The Playlist

Thanks for bearing with me and my stuffy sickness. Hope you enjoyed the near-solid hour of dance music.

The Playlist:
No Age, "I Wanna Sleep" from Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat Records)
Pixies, "La La Love You" from Doolittle (Elektra)
Ida Maria, "Oh My God" from Fortress Round My Heart (Nesna)
These United States, "First Sight" from A Picture of The Three of Us At the Gate At the Garden of Eden (Self-released)
Faces on Film, "Famous Last Words" from Seven Sisters
The Delicious, "It's Not Time to Die" from The Delicious (Self-released)
Brooke Waggoner, "Hush if You Must Fresh Pair of Eyes" from Swoon Moon Music

Next Big Nashville Featured Artists:
Caitlin Rose, "Answer in One of These Bottles" from Dead Flowers (Theory 8)
Cassino, "Dust Went Flying" from Sounds of Salvation (Paragraph Records)
LYLAS, "Virgin Annie" from Lessons for Lovers (Self-released)
Glossary, "Almsgiver" from The Better Angels of Our Nature (Self-released)
Umbrella Tree, "Schizophrenia" from The Church & the Hospital (Cephalopod)
How I Became the Bomb, "Kneel Before Zod" from Let's Go! (self-released)
Dawson Wells, "Sorry Kelly" from Boulevardier (Self-released)

Generation X, "Kiss Me Deadly" from Anthology (Chrysalis)
Mstrkrft, "Work on You" from The Looks (Universal)
Jensen Sportag, "Japanese Zombie Schoolgirls" from Jensen Sportag (Self-released)
Ratatat, "Mirando" from lp3 (Xl)
CSS, "Believe Achieve" from Donkey (Sub Pop)
Daedelus, "Fair Weather Friends" from Love to make Music to (Ninja Tune)
HEALTH, "PERFECT SKIN" from HEALTH
The Black Ghosts, "Face" from The Black Ghosts (I Am Sound)
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You" (Roule)
Solid Gold, "Who You Gonna Run To?" from Who You Gonna Run To? (SolidGoldCorp)
The Faint, "Mirror Error" from Fasciinatiion (blank.wav)
The Divine Comedy, "To Die a Virgin" from Victory for the Comic Muse (Parlophone)
Cut Copy, "Lights & Music" from Lights & Music (Modular Recordings)
Brazilian Girls, "Losing Myself" from New York City (Verve Forecast)

A note mid-show...

Why do people always hang up after they say something they perceive to be mean?

I just had the funniest call--a girl called in and said "Hey, did you just play ------?" I said yes. She said "Are you friends with those guys?" I said "No, I know them, but we're not really friends." She said "Well next time you see them, tell them to stop playing sucky closers and to start writing their own music."

I laughed, but she hung up too soon to hear it.

Kudos to you, girl. I agree. I hope you read this.

The Playlist

All I have to say is this:
You all are the best radio listeners ever.

Also, how great was Chris Freeman?

The Walkmen, "Canadian Girl" from You & Me (out Aug 18 on Gigantic)
Silver Jews, "We Could Be Looking For the Same Thing" from Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
The Rumble Strips, "Girls and Boys in Love" from Girls and Weather (Fallout Records)
Wrapping Paper, "Ask Her in a Whisper" from Hold Up the Neon Sign (Self-released)
Of Montreal, "Id Engager" from Skeletal Lamping (out Oct. 7 on Polyvinyl)
Jonesworld, "Stuck With Me" from A Thing of Booty (Self-released)
Kyle Andrews, "Sushi" from Real Blasty
The Protomen, "The Sons of Fate" from The Protomen (Self-released)
All We Seabees, "Black Girls"
The Nobility, "The Mezzanine" from The Mezzanine
Nite Nite, "Amongst the Tenants" from Nite Nite EP (Self-released)
Jeff, "I Don't Need Your Tas-T" from Castle Storm (Infinity Cat)
Hotpipes, "Future Bolt" from Future Bolt (Liquid Panda)
Cake Bake Betty, "Livers" from The Dark Tower (Infinity Cat)
The Tragically Hip, "Blow at High Dough" from Up to Here (Universal)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, "The Ballad of the Sin Eater" from Hearts of Oak (Lookout!) Dungen, "Satt Att Se" from 4 (out September 30th on Astralwerks)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "I'll Be Glad" from Lie Down in the Light (Palace Records)
Oblio, "A Story of Nashville" from Southern Trends (Casino Records)
Faster Pussycat, "Nonstop to Nowhere" from Whipped (Elektra)
LCD Soundsystem, "Someone Great" from Sound of Silver (DFA)
Ryan Adams, "To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is To Be High)" from Heartbreaker (Bloodshot)
Girl Talk, "In Step" from Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)

Next Big Nashville 2008!

Next Big Nashville 2008 has announced the first 157 bands who will be playing the festival this September 10-14 all around town. The venues were announced few weeks ago and have been posted on the sidebar, but here they are again for you:

Cannery Ballroom
Mercy Lounge
Exit/In
The Rutledge
12th & Porter
The End
The Basement
3rd & Lindsley
Belcourt Theatre
City Hall
Rcktwn
Edgehill Studios
5 Spot
Grimey's Records
Bluebird Café

Some more should be added in the upcoming weeks. As well, fifty or so more acts will be announced early next week, including two coveted spots for bands selected by the good old democratic process. Head over to Nashville Cream to vote for the local act you'd like to see. All of those already announced are below, with my picks in bold. If you missed the festival last year (and I did, I was working on a show all weekend), it was the it place to be all week both for excellent local music and to strut your stuff around the Nashville scene. The local faux-celebrities were out in full force, the music was killer, and while there were more local favorites than up-and-comers, nearly every show got rave reviews. You can buy wristbands here for only 35 bucks. Look at it this way: if you make it to more than four shows, you've easily made your money back.

13 Ghosts
500 Miles to Memphis
Aaron Robinson
All We Seabees
Altered Statesman
Alva Leigh
And the Relatives
Andy Davis
Angel Snow
Annaliese
Aron Wright
Audrey Spillman
AutoVaughn
Biscuits N Gravy
Brian Ritchey
Bryan Cates
Butterfly Boucher
Caitlin Rose
Cake Bake Betty
Cali
Canon Blue
Carey Ott
Cary Ann Hearst
Cassino
Codaphonic
Coral Castles
Cortney Tidwell
Cory Branan
Cougar Fight
Courtney Jaye
Dabney Morris
Danger Bear--playing Saturday at the Basement
Dawson Wells
Disappointed by Candy
Dead Confederate
Dignan
Duquette Johnston
Eastern Block
Egon (Stones Throw records)
Elle Macho feat. David Mead, Butterfly Boucher & Lindsay Jamieson
Emily DeLoach
Eric Wilson
Erin McCarley
Eureka Gold
Ferraby Lionheart
Forget Cassettes
Foxhole
Ghostfinger
Glossary
Greg Summerlin
Hands Down Eugene
Happy Birthday Amy--Friday at the Rutledge
Harrison Hudson
Heypenny
Hollow Ox
How I Became The Bomb
Homer Hiccolm & the Rocket Boys
Hotpipes
Jabe & The All Night Circus
JEFF The Brotherhood
Jennifer Niceley
Jensen Sportag
Jeremy Lister
Joey & Rory
Judd & Maggie
Katie Herzig
Keegan DeWitt
Kindegarten Circus
Kindercastle
Korean is Asian--Saturday at the Basement
Kyle Andrews
lanky
Levi Weaver
Lorien
Luna Halo
Lylas
Madi Diaz
Magic Wands
Mando Saenz
Matthew Perryman Jones
Matthew Ryan vs the Silver State
McClain
MeeMaw
Megan McCormick
Meghan Kabir
Modoc
MONA
Mother Father
My Tyger
Natalie Warner
Neva Geoffrey
nite nite
Oblio
Ocelots
Ole Mossy Face
Paper Rival
Paper Route
Parachute Musical
Peter Bradley Adams
Pico vs Island Trees
Pink Spiders
Plex Plex
Red White Blue
Repent or Forever Be
Rick Brantley
Ricky Young & The Slow Films
Roman Candle
Royal Bangs
Sam & Ruby
Sara Melson
Sarah Siskind
Six Gun Lullaby
Sons of Roswell
Space Capone
Stephaniesid
Superdrag
Tallest Trees
Ten out of Tenn
The Ascent of Everest--Thursday at the Anchor
The Bridges
The Carter Administration
The Champion and His Burning Flame
The Clutters
The Comfies
The Deep Vibration
The Dexateens
The Dirty Guv'nahs
The Features
The Glib
The Good Wolves
The Hanna Barbarians
The Last Almanac
The Lonely Hearts
The Mattoid
The Nobility
The Non-Commisioned Officers
The Privates
The Protomen
The Running
The Titts
The Worsties
Through the Sparks
Tiger Tiger
Tigers Con Queso
Timbre
Tommy & The Whale
Totally Snake
Tristen
Tyler James
Umbrella Tree
Velcro Stars
Vulture Whale
Waves on Waves
We Were the States
Wess Floyd
Whispertown 2000
Willie Heath Neal

Mark your calendars.

There's a lot of great news around town this fall, and I'm actually a little excited to be easing off on my theatre commitments so I can enjoy all that's going on in this great city. Check out some of the highlights below, as well as the usual stuff on the sidebar. I'll try to keep you updated on my picks for the week. For this weekend, my entire crew will be at Chris Freeman's show at The 5 Spot, featuring local favorites The Velcro Stars and LYLAS. It's his very last one before he takes off to Portland, and I'm expecting a crowd. Come early to catch the wonderful Seth Moore and to play a little pool, as well as knock a few back before the bar gets crowded. Wear your divebar attire, or come overdressed, like me, and tip well--the bartenders there pour generously and work their asses off on crowded nights.

Upcoming in Nashville:
TOMORROW--August 8th. Connor Oberst plays at Grimeys, 6pm.

August 19th. The Walkmen's latest, You & Me, is officially released--for only five bucks. You can purchase a download now at Amie Street, where all proceeds go to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honor of seven-month old Luca Vasallo, a friend to the band and a current patient. Check out one of the tracks below. Grimey's celebrates with an in store performance of Walkmen covers done by Grimeys staffers--not to be missed.
"Canadian Girl"

September 7th. Ben Folds opens the Nashville Symphony's 2008-2009 season with a complete orchestral performance, including previews to his upcoming album, Way To Normal, recorded in Nashville and featuring Regina Spektor on a track.

September 30th. Swedish psych rockers Dungen release their 5th album, aptly entitled 4. Check out one of the tracks: "Satt Att Se"

October 7th. Of Montreal's 9th album, Skeletal Lamping, hits stores.
"Id Engager"

October 13th. The Walkmen play The Basement.

November 6th. Girltalk plays The Cannery. "Give Me A Beat" from Feed the Animals.

Let me know if any of you web strangers are friends are going to be out at Chris Freeman tomorrow, and don't forget to tune in from 4-6pm tomorrow for the show! I'd love to meet some listeners!

Sidebar Updates!

Just wanted to let you know to peek over at the sidebar... it's finally been updated, so take a look and mark your calendars to be at The End on the 29th for a WRVU/Left Can Dance extravaganza.  Plus, I'll be DJing a set.  A good time will be had by all.