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You may know Jessie Baylin as the wife of Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill, but you should know her as a very talented local folk popstress. You get a chance to catch her performing at Grimey’s today at 6pm as she prepares to release her new record Little Spark tomorrow. Jessie has been…
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I’m not sure the bands on tonight’s bill will like the “Humor-tonk” moniker, but I think it is fitting for what’s about to happen at The Basement on this Friday the 13th. Here’s the Three’s Company inspired promo video for the show tonight. [vimeo 34798859] It’s a mixture of Americana, Country, Folk, Psychedelic Rock,…
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This song was leaked out a couple of weeks ago, and the fine folks over at Gorilla vs. Bear started blabbing about it. It’s an okay song, and I feel like everyone is blowing this thing out of proportion because of the Hollywood implication. That being said, it’s a pretty mesmerizing sultry vocal debut…
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Do you miss LCD Soundsystem? Yeah, me too. Well, I guess James Murphy isn’t done… quite yet. Pitchfork (via Entertainment Weekly) dropped the trailer for the upcoming, Sundance Film Festival featured documentary of LCD Soundsystem which chronicles the days before that epic final show at Madison Square Garden in April 2011. The documentary, titled…
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We’ve talked a lot about Vinyl Thief on this blog, and I hope you are getting out to see them. If you haven’t had a chance, tonight is another opportunity at Exit/In with Atlanta band Stokeswood. Vinyl Thief is that Nashville electrorock outfit that has been steadily gaining traction here in the Music City. …
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We’ve been hearing for a while that Arcade Fire was amongst another stellar line up in PBS’ Austin City Limits program for 2011/2012. The concert was performed on September 17th, and the video dudes (and dudettes) have done all of their editing and mixing and what not. The show will be broadcast starting this…
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Have you heard about the IFC program Portlandia? The show stars Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen and former Sleater-Kenney and current Wild Flag star Carrie Brownstein, and it’s a pretty hysterical show that clowns on the hipster world that we are embattled in everyday. Well, they are taking their show on the road…
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Delta Spirit returns to Nashville to play The Cannery Ballroom on April 6th along with upstart band WATERS. Thanks to the fine folks down in Chattanooga that run The South Rail for the hat tip on that one. You may remember us talking about Delta Spirit as part of that “parking lot” show last…
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We are still in the doldrums for new music releases in 2012, but there are certainly a number of releases that are around the corner. In the meantime, here is another tiny list of interesting new releases for this past week. Let me know if you think I missed anything. Keepaway – Black Flute…
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Some of our newest faves in Nashville, Ranch Ghost and Mom & Dad, are playing tonight, and I had every intention of writing this up earlier. Alas, Coachella announced their line-up, meetings, etc… and now it is 4pm. So, I’m going to briefly link you back to our previous write up about both Ranch…