As we told you in January, Natural Child will be dropping an impressive 3 LPs this year… Well, as of midnight (Pacific time) today, the band’s newest record ‘For the Love of the Game’ became available for pre-order via Burger Records. But ACT FAST with this one kids, only the first 150 pre-orders will be available on blood red vinyl.
Check out a few tracks from the LP below along with the cover art below and pre-order this gem HERE before it’s too late! Black vinyl will be available on April 20th… Also check out Natural Child on tour this month, coming to a city near you! Full tour listing below:
Natural Child: ‘8 AM Blues’
Natural Child: ‘Ain’t Gonna Stop’
4/01 Athens, OH @ TBA
4/02 Harrisonburg, VA @ Blue Nile
4/03 Washington, DC @ Black Cat
4/04 Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell’s
4/05 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Vassar College *
4/06 Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands *
4/07 Swarthmore, PA @ Swarthmore College %
4/08 Baltimore, MD @ Windup Space *
4/09 Belmont, NC @ Haunted Mill *
4/10 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *
4/11 Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree *
4/12 Gainesville, FL @ Boca Fiesta *
4/13 Miami, FL @ Churchills *
4/14 Orlando, FL @ Wills Pub *
4/15 St. Augustine, FL @ Nooby’s
4/17 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s *
4/18 Austin, TX @ The Mohawk (Outside) *
4/19 El Paso, TX @ M’s Lips *
4/20 Tempe, AZ @ Yuca Tap Room *
4/21 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah *
4/22 – Long Beach, CA @ Alex’s Bar
4/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon
4/24 – San Francisco, CA @ El Rio $
4/25 – Oakland, CA @ Sugar Mountain $
4/26 – Reno, NV @ Clark Lane Maul
4/29 – Manhattan, KS @ Ghost Parlor
4/30 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
* w/ Hunx & His Punx
% w/ The People’s Temple
$ w/ Shannon & The Clams
Nashville’s Bad Cop are pairing up with Cage the Elephant this April for a short run of tour dates beginning April 13th (see full list below)… Shortly following that, the band will be releasing a new 7-inch split with Turbo Fruits on Prince Cook Records. The record will feature the Bad Cop track ‘Wet Lips’ and ‘Love Tennessee’ from Turbo Fruits. Check back HERE next month for details.
And if you missed our post last November, download the free 3-track/3-video EP ‘I Can’t Slow Down’ below:
April 13: Charlotte, NC – Amos’ Southend *
April 17: Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works *
April 20: New Orleans, LA – House Of Blues *
April 25: Tempe, AZ – The Marquee Theatre *
April 26: Las Vegas, NV – The Boulevard Pool at The Cosmopolitan*
May 25, Nashville, TN – The End ^^
The ladies from Birdcloud are stopping by Chattanooga’s JJ’s Bohemia TONIGHT for a special Valentine’s Day show and we had the honor to interview the Nashville duo about new music, videos and more:
A lot of big things have happened since Birdcloud’s last visit to Chattanooga in September. Between 2 official music videos, studio time at Battle Tapes Recording and a Three’s Company theme song collaboration to promote one of your latest shows in Nashville with Ri¢hie and D. Striker
. What’s next for the Birdcloud team in 2012? More tunes from the studio?
Makenzie:“Duh. Yeah, we are in the process of recording our second EP. Super excited about the direction of our songwriting. The response to the ‘Warshin’ video has been BADASS. We’ve had the best time writing and thinking of new concepts for videos and party tricks. Our new hit ‘FUK U COP’ is a line dance… it’s gonna be super produced and real nineties pop country soundin’. Just retarded. The joy of my life.”
Jasmin:“Yeah, and more merch and more records this year. Hopefully in 2012 can do some shows where we can fly through the air at venues like Garth Brooks and have wireless headsets instead of mouth microphones.”
Birdcloud were first known for their YouTube videos featuring live performances of songs from your debut self-titled EP… the most recent for the single ‘Springwater’ that features a brief interview with David Cloud. Are there any new video projects in the works?
Jasmin:“We did make out with our friend Day’s dog at a party and filmed it in slow motion. We will be putting out a call to friends of Birdcloud for videos of them making out with their own dogs, so we can make a compilation video for ‘Bandit.’ But just good clean slow-mo fun, nothing weird. Also gonna get together and make something new with the Duensing brothers at 80JD.net who did our ‘Warshin’ video. They’re the best. And we’re in the choreography process for a new video with a line dance that sort of goes with the sobriety test. It’s for a new song about cops.”
Makenzie:“We’re shooting at the end of the month with an amazing director. He just did the newest Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard video for a song called ‘Willie’s Guitar.’ Real pro stuff.”
When you played Chattanooga’s Lindsey Street Hall last Fall, we couldn’t help but notice your harmonic playing and stage presence. When did this style of playing first start and what other tricks do you have up your sleeves… or should we say skirts?
Makenzie:“We were drunk at a BBQ and I had recently started doing stupid improv songs about friends physical qualities. Like ‘Big Eyed Megan’ or ‘Tracy You Freak Me Out In Real Life.’ Anyway, me n’ Jas just started doing it to each other in each others faces, gettin’ wild and the energy was out of control. It was definitely more for each other at that point. Our friend Jordan Lehning booked us a show at the Mercy Lounge like a week later. It was crazy. The party tricks and bullshit is kinda a more recent thing. We have a deaf interpreter that does American sign language for ‘Warshin.’ Shes amazing! We’ve had Ri¢hie from Ghostfinger solo all over springwater, a man with a bucket on his head beatin’ the hell outta himself during ‘Indianer’ and the wonderful crotch harmonica solo orgasm that rules. Jasmin gets in there.”
Regardless of the topics in your lyrics, we can hear a huge musical background behind your harmonies and melodies. We are familiar with Jasmin’s solo project, but can you fill us in with the true history behind the pre-‘Indianer’ Birdcloud?
Jasmin:“Me and Mak both grew up listening to country music, and my mom wrote for country music for a living. Our exposure levels were both pretty high, even though my solo music isn’t country influenced. Makenzie has a photographic memory for songs. She knows all the words to all country songs I think, especially from the 90’s. So she’s got ears and mouth for country music, and we like all the same things, like when a song ends with the part at the beginning and dumb pauses before words for emphasis. We’re at the same level on guitar, so she thinks my shitty solos are badass. We just keep tearing it up and having fun.”
We our honored to have you both back in town to grace our stage for Valentine’s Day at JJ’s Bohemia. Can you tell us what Chattanooga has in-store?
Natural Child don’t lie, they truly are hard workin’ men (hence the song)… It was just revealed in an interview with The Taste of Sound that the Nashville-based 3-piece will be dropping, not 1, not 2, but 3 LPs in 2012! Two of those albums via Burger Records — ‘Bodyswitchers’ in March (originally released on cassette via Infinity Cat) and ‘For the Love of he Game’ in May — And the final LP ‘Hard in Heaven’ dropping “before the world ends in 2012.”
Learn about Natural Child’s favorite foods and how to make a drink called a “Jack White” by reading the full Taste of Sound interview HERE. Pretty cool stuff…. Also check out their February tour dates below (bring it back to Chattanooga sometime boys):
1/31/2012 Double Down Gainesville, Florida w/JEFF The Brotherhood
2/2/2012 The Hub Tampa Bay, Florida
2/3/2012 Alabama Music Box Mobile, Alabama
2/4/2012 Siberia New Orleans, Louisiana
2/9/2012 Pilot Light Knoxville, Tennessee
2/10/2012 529 Atlanta, Georgia
2/11/2012 Farm 255 Athens, Georgia
2/13/2012 Voodoo Lounge Huntsville, Alabama
2/15/2012 Strange Matter Richmond, Virginia
2/16/2012 Little Bar Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
2/17/2012 Cake Shop Manhattan, New York w/ Habibi
2/18/2012 Suny Purchase Purchase, New York w/ Habibi
2/19/2012 Golden Harvest Baltimore, Maryland w/ Habibi
2/20/2012 Tea Bazaar Charlottesville, Virginia
2/29/2012 Santa’s Pub Nashville, Tennessee
Yet another great video from Nashville’s JEFF the Brotherhood coming from 2011’s ‘We Are The Champions.’ Directed by Lina Plioplyte and shot during the Bros’ recent trip to Hawaii. Check it out below and if you haven’t already, pick-up a copy of ‘We Are The Champions’HERE via Infinity Cat Records… and while you’re at it, get their new LP ‘The Brotherhood of Light’ which is a collection of previously released, out-of-print tracks:
What do you do after you’re finished touring from the release of your debut full-length album?… Open a vintage clothing store in Nashville, of course!.. Nikki Lane has been hard at work putting the finishing touches to her new store High Class Hillbilly, which had its grand opening last Thursday at the 914 Woodland Street location.
Amazing vintage gear that we can’t wait to check out!… This store will definitely be on our things-to-do list for our next Nashville road trip. Check out pictures from the store below and their Etsy store HERE:
914 Woodland Street
Nashville, TN 37206
*Across from Edgefield Bar in East Nashville
Store Hours: 12pm-8pm daily
Nikki Lane’s ‘Walk of Shame’ is out now… pick up a copy HERE, stream the full album HERE and check out a few videos from the album below:
Chattanooga’s Dolphin Mouth (formally of Forest Magic) is now in transition to Nashville, but before the move, is having some studio time in Mississippi while recording a new album and prepping an early Spring tour… Stand-by for further details, but until then, enjoy this first taste of some new Dolphin Mouth tunes. This new track is called ‘Busy Brain’ and we’re diggin’ it from the start! Take a listen below:
Mom & Dad are a band that have recently caught our ear. Our only disappointment… that it took this long to discover them (for being just down the road from us)! This Murfeesboro, TN 4-piece have not only dropped their debut full-length ‘Cave Art’ independently last year but also released the 7-track EP ‘Pieces/Parts,‘ back in November. Fuzzy, lo-fi pop straight-outta Tennessee… What else can you ask for?
Check out both of Mom & Dad’s 2011 releases below and if your in the Nashville area Tuesday (1/10), swing by The End, where they’ll be playing with Don Coyote, Bad Back and The South Rail favorites Ranch Ghost:
As we told you in January, Natural Child will be dropping an impressive 3 LPs this year… Well, as of midnight (Pacific time) today, the band’s newest record ‘For the Love of the Game’ became available for pre-order via Burger Records. But ACT FAST with this one kids, only the first 150 pre-orders will be available on blood red vinyl.
