The Frist recently opened a companion exhibition, “Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today,” on view through Aug. 20, featuring works by 10 local photographers who celebrate Nashville’s music scene, with images of guitar players performing in venues across the city.

We heard Real & Fantasy from Ariel Bui off of the full-length record Real & Fantasy. I’ve said it on previous episodes, but compelling rock music is not easy to make these days, and I’ve got to hand it to Ariel for making an album that is immersive, honest, and catchy. There’s a lot of tracks on this record, so if you like that, there’s plenty more to hear. There’s also videos that go along with it. Recommended all around. - Michael Eades

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Ariel’s powerful voice and engrossing melodies keep you entertained throughout.

Today it’s not uncommon to be self-taught because the internet is right there to provide one with all of the tools needed, but back when CD players were still all the rage, one had to obsessively listen, practice, and learn to the same record on repeat to grasp the beauty of creating one’s own music. Thanks to a determination on that level, Ariel Bui is here gracing the world with her presence and working towards not only educating the next generation of musicians but also creating a sustainable world for them to do so. With that, we talked about her October 2022 release, ‘Real & Fantasy,’ educational goals, building her dream space, and more with Ariel Bui.

Bui released her album Real & Fantasy two weeks ago. In our conversation, she dives into how Real & Fantasy explores sexual identity and coming into one’s own.

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Ariel Bui is an 11-year veteran of the Nashville indie music scene, and she’s back with her first record since her self-titled 2016 LP. It’s called Real & Fantasy, and it’s a garage rock collection of tunes…

The music of Ariel Bui, who Ann Powers of NPR Music once described as "a psychedelic cowgirl cool rockabilly queen”, pulls from her wide ranging musical background as a performer and music educator, blending elements of indie rock, indie pop, country, soul, surf, and psych rock into a distinct sound that should instantly appeal to fans of artists like Angel Olsen and Courtney Barnett.

New Music Friday is the weekly thread dedicated to cataloging all the Album/EP releases that came out this week, including non-subreddit relevant releases. This is also a great place to discuss these albums, or bring to attention other albums released this week.

The Nashville based singer / songwriter Ariel Bui has released her newest studio LP, Real & Fantasy and shared an accompanying music video.

The list of roles Ariel Bui takes on in her work is impressive; either activism or arts education alone is enough to fill up a life, but she does both and more. Bui is also a singer-songwriter and bandleader, and she returns Oct. 14 with her first album since her self-titled release in 2016

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Nashville-based singer / songwriter Ariel Bui has released the music video for “Real & Fantasy”, the second from her forthcoming album of the same name. The music of Ariel Bui pulls from her wide ranging musical background as a performer and music educator, blending elements of Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Country, Soul, Surf, and Psych Rock…

Exclusive album premiere of ‘Real & Fantasy’ by Ariel Bui, out October 14th, 2022 via Audio Network.

Holy crap, what a mountain of new music! No time to jibber-jabber; let’s get right at ’er. Here are 158 new singles, videos, cover tunes, remixes, unburied treasures and live performances — including tons of gems that you can’t find anywhere else — that will keep you busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking. Your Tinnitist-approved tracks are tagged with a ⛰. Why? Because it’s there:

As for what you’ll be listening to next week, check out this list of the 370 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on the horizon.

If money were no object, I'd build and live in an off-grid Earthship somewhere rural, but not too far from civilization and travel a lot from there. I love Taos, New Mexico, and the Mediterranean, and would love to travel the world and see where else I'd like to land. I want to learn more about my Vietnamese roots and would love to learn to play Vietnamese traditional folk instruments and songs.

“Musically, this song has the ethereal vibes of Stevie Knicks and the bite of Courtney Love meshing into a mystical, powerful approach to handling pressing issues of the real world.”

Indie artist breaks down the story behind single "Sixteen," her new album, Real & Fantasy, and more.

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"Rock, serves as an inspiration, vitalizes your energies and shapes your actions, according to the moment, makes you go beyond, so that you stop being a child and manage to structure yourself in the world, with strength and intelligence, to make your world , getting better"

Recent years have been a boom time for artists like Angel Olsen, Sharon van Etten, and Courtney Barnett who deftly skirt the edges of indie rock, folk, and alt-country, and Ariel Bui's new single "Sixteen" positions Ariel Bui as another example of someone walking that genre tightrope with ease.

This week, Ariel released “Sixteen,” a track from her forthcoming album, Real & Fantasy. It’s poignant, powerful, heartrending, and elegant, addressing long-lasting trauma in the lyrics and putting the healing pain to intricately crafted music that somehow aches and soars at the same time.