Baby Wave – The Scene Is Changing
Nashville’s Baby Wave is excited to announce their signing to Saddle Creek. With the news, the trio is sharing their new single, “The Scene Is Changing,” available everywhere now. Produced by Sebastian Kinsler of Feeble Little Horse, the track crashes from matter-of-fact verses into volcanic, grunge-caked choruses. The trio reckons with the East Nashville DIY scene that raised them, equal parts lament and love letter. “The Scene Is Changing” captures a community in flux with an official music video shot at DIY spot Ryman 2, featuring local bands Impediment, McKay, Sabby, Soot, Superhero, Total Wife, and Venus and the Flytraps.
“You can spend your entire life on the outside, feeling like you’ll never belong, and even if you do find “the scene” for a moment in time, you can spend the rest of your life jaded or living in the past. Every scene is destined to bloom and fizzle,” book NOT brooke explains. “I think it matters to honor that cycle for what it is. When we wrote this song, it felt like a character study, but now it rings truer than ever, and it makes me emotional every time. It feels like an ode to the ever-changing Nashville DIY scene.”
“This is one of those songs whose meaning keeps shifting,” multi-intrumentalist Gardner Gottsegen adds. “I used to think it was about me, now I’m pretty sure it’s about everyone else.”
Baby Wave has become a fixture of the DIY circuit over the past four years, cementing themselves as a band not to miss in East Nashville. Producing songs that bounce from genre to genre, today’s release previews a bank of road-tested songs and marks their first new music since 2024, when they released the joint EP still life with fellow Nashville scenemakers Total Wife.
Baby Wave has played shows alongside Hotline TNT, feeble little horse, Annie DiRusso, Snõõper, and more. This month, they’ll hit the road for a run of dates, kicking off October 6 in El Paso, TX at Lowbrow Palace with Fcukers, before joining Swapmeet for stops in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
OCTOBER
6 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace †
14 – Chicago, IL – Schubas #
16 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Monarch Tavern #
17 – Montreal, QC, Canada – Toscadura #
21 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool #
22 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right #
23 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s #
24 – Washington, DC – Songbyrd Music House #
† – w/ Fcukers
# – w/ Swapmeet
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