Yesterday, while at the gym (yes, that is what Bonnaroo has done to me), I was listening to Brooklyn Vegan’s weekly blog show, and he mentioned Glenn Danzig going after Nashville Cream’s photog Michael W. Bunch at his Bonnaroo set. Damn, Cream… way to almost get your ass kicked to have mega-bloggers in New…
Questlove spent two hours laying down the beats on Saturday night for The Roots, but that didn’t slow him down in the slightest for one of the most memorable Superjam sets in Bonnaroo history early Sunday morning. Questlove beat out a slow, groovy drum beat while he introduced the players for the evening. Of…
It was a wild 48 hours at Bonnaroo for some of the folks over here, and I wanted to share a little of our totally ADD experience and photos with you guys. What a party! Let me just give you an idea of how hectic this was… Tune-Yards, Katie Herzig, Sharon Jones & The…
It’s that time again… all my gear is packed, and I am ready to sweat it out amidst the multitude of totally wrecked and sunburned at the Farm this year. I’ll be sending in tweets, pics, and PERHAPS a post or two from the fest, so keep tabs for updates. As a final link…
San Francisco post punkers Grass Widow are coming to remind us on the eve of the ultimate Country Music weekend that Nashville is so much more than just country. Grass Widow formed in 2007 and toured the US the following summer. Their first release came as a S/T LP on San Francisco’s Make A…
Whoa… How did this little announcement sneak past me? Veteran Indie all-stars Grizzly Bear will be at The Ryman on September 18th! Which it just also so happens will be a defacto album release party for their fourth full length due out nationwide that day. The band just leaked the first single “Sleeping Ute”…
Nashville’s Pujol is having a little party tonight to celebrate the release of his debut LP. We’ve had that killer EP Nasty, Brutish, and Short on heavy rotation over here, and I’m pretty stoked to really get into the new record titled United States of Being. You can have a listen to that record…
In another solid supergroup announcement, Dan Boeckner, formerly of Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade, Spoon frontman Britt Daniel, and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown have a new band called Divine Fits . They’re putting out an album later this year on Merge Records. We’ll have more info when the release date and tour are announced, but, in the meantime, check…
Three witches get in a cab… I forgot the punchline. Check out the Black Cab Session for Nashville’s The Black Belles below. [vimeo 43248708]
In case you haven’t seen this absolutely strange video for The Black Keys “Gold On The Ceiling”. You can read the full write up from The Cream. In the meantime, check out the strangeness below. [youtube_sc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW36R1dbjGg?rel=0&w=560&h=315]