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Man, this weekend was nuttttttts, right? Strange Boys absolutely killed it over at Danzig’s house on Saturday [so did everyone else who played, it was actually kind of unbelievable how great everything was] Anyways, let’s get it on with this week’s shows. Has anyone been paying attention to Daniel Pujol’s upcoming shows? Looks like the bad boys are playing a whopping 5 shows in the next 2 weeks… and 3 of them are free. FREE! Let the beat drop!

Monday April 5

:: Power Animal
:::: Pineapple Explode
:::::: Hello Shark
:::::::: Growth Spert
@ Little Hamilton
$5 – All Ages – 8PM

:: Vampire Weekend
:::: Abe Vigoda
@ The Ryman
$Sold out – All Ages – 8PM

Tuesday April 6

1st of Many Rock the Block parties – FREE shows at both The End and Exit/In
:: The Hollywood Ten
:::: Kopecky Family Band
:::::: Majestico
:::::::: Evan P. Donahue
:::::::::: Heartbeater
:::::::::::: Reno Bo
@ Exit/In
$FREE – 18+ – 8PM

:: Spider Friends
:::: Daniel Pujol
:::::: Diarrhea Planet
:::::::: Frank Out
:::::::::: Dozen Dimes
:::::::::::: The Mattoid
@ The End
$FREE – 18+ – 8PM

Wednesday April 7

:: Holy Mountains
:::: Northless
:::::: Sky Burial
@ Little Hamilton
$TBA – All Ages – 8PM

:: The Whigs & Band of Skulls
@ Grimey’s New & Pre-Loved Records
$FREE – All Ages – 5PM

:: The Whigs
:::: Band of Skulls
@ Exit/In
$15 – 18+ – 9PM

Thursday April 8th

:: Those Damn Torpedos
:::: The Outlaw Lovers
:::::: Cy Barkley
@ FooBar
$TBA – 21+ – 9PM

:: Deadstring Brothers
:::: Girl In A Coma
:::::: The Billygoats
@ The Basement
$7 – 21+ – 9PM

Friday April 9

:: Black Lips
:::: Box Elders
:::::: Natural Child
@ The Hi-Tone [Memphis]
$TBA – 18+ – 9PM

:: The White Mice
:::: MLU
:::::: Suffering Bastard
:::::::: Dawn
:::::::::: No Compassion
@ Little Hamilton
$5 – All Ages – 8PM

:: The Vermicious K’nids
:::: Denney & The Jets
:::::: Aquariums
:::::::: Fuckshow
@ Springwater
$5 – 21+ – 9PM

Saturday April 10

:: De Novo Dahl
:::: Daniel Pujol
:::::: Blue Cadet Three
:::::::: The Looking Glass
:::::::::: How Cozy!
:::::::::::: The District
:::::::::::::: 2 of Hearts
:::::::::::::::: Toxic Harmony
:::::::::::::::::: The Supple Station Trio
:::::::::::::::::::: The Gloaming
:::::::::::::::::::::: Ave Marling
:::::::::::::::::::::::: Gnarwhal
::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Skipperdees
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Levi Hummon
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Halper Brothers
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: David Kuhn
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Anna Cone, Abby Easton and Daniel Meyerowitz
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Mattis Deutch
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Benjamin Jelsma
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Major Case Squad
@ USN School
$7 – All Ages – 6PM

:: Torch Rumor
:::: Realicide vs Birth
:::::: Evolve
:::::::: Karoshi
:::::::::: Yautja
@ Little Hamilton
$5 – All Ages – 8PM

:: Prarie Home Companion
@ The Ryman
$Lots – All Ages – 4:45PM

Sunday April 11

:: Yukon
:::: Marj!
:::::: Gnarwhal
:::::::: The Looking Glass
@ Little Hamilton
$5 – All Ages – 7PM

Happy Easter, Peepsters.

I mean, I’m sure none of you could forget about a bill like this, but it’s seriously gonna be a party and is worth mentioning again. It’s going down tomorrow night at 7PM, so get there then. We spoke to the Glenn Danzig boys a little earlier and got the tentative lineup —- you’re gonna wanna get there early [opens with Natural Child – Daniel Pujol – Strange Boys – Heavy Cream – Cy Barkley]. HIT IT!

:: Cy Barkley
:::: Heavy Cream
:::::: Strange Boys
:::::::: Daniel Pujol
:::::::::: Natural Child
@ Glenn Danzig’s House
$5 – All Ages – 7PM

We spent pretty much the whole day yesterday with Mr. Pujol working on something sweet for you buddy-bads. We’ll drop it on you guys sometime soon along with something else pretty killer. Until then, you can catch Pujol [along with Natural Child, Heavy Cream, Cy Barkley, and Austin’s Strange Boys] at Glenn Danzig’s House tomorrow night! Shred it!

Shreditorial 11
Heady Metal Jester’s Fancy Layered Biscuit

What shreds? This default intro question? Not yet; We haven’t reached a point of rampant referential optical allusion, YET. But what does shred, is a theory developed proposing that people are like fancy biscuits. This theory, easily traced back to Freud and Pillsbury, was developed by Heady Metal Jester in 42069 AC. Me here at the Shred lifted up Zack’s shirt to ask the Jester a few questions.
“Hello, Dr. Jester, me’re here from Nashville’s Dead Shreditorial and me’d like to ask you to explain your Fancy Biscuit theory of behavioral sikecology.”
“Please, don’t call me doctor; Pharaoh is fine.”
“What about Dr. Pharaoh?”
“No, that is just the compromised opposite of what I want.”
“Whatever. Tell’em bout your biscuits.”
“Fine. I propose that an individual is like a fancy biscuit composed of layers. When beginning to know someone, there are superficial layers of the personality that insulate and protect the consciousness and identity from the outside world. These are bad habits, loops, ticks, fleas, pay by the pound body lichens, etc. I refer to this superficial layer of the personality as the Hard Brown Part. There are three ways to pass through Browntown: by embracing the superficial to get closer to the person, being a dick about it, or capitalizing off an insecurity, which I refer to as “Poking Your Finger Through The Crust So The Steam Comes Out” in my latest work Half Skeleton, Half Jester, All Demon: My Quantitative Analysis of Texan Border Brothels.”
“But why work through the layers? What’s even past the layers. It seems like it would be nothing. Is there even a center to a biscuit?”
“Well, my inconsistent and confusing analogy refers to this allusive center as the Butter Crystals, which once “baked” (or the personality has took some heat), these Butter Crystals melt and permeate throughout the whole feathery apparatus. There is no center, or pure expression of a person, there are only permeations of the individual’s buttery essence throughout their fancy biscuit. This is why the embrace of the layers is important, because once having been embraced, traces of butter become more apparent in a way that can only be recognized by practice and taste.”
“So, you’re basically saying that differences are only skin deep, but you’re pretending that people are biscuits with blood-butter?”
“Not really. I’m suggesting that all of person is permeated throughout every small, superficial thing they do. All of that person is always there, and you’re watching how they do the thing. Regardless of whether you like it or not, a superficial tick or expression, might be the Jenga piece that allows them to make you happy in another way. So just be nice and patient, you can’t be right about the inside of someone else’s mind, just yours, maybe. Just think or ask before you pull that piece, there’s only so much fun to have alone, so why even try to win against a witness to yourself?”
“But Pharaoh, what if I let my people go?”

Body Moving Body-Body Moving,
Pujol

Titus Andronicus gets it!! See!? Those P-Forkers had a sit down chit-chat with Titus and when they asked him about what his most recent favorite concerts were, he said Natural Child! I remember seeing him at the show at DBA and thinking, “What is Greg doing here!?” Anyways, I don’t think Titus could’ve nailed it any better after only seeing Natural Child once for 20 minutes. Getting compared to Thin Lizzy and being described as “1970s heavy rock” is badass. Nice one, babies. Here’s a video from that show.

Richmond’s Southside Stranglers [feat. Kenny and Brandon from Government Warning —- this really shouldn’t get pigeonholed as a “side project” though. Its too good for “side project” standards] put out their debut 7″ Too Much TV on Grave Mistake and Vicious Circle earlier this year and we’ve been blown away. I mean, pretty much anything Brandon touches is worthwhile. That dude’s in every good band in Richmond [We’ll go ahead and apologize to you if you’re in a Richmond band and Brandon’s not in it. Sorry] They’ve got a nice demo cassette out there too, but good luck finding it. Word on the street is that the boys are rolling through Nashville in early May. No confirmation yet, but keep your eyes peeled and run your record player into the ground with their new 7″ in anticipation.

Southside Stranglers – Too Much TV [mp3]

Scoop the 7″ here.

Since our Strange Boys buddies from Austin, TX are rolling through town this weekend, we figured we’d talk about their Austonian brothers Harlem and their new record that comes out next week from Matador. The Matababes just sent us word that you can now stream the entire album, Hippies, on their myspace. Seriously? Who doesn’t know how to spell hippys? What kind of public schools do they have in Austin? Anyways, they’re heading out on tour soon and it’ll bring them to Chattanooga [Apr. 16] Nashville [May 13] and Memphis [May 14] Just can’t get enough of the Tennessee these days.

Harlem – South of France [mp3]

The boys had an album come out around this time last year called Free Drugs on Female Fantasy Records, which you can still pick up.

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Well, we tried to take the week last week and use it for recovery. That didn’t exactly pan out how we expected. This week we’re hoping to finally regroup and collect ourselves and get back on the ball with photos and bands and shows and stuff. You know, like the golden days. In our first attempt, let’s get alllllllll the SXSW photos out there in one giant post. How does that sound? Overwhelming? Yeah, well, suck it. We’ll keep it as chronological as possible, but take it easy on us – there’s a lot. We gotta say that, in all honesty, JEFF was the best thing we saw all week. We’re totally biased, but whatever. Other highlights include seeing Death [even though it’s not really the same at all anymore] hanging with baby PopJew, going to a house party where Andrew WK was playing and Bill Murray was watching, and hanging with our friends. The other best thing we heard all week was this, “Nashville is saving rock and roll.” We overheard someone say that after watching Natural Child and JEFF at the PopJew/Acid Marshmallow/Modern Country showcase. We couldn’t agree more and you’ll notice from our photos that it was hard to not see Nashville bands. As is the case with carrying lots of film — sometimes you lose a roll. This time we lost 2 FOUND ‘EM! SUCK IT! [JEFF and Death at the Panache showcase, and something else we can’t remember] All photos are courtesy numba on stunna Bekah Cope. We’ll have some more photos for you in the next couple days that include a Soft Pack instore and Nodzzz playing baseball. No joke. Here goes!!!

WIZARD SLEEVE

JOHN BARRETT’S BASS DRUM OF DEATH

SO COW

GRAVE BABIES

WHITE MYSTERY

SPIDER BAGS

JUICEBOXXX

TEENGIRL FANTASY

MICKEY

THE BEETS

HUNX & HIS PUNX

AIR WAVES

NATURAL CHILD

WOVEN BONES

JAIL

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD

THOMAS FUNCTION

MAGIC KIDS

BEN STEINE’S MONEY

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD II

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE

ANDREW WK [HOUSE PARTY]

TURBO FRUITS

TY SEGALL

TY SEGALL AND MIKAL CRONIN

RETIRED SEAGULLS [JEFF + Ty + Mikal]

DEATH

Done. See you next year, Suck by Suck West