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About The Episode

On this episode of the Do That Music Thing Podcast, Chris Foust chats with Jim Ivins. Jim is the lead singer and guitarist in the rock band The Ivins. He is also the founder and producer of the incredibly successfull Nashville 90's tribute show, Grunge Night. They talk about Jim's crazy travels through the music industry, touring internationally, and the importance of community and networking as it applies to making it in the music business.

About The Ivins:

Charging into a rejuvenated rock n’ roll cultural landscape comes Nashville’s The Ivins. Led by vocalist/guitarist Jim Ivins and drummer Jack Ivins, the band have been electrifying Music City audiences with towering riffs, a pummeling rhythm section, sugar-sweet melodies and introspective lyrics since the release of their 2017 debut album, The Code Duello. Along with bassist Regan Akers and lead guitarist Hatton Taylor, the band followed The Code Duello with the hypnotic, Eastern-influenced commentary on societal indecision, 2018’s “Certain,” an atmospheric, rock n’ roll reimagining of Halsey’s “Graveyard” in 2019 and later, in 2020 and 2021, a trilogy of singles composed in quarantine - the stadium-ready “Composure,” the early 2000’s angsty love of “Bloom” and the modern, bouncy alt of “Don’t.”

The band's sophomore album, 2021's Conditions, expands on Duello's sonic palette; the heavy songs are heavier, the poppy songs are poppier, with new artistic ground broken in the middle. A brutally honest affair, Conditions examines modern anxiety and life's big changes that come in your thirties, brought out by Jim Ivins heading alone to a one-room cabin in the Tennessee wilderness to write the album's lyrics.

With stylistic touch-points ranging from Stereophonics to Biffy Clyro to Nothing But Thieves to Silversun Pickups, The Ivins are prepared to take their adventurous sound into the future.