Live Like This http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/ en-us Copyright 2010 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:31:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification A Little Night Music (Photos)

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(Jennifer Niceley opening for Washburn at Relix.)

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(Abigail Washburn and band.)

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(Abigail Washburn and band.)

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(Dancing to Discordian Society at Preservation Pub.)

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(Hunter Hunt-Hendrix of Liturgy at Pilot Light.)

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(Throwing the horns at Liturgy.)




]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/a-little-night-music-photos.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/a-little-night-music-photos.html concert reviews Knoxville music Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:31:00 -0500 Shortwave Society's Van Stolen Overnight Shortwave Society, just a week away from a headlining show at Pilot Light with Asheville's Stephaniesid, had their van, loaded with a pile of gear worth $25,000, stolen in South Knoxville last night.

It's a bad deal for any band, but it's particularly devastating for these guys, who depend on samples, programmed percussion, and homemade synthesizers to make the music they do. Singer/songwriter Grant Geren says it's "a nightmare" and worries that they'll have to cancel shows for the rest of the year.

Details from Knox Blab:

LARGE, WHITE 15 PASSENGER DODGE RAM 3500 WITH THE WORD "CAUTION" ON THE BACK IN BLACK LETTERS. THE FRONT GRILL AND RIGHT TURN SIGNAL ARE ALMOST COMPLETELY MISSING AND BUMPER IS BENT.

Gear in van: Roland handsonic, v-drum kick trigger, L1 Bose Tower w/ mixer and bass speaker, homemade synthesizer, Vintage Fender Rhodes with stand, Roland space echo peddle, RE-20 dynamic microphone, fender deluxe guitar amp, Line 6 delay modeler, Baggs DI box, yamaha mixing board MG-122X, Mooger Fooger Ring Modulator, Boss digital tuner pedal, Mod Tone tremor pedal, 4 DI Boxes, a pandeiro, a djembe, 18' crash cymbal, gretsch snare drum, Monster Power Conditioner, many stands cables, full box of shortwave Cd's, 50+ shortwave t-shirts.


]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/shortwave-societys-van-stolen.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/shortwave-societys-van-stolen.html etc. local music local music Shortwave Society Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:57:54 -0500 Girl Talk at the Valarium, Jan. 24
Chris Buckner wrote about Gillis back in 2008.
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/girl-talk-at-the-valarium-jan.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/girl-talk-at-the-valarium-jan.html concert announcements Girl Talk The Valarium Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:53:28 -0500 R.B. Morris, Man of Science R.B. Morris has followed a lot of paths during a three-decade career as poet, playwright, and musician. But none of them would have obviously led him to his latest post, which is songwriter-in-residence at the University of Tennessee's National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis.

The Institute is designed to face the "ongoing challenges of maintaining a safe food supply, avoiding economic disruptions caused by emerging infectious diseases, and evaluating methods to better manage the inevitable disease outbreaks that develop due to globalization," which"may best be investigated by integrating modeling and mathematics with the biological studies which are critical to the formulation of public policy to address these challenges." (That's all according to the NIMBioS website.) The songwriter program is intended "to encourage the creation and production of songs involving ideas of modern biology and the lives of scientists who pursue research in biology."

It's a month-long program that will last through June and include up to five songwriters. No word yet on what exactly will be done with the songs that are written.
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/rb-morris-man-of-science.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/11/rb-morris-man-of-science.html etc. local music local music R.B. Morris University of Tennessee Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:52:22 -0500 Knoxville Horror Film Festival Stuff Continues This Weekend Knoxville Horror Film Festival is officially over, but you won't be able to tell this weekend: the same group that organized the fest at Relix Variety Theatre in Happy Holler last weekend is hosting a two-hour recap at the same place on Friday night, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m., followed by a screening of black-metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us, which will in turn be followed by a performance from Knoxville black-metal band Argentinum Astrum.

Lee Gardner reviewed Until the Light Takes Us here.

Admission to either the recap or the UTLTU screening is $5, or it's $8 for both.
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Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Cassale will still attend the AC Entertainment-organized festival in Asheville to accept the Moog Innovation Award on behalf of the band.

Details after the jump.
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The Swingtet's celebrating the release of Volume 1 (oddly enough, the follow-up to their 2008 self-titled debut) on Friday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. at the Laurel Theater in Fort Sanders. Admission is $10-$12.
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/new-cd-from-johnson-swingtet-c.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/new-cd-from-johnson-swingtet-c.html concert announcements local music new releases Jack Neely Laurel Theater local music The Johnson Swingtet Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:46:04 -0500 Mark E. Smith Vs. Mumford and Sons (Who Play the Valarium Next Month) Valarium in a matter of days.

The story making the Internet rounds is that Mark E. Smith, the curmudgeonly lead singer and mastermind for British postpunk legends the Fall, revealed his contempt for the band in an interview with Australian mag The Brag. The full interview isn't available online, but the Quietus offered this excerpt, which reveals Smith to be (surprise!) kind of a bastard, but is also pretty funny:

"We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them cunts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers."
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/mark-e-smith-vs-mumford-and-so.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/mark-e-smith-vs-mumford-and-so.html concert announcements etc. Mark E. Smith Mumford and Sons The Valarium Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:26:07 -0500 Gun*Slinger Update: Frontman Out of the Band Gun*Slinger, we also got an e-mail from the band's management informing us that singer Cole Graham, who founded the band in 2008, has been fired--just in time for the band's show at the Longbranch Saloon tomorrow night. Daniel Ott, whose brother Marcus plays lead guitar in the band, has been named as Graham's replacement.


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]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/gunslinger-update-frontman-out.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/gunslinger-update-frontman-out.html local music Gun*Slinger Longbranch Saloon Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:48:21 -0500 Tim Lee 3: New Double Album "Raucous Americanus" Due in November
They apparently got really busy at those sessions--the new album, Raucous Americanus, the follow-up to the band's 2008 disc Good2b3, is an old-fashioned double album. It's due out next month, and the CD-release show the Lees have planned for Patrick Sullivan's on Friday, Nov. 12, is appropriately big: a premiere of the band's video for the song "Get There First," DJ sets from Nathan Moses and Graham McCorkle of the Vaygues, and an opening set by Angela Faye Martin, a North Carolina singer/songwriter the Lees have befriended since playing a local show with her earlier this year. And, of course, a long set of the Tim Lee 3 playing songs from the new album, and probably some old favorites.  ]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/tim-lee-3-new-double-album-rau.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/10/tim-lee-3-new-double-album-rau.html concert announcements local music new releases local music Patrick Sullivan's Raucous Americanus The Vaygues Tim Lee 3 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:48:28 -0500 Q&A With Slayer Drummer Dave Lombardo big day for middle-aged metal fans: Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax at the Civic Coliseum. (For once it's the perfect venue, the place where some of us saw our first heavy metal and hard rock concerts back in the '70s and '80s.)

You can read my story about Anthrax here, but I also got a last-minute interview with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo that couldn't make it into the print edition. (Lombardo, one of the most influential drummers in metal ever and an undisputed master of the double bass, left the band way back in 1992. Slayer soldiered on through the 1990s with a string of replacements, but their reunion with Lombardo for Christ Illusion (2006) and World Painted Blood (2009) has been considered a significant return to form. So here's a transcription of my conversation with him, after the jump. (Bonus: Read John Sewell's 1999 interview with Slayer's Tom Araya here.)
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/qa-with-slayer-drummer-dave-lo.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/qa-with-slayer-drummer-dave-lo.html concert announcements Anthrax Civic Coliseum Dave Lombardo Megadeth Slayer Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:29:17 -0500 Auld Lang Syne: Dirty Guv'nahs at Bijou on New Year's Eve Dirty Guv'nahs take the coveted spot at the Bijou that night.

That pretty much cements the Guv'nahs as the most popular local band right now (as if three consecutive Best Band awards in Metro Pulse's Best of Knoxville voting hadn't already done that). It's too late to say you saw them when..., but there's a preview of the New Year's Eve show this Friday at the Bijou, with the band celebrating the official release of its second album, Youth Is in Our Blood. The Black Cadillacs are opening at 8 p.m., and a few tickets are still available.

Tickets for the New Year's Eve show are $20 and go on sale on Friday, Oct. 1.
]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/auld-lang-syne-dirty-guvnahs-a.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/auld-lang-syne-dirty-guvnahs-a.html concert announcements local music Bijou Theatre New Year's Eve Scott Miller The Black Cadillacs The Dirty Guv'nahs Youth Is in Our Blood Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:26:56 -0500 Concert Review: Best Coast and Cults at Pilot Light Best Coast and Brooklyn's Cults. (It was also Pilot Light owner Jason Boardman's birthday). Starting at around 9:30 p.m., a noticeably younger audience that included several out-of-towners (I met a couple from Michigan and a group from Kentucky) filed down Jackson Avenue and
quickly filled the club to capacity an hour before the show even got started. In an
effort to deal with the crowd, Cults took the stage at an uncharacteristically early 10:30 p.m. (for Pilot Light) and overshadow the "permanently chill" Best Coast; Cults lead singer Madeline Follin
energetically danced around the stage as she performed the group's happy-go-lucky pop.
--Carey Hodges ]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/concert-review-best-coast-and.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/concert-review-best-coast-and.html concert reviews Best Coast Cults Pilot Light Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:46:07 -0500 Sound Off Semi-Finalists Set Sound Off competition has been set, with 25 bands making it through the first round of cuts. The first night of the contest, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at the Square Room, will feature the Ibiza-style soundscapes of electronic trio Arpetrio, alt-rockers Johnny Astro and the Big Bang and Pegasi 51, and R&B/funk ensembles Soulfinger and Dishwater Blonde. The winner of that set, based on judges' scores and audience response, will move on to the final round in March.
 
The other 20 bands will face off against each other in similar sets on the first Wednesday of each month through February, with the winners playing against each other in March. The remaining bands who made it to the cut-off round are the Big Deuce, the Black Jack of Ballarat, Bone Prophet, Brimstone Treehouse, Elliot Collett, Dave Dykes and the Grateful Heart, Jason Ellis, the Fontinelles, the Gentlemen Conspiracy, the Great Great Pines, the Hotshot Freight Train, Lions, Danielle Madison, Madre, Davis Mitchell, Gene Priest and the Cardinal Sin, Rally, Silver Jubilee, Skytown Riot, and the Theorizt. Oh, and Todd Steed is going to emcee the series.
 
The overall winner gets studio time at Rock Snob Recordings, custom merchandise, an opening spot on an upcoming AC Entertainment concert, and up to $500 in gear.  ]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/sound-off-semi-finalists-set.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/sound-off-semi-finalists-set.html concert announcements local music Arpetrio Dishwater Blonde Johnny Astro and the Big Bang Pegasi 51 Soulfinger Sound Off The Square Room Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:48:31 -0500 Big Boi at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, Nov. 12 MoogFest, all you have to do is wait. The rapper, one-half of the duo OutKast, who just released his long-long-long-awaited solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot, will perform at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum on Friday, Nov. 12, to close out his current tour. No details on tickets yet.  ]]> http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/big-boi-at-knoxville-civic-col.html http://blogs.metropulse.com/live_like_this/2010/09/big-boi-at-knoxville-civic-col.html concert announcements Big Boi Knoxville Civic Coliseum Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:54:52 -0500