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Ghost Tracks: New Ghostfinger Song

Ghostfinger, your favorite smart-assed mustachioed local rock band, are finishing up a new record due out in August, and they've given us permission to post a little preview for Cream readers. The few tracks I've heard continue to marry their affection for Stonesy swagger and epic, protean rock. Check out standout "Let it Ride Real," a sweet little gallop of a number. (This ain't the final mix.)

"Let it Ride Real" [MP3]

And, if we haven't plugged it enough, they play Friday, 16th at Exit/In with recent transplant David Vandervelde and Caitlin Rose.

Rough Mix: New Superdrag Song

Thanks to local blog Indie Ghetto (run by Joe Baine Colvert, who has a local-rock focused WRVU show of the same name, works at Lake Fever Studios and plays in Stories That Live) for tipping us off to the new Superdrag song floating around. Called "Filthy and Afraid," the song was recorded at Lake Fever and is a power-pop return to the band's secular days (musically speaking). It's currently being hosted on Gibson.com. Apparently there's no release date for the new record, but the band is playing Bonnaroo and will be previewing new songs there.

Stamp Stain: Three Things We Noticed at Josh Ritter Last Night

1. Apparently Ritter knows just how special "The Temptation of Adam" is. When it came time to play it, he turned down all the lights. All of them. It was like we were down in that bunker too.

1a. The Belcourt is an excellent place for a show like this—one that benefits from an attentive crowd—and the sound was superior.

2. Opener Ingrid Michaelson proved that it is possible to win over a Nashville crowd. Her wisecracking and wonderful rangy voice—put to especially good use on a showstopping cover of Radiohead's "Creep"—earned her a standing ovation at the end of her set.

3. People looked like other people. Play the look-alike game after the jump.

Jingle Juice: Casting Call for New CBS Show

OK, so who hasn't watched a commercial, caught a bit of the jingle and thought you could do better? In this town, I imagine it happens every five minutes. Of course, Murfreesboro has already given the world Matt Mahaffey, who in turn gave the world the unforgettable Expedia jingle. You gotta admit it has a brilliant, catchy simplicity. And just think of the cha-ching.

Anyhoo, CBS has bought a series called "Jingles" that gives folks a chance to "wow Fortune 500 companies with your talent" by coming up with product jingles. And they're casting in Nashville at the end of the month! And you can do it with your friends! Come on, sell out.

Info after the jump.

Band of Buds

Nothing goes better with bros and bands like Budweiser, right? At least, that's the campaign advanced by Budweiser in the UK, which features some down-home Nashville flava. Directed by Harmony Korine, the campaign will contain a whole series of ads featuring the band, which includes William Tyler, Dave Cloud, Brian Kotzur, Mr. Natural and more. And, it was filmed at our very own premier dive-hole, Springwater. It's actually pretty great.

Go here for more.

LOLcals: The New Hot Time-Suck

In a fit of boredom, I have married my two great passions—LOLcats and local rock—to create the greatest time-suck in the history of the Intertubes: LOLcals! Shower yourself in the warm, warm glow of my pathetic pastimes after the jump.

Your Band Sucks: An Ode to Dr. David Thorpe (A Love Story)

At some point, some of you may have come across the "Your Band Sucks" column, hosted on the mischievous site Something Awful. If you're familiar, you know that writer Dr. David Thorpe, who recently penned his last column for the Burn Unit in Boston's Weekly Dig, is hilarious, contrarian, cantankerous and all-around one of the most entertaining music writers. Note that I didn't say I agreed with him, or that his lazy writing and take-no-prisoners attitude toward all rock is particularly useful to anyone looking for real rock criticism. It's just damn funny—some of the most side-splittingly funny music writing I've ever read. In fact, it's better than Chunklet. Yep. Better. And if anything, it deflates the monstrous cock that is the rock ego a little.

Three New Features Songs On MySpace

The Features have three elegant new songs up on MySpace from their upcoming album, Some Kind of Salvation: "Baby's Hammer," "GMF" and "Lions" are all there for the streamin'.

The Necks Level

So, this picture of the Tennessee New Pro Electric Quadruple Neck Instrument is fairly self-explanatory. Follow the link above and check out the eBay auction for more photos—too bad they used Times New Roman on all four headstocks.

Nashville band that could most benefit from this instrument: Zombie Bazooka Patrol.

Rites of Indecision: What to Do on a Friday Night

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You don't know what to do tonight—you never know what to do. And you don't even have $30-$105 to drop on Ute Lemper, and you probably don't have $55.50-$75.50 to plunk down on Moody Blues, but who are you kidding, you'll spend it on Jagerbombs.

Who's saving their money for the hot deals at Grimey's and the Groove for Record Store Day tomorrow?

Oh yeah, The New Pornographers w/Okkervil are at the Cannery: $22-$25.

What else? Spiritual Family Reunion are at some place called Tomato, Tomato which is apparently somewhere in Murfreesboro on Main St. The Titts, self-proclaimed "stupid band with a stupid name" grace Springwater, Parachute Musical are at the Basement and Unknown Hinson sleazes up the stage of Bluesboro. You can find all your options round about here.

I'm checking out Spoon at Rites of Spring. If you see me, wave your pearls.

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