We’re heading out in t-minus 4 hours to drive up to New York with our favorite Bogus Bros — JEFF the Brotherhood [pictured above.... just keeding] They’re playing a show at NYU with might-aswell-be-a-Nashy-band Screaming Females, Little Lung, and Hop Along. It goes down Friday at noon for free, so if you’re in the area — come say hey. Oh you didn’t know?

We’ll resume posting regularly once we get back and we’ve got some sweet treats lined up for you [a new episode of GOIN' VIRAL, maybe a new online release, you know... the goods]

This record’s been in the making for the last 2 years from the bad boys down at Florida’s Dying. Totally gonna be worth the wait, too. We all love songs that teach us new dances [The Twist - Hippy Hippy Shake - The Drag - The U Turn] and the dudes in Flahdah are hooking us up bigtime with 13 tracks from 13 different kickass bands teaching new dances. Dances like: The Cuddle Up, Huckle Buck, and Wiggle It Around. There’s a list of the contributing artists down there. I’m pretty sure we’ve talked about all of them at least once here before [Definitely more than that in some cases.... Personal & the Pizzas and Sexcapades]

Johnny and the Limelites
NoBunny
Hunx and His Punx
Coconut Coolouts
Rantouls
Sweet Sixteens
Sexcapades
Garbos Daughter
Slippery Slopes
Brians Dirty Business
Personal and The Pizzas
The Puddin’ Pops
The Yolks

Gonna be a good summer. Get your order in now because only 600 of these are out there and it’s definitely going to sell out fast. Hey, FD, next time get a hold of those Funstix babes, they’ve got a pretty good one under their belt too.

This Saturday, May 1, would’ve been bad boy’s 30th birthday. Not many days go by where we don’t think about Jay. We’ve probably listened to Blood Visions at least once a week since it came out [still rips too] and it’s only fitting that there be some sort of gathering to remember him by this Saturday. There’s going to be a free party in Memphis this Saturday with 10 bands and if you’ve got the space in your car, we’ll gladly hop in. It kicks off around 4 in the afternoon at the Poplar Lounge. Get at it.

JAY’S BIRTHDAY | SAT. MAY 1
:: Girls of the Gravitron
:::: Cheap Time
:::::: Oscars
:::::::: Vile Nation
:::::::::: True Sons of Thunder
:::::::::::: Burning Sands
:::::::::::::: Sector Zero
:::::::::::::::: Flamin’ A’s
:::::::::::::::::: Hosoi Bros
:::::::::::::::::::: vi
@ Poplar Lounge
$FREE – All Ages – 4PM

Baby mama’s starin’ at me I seee, she just wants to talk to meee.

HAUNTED GEORGE

It’s been hot and rainy and cold and rainy and weird and it’s just making us reminisce about last Fall and Halloween and everything and it got us in the mood to listen to something spooky [pretty long sentence, sorry Ms. Little] So we’ve had Haunted George blasting all day to get our scary on. George, who lives in the Mojave desert with the witches and the devils, has had a whole slew of releases over the last while with the likes of In The Red, Norton, and Crypt. Most recently releasing the LP American Crow with In the Red [The opening photo on the ITR site is the insert for the album, sick] If they name didn’t give it away, the music is ghosty and rocking and spooky like if the Boogedy Monster and Elvis had a kid. Check it out…

Haunted George – Moody River [mp3]

Pick up the new record here. Really think this guy may be a direct descendant of el diablo. George obsesionado robó mi alma.

Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man. We started this thing about a year ago and the first thing we set out to do was get Jacuzzi Boys to come to Nashville. And now, here they come. And it’s just going to be the most badass show ever. Turbo Fruits! PUJOL! Funstix! All for only $5! What’s the catch? No catch. This is also gonna be our good buddy Miles’s going away party. He’s been one of our main badboys over at Third Man for the last long while and we’re gonna miss him a ton. Bring your friends to Glenn Danzig’s and bring Miles some Nashville/American memorabilia to take back to the land of cricked-teeth. It’s going down on June 20th [someone forgot to put that on the flyer.... woops] See you there!

SUNDAY JUNE 20th
:: JACUZZI BOYS
:::: TURBO FRUITS
:::::: PUJOL
:::::::: FUNSTIX
@ GLENN DANZIG’S HOUSE
$5 – ALL AGES – 8PM

You know, we usually don’t get down or talk too much about all the singer-songwritery dudes in Nashville because… well… there are just too many. It’s Nashville. I mean, pretty much every table-server or cook in this town is trying to make it big. Right? Well, we’ve been hearing the name Evan P Donohue nonstop for the last couple weeks and we figured we’d check it out. It’s pretty killer. Not exactly the type of thing you’d expect us to gush about, but the dude knows how to write a pop song and he’s got a pretty stellar voice. Just so happens that there’s a free listening party at The Belcourt tonight for his brand new album Rhythm & Amplitude [That's the artwork up there] Get on it mamis! Dude look-a like-a Elviz Costello but new!

Evan P Donohue – Something Good [mp3]
Evan P Donohue – Endless Cadence [mp3]

:: Evan P Donohue Listening Party
@ Belcourt Theater
$FREE – All Ages – 10PM

OK, we’re determined to be on the ball this week. And today we’ve already got some goodies to drop on you so get stoked. This week brings a lots of big named hype babies to Nashy [Beach House, Washed Out, Let's Wrestle, blah blah blah] So I guess we’ll see you out there? No? Remember when Beach House used to play The Basement and it’d be half-full opening for The Clientele? No? Well. Yeah. Whatever. Think we’re gonna catch up on LOST this week. If you’ve got anything for us, just shoot it to the comments or get at us.

Monday April 26

:: Serena Ryder
:::: Ryan Star
:::::: Cuff The Duke
@ The Basement
$10 – 21+ – 9PM

:: Evan P Donahue Listening Party
@ The Belcourt
$FREE – All Ages – 9:30PM

Tuesday April 27

:: Julian Casablancas
@ Cannery Ballroom
$20 – 18+ – 9PM

:: Kids are Goats
:::: Garden on a Trampoline
:::::: Tiny Folk
:::::::: I Believe in Hotpants
@ Little Hamilton
$5 – All Ages – 8PM

Wednesday April 28

:: Beach House
:::: Washed Out
@ Mercy Lounge
$SOLD OUT [seriously?] – 18+ – 8PM

:: Kurtis Blow
@ Big T’s B&G
$TBA – 21+ – 9PM

:: Conestyle
:::: Ocelots
:::::: Those Lavender Whales
@ The End
$5 – 18+ – 9PM

:: Jewel
@ Bluebird Cafe
$50-250 – All Ages – 9PM

Thursday April 29

:: Let’s Wrestle
@ Grimey’s New & Pre-Loved Records
$FREE – All Ages – 1:30PM

:: Quasi
:::: Let’s Wrestle
@ Mercy Lounge
$10 – 18+ – 9PM

Friday April 30

:: The Looking Glass
:::: Blue Cadet Three
:::::: Something
@ Hillsboro High Roof Party
$TBA – ??PM

:: LYLAS
:::: Ave Marling
:::::: Eric Radoux
@ Little Hamilton
$3 – All Ages – 7:30PM

:: Local Honey Party
@ Local Honey
$FREE – All Ages – 6PM

:: Guilty Pleasures
@ Mercy Lounge
$12 – 18+ – 9PM

Saturday May 1

:: Someone better be having a party or something. Shit’s looking sparse.

Sunday May 2

:: Avid Gardener
:::: How Cozy!
:::::: Day Kids
:::::::: Pharmacy Spirits
:::::::::: Conestyle
:::::::::::: Deluxin’
@ Little Hamilton
$3 – All Ages – 8PM

Photo by Bekah Cope

Last night was Natural Child’s first Nashville show since their last tour and it may have been the best Natural Child show we’ve ever seen. Seth somehow managed to bust his head open during the first song and had blood all over his face. Obviously, we took his blood and made upside-down crosses on our foreheads. We haven’t seen people go that nuts since… I guess before they left for tour. They dropped a special little treat on us today though — they stopped by the WKDU station in Philly and hung out with our buddy Parry for a long time and did a bunch of killer covers and played some originals [In all seriousness, Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy" rules and is a total Dylan-Stones jam. No joke] And you can download them! Just go here.  And here’s a little sampling of the show…

Natural Child – Darkside of the Moon (WKDU Sesh) [mp3]

Welcome to trashbag culture. And the new Hefty Fall 2010 line. Last night JEFF the Brotherhood played at Mercy Lounge for the Naked Without Us festival and not only were they the most fashionable, but they were also the best thing ever. I mean, they kind of always are. Who else do you know that can rip like that within a trash receptacle? Oscar. But who else? No one. Anyways, this was the only Nashville show that the bogus bros have scheduled for a while. So if you missed out — you really missed out.