The new project from EMP’s Cy Barkley featuring Cannomen/Kintaro’s Josh Shearon on bass and Kintaro/Natural Child’s Zach Martin on drums. Cy and the boys bash out some real gnarly early-80s garage punk. Think Jay Reatard / Marked Men / Carbonas type of stuff. In other words, it’s the kind of thing you want to listen to/see.

The punky brewster dude supergroup that we’ve talked plenty about. Comprised of members of Life Trap, Murdock, Kintaro, and Fantastic Butt. Loud and fast, spliffs and riffs to the max. They just put out their Demo Vol. 2, so be sure to snag a copy at the show.

The last time we saw Denney & his Jets all we could think was, “This is the music Nashville wishes it was known for.” Really, some of the most sincere songwriting that you’ll find during Next Big Nashville [or anywhere, for that matter]

Daniel’s got a newly revamped lineup that we talked about last week and his tunes are sounding better than ever. Talk about hard working dudes…. Daniel just put out his own zine, is working on a new 7″, is playing Oct. 5th with Dan Deacon and Oct. 6th in St. Louis with JEFF and Screaming Females.

Imagine if The Rolling Stones and The Beatles had a baby who loved punk rock but couldn’t ever shake mom and dad’s influence. We think that would sound something close to Natural Child. We talk about these guys pretty regularly and for good reason: they rock and roll. They’ve got a 7″ coming out soon on Infinity Cat [more about that later though]

Our favorite mondo-babes will be surfing the magma ’til the break of dawn, and we’ll all be surfing right along with them. We know they’ve been working out some new tunes, so maybe they’ll treat our little ears at the show. If you haven’t scooped up their 7″, you should definitely get on that soon because they’re going fast.

Nashville’s favorite sons. Do we have to talk about JEFF? You know them. You know how we feel about them. Sooo… Yeah. Do it. Their new album HEAVY DAYS comes out Oct. 13th. Pre-order it here and get exclusives!