Nat Tracey-Miller's Profile

By the time I arrived in Washington Park, a sizable crowd had gathered to catch the joint Midpoint kickoff party and album release show with JR JR (formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.). The pillar-ringed bandstand didn’t make for ideal viewing, but the band made the best of it, with co-leader...

On paper, Joshua Tillman’s act as Father John Misty shouldn’t work. His songs are self-referential, cynical, drizzled with irony, and border on being too clever for their own good. But they’re also warm, confessional, and even at their meanest-spirited (and some of them give...

“You should see/There’s a place I want to take you/When the train comes, I will hold you/’Cause you blow my mind,” sings smoky-voiced Victoria Legrand in the opening minutes of Beach House’s fifth LP, Depression Cherry. It’s a typically cinematic entrée...

Christian Moerlein Brewing Co., 7:15 PM The Pale Horse arrived just in time. The debut LP by Lexington, KY quartet Ancient Warfare is an autumnal wonder, filled with crisp comfort and haunted harmonies. If there’s any single vibe they’ve managed to channel, it’s the spooked...

The Besnard Lakes seem incapable of thinking small. The Quebecois outfit’s four albums to date are elaborate, ornate affairs that exist in their own strange world between dream pop and post-rock. It’s as if mid-90’s Mercury Rev took a sharp right turn into shoegaze territory....

Ride should’ve filled stadiums. They certainly had the sound to pull it off. The quartet blasted out of the same Oxford, UK music scene as Radiohead on the strength of banshee walls of guitar noise and the endorsement of The Jesus and Mary Chain. Their near-perfect debut LP, Nowhere, predated...

When culling through the hours upon hours of recently-released material from Bob Dylan and The Band’s seminal 1967 recording sessions at Big Pink, the best part is not the songs. And don’t get me wrong, they’re great; some of the greatest, weirdest Americana that has ever been put...

Neil Young does what Neil Young wants to do. This is the guy who followed up his first #1 album with three perfect but utterly uncommercial records documenting the bloody aftermath of the heroin-riddled early 70’s. This is the guy who ended a tour with on-again-off-again creative partner...

This weekend is absolutely packed with great events, ranging from Pride to the Northside Music Festival. But if you're up for a relaxing and pastoral change of pace, it may be worth checking out the second annual Pollination Festival at Treasure Lake in Petersburg, KY. Just a half hour from...

“The children of the sun begin to wake”- “Going to California”  The whole drive back from Tennessee, I was trying to work out how to even begin encompassing this past weekend. It’s a tricky thing; no two people have the same Bonnaroo. It’s a weekend of...

There is nothing else like the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Some festivals (Lollapalooza, Coachella) offer the same staggering scale, and others still (Electric Forest) offer the same 24-hour otherworldly escape. But none of them combine the two quite like Bonnaroo. For one weekend--this...

Rich Shivener & Nat Tracey-Miller were on the ground for us this weekend at Bunbury Festival. Here is a set-by-set recap of Bunbury Day 3! 500 Miles to Memphis 2:30 River StageHometown boys getting the last day of the festival kicked off right. 500 Miles to Memphis are Bunbury veterans by now,...