What’s Good in Nashville? (Week in Review)
• Holy $hit i$ there a lot of Ke$ha talk going on the$e day$! Not only has the singer apparently written material for Britney Spears‘ forthcoming release, but her music was just featured on this week’s alcohol awareness episode of Glee, where the cast performed “Tik-Tok.” A slew of reviews are up from her Kansas City (The Pitch & Kansas City Star), St. Louis (Examiner) and Denver (Westword, Hey Reverb, Examiner & Metromix) shows. Perhaps the best commentary comes from Just Spotted, however: “Ke$ha is a Huge Dick.” Elsewhere, the singer has a new James Van Der Beek-starring video for “Blow” and it was announced that Ke$ha will release a new (Electric Six-biting) album I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance: The Remix Album next month. Entertainment Weekly has the first taste from it in Switch‘s rework of “Animal.” It’s terrible every bit enjoyable as one might expect it to be.
• Jack White made news this week, announcing that he would not join another band. (Which apparently isn’t new news after all.) Also, the BBC reports that a signed guitar once owned by Jack White and valued at around $24,000 was stolen in London recently.
• Josh and Zac Farro have started a new band, Novel American. Expect Novel American to be every bit as solid as Paramore. Take that as you will.
• A new issue of Concrete Magazine is out, featuring Chancellor Warhol, DJ Wick-It, Young Rell, Rio, Dee Goodz and Sam & Tre on the cover.
• Interested in free “Rocketown Presents…” shows for a year? Enjoy scavenger hunts? Click here for more info.
• Nashville = Music City Industry.
• “The Nashville Open Lot space will be no more.”
• All week Nashville’s Dead have been running preview videos in anticipation of their upcoming Freakin’ Weekend, each band performing a song at Glenn Danzig’s House: D. Watusi, Natural Child, Heavy Cream, Slammers & Diarrhea Planet (my personal favorite) all getting in on the action.
• Show announcements/tour updates: Lyrics Born will play Exit/In April 13, Local H will play Exit/In April 28 & Keegan DeWitt will be performing a selection of the score he produced for Cold Weather at a screening of the film at the Belcourt on March 4.
• Here are this past week’s best selling albums at The Groove & Grimey’s.
• Another week, another PUJOL 7″ release. Here’s a taste of what’s available on the new “ANGELBABY” single courtesy of Velocity of Sound.
PUJOL “ANGELBABY” (MP3 removed by request)
PUJOL “OVER THE COUNTER CULTURE JAM” (MP3 removed by request)
• New from the Mashville crew this week comes the Shack Attack collaboration between DJ Kidsmeal and Sam Shacklock (of Sam & Tre) and a new Big Tymers remix from DJ Wick-It.
• Holy shit: it’s a free Infinity Cat comp!
• A couple of new Blue Series releases are on the way from Third Man featuring Pokey and the South City Three and We Are Hex. Pokey LaFarge recently talked to the Riverfront Times about his release. Elsewhere in the Third Man universe, the Owen Podcast interviews TMR’s Ben Blackwell. (via Nashy Cream)
• Blacklist Royals have a new music video for “Things They Say/Drive On.” Stix Izza also has a new video out for the track “Come On Home,” Jelly Roll for “Molly,” and Young Buck has popped up in a new Drumma Boy clip.
• Dee Goodz‘s forthcoming Floetic Justice 2 mixtape is set to drop March 7. The Tennessean recently ran a brief profile of the young MC.
• The AK has a new @TheBoyBlaze remix of “Make it Rain.”
The AK “Make it Rain (Remix)” (MP3) [Download Mirrors]
• New music from Natural Child is on its way shortly.
• Keegan DeWitt has a new EP on the way.
• DJ Jermy J released a new Edan remix.
• DJ Hashbrown has a new Soulja Boy remix.
• Need some music for the weekend? The Scene’s Cream has you covered with old and new tracks from Big Surr, Casa Castile, Field Days and Tyler James.
• We Own This Town breaks down the Family Tree Art Collective‘s Full Deck Project & features music by Tyrannosauricon.
• Miami New Times interviews Turbo Fruits’ Jonas Stein.
• Reglar Wiglar talks with Bad Cop.
• The Smoking Section has photos from this week’s hip hop showcase at The End featuring Plane Jane, Radikalz, Call it Dope, AOB, the Industry, Fijah, Chancellor Warhol, Young Thee, Gab, Dee Goodz, Star Status & DJ Crisis. Also, check the site out for a bit of an editorial on the movement.
• Sinizine has a review and photos from Jimmy Eat World‘s show at the Cannery Ballroom. The Scene also has coverage of the performance.
• Triple Rainbow has video of No Compassion, Lazy Magnet, John Mannion and Daily Life performing “Bennie & the Jets” at Betty’s.
• RAD FRNDZ has videos from Casa Castile at The End and Fox Fun at Glenn Danzig’s House. Under the Guise has photos from the GDH event.
• La Musique de no Vies has a review and photos from Caitlin Rose‘s recent Paris show.
• DigiRob has a video from Dee Goodz‘s recent Jazz & Jokes performance. (featured above)
• “Reid Magette [drunkenly] Covers The Arcade Fire [as best he can].”
• Seattle Weekly reviews Justin Townes Earle‘s recent show at the Croc.
• Green Syringe has video from How I Became the Bomb‘s recent Chattanooga gig.
• Ramiah Branch has photos from the latest Mashville event.
• Doug Lehmann has some new shots of recent gigs featuring Yuck, D. Watusi, Cheap Time & Slammers.
• The Deli recaps the Raw Artists showcase at Mercy Lounge, the One Through Ten‘s show at The Basement and the Roundtable Misfits show at Murfreesboro’s 3 Brothers.
• Amped Up reviews K-Lee World Wide‘s set at Gilligan’s in Murfreesboro.
• NYC Taper has a recording of Tristen‘s Fed. 23 show at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory. (via We Own This Town)
• Unfortunately it appears like the road is beginning to catch up with Wanda Jackson. Country Standard Time reports that her performances have been consistently starting over an hour late and that her voice is becoming hoarser with each set. Hope she’s alright… her Third Man performance was el fuego.
(To stay on top of all of the concert listings in Nashville, be sure to following @Nashville_Shows on Twitter!)
Fri 2/25 @StationInn: The Greencards (9pm)
Fri 2/25 @ Loudhouse: Dyer Road
Fri 2/25 @ Rocketown: Copycats cover sets from Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Anberlin, Blink 182 (6pm $5)
Sat 2/26 @ Rocketown: 8th Anniversary Party, Fest, Bash & Shindig ($8 / $10 dos, 12pm)
Sat 2/26 @ Five Spot: Boom Bap ft Rate, Bowls, Case Bloom & Donno Dagger (10pm, $5)
Sat 2/26 @ Bridgestone: Brad Paisley with Darius Rucker & Jerrod Niemann
Sat 2/26 @ The Basement: Lovedrug, Kingston Springs ($12, 8pm)
Sat 2/26 @ Mercy Lounge (Cannery): Slightly Stoopid, Fishbone & Simeon of Outlaw Nation ($20 adv / $25 dos 8pm)
Mon 2/28 @ The Rutledge: Kimberly Quinn, And Then There Were Two & the Bad Swears ($5 8pm)
Tue 3/1 @ Hard Rock: @CMILove benefit show w/ Josh Thompson, Chuck Wicks, Brett Eldredge & more (7:30pm)
Tue 3/1 @ Exit/In: G. Love & Special Sauce (7:30pm, $20 adv / $25 dos, 18+)
Thu 3/3 @ Little Hamilton: Parasytic, Guide, Dawn & Thatan (7pm)