music and show stuff

so silver jews played their final concert saturday inside cumberland caverns and taped it for a midnight broadcast on wsm 650am. the jews recently played at exit/in, but this was by far a much better show. joos fans came from all over the country and even bob nastanovich made a surprise appearance. if you weren't able to drive out to the middle of nowhere saturday, don't worry - a professional film crew was on hand to document the occasion. and i took pictures.


while i was 333 feet below ground in the cumberland caverns' volcano room watching history in the making, bbc was broadcasting its own bit of history over the british airwaves. my favorite band (elbow) recently put on a live show at abbey road studios and it was all over bbc yesterday. i guess they're a big deal in england now that they've won the mercury prize, so the concert was broadcast on bbc2 radio, a documentary was broadcast on bbc6 radio, and and the concert film was broadcast on bbc tv. at least we americans have the chance to buy a cd/dvd limited edition box set on march 20. i'm not sure if the dvd will be formatted for u.s. dvd players, but the last time they put out a dvd it was coded for universal viewing. you can pre-order it here.

we're into february, so album release and tour info is steadily coming out for spring and early summer now. you can see what interests nashville mixtapes on the left-hand side of this page.

oh, and nashvillemixtapes.com will soon begin offering downloads of each week's mixtape free of charge. these won't be the actual broadcasts, but the actual songs in an mp3 player-ready format so you can hear all your favorite tunes without all the talk. more on that later...