FOR CANDICE [IN PICS]

Photo by Emily Quirk

So last Friday we set up a sick show with all our bad-boy friends to help out a couple of our favorite bebitos — Candice Burnside and Battletapes. We’ll go ahead and just say that every band killed it that night [maybe not Ben Steine’s Money…. don’t tell them we said that though] And you all really came out and got us even more excited about Nashville than we were before. We were busy running around all night, but our bebes supreme – Emily Quirk and Alexa Sullivant – were there snappin’ shots left and right. Check ’em out.

BEN STEINE’S MONEY

SO JAZZY

Alexa Sullivant

PUJOL

Alexa Sullivant

Alexa Sullivant

Alexa Sullivant

NATURAL CHILD

Alexa Sullivant

Alexa Sullivant

Alexa Sullivant

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD

Alexa Sullivant

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Baybee baby bebe, we love gettin’ shreddy. We especially love gettin’ shreddy when it has to do with cool rockin’ daddys. You a cool rockin’ daddy? Eh, I don’t know. We a cool rockin’ daddys? Duh.

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COOL ROCKING DADDIES

Man, you know what really, really shreds? The fact that I haven’t done one of these in like two months/the fact that my quarter is finally over? Yes. Yes, that does, but on the real-real, but what about this fresh ass colby-jack hitting the streets: Dad. What is Dad? It’s this crazy-ass aesthetic concept that involves a re-conceptualization of the individual’s transition into adulthood in America. On top of that, it pays special attention to the tension between the individual ego and its contrast with objective reality, like when your Dad is being a Cool Rocking Daddy, and for some reason he doesn’t give a shit what the bebes think.
Perhaps, in America, all this crap about being an individual with feelings in need of expression just alienated everyone from everyone through self-critical conditioning and all interpersonal relationships where laundered through selective consumption of commodities alluding to individual cases of emotional hedonism; so now debutants drink PBR & wear leather jackets on their Bad Boy Weekend til they is busted like The Shining bathtub lady. That’s a fact, Jack?
And maybe, the power of association laundered through the social meanings ascribed to commodities such as music, clothes, trends, personalities, word-views, beers, and attitudes become the framework for JamesDean2010@endlesshighsCOOl.com . But everyone is so bad on Daddy’s dime, that the Dad perspective needs to be investigated. How can Daddy be rocking so cool when we all feel the pain of his refusal to concede to the social monolith ascribed to his surroundings?
Ben Steine’s Money sheds light on the Dad aesthetic perspective: “ You see me on the street, you want a piece of my money, you try to tell me what to do, but we’re the proud and the few, it’s my money.” It is my money Ben Steine, and I’m not scared to constructively use it however the fuck I see fit, and for the most part, it can’t be taken away. Perhaps, a social setting grounded in consumption of power by association has taken for granted the value of production, or in the case of the individual: creation? Like a Tiny God? Just like a Tiny God, not to be confused with a Little Hilter. Cuz we were all told how special we were right? Or how we weren’t? Take that weird ass social dichotomy into the individualized 21st century, now that’s entertainment. Now destroy that dichotomy through detournment! Now drop the bougie ass monocle of negation, and you’re a Dad, a Cool Rocking Daddy, embarrassing the hell out of all your bebes.
We all know the Bad Man eats McDonalds, but we have trouble communicating it with dignity. We all know that songs can be a list of everything bad in America like it was a secret. We all know you get what you pay for. To the Cool Rocking Daddy, dignity is found in the absurd contrast between desire and an objective reality trying to reflexively capitalize off of as well as create avenues of consumption to make our weenies tingle like a pool jet. The Cool Rocking Daddy switched out the transition into the “human garbage disposable” socially ascribed meaning of adulthood in America for the human-love-Muzzy-caveman punching his head cuz it can’t understand the Monolith from 2001: Space Odyssey. The Cool Rocking Daddy caters to no social club because he built his clubhouse called a cave, and it’s not the bad Plato one, it’s the primordial one, the one with glowing eyes in it mouth.

“YOU THINK WE GOT SOMETHING TO PROVE, WELL LET ME HIT YOU WITH THIS GROOVE,”
Pujol

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||| CONANDO |||

Third Man, you guys are just making our day everyday —- you don’t even know it. We saw Conan like 4 years ago in NYC at his show [he interviewed John Cena — it was weird. But La Bamba sat next to us for a second and was like a real cool dude in the flesh and blood] Anyways, our fourth favorite redhead [the first three spots are reserved for the three other redheads at the Deadquarters] will be telling jokes at Third Man tomorrow night for the 21+ crowd. Be there be square.

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WOVEN BONE NO BONEROO

Photo by Bekah Cope

It’s been a minute since the old Woven Bone-boys have hit Nashville [remember, they came through right before GonerFest last year in September at Glenn Danzig’s House with Ty Segall and Mantles and Yussuf Jerusalem —– and it was $5 —- you’re so lucky, Nashville] Anyways, they’re coming back this Friday night at The End to play with Cy Barkley [who’s new 7″ sounds fucking killer] and Disappears. That and the Screaming Females show make you wanna just go ahead and throw that Boneroo ticket away, right? Right. They just put out their first full length, In And Out And Back Again, with HoZac and it’s pretty ripe. Get it got it gooood.

Woven Bones – If It Feels Alright [mp3]

WOVEN BONES “YOUR WAY WITH MY LIFE” ((OFFICIAL)) from andy bones on Vimeo.

Oh and hey we’ve got a couple tickets to give away to the show this Friday, so get at us [you know, email stylee — nashvillesdead(at)gmail(dot)com] and tell us how much you love us. Winner wins.

Friday June 10
:: Disappears
:::: Woven Bones
:::::: Cy Barkley
@ The End
$5 – 18+ – 8PM

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IT'S NOT A DEPOSITION AS YOU CAN SEE

We’ve said it before, but it’s really a rarity to be in Nashville on a night where there’s two more-than-worthwhile things going down. Tonight’s one of those. Let’s lay out the options for ya…..

1. You can hit up The Black Church [504 North 3rd St.] to catch The Cannomen, Cy Barkley, Predator, and Balkans. We’d like to note that there has been a venue change on this one [originally book at The Parsonage — now at The Black Church] We talked about this show a while ago and think it’s gonna be super killer. It’ll run you five dollarz and starts at 8pm. Cy Barkley had this to say about the show – “This show is gonna be the hottest show in the town. If you guys act like pussies again and don’t come out, Atlanta’s gonna make fun of us and you’re gonna have to suck their dicks. This is serious guys! They have a good 7″ out, the Predators. And they are the same name as our sports team so that’s more than one good reason for you to come out.” Thanks Cy.

2. This one’s been kept a little more under the radar, but there’s a show tonight at Peter’s Basement [we can’t just give out addresses, so ask around if you really wanna go…] But it’ll feature Denney & The Jets, Deluxin’, and a sepecial solo Jeffrey Novak set. Jeffrey put out a pretty solid record last year called After the Ball on LMN records [along with a couple 7″s on Shattered and Sweet Rot] We’ve never heard of Jeffrey doing a solo show with this new material [I mean, we remember the one-man-band days] but this could be a special treat. The Looking Glass is apparently standing in as a backing band for him tonight, which is badass. No word on costs or times or anything — go if you know.

Choose wisely, Nashville.

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SUMMER DREAMIN'

Check it out! It’s the new Turbo Fruits video! We miss our buddyz over in Europa right now, but they’ll be back soon and in less than two weeks you’ll be able to catch them over at Glenn Danzig’s House alongside the Jacuzzi Boys [fuckyeah!] Anyways, this video might be our favorite that the group’s made so far. It features the boys just out doing their summer biz and gettin’ their grill on and flying tape cassettes and fire and guns and Matt’s wearing a Beets shirt! LOS BEETS!!

Anyways, watch it over at NME because it’s exclusive to them – get stoked – and we see you soon. Now you can watch it here, suck it NME.

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IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING…

Nashville’s Dead Present: Jeff The Brotherhood from Nick Brazinsky on Vimeo.

… how the show went on Friday night, here’s a little video our buddy NickB put together with lots of footage from JEFF’s set. There’s lots of high flying kiddies and head banging babies and cool rockin’ daddys — you know, the reg. Anyways, we should have tons and tons of photos for you bebs in the next couple days and we just wanna go ahead and say thank you to everyone who came out. As Daniel Pujol said that night “We’re gonna use our powers of Rock and Roll for good tonight — instead of complacent negligent self-hating evil” Amen. We did.

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BACK FROM OUTER SPACE

So Friday night kinda sent us into orbit for a little while and we just got back. Bruises on our knees and elbows and we’re having a lot of trouble just getting out of bed [it’s probably a really bad thing that I can’t really bend my back, right?] Anyways, we’re sitting around and thinking about how we’ve really been slacking on showing you guys some new shiz so we’re gonna work harder on that. We started a little yesterday with Liminanas but now here’s some goodies for ya…

LARVE

Honestly, we know basically nothing about this band. I mean, they’re from Croatia and play “dark moody post-punk jams” whatever that means. It’s like Delta5 in a different language or older Nina Hagen and the Go-Go’s and with a bit more edge to it. So I guess what we’re trying to say is that they’re super badass and we’d love for the babes to come to Nashy. As far as releases go, we’re pretty sure they’ve yet to put anything out. Oh, wait a minute, looks like there was an EP that was self-released earlier this year. If you can figure out where to scoop it, let us know.

Larve – List. [mp3]
Larve – Bubimir [mp3]

THE SHOCKA-KHANS

Like we’ve already said a million times in the last week, it’s summer outside. Shocka-Khans come from where it’s always summer [Covina, California] and play some real hot slop-pop tunes. When we were first introduced to them, someone told us to think of a more disheveled Soft Pack. That’s kinda of a good description, but it’s more just charming pop songs from a couple of dudes looking for the good times. Know what we’re saying? Let’s quit over-complicating things: Shocka-Khans — thanks for the pop songs. Release-wise, we don’t think the bad boys have too much on their plat, but we’ll keep you posted.

BAKE SALE

God we are so sick and tired of cute bands with their cute band names and their cute songs and ….. oh, they’re from Memphis? Wait, play that song again. But, I mean, come on… rock and roll is supposed to look like this not like this…. Oh man, who are we kidding… We’re such suckers for girls playing dreamy prom-pop songs. Ok, Bake Sale, you babies are down with us and we’re down with you so let’s get down together sometime this summer, ok? Make love in this club.

Bake Sale – Prom Song [mp3]
Bake Sale – Meanwhile [mp3]

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