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Me and My Arrow: Harry Nilsson night @ Mercy Lounge TONIGHT!

If you caught this Monday's show (I'll be posting the playlist later today with some mp3s), you already know about the fantastic event going on over at the Mercy Lounge tonight, which I fully expect all of you to attend.  Me and My Arrow is both a tribute and a benefit show - a crazy number of fantastic musicians coming together to celebrate the music of Harry Nilsson, all to benefit Terry Price (from Nashville's own Oblio), who was recently diagnosed with Bell's Palsy and hit with some serious medical bills (if you didn't already know, Oblio may be the biggest Nilsson fans in town, seeing as how they're named after the boy from The Point).

So who's on this amazing bill?  The Features, Brendan Benson, Heypenny, Pico vs. Island Trees, Eureka Gold, Oblio, Jon Rogers, David Mead, James Wallace and the Naked Light, Daniel Tashian, Carl Broemel, and Marc Pisapia. Things will kick off at 9 p.m. with James Wallace, and the cover is a $10 donation that will benefit Terry Price.

See you there?

And a mini-mix of Harry Nilsson tunes, of course:

"Everybody's Talkin"
"Jesus Christ You're Tall"
"Coconut"
"Let The Good Times Roll"
"What's Your Sign"

Playlist - June 22 - Aaron Hartley of Theory 8

Have you listened to last week's show with Aaron Hartley from Theory 8 yet?  The stream is up until tonight's show airs, so get on it:

Stream the June 22 edition of Out the Other

We played all kinds of awesomeness, including a bunch of Theory 8 artists - even some new stuff from The Nobility (which is not in the playlist - oops - I'll have to update that later) and Eliza the Arrow. Check it out, and tune in tonight from 7-9 p.m.; I'll have Jon Rogers in the studio guest DJing for the two hours.

1.  The Privates - I'll Be Honest (Motion EP)
2.  Pink Mountaintops - Execution (Outside Love)
3.  Cortney Tidwell - Seventeen Horses (Boys)
4.  Dinosaur Jr. - Over It (Farm)
5.  De Novo Dahl - Make Some Sense (Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound)
6.  Phosphorescent - Walkin (To Willie)
7.  The Carter Administration - Air Guitar Force One (Air Guitar Force One)
8.  Champion and His Burning Flame - Redemption 3 (Time Closet)
9.  Caitlin Rose - Answer In One of These Bottles (Dead Flowers)
10.  The Clash - White Riot (The Clash)
11.  And the Relatives - Cowboy Jazz (Animals)
12.  Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More (Matador Singles 08)
13.  Apollo Up - No Song (Chariots of Fire)
14.  Japandroids - The Boys are Leaving Town (Post Nothing)
15.  Eliza the Arrow - Toast the Tiger (Eliza the Arrow)
16.  The Non-Commissioned Officers - You Don't Even Know Her (Make-Out With Violence)
17.  The Winter Sounds - O'Fear (Church of the Haunted South)
18.  Ladyhawke - Back of the Van (Ladyhawke)
19.  Shoot the Mountain - The Zoo (Shoot the Mountain EP)
20.  Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Shampoo (Elvis Perkins in Dearland)
21.  Caitlin Rose - Shotgun Wedding (Dead Flowers EP)

I survived my first Bonnaroo

Well... kinda.  As I write this, I'm pausing every thirty seconds or so to cough or blow my nose - because of course the nasty cold that flattened me two weeks prior to the festival made a reappearance after the beatdown I gave my immune system this past weekend.  But I count myself lucky to have made it out with just a cold, a few scratches, one giant blister and a huge and mysterious bruise on my right knee.  I haven't abused myself like this since college (or at least since SXSW - though that isn't quite on par with the endurance challenge that is four days of bands and booze and sunshine and heat and rain and mud plus three nights in a tent), and I think I did admirably well for a Bonnaroo virgin. I even succeeded in taking a shower every day - in general camping, no less. So there, Father Time. 27 isn't too old for Bonnaroo after all.

So here's a rundown of my adventures and misadventures, highlights and lowlights, 'Roo-rocking tips and favorite moments of the fest.  But no regrets - there's no room for regrets in rock and roll.

Day 1

So I'm starting to think that most of the recapping is actually going to happen after I'm safe and dry and in my own house - so far Bonnaroo is awesome but mostly rainy and muddy and ridiculous.  Rain boots = the greatest idea I have ever had in my entire life.

Highlights thus far:  MURS, The Knux, and the Passion Pit I had patience for.  Remind me not to show up to a music festival on about four hours sleep - doesn't make the first day as exciting as you would hope it would be.  Fortunately, I rocked almost eight hours of sleep last night, and despite the fact that I just heard that Phoenix's flight just got cancelled (!!! at least they have ten more hours to get here), I think today is pretty much going to be the best. 

Bonnaroo!

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Bonnaroo Preview: Santigold

This post is from Out the Other's 2009 Bonnaroo Artist Previews, where I will be posting previews of all the musical acts playing the 2009 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Please check out and subscribe to the full site to learn more about all of this year's performers.

Editor's note:  This is a guest preview from Sean Maloney (aka Bawston Sean), a frequent contributor to both the Nashville Scene and Nashville Cream. Sean can be reached via email at sean@grandpalace.us.

Generally speaking, I'm against the use of pop music in advertising. I know it's great for the writers and artist involved, financially speaking, but I also think that the licensing orgy over the last decade plus has cheapened music and contributed to the general public's disinterest in purchasing music. Call me crazy, but that's what I think. The one exception I'd make would be for Santigold and those damned Bud Lime ads – against all better judgment, I get giddy every time they come on. I can't help it, I just love Santigold, even if the beer tastes like the organic window cleaner my wife buys.

Bonnaroo Preview: Booker T and the DBTs

This post is from Out the Other's 2009 Bonnaroo Artist Previews, where I will be posting previews of all the musical acts playing the 2009 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Please check out and subscribe to the full site to learn more about all of this year's performers.

Editor's note:  This is a guest preview from Adam Nicholson, a contributor to the Deli Nashville who will be helping the local web magazine cover this year's festival.  Adam can be reached via the Deli website or at adamoeba@gmail.com.

Booker T. Jones, the legendary organist of Booker T. and the MGs fame, put out an instrumental album earlier this year in April with the Drive By Truckers and Neil Young, called Potato Hole. It is the first solo record he's released in twenty years, having spent time contributing to other artist's albums, including Neil Young's Are You Passionate?, in 2005.