Tom Pappas

TOM PAPPAS “20 Years Of The Senator” – Wednesday, January 30th @ 6PM

Tom Pappas is a Nashville rock musician with an illustrious career. He’s released 10 LPs and 4 EPs with Superdrag, The Used To Be, Whip!, Flesh Vehicle and Rock City Birdhouse. He’s toured the USA 20 times + 2 European tours. He’s played The BBC, The Conan O’Brien Show, MTV, The Ryman, Bonnaroo, Red Rocks Colorado, The Filmore East and West. Toured With Green Day, Weezer, etc, etc. etc. Now he’s tying it all together with a 20-track sampler of music from every band he’s been in – “20 Years Of The Senator: The Tom Pappas Collection 1992-2012.” Tom and his friends will set up shop here at Grimey’s on January 30th and rock it all out. This will be a blast and if you dig straight up rock n’ roll with attitude to match, you might want to be here.

Grimeys – 6pm
FREE

Volume 60: 2012 Retrospective

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Let’s get two things out of the way. First, I realize it’s late into January 2013 and, thus, a compilation regarding music from 2012 seems a bit behind schedule. This is undebatable. Secondly, it’s dishonest, disingenuous and distasteful to call this a ‘Best Of’ as I have in years past. There’s just far too much music coming out of our fair region to be able to put an entire year’s worth of it into a single, listenable, stream. With that in mind, we’re calling this a ‘2012 Retrospective’ – there’s some serious oversights and questionable choices but it represents a portion of the last year. That’s all we’re going for here.

Excuses and preambles aside, I think it’s a fine hour and a half listen. My apologies to all the bands that were left out (JEFF, Reid Magette, Richie, Turbo Fruits, Wild Cub, Umbrella Tree, Ultras S/C, get better, Anchor Thieves, Calicocat, Century Club, Chancellor Warhol, Cherub, Conestyle, Mom&Dad, Shaky Voices, Tower Defense, etc. etc.) but I think you’ll find those that were included to be a fair representation of the diversity of Nashville.

2013 and beyond is only going to get crazier in terms of amount of content. This is a great problem to have.

  • Treekeeper – “Treekeeper Tropicale”
  • By Lightning – “Take a Rest on Me”
  • Mystery Twins – “Lose Control”
  • D Watusi – “Brother & Sister”
  • All Them Witches – “The Urn”
  • Forget Cassettes – “Lady Lazarus”
  • Makeup and Vanity Set – “System Override”
  • Echo Group – “Supra”
  • Truth Clipsy x JOTA ESE – “i’d rather be blind, crippled, and louted”
  • Uncle Skeleton – “Sophisticuffs”
  • Sharpneck – “Albatross”
  • Jessie Baylin – “Love Is Wasted On Lovers”
  • Meadownoise – “Little William”
  • Coupler – “The Valley of Elders”
  • Nahnee Bori – “The Fiery Serf”
  • Penicillin Baby – “Jean Jam”
  • Majestico – “Love is God”
  • PUJOL – “DIY2K”
  • Evan P Donohue – “Wish I was 19”
  • POLY – “Shears”
  • Phantom Farmer – “Resist Not Evil By Force”
  • Tropical Punk – “Take Me To The Party, Baby”
  • Denney and The Jets – “Fun Girls”
  • Scale Model – “Ground”
  • Ponychase – “It’s a Curse”
  • Little Bandit – “Heaven or Hell”

The Complete Challtalk Record Collection

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If you’ve been paying attention you’ll know that over the past year Echo Group released a series of EP’s entitled The Challtalk Record Collection, Volumes 1 through 3. Well, they’ve completed that cycle and compiled all three into one great album – obviously titled The Complete Challtalk Record Collection. These guys have continued to impress me on record and live throughout their existence; let’s hope that trend continues.