English Teacher’s highly anticipated LP This Could Be Texas is a perfect debut, even earning the esteemed Mercury Prize. The Leeds quartet held little to nothing back across the 13 song collection. With piano refrains, guitar riffs and poetic lyrics, the album defies genre, toeing the lines of post-punk and indie-prog and everything in between. It’s expansive and sonically spacious without feeling too unapproachable.

Frontwoman Lily Fontaine explains, “I want this album to feel like you’ve gone to space, and it turns out it’s almost identical to Doncaster. It’s about in-betweens, it’s about home, and it’s about Desire Paths.”

Watch English Teacher perform “Broken Biscuits” and “Albatross” live at WNXP’s Sonic Cathedral here. 

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss 615 Indie Live happening this Saturday at various independent music venues across Nashville with Chris Cobb, the president of Music Venue Alliance Nashville. 

Dublin four-piece SPRINTS lives up to their band name with their frenetic, garage-punk sound. The fast-paced energy of their music is equally matched by frontwoman Karla Chubb’s intense lyricism. The band’s debut full length Letter To Self “transforms pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength.” Chubb tackles issues like bodily autonomy, mental health and social injustice. The quartet channels this “negative energy” into a cathartic 40 minutes with moments of thrashing anger and melodic meltdowns. Similar to contemporary post-punk counterparts IDLES, SPRINTS aims to bring about change in the world, or at the very least, within ourselves. Chubb explains, “No matter what you’re born into, or have experienced, there’s a way to emerge from this and be happy within yourself.”

Watch SPRINTS perform “Adore Adore Adore,” “Feast” and “Up and Comer” live at WNXP’s Sonic Cathedral here.

The core members of NYC band Rubblebucket, Alex Toth and Kal Traver, joined us to talk about their seventh LP, 'Year of the Banana,' which is WNXP's Record of the Week the same week the group returns to Nashville on tour.

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss the Echo Chamber Music Series at the Parthenon. It’s happening this Sunday with Sista Strings, followed by two more shows in February and March. 

British singer-songwriter and guitarist Nilüfer Yanya released her third LP, My Method Actor, in September of 2024 and it made loads of reputed Best of the Year lists come December. We caught up with the artist on tour in October and discussed the record’s symbolism, her continued collaboration with producer Will Archer, her fandom of PJ Harvey and more. Now it’s WNXP’s Record of the Week.

The British-born, Nashville-based artist Yola has a new EP called My Way. That’s a fitting title for the work of a singer and songwriter who’s resisted labels that others have put on her throughout her career. WNXP’s Marquis Munson talked with the Nashville Artist of the Month about showing another side of herself musically. 

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — with celebrations happening at Schermerhorn Symphony Center this weekend and the National Museum of African American Music on Monday. But this week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Nashville MLK Day with different events happening today through Monday. Cheryl Mayes is part of the planning committee.

Intense emotion expressed through slamming guitars is the hallmark of Ok Cowgirl's new album, "Couldn't Save Us From My Gut," our Record of the Week on WNXP. We caught up with lead singer Leah Lavigne on a porch in East Nashville to talk about it.

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Woven Nashville: An Evening of Music, Art, and Conversation hosted by Chuck Beard and Jason Eskridge happening tomorrow at the Frist Art Museum with special guest singer-songwriter Shannon LaBrie and host of WPLN's This is Nashville Khalil Ekulona.