Styrofoam Winos are a radically equal in that there is no set lead singer, guitarist, drummer or bassist. It's unusual, but it works. Each song on their new album Real Time, has a different perspective and voice, but the beauty is the harmony they all create as one.

Musician Tucker Zimmerman is a bit of a musical Forrest Gump. In his 83 years he has sipped coffee with the Beats in San Francisco, taught David Bowie how to record in a studio, and now he has made an album with Big Thief. Dance of Love is a freewheeling album that brings intergenerational hippies together into one common feeling.

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss Concert and Conversation: Night Train to Lovenoise: A Generation Journey of Black Music in Nashville. The event is taking place this Saturday at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum from 2:30 to 4.

A.G. Sully grew up in Hartselle, Alabama, just a few hours away from Nashville. She describes it as very small and very conservative, but it’s a place that shaped her to become who she is today. She said she started writing around sophomore year of college writing her first songs "Lil Mama" and "FOMO" which she wrote inside one of the practice rooms at MTSU. The music she started to make was a far cry from the Christian music she was used to singing. 

She describes her songwriting as linear and wouldn’t say it was super structured. Like many artists, she takes inspiration from what’s going on in her personal life. Her life between Space to Think and her new record, Premonition of Rain, has been vastly different and its reflected in the songwriting.

Alt-rock legends Violent Femmes are touring in 2024 celebrating the 40th anniversary of their sophomore release 'Hallowed Ground.' But in certain cities -- including Nashville on October 9 -- they're playing a wide selection from their discography with the accompaniment of symphony orchestras. Femmes frontman Gordon Gano shared with WNXP about the experience playing with so many instrumentalists, and also the sustained musical chemistry with bandmate Brian Ritchie.

This week for What Where When-sday, we discuss the Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival happening this Saturday at Centennial Park. 

Our special guest this week is former Nashvillian JD McPherson. He explains why the new record, Nite Owls, took seven years to arrive, how his daughter inspired one its greatest songs and how his covers EP opened the door to the new album’s direction.

Our Record of the Week is with newly crowned guitar god, MJ Lenderman, where he talks about his new found attention, the character studies of Manning Fireworks and learning about rock music through Guitar Hero.

After her single “labour” took the internet by storm, audiences worldwide impatiently awaited Paris Paloma’s debut full length. Luckily, Cacophony lived up to the hype. Inspired by Stephen Fry’s book of Greek myth retellings “Mythos,” Cacophony processes anxiety, oppression and trauma through brilliant songwriting and ethereal vocal layering. It’s hauntingly beautiful and unexpectedly textured.

Watch Paris Paloma perform “my mind (now),” “bones on the beach” and “labour” from Cacophony live at WNXP’s Sonic Cathedral here. 

Honeyglaze, the South London trio whose Fat Possum debut Real Deal has already produced two singles you’ve heard on WNXP in “Don’t” and “Pretty Girls” and whose ability to add soaring melody and nuanced vocals to a post-punk foundation helps them jump the line of soundalikes.