Thursday feels like the real first day of the festival, which is no surprise really, considering the fact that there are fifteen different showcases for you to choose from, or hop in between. Yes, FIFTEEN. It's enough to make your head spin, which is one of the main reasons I decided to do these showcase-by-showcase preview posts in the first place.
This is going to be a night of tough decisions no matter what your tastes in music veer towards - you've got several different brands of rock and singer-songwriter stuff to choose from. Highlights for me include the Grand Palace Showcase at the End - with The Kindergarten Circus, Hotpipes, Glossary and Hands Down Eugene; the lineup at Exit/In, which includes Dead Confederate and The Protomen; the atmospheric/electronic/slightly left of center lineup at The Anchor with Hollow Ox, Canon Blue, Timbre and The Ascent of Everest; and the in-the-round at the Bluebird Cafe, which will feature Dan Wilson (Semisonic), Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra), Daniel Tashian (The Silver Seas) and Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket). I'm a TTWS fan from way back, so the thought of running into Glen Phillips this week makes me a little giddy, to be completely honest.
And to continue being honest, I'm pretty sure I'd be thrilled to end up at any of the showcases taking place on Thursday night - it just sucks that they're all happening at the same time. But I'm pretty sure my number one pick is the lineup at The Rutledge, featuring a lot of local OTO up-and-comer favorites. The Hannah Barbarians, Altered Statesmen, Eastern Block, And the Relatives, All We Seabees and Eureka Gold are the bands comprising the bill, and you really can't go wrong with any of those acts, especially if you haven't seen some of them yet. If you're going to camp out in one place for the night, that's my recommendation to you.
The full schedule with lots (and I mean LOTS) of mp3s, after the jump.
*Just a quick note - I wasn't sure what order to put the venues in, so I decided to pair the venues that are super close to each other - Mercy & Cannery, The End & Exit/In, 12th and Porter & Lot 7, 3rd and Lindsley & The Anchor. That way it's easier to see at a glance what you can quickly hop between. The rest of the venues are in alphabetical order.
Mercy Lounge (1 Cannery Row)
SESAC Showcase
8 p.m. - Gone City (mp3: "Devil's Got My Soul")
8:45 p.m. - Brenn (mp3: "Rooms")
9:30 p.m. - Parachute Musical (mp3: "Dear Jacksonville")
10:15 p.m. - A Verse Unsung
11:00 p.m. - Mother Father (mp3: "Cascades")
11:45 p.m. - November
Cannery Ballroom (1 Cannery Row)
8:15 p.m. - Run Run Run (mp3: "2 a.m.")
9 p.m. - Destroy Destroy Destroy (mp3: "Fear of the Dark")
9:45 p.m. - The Hollywood Kills
10:30 p.m. - The Pink Spiders (mp3: "Adalae")
11:30 p.m. - Luna Halo
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The End (2219 Elliston Place)
Grand Palace Showcase
8 p.m. - Ocelots (mp3: "Fight a Tiger")
8:45 p.m. - The Kindergarten Circus (mp3: "Wu")
9:30 p.m. - Velcro Stars (mp3: "B-Side of Love")
10:15 p.m. - Hotpipes (mp3: "Brain & A Vegetable")
11:00 p.m. - Glossary (mp3: "Almsgiver")
11:45 p.m. - Hands Down Eugene (mp3: "Denise")
Exit/In (2208 Elliston Place)
8:15 p.m. - Sons of Roswell (mp3: "Through the Noise")
9:45 p.m. - The Deep Vibration
10:30 p.m. - Skyblazer
11:30 p.m. - Dead Confederate (mp3: "The Rat")
12 a.m. - The Protomen (mp3: "Breaking Out (Demo)")
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12th and Porter (114 12th Avenue North)
Music City Unsigned Showcase
8 p.m. - Dawson Wells (mp3: "We Don't Agree")
8:45 p.m. - Peter Bradley Adams (mp3: "The Longer I Run")
9:30 p.m. - Cassino
10:15 p.m. - Cory Branan (mp3:"Whiskey Grove")
11:00 p.m. - Katie Herzig (mp3: "Songbird")
11:45 p.m. - Elle Macho
Lot 7 (125 12th Avenue North)
8:15 p.m. - Perrin Lamb (mp3: "Newborn Child")
9 p.m. - Dignan
9:45 p.m. - Homer Hiccolm & The Rocket Boys (mp3: "Secrets and Numbers")
10:30 p.m. - Deas Vail (mp3: "White Lights")
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3rd and Lindsley (818 3rd Avenue South)
8 p.m. - Kat Maslich Bode (mp3: "Sky Falls")
8:45 p.m. - Jabe and the All Night Circus (mp3: "Believe")
9:30 p.m. - Amanda Shires
10:15 p.m. - 500 Miles to Memphis (mp3: "All My Friends Are Crazy")
11:00 p.m. - Eric Wilson and the Empty Hearts (mp3: "Quarterfuse")
11:45 p.m. - Wess Floyd & The Daisy Cutters (mp3: "Blood Sworn Enemies")
The Anchor (629 3rd Avenue South)
8 p.m. - Hollow Ox (mp3: "Similar Light")
8:45 p.m. - Canon Blue (mp3: "Halcyon")
9:30 p.m. - Timbre (mp3: "Bringing Meaning to Winter")
11 p.m. - The Ascent of Everest (mp3: "Molotov")
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The 5 Spot (1006 Forrest Avenue)
8:45 p.m. - Tigers Con Queso (mp3: "Ship")
9:30 p.m. - Codaphonic (mp3: "Call-In Show")
10:15 p.m. - Six Gun Lullaby
11:00 p.m. - The Titts (mp3: "My Maxine")
11:45 p.m. - Totally Snake (mp3: "Totally Snake")
The Basement (1604 8th Avenue South)
Mr. Lemons Showcase
8 p.m. - Annaliese
8:45 p.m. - Judd & Maggie (mp3: "Tired of Wrapping")
9:30 p.m. - Aaron Robinson & The Lost Verses (mp3: "The New A.M.")
10:15 p.m. - Audrey Spillman (mp3: "Fade")
11:00 p.m. - Megan McCormick
11:45 p.m. - Matthew Perryman Jones (mp3: "Waiting On the Light to Change")
The Bluebird Cafe (4104 Hillsboro Pike)
NSAI Showcase
9 p.m. - In the round, with:
Betsy Roo
Angaleena Presley
Trent Dabbs (mp3: "Sleepwell Chicago")
and Ashley Monroe
10 p.m. - In the round, with:
Dan Wilson (mp3: "Free Life")
Glen Phillips (mp3: "Return to Me")
Kevin Griffin
and Daniel Tashian
Douglas Corner (2106 8th Avenue South #A)
8 p.m. - Levi Weaver
8:45 p.m. - Bryan Cates
9:30 p.m. - Aron Wright (mp3: "Wildfire")
10:15 p.m. - Emily DeLoach (mp3: "Evidence")
11:00 p.m. - Lylas (mp3: "All the Worst Sins")
11:45 p.m. - Quote
Edgehill Studios (1201 Villa Place)
7 p.m. - Angel Snow (mp3: "Civil Things")
7:35 p.m. - McClain (mp3: "Home")
8:10 p.m. - And Then There Were 2
8:45 p.m. - Shawn Byrne
Limelight (201 Woodland Street)
Hell Ya Showcase
8 p.m. - Ashthon Jones
8:45 p.m. - Brandi Sellerz (mp3: "Music Lover")
9:30 p.m. - Darnell Levine
10:15 p.m. - Dukes of DaVille (mp3: "Swagger Like Us")
11:00 p.m. - Josiah Bell
The Rutledge (410 4th Avenue South)
8 p.m. - The Hannah Barbarians (mp3: "Black Hand")
8:45 p.m. - Altered Statesmen (mp3: "Lightning Rod")
9:30 p.m. - Eastern Block (mp3: "The Woods")
10:15 p.m. - And the Relatives (mp3: "Dixie Cups")
11:00 p.m. - All We Seabees (mp3: "Alt Country")
11:45 p.m. - Eureka Gold (mp3: "Peter Oh")
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