If you aren’t familiar, The Mad Gear is an outfit from Murfreesboro that is steeped in videogame culture. Their YouTube channel captures them performing notable 8-bit classics with big 80’s guitar sounds and plenty of horns. They’ve produced their own short film about a Street Fighter II Battle Royale, created an original Beat-Em-Up game with […]
Co-Host Alex Steed from Nashville Demystified joins for a special episode that dives into Nashville Music in the 1980s.
Total Abandon by Heaven Honey “Total Abandon” is the A-side to a forthcoming 7-inch to be released by To-Go Records and Cold Lunch Recordings from Heaven Honey. If you didn’t catch the recent Nashville Cream premiere, go check that out for some quality insight into the inspiration and motivation for the track. Heaven Honey, aka […]
HOLD ON TO YOURSELF by Friendship Commanders Friendship Commanders released their Steve Albini produced full-length BILL back in October of 2018 and proceeded to hit the road for some impressive bouts of touring; spreading their emphatic, big riff, rock styles across the country (vaguely unrelated side note: they sold some pretty great neckties as merch […]
Weren't You at My House Last Week? by Iven Following up on his challenging-yet-rewarding album Little Lady #2, Iven has been slowly releasing a stream of new tracks that will culminate in a collection entitled Eight New Songs; a succinct and possibly very descriptive title. The latest of the two preview tracks released into the […]
Skylite Forever, Chance Cook, Infinity Backflip, Sundaes, Fly Golden Eagle, Orchid, Whoa Dakota, Factual
I became aware of Sundaes with the release of the single “Pretty Wife” back in the spring of 2018. In the time since, they’ve been regularly releasing songs, performing locally and regionally and, apparently, recording a good bit of material. With the release of “The First Waltz” also comes news of a debut album, entitled […]
Awhile back we took a look at Loud Boi, Hush Man and Stink Linez; a real-world art experience slowly revealing itself through the pages of Salt Weekly, Instagram accounts, treasure hunts and various short films. If all that sounds absolutely baffling, educate yourself by listening to Track 2 of this album, soak in its weirdness […]
Donors by Donors If you’re a regular listener to the WOTT Music podcast, you’ve likely heard mention of the latest from Donors multiple times. The track “Help Yourself” was included on a playlist and every subsequent episode since then has mentioned the gripping power of the whole release. Let the record show, no amount of […]
Palm Ghosts, Kings of the Fucking Sea, Find a Hobby, Richard String, Brian Brown, And the Boys, Thunder Lily, Ray Gun
First Time by Nordista Freeze Back in the fall of 2019, the always-on-tour-yet-still-local artist Nordista Freeze released the single “Wysteria“, his first official musical offering since 2017’s Cosmic Haus LP. Without going into a full-on review of that track, it was an excellent introduction to something new from Freeze; stylistically and sonically. It’s a sweet, […]
The By Gods, Evan P. Donohue, Jonie, Iven, Dale Hollow and The Long Con, Signal In, Waterfall Wash, Datenight
