11/25 Seven Sense Thanksgiving Tribute

The Seven Sense Festival is throwing a Thanksgiving tribute at The New Vintage and Zanzabar on Nov.25th; 7PM, 21+, $10. price includes admission to both venues. Proceeds to benefit the Boy's and Girl's Haven.

bands include White Crosses, All the Little Pieces, The Instruction and Lou Dog.

8/16: Instruction/Alex Smith/Long Thanh Nguyen

On August 16th The Instruction with Howell Dawdy (new electronic project by Alex Smith of Lydia Burrell) will be playing at The New Vinatge with Long Thanh Nguyen (very interesting Vietnamese musician).$5, 21+, 9PM.

Also at The New Vintage: Johnny Berry, Your News Vehicles, and  Brett Eugene's KY Chrome Review is on 8/23. $10. 

Highlands Fest 2010 This Weekend

This year's Highlands looks to feature another great lineup. With two stages rotating acts out, there will be music nearly all day and night. Cabin return to the festival to headline this year's festival in the heart of the Highlands, the 900 block of Baxter Avenue. The festival takes place from 1pm to 11pm and is free of charge. There will be plenty of vendors as well as a silent auction featuring My Morning Jacket concert tickets. Full lineup is below and check out all the details at the highlandsfest.com

Cabin 10:00-11:00
Radio Radio 9:30-11:00
This, That, and the Other 8:00-9:15
Broken Spurs 8:30-9:30
The Instruction 7:00-8:00
Eight Inch Elvis 6:30-7:45
Broadfield Marchers 5:45-6:30
Peter Searcy & Band 5:00-6:00
Butch Rice 4:30-5:15
The High-Tops 3:35-4:30
OK Zombie 3:00-4:00
Justin Lewis 2:30-3:15
Hambone 1:30-2:30
Brigid Kaelin 1:00-2:00

NULU Fest 2010

This year's NULU Fest boasts a great lineup and some good beer courtesy of the Louisville Beer Store. Love Jones, Lucky Pineapple, The Instruction, The Fervor, and The Pass will rock the 700 block of East Market Street on Saturday, October 2nd. The festival is the self-described festival of "all things local" and this year is doubling as an Oktoberfest with a little help from their friends. If you have not made it to the Louisville Beer Store, this is a good opportunity to discover some of the great tastes they are bringing to our city. And here comes the magic word, it's FREE!

review: Cougar Express at Glassworks

just about anything on top of the glassworks building equals a good time, and when the music is something worth hearing it makes the view that much more worth while.

on Friday July 23rd Dangerbird, The Instruction, and Cougar Express hauled they're battle axes up 9 stories and slayed a max capacity crowd behind the backdrop of the mighty Ohio.

Dangerbird started the night with their patented Stones+Pine Club sound, which is actually a good combo, added with frontman Brian Grey's between song banter, there is no wonder they have a loyal following.

The Instruction followed with what their manager, Cory Greenwall, described as a "Vhs or Beta" related sound. actually i think they more sound like a Smiths + Suicide with a 16 candles kinda feel. even though i never had really gotten into the whole electro-dance resurgence, i did enjoy it. but what really knocked my hair back was the way too loud, and strangely sexy Cougar Express. these boys were so loud that people on the street a block away followed the sound to the roof like a snake to St. Patrick.

They have been making waves around town lately, and it's no wonder with their dueling axe solos like Black Sabbath and Fog Hat beating each other to death in a heart shaped bed with satin sheets. this distorted sultry sound in no short way draws in the peeps, as well as more high heels and shorty shorts than i've seen in a long time. this may be to the band's 'dirty pretty boy' look and front man John Burke's sexy nerd appeal (think if Bun E. Carlos and Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick had a baby). and as no surprise, there was more real live cougars there than at ladies night at Jim porter's.

Guitarist Bob Scott says he has no idea why the cougars started popping up to their shows, and that the name Cougar Express and the Cougar outpouring is a coincidence, and the name was supposed to just sound super american. either way, they have the sound to melt panties, and that sound doesn't care who's panties they are.

DANGERBIRD

The panty melting Cougar Express

WEEKEND EVENTS CALENDAR 7/23-25

7/23 One Small Step at Skull Alley $5 8pm

7/23 Cougar Express, The Instruction, and Dangerbird, glassworks $7 21+ 8pm

7/23-25 hullabaLOU: Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney, Steve Miller Band, Jason Aldean, Al Green, 60 others. @ Churchill Downs. hundreds of dollars.

7/23 Woody's Roadhouse Anniversary show featuring Broken Spurs, Ladybirds and more, Vernon Lanes 9pm $5

if we've forgot anything, leave it in a comment. and as always... get out there and go nuts!

7/23 glassworks rooftop series

get your pocket size electric fans, on FRIDAY JULY 23RD Cougar Express, The Instruction, and Dangerbird are playing @ the Glassworks Rooftop at 8pm $7.

Thao Nguyen at Skull Alley - TONIGHT!

Backseatsandbar.com is presenting Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down, live at Skull Alley this evening at 7pm. The Instruction, will be opening along with Thao’s tourmates, Tune Yards.

from bssb:

BackseatSandbar.com presents the first of hopefully a plentiful series of concerts, the first of which is the amazing Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down, live at Skull Alley on Monday, July 21st. As I’ve mentioned before (and thus the reason I’m putting this show on) Thao Nguyen (pronounced “Win”) is one of my favorite artists of the year, having released my top album of January on Kill Rock Stars, We Brave Bee Stings and All to significant praises in the blogosphere & received a 7.7 from Pitchfork in follow-up of 2005’s Like the Linen. Also, I had the chance to see Thao (review) & her stage presence resmebles that of a cat with a ball of yarn, thrashing about in the cutest of ways. To match, Thao has the lyrical beauty and emotion of Cat Power less the aching with the energy of Feist, so if you’ve a warm place in your heart for either of those two, you’re going to absolutely fall in love with Thao.

Tickets are $7 at the door & it’s all-ages. Get on out and support indie music, as well as the new Skull Alley art gallery/music venue

Thanks to Backseatsandbar for getting together the sampling of music below...

Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down - Beat ( Health Life & Fire)

Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down - Feet Asleep

Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down - Bag Of Hammers

The Instruction- Mayday

The Instruction- Change in the Merge

The Instruction- Hello Darlin’

Tune-Yards - Fiya

Backseat Sandbar's Birthday Show

Backseat Sandbar is celebrating their first Birthday this Saturday with a free show over at the Pour Haus in Germantown. Cory and Nick have been working hard informing folks around the city of local art and music events for nearly a year now and they have reason to celebrate, congratulations guys!

details straight from Backseat Sandbar...

Backseat Sandbar turns 1 on May 23rd & we’re having a little party to celebrate. For the occasion, The Zero Element, Skyscraper Stereo, The Instruction, and DJ duo Azns n Bnzs are going to play at The Pour Haus. The show is meant to provide a cross section of the Louisville Music scene genre-wise, and we specifically chose each band as the embodiment of this scene…whether you’ve heard of any or all of these guys or not….

For the evening, the already incredibly cheap drinks are going to be even cheaper at $1.25 PBR & $3.25 well drinks. The Instruction is going to head on stage first right at 9. I know its the first band an all….but we only chose bands we really liked and you’d be missing out by coming late. These guys recently won a local “Battle of the Bands” at Headliners. When we met them & received their CD, we were instantly hooked. We reviewed it HERE. Everyone we’ve played the album for asks if it is Matt Berninger of The National singing. Interested? After that, we’ve got The Zero Element. The Zero Element just got two forms of shoutout from People Noise. The first was in our Take 5 series, when Zeke answered that The Zero Element was one of his favorite Louisville bands, and the second was asking them to open last Friday’s show at The Pink Door. Next up is local hip hop heads Skyscraper Stereo who rap about more than guns and drugs, and are known to occasionally do it over 8-bit beats. Lastly, our good friends Azns n Bnzs, whose last show we promoted was the incredible Clay Buffett in March, where they performed alongside Skyscraper Stereo. Cheap drinks, good music, good venue, and free admission should make for an all-around awesome night…

For an idea of how far we’ve come…our first post on May 23rd, 2007 was a youtube video about a talented beer pong player. Louisville has embraced Backseat Sandbar far more than we ever anticipated & we intend to keep going strong….going to more and more shows and doing more and more concert reviews, and bringing all the information that you actually care about to one spot.

We hope to see all of you kids out at The Pour Haus on May 23rd…in the meantime, have a sampling of the talent…

Zero Element- XOR
Skyscraper Stereo- 1up
The Instruction- Hello Darlin’
Azns n Bnzs- Lately Misunderstood