Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Nashville Scene's Top Picks for the Week

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The SteelDrivers Record Release at Station Inn
The timing's accidental, but Music City bluegrassers The SteelDrivers are celebrating both the release of Reckless, their second album for Rounder Records ... Read more.

Dungen at Mercy Lounge
Tame Impala are a psychedelic rock quartet from Perth, Western Australia. Read more.

The Love Language at Exit/In
On Libraries, Stuart McLamb — aka The Love Language — makes good on the promise of his stellar debut. Read more.

Best Coast at Mercy Lounge
According to an interview with Nylon last November, Best Coast members Bobb Bruno and Bethany Cosentino first met when the former babysat the latter years ago. Read more.

Pixies at The Ryman
While some bands go the tour-behind-a-classic-album route as a way of papering over their various creative blunders, trend-pandering missteps and cred-torpedoing goofs — looking at you, Weezer ... Read more.

Balmorhea at The Basement
Continuing the adventurous musical lineage of Austin — the hotbed responsible for Explosions in the Sky ... Read more.

The Music of Stravinsky at Blair School
Igor Stravinsky's long and productive career can sometimes seem like just one unexpected swerve after another. Read more.
 
Non-Military Civil War-Era Clothing Exhibit at The Belmont Mansion
First order of business: Erase the image of Gone With the Wind from your mind as you envision the fashions on display at this whirlwind exhibit of mid-1800s clothing. Read more.
 
Operation Photo Rescue at Belmont University
It’s one thing to have had a classic Rolling Stones album or a favorite pair of shoes damaged by last May’s flood. But if a cherished photo suffered harm, well, that’s a particularly cruel blow. Read more.
 
Meghan McCain Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
Speaking at a Log Cabin Republican convention last year, Meghan McCain observed, “Most of the old-school Republicans are scared shitless of [the] future.” Read more.
 
Nashville RBI's Baselines and Grapevines Fundraiser at Sambuca
The love of the game runs deep at Nashville RBI, and for more than 900 area kids, there might not be a bat to swing, a glove to pound — or even a game to suit up for — if it wasn’t for the program. Read more.
 
Green Dot Strategy at Vanderbilt
In the mid-2000s, University of Kentucky professor Dorothy Edwards formulated and then founded Green Dot Strategy. Read more.
The River Inside at the Customs House Museum
Interstate traffic can sometimes make Clarksville seem far away, but don’t let that stop you from seeing some of the most amazing photographs you will ever get to experience. Read more.
 
Faces and Things: Paintings and Collages at Belmont’s Leu Gallery
No one is sure when our distant relatives first stared at their reflections in the water or gazed at the star-strewn wonder of the night sky and asked, “Who am I?” Read more.
 
Shaped Poetry at the Nashville Public Library
In today’s world of Photoshop and graphic design, the connection between image and text is all around us. Read more.
 
Color, Lines and Layers at Blackbird Tattoo
Manda Hackney is being close-lipped about her art show Color, Line and Layers, but we predict creepy-cute illustrations in vivid color. Read more.
Dog Sees God at Out Front on Main
In the earlier part of this decade, Bert V. Royal attempted the near-sacrilegious: He wrote an unauthorized parody of Charles M. Schulz’ Peanuts kids … Read more.
 
Before It Hits Home at Darkhorse Theater
This entry in the Shades of Black Theatre Festival offers a script that hearkens back to the early ’90s, when AIDS was only first beginning to be readily recognized. Read more.
 
Music City Improv: Attack of the Improvzilla at Artists' Co-Op
The company springs toward the fall with renewed vigor and an apparently more ambitious approach to new material. Read more.
 
First Night Symposium at Belmont's Black Box Theatre
The resurrection of a Nashville theater tradition from the ’90s comes courtesy of “First Night” founder and executive producer Jeffrey Ellis. Read more.
 

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