Nashville’s favorite babes Those Darlins are playing this Saturday at Mercy Lounge. On top of that, Daniel Pujol, Natural Child, So Jazzy and "A Very Special Guest" will join them on the bill.

This all presented to you by Nashville’s Dead. Get there early and you can receive a free pair of blue blockers (cool, huh!).

Also, some of the ticket sales will go to help Nashville’s flood victims. Thank you to Those Darlins and the rest of the bands for their help. Now if we could just figure out this oil spil…. – Fletcher Watson

DON’T FORGET: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Nashville’s flood victims.

This Friday, Open Lot presents Junior Senior. Not the band, but a party with the same name. Remeber the La Paz Late Night parties – these are the same guys.

Locals Grass Mountain (GMTN), Fly Golden Eagle, Majestico, Secret Name and DJs Digirob, Potamus and Justin Kase will all be in effect.

Five dollars gets you in the door. There will be lights (laser and LED), music and a cash bar.

Doors open at 9pm. Bands start at 10pm.

The Deli will be there.

Grab your friends and go. – Deli Staff

DON’T FORGET: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Nashville’s Flood Victims.

There’s a little three-piece band in Nashville called Umbrella Tree, and they are good.

They are currently working on their fourth album, which is titled To The Memory Of A Once Great Man. "It is all about Napoleon," front man Zack Gresham told me. "Lots of 505 through a Space Echo. Pretty effin cool."

I highly recommend this band. Their albums are always well crafted, and their live performances are authentic and genuine. One gets the feeling that Umbrella Tree embodies the spirit of the late 1800s, the style and grandeur of the early part of the 1900s and the technology of the modern age.

What’s more, Zack tells me that, "since the new stuff is so beat-y and dance-y, we will be posting the vocals and solos and such for remixers and their ilk to download."

Albums, What Kind Of Books Do You Read and The Letter C, released in 2006 and 2009 respectively, are also outstanding. Check them out before their new album drops this summer.

Their website, www.umbrellatreeband.com, is up and running, but the official launch date is set for the near future. Go ahead, click on it. You’ll like them. – Fletcher Watson

DON’T FORGET: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Nashville’s flood victims.

CY got a myspace!

Tonight at The End, Texans Harlem are playing with Nashvillians Heavy Cream and CY! Picture above in honor of his newly acquired myspace account. Go check them out tonight. – Deli Staff

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Hans Condor Flood Benefit show at Foobar TOO (right next to Foobar) this Thursday at 7pm with STALLION, Slick, Those Damn Torpedos, Dr. Asimov! Donations Accepted. Thanks Foobar!

Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to help Nashville’s Flood Victims.

Check out Cheer Up Charlie Daniel’s new video, too! Thanks O’Neil!

Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Nashville’s Flood Victims.

Look What I Did (LWID) is back with a third music video from their recently released full-length album Atlas Drugged, produced by Brian Virtue (Jane’s Addiction, Chevelle, Horse the Band) and released on Modernist Movement Recordings. The video is for "Serf Song" and features Miss Stevie Bailey from Christine (Supernova Records – Steve Austin from Today Is the Day’s label) who also contributed vocals to the track. The video was produced and directed by Nick "Dune" Baydoun from Cake or Death Productions (above photo) and is a spoof on both the MK ULTRA mind-control project and pharmaceutical drug commercials. – Jesse Baker

Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to Nashville’s Flood Victims.

There is no better remedy to a natural disaster than a lil’ Space Capone, and judging by the line for the flood benefit at the Mercy Lounge Friday night, I think the rest of Nashville would agree. 

"This is going to be the biggest Space Capone show ever," sax player Jody Douglas informed me as we walked in, and sure enough a packed house of eager dancers greeted us behind a cloud of fog and LED lights for the group’s CD release, entitled Volume II: Arrival, Arousal. 

While waiting for the Space to take off, we were fortunate enough to be seduced by special guest Mikky Ekko. With his face painted similar to that of Beck’s on his Sea Change album cover, Ekko stood gracefully on stage caressing us all with his beautifully flawless voice.

With a tone as pure and haunting as Jonsi from Sigur Ros, and musical breakdowns that could rival Radiohead, seeing Mikky Ekko is nothing short of a transcendental experience. To get a better understanding of his alternative music listen to the track "Sedated" from his latest album Strange Fruit.

In case you’ve never had the privilege of hearing Space Capone, allow me to throw some adjectives at you: super tasty funkadelic tickle music, or how about, flamboyant golden soul tunes. At least, this is what bass player Drew Wilson and his rhythm partner, D.D. Holt will tell you.

Space Capone plays some of the funkiest tunes in town, and if your motto is "I just wanna dance," then I suggest you allow the group to take you in with their ’70s grooves and stage presence to match. The Mercy Lounge was hardly recognizable on Friday night, with a light show and accompanying fog machine that succeeded in creating the pefect atmosphere for their dance-induced songs.

While front man Aaron Winters (aka Space Capone) never goes without his retro garb and tinted shades, the entire group rocked a custom made Space Capone outfit, complete with wings and space-inspired  Boy Scout patches. They’ve really got it all: smooth R&B vocals, a vibrant horn section, tasteful guitar playing and a tight rhythm section to seal the deal. Needless to say, their energy is unbeatable.

"I’m ready for two more hours," said trumpet player Mikie Martel after the show, and after a double encoure I think it’s safe to assume that the crowd would have stuck around until morning. If you didn’t get a chance to catch their album release, then pick up a copy and be sure to listen to "Booty" and "Major Kat." Don’t worry, there is plenty of funk to go around; these cats just keep getting better. – Mackenzie Grosser

Text REDCROSS to 90999 for a $10 donation to Nashville’s flood victims, and keep up the support by going to Flood Benefit shows. Keep your head up, Nashville.

Since signing with Reach Out International Records, (or ROIR, label home to G.G. Allin, Bad Brains, MC5 and many others), Nashville garage-punk hustlers Bad Cop have been pounding the pavement taking their sporadic brand of youth-infused rock ‘n roll to as many cities as possible, giving them ample amounts of time to meet and collaborate with artists from around the country. This split tape precedes the band’s ROIR record’s debut, Harvest the Beast, due out this spring, and it opens with The Hussy.

This guy-girl duo out of Madison, WI effectively transmits a huge sound capable of referencing the purest dirty punk rock, stomp-inducing beats, and that classic guy-girl back and forth, tweaked to exude a maturity slightly unexpected, given the length of the songs and the tangible piss-and-vinegar element behind them.

Not one of The Hussy’s tracks on this particular outing lasts even a full minute and a half. The opener, "On The Cover," is the longest, clocking in at 1:29. The brevity, however, doesn’t stop The Hussy from cranking some impressive, trashy punk rock to make you move.

The Bad Cop side starts with two slightly logner tracks, "Daylight" and "Ready To Die," and the time-appropriate "Surf Song." The first two demonstrate a broad palette from the guys, offering an overall dark-toned vocal over music that constantly builds to a frenetic explosion of sorts, sometimes taking on the tone of classic troublemakers The Stooges, and, at times, more reflective of the moody psychedelic made famous by bands like The Doors.

"Ready To Die" opens with a trance-esque track reminiscent of Radiohead, evolving spastically into a textured vocals and rapidly ascending and descending guitar. It takes its time to build into a straightforward garage-rock inspired message of "I’ll have no fear when the end is here."

All in all this split serves as an awesome soundtrack to the summer – a lot of pleasant surprises and a diverse sound across the board. You can pick this split up courtesy of Bad Cop singer Adam Moult’s recently launched label Jeffery Drag Records NOW, or by emailing either adammoult@yahoo.com or jefferydragrecs@yahoo.com. They are limited to 200 copies, so get moving! –Jesse Baker

Don’t forget, Nashville, text REDCROSS to 90999 for a $10 donation to help flood victims in our city.

Flood Benefit shows are a great way to support bands and the thousands of Nashvillians who were devastated by last week’s catastrophe. Just last night, Space Capone put on a stellar performance, and all the profits went to help those in need. Big thanks to them.

Tomorrow night Rocketown is hosting another benefit show. Girls Riders Organization, as well as Nashville faves Daniel Pujol, Heavy Cream, and up-and-comers So Jazzy, Ben Stein’s Money and more will be making an appearance. Please support these bands, thereby supporting Nashville during this time of crisis. Thanks to all of these bands and everyone who was involved with creating this event. It’s a huge help!

And don’t forget: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. – Deli Staff

In Conestyle’s inaugural CD Organizer there are all sorts of sweet surprises. Upon first listen to the 6-track collection you’ll find a diverse and all-encompassing sound comprised of melody-driven keyboards by David Camp and frantic, unorthodox beats by drummer Weston Sparks. The record begins with "Still Des Kegels," a sample-based intro serving as an example of Conestyle’s ambient side. This easing-in process is followed by the thunderous "Conestyle," an extremely driving, fist-pumpable track. Heavily syncopated relationships between the keys and drums, covered by what sound like the shrieks of a man whose life is flashing before his eyes, flavor the title track, setting a tone for the rest of the album. 

"Shamrock Syndrome" is a fast paced number in the middle of the album, boosting it forward into "Preemptive Karma," which has elements of an 8-bit video game soundtrack matched over splashy blanketing drums that keep the pace of the song fast and the feel somewhat sporadic.

"No Go" starts with a disco-oriented beat, building at times to explosive blasts that dissolve back into the original dance-ish groove of the song, proving a capability on behalf of Conestyle to use their minimal setup not only to create ambient punk rock, but also to push out highly danceable beats. 

The EP closer "Tunguska Event" sounds at times like a funeral arrangement set to drums, with an extremely hooky melody that evolves into a somewhat prog-inspired section, ultimately signing off with an eerie keyboard solo.

As a whole, Organize is an extremely impressive offering. At times it sounds like the fully arranged sountrack to Bjork on an LSD trip. The record holds your interest from start to finish, indicative of future awesomeness.

Pick it up at Conestyle’s shows, or contact Conestyle via their myspace. – Jesse Baker

Here’s a look at the Grand Ole Opy House in our beloved Nashville, TN. Notice anything? It’s utterly destroyed by flood waters, which not only ravaged the Opry House but the entire downtown area and surrounding communities. Over a billion dollars of damage, nearly 20 deaths and a broken spirit are among a few of the devastating side effects caused by the storm that sat above Middle Tennessee for two and a half straight days. To give you an idea of how torrential the downpour was, Nashville received over 25% of its YEARLY rainfall in TWO DAYS. They are calling it the 500 year flood.

Because of this the site has been out of commission for a few days, so, though it is through no fault of our own, we apologize for a lack of content the past few days. But, as you can see, times are hard right now, so please bare with us. 

If you can, please visit the Red Cross for details about how you can help, or text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

That being said, tonight Mercy Lounge is hosting a benefit concert for Nashville where all the profits will be donated to Hands On Nashville.

Go – it should be a good way to get your mind off the devastation as well as way to help out for a good cause.

Keep your head up, Nashville. – Deli Staff