Awhile back, Coupler provided a live score to German director Hans Walter Kornblum’s masterpiece, Our Heavenly Bodies, for the Belcourt series Science on Screen. There’s a trailer for the performance and three clips on the bands website worth having a listen to. Oddly, the 1925 film and modern ambiance electronic music pair together quite nicely.
Hot on the hells of their January full-length, Get On Feelings, The By Gods have a new EP of big riff rock to soundtrack your summer. The full EP is available in early July but you can listen to “Where Do You Come From?†right now.
Excellent new track from Rales now available. Love the mild gravel in the vocals and the perfect mix of upbeat style with earnest, melancholy delivery. Hope there’s a full album sneaking behind this release sometime soon.Â
Jeremi Morris, of Hanzelle, has a new solo undertaking entitled CLIIIVE. It’s an atmospheric electronic undertaking with a nice dancey undertone. The first track, “Silkyâ€, is available for your listening pleasure with the full album, Head Movies, coming up shortly.
The debut from Nightblonde, Numbers, will be released digitally on June 3rd and the band has released another preview track in anticipation of the full release. It’s melancholy pop at its finest.
The first track from Kansas Bible Company’s forthcoming full-length, Paper Moon, is available for your ears over on Soundcloud. They got that good horn sound going.
The official launch of WXNAÂ brings many good things to Nashville. For locals, it means a radio station worth listening to. For those outside of the immediate area, it means podcasts, playlists and plenty of curating musical goods to dig through.
Sam Smith – drummer, illustrator and  DJ for the forthcoming OST show on WXNA – has posted his first  preview mix for his show of original soundtrack music. It’s a stellar listen.
If you haven’t seen it, see it.
The cover art to Adia Victoria’s debut album is an exercise in simplicity and trickery. From one perspective, it could be seen as a photo of the songwriter in colorful socks, just having a goofy sit. From another, it could be interpreted as a bare white room akin to an insane asylum archetype. The cleanliness of the setting takes on a darker vibe, as all objects have been removed to prevent harm to our protaganist.
Overall, this is very similar to the feelings that bubble up listening to Beyond the Bloodhounds. The overall vibe is dark and moody, with a perfect balance of strangeness and beauty happening consistently from top to bottom. Sonically, it’s an unfit comparison but I can’t help but think of Peggy Lee’s hit “Is That All There Is?†– a terrifying soliloquy of detached emotions and chaos, wrapped in a pop song.
The album is released today, May 13th, and I can’t suggest diving in headfirst as soon as conveniently possible.
If you’re a young whipper-snapper, you may not remember Character, a Nashville band that explored the richness of post-rock soundscapes. It’s a very finely crafted bit of ambient atmospheres that builds and builds. What set them apart from other bands of that time and genre is that the music wasn’t about the impending explosion of a wall of guitars (though that does happen) but simply about exploring a space. Sure, that sounds about as pretentious as you can get when talking about music but it’s my way of saying it leans more on the ambient tendencies of post-rock, than on the more aggressive rock side, somehow without losing the appeal.
The music itself is highly notable and everyone involved in the undertaking over the years is a notable piece of our Nashville music scene. The likes of William Tyler, Dave Paulson, Ryan Norris, Eric Williams, Scott Martin, Eric Andre, Sam Smith, Luke Schneider and Phil Pomeroy are undoubtedly names you’ve heard more than once.
The EP is not an easy one to track down digitally. Possibly intentionally? Regardless, the band is playing for the first time in many many years at The Basement East tonight as a fundraiser for, and a loving tribute to, the Ferguson family. Don’t miss it.
The short film Hit TV just launched over on Vimeo and it’s a spectacular bit of Michael Mann meets Running Man meets 80′s nostalgia undercut with a dark, brooding vibe. Who better to craft the soundtrack for such a thing than Makeup and Vanity Set? No one, that’s who. The music sets the perfect tone for low lit, neon-soaked world that the film takes place in.Â
Oh, and added bonus, Jasmin Kaset sings on the theme song. Nashville greats all over the place with this one.
Please keep the Broken Record Show on your radar. It’s a massive stand-up comedy undertaking in our fine city and the lineup is completely bonkers. Keep in mind that last year they broke the Guinness Record for Longest Standup Set by Multiple Comedians and I suspect they’ll try to break some more this year.
