We’ve known about Greg Cartwright’s [Reigning Sound and Oblivians] work with the Ettes for a while now. He produced their last album, Look At Life Again Soon, and it seemed like for a minute semi-secret Greg Cartwright + Ettes shows were popping all over the place earlier this year. With that said we weren’t too surprised when we heard ol’ Greg O. and CoCo Hames of the Ettes had gone right out and formed a new band. The Parting Gifts haven’t played any shows yet, but they’re already on the bill for Gonerfest 7, which I’ll remind you is happening next month!! They also have a full-length entitled Strychnine Dandelion already scheduled for release in October on In The Red. The video above shows Cartwright playing one of the songs from Strychnine Dandelion all by his lonesome at one of our favorite Memphis pitstops. You can also hear a full track on In the Red’s myspace. Dig it dig it dig it. Watusi out.
UNFED TEENAGE HUNGERS
Oh man we love free shows. Especially when they’re super sick free shows. There’s one of those today — our bad boy buddys Unwed Teenage Mothers, from Oxford, MS, are in town today playing an in-store over at Grimey’s. You might notice one of the members of the band from a couple months ago when John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death were in town. They’ve had a couple releases come out in the last little bit that are both pretty stellar. The first being a 7″ on Tic Tac Totally that you should pick up. And, even more recently, their debut LP [Blonde Girls] off of Play Pinball Records. We don’t think they’re playing anywhere else tonight, so this is your one chance to catch them in town. DO IT!
THURSDAY AUGUST 5
:: Unwed Teenage Mothers
@ Grimey’s New & Pre-Loved Records
$FREE – All Ages – 6PM
SPEAKING OF ROCK AND ROLL
Photos by Bekah Cope
We mentioned The Strange Boys just a minute ago in our Bruise Cruise post and realized we totally haven’t told you bebs that Natural Child and Strange Boys are hitting the road together this Fall all over the nation. Gentleman Jesse is gonna be tagging along for the whole thing as well. Sounds like a pretty gnarly tour if we’ve ever heard of one. Wanna know the best part? They’re totally hitting Nashy on their route. Mark your calendars for September 12th — Glenn Danzig’s House is gonna be a packed party [Sorry Best Coast, we know you’re in town the same night — but we’d rather rock and roll than was out to sea] All tour dates are posted below…
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 12
:: The Strange Boys
:::: Gentleman Jesse & His Men
:::::: Natural Child
:::::::: PUJOL
@ Glenn Danzig’s House
$5 – All Ages – 7PM
EVERYBODY'S GONE CRUISIN'
The worst thing about most festivals is having to be out in the sun all day and expensive prices on foods and seeing bands in a stupid atmosphere. The best thing about this festival is that it takes care of ALL of that. Bad boy Jonasty and some of his Panache crew have put together a cruise festival for February with a pretty killer lineup [Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Strange Boys, Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Turbo Fruits, etc.] It’s gonna be nuts. And as someone who just saw Black Lips on a cruise ship the other day, I can vouch that it’ll be the craziest thing you’ve ever seen. You can snag tickets here [be prepared — it is a full on cruise, ya know?] So, uh, let’s go boatin’ … YEAH!
More info here.
Black Lips – Best Napkin I Ever Had [mp3]
Vivian Girls – Where Do You Run To [mp3]
The Strange Boys – Be Brave [mp3]
Ty Segall – Girlfriend [mp3]
Thee Oh Sees – Denied [mp3]
Turbo Fruits – Mama’s Mad [mp3]
Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Fly Like A Rat [mp3]
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YES FEST
Hey, what’re you doing this weekend? There’s like, this big three day music festival thing at Lil Hammy from the 5th-7th this week and I was just wondering if, you know, you’d wanna go with me? There’s some really good bands that are playing: Life Trap is always great, Gnarwhal and Modernhell are fun, and you already know how awesome MARJ!, Symptoms, CY, and Cannomen are. Brainwreck is playing too, along with some newish band called Yautja that I hear is pretty heavy. That nice guy Trey and that dude who always wears black named Geoff set it all up, and I think they got some rad out-of-town bands to come play. You don’t have to go if you don’t want to, it’s just that Forever Young isn’t in town and it gets pretty lonely here in the Deadquartersâ„¢. It’s not like I’m asking you out on a date or anything, I mean, unless you’re cool with that…
Thursday August 5:: MARJ!
:::: LEGION
:::::: CANNOMEN :::::::: KOROVA :::::::::: MODERNHELL :::::::::::: SKY BURIAL :::::::::::::: DEAD HEROES :::::::::::::::: LITTLE VIKING
@ The Little Hamilton Collective (the Warehouse)
$7 (three day pass for $18) – All Ages – 5:30PM
:: YAUTJA
:::: NOI
:::::: NO CHRISTMAS :::::::: SYRIAN NUKES OVER DISNEYLAND :::::::::: PIZZA DAMNATION
@ The Greenwomb (YES FEST DAY 2 PRE-SHOW)
Donations? – All Ages – 2:00PM
:: GNARWHAL
:::: FUCK WORK
:::::: BRAINWRECK :::::::: SPELLING BEE :::::::::: DELUXIN :::::::::::: DOOMED YOUTH :::::::::::::: DAWN :::::::::::::::: BUKKAKE BOYS :::::::::::::::::: CY BARKLEY
@ The Little Hamilton Collective (the Warehouse)
$7 (three day pass for $18) – All Ages – 5:30PM
:: WARCRY
:::: LIFE TRAP
:::::: DEADLY REIGN :::::::: KAROSHI :::::::::: IN RUINS :::::::::::: SYMPTOMS :::::::::::::: THE THING THAT ALWAYS EXPLODES :::::::::::::::: SACAEA :::::::::::::::::: SANCTIONS
@ The Little Hamilton Collective (the Warehouse)
$7 (three day pass for $18) – All Ages – 5:30PM
AWTS AND FAWTS AND CRAFTS
Painting by Robert Ellis Orrall
We don’t normally get down with all the artsy stuffs going on in the Nashville area [not that we don’t pay attention to it — you wouldn’t believe how many art crawls we’ve been to] But this Saturday there is a sick art show going down at the Estel Gallery featuring the works of Mr. Robert Ellis Orrall. It’s for his new Science Fair series. We don’t know if bad boy Bob’s kids will be in attendance, we heard a rumor there might be a party going down somewhere else… Anyways, go and check it out. Enlightened!
It’s the first shred we’ve done in a little bit, but it’s a killer. Reminds us of this idea for a movie Natural Child had the other day for The Godfather 3D featuring Eddie Murphy as the Corleone family and DL Hughley, Usher, Martin Lawrence, Forest Whittaker and Oliver Stone are all involved somehow too. Look for it in theaters soon!
SHREDITORIAL 16
TINY GODS: SEASON 1
Ok. So obviously, we haven’t shredded in a while. However, this is only because we here at the Shred have been working up the next wave of reality television. We are confident that we have created the best television show ever that is the worst for humanity ever. It combines all different mediums and sensory receptors to make sure you are not merely entertained, but also completely overwhelmed. Macabre.
Ok. So the show is called TINY GODS. Essentially, auditions are held in the all the junior cities close to major cities like: Murfreesboro to Nashville, or Roanoke to Richmond. These auditions will be held in strip malls, churches, public schools, dance halls, shooting ranges, and all other avenues of amoebic insanity. The auditions will be advertised as a, “Chance for you to speak your mind on national television about what’s wrong with the world in hopes of making it a better place.†So it’s like a mission, and we get the most crazy, vocal, articulate, and militant people ever. We want post-human Krang Baby Babylons.
After we go through our endless youtubes of the auditions, we pick out the 9 most ideologically incompatible and send them to their luxurious glass-walled compound with a mirror-walled bed and public bathroom and have them get to know each other. Why do they need to know each other? Because they have to co-exist? HELL NO! To fulfill you’re entitled right to entertainment as the consumer!
Why the glass walls you ask? Because we give them an almost unlimited supply of cash to purchase whatever garb and commodities they need to feel well-represented in the glass-walled compound, because if we know who THEY are, WE know who WE are, ya know? So now, we’ve got all the Strangelove’s in the glass-walled compound secured in their externally acquired identities and getting to know each other. Now, it’s time for the T.V. voodoo magic to take hold.
Essentially, every week, each member in the glass-compound has to write a derogatory cartoon about one of the housemates, showcasing how their ideological leanings are false and contribute to negativity within the world. Pixar will animate these cartoons and attempt to pepper them with as much cartoon realism as possible. But where is the competition you ask?
Well, the member who HAS NOT been caricatured in a polemic cartoon each week, will be voted off, because they aren’t causing any problems hence they are not entertaining. Eventually, it boils down to two people, and they have to make a polemic against themselves, and the one the judges like the most wins, and he or she is the TINY GOD, and they get to keep the glass-walled compound and all the stuff, and their life is subject to 24 hour webcam coverage so now they are equally omniscient as the rest of the world.
I don’t think I REALLY know how to vote in local elections, wait, does anyone my age? College?,
Pujol
M-M-M-M-M-M-MOONHEARTS
We’re on the road again right now, but we wanted to go ahead and give you a heads up on a show happening a little bit from now. Moonhearts [who just put out a new record and who we just talked about a couple weeks ago] have decided to come through Nashy on Monday August 9th for a rip-roaring time. Gonna be a party. It’s the last PUJOL show before the boys head out on another tour, and it’s very possibly the last So Jazzy show ever. We’re working on setting them up with atleast one more before they disband — but you never know. Anyways, the fun’s going down at Glenn Danzig’s House [been a minute since they’ve had a show, let’s make it wild] WE’LL SEE YOU THERE!
Moonhearts – Obliteration [mp3]
Monday August 9
:: MOONHEARTS
:::: PUJOL
:::::: SO JAZZY
@ Glenn Danzig’s House
$5 – All Ages – 8PM
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