Blog: Nashville Cream

Just a heads-up that our blogs will be undergoing some maintenance this afternoon, and while we we're pretty sure everything will be mostly normal, maybe it won't. (It probably will. We hope.) If ... Continue reading "Blog Maintenance Today" >

He said he was going to do it, and by God, he did it. Let's hear it for Brandon "Brass Balls" Jazz. And remember, for a few hundred bucks, we can get him to make "Brass Balls" his real middle na... Continue reading "Brandon Jazz of The Armed Forces Performs 'Radical Luv' at The Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre" >

Listen, you'd have to be a jerk to not want to support kids who wanna rock, so a good way to not be a jerk would be to go to The End tomorrow (Saturday) night and lay down a mere $5 to help out th... Continue reading "Tennessee Teen Rock Camp Tomorrow at The End, Feat. Fever Queen (Cortney Tidwell), How Cozy & More" >

This week's Scene cover story is essentially a compilation I, uh, complied of sordid and calamitous stories from working Nashville musicians. It's called "Tales From the Trenches," and basically... Continue reading "Tales from the Trenches: Pranks, Calamities and More From Nashville's Working Musicians [On This Week's Cover]" >

I hear they're traveling around in hovercrafts up in Brooklyn these days. Five more years and we'll be there! Anyway, this is a great episode. A couple of mystery calls, the edited version of R ... Continue reading "Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 18" >

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Ah, Easter. What a wonderful amalgam of bizarre, antiquated traditions. Time to go help a gaggle of tiny relatives I don't recognize search for plastic eggs full of melted fudge in my grandmother... Continue reading "Weekend Round-Up: Cadbury Gold Style" >

Back in the day, we had this thing we called "kickin' it old school." I'm not just being facetious here. I mean, the kids these days "kick it old school," but they're usually just listening to the... Continue reading "These Are the Breaks: Kurtis Blow Playing Big T's on Dickerson Pike " >

So ... where to start on Wednesday night's GZA show at MTSU? Maybe with a great big "We told you so"? When we complained a couple weeks ago about the lack of promotion for this show (and just a... Continue reading "GZA at MTSU, 3/31/10" >

See the slideshows for more photos: Tegan and Sara; Holly Miranda & Steel Train. Taking advantage of a lovely spring evening, we decided to take a leisurely stroll with our show-going friend t... Continue reading "Tegan and Sara at The Ryman, 3/31/10" >

So our resident incorrigible critical curmudgeon, Sean Maloney, caught wind of a bit of a '90s revival going down this evening at the Wildhorse Saloon. He wrote a Critic's Pick on the affair, and... Continue reading "Point/Counterpoint: Seven Mary Three, Marcy Playground & Sponge, Tonight at Wildhorse" >

They're Not a Garage Band, But They Come From Garageland: San Francisco's The Fresh & Only's bring their pop fetish to Nashville (Playing Thursday, 1st at Exit/In w/King Khan and the Shrines) Ev... Continue reading "The Fresh & Onlys, Vampire Weekend and More: Inside This Week's Music Section" >

While Metallica's 2007 under-the-radar Bonnaroo warm-up show at The Basement seemed like it would forever reign supreme as Nashville's ultimate pinch-yourself-or-kick-yoursel f happening, it's smal... Continue reading "The Rolling Stones at The End, 3/31/01" >

If you spend a lot of time -- and I know you do -- slumming it in the ghetto of the Cream comment threads, then you're likely more than familiar with local lightning rod, self-proclaimed "hometown... Continue reading "Armed Forces Discover Scientology; Also, Help Rename Brandon Jazz for $500" >

No April Foolsies here. Texas-based wintry folk outfit Midlake are, indeed, playing a show tomorrow night at Mercy Lounge with John Grant, and we are, in fact, giving away a pair of tickets. We'... Continue reading "Caption Contest: Midlake Ticket Giveaway!" >

Because her dad told her to! And to save them from being eaten by snakes! Someone who's handy with the prison-justice system of the United States of America please tell me how many laws she and ... Continue reading "Miley Cyrus Stole Some Chickens" >

The folks at Forecastle have just announced this year's initial lineup, and it appears as though the Louisville-based festival is continuing its trend of being pretty OK! You know, pretty solid, ... Continue reading "Road Trip to Louisville: Forecastle Fest 2010, July 9-11" >

Interesting project from local supertroupe De Novo Dahl: Bobby Thompson Reels, Vol. 1 is an EP of instrumental songs based on samples taken from a collection of reel-to-reel tapes left behind by N... Continue reading "De Novo Dahl Release Bobby Thompson Reels, Vol. 1" >

Remember when Old Man Maloney poked fun at his alma mater for their lackluster PR, especially where an upcoming appearance by GZA was concerned? Well, emails to music writers or no, the day of the... Continue reading "GZA Tonight at MTSU [The Genius]" >

Hey, we went and found some videos of local bands on the yonder Internets, and have rounded them up for y'all in one blog post! Now, normally we'd get deeply analytical about such things -- no vid... Continue reading "Video Round-Up Fill-in-the-Blank: Those Darlins, Funstix, Paper Route & More" >

I didn't attend MTSU. There were, however, many times in my freshman and sophomore years of college when I felt like an honorary undergrad. You know, on account of the countless weekend and even... Continue reading "Dave Haslam Presents Joy Division Lecture and Film Screening, March 31 at MTSU" >