Nashville's Dead

We were just cruisin’ the webs and stopped by our favorite Volar Records blog to find a brand new video for The Fresh and Onlys’ “Invisible Forces” And since they’re coming to town later this Spring with King Khan & his shrines, we figured we’d hip you guys to it again. The video features lots of black and white and nature and a confused-sorta-bearded-dude. Something real relaxing about it…

Fresh & Onlys – Invisible Forces from Nathan Gulick on Vimeo.

The Fresh and Onlys have a record coming out soon on In The Red, but you should pick up their Woodsist released Grey Eyed Girls LP here.

Remember a couple weeks ago when we wouldn’t stop talking about how Heavy Cream was recording their first full-length LP for Infinity Cat? Well, they’ve upped the first little sneak peak from the record to their myspace today. The song “Hawkwound” totally kills, it’s like a mix of Misfits, Runaways, Ramones but girls and oh my god do you need any more of a description?  If you caught them at either of their two shows this week [Feb 1 @ The Basement or Feb 2 @ Exit/In] then you know how great it is live, too. Are you still reading this? You realize we linked to the myspace way earlier in this post and that’s where you need to go to listen to it. GO!

How do you find Will Smith when he’s creepin’ and crawlin’ around in the deep, dark, snow-covered forest in the winter-time?

…. just follow the fresh prince.

When it comes to bands that have recently relocated themselves to Nashville who we wish weren’t potentially relocating themselves again back to where they came from, MLU is pretty close to the top of that list. The boys recently rattled off a huge slew of tour dates for this spring [starting in April and ending in May] The tour stretches all over the place and features shows with White Mice, Diet Cokeheads, Slavescene, and a bunch of other good bands. If what they’re hinting at is true, and Tampa’s the last stop for a reason, we’re really gonna miss these guys. And we can’t encourage you guys enough to go get out and see them if you haven’t.

MLU SPRING 2010 TOUR

APRIL

5 SARASOTA w/ LAZY MAGNET @ new college
6 ORLANDO w/ TRISCULTS, OLD SMOKER, SLAVES, SON OF THUG, POSTURE @ stardust
7 GAINESVILLE w/ DIET COKEHEADS
8 ATLANTA (big & tall presents…)
9 NASHVILLE w/ THE WHITE MICE, LAZER SLUT, NO COMPASSION, DAWN @ little hamilton
10 ST LOUIS w/ GHOST ICE
11 IOWA CITY w/ SUPERSONIC PISS, THESE NEEDLES @ white lightning wherehouse
12 MINNEAPOLIS (knife world presents…)
13 MILWAUKEE*
14 CHICAGO w/ CACAW
15 CLEVELAND (tusco embassy presents…)
16 PITTSBURGH w/ FREE CLINIC
17 ALLENTOWN (rybo presents…)
18 BARD w/ FAT WORM OF ERROR, LAZY MAGNET
19 PROVIDENCE w/ THE WHITE MICE
20 BOSTON w/ THE WHITE MICE
21 WESTERN MASS (noise nomads presents…)
22 HARTFORD/YALE
23 BROOKLYN*
24 FAR ROCKAWAY w/ HALFLINGS @ red light district
25 NJ
26 PHILLY
27 BALTIMORE
28 RICHMOND
29 NC w/ VVAQRT
30 CHARLESTON @ outer space

MAY

1 LAKE WORTH @ club sandwich
2 TAMPA w/ SLAVESCENE, HAVES & THIRDS, NEON BLUD, THEN AND THAN @ cafe hey

Photo by Bekah Cope

We’re always stoked when Times New Viking rolls through town [especially since the last time they came it was like 3 or 4 years ago at the Funhouse] They played The Basement on Monday night with Ocelots and Heavy Cream. We got a little hung up and wound up missing Ocelots, but here are some pics our girly Bekah Cope took. Just say no to tin-foil tshirts. We also may or may not be in love or in like with Beth from Times New Viking.

HEAVY CREAM

TIMES NEW VIKING

Everyone’s getting there Puj on these days. Check out an interview he did over at WOTT. Time to shred the gnar.

Shreditorial 6

You know what really shreds my bank slips? My dad? No: America’s Messiah Complex. We have this articulate, intelligent President, but he’s not Frankenstein Superman. So he’s worthless, right? This guy got on television and said we could change America, but we’d have to work? Fuck that. I want Ronald Reagan to kiss me good night after he tucks me in so tight my toes break. I want to wait for that golden shower to trickle down through the glass ceiling of my house on the hill until it fills my third wife’s margarita glass.

Honestly, what can the President do besides generate a dialogue with the country to set an agenda to do the job? Maybe the insane abuses of a federated system by the previous administration got us confused, but last time I checked, we had a representative democracy that operated from the bottom up. So, why don’t we act like that? Why don’t we hold our local leaders accountable? Maybe because we weren’t taught how or we don’t have the time? Imagine that: consumer/citizens running around frantically to obtain all material necessity from retailers instead of each other who are too tired to actively shape our world or hold our leader accountable?! It’s like a carrot on a stick with a hook in it.

Ever wonder about local elections and why you never vote in them? Me too, but I’m starting to reconsider my ignorance as a weakness and not just a fashion accessory to add to the long list of things I believe in. We all know “the system is corrupt”, but maybe only if we expect the Neo-Christ to descend from the Ivory Tower and make everything “our definition right.” Or maybe it’s easier to say my hands are too clean to ever get dirty?

Isn’t that just a Messiah Complex that will result in insane conservative backlash, because their persona demands you allow them to function as savior against an old, worn out, Muppets-off-SNL-Season One, outside aggressor? Will this be a song later? You know it will be!

So, here’s my State of the Union: local power is consolidated to a certain worldview that votes for itself because it has the capital and connections to get the votes. That local power is rabidly interested in staying in power, and it rises to the House and Senate in order to continue to shape the material, intellectual, and ideological realities for us to deal with. Then you have a Congress that represents some bizarre “constituency” that shows up to their gigs and buys their merch so they can tour forever, and make laws so you can’t. Sort of like a Country Club, but its the whole country. Some people call this historical materialism? Do I care if you think I’m right or are we as a country just desperately in need of actual public debate and discourse besides pundit caricatures of politics for King Baby? It’s like reconstructing Meta-Nazi Germany with Legos but you’re the Allied Power.

This country club is so meta-bourgeoisied out that it promotes policies that simply reinforce the funding and vote pooling of a certain type of person, and why shouldn’t they: apparently it works. So what are us young dude/ettes going to vote about? How do we learn where to vote? And how to vote? And how to generate our own pools of capital to draw from to promote relevant leadership and polices? Do we even care? Do we know how? How do we shape our own reality? Like that parental mystery of “constructive behavior” or knowing that refusal to adapt bows to yesterday. I believe Lil Wayne refers to this phenomenon as “Young Money.”

Weezy,

Pujol
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danielluccapujol@gmail.com

Oh those swanky babes over at Third Man have got something sweet cooked up for Nashville tomorrow. Dex Romweber Duo are doing an in-store there tomorrow afternoon for free and there’s a lot of other crazy stuff they’re doing for it. Our resident Dex Romwember Duo fanatic, Dillon, will tell you all about it….

Dex Romweber is a living legend. His voice and guitar playing are of another time, and at his shows you can’t help but feel like you’re seeing something special, something you normally shouldn’t be able to experience. From his time spent as frontman for the Flat Duo Jets to his ever-promising work in the Dex Romweber Duo, I challenge you to find a time Dex didn’t reign supreme over his contemporaries. Of course, I am a bit biased. At the age that most kids were listening to Kill ‘Em All, I was listening to Go Go Harlem Baby. Whether that’s a good thing or not is up to question, but it does mean that I am way more stoked for this Thursday than I probably should be.

That’s because Dex Romweber Duo will be performing at Third Man Records this Thursday. It’s free, all ages, and starts at 6 o’clock. As if a free show by someone of Dex’s stature isn’t enough, they will be recording the set straight to 8-track analog reel-to-reel tape. Said recordings then will be released as the first part in the Third Man Live series. Attendees of the show will have an opportunity to purchase a limited-edition, split-colored vinyl LP of the concert (half-black, half-blue), of which only 300 copies will be pressed. If you can’t make the show, you can pick it up in classy black vinyl later on, but it will only be available at Third Man’s brick and mortar storefront. That’s right, no eStores, no Amazon, no nothin’. Nashville REPRESENT.

Oh yeah, and they’re filming the whole thing and you’ll be able to watch it over at the Third Man site for pay-per-view. These guys know how to take it to the top. Dex is playing later that night at The Basement. Hit it up!

Thursday Feb. 4

:: Dex Romweber Duo
@ Third Man Records
$FREE – All Ages – 6PM

OK, today is Groundhog’s Day and that means we’re kind of sort of getting closer to Spring. And Spring means everyone in their respective cities decides that it’s time to get together and have lots of bands play and everyone get real drunk during the day. Right? Right. We’ve picked up on two that have really got our guts going. One in Atlanta, and one in Monterrey which might be the most badass thing we’ve ever heard of.

THE ATLANTA MESS AROUND

The Mess Around is put together by Rob’s House and Douchemaster and Triple D’s, so DUH it is going to rule. The festivititititities take place this year from April 23-24 at The Earl, Criminial Records, and Reactionary Records and the initial lineup will probably blow you away. I mean, it blew us away when Trey from Rob’s House told us about it, Check it:

The Urinals
Reigning Sound
Davila 666
Gentleman Jesse & His Men
Ty Segall [solo set]
Cococoma
GG King
Predator
Woven Bones
Wizzard Sleeve
King Louie’s Missing Monuments
White Wires
Bad Sports
Customers
Carnivores
Georgina Starlington
Games
Bukkake Boys
Barreracudas

THE MTYMX ALL AGES FESTIVAL

We mentioned this festival a while back, but we finally got some more details from Todd P about what all’s going down. The party’s going down March 20-22 in Monterrey, Mexico at a drive-in theater [that’s what that photo is up there] 75 bands will play over the 3-days [1/3 of them being from Mexico] and there will be no overlapping sets!! How nuts is this?! You don’t even know the half of it yet, let’s keep going… There will be some onsite camping available as well as discounted hotel rooms AND discounted shuttle buses running 3 times a day between Austin and Monterrey. Oh, and a 3day pass will run you $30. $30!!!! Too good to be true. There are a ton more things to read about this festival, so check it out here. Oh and here’s the initial lineup [we know that the Natty and Creamy and JEFFy babes may also be in attendance at this thing. As is the usual, we’ll keep you posted]

Los Fancy Free (MEXICO)

Quiero Club (MEXICO)

Antoine Reverb (MEXICO)

White Ninja (MEXICO)

El Resplandor (MEXICO)

Lazaro Valiente (MEXICO)

Chikita Violenta (MEXICO)

XYX (MEXICO)

Soho Riots (MEXICO)

Yo Linares (MEXICO)

Los Llamarada (MEXICO)

Mockinpott (MEXICO)

Los Margaritos (MEXICO)

Ratas del Vaticano (MEXICO)

BamBam (MEXICO)

Alexico (MEXICO)

Le Macabre Party (MEXICO)

Mentira Mentira (MEXICO)

Acid Mothers Temple (JAPAN)

Grant Hart (of Hüsker Dü)

Telepathe

Andrew W.K.

Dan Deacon*

Neon Indian (TEXAS/MEXICO)

No Age

the Carrots (TEXAS)

Mutating Meltdown (TEXAS)

Pocahaunted

Adventure

Videohippos

Das Racist

Anamanaguchi

Wet Hair

Drawlings

Toro y Moi

Hunx and his Punx

Teengirl Fantasy

Explode Into Colors

Male Bonding (UK)

Coathangers

Indian Jewelry (TEXAS)

Washed Out

Fucked Up (CANADA)

Small Black

Chinese Stars

Talk Normal

The Beets

Tanlines

Bitters (CANADA)

TV Ghost

Total Abuse (TEXAS)

Coasting

Beach Fossils

So Cow (IRELAND)

Cloud Nothings

Best Fwends (TEXAS)

Fergus and Geronimo (TEXAS)

Big Troubles

Lucky Dragons

DD/MM/YYYY (CANADA)

Lemonade

Liturgy

Banjo or Freakout! (UK)

Thee Oh Sees

Baths

Sandwitches

Salem

High Places*

Pictureplane

* indicates that the band is *not* playing at SxSW, ie. is “exclusive” to MtyMx

Get your passes here.