The full fledged site for Marathon Music Works has launched. Thus far there isn’t a ton to see as they are still fleshing out their event calendar and getting together photos of the completed space. However, I was lucky enough to get a little tour of the place and can tell you it’s an impressive venue to be inside. The ceilings are enormous, the warehouse feel is great and the stage is viewable from all angles. I’m torn on the Wanda Jackson show as it happens to be the same night as White Denim over at The Cannery but I’m overjoyed that Nashville continues to have the problem of too many good shows. Marathon Music Works is a welcome contributor to adding to such a wonderful issue.

Tristen has posted a Kickstarter Project to help her fund a Christmas 7″ featuring three of her favorite holiday tunes – “Blue Christmas” (Billy Hayes & Jay W. Johnson), “Winter is Blue” (Vashti Bunyan) & “Frosty The Snowman” (Steve Nelson & Walter E. Rollins). You may remember those last two from previous editions of the Christmas Battlepod. They are, in my opinion, phenomenal versions of the songs worth having pressed into a convenient vinyl format.

Long story short, go support the project.