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Year in Music 2023

Year in Music 2023

There isn’t really such a thing as “a quiet year” in Nashville’s music ecosystem, but 2023 was pretty damn busy by just about any measure you choose. We take stock of it in our Year in Music issue, starting by sitting down with Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, who’s now a decade into her career as a widely respected rock ’n’ roll force of nature. We also run down our writers’ 10 favorite local albums, and take a closer look at happenings in hip-hop, country, rock and punk, as well as jazz, blues and R&B. We once again confer a distinguished panel to talk about the state of Black music in Music City. We check in with side players, remember people across Nashville’s music scenes who died this year and check out developments in the venue landscape. And in our annual Rock ’n’ Roll Poll, we hand the mic over to folks throughout the local music world for their take on just what “Nashville music” was like in 2023. —STEPHEN TRAGESER, MUSIC EDITOR

Catching up with Alicia Bognanno 10 years into her rock project’s ongoing evolution

From Bully and Be Your Own Pet to Allison Russell and Joy Oladokun, here are our favorite local LPs of the year

Talking with Kenny Smoov, Rashad Rayford, Erica Hayes Schultz and Jason Eskridge about the challenges facing Nashville’s Black music communities

Work by Six One Trïbe, Brian Brown and lots of others in Nashville’s hip-hop community is setting the stage for the genre’s next 50 years

Snooper, Be Your Own Pet and many more made 2023 a phenomenal year for punk in Nashville

Success for onetime underdogs like Zach Bryan, Lainey Wilson and Jelly Roll stands in contrast to hateful garbage from folks like Jason Aldean

From the Nashville Jazz Workshop to Easy Eye’s superb ‘Tell Everybody!’ compilation and beyond, local jazz and blues fans had a busy year

Another historic year in local rock featured releases by Annie DiRusso, Paramore, Be Your Own Pet, Bully, Ben Folds, and many, many more

Looking back at the lives of Jerry Bradley, Richard Griffin, Liz Theils, Frank Sass and others who made an impact on Nashville music

Talking with stellar instrumentalists Ellen Angelico, Spencer Cullum, Mike Hicks and Jo Schornikow

Developments in the ongoing stories of Exit/In and Cannery Hall punctuated a year overflowing with live music

The local music scene on the local music scene

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