Subject: Apple iPod

• Lift Off, Ob-li-o Ob-la-da

  March 26, 2009

• Workin' for the Weekend

  August 1, 2008

• Blow Pop: Framing Hanley Cover Lil' Wayne's 'Lollipop,' Some Dude Plays Metal to Young Buck

  October 15, 2008

• The Way We Are Now

  October 17, 2008

• R.I.P. ZIMA

  October 22, 2008

• Amy LaVere et al: Friday I'm in Lurve

  Amy LaVere, bass pro. Friday. I tried to think of an Ice Cube joke but couldn't. Memphian Amy LaVere plays The Basement. "Killing him didn't make the love go away." 9 p.m. One fine day, a DJ with a moniker like DJTX300 will actually be a cyborg, but until then, at least there are iPod nights and Internet jukeboxes. Scene Night at Exit/In. This is a benefit to raise money for new sprinklers, and involves bands affiliated with the Scene in one way or another: Ole Mossy Face, Scott 76, Heathe

  November 14, 2008

• Death Cab for Cutie's Something About Airplanes Gets a Reissue, I Get Nostalgic. Tear.

  This summer, I was a guest on the WRVU show Out the Other, and managed--between playing records at the wrong speed and selecting the wrong songs on my iPod--to spin the Death Cab for Cutie song "Pictures From an Exhibition," off their first full-length album Something About Airplanes. (The vinyl is a nice marbled blue.) Barsuk has just re-released the album, with a bonus disc including the band's first-ever show at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle (now closed, sadly--one of the best and best-soun

  November 26, 2008

• Winter of Dreamz: Cream Show With Ghostfinger and JEFF the Brotherhood

  As you know, the Winter of Dreamz is in full swing over at Mercy Lounge, and at their request Nashville Cream is throwing our hat into the ring with a special Cream-flavored show on Friday, Dec. 19. Playing the show are Ghostfinger, JEFF the Brotherhood and another band TBA. Chris Crofton will be your MC for the evening. There will be rocking that happens. Pints of Sweetwater will be a mere $2.50. There will also be free stuff! We'll be giving away an iPod Shuffle, two tickets to see Of Mon

  December 10, 2008

• Caption Contest: Nashville Cream Show Tonight at Mercy Lounge

  Make funny caption, get in free. As you may have heard, Nashville Cream is hosting the Winter of Dreamz show at Mercy Lounge tonight. Cover is $5 or $8 depending on your birthday, but if you want to get in free, make a funny caption. We'll choose the five best posted by noon today, and add your name to the list. Thing is, you have to include your email address in your comment. (It won't be published, but we need it to contact the winners. And winners, please be sure to check your email this

  December 19, 2008

• Dorm Room by Numbers

  A user-friendly guide to decorating cliches, from Marxist poster boys to pop-top paraphernalia

  August 28, 2008

• Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

  In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The ten discs below are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems to

  December 29, 2008

• Love-Hate Mail

  September 18, 2008

• More Than Just Green Eggs and Ham

  Children's book authors and illustrators gather in Nashville

  September 18, 2008

• Steve Knopper on Fresh Air: The Death of the Record Industry

  Anyone catch yesterday's episode of Fresh Air with Terri Gross on NPR? The Gross Meister's guest was Rolling Stone contributor and author of Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age Steve Knopper. He provided a pretty encompassing synopsis of where the RIAA has gone wrong and where they're headed. A brief run-down of what Knopper had to say after the jump.

  January 15, 2009

• A Sad Day for the East Side: Alley Cat Closes

  Those of you who keep up with our sister blog Bites probably caught Carrington's post about Alley Cat closing its doors. While shows at the Cat were somewhat few and far between, the place offered pretty sweet occasional patio parties, not to mention DJ sets from a dude named Dave (anyone know his last name?), who spun some of the finest rock 'n' roll, soul and funk vinyl you could ever hear. I'll long cherish the sets I caught from Hans Condor and the dozens upon dozens of chicken sandwiches I

  January 21, 2009

• From iBush to oPod: What's on Our Leaders' iPods?

  Tuesday, as my colleagues and I watched the inauguration, a nagging question plagued me throughout the proceedings, the answer to which dictates just what type of man our Commander-in-Chief truly is: What was on his "Get Pumped" playlist before he approached the podium? Months back, Barack Obama divulged the contents of his iPod. In doing so, he proved to us once and for all that he is just as cool and in touch as we'd all hoped. He likes Stevie Wonder, Howlin' Wolf, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Cr

  January 22, 2009

• The Basement celebrates four-year anniversary with local and regional talent

  February 5, 2009

• Dont imitate the romantic gestures you see in movies

  February 12, 2009

• Dreadful: Adam Dread Likes the Titans, Hates Good Taste

  While doing some web research for my politicians' iPods post last week, a friend and I stumbled across a couple of YouTube clips of interest produced and performed by Mr. Adam Dread, Esq. For those of you unfamiliar, Dread is the third best local DUI attorney, a former city council member, a Nantucket Island frequenter, seemingly a total perpetrator of self-editing his Wikipedia entry and apparently a Renaissance man. You can hear him above butchering a song I always thought was unbutcherable,

  January 27, 2009

• Weekend Round-Up: I Can Has a Super Bowl Style! Part 1

  So this weekend Bruce Springsteen's playing a show that apparently has some sort of football event scheduled around it. This is what they tell me, anyhow. If you're like me, you use the few hours when everyone's watching the Super Bowl to do your winter looting and vandalism. If you need me, I'll be stealin' iPods and spray-painting dicks on the town water tower. Here's what's up for Friday, Jan. 30: Cavalcade of Cock (Dave Cloud's latest musical incarnation) w/The Tits, Werewolf Killers & As

  January 30, 2009

• The Best of Photography and Film From the George Eastman House Collection at The Frist

  Eastman Meets West

  January 22, 2009

• From MySpace to BlackBerry, there's no shortage of challengers to the hegemony of iTunes

  December 18, 2008

• Life After O'Death: a Billion Influences on the iPod Doesn't Necessarily Make for Good Music

  November 27, 2008

• Rebel Yell

  August 28, 2008

• It Takes Two

  It's our birthday again, and you're invited again

  August 21, 2008

• Scattered Glass

  This American Life host reflects on audio storytelling, Russert vs. Matthews and the evils of meat porn

  May 29, 2008

• Six Degrees of Feist

  November 15, 2007

• Public Art

  December 7, 2006

• Gangsta Rap Blamed for Elephant Violence

  50 Cent, Young Buck among killer Winkie’s favorites

  August 10, 2006

• Episode 36

  July 6, 2006

• Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll?

  June 15, 2006

• iPod Way Too Fond of ‘Drops of Jupiter’

  ‘Sorry I ever put in on there,’ local man says

  April 6, 2006

• The Spin

  March 9, 2006

• Radio Interference

  What happens at Country Radio Seminar this week will decide what you hear on the radio—if you haven’t already traded it for satellite

  February 16, 2006

• In Search of a Sense of Place

  Artists in group show at Ruby Green try to find themselves in a diffuse modern world

  November 17, 2005

• Media — Writers’ Choices

  October 27, 2005

• Best of Nashville — Fast Times

  Coffee and bicycles keep the crowd moving in Hillsboro Village, Belmont and 12 South

  October 27, 2005

• Adaptive Reuse

  Chevrolet & Jeep roll out imaginative responses to trying times

  September 22, 2005

• Obsolete at 22

  A new iPod renders a child of Napster technologically clueless

  January 6, 2005

• Weekend Updates

  Nashville joins the Pod Squad, while the "Cirque du Soul" gets ready to roll

  May 27, 2004

• The Livin' Is Easy

  May 27, 2004

• The iPod Has Arrived

  The latest technology is giving hardcore music fans a new way of hearing—and it’s likely to change the way everyone will listen to music

  February 13, 2003

• Friction for Hire: Get a Personalized Ring Tone

  Let's face it: Music is your life. That shit is everywhere: in your car, on TV, streaming out of your laptop, through your iPod, and out of your phone every time you get a phone call. While the consequence of song placement was in previous years relegated most importantly to movies and TV shows, a decision as simple as what tune one plants on his or her MySpace page can be just as crucial. Now more than ever, we have the opportunity to use other people's art to express ourselves and let the worl

  April 17, 2009

• Thai That's Worth Parking For--But Where are the People?

  Nicki Wood There's an improvised parking lot on West Iris Drive, across from the 12 Oaks Motel. At lunch time, it fills up, and cars circle the block waiting for a space. So I was a little nervous when I drove by at 12:45 last week--the lot was still full. But the TV Parking Fairy was with me, and when I left my meeting five minutes later, a spot had opened. I couldn't wait to get my takeout nam sod from Thai Kitchen. So spicy, with cilantro accents and the crunch of peanuts. But with all th

  May 4, 2009

• Y'all Gotta Mic at The End 5/9/09

  The Spin believes that a healthy dinner is the first requisite for a fair and balanced show review--if we're malnourished and cranky then we're going to crap all over your capris. OK, OK, we were probably going to crap on your capris anyway just for kicks. To that effect, we rolled over to Pad Thai Kitchen on Woodland for Drunk Noodles with Beef (a great dish, and a perfect summation of life as The Spin) only to discover that Cosmic Clearance, the granola-flavored rave at Limelight, would also b

  May 11, 2009

• Chuck Mead CD Release

  May 28, 2009

• Boomboxes: Cooler Than IPods

  We take portable music for granted today, obviously, but before the iPod, before Walkmans, before (gasp!) the Internet, your only choice for tuneage on the go was a boombox. And a lot of C- or D-cell batteries. Some of you are probably too young to remember the oddly subversive-feeling thrill of blaring your music out of a boombox, hoisting it on your shoulder or putting it on the ground while you got to breakdancing/skateboarding/vandalizing. Today, Scene contributor Chris Neal pointed me to th

  July 16, 2009

• BookFool.com Hosts Tomato Haiku Contest

  Tomato Fest nears. Haiku contest returns, too. Winner gets iPod.

  July 20, 2009

• Shot Through the Heart

  February 11, 2010

• Cassettiquette

  February 11, 2010