So first off, I'm new to this city, so anything I post here about the goings-on is bound to be old hat amongst the cool kids, but here's some stuff I'm into:
1) JEFF The Brotherhood: These guys are probably like the Nashville equivalent to Portland's Starfucker (Ahem, I mean PYRAMID). Not so much music-wise, but in terms of the precipice of popularity they are currently resting upon and how many boners bloggers around here seem to be sporting over them. They have a new music video here, which isn't like the next On To The Next One mega-production, but a pretty good visual equivalent of what I think they're trying to get at sonically. House parties, slightly psychedelic slo-mo, aura of nostalgia and sentiment; a very simple video for a pretty darn good song.
2) Natural Child: These youngsters remind me of the Black Lips, since they look a little ratty but sexy too and they play jangly, who-gives-a-fuck guitar rock like champs. Gonna go check 'em out soon.
3) LOCAL SHOWS! We have some pretty decent shows coming here, finally. Of Montreal rides in on their psychedelic unicorn February 6th at the Cannery (the same night Girls play at Exit/In, way to go shitheads). Passion Pit plays Vanderbilt April 24th, so get ready for some insanely high-falsetto vox coming from the campus that day. Then, of course, those bepolo-ed light and catchy indie-rockers Vampire Weekend will be hitting up the Ryman April 5th.
Cool, man. Now we just need a good electronic/dubstep independent promotions company around here like Portland's Abstract Earth Project (who brought around the likes of Skream, Joker, Rusko, Nosaj Thing, Flying Lotus etc. to Stumptown before they were super-huge) and we can truly call this place Music City. Right guys?
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