Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - I Was Never There Mix

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I am reasonable certain that late teens early 20s me did not give a whole lot of thought to what I would be doing 25-30 years later. I'm pretty sure, though, that that kid would be surprised to find out that I was going to ride a bus to Franklin, Tennessee to watch Webb Wilder, Bill Lloyd, Warner Hodges, and Government Cheese, and that I would be able to drink free beer on that bus. Not to mention that the whole show was going to be broadcast to the whole world over something called the Internet.  I'm not even sure what part of that would be most surprising... Nevertheless, that is what I will be doing - riding the Blackstone Bus to Music City Roots to see some true living legends who I have been listening to and watching for over half my life. It's gonna be good.  http://musiccityroots.com/  - Tune in at 7:00pm Central Time and click the Watch Live button.

Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Slow Drive Mix

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Okay... I'm tired - physically and emotionally drained, but I got a shuffle and it's a good one... so  let's do this thing!

Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Rock Light Drive Mix

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Short on time today  - The Shuffle is after the JUMP

Good stuff follows!

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Adaptation Mix

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Here at E2TG we are all about adapting to circumstances beyond our control. Most of our best ideas were born out of necessity...

With my earphones still on the fritz (although I'm suspecting it may be the earphone jack - which would suck since I'm just 10 months or so into a two year contract...), I decided to make some changes.

The first part of today's mix came from a drive across town I took last night while the second part is from this morning's commute.  It all washes out, and we have 12 great songs for your enjoyment and edutainment.

Last Chance to Vote - Band of the Month - October

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It's that time!  I will probably be out trick or treating or something so this may very well be your last reminder.  With less than 8 hours to go - we present the TOP 4 so far - Band of the Month for October will be revealed tomorrow morning:

Here is the place to VOTE!


Currently in 4th place is Valued Customer from Toronto.

In 3rd place is Bad Cop from Nashville.

In 2nd place are The Foresters from Bethany, CT.

And currently in 1st place going into the home stretch is Black Jake and the Carnies from Ypsilanti, MI...

Go to the poll to see all the Featured Artists...

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Ear to the Ground Voter Guide - October 2012

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With just over a week to go, you may still be unsure which of our awesome Featured Artists to vote for in the Band of the Month poll.  While, we try to stay neutral on this important decision (the whole point of letting readers vote is that we are too codependent to make a decision ourselves), we do have some valuable and  not so valuable information to share which may just make your decision easier.

Reasons to vote for...

45 Spider: 1.

      
2.  Cleveland Rocks!
3.  This is your band if you dig turbo charged, high-energy, fun rock n' roll.


 Bad Cop:  1.  They are at the forefront of a renaissance of Nashville Rock n' Roll that is garnering national headlines.

2.  To my knowledge, they have no official association with the ABC series Nashville.

3.  They are your band if you dig rock music with a fuzzy undertone, and because "Wet Lips" just plain Rules!

Black Jake and the Carnies: 1.  Your mom warned you about trusting the carnies, but she never said you shouldn't listen to their music.

2.  They are from Ypsilanti, MI and play Crabgrass music. You need more?

3.  They are your band if you dig murder ballads played in a old-time string band style at a punk rock, break-neck pace.  Prepare to move your feet!

Brennen Leigh: 1. She is a true Texas songbird whose music has a timeless quality.

2.  At the Americana fest, she sang a duet with the fabulous John Scott Sherrill. 

3.  She is your artist if you dig beautiful vocals set to amazing sounding country/bluegrass sounds.

Forest Mountain Hymnal: 1.  Rebecca and Jonathan are incredible people who financed their wedding in part by busking on the streets of Nashville. 

2.  They play brilliant versions of traditional and traditional sounding folk tunes and made a record perfect for Halloween.

3.  They are your band if you dig well-grounded, earthy and organic folk music and arent' afraid to take it to the streets.

The Foresters:  1.  Writing about them and a few other bands has finally allowed me to learn to spell Kahnettykut - wait, is that not right? Shoot!

2.  If they Rock this hard now, wait until they hit those teen angst years... 

3.  They are your band if you dig melodic, pop-punk music played with energy and heart.

Pigeon Park: 1. They are from British Columbia which is in Canada not in Central America like I thought... :-/

2.  Cause Pigeons are Bert from Sesame Street's favorite bird.

3.  They are your band if you dig big, bluesy rock music made to fill arenas.

S3X: 1.  It's fun hearing the words Salt Lake City and Punkcore in the same sentence.

2.  S3X... I mean come on!

3.  They are your band if you dig aggressive, fast, loud music with a melodic streak played with verve and passion.

Tim Lee 3:  1. They've been a part of the fantastic Couch by Couchwest Festival. 

2.  They like barbeque - pulled pork baby!

3.  They are your band if you dig wild, bluesy, rootsy southern rock n' roll the way it was meant to be played.

Valued Customer: 1.  They are most likely the coolest, weirdest band I've ever heard.

2.  Patrick Power sometimes wears a tie and plays Afro-Latin Polka...?????!!!!!!

3.  They are your band if you dig experimental hip-hop with a twisted sense of humor and a sick mellow groove.

There you have it.  You are now informed so vote:




















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News: Jeffrey Drag Records Joins Frenchkiss Label Group Roster

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10.22.2012

Indie Nashville Imprint Signs Exciting New Deal With Esteemed Distributor

There must be something in the water down in Nashville that has lead to the recent rise in buzzing talent in Tennessee’s “Music City.” One of the best examples of this is Jeffery Drag Records, a young label that has consistently released quality, southern-fried jams for the last three years. What began as a vessel for co-founders Adam Moult and Mike Gicz to release cassettes for their band Bad Cop has expanded to include Natural Child, Useless Eaters, Turbo Fruits, and Pujol.  And now, Jeffery Drag has signed a distribution deal with the highly coveted Frenchkiss Label Group (FKLG). Frenchkiss creator Syd Butler feels that JDR will be a welcome addition to his company’s roster. “We're incredibly excited to have Jeffery Drag coming aboard the Frenchkiss family and to see them grow as a label as they continue to put out a steady stream of extremely high-energy rock records,” says Syd. In joining with the FKLG, Jeffery Drag will gain a worldwide digital retail presence, a team of seasoned industry veterans who will help them expand their label's business as well as roster, and a family of labels that will support and nurture the JDR team. The recently executed deal will position Jeffery Drag Records within the Frenchkiss Label Group family of independent labels. FKLG specializes in a “handshake mentality” when it comes to music distribution, emphasizing the nurturing and connecting of label communities in order to grow an imprint’s visibility. This professional ideology, coupled with their recent partnership with The Orchard, gives Frenchkiss a solid and experienced foundation that aims at delivering and streamlining distribution.

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Band of the Month Polls are Open

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October Featured Artists - Check in

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 So... we are ten days into October and I thought it would be a good time to check in with our Featured Artists via various Internet portals.

45 Spider - 

1. An Upcoming Show

2.  A video for the season

3. A recent Facebook Like - Heavy Rebel Weekender


Bad Cop - 

1. Now on Tour

 2. Cool Song Usage


3. A Recent Facebook Like: Smoke DZA


Black Jake and the Carnies - 

 1.  Upcoming Show



















2.  A cool cover  (UPDATE TO BETTER VIDEO)

3.  Recent Facebook Like: Lindsay Lou



 Brennen Leigh - 

1. Show Tonight (Austin Texas at the Broken Spoke - Details) (Uses Bandsintown App)


2.  An interview with Brennen





3. A cool quote about Brennen:
 "Brennen brings that... fearlessness, that willingness to do whatever needs to be done to get the song across, to her writing. At turns, tender, violent, sentimental, foolish and wise, she is always Brennen. Confident and at ease with herself, without being a jerk about it."
-David Olney

Forest Mountain Hymnal - 

1.  A new song!

2. A seasonal song

 

3. A Recent Facebook Like:  Lightning 100

The Foresters - 

1.  Big Opportunity

Help The Foresters open for Sum 41 - 5 Stars a day!

2. The Submission Video

3.  Recent Facebook Like: Mark Mulcahy

Pigeon Park - 

1.  Upcoming Show:  

2.  A Pigeon Park Video:

3.  Recent Facebook Like: Whoa! She's a Babe

S3X - 

1.  The Music

2. Watch This!

3. A Random or Recent Facebook Like:  All the Lights

Tim Lee 3 -

1.  A Residency

2.  A Video shot at a cemetery

3.  Recent Facebook Like:  Close Shave

Valued Customer - 

1.  New Album Coming Soon

2.  New Video

3.  ?????????

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Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Convoy Mix

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 Here we go... it's Thursday and it's 10-4 (good buddy).


So, yeah... here's the shuffle:


SONG # 1: Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings   (Father John Misty cover) as performed by previous month Featured Artist PonyBoy.

SONG # 2: Hopeless Romantic is a song by the New Hampshire band Signalfire from their album Don't Trust This Storm which after a long delay was released in June of this year.  Signalfire is comprised of three brothers named Hansen and a cousin named Nelson.  Got it?

This is only video related to the band that I could find.

And finally Song #3: Amores Perros (Summer of Love) by one of our current month Featured Artists, Bad Cop. The song comes from the band's 2010 album Harvest the Beast.

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EP Stream: Majestico - Love Is God

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If you are one of the few who still think Nashville is all about Country or even Americana, prepare to have your illusions shattered.  We present the brand new EP from Majestico called Love is God. This is just the latest in a growing line of fabulous offerings from Jeffery Drag Records.  The label that brought you Natural Child, Turbo Fruits and current Ear to  the Ground Featured Artist Bad Cop.  Jeffery Drag was started by Adam Anyone Moult of Bad Cop.  Read on....

Absurdist Psych-Rock Nashvillian Releases New EP Today

The EP: After a year of recording and preparation, Nashville's Majestico is excited to unleash his latest project, Love is God, unto the world today. The 7" EP, released via hometown imprint Jeffery Drag Records, marks the psych-rock artist's third release following his 2008 debut album Boundary Conditions, and 2009's Live in Japan. Physical copies of the 7" are now available for purchase on Jeffery Drag's website, and digital copies are available on iTunes and Amazon.  Working with Jeremy Ferguson, who has recorded projects for Turbo Fruits, Bad Cop, and Be Your Own Pet at his Nashville-based Battle Tapes Recording studio, Majestico has turned out an EP of four tracks that together create an up-tempo thrill ride through psychedelia. The album's title track, "Love is God" recently made its video premier via Prefix, and takes viewers on a visual journey as stimulating as the music itself. Together with songs "Gimme Love," "Boom Boom," and "Bright White Lady," Majestico's latest endeavor proves to be his latest act of "music magicka."

"Love is God" Video

And here's the EP Stream

Majestico was born from the breath of a new America, a land at the end of reason where dogma meets God. Singer/guitar player/brainchild Graham Fitzpenn was raised in an occult outside Houston, TX and was admired for his talent for music magicka. At the age of 25, he renounced these devices and turned from darkness. Marked by a new freedom, he moved to Nashville, TN and created his debut album, Boundary Conditions, which was released in 2008. Shortly after, he assembled a band and began to travel. A year later, they returned with Live at Japan, a record of their appearance on a Japanese television show in 2010 which also ended up on an early Jeffery Drag release, a split cassette with fellow Nashvillians and JDR alumni, Ranch Ghost. In the summer of 2011, they recorded their forthcoming 7" EP Love is God, set for release on October 2nd by way of Jeffery Drag Records. 

Jeffery Drag Records was formed in early 2009 by Adam Moult, frontman of Nashville based band Bad Cop. The label was originally founded to release limited pressings of cassettes and vinyl for Bad Cop and other various acts including The Hussy, Pujol, and Little Viking. In 2011, Bad Cop bass player Mike Gicz joined the Jeffery Drag team, overseeing cassette releases from Ranch Ghost, Electric Dollhouse Groovebuggy, and Majestico. The third and final member of Jeffery Drag is R.J. Jennings. The label has grown tremendously, adding Natural Child, Useless Eaters, and Ghost Dance to the roster. Jeffery Drag Records is continuing to grow on a daily basis and has quickly become a name brand for groundbreaking rock and roll music in Nashville and across the country.








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Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Black House Mix

Good Morning American how are you? Here we are at the mid-point of the month of August.  Very soon now, I will be posting the Band of the Month Poll. Stay tuned for that one.  We have ten great Featured Artists this month, and I hope we can have some spirited competition. 

We continue to spin some of the newer tracks added to our Playlist in August.  This are brand new songs, newish songs and older songs. Today, we have a plethora of goodies for your listening enjoyment.  Let us get to the Shuffle now!

We begin today with part of the split 7" we've mention a time or two before.  Nashville bands Turbo Fruits and Bad Cop teamed up with Jeffery Drag Records also from Nashville to release a split 7" single which is tons of fun.  Bad Cop contributed the song Wet Lips while Turbo Fruits have contributed their ode to the burgeoning local scene here which is called Love Tennessee. The Turbo Fruits track is in the shuffle today.
 

 

Here is a Turbo Fruits powered Crawfish Boil - Nashville style

Athens Georgia band Five-Eight are up next with an awesome cover of Neil Young's classic, The Needle and the Damage Done which the band released on their 1993 album The Angriest Man.

Here's Five-Eight doing Sitting Still with a couple of blokes who might know that song pretty well.

And here is Neil Young's version this time from the Johnny Cash Show.

Next we have June Featured Artist, Tipi Valley with a track from his latest EP, Into the Woods which you can head over to Bandcamp to pick up.



 

And finally, we have an ironically danceable track from the 2006 album Ta-Dah by New York band Scissor Sisters in collaboration with Sir Elton John.  I Don't Feel Like Dancing brought me into my office and closed out the morning shuffle.

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Elton John - Elton John's Greatest Hits - MP3 Download This greatest hits compilation is Elton John's ninth album and his best-selling record to date.  Released in November of 1974, Elton John's Greatest Hits is a collection of ten hit singles, including epic classics like "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Your Song" and "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting".  The album spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard album chart and has sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Five Eight Five Eight

Turbo Fruits Tickets 2012-09-13  New York, NY, Mercury Lounge - NY Buy Turbo Fruits, tickets. Tickets for 09/13/2012 at Mercury Lounge - NY in New York, NY are available. TicketNetwork.com gets you in!

Turbo Fruits/Bad Cop Split 7" Out on Jeffery Drag Records

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07.31.2012

Jeffery Drag Hosts Twitter Contest for Limited Edition Clear-Lavender Vinyl

Critical Praise:  "Need some garage rock for your Saturday? Look no further than the combo of Turbo Fruits and Bad Cop. These two Nashville bands are so raw and gritty that you'll be left dizzy after listening. The great thing about garage bands like these guys, is that their music seriously sounds like it's being played live right in your living room (or car) (or wherever else you might be, I guess)." -The Record Stache "Nashville is pretty much running shit when it comes to rock 'n' roll nowadays, aren't they?" - Get Bent "Bad Cop's offering is 'Wet Lips,' a hectic garage-rocker very much in the spirit of the Trashmen, if they had made grainy, lo-fi videos with comely young women writhing around in them." - Listen Dammit "Turbo Fruit's contribution, 'Love Tennessee' is a rumbling love letter to the Volunteer State, using fuzzy guitars and washed-out vocals to celebrate its residents' shared love of drinking whiskey and partying hard." - Consequence of Sound The 7": Available now on Jeffery Drag Records is a split 7" featuring "Love Tennessee" by Turbo Fruits and "Wet Lips" by Bad Cop. In addition to the 300 pressed on clear vinyl, there is a limited edition of 100 clear/lavender ONLY available at theJeffery Drag webstore and the record store Grimey's in Nashville. Jeffery Drag will host a contest to give away a limited number of clear/lavender splits. The most creative Tweets that tag all three Twitters - Turbo Fruits(@TurboFruits), Bad Cop (@BadCopMusic) and Jeffery Drag (@JefferyDragRecs), will win. The tracks are currently available on iTunes. Check out Jeffery Drag's promo video: Both tracks were selected for MP3 of the day at Spinner: http://www.spinner.com/2012/07/12/bad-cop-wet-lips-free-download/ http://www.spinner.com/2012/07/11/turbo-fruits-love-tennessee-free-download/ The Turbo Fruits track "Love Tennessee" is an anthem of sorts for the radical music scene bursting out of Nashville (JEFF the Brotherhood, Pujol, Natural Child) with lyrics: "Whiskey and Coke/Telling bad jokes/This is the place to be/We love Tennessee/No place we'd rather be/No place like Tennessee/That's where we'll always be." Like their previous music videos, the video for Bad Cop's single "Wet Lips" also stars an attractive femme fatale. The sixties garage rock sound is stressed by the swirling psychedelic footage-It's a wild rock'n'roll party you'll want to be invited to. Turbo Fruits has been on tour with Deer Tick since April and Bad Cop recently toured with Cage the Elephant. Both bands will have full-length LPs out later this year. Attention vinyl junkies: We have a limited amount of 7"s available for review-let us know if you're interested and we'll send you a copy. Listen to "Love Tennessee" here: http://soundcloud.com/audibletreats/love-tennessee-by-turbo-fruits Love Tennessee by Turbo Fruits by audibletreats Check out the "Wet Lips" video here:

MP3 & Video: Turbo Fruits and Bad Cop to Release Split 7" on Jeffery Drag Records

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Critical Praise for Turbo Fruits:  "When he's excited (like on the spastic album opener, 'No Drugs To Use'), Stein sounds like a hoarse Henry Rollins. When he's feeling mellow (as on the proto-grunge 'Volcano'), a hint of Mark Arm's cultivated ennui creeps into his voice." -Pitchfork "Stein's endlessly engaging melodic style gives nods to Bowie and even Elvis, plus there's a sprinkling of psychedelic dynamism now and then." - The Guardian Critical Praise for Bad Cops:  "It's a soulful, greasy, howlin' whiteboy kind of rant-rock that's even greater than the sum of all its crazy parts, a frantic, no-holds-barred, 'fuck the rules' kind of album that we desperately need right now..." - Impose The 7": Nashville garage rockers Turbo Fruits and Bad Cop are proud to announce the release of a split 7" on Jeffery Drag Records, which is available for pre-order now. The albums will ship on July 15 and be in stores on July 31. There is a limited edition of 300 on clear vinyl. The tracks will be available on iTunes on July 15. The Turbo Fruits track "Love Tennessee" is an anthem of sorts for the radical music scene currently bursting out of Nashville (JEFF the Brotherhood, Pujol, Natural Child) as exemplified by the lyrics, "Whiskey and Coke / Telling our jokes / This is the place to be / We love Tennessee / No place we'd rather be / No place like Tennessee / That's where we'll always be." Like their previous music videos, the video for Bad Cop's single "Wet Lips" also stars an attractive femme fatale and is slightly NSFW. The sixties garage rock sound is amplified by the swirling psychedelic footage- it's a wild rock n' roll party you'll want to be invited to. Turbo Fruits have been on tour with Deer Tick since April and Bad Cop recently toured with Cage the Elephant. Both bands will have full-length LPs out later this year. Attention vinyl junkies: We have a limited amount of 7"s available for review-let us know if you're interested and we'll send you a copy. Check out the premieres at Prefix: http://www.prefixmag.com/media/bad-cop/wet-lips-prefix-premiere-video/66649/ http://www.prefixmag.com/media/turbo-fruits/love-tennessee-prefix-premiere/66641/ Check out the "Wet Lips" video here