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Have a listen to Nashville’s The Kingston Springs covering Hank Williams’ “Dear Brother” on the waterfront in NYC. I’ll be glad to have those fellars back around Nashville. I need some good rock n’ roll. [youtube_sc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-bfsrEKg4o&w=560&h=315]
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Animal Collective is set to release, Centipede Hz, their first record in three years on September 4th via Domino. It is as experimental as anything we’ve heard from these guys, and, after watching the video for “Today’s Supernatural” below, I’m pretty sure they have been taking excessive amounts of drugs for the past three years…
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Five Knives absolutely killed Mercy Lounge on Saturday night/Sunday morning. This video can’t give you the true feeling of the rattling chest cavity bass and frenetic atmosphere that is their live show, but they’re always fun to watch. Get after it below! [vimeo 44825327]
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Keegan DeWitt’s Wild Cub released a new video for “Shapeless” via Paste Magazine. He was also announced as the Nashville performer for the Paste Magazine & Aloft Hotel sponsored concert series. You can see Wild Cub for free on Thursday (7/19) at 7pm at Aloft Hotel in Cool Springs. RSVP here.
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Those of you who didn’t get buried in work yesterday probably have already watched Jack White’s sultry new “Freedom At 21” video, alas… I’m behind. Oh well, better late than never. Get after it, and keep an eye open for a cameo by Josh Homme in this third video release from Blunderbuss. [youtube_sc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92smjLq_38?rel=0&w=560&h=315]
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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…
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Jack White started his Blunderbuss tour with a show at New York’s Webster Hall on Friday night. White and Co. teamed up with American Express and YouTube to stream that show, and he brought in veteran hollywood man, Gary Oldman, to direct this effort. Things get started with Jack bloodying up Oldman, and, even…
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Remember us telling you about that new Nashville outfit called Joy of Painting? Well, they are releasing a video montage today that was promised to fans when the group tweeted on January 12th, “For every person who retweets this, I will slap my roommate @Garrettthomson in the face. Youtube montage of the slaps to follow…#asterisk.” It’s…
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It’s a day of “country” news here at “No Country”. We talked earlier about that new Diamond Rugs track “Country Mile”, and now we give you the new Tune-Yards video for “My Country”. To make the video, Merrill and Co. enlisted the help of the San Francisco Rock Project which is a nonprofit music…
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In the honorary mention category of Nashville music, it seems like we should all be pretty proud of Alabama Shakes meteoric rise to fame this past year. They are releasing their first full length, Boys and Girls, next week, and you can have a listen to the entire record over at NPR. You can also…