Nashville's Dead

So Tuesday night was maybe the best birthday ever. Probably. We’ve got a TON of photos and some footage that we’ll drop on you a little later, but for right now we just wanted to say thank you to anyone and everyone that had anything to do with the show. If you played or attended or made fun of or got saved or felt indifferent or ran sound or sold merch or bought merch or…. you get it. Thanks, Nashville, you are the best city. Forever.

Oh man we are so totally feeling the birthday today. It’s weird to think that we’ve been doing this for a whole year now, but whatever. We don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. In fact, we’ve got like a million shows lined up for ya in August that’ll blow you away [Moonhearts, White Mystery, Rayon Beach, A Giant Dog, Night Beats, Screaming Females, Juiceboxxx, and all your favorite locals] But if we could ask for one thing on our birthday this year, it’d be that everyone come out and have fun and see these bands for free tonight. We just want to see all your faces and stage dive on them. Is that so much to ask? To just party hard with you? Here’s how everything should go down tonight…

::THE END::
HEAVY CREAM [12:00]
CY BARKLEY [11:20]
THE CANNOMEN [10:40]
DIARRHEA PLANET [10:00]
THE SPANISH CANDLES [9:20]

::EXIT/IN::
NATURAL CHILD [11:40]
SO JAZZY [11:00]
THE LOOKING GLASS [10:20]
THE KINDERGARTEN CIRCUS [9:40]
FUNSTIX [9:00]

We don’t wanna give too much away, but there might also be a surprise set directly following Heavy Cream by some bebes that we talk about on the reg over here. Feel free to bring us cakes and goodies and moneys. Feel free-er to bring money to buy all the new releases we’ll have available to you tonight [New 7″s available from Natural Child, Kindergarten Circus, and Cy Barkley. New cassettes available from The Looking Glass, The Cannomen, Spanish Candles, and Diarrhea Planet]

Happy Birthday to you. Let’s party. Oh and thanks for a great year. You bebes are the only reason we do this [Well, you guys and JEFF the Brotherhood] Thank you.

We promised you some goodies yesterday and we totally bailed — our bad. But we got it today! Cool? Cool. We caught a little radio sesh with garage-rock wunderkind Ty Segall and thought it was too good to not share. He plays a couple stripped down versions of songs off of Melted [which if you haven’t picked up — you gotta do that right now right here] But he also debuts a couple new songs. It’s a really refreshing change of pace to hear Ty in a raw is-what-it-is sort of atmosphere. Snag it here. We’ve had heart-ons for him for the longest time now, and we don’t think we’re gonna stop anytime soon.

Ty Segall – Lovely One [mp3]
Ty Segall – Imaginary Person [mp3]

Ty’s going on a tour next month that will bring him sort of close to Nashville [we’ll totally drive to Atlanta for him] and then gonna be in Memphis in late September for GonerFest. We might have a trick up our sleeves.

We know we’ve been a bit spotty over the last week or so, but – hey, can you blame us? We’ve been all over the New York stylee and working on some biz and dealing with the buggs and planning some big things for August [THIS YEAR, THE SUMMER DON’T END] Anyways, we’re sorry. But we’ll be posting on the reg tomorrow with photos and everything. Until then, here’s a new Turbo Fruits video for you…

The video’s directed by one of the dudes who made We Fun [If you haven’t seen that, you should seek it out —- and if you wanna see the real thing you should seek out the original cut] But anyways, we’ll see ya tomorrow.

Ladies, we are getting old on the internets over here. And to celebrate, we’re throwing down big time on July 27th with all your favorite bands. FOR FREE. We know what you’re thinking, “This is gonna be nuts.” Yeah, you’re right. The show’s going down at both The End and Exit/In. We’ll give you all the set-times and lineups and everything later next week, but we thought this would be a good way to leave you for the weekend. Oh yeah, forgot to mention that there will be SIX new releases available at this show. SIX. Happy Birthday to you.  Check out what’s in store….

Cy Barkley has been killing it ever since they first showed up back in October of last year, and now they’ve finally got something for you to pick up. The debut 7″ comes courtesy of Baby Don’t Records and features four totally sick jams. There hasn’t been a band like this in Nashville for a while, and we’re pretty sure that this 7″ is gonna shoot them to a-whole-nother level — so be sure to pick up on it at the show. Plus, look at that face. GET IT

The Looking Glass are in the same boat as Cy on this one. We’ve been crushing hard on them since October of last year and waiting for what feels like an eternity on their debut cassette on Infinity Cat Records. We’ve heard snippets and bits and it’s totally got our tingler tingling [You can listen to the track “Mr. Vacant” on their myspace — we’ll go ahead and warn you that you might not be able to listen to anything else for the rest of the day] If there’s one band that’s got their aesthetic and sound down to a tee, it’s these guys. We think most anyone that’s seen them can agree with that. And to anyone that hasn’t seen them, this is your chance. GET IT

Natural Child have been together now for about a year. That’s wild. Watching them live, you’d think they’d have been together since 1971. In the last year they’ve gone on multiple tours, played a million house shows, put out a killer 7″, and are about to put out another one [courtesy of Infinity Cat Records] They’re also about to head out on another tour, which means this will be your only chance to snag the White Man’s Burden 7″ from them for a little bit. Their debut 7″ is in it’s second pressing right now and you can grab it here. GET IT

The Kindergarten Circus aren’t technically a Nashville band — but we don’t really care. The wonderkids spent their winter break recording this new gem of a 7″ and they’ll be playing two shows on the 27th to celebrate [one earlier in the day at Grimey’s — also FREE] Kindergarten Circus also have an LP available if you haven’t heard/scooped it — so be sure to snag that one too. GET IT

Did you know that The Cannomen’s Black Hole EP is like the biggest hit ever in Japan. It is. It’s a pretty big hit here, too. We know the punkers have been recording stuff for their full length but they’re gonna have a brand new cassette available at the show featuring 3 new songs. We heard them for the first time the other day and it made us wanna get little Tennessee-shaped Black Flag bars tattooed and then go hit the beach. GET IT

Ok, so this one’s not technically a new release, but Diarrhea Planet and Spanish Candles have compiled a little split cassette for the show. Diarrhea Planet’s side features their debut EP – Aloha! and Spanish Candles side features what we’re assuming to be new material. And even if it’s not, what’s better than cruising around town blasting some sick pop-punk jams? GET IT

So there you go: two venues, ten gnarly bands, six sick releases, ONE KICKASS PARTY!! There might be a few other things added to the show for you…. we’ll keep you posted.

POOL PARTYING WITH SOME BIG BOYZ THIS WEEKEND!

I know we keep rattling your brains about all this GonerFest stuff, but shit just got heavy. A whole slew of newly added artists to the event and a schedule of how everything’s gonna go down have been made available on the GonerFest site. We went ahead and re-posted the whole thing down at the bottom for your viewing pleasure. But The Oblivians! Bebes, it’s gonna be a rock and roll dream come true. Get your tickets here.

WEDNESDAY Sept 23

Hi Tone:
Msr Jeffrey Evans
Vermillion Sands
Missing Monuments
Useless Eaters
Spider Bags

THURSDAY Sept 23

Opening Ceremonies outside The Goner Store
with
Thee Oh Sees

Hi Tone:
Ty Segall
UV Race
So Cow
Super Wild Horses
Haunted George
Limes

FRIDAY Sept 24

Afternoon Rock at Buccaneer Backyard
Golden Boys
Data Drums
Legendary Wings
Wounded Lion

Hi Tone:
Oblivians
Strapping Field Hands
Dave Cloud
Personal & The Pizzas
Parting Gifts
Guinea Worms

SATURDAY Sept 25

Afternoon Blowout at Murphy’s:
Ratas Del Vaticano
Total Control
Lamps
Burning Sands
Outdoorsmen
Wild Thing
Red Mass
Menthols
D_ g P_ _ _ _ e [Dog Police?]
James Arthur’s Manhunt

Hi Tone:
Guitar Wolf
New Bomb Turks
Armitage Shanks
Destruction Unit
Girls At Dawn
Wesley Coleman

SUNDAY Sept 26

Closing Ceremonies at The Goner Store
with
Ty Segall (solo)