OUR 5th FAVORITE HOLIDAY

Little ones, we're not going to lie [and it's not like you couldn't have guessed it] but the thing we look forward to most about Next Big Nashville is the Infinity Cat Records Showcase. Seriously, the last couple years of this show have been some of our all-time favorite times in Nashville. Here's a little rundown of this year's show for you...

SHREDDERS

We talked for a minute or two about Shredders the other day [Remember? We posted that video of the two dudes head banging in the jungle.] They got added to the bill last minute and we couldn't be more stoked to see them again. A real treat. Real treeeeat.

WRIGHT'S JAMBULIYEAH FEST

Eric Wright's new project featuring Nathan Vasquez and Reid Barber. WILDDD. I mean, these guys are the same babes from Deluxin', No Compassion, and Reid & Wright so you know it's gonna be pretty good.

CY [BARKLEY]

The new project from EMP's Cy Barkley featuring Cannomen/Kintaro's Josh Shearon on bass and Kintaro/Natural Child's Zach Martin on drums. Cy and the boys bash out some real gnarly early-80s garage punk. Think Jay Reatard / Marked Men / Carbonas type of stuff. In other words, it's the kind of thing you want to listen to/see.

CANNOMEN

The punky brewster dude supergroup that we've talked plenty about. Comprised of members of Life Trap, Murdock, Kintaro, and Fantastic Butt. Loud and fast, spliffs and riffs to the max. They just put out their Demo Vol. 2, so be sure to snag a copy at the show.

DENNEY & THE JETS

The last time we saw Denney & his Jets all we could think was, "This is the music Nashville wishes it was known for." Really, some of the most sincere songwriting that you'll find during Next Big Nashville [or anywhere, for that matter]

DANIEL PUJOL

Daniel's got a newly revamped lineup that we talked about last week and his tunes are sounding better than ever. Talk about hard working dudes.... Daniel just put out his own zine, is working on a new 7", is playing Oct. 5th with Dan Deacon and Oct. 6th in St. Louis with JEFF and Screaming Females.

NATURAL CHILD

Imagine if The Rolling Stones and The Beatles had a baby who loved punk rock but couldn't ever shake mom and dad's influence. We think that would sound something close to Natural Child. We talk about these guys pretty regularly and for good reason: they rock and roll. They've got a 7" coming out soon on Infinity Cat [more about that later though]

HEAVY CREAM

Our favorite mondo-babes will be surfing the magma 'til the break of dawn, and we'll all be surfing right along with them. We know they've been working out some new tunes, so maybe they'll treat our little ears at the show. If you haven't scooped up their 7", you should definitely get on that soon because they're going fast.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD

Nashville's favorite sons. Do we have to talk about JEFF? You know them. You know how we feel about them. Sooo... Yeah. Do it. Their new album HEAVY DAYS comes out Oct. 13th. Pre-order it here and get exclusives!

You can pick up recordings from most of the artists above on the Infinity Cat website. Trust us, you're going to want to be at this show. It's the best $5 you'll spend this year [Unless someone sells you a car or a house or something awesome for $5. But still.]

IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING HOW JEFF'S TOUR WENT

The tour video was filmed/edited by Sarah Carter. The footage comes from JEFF's recent tour out west with Ted Leo and Ty Segall, and it looks like it was a ball. The song that plays at the beginning of the video is Natural Child's "Shamewalkin'" Stay tuned for a Retired Segalls [JEFF+Ty Segall] video.

IT'S AUTUMN

Get it. She's falling.

We're five days deep into October and it's already been a blast [Even though the weather dudes were totally wrong about Sunday. A 20% chance of rain!? It rained all day! COME ON!] But October is so great because that's when Tennessee gets its Fall. We always feel like Tennessee Fall's only last a week or two, so it's very important that we all enjoy this time to the max. Our buddy Maggie Lee put together a soundtrack for your Fall this year and our VICE buddies posted it up the other day. It features jams from Tough Knuckles, Sic Alps, Thrones and our favorite Kate Bush song/video.

Maggie Lee's Fall Jams

Along with that, we'll hit you with a video to one of our favorite Fall-time tunes...

Check the comments for the tracklist. If you want, you can tell us some of your favorite songs to listen to in the Fall-time... you don't have to though.

GHOUL'S NIGHT OUT

Next Big Nashville is going to wear us out. But, ya know, there's no time to lose. This Sunday we're going to try and recover from the night before by non-stop partying. Isn't that the best way to put off recovery? By just continuing to party through the pain? Yeah, we thought so. We know you babies want to join in so here's the plan: Atlanta's Coathangers are playing at Little Hamilton. The Coathangers, a four-piece girl troupe, sound like a revamped riot grrrl garage-y synth punk band with a little bit if UK post-punk garbage. They've put out a couple 7"s and an LP with Suicide Squeeze and Rob's House. We feel like we should make some sort of Bikini Kill reference, and there you go. They're playing with Heavy Cream, Natural Child, and Wright's Jambliyeah Fest [they'll be rocking straight from the Infinity Cat Showcase the night before] Here's a weird video of the babes on LA Ink....


The Coathangers - Shut The Fuck Up [mp3]

The Coathangers - Stop Stomp Stompin' [mp3]

The Coathangers have been on tour with Japandroids and have a new record, Scramble, out now. Man, Coathangers and Heavy Cream might be babe-overload, but we're willing to take the risk.

WHAT? LIKE CIGARETTES?

So there was this So-Cal San Diego group who played some real old-school-y rock and roll jams [Think if Velvet Underground and Modern Lovers adopted a kid: it's not related by blood so it doesn't have the grandeur that comes with that, but it was still raised on the goods] and they called themselves The Muslims. Then they got to be recognized in the primetime and started to catch a lot of guff for their name. So they changed it to The Soft Pack. Same tunes, different name. They're playing The End tomorrow night and we highly suggest going and checking it out. Here's the video of their song "Extinction" and a couple mp3s for you to pocket.

The Soft Pack, 'Extinction' from Russ Finkelstein on Vimeo.

The Soft Pack - Nightlife [mp3]

The Soft Pack - On My Time [mp3]

The Soft Pack are heading to Europe soon. Check out the dates here.

One of our fave new babes, Don't Bless Her [formerly of Brooklyn Y'all], posted this portrait she drew of Jemina Pearl that's going to be on her t-shirts soon. We think that would make a pretty rad shirt. And looking at the portrait got us stoked for our buddies to be back in town. It's been a good long while since we've seen Max flailing around on bass and we've only over seen John play guitar with Rain a couple times, so we are definitely pretty psyched to see how the new band goes. You can check out some of their tracks at their myspace here. They're playing at Exit/In on Saturday, hopefully we'll find some time to pry ourselves away from the mondo-tasty Infinity Cat Showcase at The End and go check it out.

Jemina Pearl - I Hate People (feat. Iggy Pop) [mp3]

Jemina & the crew are going on tour with Islands and have a record, Break It Up, coming out on tomorrow. Yeah-hah.

TWO DANS IN ONE NIGHT

Tonight you can catch Dan Deacon and our brethren in darkness, Daniel Pujol, at The End. We're sure most of you cats are aware of Dan Deacon and his wild shows, so we don't feel like we need to talk too much about it. If you've got a case of the Mondays, go to this show tonight and get a case of the Fun-days [Oh man, send that joke over to TBS] One of our good buddies used to room with Deacon's little sister. She told us that Dan's not actually from Baltimore and that he just loves to pretend like he's from Baltimore. We don't really care either way.

:: Dan Deacon

:::: Nuclear Power Pants

:::::: Totally Michael

:::::::: Daniel Pujol

@ The End

$10 - 18+ - 8PM