Subject: Brendan Benson

• The Spin: Paloozin' Part One: Like Bonnaroo With More Obama T-shirts

  August 4, 2008

• Rock 'n' Roll Poll 2008: Outtakes

  If you pick up a copy of this week's dead tree edition, you'll find our annual Rock 'n' Roll Poll, compiled this year by Mr. Adam "Dave Matthews rules my life" Gold and myself. While you'll find plenty of gems in the spread (e.g. David Berman's favorite episodes of CMT Crossroads and what Brendan Benson thinks of himself), we were only able to include so much with our given amount of space. Thusly, we present to you outtakes--the gold that was just too golden for print. Or too superfluous. Tak

  December 23, 2008

• Telekinesis Interview

  Michael Lerner is a one-man band called Telekinesis, and he recorded an album for Merge which he titled by adding an exclamation point to his band name. The album, which is enjoyable to listen to, was produced by Death Cab for Cutie guitarist (and erstwhile producer) Chris Walla. The reason I ask Lerner about Japan is because he supposedly really loves Japan, even though he's never been there. Which is basically the opposite of how I feel about Cool Springs. The reason I ask him about sandwiches

  March 20, 2009

• Weekend Round-Up: Smoke 'em If You Got 'em Style!

  Adam Gold moonlights as a carnie.Yeah, I switched themes midstream. I'm allowed to do that, 'cause it's my damn thing in the first place. Besides, I think we're all better off having seen this picture of Gold smoking 39 cigarettes. In case you're entirely baffled as to why that photo exists, it was taken for Tracy's story about cigarette prices going up, and there are plenty more where that came from. Here's what's up for this evening: Charles Walker and the Dynamites at Mercy Lounge. Read Malo

  March 28, 2009

• Our 2008 Rock 'n' Roll Poll sums up the year in the words of Nashville's movers and rockers, from David Berman to How I Became the Bomb

  December 25, 2008

• The Raconteurs, The Kills, Ocelots and more

  October 9, 2008

• The Spin

  June 19, 2008

• The Spin

  April 17, 2008

• Steady as They Go

  April 10, 2008

• The Spin

  August 30, 2007

• Our Critics' Picks

  June 14, 2007

• The Spin

  May 31, 2007

• The Spin

  May 24, 2007

• The Spin

  November 23, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  MICKEY AVALON * THURSDAY, 16^TH

  November 16, 2006

• The Spin

  August 24, 2006

• Access Lollywood

  Nashville and Chicago converge backstage at Lollapalooza

  August 10, 2006

• Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad

  Nashville musicians remember worst-ever gigs

  September 26, 2002

• New Brendan Benson, Big Surprise Tour & More: Newsy Bits

  * Brendan Benson's got a new non-Raconteurs album on the way (My Old Familiar Friend, out Aug. 18 on ATO), and MBV has an MP3 for you, "Feel Like Taking You Home," in which the phrase from the title doesn't seem to mean what it usually means in rock songs, unless I'm just reading too much into that. (Via MBV.) * The Big Surprise Tour, featuring Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Rawlings Machine (featuring Gillian Welch), The Felice Brothers and Justin Townes Earle, comes to Riverfront Park August 13

  June 18, 2009

• Those Darlins, Brendan Benson: Newsy Bits

  * "We felt like it's our music and we should own it ourselves. We want control over our music and our image," she says. "The only thing a label could offer us that we couldn't do ourselves would be money. You can give us money, but we already have the entire team of everything we need." That's Jessi Darlin, in a Reuters story about her band, Those Darlins. * A little more on the new Brendan Benson album over at Consequence of Sound. (Check MBV for the new song.) * The new EP by The Comfies wil

  June 22, 2009

• Me and My Arrow: Locals Cover Nilsson at Mercy Lounge July 2

  It saddens us to announce that Terry Price of local rock trio Oblio was recently diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. In order to help cover his medical expenses, Grimey and Oblio are hosting a benefit at Mercy Lounge on July 2 in which dozens of local artists will be covering the music of Harry Nilsson. (Nilsson Schmilsson and The Point are of great personal significance to me, since I've kept them both in heavy rotation since they first blew my mind some years ago. Just, you know, for the record.) In

  June 24, 2009

• Me and My Arrow: Harry Nilsson Tribute Night

  July 2, 2009

• Japandroids vs. Nilsson Tonight

  On the one hand, you've got Me and My Arrow: Harry Nilsson Tribute Night at Mercy Lounge. It's a benefit show for a local musician--Terry Price of Oblio was recently diagnosed with Bell's palsy--and features a strong lineup of locals in support: Oblio, The Features, Eureka Gold, David Mead, James Wallace & the Naked Light, Heypenny, The Silver Seas' Daniel Tashian, and a supergroup featuring Mike Grimes, The Raconteurs' Brendan Benson, My Morning Jacket's Carl Broemel, Hotpipes' Jon Rogers, and

  July 2, 2009

• Nilsson Night at Mercy Lounge 7/2/09

  Steve CrossBrendan Benson Slideshows? Well, there's this one, and then there's this one, too. We are fans of cover songs, benefit shows and the Mercy Lounge, so the "Me and My Arrow: A Tribute to Nilsson" shindig Thursday night seemed like a killer way to kick off 4th of July Weekend. And speaking of America, it was a benefit show to help cover the medical bills of Oblio's Terry Price, who has been diagnosed with Bell's Palsy. Sure, Americans may let artists and the working man fall through th

  July 6, 2009

• Japandroids, Nilsson Night, Cream, 8 off 8th and more

  July 9, 2009

• New Brendan Benson Album Streaming at NPR

  ​Raconteur (and Raconteur) Brendan Benson has a new album, My Old, Familiar Friend, out on Aug. 18. But if you're like most people, the album is neither old nor familiar to you. So, the good people at NPR are streaming the whole damn thing for your listening pleasure. Says Robin Hilton: Benson is a meticulous songwriter -- and, as with his three previous solo releases, My Old, Familiar Friend is a work of carefully orchestrated precision. The songs are tightly wound, with ridiculously

  August 4, 2009

• Super Secret Special Guest to Appear at Tonight's 8 off 8th [Who Can It Be Now?]

  Will it be as epic as this was? If you follow the Mercy Lounge on Twitter then you've undoubtedly noticed their recent daily tweets alluding to a super-secret ninth band who are presumably flying into town to play a super-secret set to close tonight's 8 off 8th festivities. By examining these tweets we know that this is a band who: ...hate Kings of Leon but love to make you dance... is very popular with boys and has had over 7 bassists...will perform at next month's All Tomorrow's Parties...h

  August 17, 2009

• Cory Chisel at Exit/In

  December 10, 2009

• Large-scale commercial success is Brendan Benson's white whale

  December 10, 2009

• Top Albums, Shows and Awesome Music Things of 2009: Inside This Week's Music Section (and on the Cover)

  Eric England​Hey hey, it's our 2009 Year in Music issue on racks now. Inside you'll find all your faves plus some new faves you didn't know were your faves yet. Get your kicks for Assorted Awesomeness, Top Albums, Top Shows and Top Country Albums. And be on the lookout for our Rock 'n' Roll Poll next week. Special thanks to JEFF the Brotherhood, Bows and Arrows, Future, My So-Called Band, Natural Child and The Kindergarten Circus for being good sports and jumping around on trampolines for

  December 10, 2009

• Weekend Round-Up: Pizza Party Style Part 2

  Noid!​Saturday: Brendan Benson w/Cory Chisel at Exit/In. If $15 is too rich for your blood, then you can catch a miniature version of the show for free when they both play Grimey's at 2 p.m. Halcyon Birthday Race After-Party feat. DJ sets by William Tyler, Jake and Jamin Orrall, Nashville's Dead, Whit Smith and probably some others at Halcyon Bike Shop. Those Darlins w/Caitlin Rose, Six Gun Lullaby, King D & Jimmy Neutron at YEAH. Caitlin's set is exclusive to VIP ticket holders,

  December 12, 2009

• 2009: Grimey's Top Sellers and Staff Picks

  ​If you're one of the few people who actually paid for records in 2009, then you likely paid for them at Grimey's New & Preloved Music--Nashville's favorite record shop. If there's one group of geeks in this town who trump us with their music knowledge, then it's easily the staff at this beloved local establishment. Hell, Doyle Davis probably knows more about Guided by Voices than Mr. Miyagi knows about karate--Bee Thousand is the crane kick of indie-rock, BTW. This morning, Grimey's "indi

  January 4, 2010

• Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, The Dead Weather and More Chart in Pazz and Jop 2009

  Yesterday, the Village Voice's yearly Pazz and Jop poll results went live. (Remember when D.P.R. was filling out his ballot?) To the shock and amazement of this one guy who lives in Jersey, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion topped the albums chart. If you've been near an Internet in the past year, most of the Top 10 probably won't surprise you much: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear, The xx, Dirty Projectors and so forth. Meanwhile, to the mild shock and bemusement of this critic, Jay-Z's "Empi

  January 20, 2010

• 10 artists to watch in 2010

  February 4, 2010

• Ashley Monroe, Tyler Bryant, Daniel Pujol, Ya Za and More: 10 Artists to Watch in 2010 [This Week's Cover]

  Eric England​A new year means a new batch of local music, and a new cycle of ups and outs, collaborations and exeunts, daring pairings and hot new heat. To celebrate what's on the way, we dedicated this week's Scene cover story to taking a look at 10 artists to watch in 2010. Leading the Nashville charge we've got guitar wunderkind and American Bang-jangler Tyler Bryant, No. 1 hit songwriter and Brendan Benson collaborator Ashley Monroe, indie king/fever queen duo Kurt Wagner and Cortney

  February 4, 2010

• Brendan Benson at Lake Fever w/Ashley Monroe

  Raconteur Brendan Benson's Lake Fever Session is up now, featuring three songs -- including the ramblin', bluesified "On the Fence" embedded above -- that he performed with Ashley Monroe (whom Stevie Nicks apparently likened to Cinderella recently). Check 'em all out here! See also: * Large-scale commercial success is Brendan Benson's white whale * 10 Artists to Watch in 2010

  February 22, 2010