While East Nashville tunes-on-tap haunt Family Wash ain’t exactly Tokyo’s famed Budokan Hall, it is a veritable musical speakeasy for adept local luminaries the likes of Marc Pisapia (Joe, Marc’s Brother), Ron Gomez (Josh Bennet), Jeremy Ashbrock (The Shazam) and (naturally) Family Wash proprietor James Rubin, a fine vocalist who no doubt can handily pull off the bell-clear rock stylings of Robin Zander. This year that rockin’, ragtag bunch will don the sounds of longstanding Monsters of Power Pop Cheap Trick as a sonic Halloween costume. Like suburban soccer moms and stay-at-home dads packing the neighborhood kids’ plastic jack-o’-lanterns with fun-size Snickers, Rubin & Co. will surrender to the doorbell wishes of Wash patrons by filling their auditory orifices with ear candy culled from classic Trick LPs like
In Color,
Heaven Tonight and
Dream Police.
— Adam Gold