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The Features will always be one of the psychedelic anthems of my teenage youth. The track “Kids” on their latest album Wilderness takes me back to those college days at MTSU, when I was a reckless and raging-to-music teenager. I remember head-banging and flailing my arms to The Features songs during their performance at…
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New blood alert… check out this post from our newest contributor Jessika Malone. Lambchop’s making noise in a cool West Nashville venue (The Stone Fox). Fiona Apple (pre-TX drug bust) played a sultry, sold-out show at the Ryman. Music City’s getting national attention for a burgeoning indie rock scene (Huffington Post). Belmont students are…
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Who doesn’t have halloween plans? Let’s face it. It’s mid week, and you probably already had your costumed fun last weekend. Well, there is no reason to moth ball that cheap/slutty excuse for a Halloween costume just yet. It definitely beats sitting around the house answering the door and doling out tooth rotting hyperactivity…
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I got a break up email yesterday from Nashville’s Umbrella Tree. After a year and half relationship full of new and exciting experiences, Umbrella Tree told me that they couldn’t do it anymore. While I am sure that I will go on just fine, I know already that I will miss them. There weren’t…
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It’s a hell of a line up over at Marathon Music Works tonight with the super group Diamond Rugs headlining a show full of awesome Nashville talent including Turbo Fruits, Ranch Ghost, James Wallace & the Naked Light, & Denney and the Jets. The first 50 people to get to the show will receive…
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Mike Patton’s stage presence during live Tomahawk shows is just as unique as his character and vocals. He resembles a chemist on stage, concocting vocal formulas and potions that produce interesting sounds. He wears a gas mask with a microphone inside of it to produce a muffling effect, and the sound is like that…
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Minus The Bear’s latest record “Infinity Overhead” suggests an atmosphere of sound options swirling in the night sky next to the stars, waiting to be harnessed and put to good use. These Seattle rockers selected the best options, or those they confide in, and carefully put them in their songs like puzzle pieces. Many…
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It was about three years ago when I was visiting Nashville for the holidays that I last saw Silversun Pickups as part of the Not So Silent Night show over at Cannery Ballroom. Three wild years later, and I am living in Nashville and writing for this music rag. I won’t say that it…
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This one is straight from the PR Machine, but I dug the song. So, nothing original in the write up, but enjoy the tunes. ——- The Trashed Romeos, led by Greg Roberson (Tiger High, Reigning Sound, Arthur Lee’s Love, Compulsive Gamblers), hail from the very epicenter of rock-n-roll, Memphis, TN. Roberson has a pretty…