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Tim Lee announced earlier this week that he'll be posting a free MP3--old songs, demos, new unreleased songs--on his website every Friday. Here's the first one; it's called "Good Times," and it's kind of groovy, man--a little bit Steve Wynn, a little bit Patti Smith. 

The brand-new national publicist for the long-running local band Senryu, who just happens to be the subject of a feature in this week's issue of Metro Pulse, has just released the band's song "Inkling," the title track from their new album, as an mp3. You can hear it here.

Senryu's having a CD release show at Pilot Light on Saturday, March 13.

Shannon Stanfield, who was part of the local music scene for years as a journalist, photographer, and musician, died on Sunday after a two-year battle with cancer. Stanfield was a member of several local bands over the years, but is probably best remembered as the frontman of the country-rock band the Clintons, whose heyday in the late 1980s and early '90s helped establish the template for groups like the V-Roys.  

Stanfield also took photos for Metro Pulse, the News Sentinel, and Knoxville Voice, and wrote the Town Hound column on local music for the News Sentinel in the late 1990s.

Randall Brown at the News Sentinel wrote a brief obituary here. There's also a long tribute thread on Knox Blab. That thread includes a link to an mp3 of one of the Clintons' last shows, at Patrick Sullivan's in 2008.

Bear in Heaven are coming to Pilot Light with Cymbals Eat Guitars (named Best New Brooklyn Band of 2009 by the Village Voice) on March 10. They have a couple of new songs from their new album, Beast Rest Forth Mouth, available online.

mp3: Bear in Heaven, "Lovesick Teenagers" from Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes, 2009)
mp3: Bear in Heaven, "Wholehearted Mess" from Beast Rest Forth Mouth (Hometapes, 2009)

Will Fist's Three Man Band has been added to the bill for Thursday's concert by the Whigs at the Bijou Theatre. Royal Bangs are opening. It's almost certainly the first time a Whisk-Hutzel band will play the Bijou. The collective of lo-fi projects led by Fist typically plays Pilot Light.

Andrew Clayman wrote about the Whigs the last time they came through town.

mp3: Royal Bangs, "B&E" from Let It Beep (2009)

According to their blog, The Dirty Guv'nahs will be performing live for the Paste Magazine website this afternoon. No details on the time, so keep an eye on the band's Twitter updates.

Canadian "urban roots" quartet Po' Girl will host a concert and a square dance at the Square Room on Friday, Feb. 19. The jazzy folk group, which features banjo, clarinet, accordion, harmonica, and dobro in addition to a standard guitar/bass/drums set-up, will play with locals the Bearded.





Mp3: Po' Girl, "Shame" from Deer in the Night (2009)

Up-and-coming indie dance-pop stars Cold Cave and Nite Jewel are coming to Pilot Light next weekend. They're playing with the similarly minded local duo Damaged Patients on Saturday, Feb. 6.

Cold Cave's full-length debut, Love Comes Close, was released last year, then reissued by Matador. The three-piece band from Philadelphia is led by Wesley Eisold and includes Caralee McElroy, formerly of Xiu Xiu, and Dominick Fernow of Prurient.





photo by Jayme Thornton

Mp3: Cold Cave, "Laurels of Erotomania" from Love Comes Close (Matador, 2009)

The Drive-By Truckers are playing the Bijou Theatre on Feb. 14 with the Sons of Bill and have a new album, The Big To-Do, set to come out in March. The first single, "This Fucking Job," has just been released. You can listen to it below.





Mp3: The Drive-By Truckers, "This Fucking Job"

Count boom-box DJs Javelin among the Big Ears acts who'll be playing new material at the festival. Pitchfork says the duo, made up of cousins George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk, will release No Mas, their first official album and the follow-up to last year's self-released CD-r Jamz N Jemz, on Luaka Bop on April 20. That's a month after Big Ears, but expect to hear much of No Mas when they hit Knoxville.