Join us in the record shop on Thursday, October 1st at 4:00 PM for a special early listening party for Remi Wolf’s upcoming album, Mud ! We’ll be hanging out, spinning the album in the shop and sharing party favors + raffle tickets for a sweet prize with attendees. (Raffle tickets are limited to one per person and available at no cost. Must be present to win.) We had the best time when we hosted Remi Wolf for a Q&A a couple of years ago. We are so pumped to listen to her new record and hope you can be here too so we can listen together! This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all.

If Remi Wolf’s first two albums, 2021’s Juno and 2024’s Big Ideas, were in technicolor, her third LP Mud is its more neutral, earthy and grounded sibling. Still colorful, as Wolf tends to be, but from a more rooted & grounded place.

The rawness with which Wolf wrote the album is delivered in the sound: stripped away of synths and programmed drums, Mud is Remi Wolf at her most lyrically and sonically vulnerable. The songs evoke the feeling of singing around a campfire with just your friends and a couple guitars because that’s how it felt for Wolf to make it. But to find the clearing in the forest, she needed to make a whole new trail first. Mud will be released via Island Music on October 9th on limited edition metallic smoke vinyl with alternate cover art—available exclusively at indie record shops—as well as cassettes & CDs.

Join us on Friday, September 25th at 12PM noon for a special Julia Jacklin release day Listening Party! We’ll be spinning her brand new album, The Gem, in full and giving away some sweet party favors + raffle tickets for a grand prize giveaway. (Raffle tickets are limited to one per person and are free for all. You must be present to win.) This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!

Julia Jacklin has made a name for herself as one of Australia’s most internationally celebrated songwriters, with nominations at both the ARIA and Libera Awards, sold-out shows globally, massive tours, appearing on major festival stages from Glastonbury to Pitchfork, Newport Folk to Primavera, with countless accolades for her critically acclaimed albums.
After touring flat-out for years on three beloved releases, Julia found herself at home out of contract with her record label, looking for a new manager. “For the first time since I started out, I had this big chunk of time without any industry expectations and no-one to ask me what was going on,” she remembers. “It was liberating and it was scary.” Jacklin wanted to do things intentionally this time around. She wanted to back herself. And she wanted to make the record at home in Melbourne: something she’d never done before.
“I want to love and be loved, but I also want to feel free. The tension between those two things has been the central question of my life,” Julia says. This is the theme that underpins her fourth album The Gem.
When Julia first moved to Melbourne from Sydney in 2017, she discovered a little bar called The Gem on a back street in Collingwood, where bands pushed dining tables to the side and set up in a corner on the floor.
“The Gem felt like a metaphor for the whole process, because a lot of it did feel like digging. I felt like I was almost doing it in the dark, just trusting that I was going to find something,” says Jacklin of the record, which conjures images of excavation, of reinvention, of trusting your instincts and surrounding yourself with the people and things that make life worthwhile. It’s a soaring document of the songwriter’s journey back to herself. Due out September 25th via 4AD, The Gem will be available for purchase in store on vinyl & CD.

We hope you can join us on Wednesday, September 23rd at 4:00 PM when we host music historian and writer John Brackett in celebration of the release of his new book Touch of Grey or How The Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars. Brackett will be reading from and speaking about Touch of Grey before signing copies for attendees. He’ll be joined by Nashville’s own Rich Mahan, a knowledgable Grateful Dead enthusiast in his own right, who will also be performing a few Dead tunes for the occasion. You can preorder your copy of Touch of Grey or How The Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars on our site here now or pick up your copy when you’re here for the event. This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!

Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars tells the story of how one song transformed the popular legacy of one of rock’s most iconic musical groups. John Brackett traces the history of the song “Touch of Grey,” beginning with songwriter Robert Hunter’s lyrical sketches and the Grateful Dead’s earliest live arrangements, culminating in the group’s popular renaissance following the release of “Touch of Grey” and the album In the Dark in the summer of 1987. Brackett details how particular recording technologies, notable musical characteristics, modes of attending and listening, and the mechanics of the contemporary music industry shaped this defining moment in the group’s career. Drawing on extensive archival research, Touch of Grey examines how the band and their label worked to produce a hit record, a dynamic music video, and an effective promotional campaign that would propel the Grateful Dead from a group with a devoted cult following to become a pop culture phenomenon.

Before and after our Touch of Grey book event we’ll be spinning the latest Grateful Dead archival release, Merriweather 6/30/1985 (Live) and giving away some sweet GD freebies and one grand prize—a copy of the new 4 LP box set. Merriweather 6/30/85 features a previously unreleased, complete live performance from Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD 6/30/85, including favorites like “Sugar Magnolia,” “Cryptical Envelopment,” and what most Dead Heads consider the best version of “Shakedown Street” ever performed by the Grateful Dead. Be sure to enter to win our grand prize giveaway when you arrive on Wednesday. We’ll select the winner at the end of the event.

In partnership with Daydream Records, Eastside Bowl, and WXNA 101.5 LP FM, Nashville’s listener-supported freeform community radio station, we are thrilled to announce the date for the upcoming WXNA Record Fair!

Please join us on Sunday, September 20th, from Noon to 6 p.m. at Eastside Bowl, for the fourth official WXNA Record Fair featuring over 50 dealers from near and far. In addition to tons and tons of great albums to dig through, there will be live sets from your favorite WXNA DJs! And what goes great with records? How about drinks, food, and bowling! As for Grimey’s, we’ll show up with a fantastic selection of preloved gems from a recent collection we purchased, from the estate of Paul Lorczak, a long-time customer and vinyl aficionado with connoisseur tastes. Most of these LPs have never been for sale in our shop so don’t miss this opportunity to browse a world-class collection!

Admission is $5 with proceeds going to benefit WXNA 101.5 FM, a 501c-3 non-profit, all-volunteer, free-form community radio station. Tickets will be available at the door and will soon be available to purchase in advance via Eastside Bowl. 

Please join us on Friday, September 18th at 4:00 PM to help celebrate Bernie Taupin’s upcoming album, The Sea Has No Mercy! Taupin will be joined by award winning producer Frank Liddell for a conversation about his forthcoming record before signing TSHNM art prints along with copies of his memoir and previous albums for attendees. We are so happy to be able to host Bernie in the record shop while he’s in town for the Americana Music Association’s annual conference & festival, AmericanaFest 2026!

The Sea Has No Mercy is due out October 23rd on vinyl LP & CD via Vertigo Records / MCA Nashville. All who preorder Taupin’s new album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a The Sea Has No Mercy art print + wristband for the post-discussion signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about The Sea Has No Mercy and place your preorder on our site here. In addition to the art print, Bernie will sign one previous album or copy of his book per person.

Bernie Taupin is one of the all-time greatest storytelling songwriters, and his creative connection with his friend and cultural icon Elton John is one of the most successful and enduring partnerships in music history. Yet despite his myriad array of accomplishments, Bernie Taupin is now set to achieve something he has never done before with his new solo album. Remarkably, The Sea Has No Mercy will be the first album that he has entirely self-written. As such, it’s the soundtrack to his own life - a record that presents a master craftsman at his most personal, distilling 76 years of lived experience into 10 songs that are reflective and revealing, vivid and thoughtful, sometimes hushed, sometimes joyful, sometimes elegiac.

Taupin describes the album as a late-life manifesto. It’s only natural, therefore, that it was inspired by his acclaimed 2023 autobiography Scattershot and a retrospective documentary that has been in development for a few years. Ultimately, the three projects will be innately interlinked.

Taupin says, “I couldn’t have made this album as a younger man. I couldn’t have written any of these songs. They’re all completely indicative of Bernie Taupin at 76-years-old. They need the life behind them. Everything on this record is hugely personal. Every single line, every word, means something to me, whether from a past, present or storytelling perspective.” The album dispenses with volume and sparkles in favour of warm, atmospheric folk informed by intimacy and closeness.

The project was recorded in Nashville with producer Frank Liddell, along with a core band composed of Music City legends: guitarist Adam Wright, bassist Glen Worf and keyboard player Michael Rojas - a trio collectively nicknamed The Tennessee Stone Cutters. It also features guest vocal appearances from Americana superstar Brandi Carlile and Bernie’s daughter, Georgey, as well as contributions from country legend Lee Ann Womack, the Jeremy Jordon Ensemble and percussion master Jay Bellerose.

We’re so excited to be able to host Bernie Taupin and Frank Liddell at Grimey’s hope you’ll be here for their conversation. You can place a preorder for the new Bernie Taupin album in the record store or on our webstore here and lock-in your wristband & art print for the signing and securing your spot in the shop for what we expect to be a pretty packed event! (Please note, preordered copies of The Sea Has No Mercy will be available for pickup starting on 10/23. We anticipate mail orders will ship out on or around 10/23 as well.) See you soon, Nashville!!

We’re excited to host Silverada at Grimey’s and have removed copies of Living Proof from our website in advance of their event here today. We’ll have vinyl and CD copies of the album available for purchase in person in the record store.

Please make plans to join us on Thursday, September 17th at 4:00 PM for a special in-store performance & album signing with Silverada, Austin, TX’s workingman's country band (formerly known as Mike & the Moonpies). The band is in town for the 2026 Americana Music Association conference & festival, AmericanaFest. They’ll be performing at AmericanaFest on Tuesday, 9/15, and performing at The Opry on Wednesday, 9/16. Catch them when they return to Grimey’s and perform songs from & sign their recent album, Living Proof, their tenth release. All who preorder Silverada’s album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for their post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about the new Silverada album and place your preorder on our site here..

“Acclaimed Texas based country rock band Silverada returns with new studio album Living Proof, arriving on August 7th via Prairie Rose Records. Produced by band founder Mike Harmeier and Texas legend John Evans, in conjunction with the band themselves, this 10-song project is the band's first album recorded at the iconic Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas. Deep pocketed grooves and captivating hooks are the bedrock of Living Proof, aided by the addition of new full time member, keys player and multi-instrumentalist Parker Twomey. Lead vocalist and chief songwriter Mike Harmeier continues to lyrically expand on the everyman themes he's become known for, while the band bleeds fresh authenticity into songs that promise to captivate fans of all genres. This is well seasoned American music that blends country and rock motifs by a band in its prime. Silverada has reimagined their approach and found themselves again as confident as ever.

We’re pumped to be able to host Silverada at Grimey’s and to celebrate their new album with them and all of you. We hope you’ll come out for the occasion. You can place a preorder for Living Proof in the record store or on our webstore here or you can grab your copy in the shop when you come to see them play. Either way, we hope to see you here!

We’re thrilled to partner with Secretly Distribution for a special Independents Day celebration at Grimey’s on Wednesday, September 16th from noon until 5:30 featuring performances from Thomas Dollbaum, Emily Scott Robinson, Lily Seabird, and Dead Gowns, plus a special Tribute to Blaze Foley featuring performances by Riley Downing & John R. Miller! This is a free and all ages affair, first come, first served. We’ll post additional info soon, so stay tuned for updates here!

Independents Day

1PM - Dead Gowns (Mtn Laurel Recording Co.)

“Dead Gowns is the songwriting project of Portland, Maine-based musician Geneviève Beaudoin. In February of 2025 Beaudoin released her first full-length It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded by Snow , an album she recorded between 2020-2023 in various bedrooms, desacralized churches, and old gymnasiums on or near islands in coastal Maine. Later Beaudoin traveled Las Vegas to help a close friend move and start a new life there. But buried within that newness, there was an old and gradually widening fracture—and in that city, the friendship ended. Back home in Maine, she began crafting her second full-length album as Dead Gowns—Vegas. The result is all bright lights and dark waters, every instrument a response to the ache of Beaudoin's voice, a voice which increasingly anchors the album as it unfurls. Vegas will be released by Mtn. Laurel Recording Co. on vinyl and CD on November 15th.

2PM - Lily Seabird (Lame-O)

“‘Sometimes life gets so dark, it starts to feel like a bad trip,’ Lily Seabird reflects on the seasons that led to the making of her new record, Lightspheres on Their Way. Seabird's third record in as many years for Lame-O Records deals in mortality and reverence for the innately human, piecing her troubadour-ish folk to a grungy rock sentimentality. Though born from a period of reckoning and renewal, Seabird orients Lightspheres on Their Way around a holistic realism that buoys the spirit, with loose, earthy arrangements that meet intensity and depth with both twangy spaciousness and searing drive. Lightspheres on Their Way will be released on vinyl & CD via Lame-O Records on September 4th.

Across the record's nine tracks, the Vermont-based singer and songwriter orbits around the concept of "lightspheres," a catalysing presence or force that visits time and time again and shifts stories, feelings and trajectories. "A lightsphere can be so many things" says Seabird, " an actual light like a star, the sun, a UFO; headlights, a flashlight in the night; but also life, living things, people, relationships.”

3PM - Emily Scott Robinson

“Emily Scott Robinson's third album, Appalachia, is a soul-baring album for anyone in the thick of it. It's for the misfits, the sleep-deprived, the grieving, the scrappy and hopeful. For dawn drives, third cups of coffee, and love you didn't think you deserved but got anyway. It's for you who still unapologetically bursts with hope.”

4PM - Blaze Foley Tribute ft. Riley Downing, Phosphorescent, & John T. Miller

Local troubadours Riley Downing and John T. Miller lend their talents to songs penned by the late great Texas singer, songwriter, poet & artist, Blaze Foley. Lost Art Records’ upcoming compilation Sittin’ With Blaze showcases an assemblage of thirteen contemporary songwriters covering classic early Blaze recordings from his ‘tree house’ days in Georgia. Those recordings were originally released by Lost Art Records as Sittin’ by the Road in 2010 culled from demos recorded by Blaze in the mid-1970s. The compilation, due out later this fall, includes new recordings by Lucy Dacus, John Moreland, Phosphorescent, Uncle Lucius, Willie Watson, Cactus Lee, Dylan Earl, Riley Downing, Joshua Ray Walker, Twain, Angela Autumn, John R. Miller, and Lucinda Williams. Sittin’ With Blaze will be released on vinyl and CD later this fall.

5PM - Thomas Dollbaum (Dear Life Records)

“The realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum and Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following up his critically acclaimed Wellswood (Big Legal Mess, 2022) and Drive All Night EP (Dear Life Records, 2025), Birds of Paradise is a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves. These songs find Dollbaum searching for acceptance in the transient in-between places: Florida's pine flatwoods, backroads leading to 1-95, where birds fly across the water. And even though the ghosts of his alt-county predecessors Townes and Molina are definitely present, on Birds of Paradise, Dollbaum emerges from their shadows-waving to the past, sounding all the more like himself.”

We’re excited to host Katie Pruitt at Grimey’s and have removed copies of Fools for the Fleeting from our website in advance of her event here today. We’ll have vinyl and CD copies of the album available for purchase in person in the record store.

Please join us on Tuesday, September 15th at 4:00 PM to help celebrate Katie Pruitt’s Fools for the Fleeting! Katie will be performing songs from her brand new album, and signing copies for attendees a few days before the album’s official release. We are so happy to be able to host Katie in the record shop, especially at such a fun time of the year in Nashville, AmericanaFest! week. Fools for the Fleeting is due out 9/18, on Blue Blend Eco-Mix color vinyl LP & CD via Rounder Records. All who preorder Katie’s album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for her post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about Fools for the Fleeting and place your preorder on our site here.
Less than a decade into her career, Katie Pruitt has cemented her status as an essential artist who helps us make sense of modern life and uncover meaningful ways of moving through it. Since the arrival of her critically celebrated full-debut Expectations (a 2020 LP that earned her an Emerging Artist of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Association), the Georgia-bred singer/songwriter/guitarist has assembled an acclaimed body of work exploring questions both existential and intimate (e.g., identity, self-acceptance, the quiet courage of living truthfully). On her new album Fools for the Fleeting, the Nashville-based musician reckons with the impermanence inherent to being human, shifting between poetic observation and confessional storytelling as she confronts such complex matters as ecological anxiety, love’s intrinsic fragility, and the profound isolation normalized by our increasingly digitized existence.

Her third full-length and follow-up to 2024’s Mantras, Fools for the Fleeting emerged from Pruitt’s vision of creating an album that feels “rooted to the earth”—a concept closely tied to the LP’s underlying theme of nature as a mirror for our inner lives. A prime showcase for her warm and soulful voice, the 10-song set centers on a powerful yet intentional form of Americana/indie-rock, steeped in acoustic instrumentation and the beautifully imperfect friction of live performance, courtesy of musicians like Juan Solorzano (a guitarist known for his work with Ruston Kelly and Parker Millsap) and Aksel Coe (a drummer who’s played with Ella Langley and Sierra Ferrell). As Pruitt’s most outward-reaching and philosophically rich work to date, the result is a luminous meditation on transience and grief, connection as survival, and the transformative power of presence and surrender.

We’re pumped to hear Katie’s new record and see her perform songs from it in the shop. We hope you’ll come check out the performance and help us celebrate the release of Fools for the Fleeting. You can place a preorder for the new Katie Pruitt album in the record store or on our webstore here. See you soon, Nashville!!

9.4 Update: Our Medium Build Preorder + Wristband is now SOLD OUT! We will have copies of King of Having Fun available for in-store purchase beginning on release date, Friday, Sept. 4th, however we will not be offering any additional wristbands for this event with purchase. Thanks for understanding. - Grimey’s mgmt.

We’re super excited to host Medium Build at Grimey’s on Saturday, September 5th, to celebrate the release of King of Having Fun! His new album drops Friday, 9/4, and he’ll be heading to the record shop the next day for a special noontime instore performance & record signing. All who preorder Medium Build’s album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for his post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about the new Medium Build album and place your preorder on our site here.

Nick Carpenter was raised in an evangelical household in Georgia and learned at an early age how to both perform and to be performative. He credits the birth of Medium Build to two significant personal heartbreaks: once as an aspiring Christian at the hands of the Church, and once by the music industry as a member of an indie rock band called, fittingly, Little Moses.

“Most of my upbringing was spent learning how to perform the act of existence,” he says. “Being a good boy at church or school was how you got ahead, so the church was a place for me to perform this sort of existence to earn praise and perks. But when I found out how fucked up its inner workings are, the church dream died. And my experience in Nashville for music was very similar. So, Medium Build was created to be a place where no one could ever take anything from me. It was born from a kill-all-accessibility perspective: Say the darkest, nastiest thought you're otherwise afraid to say; don't filter — all the shit you weren't allowed to say at church, say it here. I just wanted a place where I could be ugly.”

Having tried his hand in a few different Southern music hubs, Carpenter took advantage of an opportunity to restart as far away from home as possible and moved in with his older brother in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2018, where he continued writing stripped-down, angsty, and wry songs under the Medium Build name. Adding guitar and vocals to beats or loops, Carpenter let the raw, emotional texture of his voice shine, and when paired with the evocative, heartrendingly real nature and relatability of his lyrics, a winning formula emerged. Recruiting a production-savvy friend to help him record and engineer, the output retained a strong DIY sensibility while revealing itself clearly capable of reaching a larger audience. Galvanized by that performative religious background, early Medium Build shows were communal, life-affirming affairs, and their spectacle spread via social media and word of mouth.
steady grip of EPs, full-lengths, and singles over the next five years culminated with a slowplay/Island Records deal, bigger tours ,and a move to Nashville in 2023, followed by the 2024 LP Country.

In the time that passed Carpenter struggled with alcohol and sobriety and with success and notoriety. In his search for authenticity he wrote the songs that would become King of Having Fun. Carpenter booked a studio for two weeks, and assembled his collaborative dream team — Paul Rogers, the musical director; Jimmy Mansfield, the engineer; and Jake LiBassi, the atmospheric moodmaker — to lock in and steer the creative process. They often reverse-engineered from the perspective of playing the songs live in bigger rooms and arenas at the objective forefront, and added upbeat tempos, guitar solos, singalongs, and more with those specific, future rock and roll moments in mind. And yet despite the dark subject matter hanging over much of it all, Carpenter’s lyrics also poke and prod at the gloaming, revealing a newfound maturity and rediscovered zest.

We’re really happy to be able to welcome Medium Build back to Grimey’s for an intimate performance of songs from his new record. We hope you’ll come out for the occasion! You can place a preorder for King of Having Fun in the record store or on our webstore here. See you soon, Nashville!

We’re excited to host Little Big Town at Grimey’s and have removed copies of It’s a Dying Art from our website in advance of their event here today. We’ll have copies of the vinyl and CD available for purchase in person in the record store.

Make plans to join us in the record store on Friday, August 28rd at 3:00 PM for a special Little Big Town It’s a Dying Art album signing and record release celebration! Little Big Town will be hanging in the shop with us, signing copies of their new album and meeting fans. It’s a Dying Art is available to preorder in the record store and on our site here on limited edition “Sangria Red” colored vinyl LP and CD. All who preorder the new album from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for LBT’s album signing. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and also guarantee entrance to our event. (Kids 12 & under do not require a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.) The band will just be signing copies of their new album at our event, FYI. This is an in-person, album signing only. (Please do not bring gear, posters or any other merch for the signing event.) Additional copies of It’s a Dying Art will also available to purchase in person on vinyl & CD in the shop at our signing event.

Little Big Town—composed of Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, and Jimi Westbrook—are one of country music’s most enduring and celebrated groups. Over a 25-year career, the GRAMMY, ACM, CMA, AMA, and Emmy Award-winning band has delivered a string of genre-defining hits including “Boondocks,” “Pontoon,” “Tornado,” “Day Drinking,” and the history-making, best-selling country single of 2015, “Girl Crush.”

Their acclaimed albums Tornado, PainKiller, The Breaker (which debuted at No. 1 and featured the GRAMMY-winning “Better Man”), Nightfall, and Mr. Sun have produced multiple No. 1 singles and earned widespread critical praise. The band recently unveiled their next chapter with their forthcoming 12th studio album It's A Dying Art, arriving August 28 via MCA. Co-produced by Little Big Town’s own Karen Fairchild and two-time GRAMMY winner Gena Johnson, the project blends intimate storytelling, emotional balladry, and a focus on human-made music shaped by imperfection and lived experience. The band first previewed the project with the poignant “Hey There Sunshine,” which debuted at the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards to widespread acclaim, with The Tennessean calling it “a hopeful, healing moment” and Billboard praising it as “a timely message from one of country music’s greatest vocal groups.” They followed with “Over and Over,” which Billboard hailed as a “top-shelf post-breakup anthem,” “Sucker For A Sad Song” featuring Ashley Monroe, which Rolling Stone declared a “song you need to know,” and the piano-driven ballad, “We Could Have It All.” The band’s most recent offering “Closing Time” is a flirtatious duet with Kelsea Ballerini, that celebrates living in the moment as last call turns into a night that's too good to end. Additional standout tracks include the relationship-worn “The Door” featuring Jason Isbell, the fiery “It’s Coming Around,” and the visceral “The Idea.” In support of the new album, they will embark on their North American headline For The Art Of It Tour, kicking off in September. Don’t miss them when they headline The Ryman Auditorium December 8th - 10th. Tickets are available to these shows via The Ryman now.

To date, Little Big Town has amassed more than 45 major award nominations and taken home over 20 wins across GRAMMYs, CMAs, ACMs, AMAs, People’s Choice Awards, and an Emmy. With the upcoming release of It’s A Dying Art, Little Big Town continues to build on a legacy as one of country music’s most respected and influential groups.

We’re stoked to celebrate It’s a Dying Art with Little Big Town and all of you!!! Lock in your preorder in the record shop or on our site here now and be here August 28th. See you soon, Music City!

Join us in the record shop on Wednesday, August 26th at 4PM for your opportunity to listen to So Much For Goodbyes , the new Billy Strings album, due out Friday, August 28th via Reprise. We’ll be listening to the album in full and distributing party favors to attendees along with raffle tickets for a grand prize giveaway. Raffle tickets are free & limited to one per customer. Our drawing will be held at the end of the album playback. (There is no cost to participate in our drawing, however you must be present to win.)

So Much For Goodbyes is Billy Strings 5th studio album and is dedicated to his late mother, Debra Apostol. Produced by T-Bone Barnett, the album will be available for purchase in the record store on limited edition ‘Sun Core’ yellow vinyl LP and CD, starting on 8/28, but you can preorder it in the shop at our event or on our site here now if you wanna lock in your copy.

This is a free & all ages listening event. See you soon, Music City!

We hope you can be here on Friday, August 21st at 4:00 PM for a special early release celebration of Alicia’s Witt’s 8th studio album! She’ll be hanging out with us that day for an exciting Q&A moderated by transcendental meditation teacher Donielle Freeberg, of the David Lynch Foundation, plus Witt will be performing and signing copies of her new album, all one week before the official release of Between Heaven & Earth (due out August 28th via Thirty Tigers). You can preorder the new album in the shop or on our website here, for event pickup or you can just grab a copy when you’re here that day. Either way, be here on August 21st to learn more about Witt & her creative process, plus this is your chance to ask two people in the know about late filmmaker David Lynch. After Witt’s Q&A and short performance, she’ll be signing copies of her new album for attendees. This is gonna be a fun time, we hope to see you all here!

Some people change your life in every way that a life can be changed. David Lynch is one of those people. 

When Alicia Witt first worked with him at age 7 in his classic Dune (1984) she had no idea what he meant to anyone as a filmmaker, nor that she would work with him 3 more times over the course of his life and that he would become one of her greatest influences. She only knew that she had found a kindred spirit and that she loved him. 

Between Heaven & Earth is a tribute to his energy, his legacy, and most of all, his love. When Alicia attended his memorial gathering shortly after his passing in 2025, she was struck by the depth of the relationships in that space. The knowing that if you were loved by David, you stayed loved. As those in the room spoke of their shared experience that David was still among them - directing from beyond - Alicia became ever more aware that she was being encouraged to create an album from this space of eternal unconditional love.

“Use my name,” David whispered. And so it was.

Produced by renowned producer and singer-songwriter Joe Henry (Emmylou Harris; Milk Carton Kids; Bonnie Raitt; Rodney Crowell), Between Heaven & Earth was recorded live in studio in 5 days in New York City in January 2026. Alicia Witt on piano and vocals, accompanied by a band of 5 musicians, take you on a sonic journey that could never be recreated, channeling the energy that was brought together in this moment to honor the immeasurable effect that David Lynch had and still has on the world. He was palpably present in every moment of the making of this album. Between Heaven & Earth takes the listener on a journey to a place where only love is real, hanging suspended amongst the fragments of the day to day life we can see and touch - and another timeline just beyond this one.

Witt has been acting since her debut in David Lynch’s Dune at age 7. She’s spent 4 decades in front of the camera, most recently in 2024’s Longlegs, opposite Nicolas Cage. Her many credits include the films Two Weeks Notice, Mr. Holland’s Opus, and Urban Legend, as well as the television series Orange Is The New Black, The Sopranos, Justified, plus many more. A classically trained pianist, Alicia has been releasing original music since 2009 and has played all around the world.

Joining Witt for a conversation about her new album is Donielle Freeburg. For the first 10 years of her teaching career, Donielle worked with the David Lynch Foundation where she taught Transcendental Meditation (TM) to students, survivors of domestic violence, corporate executives, military veterans, and first responders. She is currently Co-Director of the Nashville TM Center and serves as the Regional Director for the Southeast and Central United States TM Program. She is also the co-host of a podcast called 'The Inner Well', which will be launching in the new year.

We’re excited to host Alicia Witt and Donielle Freeburg at Grimey’s and look forward to celebrating the release of Between Heaven & Earth with her and all of you. See you soon, Nashville!

We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, August 19th at 4:00 PM as we welcome Lindsay Lou back to the record store! That afternoon we’ll be celebrating Lindsay’s new album, Bluegrass Women, with an intimate instore performance & album signing. All who preorder her new album through Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Lindsay’s post-performance record signing. You can place your preorder in person at Grimey’s and on our website here. Wristbands are required to participate in our signing for all 13+ and they also guarantee entrance to this event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.)

Lindsay Lou is commonly dubbed the Queen of any festivals she plays. You’re likely to see her sitting in with other bands and curating All Stars sets in addition to playing her own music. Her roots are in Michigan, where she started making records, including the artist defining Ionia, and touring worldwide with The Flatbellys and The Sweet Water Warblers. Since making Nashville her home, she’s toured with her folk/rock Queen of Time Band and acoustic/harmony driven Honey Moon Trio and has released records like Southland, Queen of Time, and soon she’ll release Bluegrass Women, a ten song album of Bluegrass classics that were penned by women over the course of the genre’s history. The Bluegrass Women project honors women in a predominantly male fronted genre while featuring bands made up entirely of some of the best women and pickers in the scene today. She’s a bringer-together-of-people and a purveyor of buttery, sweet, meaningful experience. In whatever ensemble she chooses to deliver her sound, you hear the common thread of her love for traditional music and authentic new songs inspired by it.

We can’t wait to host Linsday and her band in the shop and hear them perform songs from Bluegrass Women. Make sure you’re here for the occasion too—lock in your Bluegrass Women preorder on our site here or in the record store today. See you soon, Music City!

We’re excited to host Judah & the Lion at Grimey’s and have removed copies of I Am a Prism from our website in advance of their event here today. We’ll have copies of the vinyl and CD available for purchase in person in the record store.

We’re excited to share that on Tuesday, August 18th at 4PM we will host Judah & the Lion at Grimey’s for a special in-store event! We’ll be celebrating JATL’s new album, I Am a Prism (Dualtone Records), with a special instore performance & album signing. All who preorder their new album through Grimey’s will receive a wristband for the band’s post-performance signing. You can place your preorder for I Am a Prism on limited edition translucent blue vinyl LP or CD in person at Grimey’s and on our website here. Wristbands are required to participate in our signing for all 13+. Wristbands also guarantee your entrance to this event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.)

In 2011 Judah Akers and Brian MacdDonald became bandmates while attending college in Nashville at Belmont University. Their group, Judah & the Lion, went on to release the 2016 breakout album, Folk Hop n Roll, which launched them on their musical journey. Since then they’ve released a total of (soon-to-be) six albums, they’ve performed on Kimmel Live! and Good Morning America, and they’ve toured across the world and back home again (their next proper show in Nashville is at The Pinnacle on November 13th.)

Judah & The Lion’s newest album, I Am a Prism, came after a period of soul searching, and in the midst of a welcome joyous new life milestone: Brian becoming a father again. The last three albums had documented some personally heavy topics - mental health and depression (2019’s Pep Talks), heartbreak and divorce (2022’s Revival), and charting the stages of grief (2024’s The Process). On the other side of this trilogy of hard times and heartbreak, Judah & The Lion was at a creative crossroads. They took some time off, parted ways with their management, and asked themselves some tough but necessary questions. Out of this time came I Am a Prism —a celebration of the full spectrum of life, dark and light.

We can’t wait to have Judah & the Lion back in the shop and hear them perform songs from I Am a Prism. Make sure you’re here to celebrate with us—you can preorder their new album on our site here or in the record store now. Looking forward to seeing y’all soon!

Join us in the record store on Saturday, August 15th for a special Weezer ‘gold album’ early listening event. We’ll be spinning the new Weezer self-titled album in the shop almost a week in advance of its official release date (August 21st). We’ll have Weezer party favors to share with attendees, plus we’ll be passing out free raffle tickets for a special prize giveaway. (There is no cost to participate in our giveaway, however you must be present to win.) We’ll also be enjoying complimentary cold brews, for our weekly BEER:30 hang, thanks to our pals at TN Brew Works. This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!

A note on BEER:30 events—our Weezer Weezer early listening event coincides with our weekly BEER:30 hang, so we’ll be offering free Tennessee Brew Works beers to those 21+ (with valid IDs). Beer is complimentary but we are collecting cash tips to be donated to support the good works of the folks at DRKMTTR, Nashville's enduring all-ages space, that thrives as a hub for connectivity and creative collaboration. Beyond being a music venue, DRKMTTR stands as a nexus of resilience, cultivating a dynamic community where the DIY ethos transforms into collective action. Through cross-pollination initiatives, DRKMTTR links artists, organizes communities & the under-21 crowd, and as a 501-C3 non-profit, they seek the backing necessary to perpetuate their pivotal role and create a lasting influence.

We’re excited to host Maggie Rose at Grimey’s and have removed copies of Half Moon from our website in advance of their event here today. We’ll have copies of the vinyl and CD available for purchase in person in the record store.

Nashville’s own Maggie Rose will release her highly anticipated new studio album Half Moon on August 14th and we’re thrilled to host her at Grimey’s that day to celebrate! Produced by Lawrence Rothman (Amanda Shires, Margo Price) and Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges), Half Moon reveals the rare magic of hard-won momentum meeting a creative spirit in peak bloom. Rose will perform a short set of songs from her new album and then will sign copies of Half Moon for attendees. The new album is available to preorder in the record store and on our site here on limited edition 180g Maroon Colored Viny LP in Gatefold Jacket with 12x12 Insert. (Half Moon is also available to preorder on CD.) All who preorder the album from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Rose’s post-performance signing. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and also guarantee entrance to our event. (Kids 12 & under do not require a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.)

After devoting more than a decade to deepening her craft and unlocking the full force of her extraordinary voice, Rose experienced a rapid rise in recognition, including scoring back-to-back GRAMMY nominations for her lauded 2024 album No One Gets Out Alive and her 2025 single “Poison In My Well” with Grace Potter, and earning an Emerging Act Of The Year nod from the Americana Music Association in 2025. Variety proclaimed Maggie is, “a queen among Nashville singers.” A true road warrior, Maggie has shared the stage with the likes of Chris Stapleton, Kelly Clarkson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dave Matthews Band, MyMorning Jacket, Heart, Melissa Etheridge, Molly Tuttle, Lake Street Dive and more—Rose has played the Grand Ole Opry over 100 times. She also hosts her own podcast, Salute The Songbird, where she engages in candid conversations with her female musical heroes.

We can’t wait to see Maggie take the stage and celebrate Half Moon with us! We hope you’ll be here for this fun occasion too. Preorder your copy of the her new album on limited edition maroon vinyl LP and CD on our site here and lockdown your spot for this exclusive performance now!

8/3 Update - We’re excited to host Wyatt Flores at Grimey’s and have removed copies of Scared of Heights from our website in advance of his signing event here today, Monday August 3rd at 4:00 PM. We’ll have copies of his new album available for purchase in person at the record store. See you soon!

Make plans to join us in the record store on Monday, August 3rd at 4:00 PM for a special Wyatt Flores Scared of Heights album signing and record release celebration! Wyatt will be hanging with us, signing copies of his new album and meeting fans. He’ll be in Nashville briefly, just to visit with us and perform at The Grand Old Opry on Tuesday, August 4th, so be sure to tune into the live broadcast on WSM. (Tickets for the Opry that night are available for purchase on their site here.) Wyatt’s new album is available to preorder in the record store and on our site here on limited edition “Vodka Lemonade” colored vinyl LP which includes an album insert and a poster featuring the work of Nashville-based visual artist Chloe Tyler. All who preorder Scared of Heights from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Wyatt’s album signing. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ and also guarantee entrance to our event. (Kids 12 & under do not require a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.) Wyatt will sign up to two copies of his new album and up to one copy of another of his releases for attendees. This is an in-person, album signing only (Please do not bring gear, posters or any other merch for the signing event.) Scared of Heights will also available to purchase in person on CD and cassette in the shop upon release and at our signing event.

We had the pleasure of hosting Wyatt in the shop a couple of years ago and really look forward to hanging with him again and celebrating his new album with all of you! Lock down your preorder and wristband now by visiting our webstore here or by dropping by the record store and placing a preorder in person. All who participate in our Scared of Heights preorder will receive an email approximately a day in advance with preorder pickup and run of event details.

When you’re here for our event, be sure to check out Chloe Tyler’s stellar new mural on the Eastern side of our building where she has rendered the artwork for Scared of Heights larger than life! And if you want to see more of her art, Chloe currently has work featured at local gallery Random Sample in West Nashville.

We’ve removed copies of Over Before You Know It from our website in advance of the event here today, but we’ll have copies of the vinyl and CD available for purchase in person in the record store!

We’re super excited to host Michigander at Grimey’s on Friday, July 31st, to celebrate the release of the new album Over Before You Know It! His album drops that day and he’ll be heading to the record shop for an instore performance & record signing. All who preorder the album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Michigander’s post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they also guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about the new album and place your preorder on our site here.

Michigander is the acclaimed indie rock project led by Nashville-based singer-songwriter/multi- instrumentalist Jason Singer. Singer thought his 2025 full-length debut as Michigander would change everything about his life and work. During the prior decade, after all, Singer had cobbled together the start of a successful career as an incisive and infectious songwriter from the stuff the music industry considers scraps—a half-dozen singles and a quartet of EPs, collectively suggesting he was one of indie rock’s sharpest new tunesmiths. The debut album Michigander felt only like the upper lip of the plateau Singer had been climbing for a decade already. So what, he wondered, was he supposed to do now? The answer that came back was obvious: Keep writing.

Over Before You Know It is the magnetic and relatable result of that work and the broad but detailed view from the top of that plateau. Across 10 songs written and recorded quickly with a crew of close friends at home in Nashville, Singer mixes self-criticism with music industry sendups, sad-eyed contemplations with unguarded love songs, offering up the things that almost stopped him and those that now keep him going with a rare admixture of candor and catchiness. This, it turns out, is the level up.

Above all, it is all a vehicle for Singer to think about becoming the person he still wants to be, for being grateful enough for what he already has to keep going. To be there is to be human. It’s not necessarily about being content but at least about not breaking your back or brain over the things you have yet to accomplish. Sure, it’s over before you know it. But it’s over a lot faster, Singer has now realized, if you don’t take time to enjoy whatever it actually is.

We love Jason and are so happy to be able to celebrate the new Michigander record with him and all of you! We hope you’ll be able to make it to the shop to join us for this happy occasion. You can lock in your preorder for Over Before You Know It next time you’re in the record shop or on our site here now.

The new Ariana Grande record, petal, is coming out on July 31 and we’ll be celebrating its release in the record shop at noon that day with a special petal party! Arianators please join us to hear her ‘feral’ new music together. Plus we’ll be giving away party favors to attendees as well as raffle tickets for a special party prize! (Raffle tickets are limited to one per person but are free; must be present to win.) Copies of petal available for purchase on Indie Exclusive White Vinyl LP & CD. This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!

This event is now SOLD OUT!

We’re thrilled to welcome Charli XCX to Grimey’s for an exclusive, intimate Q&A on Wednesday, July 29th at 3:30 PM. Hot on the heels of the release of her brand new album, Music, Fashion, Film (due out Friday, 7/24), Charli will be sitting down with Nashville-based musician and film-enthusiast Quinn Hills from The Belcourt Theatre to answer YOUR questions!

Space for our event is extremely limited so secure your spot for our event now by placing a preorder for Charli’s new vinyl, Music, Fashion, Film on our site here. Preorders are limited to 2 LPs per person and each LP preordered comes with 1 wristband. WRISTBANDS ARE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT FOR ALL 13+. (Kids 12 & under do not need a wristband if attending with a wristband-holding adult.) This is an in-person Q&A ONLY and NOT A RECORD SIGNING EVENT. Preorder pickup will begin at 11AM on Wednesday, 7/29. Preorders + wristbands are non-transferable.

Please submit questions for our Charli XCX Q&A by emailing those to us (grimeys.records @ gmail.com) and using ‘Charli XCX Question’ as the subject of your message.

Our event is now SOLD OUT! We will have vinyl and CD copies of Music, Fashion, Film available in the store starting Friday 7/24!

We can’t wait to host Styrofoam Winos at Grimey’s for a special record release celebration! The band is out on the road now and their travels will bring them back to Music City on Thursday, July 23rd when they’ll play a short set of songs from their new album and sign copies of the album for attendees. This is gonna be such a fun time, don’t sleep on this y’all. Our event with Styrofoam Winos is free & all ages, so come one, come all!

A decade ago, three employees of JJ’s Market and Cafe became Styrofoam Winos. Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel bonded over their mutual adoration for Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, and dollar bin country records. They amplified each other’s enthusiasm, freaking out over every new song they came across. After a friend moved and left behind a drum set, all three Winos learned to play the drums. Early experiments in group songwriting were born from jam sessions and erasure poetry, blacking out words in old books to generate new poems. They all sang lead and swapped instruments regularly. Seeing Michael Hurley for the first time left a lasting impression and provided the band with one of its creative north stars. Years later, Snock himself would send the Winos his blessing to release their cassette of covers of his songs. 

Styrofoam Winos have always gone with the flow, which makes Any River an apt title for their new album, the follow-up to 2024's Real Time. Their playful approach is bolstered by the chops of seasoned musicians who have performed many hundreds of concerts, both together and as touring members of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, MJ Lenderman and the Wind, and as solo artists. This is one of their key strengths that can’t be overstated: they are extremely good musicians! When three talented people develop such a deep level of chemistry, the result is nothing short of majestic. Each song on Any River came out of jam sessions at Turner and Nikrant’s home studio, and a shared Google doc of lyrics soon followed. They recorded in Louisville—their first album made outside of Nashville—with Roadhouse bandmate and Equipment Pointed Ankh mastermind Jim Marlowe. Marlowe’s understated production kept the band’s unique synergy on full display. He also proved invaluable when it came to bringing their wackiest ideas to life, exemplified by the very committed use of talkbox on a few tracks. 

You can preorder Any River on vinyl and CD on our site here. Hope to see you soon, Nashville!

Join us in the record shop on Saturday, July 18th at 4:30 for a special A*POP early listening event! We’ll be streaming Tyla’s new album almost a week before its official release, so don’t miss your chance to be the first to hear it. We’ll also be sharing party favors** with attendees and raffle tickets for a sweet Tyla A*POP prize as well as a Grimey’s gift certificate. (Raffle tickets free but limited to one per person; must be present to win.) Plus we’ll also be sharing complimentary Tennessee Brew Works beers with attendees (21+ w/ valid ID) as this listening event is happening at our favorite time of the week, BEER:30! This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all.

A*POP is the sophomore record from the two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning, multi-platinum global superstar.. A bold evolution from Tyla’s debut, this 14-track album features Tyla’s signature sultry vocals, seamlessly blending amapiano, pop, and R&B. A*POP is both a statement and a movement — a declaration that African music is pop music, with Tyla leading the charge at the forefront of a global shift. Featuring standout hits like “IS IT,” “CHANEL” and “SHE DID IT AGAIN (feat. Zara Larsson), A*POP invites you into Tyla’s immersive, vibrant world — a defining second album that cements her as a true global icon. A*POP will be available for purchase at Grimey’s on CD and limited edition ‘POP$TAR PINK’. colored vinyl starting on Friday, July 24th.

A note on BEER:30 events—our Tyla early listening event coincides with our weekly BEER:30 hang, so we’ll be offering free Tennessee Brew Works beers to those 21+ (with valid IDs). Beer is complimentary but we are collecting cash tips to be donated to support the good works of the folks at DRKMTTR, Nashville's enduring all-ages space, that thrives as a hub for connectivity and creative collaboration. Beyond being a music venue, DRKMTTR stands as a nexus of resilience, cultivating a dynamic community where the DIY ethos transforms into collective action. Through cross-pollination initiatives, DRKMTTR links artists, organizes communities & the under-21 crowd, and as a 501-C3 non-profit, they seek the backing necessary to perpetuate their pivotal role and create a lasting influence.

** As it were, we await our special A*POP goodies to arrive, but, fingers crossed, hopefully they’ll land on time. If not, A*POP party favors will be available for fans to pick up starting on release day, 7/24.

Join us in the record shop on Friday, July 17th at 12PM, noon, for a special release day listening event for the new Gracie Abrams album, Daughter from Hell! We’ll be spinning the record in the shop while sharing party favors and raffle tickets with attendees. Raffle tickets are for our giveaway for a limited edition, numbered Gracie Abrams lithograph. (There is no cost to participate in our raffle drawing. Entries are limited to one per person and you must be present to win.) This is a free & all ages shindig and we hope to see you here so you can hear this fun new release with us. Copies of Grace Abram’s new album will be available for purchase on limited edition blue vinyl LP and on CD.

GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams is back her third studio album, Daughter from Hell, due out July 17th via Interscope Records. The album was written and produced by Gracie alongside longtime collaborator Aaron Dessner. Daughter from Hell marks a new chapter for Gracie following her sophomore album, The Secret of Us, released in June 2024. That album earned Gracie her first ever #1 in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands and debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200. Beyond music, Abrams has kept busy and is set to make her acting debut in the upcoming A24 film Please, directed by Halina Reijn. Since making her debut in 2019, Gracie Abrams has emerged as one of the most compelling singer-songwriters of her generation.

On July 8th, we’ll be joining other record stores across the globe to celebrate the new album by local musician & record label / record store proprietor Jack White! We’re keeping the shop open a bit late and holding a special early-access Frozen Charlotte listening party starting at 6:00 PM. You’ll be able to listen to the new album its entirety before its official release on Friday, July 10th, plus we’ll be sharing some sweet Jack White Party Favors provided by the good folks at Third Man Records. We’ll also be distributing raffle tickets for a grand prize drawing to take place at our event. (Raffle tickets are free and limited to one per attendee; must be present to win.) We’re super pleased to note that we’ll have copies of the new album on limited edition blue colored vinyl and CD and that party attendees will be able to purchase at our event and take home with them! This is an all ages shindig and admission is free. See you soon, Nashville!!

Head to the record shop on Wednesday, July 8th to catch Drivin N Cryin perform on their Crushing Flowers Tour! They’ll be playing songs from their new album and signing records for attendees. This is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all!

Nearly forty years in, Drivin N Cryin remains a living, breathing American rock band — not a revival act, not a footnote, but a continuing story still being written. Blending Southern rock grit, folk storytelling, and hard-charging rock n’ roll, the band built a reputation early on as a must-see live act and a songwriter’s band with depth far beyond trends. Coming from the same golden era of college radio rock that birthed fellow Georgia bands R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Black Crowes and more, the band and their frontman Kevn Kinney — a songwriter’s songwriter — still have plenty to say. 

Crushing Flowers was produced by sometime DNC guitarist Sadler Vaden (Jason Isbell) and features soaring guitars and harmonies, orchestral flourishes and the honest, “we’re all just humans here” lyrics of Kinney. Guests include R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and (what may be the last studio appearance) of the late Todd Snider. The album is available on vinyl & CD in the record shop now!

Make plans to join us in the record shop on Tuesday, July 7th for a special Panda Bear + Sonic Boom Listening Party! We’ll be spinning their new album, A ? of WHEN, a few days early and sharing party favors with attendees while supplies last. We’ll also be distributing raffle tickets to attendees for a sweet PB+SB prize (There is no cost to participate—raffle tickets are free to attendees but limited to one per person. Must be present to win.) We’ll also be selling A ? of WHEN a few days early! If you preorder your album on our site here, you can pick it up at our event, and if not we’ll have copies of the album on colored vinyl and CD, plus we’ll even have a couple of copies of the new album on tape! (Cassettes will be limited to one per person and are available on a first come, first served basis.)

We hope you can join us at Grimey’s on Thursday, July 2nd for a special early record release event with Allison Russell! In The Hour Of Chaos, Allison’s third full-length album, will officially be released by Fantasy Records on July 10th, however we’ll be welcoming Allison and her band to the shop more than a week early to celebrate the new album. At 4:00 PM on 7/2, Allison will perform a short set comprised of songs from the new record and sign copies of In The Hour Of Chaos for event attendees. You can read more about her new album and preorder your copy on our site here (or the next time you’re in the shop). All who preorder the album on limited edition Aubergine colored vinyl or CD from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Allison’s post-performance signing. Allison is a delightful & talented person—she’s a wonderful musician and a valued member of our community. We love her and are so excited to be able to host her at Grimey’s and celebrate her beautiful new album.

In the Hour of Chaos is a fervent plea for connection in this time of alienation, isolation and dread. These are songs meant to reverse the tides that pull us farther and farther apart, even from ones we love the most. This is a record meant to make you feel GOOD, and, in these times, feeling good is a radical act. It’s only fitting then, that Russell leaned into her vibrant and ever expanding community of artists and friends to create a collaborative song suite that goes far beyond a succession of features.

The songs unfold like a series of one act plays with Allison, who joins with an artist(s) from her rainbow diaspora, many from her adopted home in Nashville. Tactile, vulnerable, raw, soothing, sensual, sad–each is a little capsule of humans being fully human and fully present. From the quiet reckoning of “No Springtime,” featuring Joy Oladokun and Julie Williams, to the bittersweet glow of “Cold April,” where Kara Jackson—a recent collaborator of the Gorillaz and formerly the U.S. National Youth Poet Laureate—joins Denitia, a CMT Next Women of Country selection who was also featured in Dolly Parton’sThreads: My Songs in Symphony, alongsideRussell’s daughter and Ida’s Explore! Pop Choir adds intergenerational depth. Allison Russell curates her collaborators with care:Brittney Spencer’s earthy soul on “Black Lavender,” NorahJones’ intimate ease on “Really Real,” Ruby Amanfu’s vulnerable grace on “Just Like Saturday”–all serve as portals into our flawed, fantastic, interconnected lives.

Elsewhere on the album, Devon Gilfillian brings effortless warmth to “Love is a Golden Lion,” Kashus Culpepper lends grit and swagger to “Searchlight,” Chibueze Ihuoma adds an other worldly tenderness to “Two Stars,” and Ahya Simone’s incomparable harp closes the circle with the haunting “Good Omens.” Across these songs, Russell holds the center effortlessly, while illuminating the voices of her chosen family. She turns these through lines into golden thread, strengthening as she weaves, the only protection she knows against the chaos of this hour.

We are pumped to celebrate Allison’s new album with her and all of you. Preoreder your copy of In The Hour Of Chaos now and be here for the festivities on July 2nd! See you soon, Music City.

Join us for a very special BEER:30 hang on Saturday, June 27th when we’ll be celebrating Madonna by streaming a fantastic playlist of her songs curated especially for our event, including tracks from her brand new album, Confessions II, that drops on Friday, July 3rd. Starting at 4:30 we’ll have Madonna party favors to share with attendees (while supplies last) plus a sweet prize we’ll giveaway via raffle to one lucky attendee. (Raffle tickets are free but limited to one per person; must be present to win.) Wear your favorite Madge t-shirt, bring your dancing shoes and get into the groove with us! This is a free & all ages shindig, so come one, come all. (Attendees must be 21+ w/ valid ID to drink!)

A note on BEER:30 events— Our Madonna Confessions II listening event coincides with our weekly BEER:30 hang, so we’ll be offering free Tennessee Brew Works beers to those 21+ (with valid IDs). Beer is complimentary but we are collecting cash tips to be donated to support the good works of the folks at DRKMTTR, Nashville's enduring all-ages space, that thrives as a hub for connectivity and creative collaboration. Beyond being a music venue, DRKMTTR stands as a nexus of resilience, cultivating a dynamic community where the DIY ethos transforms into collective action. Through cross-pollination initiatives, DRKMTTR links artists, organizes communities & the under-21 crowd, and as a 501-C3 non-profit, they seek the backing necessary to perpetuate their pivotal role and create a lasting influence.

On June 25, 1967, The Beatles performed All You Need Is Love for the first time to a global television audience from Abbey Road Studios and on Thursday, June 25, 2026 we’ll be celebrating that moment and all that The Beatles and their message of LOVE mean to us. Many of us cut our musical teeth on Beatles albums and now, as we spend time in the record shop, we have the pleasure of seeing folks on a daily basis who are connecting with the band, whether its those who are picking up their very first Beatles album or more established fans digging deep into an expanded reissue of a solo album.

Held annually on June 25, Global Beatles Day is built around the message All You Need Is Love. The holiday was first celebrated in 2009 by Indianapolis-based fan Faith Cohen. Over the past seventeen years, this day of celebration has grown organically across dozens of countries, rooted in the belief that The Beatles' enduring legacy is helping people appreciate being alive and bringing people together through music, love, and positivity. 2026 marks the first year that Apple Corps has officially supported Global Beatles Day and they’re hosting their own celebration in Liverpool that day, which will include the founder, Faith, in attendance. We’ll be celebrating at Grimey’s all day, spinning our favorite Beatles albums and sharing sweet Global Beatles Day goodies with folks who come by (while supplies last; free goodies are available on a first come, first served basis and are limited to one per item, per person). We’ll also be launching a contest for a pair of tickets to The Basement East’s upcoming event The Music of George Harrison: From the Beatles to the Solo Years, on Thursday, July 9th. (Contest registry is free and available in person only. Our winner will be notified by phone on Friday, July 3rd.)