chiefs are now).

Daniel Donato Prepares for His Mother Church Debut Talking to the cosmic country singer-songwriter and guitarist ahead of the release party for his new LP ‘Horizons’

A new one from me in this week’s @nashvillescene.com

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Bumping what I wrote the night he quit the Raiders

Jon Gruden's emails made clear he's a racist, sexist, homophobe. That doesn't just make him a bad person (thought it obviously does!), it makes him a bad football coach, because you need to work with Black people, gay people, and women to win