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Peelander-Z & Electric Eel Shock- Japanese Rock Comes to Nashville, Tonight @ Mercy Lounge
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Peelander-Z are not an easy band to describe. They refer to themselves as “Japanese Action Comic Punk hailing from the Z area of planet Peelander.” That says more about their persona than their sound, and I’ll come back to that. Stylistically, the band plays a pretty no-frills, fast, high-energy old school flavor of punk rock.…
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Regina Spektor returns to the Ryman | 11.11.12 | w/ Only Son
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Nashville’s the kind of town where infamous events are kinda’ commonplace. Stuff of legend happens on the regular and it’s often pretty bizarre. Ryan Adams throws out a drunken heckler for demanding he play “Summer of ’69” (not cool, bro), John Mayer makes a tearful apology to his bandmates at Bridgestone Arena for his…
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This Weekend In Nashville: Nov 9-11
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First off, for those of you that haven’t taken notice, we’ve grown! So, please take the time to welcome Jessika and Philip to the mix. If you haven’t taken notice, and just thought that Andrew and I had adopted numerous voices, then, well, sorry to disappoint. In other news, it is Friday, and I…
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Machines Are People Too, Brandon Jazz & His Armed Forces, Sol Cat, and VanCo Tonight @ The High Watt
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What’s in a name? I usually avoid the dissection of a band name. If it sounds good, it just fits and I use it without thinking about it. But this time, I had to go a few steps further. I heard the name Machines Are People Too (MRP2) through conversations of Chattanooga music lore, especially MRP2’s dance-till-you-drop…
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Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tonight at Exit/In
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Black Moth Super Rainbow are a band that really must be experienced live to be properly appreciated. Performing under very interesting personal stage names such as Tobacco and The Seven Fields of Aphelion, with a stage full of synthesizers and vocoders, the band has their psychedelic and enthralling sound down to a science. Their typical crowd is just…
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King Tuff, Gap Dream, & Fletcher C Johnson, Tonight at The Stone Fox
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King Tuff is becoming some sort of Nashville institution. I guess it must have all started when King Tuff’s Kyle Thomas was playing at Springwater last summer with Hunx and His Punx (which apparently we were too lazy to write about). Then we had the Stone Fox opener that didn’t happen, and ended up…
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The Postelles, The Maine, and Mayday Parade, Tonight at Rocketown
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It’s always an odd feeling to go to a show and be considerably more excited about the opener than the headliner. Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to all three of these bands. I’m confident that they’ll all be great. This tour is just a very strange pairing of distinctly different artists and, in this…
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Paul Banks of Interpol, Tonight at Mercy Lounge
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For me, Interpol has always been something of a band of diminishing returns. When they first exploded onto the post-punk revival scene with Turn on the Bright Lights, I heralded them as perhaps the most genuine, talented, and, when compared to peers like The Strokes, underrated new band to come out of that movement. Their followup, Antics, included…
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Family Affair: He’s My Brother She’s My Sister | The High Watt | 11.3.12
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I was delighted when the offer to check out He’s My Brother She’s My Sister was tossed my way, and, truth be told, a little embarrassed. How had I not heard them before? I gotta’ step up my game. I’m a sucker for sibling acts (Secret Sisters, Tegan and Sara, The Breeders) even when they’re fiction (The White Stripes). Plus I do love…
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This Weekend In Nashville, November 2-4
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No witty intro here. I am no longer witty. I am witless. I am a slave to this computer. I don’t have anything intelligent to say. I want to just copy and paste a bunch of publicist blurbs in here with no music for you to listen to. I want this computer to crash. …