etc.: April 2009 Archives

A recording of Wilco's sold-out show at the Tennessee Theatre on Saturday has popped up online, for those of you that didn't get to go and those who want to relive it.  

Didn't get tickets to Saturday's sold-out Wilco show at the Tennessee Theatre? You were planning to visit Disc Exchange for Record Store Day that afternoon anyway, though, right? Because Pitchfork reports that the band will make an appearance at the store at 2 p.m. that day. No music from them, but they'll be there.

UPDATE: Just so you know, DE says you have to buy Wilco's new DVD at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday in order to get in line. So those of us hoping for a chance to, you know, just sort of say hi and hang out with Nels Cline are out of luck.
 
photo by Mary Ellen Matthews

If you've been thinking that the final piece of downtown Knoxville's redevelopment puzzle, the one thing that the city's newly invigorated urban center needs but doesn't have, is a big ol' country nightclub in the heart of the Old City, you've got what you've been wishing for.

Southbound Knoxville, a "Country Classic Rock Southern Rock" club at 106 Central St.--the former Hooray's building, and recently home to such long-running and sorely missed venues as Thinq Tank, Red Iguana, and Club 106--is set to open on Friday, May 1, with a show by Confederate Railroad, early-'90s authors of the beloved hit "Trashy Women."

 

Head-music head Julian Cope has invented his own KISS anthology for April's installment of his album of the month series.

Can't really argue with the fact that a compilation is the best way to deal with KISS. The studio albums are spotty. I don't think I'd trade "God of Thunder," "Cold Gin," and "Black Diamond" from the already pretty excellent Double Platinum for "Got to Choose," "King of the Night Time World," and "Great Expectations."