It’s Thursday, meaning that Palaver Records has its weekly showcase at fooBar too. We’ve come to trust in the label’s consistent ability to curate an entertaining lineup of local and touring acts week after week to the point that we will scope out the bands even if we can’t make it to the show. This has lead our attention to Nashville quartet Ambrose Way. A listen to the track "She Walks Alone" shows a keen handle on vocal harmonies rivaling The Beach Boys. Their style is wrought with acoustic guitars, their introspective meanderings puncuated by ocassional banjo or piano. Think The Shins or Dodos goofing off and channeling Simon and Garfunkel. We’re keeping these guys on deck for when the winter weather gets gnarly and we need to hear something that reminds us of spring. -Terra James-Jura

With stark red and black imagery, a section of their website dedicated to propaghanda posters, and the tagline of "Enjoy state approved music," Brezhnev Society might come across as slightly different than many of their electronica bretheren. The duo of Todd Mark Evans and Jason Halbert have put together two tracks so far with the underlying concept of imagining the turn music would have taken had the Cold War’s outcome swung in another direction. What comes of this is a brand of Euro-pop fueled by dreams of revolution. We tend to shy away from posting lyric videos, but we love how competely the Brezhnev Society communicates their aesthetic for "Make Up Our Minds." сделать! Хорошо citizen! -Terra James-Jura

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We’re happy to announce The Ignorist as our newest Artist of the Month. The band hing out in the rear until mid-poll, when a surge of votes bimped them up into the lead and kept them there. We’re thrilled to have them gracing the top of our little blog, so that anyone that ventures to click on the header will be similarly transported back to 1995. The Ignorist, though a generation or two behind, are dead ringers for the whole lo-fi college scene. We love the scewing guitars on their album "There is No Vacancy." We can’t wait to hear more from these gentlemen, and we’re going to use this blog as a platform to demand that they play out so we can buy them a beer. –Terra James-Jura

 We hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday; our fingers may be cramped from our so-called "team-building" retreat that consisted of hours and hours of updating our local charts with the rest of the Deli editors, punctuated by the random "unifying" exercises like nature hikes or painting our Editor-in-Chief’s house. But anyway, we’re happy to be back, and we’re looking forward to this show: Blue Matches at Exit/In this Saturday. 

We love these guys not just because they won our Artist of the Month poll a while back, but also because of frontwoman Michelle Marston’s formidable pipe’s and the fact that this band has more hustle than a 5th grade basketball team that no one thought would make it to the playoffs. This Saturday looks like a solid indie-punk lineup, with other faves The Daily Howl, Case Study and The Notion rounding out the bill. Here’s the second track from Blue Matches recent album starting over to get you amped for the weekend. -Terra James-Jura

A band has to be good when their name makes you giggle a tiny bit. Beef Oven is fairly new on the scene, having released their 6-track EP "Gimme the Blood" just this past June. Recorded by none other than Ben Spinks (of Supermelt fame), the EP grinds out some fuzzed-to-the-max jams with just the barest trace of blues and surf. Beef Oven is among the lineup for the second edition of 2 Jung 2 Dye’s Book Swap this Wednesday night (aka Thanksgiving Eve.) Phantom Farmer and Shoot the Mountain round out the bill; bring a book that you would like to share with a total stranger in hopes that it will bring the same joy into their life as it did your. Wednesday’s show starts at 8pm at The East Room. Dig our favorite track off "Gimme the Blood" to get in the spirit. -Terra James-Jura

Hotel War dropped this little nugget last week: the official video for their single "Devil’s Breath." The song is off their EP "Nashville Nights," released earlier this month. The video plays out like a grainy, kung-fu B-movie, with the band gallantly saving an innocent woman from the clutches of some sort of Hell’s Angels Don (they drive home the point that: goatee + pony tail = clearly up to no good.) The fight choreography is shit, but the song is great. Actually, the whole EP is one wallop of screeching rock and roll, and definitely worth a listen (check it out HERE.) The trio are already back in the studio cooking up their next batch of badassery, and will be appearing on December 19th for The Stone Fox’s 3rd Annual Christmas Caroling Show. -Terra James-Jura

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October 14th marked the release of Fly Golden Eagle’s "Quartz," a 26-track odyssey inspired by 1973 art-flick "Holy Mountain." A month later, after an LA release and an epic fall tour they brought it home to Nashville. The Deli caught the last show in a weekend full of performances, a stacked lineup including Faux Ferocious, Chrome Pony, and Clear Plastic Masks put on at Meth Dad HQ Queen Art Collective. Read more about the evening by clicking HERE, and listen to the scaled-down, stand-alone accompanying Fly Golden Eagle release "Quartz Bijou" below.

We highly recommend heading out to The Stone Fox tonight to catch this lineup: Kelly Ruth, Dustin Sellers and Kylie Rothfield. These three artists boast distinctly different styles, but when taking into account their healthy respect for classics, the evening comes together as a cohesive whole. We’re always tickled when there’s an underlying un-or-intentional theme. The show tonight starts at 8pm, and cover is $5.

Kelly Ruth channels a 1940’s-jazz-chanteuse-via-Jenny-Lewis in her indie-folk tunes. It’s always a question whether she will break out her upright bass during a show, but intelligent songwriting and poignant lyrics are never a variable.  Ruth recieved a ton of buzz around her interpretation of "Monster Mash," a video created to help promote epic Halloween party Monster Bash 2014, in which she sings really well and murders a few Nashville friends.

Dustin Sellers carries on the retro tradition of his other project The Magnolia Sons, hitting the stage with a group of American Bandstand-ready musicians. He the counters skinny ties and homages to soul greats with a hefty dose of folk and alternative to his music, ending up at an intersection of some unlikely roads that totally mesh thanks to his studied songwriting. Sellers is working on a second full-length album with a tenative December release date.

Kylie Rothfield interprets American blues in the school of Stevie Ray Vaghan with a Adele filter. The 22-year-old is already a salty road dog since her graduation from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, with a few national and one internatinoal tours already under her belt. She’s putting the finishing touches on a brand new single, but for right now we’re charmed by the walk she takes up and down the fretboard on her song "Cold in My Soul."

We caught Bones Owens by chance in March at The End. We were there to see the band before, and figured we’d stick around a little to check out the next guy. We could always bounce if he sucked. What we heard left us gobsmacked. Owens and his band whipped through a set of beautifully hewn, strikingly sad, alt-country twinged songs that gave us the same sort of shivers we’d probably have gotten if it were fourteen years ago and we were watching Ryan Adam’s try out some tunes from his new solo album. Since then we always managed to miss the scant handful of shows he played around Nashville, and Owen’s appeared to be pretty busy as a touring musician for Yelawolf. So imagine our surprise when this 5-song EP "Hurt No One" was quietly released a few days ago with a brief message and some thanks to its many contributors. We’re so glad that it wasn’t a fluke that we witnessed back in the spring. Do yourself a favor and throw the man five bones (c’mon folks, you knew it was coming) and download the EP from iTunes. -Terra James-Jura

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Congratulations to The House United for sweeping this month’s poll with 54% of the vote. The pop punk outfit owes their origin to teenaged, Alaska-born frontwoman Carmel Buckingham, who arrived in Nashville from a childhood spent in Slovakia and promptly assembled a band of Belmont students. The group draws influence from My Chemical Romance and Switchfoot, and crafts some pretty sharp, tight numbers that show a sophistication beyond their collective years. The title track of their spring-released EP, "Made of Matches" is a prime example of this finesse. The House United just had a killer show at The Rutledge on November 7th; keep up with their future dates HERE. -Terra James-Jura

We’ve been listening to Alamo Black’s second EP, "Stormy Weather" since we saw the band amongst the offerings tonight for Palaver Thursday at fooBar. Code for the musical undertakings of one man, Nathan Rorabaugh, Alamo Black has us really pleased with his mashup of big, gnashing Pavement-y guitars and bass and higher meanders into minor keys a la Led Zeppelin. Title track "Stormy Weather" is a bit more of the former, and sails along with all of the satisfaction of a pop-punk tune without the annoying side effects of angst or Vans sneakers. If you’re as prone to intense, immediate musical infatuations as we are, this song should be enough to get you out to see Rorabagh and his band at 2511 Gallatin Pike tonight! -Terra James-Jura

It took us a second to finally catch Adia Victoria live to form our own opinion to the name we had seen repeatedly on all matter of media. Did we maybe wish everyone was wrong just because we harbor a secret contrarian streak? Maybe, but don’t tell us what you think we think. What happened at the Stone Fox earlier this fall was exactly what one would assume: she bowled us over with her live show. We were drawn in but held at arm’s length with her breathy, measured drawl and tense energy as she let her songs unfold, as uncomfortable but completely natural as a muggy Tennessee afternoon. It was also the first time to hear her catalog aside from her debut single, "Stuck in the South." Now we’re excited to hear that Ms. Victoria will taking her show on the road this January. There are two week’s worth of dates booked for her tour, with more due to be announced. We can’t wait to for the rest of the country to get this particular taste of Nashville. You can get your own lick at 3rd and Lindsley November 30th, where she performs with All Them Witches. -Terra James-Jura