Ryan Scott Burleson
You Are All My People
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While I assume you’ve already read about this on The Cream, it certainly bears repeating. Ryan Scott Burleson has recently put out a three song EP of some rather stellar shoegaze-y / semi-post-rock / ambient tunes. It’s 15 minutes of floating adrift on the sea – apt cover art I’d say. And as a bonus, for each sale of the record $3 goes to Room In the Inn, a Nashville homeless shelter.
Linear Downfall are a psychedelic band based here in Nashville. The power trio of Charlee Cook on bass, synth and vocals, Chance Cook on guitar, effects programming and synth and Will Hicks on drums have grabbed the attention of none other than The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, who has collaborated with them on some recent projects including the Lips-curated tribute to “In The Court Of The Crimson King.” Linear Downfall have just released their debut LP, out today, called “Fragmental Hippocampus.”
Grimeys – 6pm
FREE
D Watusi
Dark Party
Buy LP | Stream
I knew when I heard the first single, Brother & Sister, from D. Watusi’s debut full-length that the album was going to be a treat but I didn’t realize it would be this much of a treat. It’s a great rock record that manages to wear it’s influences openly but doesn’t sound boringly derivative. It also manages to maintain a super healthy balance between the agression of its garage rock roots and it’s poppier, catchier side. All and all, a great record but I’m guessing you knew that already.
Keane
Youngblood Hawke
Ryman Auditorium – 7pm
$40, $30 & $25
American Songwriter Presents:
John McCauley & Robert Ellis
The Stone Fox – 9pm
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Cloudeater
Kink Ador
Yumi and the System
The Basement – 9pm
KING PARIS (Fleetwood Mac’s Rick Vito) feat. his “Hip-notic” Belly Dancers & Tabla Master Kyle Jones
3rd and Lindsley – 8pm
$10
Stream Western Medication’s The Painted World EP in it’s entirety from East Village Radio.Â
Ben Blackwell, of Third Man Records, is profiled on Dust & Grooves. The interview is great but be sure not to miss the accompanying original mix.
East Village Radio has a full streaming preview of Western Medication’s EP The Painted World. If you haven’t already downloaded the whole thing, now’s your chance to stream it immediately.
Dust & Grooves is a fantastic music blog showcasing vinyl collectors and the culture surrounding them. There’s a ton of great content on the site but they just released a new mix and an accompanying great writeup on Third Man Records / solo artist / vinyl connoisseur Ben Blackwell. There’s a lot of interesting information within regarding his collection and his involvement with Third Man but I find snippets like this the most compelling:
Q: What do you look for in a record?
A: Lately I’ve been looking for things that don’t make sense. Records that shouldn’t exist. Releases that seem stuck in a vacuum or created via time machine. But overall, a record should captivate you. It should elicit an emotion. It should tell a story. There’s no better format for the dissemination of a song that the 7†45rpm record. That will never change.
Go read the article while you listen to the original mix Blackwell compiled to accompany it.
