Tag Archive: Nashville

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Oliver Ghoul, Seun Kuti & Sampa The Great, Maribou State & Andreya Triana, Harrison, Surprise Chef, Hyldon & Adrian Younge, Omar, Close Counters – Special Guest: Magic City Hippies

  Magic City Hippies join me for episode 37!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – Music from Nuyorican Soul, Charlotte Dos Santos, Plantlife, Jamie Woon, Okonski, Röyksopp, Oddisee, Terrace Martin, Mura Masa

  Episode 36, the first show of 2025!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – Ben Böhmer, Kokoroko, Bryony Jarman-Pinto, Svaneborg Kardyb, Joy Orbison, Hiatus Kaiyote, Thandii, Silas Short, BALTHVS, Mk.gee, Sparklmami, Common & Pete Rock – Top 100 Tracks of 2024! (Part 2: 50-1)

  Episode 35!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live from… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – Glass Beams, Common Saints, Khruangbin, Ruthven, Men I Trust, Jessica Pratt, Leifur James, Fana Hues, MRCY, Kamasi Washington, Caribou, Four Tet, Eddie Chacon – Top 100 Tracks of 2024! (Part 1: 100-51)

  Episode 34!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live from… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Las Palabras, Bonobo, Twin Shadow, Campus Christy, The Pro-Teens, Nyron Higor, Vegyn, Jitwam, Max Graef, Sempra

  Episode 33!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live from… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Jonny Drop & Andrew Ashong, TOKiMONSTA & Kaelin Ellis, Jaco Jaco, The South Hill Experiment, Seahawks, dadá Joãozinho, Work in Progress (Kutiman & Tomer Yosef from Balkan Beat Box), Intermood – Special Guest: Ego Ella May

  Ego Ella May joins me for episode 32!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from MATTERS UNKNOWN, Florence Adooni, Kuna Maze, _BY.ALEXANDER, Llinos Emanuel, LA LOM, Jesse Mac Cormack, Close Counters, Last Nubian, SBTRKT – Special Guest: Salin

  Salin joins me for episode 31!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Katie Schecter – “Pay It No Mind” (Video)

  As chosen by special guest Homer on episode 30 of my WNXP/NPR Music Nashville radio show, who you’ll hear playing drums on this song.       Can’t stop listening to the… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Yazmin Lacey, Sparklmami, Amanda Whiting, Konradsen, Everything Is Recorded, Tristan de Liège, First Beige, Jadu Heart, Baby Rose – Special Guest: Homer (Big Crown Records)

  Homer joins me for episode 30!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from John Glacier, Sholto, James Blake, Victoria Port, Cousin Kula, Ella Thompson, Tiago Caetano, Zoe’s Shanghai, Beirut, Cantrips – Special Guest: Common Saints

  Common Saints joins me for episode 29!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Homeboy Sandman, Jeremie Albino, Visioneers, Cruisic, Nathan Haines & Chaos In the CBD, Balthvs & Bay Ledges, Crazy P, Quincy Jones Tribute – Special Guest: Leifur James

  Leifur James joins me for episode 28!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Cleo Sol, Jamie Isaac, Joe Nora, Rayne, Samora Pinderhughes, Lefto, Jake and Abe, Alice Russell & TM Juke, Submotion Orchestra, LCD Soundsystem, Bryony Jarman-Pinto & Werkha – Special Guest: Titeknots

  Titeknots joins me for episode 27!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Mereba, Lionmilk, Ruthven, Joe Armon-Jones, Masåva, Romy & Sampha, Apifera, Lhasa Petik, Arky Waters

  Episode 26!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live from… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Cymande, Mk.gee, King Pari, MRCY, Speakers Corner Quartet & Tirzah, Ebo Taylor, Les Sons Du Cosmos, Flwr Chyld – Special Guest: Norsicaa

  Norsicaa joins me for episode 25!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from BALTHVS, Machinedrum, Babe Rainbow, Teebs, Yukimi Nagano from Little Dragon, Lefto, pablopablo & Helado Negro, Shrimpnose – Special Guest: Skinshape

  Skinshape joins me for episode 24!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Kokoroko, Michael Kiwanuka, Sampha, Leifur James, Ashley Henry, Maribou State, Homer, Jonah Yano, Leon Vynehall, Kaytranada, Tourist & Gold Panda, Salute – Special Guest: Kingo Halla

  Kingo Halla joins me for episode 23!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Horace Andy & Jah Wobble, Common Saints, Close Counters, Quantic, Hope Tala, Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Ruthven, Emawk, Kaktus Einarsson & Damon Albarn, Gallant & Nao, Ezra Collective, Bubble Love aka Ross from Friends

  Welcome to episode 22!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Fievel Is Glauque, The O’My’s & Jamila Woods, DJ Harrison, Orion Sun, Photay, Clairo, Calibro 35, Rosie Frater-Taylor, Footshooter, DJ Koze, Herbert, Salute, Jamie xx

  Welcome to episode 21!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Magic City Hippies, Ry X ft Hermanos Gutiérrez, Men I Trust, Michael Kiwanuka, Svaneborg Kardyb, Ginger Root, Efterklang, Field Music, Thee Sacred Souls, Weval, Floating Points

  Welcome to episode 20!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from White Denim, Jungle, Skinshape, Tusks, Soft Saints, Daniela Andrade, POSY, Pale Jay, Leifur James, Ishmael Ensemble, Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Fred Again..

  Welcome to episode 19!           Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from First Beige, Mieke Miami, Common Saints, Mint Field, Adrian Younge, Ty Segall, Kit Sebastian, Jamie xx, Caribou, LP Giobbi & Alabama Shakes

  Welcome to episode 18!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Mk.gee, Bilal, Ruthven, Claude Fontaine, Allysha Joy, Bay Ledges, Thee Heart Tones, Harrison, oreglo

  Welcome to episode 17!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Fievel Is Glauque, Jono McCleery, Ginger Root, Photay, Henry Green, Ben Böhmer, Nubya Garcia, Ibibio Sound Machine, Bonobo

  Welcome to episode 16!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Peter Cat Recording Co., Knomad Spock, Vinyl Williams, Mayer Hawthorne, Kowloon, LA LOM, King Pari, Thee Heart Tones, High Pulp

  Welcome to episode 15!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Thee Sacred Souls, Jamie xx, Pearl & The Oysters, Kassian, Silas Short, Until The Ribbon Breaks, Karen O & Danger Mouse, Jonah Yano

  Welcome to episode 14!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Jorja Smith, Arjuna Oakes, BALTHVS, Sampha & Little Simz, TSHA, Shigeto, Ebi Soda, Ginger Root, Tokimonsta, Overmono, Atjazz, Weval, Todd Edwards

  Welcome to episode 13!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Michael Kiwanuka, Ty Segall, Allysha Joy, Laura Marling, Skinshape, Photay, Henry Green, SBTRKT, Kelly Lee Owens, Floating Points, Caribou

  Welcome to episode 12!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from SAULT, Astrud Gardener, Galliano, Lina Nikol & Boyan, Footshooter, Shy FX – Special Guest: Daz-I-Kue (Includes an Unreleased Daz-I-Kue Track!)

  Daz-I-Kue joins the show for episode 11!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Tiago Caetano, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Cat Recording Co, Bibi Club, Aaron Frazer, Pearl & The Oysters, Efterklang, Hiatus Kaiyote, Washed Out, Burial

  Welcome to episode 10!       Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from James Blake, Sunni Colón, Catpack, Swim Surreal & Zero 7, Ezra Collective, Thee Sacred Souls, J-Felix, SBTRKT, Session Victim – Special Guest: Gerard Alain

  Gerard Alain joins the show for episode 9!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Toro Y Moi, Orion Sun, Common & Pete Rock, Fabiano do Nascimento, Nubya Garcia, Tom Misch, Bay Ledges, Bellamy, Forest Law

  Welcome to episode 8!       Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from SBTRKT, Jamie xx, Apifera, Brijean, Friko, ESTA., Allysha Joy, Joe Nora, Saya Gray, Kaytranada, Ishmael Ensemble

  Welcome to episode 7!       Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds live… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Frank Leone, Jimi Tenor, Hiatus Kaiyote, Pedro Mizutani & Skinshape, Arjuna Oakes, The Marias, BEAK>, DOMi & JD BECK, James Blake, Zoe’s Shanghai

  Welcome to episode 6!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Galliano, Pocket Sun, Cruza, Santpoort, Saturno 4000, Ginger Root, Kairos Creature Club, Fana Hues – Special Guest: MRCY (US Radio Interview Debut)

  MRCY joins us for episode 5 for their US radio interview debut!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie,… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Silver Skylarks, Apifera, BadBadNotGood, Crumb, Los Days, Lady Blackbird, Toro Y Moi, Peter Cat Recording Co, Ishmael Ensemble

  Welcome to episode 4!         Each week on WNXP I spin a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves, and global sounds… Continue reading

Listen back to Dan Digs on WNXP – New Music from Ezra Collective, Oscar Jerome, Allysha Joy, Nao Yoshioka feat. Jarreau Vandal, Audrey Powne, Crumb, RJD2 feat. Jamie Lidell – Special Guest: Sampha

  Welcome to the very first episode!       My new music radio show on WNXP is a weekly two-hour curated blend of electronic soul, leftfield indie, experimental beats, uptempo house grooves,… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Ava McCoy – “Grow” (Acrophase Records)

  We need more of this experimental Americana.       “Grow” by the New York City musician Ava McCoy combines banjo pickings, harmonica hums, handclaps, and glitchy drum loops.     Ava… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: HAFFWAY – “Dirty Fire” (Video)

  Utterly transfixed by this vocal performance.       HAFFWAY is the musical project of Sam Westhoff, an Oklahoma-raised and Nashville-based artist, songwriter, and producer.     A layered yet stripped-down folk… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Photo Ops – “The Dream Is Done” (Paul Is Dead Records)

  I’m all about these guitar pickings, that persistent piano, and especially those lightly dusted drums.       When he wasn’t touring with the likes of Camera Obscura and Fences, Terry Price,… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Brian Brown – “Early Bird”

  Some of the mellowest hip-hop I’ve heard in a minute.       “Early Bird” by Nashville’s Brian Brown is one for the dawn risers, a fluid and dreamy beat that perfectly… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: Andrew Goldring – “Sunshowers”

  Psychedelic Americana laced with golden guitar tones and a honeyed chorus that sounds like 1960s London multiplied by 2020s Nashville.       Love this latest single from Nashville-via-Utah artist and producer… Continue reading

Diggin’ This: The IgG Band – “IgG Theme” (Kalita Records)

  A disco-soul-funk rarity.        Thrilled to hear the celebratory and party-starting groove of “IgG Theme” by the IgG Band, who formed in March 1979 while they were students at Meharry… Continue reading

Watch Indigo De Souza in Conversation with Dan Digs for WNXP/NPR Music (Video)

  It was a pleasure to chat with the wonderful Indigo De Souza on stage at WNXP Nashville‘s performance space, the Sonic Cathedral.        We talked about the Asheville creative community,… Continue reading

Listen to Arlo Parks in Conversation with Dan Digs for WNXP

  One of my radio highlights of 2021 was talking with the wonderful Arlo Parks for WNXP Nashville.          We talked about the genius of Frank Ocean, her Mercury Prize… Continue reading

WNXP’s 1st Birthday Party at the Exit/In Nashville

  Come through and celebrate WNXP turning one year old tonight!           Looking forward to live performances from *repeat repeat, Liza Anne, Bantug, Josh Gilligan, and Namir Blade. ⁠… Continue reading

Recommended Gem: The Avalanches Talk About Their Favorite Samples for Pitchfork’s Under the Influences Series (Video)

  A recommended gem of a sample masterclass.       Come for the J Dilla love, stay for the smorgasbord of horse whinnies.       💎            … Continue reading

Recommended Gem: Fred again.. Live in Studio (London, April 2021) (Video)

  A recommended gem of a video.               Fred again..‘s latest album, Actual Life (April 14 – December 17 2020), is one of my favorite albums of 2021. … Continue reading

Recommended Gem: The Story of “Insomnia” by Faithless (Video)

  A recommended gem of a video.             “Ironically, he (Maxi Jazz) can sleep at the drop of a hat really, really well…”       The Story of… Continue reading

Recommended Gem: My Bloody Valentine on NTS Radio – April 19, 2021 (Radio Show)

  A recommended gem of a radio show.             Kevin, Colm, Debbie, and Belinda tell stories about how the legendary shoegaze band came to be and play an eclectic selection of tracks… Continue reading

Recommended Gem: The Genius of Roots Manuva: Brand New Second Hand at 22 from The Noise Narrative (Writing)

  A recommended gem of an article.             Oliver Ainley has put together this insightful retrospective of Roots Manuva’s best musical output in celebration of Rodney Smith’s debut album,… Continue reading