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2009 in words: Weekend interviews of local bands!
As the year winds down to a close, it’s only appropriate, we think, to look back on all of the ink we’ve spilled over the past 12 months. Over the next several days, we’ll be rounding up all of the interviews that have graced the pages of The Daily Times Weekend entertainment section … starting with all of the East Tennessee bands and musicians of all genres to whom we’ve devoted space this year. Presenting … the local interviews of 2009!
Southbound (cover story)
The Drunk Uncles: (cover story)
Jonathan Sexton and The Big Love Choir (cover story)
Whitechapel 2 (front page story)
Dirty Guv’nahs 1 (cover story)
Royal Bangs (cover story)
R.B. Morris (cover story)
Maryville Metal Fest (cover story)
Brandy Robinson (cover story)
Scott Miller (cover story)
The Black Lillies (cover story)
Teenage Love13 (cover story)
The Music Slut reviews Senryu, offers remix EP
Last Friday, we wrote about local indie-pop band Senryu, which performed a release show last Friday (Sept. 18) for “Dying in Fast Forward,” a new EP. Read that story here.
Band frontman Wil Wright e-mailed us this evening about something you need to keep an eye on tomorrow: One of our favorite music blogs, The Music Slut, will give “Dying in Fast Forward” its first big national review.
Here’s Wright with more:
“This is a very widely read and respected music blog and I anticipate that it will be a fairly positive review. It will be accompanied by the first available download of “Laughing In Slow Motion,” the sister EP to “Dying in Fast Forward.” It’s the same order as DIFF, but the songs have been reimagined by various producers. It’s some dancey and some experimental and I think a completely different take on our record, which I really like. It would really be great if you could all point as many people as possible towards the review/download. I think we stand to have another really, really big day of downloads with your help. Considering the number of readers that The Music Slut has, it could be a record day.”
So there you have it. Support Senryu tomorrow!
Download “Jericho Ruins Everything,” by Senryu: Right-click here (choose “Save Link As” or “Save Target As”)
Help yourself to all of Senryu’s catalog (for free!): Senryu’s Band Camp site
PrideFest activities this weekend
The motto for Knoxville’s annual PrideFest is a poignant reminder for anyone with a sense of decency and humanity: “It’s not a gay thing, or a straight thing. It’s a HUMAN thing!” No doubt there are those in the community who wish to silence anyone who speaks out about sexual equality, but every year, those voices get smaller and smaller, and one hopes that eventually they’ll fade into so much background noise that they cease to matter.
What does matter is the celebration of not just equal rights, but basic, fundamental recognition of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people as no different from the rest of us, and that’s what PrideFest hopes to accomplish. It’s been going on for a couple of weeks now, and it culminates this weekend in a great festival.
First up, starting at 6 p.m. Friday, June 26, is a benefit concert at The Catalyst, 125 E. Jackson Ave. in Knoxville’s Old City. The cover is $6; performers on the bill include Leslie Woods, Kamuy, Madeline Ava, Senryu, The Moon Her Majesty, Rumblytums and spoken word by Black Atticus, Shonna Cole and Kari Hoffman. It marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, “a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. They are frequently cited as the first instance in American history when gays and lesbians fought back against a government-sponsored system that persecuted homosexuals, and they have become the defining event that marked the start of the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world,” according to Wikipedia. Proceeds from the concert benefit the Tennessee Equality Project.
At 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27, a Gay Pride Parade will depart from the State Street Parking Garage on State Street in downtown Knoxville, winding through downtown and ending on Market Square, where PrideFest 2009 takes place from 3-10 p.m. Performers include:
- Karen E. Reynolds at 3:10 p.m.;
- Kate Oliver at 3:40 p.m.;
- Damewood at 4:15 p.m.;
- Garrett Manry at 4:45 p.m.;
- A drag show by Kurt’s Karaoke at 5:10 p.m.;
- Heiskell at 6:10 p.m.;
- Heather and the Dreadful Hillbillies at 7:10 p.m.;
- Chico Fellini at 8:15 p.m.; and
- Oona Love at 9:20 p.m.
For more information, visit www.knoxvillepridefest.com.