William Tyler sure has been in the Nashville news quite a bit lately. His family is opening that new bar/venue called The Stone Fox out in West Nashville. Now he has dropped a session over at Live & Reel. You can check out the video for “Lissmacue” below, and you can head over to Live & Reel to watch more and download the tracks for your own.
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It’s a long weekend, and you know you deserve it. Here’s a quick rundown of some shows that are worth your consideration for this weekend. Get out and see some live music!
Friday
Damien Jurado w/ JBM & Kate Tucker are taking over The Basement. It’s a long weekend, and those tend to require pacing yourself. So, I can’t think of a better way to start things off than with some seriously talented singer-songwriters. You can check out Jurado from a recent WBEZ Chicago in-studio performance in the video below. JBM’s most recent album Stray Ashes is included below, and we’ve included the most recent release from Nashville’s Kate Tucker below too. Things gets started at 9pm for 10 bucks.
How I Became The Bomb w/ Colorfeels & Norm are gonna provide a little pop musical adrenaline over at The High Watt if that is what you are looking for tonight. You can check out HIBTB’s 2009 release Deadly Art, Colorfeels’ 2012 single “Shapes”, and Norm’s s/t EP below. Things get started over at The High Watt around 9pm, and tickets are 7 bucks!
Pierced Arrows w/ Don’t, Bad Cop & Ghost Dance are your Friday night Rock n’ Roll fix over at The End. You can check out Pierced Arrows 7″ split with Black Lips below. Openers include (impossible to google) Don’t with Bad Cop, and Ghost Dance.
If that still doesn’t do it for ya, you can head over to 12th & Porter for the infinitely talented Butch Walker.
Phew, and that’s just Friday night.
Saturday & Sunday
The Kingston Springs with The Bridges & Sol Cat bring some Nashville indie rock to the table on Saturday night at 12th & Porter. You can check out The Kingston Springs video playing their song “Lover” live in the Arizona desert from their recent west coast road trip below. You can check out Nashville transplants, The Bridges, and you can listen to their fresh pop sounds over at their bandcamp page. Things get started with the soulful grooves of Sol Cat, and you can check out their Jungle Sessions EP at their bandcamp page. Tickets are $10 bones, and things get started at 9pm.
OBN III’s, Useless Eaters, Cy Barkley & the Way Outsiders are taking over The End on Saturday night if you need to feel like you are drinking in a garage. OBN IIIs hail from Austin, TX, and you can check out one of their 7″s below. Most of us around here know about Useless Eaters and Cy Barkley & Co. If you don’t, you can click on those links to check a bit of their stuff. Things get started after 9pm, and tickets are the usual $5.
“Nobody’s Vault But Mine” 2012: Saturday night also kicks off the 3rd annual fan-curated event for fans of Third Man Records and related artists over at The Basement. The event kicks off on Saturday with Dex Romweber Duo, The Black Belles, Jane Rose and the Deadend Boys, and Jeff Zentner and Elin Palmer. Things finish up on Sunday with PUJOL, Brian Olive, Boogaloosa Prayer, & The Ultras S/C. You can read a nice write up over at the Cream, and you can check some vids and players and stuff for those performing both nights after the jump (this page is going to load slow enough as it is). Whatever you do, get out and support local music this weekend!
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Did you guys see that insane line for the merch table at the Ryman for those Jack White shows last week? I mean, that was insane. And, then you had to watch these folks precariously carrying these strange over-sized cut out posters around for the rest of the night, right? Well, the video below will tell you what you missed out on, and, if you like what you see, you can always get a set on eBay, ya know? That dude is a marketing genius.
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We’re running a little ticket giveaway to the Plants and Animals show at The End on Tuesday, and all you have to do is send an email to us here to enter to win (full details below). If you don’t know Plants and Animals, they are a Canadian rock group that have releases spanning back to 2005, and their debut full length Parc Avenue released in 2008 via Secret City Records. They have since released two more full lengths including their most recent The End Of That in February of 2012.
They have been touring in support of some pretty damn big names such as Grizzly Bear, Wolf Parade, Broken Bells, Gnarls Barkley, The National, & Frightened Rabbit. They have also played spots at Pitchfork Festival, Primavera in Barcelona, Bumbershoot in Seattle, End of the Road in the English countryside, & a marquee spot at the Montreal Jazz Festival. Needless to say, it’ll be pretty awesome to see them at the humble confines of The End on Tuesday May 29th. You can watch the video for the title track off of The End Of That below.
Things get started with Nashville’s Ri¢hie & Bows and Arrows around 9pm. To enter to win a free pair of tickets, send an email to us here (we won’t do anything with your email other than pick a winner and then throw them all away). Make sure you leave your FULL name, so we can put your FULL name on the guest list. For those of you that have cute nicknames and stuff, please use the name that is on your driver’s license. The winner will be chosen at random on Monday at noon CST. Easy enough!
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Lollapalooza just announced the launch of a completely revamped “Lolla Remix Throwdown” for 2012. Entrants to this year’s competition will have a chance to win a spot on Perry’s Stage at Lollapalooza, as well as prizes from Red Bull, Ableton, and Dubspot.
So, here’s the deets. Between May 23rd and June 24th, artists can enter the contest by submitting their remix of ‘California’ by Lollapalooza artist Delta Spirit. This year, three finalists will be selected by judge votes, and one ‘fan favorite’ will be selected by popular vote. The voting period is between June 25th-29th, with the winners being announced on July 2nd. The four finalists will then compete live at Evil Olive in Chicago on July 28th for a coveted prize package, which includes a slot at Lollapalooza on Perry’s stage.
The Lolla Remix Throwdown winner will receive a flight stipend of up to $500 plus lodging to spend one 9-hour day with an engineer in the Los Angeles Red Bull Studio, full Ableton Live 8, scholarship to Dubspot for the Mixing and Mastering Certificate program, $1,000 cash, Lollapalooza artist pass with access to catering and artist lounge, artist guest pass, hotel for four nights in Chicago for Lollapalooza weekend and promotion on the festival website. The three remaining finalists will each receive two festival tickets, Ableton Live intro and a $750 prize.
What have you got to lose? Download the “California” mix here, and get after it. I’d love to announce some local Nashville talent up there!
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NPR is offering a first listen to the new record Heaven by The Walkmen. I’m a pretty big fan, and can’t wear to wear out the internet over this one. Have a listen for yourself here, and let me know what you think. We’ve got some cover art below.
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Nashville party rockers Jeff The Brotherhood just released their first EP, Hypnotic Knights, for Warner Brothers. The LP is due out in July, and it will be another big step forward for JTB. The new record was co-produced by Dan Auerbach, and was recorded in his Easy Eye Sound Studio here in Nashville. You can pick up the EP over at iTunes, and you can listen to the single “Sixpack” below. Rad!
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