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Re: “Train and Maroon 5 w/PJ Morton”
You spelled genius incorrectly, Steven.
Re: “Jimmy Herring w/The Kick”
This was an amazing show! Jimmy Herring is my favorite guitarist hands down. His speed, fluidity and tone combines with a strong sense of melody and phrasing, to hold the audience spellbound and hanging on every note. He reminded me of Jeff Beck in this show, only faster and sweeter. His band is top notch, especially Matt Slocum on keyboards and Hammond B-3. Jimmy Herring may not be a household name partly due to his gentle nature, but he should be known as one of the best guitarists in the world.
Re: “Keynote Address: "Carrie Mae Weems: An Artist Reflects"”
Bill: I agree! I don't think it's an overstatement to say that this exhibit isn't just important for Nashville, although it most certainly is — it's important for the world. Five stars for CMW!
Re: “Keynote Address: "Carrie Mae Weems: An Artist Reflects"”
Really important work. a self portrait that spans 3 decades. This artist gets her place in the pantheon of contemporary art! And Nashville, the Frist Curators, start it off. Great. just great.
Re: “In the Round feat. Rivers Rutherford, Bobby Tomberlin, Bobby Tomberlin, Bill Anderson, Buddy Cannon & Mo Pitney”
MO PITNEY IS ALL OF THAT AND MORE....
Re: “Leslie Holt: Hello Masterpiece”
Perhaps this artist will want to consider painting Hello Kitty roller skating down the executioner's shoulder in the famous Vietnam photo by Eddie Adams. Hello car-bombing maybe? From my perspective, Goya's and Picasso's raw expressions of the anguish of war are timeless and powerful. Of various ways to show careless disdain for human suffering outside our own time and place, plopping Hello Kitty into historical depictions of the melee of war seems a rather effective one.
Re: “Midnight Movie: Videodrome”
Ah yes, Harding Mall... Bookworld, Port O' Call and the good ol' Capri Twin. I'll never forget sitting in the back row of the Capri Twin watching STRANGE BREW with two friends and thinking it was the grandest movie we had ever seen. I have some good Cinema South memories, too. When I saw EVIL DEAD 2 at Cinema South, there was one other guy in the theater. After the bizarre ending, the guy came walking up to me wide-eyed and disheveled - I swear his hair was literally standing up on his head. He said: "That was the craziest damn movie I've ever seen!" Good times...
Re: “East-Centric Music Festival feat. Anne McCue and the Soft Parade, Josh Farrow, Mockingbyrd, Kate Tucker, Jesse Lafser & more”
Anne McCue ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: “East-Centric Music Festival feat. Anne McCue and the Soft Parade, Josh Farrow, Mockingbyrd, Kate Tucker, Jesse Lafser & more”
Cannot WAIT for Jesse Lafser!!
Re: “The Buddies w/Phil Hummer and the White Falcons and The Maloneys”
Less than Google-able??????????
"The Buddies merge a Midwestern working-class appeal with Southern-streaked instrumentation... The garage-derived folk rockers conjure the dusty grooves of Cracker, and the insurgent underbelly of Whiskeytown, which would fit perfectly within the Bloodshot Records family, or at the very least on WXRT." - Andy Argyrakis, Illinois Entertainer.com
"...a gladdening racket—boozy, shambling, sweetly grungy hoist-alongs that should ideally be accompanied by a new round at every chorus." - Jim Ridley, Nashville Scene.com
"drinking songs, fighting songs and mournful ballads." - The Deli, NYC
"F*ck the Buddies", recalls the heyday of pub rock (Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, et al) with healthy doses of rockabilly, Irish punk, southern rock, Stones boogie and Replacements swagger." - Radio One Chicago 2011
"The Collins’ lend some southern charm to Coley’s punk singer/songwriter aesthetic and the result is a sound perfect for an evening of drinking that may or may not end in bloodshed." - Josh Terzino December, 2011
"whiskey-drenched songs reminiscent of The Replacements or a "Southern rock" version of The Pogues." - Brooklyn Rocks, Jan 2012
"when the WTA crew & the Collins' crew get together, something extra special seems to happen...
First, and now second impression...The Buddies gives you the distinct feeling you're in a damn cool neighborhood bar, if your neighbors happened to be the Davies brothers, Nick Lowe, Brinsley Schwarz, Ian Dury, Shane MacGowan, Mick & Keef & Ronnie & B
ill & Charlie, Ronnie Lane, Ian MacLagan, Joe Strummer, Graham Parker and Elvis Costello.
The world might be in the shitter but you're all pounding shots & beers & singing along until your vocal cords are shredded." (August 2011)
- Jeffrey Jones. Music Director, WOJB-FM 88.9
"This Welcome To Ashley/Pale Blue Dot collaboration sounds born of a sloppy, drunken makeout session that kept going even after it passed out on the barroom floor. Though tinged with Americana, The Buddies‘ real debt is to greasy rock ‘n’ roll and particularly — if you believe “A Lifetime At Best” — The Boss, though he never would have sanctioned the rocky injection of that second guitar at the end. The spirit of early Replacements courses through “All The Beer Is Gone,” while the rest of Fuck The Buddies could use a bath — in a good way."
– Steve Forstneger, Illinois Entertainer March 2012
"F*** the Buddies isn't, as the name may imply, just one drunk, scuzz-punk dimension. There's a scuzzy folk one in there too! It's like Howard Devoto singing sea shanties, or at times like cowboys crooning mid-period Mekons. Rueful on tracks like "The Admiral" and "I Hope You Don't Die Before Me," rowdy on "Let's Get Happy" and "I Got Drunk," the album has a joie de vivre that you don't find very often — F*** the Buddies confronts mortality head on, cocktail in hand and tape rolling. Well, at least until the beer runs out, at which point they call it a day and pack it in, but that's completely understandable. Featuring Nashville rock power-couple Kim and Scott Collins, Scott's brother Justin, and Chicago's Coley Kennedy and Jeremy "The Mouse" Barrett, F*** the Buddies is basically a power hour of folky punk-rock singalongs. Drink up."
- Sean Maloney, Nashville Scene, May 2012
"F*** The Buddies, ranges from the raucous, loud songs dripping in Jameson, Guinness and other Irish beverages like “All the Beer is Gone” to the sweet, more contemplative songs like “I Hope You Don’t Die Before Me”. The only catch is, they all carry an honest, raw passion that’d catch my ear any day of the week." "Some people might liken The Buddies to the Dropkick Murphys… I’m not okay with that. I think The Buddies are far more talented and explore a far different palette of sounds."
- Chuck Ryan, Music That Isn't Bad, May 2012
"Raucous be thy name… The Buddies bring a fiery brand of Rock N’ Roll kindred to the Punk sound with a heaping allowance of Rockabilly driven down the middle. What sonically appears, are the shake-me-sugar-squeeze of the Stray Cats and the rich-realist wrangle of The Pogues. The listener is enshrouded in a good-time-roll that makes this writer want to peal these pudgy Irish fingers from the keys and place them firmly on a pint of Guinness. With a fervent elasticity the band’s debut LP, “F*** The Buddies”, abounds from one’s stereo with a jolt so invigorating, even a stick in the mud would get down. Even when the lyrics are uneasy, or the narrator seems dispossessed… Coley Kennedy’s vocal resoluteness combined with the bands ebullient temperament make for a comforting tone. The Buddies, utilizing their pop sensibility and chops to back it up, create an atmosphere that Rock bands long for."
- John Matthew Simon, Do 312
..."It’s not all just drinking and fighting (well, still plenty of drinking) on their latest album F*** The Buddies, a nice collection of laments you might hear at any bar stool across the country. “I Hope That You Don’t Die Before Me” is one of the sweeter records on the album, a tenderhearted plea amongst the raucous drinking anthems."...
"Think of them as if the Dropkick Murphys decided to go indie folk, or The Pogues without the traditional Celtic angle. Turn this baby up and you’ll be reaching for the nearest bottle of Guinness."
- Electric Panda Music, Collections of a Brooklyn Audiophile 2012
"a shambolic mix of pub rock, power pop and Irish punk."
- Chill Mama, Chicago 2011
THE BUDDIES "fuck The Buddies" CD Review Nov. 2011
This Chicago-based rootsy rock crew certainly didn’t drop the rough-hewn style and crackling energy that made the previous album (Country Record) such a refreshing spin. So, now freshly shorn, The Buddies proceed to rock our socks off on this new self-titled album with all manner of guitars (both acoustic and electric), banjos, drums, basses and even squeezeboxes.
Witness the opener, “The Admiral.” A sprightly tune driven mostly by a banjo and an insistent kick drum beat, it’s a compelling and relatively nuanced introduction to a barn burner of a disc. “Now that you’re gone / I will sing your song the whole night long,” sing Coley Kennedy and crew — not with sadness but with gusto. By the time the accordion comes in and the drums start swinging, you’re hooked. This opening track is over before you know it, despite its healthy three minute-plus length. Then, it’s on to “A Lifetime at Best” which sounds ready made for punters to sing at the tops of their drunken lungs at the pub. And the fun only picks up from there. Listen to “The Beer is Gone” and you’re in for the unholiest combination of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Black Flag, Horton Heat and even high-octane Thunderhawk you can imagine. Singer Kennedy blurts out the title with such dismayed conviction that you’d swear he just opened the fridge and the song spontaneously wrote itself as it was recorded. Elsewhere, the sadly swinging “Kathleen, Please Come Home” is no less immediate, but the manic-ness is rooted more in desperation than anything. “Marianne” tosses a perfectly crafted slab of well-constructed guitar pop into the middle of the album, following the frenetic, sweaty, self-explanatory “I Got Drunk.”
The Buddies are raucous, sure, but they also know exactly how to deploy a great melody. Had The Arcade Fire grown fond of sea chanteys, they might have written something akin to the nuanced-yet-anthemic “Catching Bones on a Saturday Night.” The band take it on home with the aptly titled, “Home, James.” Sings Kennedy: “I’m so tired.” He should be, following the huge expenditure of energy he and the band put forth on this kinetic album. Twelve numbers, not a dud in the bunch. (D.M. Jones)
Candy Apple & The Buddies‘ new EP, Leprechaun To The Right, culls members from Chicago’s Welcome To Ashley and Nashville’s Pale Blue Dot for a searing combination of retro and Celtic rock. In other words, there’s a bit of early Replacements (”Kristin”), touches of the Faces (”Something Else”), and the drunken hootenanny of the Pogues (”99 Bottles Of Beer/Colours”), all of which are capable of packing a pub and inciting a rowdy sing-along. - Illinois Entertainer, Sept 2009
CATB's cover of "Something Else" is just balls-out, neck-breakin' trash of the highest order." - Jeffrey Jones Music Director/PM Edition Host WOJB-FM88.9
Nashville Scene, March 2008**** CANDY APPLE & THE BUDDIES The press kit sez early Replacements, but the sound of this tag-team garage-folk aggregate—the union of Kim, Scott and Justin Collins from Pale Blue Dot with Coley Kennedy and Pete Javier from Chicago’s Welcome to Ashley—is a sponge capable of absorbing and wringing out anything from Pulp’s rave-up “Like a Friend” (reconfigured as “Wreck My Motorcycle”) to Eddie Cochran’s “C’mon Everybody” (“Rock ’n’ Roll Paddy”) into their reverb-soaked stompers. Recorded in the Collins’ East Nashville living room, their new CD country record. kicks up a gladdening racket—boozy, shambling, sweetly grungy hoist-alongs that should ideally be accompanied by a new round at every chorus. - Jim Ridley
WhatzUp Magazine, February 2008**** Let's get a couple of things cleared up before going any further with this review. This is a really good disc, in a rootsy, garage-y vein that recalls a host of both classic and dusty modern bands without sounding distractingly derivative. But prior to listening you must do the following: 1) disregard the band's name, Candy Apple & the Buddies. That's a godawful name. Really. 2) Do not allow the artwork, ”a crudely drawn stick figure sporting high-heeled boots, brandishing a sword in one hand and liquor in the other” to color your judgment about the quality of the recording, which is fine. Oh, and the album's called Country Record, but it's not really country at all, unless you count the kinda sorta roots-rock vibe that settles in at some points. All set? Let's have a look at some tunes ... The album (which I'm told is a side project of sorts) kicks off with 'I Can't Stand to See Your Face', which is full of Stones-y "Some Girls" swagger and incredibly present, raw electric guitars. The energy these guys put forth on this tune is palpable, and it continues throughout Country Record. 'Wreck My Motorcycle' pulses along with a combination of early-era Wanderer-style desperation and the kind of tunesmithery some modern authentic garage-rockers could only wish for. The dreamy, acoustic-tinged 'I Love a Girl' recalls some of The Replacements' most delicate moments, topped with Dylan-esque vocals. Then the hearty strains of Rock n' Roll Paddy (a Shane MacGowan cover) stumbles right through the door, full of thunderous, anthem-worthy vocals and booming drums. The shuffle and shamble of 'Happiness Is' goes by before you know it, and the whole thing wraps up with a sing-along rendition of the Pogues' 'I'm a Man You Don't Meet Everyday. Equal parts garage and glam, Country Record revels in its own rough-and-ready construction. The record was tracked in a living room over a weekend last November. It sounds all the better for this approach; frankly, there's no better way the Buddies could have possibly approached the kind of songs they put on this disc, in my opinion. Country Record is by turns old-school, aggressive, warm, inviting and intimate. It's the kind of rock n' roll too few folks make anymore. - D.M. Jones
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"...old-school, aggressive, warm, inviting and intimate. It's the kind of rock n' roll too few folks make anymore." - D.M. Jones 2009
"F*ck the Buddies", recalls the heyday of pub rock (Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, et al) with healthy doses of rockabilly, Irish punk, southern rock, Stones boogie and Replacements swagger."
- Radio One Chicago 2011
"Less than google-able." Seth Graves, Nashville Scene
To stream The Buddies catalog, visit: http://candyappleandthebuddies.bandcamp.com/
To view The Buddies video for "All the Beer is Gone": http://vimeo.com/37928696
To view The Buddies latest video for "A Lifetime at Best", visit: http://vimeo.com/46749144
To visit The Buddies facebook page for photos, press, etc., visit: http://www.facebook.com/thebuddiesband
Plus LATEST CHICAGO MIXTAPE featuring " A Lifetime at Best"
http://www.chicagomixtape.com/calendar/current/3-dreams-mixtape083/
OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
WWW.FTHEBUDDIES.COM
Re: “The Buddies w/Phil Hummer and the White Falcons and The Maloneys”
Wow, I've seen The Buddies, and they are amazing. To call them a "less-than-Google-able act" is not only ignorant (they are all over Google with great reviews) it seems to be a lazy attempt at writing a review on them. And as far as I can tell from all the posts on Facebook, this is their show. Nice warm Nashville welcome to these cats coming from Chicago.
Geez Seth, if you really don't like them just don't say anything at all. Ridiculous.
Re: “Auditions for Nashville Children's Theatre”
Are we allowed to audition dance groups of seven?
Re: “Sonia Lee Album Release”
Love Sonia's music. Her honesty through music is refreshing and inspiring. Love the new album and can't wait to see it performed live tonight!
Re: “Artists' Forum: Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove and Mark Hosford”
I love the sound of this work, I believe we all experience a metamorphoses in our lives where we break out our cocoon and emerge who we are meant to be. I am in fact an artist of different mediums myself. My life and my artwork has been an amazing metamorphoses! Check out my work at http://www.zlanaart.com if you get a chance.
Re: “KISS and Motley Crue w/The Treatment”
Real welcoming to Nashville there. Why do newspapers always seem to hire such "douches" to do their music section?
Re: “KISS and Motley Crue w/The Treatment”
No, Amanda, we don't all know that "Vince is a douchebag." He is actually one of he sweetest, most modest and cool guys in the businesss to work with. There are a lot of douchebags out there, but I'm sorry, he's not one of them. Where do you get off? Is it just that you're one of the biggest bitches out there? Unbelievable.
Re: “Midnight Movie: Tron”
The first film to evoke an interest in computers for me, and the start of a love affair that would eventually land me in film school. Fuck the sequel. That film had nowhere near the heart or sense of (holy shit we're in a computer!) whimsy the original holds. Not to mention the months of unbelievably hard work in practically inventing digital motion graphics for the effects shots in the film. Don't miss this.
Re: “Midnight Movie: Tron”
For the folks going to the Tron midnight shows this weekend...
A radio show I put together comprised of sound clips from the Story of Tron LP mixed in with remixes of both Tron OST's. Enjoy!
http://www.mixcloud.com/DeliciousElixir/de…
Re: “Rayland Baxter”
RayLand is a favorite of mine since I first heard him as opening act to The Civil Wars. Dude has heart.
Re: “Mark Collie Album Release Show”
Check out the full videos and more here: http://aliveatbrushy.com