By Logan Langlois MURFREESBORO, TN — “Yeah Memphis hot, but Nashville buzzin’,” remarked rapper Kandi Lake with a smile. “It’s definitely growing … it’s growing a lot.” Kandi Lake is a rapper based out of Murfreesboro whose music has recently gained significant traction among Nashville and Murfreesboro audiences — Attention that has been far beyond what he expected when first setting out. “It’s cool to see people who have, like, never seen you before… after like, the first song they’re fully invested,” Lake continued. “You can tell when you’ve won somebody over, and it is, like, the most surreal feeling.” …
Author: Logan Langlois
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN —Jeff Syracuse, Metro’s Council District 15 representative, has vocalized his support for local music venue staple Exit/In, its longtime operator Chris Cobb, and the protection of Nashville independent music venues for some time. Since Cobb’s first announcement that the land upon which the Exit/In stands had been sold by the people he was renting from to the Chicago-based hotel development company AJ Capital, Syracuse has been public with his view that Nashvillians were beginning to become victims of their own success. “I’ve been finding myself saying that more and more,” Syracuse said in a recent…