Nashville's Dead

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.

You guys know we love Jacuzzi Boys. If you don’t know, then you’re just skimming this bologna for mp3s and funny photos [We don’t blame you, I barely read any of the stuff DD posts either] Anyways, our favorite Miami mamis – Jacuzzi Boys – are about to head out on a huge tour going coast to coast and down and around and everywhere [playing with the like of The Spits, The Beets, Woven Bones, Christmas Island, and a bunches of other bands we’re dreamy for] We caught wind that they might be hitting Nashy in late June. Scratch that. They are definitely hitting Nashy in late June, we’ll keep you posted. Here’s their latest video for “Smells Dead” off of No Seasons. It’s even directed by our old buddy John McSwain [I was wondering what he’d been doing since he got the boot from VBS]

That image up at the top is the cover for their most recent single with Mexican Summer. God this band fucking kills it every time. Seriously. I’ve listened to this song 23 times today. Come check my iTunes play count if you don’t believe me.

Jacuzzi Boys – Bricks or Coconuts [mp3]

Pick up No Seasons here. It rules. Keep your eyes on June 20th.

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So it’s definitely been a hot minute since our last SHREDITORIAL, but this one makes up for it because it’s so sick! It’s about control [mind control, remote control…. you name it] Get shreddy.

Shreditorial 12
Complete Control

Man, you know what is the coolest thing ever: CONTROL? Yep, it totally shreds. Anyone can do it to any object, whether that object is material, immaterial, or even another person. I went on Safari with the Peter Panzers’ and partied with the Doo Doo Crue on their E-Yacht and came back with some Heady Nugs of Nowledge.

One key to control is the manhandle. You need the manhandle to be able steer your directions and ford your rivers and chevy your hearts. It’s like if a horse had bicycle mandlebars on its head. It’s like a fat man with a high-pony-tail in a sexy suit, but his wife is still MILFin.

The second keys to the Jivory Tower is the good guys versus the bad guys. Which side are you on? Haven’t you ever seen a movie, silly? The trick is to refuse to concede to ever expanding areas of interpersonal awareness, and opt out for good guys and bad guys. It’s easy because as we get more mature, we run out of time to keep it real with people as sentient beings, because we got to pay them bills ya’ll. Why you think the homeless are homeless? They just acting in my play from my friends Facebooks.

The third key to control is the Blind Man’s Bluff. Make a sexy ultimatum, put your foot in your mouth, it’s all the same in the end. All actions are symbolic anyways, especially with the Internet and our krangs are totally conditioned to be epic as fuck. You’re able to use symbolic pressure alluding to your personal life in semi-public to get what you want, even if it’s just some free downloads. It’s literally like your writing your own book about yourself, you can even aesthetically aggrandize yourself to Charlie Brownesque notoriety for the entire Peanut Gallery, then you got leverage b/c you’re a boner-fied Irreplaceable.

The final key is the power of associative meaning. We all got mad image and commodity radar, and we can deduce seriously sexy aesthetic meaning since we went to school through the free information market economy. Collect some cool knick-knacks and gadgets, place them in the right order and $2+$2=you. You could be the chosen one, the prodigal son, or just another Highlander.

You can use all these things to control all your objects, whether they are things, places, people, or pets. The only problem is when you have to fight another Highlander and steal their brain-force or absorb their identity because it threatened the consistency of yours, but if we all quit doing that, we wouldn’t need control. Oh well.

There can be only one,
Pujol

Ramirez: The Kurgan. He is the strongest of all the immortals. He’s the *perfect* warrior. If he wins the Prize, mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness.
Connor MacLeod: How do you fight such a savage?
Ramirez: With heart, faith and steel. In the end there can be only one.

If Lou Reed is the grandfather of punk, then Paul Marotta is its cool uncle. Marotta’s early-to-mid 70’s bands [like Mirrors and electric eels] were the missing links between The Stooges brutal rock ‘n’ roll and punk’s sloppy-but-heartfelt forward drive. No one might have listened to them then [at least, I think. It’s not like I was there, but I don’t ever see them in the $50 dollar punk rock coffee table books from Borders my mom gives me for Christmas] but their sound can be found everywhere these days [just check out half of In The Red’s roster]

The Styrenes were founded on the same concept as the eels and Mirrors [Iggy Pop + Sun Ra], but took it to a whole other level: they could actually like, play real chords and in the same tempo and stuff. They were proto and post-punk at the same time; anticipating both the jazzy punk of the Minutemen and the dissonance of no wave. They’re playing tomorrow night at Betty’s Bar and Grill with Cyon . You’d be dumb if you don’t come. Here’s a song that’s not only Nashville related, but it’s also one of the saddest songs ever. Someone played this song a couple days after Alex Chilton’s death and it put us in literal tears. Big tears. Let’s cry…

:: THE STYRENES
::::CYON
@ Betty’s B&G
$7-10 – 21+ – 9PM

Oh man, if this isn’t great news then we don’t know what is: So Raw Festival 2 is coming back this 2010 Summer. Maybe you missed last year’s festival [If you can still feel yourself kicking your own butt, that’s probably you reminding yourself of how dumb you are for not going last year] But we are going to go ahead and say that you don’t want to miss this year’s. We don’t even know who’s going to play yet. We don’t even care. It’s going to be better than your Bonnaroo and your Sasquatter. Seriously, here’s a few of the bands that were there last year: The Yolks, Electric Bunnies, TeePee, Fluffy Lumbers, Jacuzzi Boys, Melted Sunglasses,  RotShit, Lil Daggers, Pink Reason. See you this summer, Flahdah.

So Raw 2 from SO RAWFESTIVAL on Vimeo.