Name: Drivin’ n’ Cryin’
Start: 2024-11-22T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 200 41st Street South Birmingham AL 35222

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In 1985 Drivin N Cryin played their first show at Atlanta’s famed 688 Club. Recent inductees to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Wisconsin Music Hall of Fame, founding members Kevn Kinney, Tim Nielsen and longtime drummer Dave V Johnson.
find themselves enjoying a continued legacy, having survived the pressures of fame, a shifting musical landscape, multiple lineup changes, traveling miles of back roads and highways to arrive here.
Latest projects include a re-release of Mystery Road on Island Records (Universal), a Darius Rucker cover of the band’s beloved anthem “Straight To Hell”, a remastered 1997 eponymous album re-released as Too Late To Turn Back Now followed by the latest studio album Live The Love Beautiful and the ongoing 100+ song tribute series to the songwriting of Kevin Kinney
Recent dates with Hootie & The Blowfish, The Black Crowes, Blackberry Smoke, Marshall Tucker Band and Jason Isbell amid touring the US and abroad on their own including repeat appearances on Rock Boat, Outlaw Country Cruise, Moon Crush and other specialty events.
Comfortable in their past and confident in their future, Drivin N Cryin are armed with an arsenal of songs, a full tank of gas and no intention of stopping any time soon.
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"Gloom Girl MFG Bring ‘Vulnerability' and Punk Intensity to Nashville Rock Scene." - SPIN
At the heart of Music City beats a burgeoning music scene far from the machine of its country roots and bachelorette-laden honky-tonks. Buzzing in gritty clubs and beloved music venues there is a growing new Nashville indie rock movement, stirring the pot of a city in the midst of a musical evolution. And at the forefront, four-piece GLOOM GIRL MFG are emerging as a force.
Led by dynamic singer and lead guitarist Paige MacKinnon, and backed by Ethan Waggoner (rhythm guitar), Stephen Sobolewski (bass guitar) and Connor McCourt (drums), the band combines a familiar nostalgia with an undeniably fresh fusion of punk, grunge, and indie rock, channeling the spirit of trailblazers like The Pretenders, PJ Harvey and Sleater-Kinney with the sneering vibrancy of acts like IDLES.
Their mission: to provide a musical escape from global gloom, one with a community around it, fueled by an inclusivity that satiates the increasing digitally-fueled need to be a part of something tangible. Something powerful.
It’s this theme that resonates throughout their new EP Polycrisis. Produced by Brad Shultz (Cage The Elephant), its title projects the concept of separate pieces compounding to form something bigger. That dichotomy is echoed musically within their stabbing modern riot grrrl tracks that juxtapose unsuspectingly against energetic honesty, lyrical depth and a human quality too often absent in heavier music.
Tastemaker publication Nashville Scene predicted their rise, noting: "The smart bet is on the group transcending local-fave status in the coming year." While this band are destined to rocket globally, the most impactful movements start locally, and Gloom Girl MFG are taking that challenge head on.