Subject: Chris Crofton

• Tonight, Tonight, Tonight: What to Do?

  July 11, 2008

• Beware, Bedazzler Thief

  July 15, 2008

• The Spin: Tom Waits Tribute Night at The Basement

  Photo by Steve Cross. For more photos, see the slideshow. Our sources tell us that a packed crowd gathered for The Basement's "Get Behind a Mule" Tom Waits tribute, eager to see early acts like songwriter David Olney. Nevertheless, the time The Spin arrived--certainly not "late," but at a suitably festive and convivial hour--the crowd was sedate and moderately sized. For those who did remain (they included a preponderance of dudes in hats), there was good stuff to come. The first band we sa

  December 8, 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

• The Nashville Nightlife Awards Are...Back?

  So the biggest local music-related awards of the, um...month are back yet again. OK. I admit I'd never heard of these things until about a week ago. But that doesn't mean we can't stuff the ballot box with votes for Chris Crofton! The official Nashville Nightlife Awards ceremony is scheduled for Feb. 27 at Mercy Lounge and will feature performances from Crofton, Heypenny, AutoVaughn and some others. According to their MySpace page, the awards are "brought to you by Vibe Agency, Movement Nashvil

  February 18, 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

• A Christmas Gift Especially for You

  December 18, 2008

• Glossary, Wes Floyd and the Daisycutters, Oliver Dodd, Korean Is Asian, Chris Crofton, Ballhog and more

  December 11, 2008

• Chicken-Fried Country

  November 27, 2008

• Beer and Loathing in Nash Vegas

  November 20, 2008

• The Spin

  July 17, 2008

• The Spin

  January 17, 2008

• Rock ’n’ Roll Christmas

  November 15, 2007

• The Spin

  June 28, 2007

• The Spin

  June 7, 2007

• The Spin

  November 30, 2006

• The Spin

  October 5, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  Mable John, Saturday 8th

  July 6, 2006

• Episode 36

  July 6, 2006

• The Spin

  March 23, 2006

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  February 9, 2006

• The Spin

  November 10, 2005

• A Face in the Crowd

  August 11, 2005

• Record Store Day: An Awesome Excuse for Kitteh Videos

  First of all, watch the video above 'cuz it's got an adorable kitten trapped on a Technics 1200--maybe the greatest combination of nature and technology ever captured in flash video. Secondly, this Saturday is Record Store Day! Woo-hooooo!!! Live music, nerdy vinyl and beer! Record Shopping! Food! Beer! I'm too excited! To form complete sentences! Kittehs on turntables! Show details in fragmentary phrases after the jump...

  April 16, 2009

• Weekend Update

  February 5, 2004

• The Strokes ♦ Friday, 11/23

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  November 22, 2001

• The Anvil Experience, Camera Obscura & More: Inside This Week's Music Section

  Metal on Metal: You could say Anvil are everything Metallica are not. (Playing Saturday, 23rd at The Belcourt, after the 7 p.m. screening of Anvil! The Story of Anvil.) Another Brick in the Wall: Things are looking up for Camera Obscura on My Maudlin Career. (Playing Wednesday, 27th at Mercy Lounge.) Veteran First-Timer: God Don't Never Change marks a new home for Ashley Cleveland. (Playing Sunday, 24th at 3rd & Lindsley.) Virgin Spring: World premieres, unfamiliar works exemplify the Alias e

  May 21, 2009

• The Anvil Experience, Chris Crofton and the Alcohol Stuntband and more (Live Reviews)

  May 28, 2009

• Moustache May, Air Guitar and More: Inside This Week's Music Section

  Eric EnglandThe Eades of MayLip Service: Moustache May celebrates music, manliness and the oft-misunderstood cookie duster. (Moustache May '09 Celebration feat. Ghostfinger, And the Relatives & Uncle Skeleton, Saturday, 30th at Mercy Lounge.) Shot Through the Heart: Bows and Arrows get a lot of things right on their latest, 1010 Eaton Street. (Playing Monday, 1st at The End w/Au Revoir Simone, The Antlers & Deleted Scenes.) Actual Air: At the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, faking it is the onl

  May 28, 2009

• Music That'll Make You Cream: The '70s

  July 9, 2009

• Nashville Cream 8 off 8th: '80s Night

  July 16, 2009

• Initial Lineup and Information for Next Big Nashville 2009

  Last week was a mixture of celebration and heartache for local rock musicians as acceptance and rejection emails for this year's NBN festival were sent to bands across Middle Tennessee. While festival organizers are still nailing down the final lineup they have released a preliminary list of who we can expect to see at this year's best weekend of local music. Tickets for individual nights as well as wristbands and VIP badges are currently on sale at TicketsNashville.com. Wristbands and badges

  August 24, 2009

• Just Plain Folks Music Awards at Wildhorse

  August 27, 2009

• Greg and Chris Crofton's 'Best of Bread' Threatened to Be Pulled From WRVU

  Steve CrossHalf of Best of Bread, Chris CroftonI know I won't be alone in expressing the following sentiment: Greg and Chris Crofton's Thursday morning radio show Best of Bread is easily one of, if not THE, most entertaining bits of programming ever broadcast on Vanderbilt's WRVU. The monotony of too many over-caffeinated Thursday mornings has been busted up by the fraternal ranting of the Croftons. Whether it's a diatribe on the merits of John Denver, a tirade against the absurdity of hipster c

  September 3, 2009

• After four years, Chris and Greg Crofton's WRVU show "Best of Bread" is toast

  September 17, 2009

• Tallest Trees: Free Download, Free Show

  Hey, Tallest Trees has a bunch of music you can download for free! You just click on these letters and you are magically transported to their netspace. The EP is called Hey There Little Nebula. (Thanks to WOTT for the heads-up on that.) I've had about six different people tell me in the last couple weeks that TT are their new favorite Nashville band, and I'm not saying that just because they're playing at the free, totally awesome Hallo-Cream party at Mercy Lounge this Friday with Matt Friction

  October 26, 2009

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show Episode 1, Hosted at Nashville Cream

  ​As debatably the first casualty of The Great WRVU Radio Debacle of '09, The Best of Bread found itself homeless just weeks ago. Hosts Chris and Greg Crofton--despite claims that at least Chris is technologically inept--are relatively resourceful gentlemen (I use the word loosely), and now they've found themselves a new broadpodcasting platform. Joe Baine Colvert and the other folks over at Lake Fever Productions (the same fellas responsible for bringing us those ever-popular Lake Fever Se

  November 13, 2009

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 2

  ​We take a break now from bringing you our typical "insults to bands" in order to provide you with a Crofton-style "education." The Brothers Crofton--there are three of them this time--are bringing us the latest episode of The Chris Crofton Show from the beach. At least partially. We're hosting this week's episode via our art director's website, and we're not exactly certain how much traffic it can handle. If you encounter any problems, let us know. But we think you'll be able to tune in j

  November 20, 2009

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 3

  ​This week's episode comes to us a couple of days early, what with the impending holiday and all. Have a listen to this week's very special Thanksgiving episode of The Chris Crofton Show presented by Lake Fever--you'll find it in in MP3 podcast format below. This one features all sorts of Indian-style cornfield antics, involuntary time travel, miraculous hair re-growth, pilgrim firearms, Hawaiian turkey talk, Pete Wilson hatchet burying and more. Get stoked on this bizarro holiday business

  November 25, 2009

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 4

  ​Those of you who tuned in for last week's episode of The Chris Crofton Show might recall technical issues regarding the Croftons playing a clip of Evel Knievel slapping a little child in the head. This week the issues have been corrected, and you can hear the clip--and said slap--loud and clear. The episode goes on from there, but I don't want to ruin anything for you. I will say that pilgrims, as it turns out, never really had blunderbusses, and Hank Williams Jr. once got his mind-dome w

  December 4, 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

• Rock 'n' Roll Poll 2009 : The local rock scene on the local rock scene

  December 17, 2009

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 6

  ​We're bringing you this week's episode of The Chris Crofton Show bright and early, so go ahead and start baking that mind dome of yours out with a hearty dose of the sweet Georgia Brown. This one features loads of KISS talk, a call from both of the Crofton parents, Joe Baine Colvert admitting his role as the daddy of local rock, and even a cameo from the Cream. Yes, we called in. Yes, my haircut would look funny on a rapper, and yes, we enjoy Big League Chew as we cower in our cubicles he

  December 18, 2009

• Chris Crofton's "Kingdom Come" Stand-Up at The Basement

  January 21, 2010

• Weekend Round-Up: Unseasonably Warm Style

  In the summer they call him "Bronze" instead of "Gold."​How 'bout this weather we're having? Srsly!? Anyhow, our lovely and talented art director Elizabeth Jones recommended that we start combining all of the weekend's listings and putting them up first thing Friday as one big post. She claims that this will help "old people" such as her 27-year-old self better map out their weekends. What do you think? Better? Worse? Do you care? Is anyone reading? Whatever. This weekend looks mighty, mi

  January 22, 2010

• Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 9

  ​Live from some God-forsaken fair/carnival, it's the latest episode of The Chris Crofton Show. Hey, did you know Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show are headlining all three nights at Coachella? Wait ... that doesn't sound right. Well, did you know that Thom Yorke is knee-high to a grasshopper? Did you know that one out of every 10 children is a murderer? Anyway, this episode visits the whole "Is Muse big?" question, the meanness of George Stephanopoulos, some shit about "Pants on the Ground" a

  January 22, 2010

• Chris Crofton's 'Kingdom Come' Stand-Up at The Basement, 1/22/2010

  ​Avid readers of The Spin may find themselves asking just how in the hell we managed to be at both The End and The Basement on Friday night. We'll tell you how: We're the gawdamn Spin, that's how. So don't worry about it. We showed up at The Basement just in time to catch an attentive audience checking out all-new material from familiar local garage-rock faves The Clutters, and their set -- raucous as ever -- did not disappoint. We tried our best to take in a smoke on the patio among a

  January 25, 2010

• Neil Hamburger, Tom Green, Chris Crofton and Daiquiri at The End, 2/1/2010

  ​Reviewing stand-up comedy isn't normally part of The Spin's job description, but given the slew of shows canceled by this weekend's whiteout, we were forced to improvise. If Mother Nature doesn't want us to rock, then we'll have to laugh instead. So we headed over to The End last night to catch Neil Hamburger. The thing is, we would've been idiots to miss this show. Anyone who writes a joke like, "Why did the Red Hot Chili Peppers go under the bridge? Because there was a plate of shit the

  February 2, 2010

• Neil Hamburger, Chris Crofton, Times New Viking and more

  February 4, 2010

• Weekend Round-Up: Spring Chicken Style

  ​Hey, it's gonna be spring this weekend! Like, real, sunny, warm, nice springy spring. Like, pretty soon it's gonna be so damn hot all the time people can complain about that instead of complaining about how cold/rainy/snowy/wintry-mixy/cloudy/mild it is! Now, I'm not the Photoshop ace that D. Patrizio is, and I'd also rather not start my day by cutting Gold's head out of a Facebook pic and pasting it on a baby chick emerging from a golden egg. Not that I thought of doing that or anythin

  March 19, 2010