Nashville's Dead

Last Friday wasn’t Halloween, but it might as well have been. The show at Glenn Danzig’s House was one of the most fun things we’ve been to in a…. I was going to say “in a long time” but there have been some really fun shows lately. I guess we’ll just say that this show is just proof that the shows are getting more and more fun each time. Right? Well, the show featured 4 virtual unknowns [Ben Steine’s Money, The Crumbs, So Jazzy, and Glenn Danzig’s Band] along with Natural Child. All the bands were good. Really good. By the end of the night, Glenn Danzig’s House looked like it had been hit by a bomb. Here are some photos from Natural Child’s set and the wreckage [sorry we don’t have any photos of the other bands, our camera was whack! All photos courtesy of Bekah Cope]

King Khan and BBQ [Mark Sultan] are coming back to town a week from tomorrow [Nov. 11] to play at Exit/In with those hometown girly-babes Those Darlins. The last time KK+BBQ passed through our little Nashville, they rocked to a pretty sparse crowd, but then King Khan & His Shrines passed through a few months later and packed the place out. We still can’t really figure out why [We like ’em bolth, but KK+BBQ is for sure our favorite of the two. But we do like the bolth of them. Bolths of them] The two-piece’s new album, Invisible Girl [VICE], just came out today and like all their other releases, we can’t help but shake when we hear it. There’s lots of Spits-y jams [specifically “Tastebuds”, which might be one of the grossest most rad songs we’ve heard this year] and some real crooning heart-breakers on here [Like “Invisible Girl” below] Rock and roll styl-ee. Be sure to catch both of these bands when they come to town next week [And bring some baked goods to welcome the Darlins home, you know they deserve it]

Last Thursday our baby Atlanta boys rolled into town and, as always, they blew it up. The show was originally supposed to just be Turbo Fruits and Black Lips, but the fellas requested that Natural Child open the show [Which was totally fine by us] The Halloween in the air must have infiltrated the babes because they definitely shelled out a few treats, playing classics like “Stone Cold”, “Make It“, and a Weeds [The Lollipop Shoppe] cover of “You Must Be a Witch”. You probably already expected this, but Bekah Cope was there to shoot some hot photos [You’re so smart] Check ’em out!!

Since it’s release, Turbo Fruits‘ latest record Echo Kid has been making some waves across the nation. And after touring with Monotonix, CMJ-ing all over the place, and hitting home with Black Lips last week, they’ve been able to cover alot of ground with new crowds and babies. They’ve got a new video directed by Brad Holland [Busy guy, amiright?] for their song “Naked With You” that’s pretty great [Dazed Digital has the exclusive. Thanks, Turbo Fruits, I thought we were friends?] But since we can’t embed that digital video baby right here on our spot, we’ll share a couple others of the boys getting hotboxed in a bathroom.

Sound good? We think so [Except maybe not the Joy Division part. Feels like everywhere we go these days people think they gotta play some Joy Division to be cool. We like Joy Division, we write papers about them at school, but come on DJs —- less Smiths + Joy Division] Oh, and thanks Bekah C for zombifying those photos for us.

Yo bay-beeeeez. Did you listen in today? We played some R. Stevie Moore and lots of other goodies for you. Yeah, JUST for you. What’s that? You missed it? You… missed… it? Ugh. Whatever, check out what you missed: