Glossary
- HOMETOWN:
- Murfreesboro TN
- MYSPACE:
- myspace.com/glossary
- WEB SITE:
- glossary.us
Some local bands build a buzz and a following until they get a crack at going national. Other local bands, like Murfreesboro, TN's Glossary, keep at it year after year because something needs to be expressed, even if no more than a few thousand people ever hear it. Those bands are the rock equivalent of regional filmmakers, turning out low-budget, heartfelt stories that zero in on lifestyles and locations that the mainstream media overlooks. Three years after knocking out the restless Southern-rock epic How We Handle Our Midnights, Glossary has scraped together enough money to make For What I Don't Become, with the help of Centro-Matic studio whiz Matt Pence. Like the previous album, the new one is full of loud, anthemic songs sparked with plenty of twang and chug. It's also another album about people who work hard and don't seem to get anywhere. For What I Don't Become's centerpiece song is "Days Go By," a sprawling, scorching twang-rocker that makes the title phrase more haunting by adding the words "even when we don't want 'em to." For What I Don't Become weighs its rootsy kick against a strong note of loneliness on songs like "Headstones And Dead Leaves" and the molten ballad "The Reckless," but the dominant tone of the album is set by the opening song "Shaking Like A Flame," which rumbles like a locomotive even as Kneiser sings about how it feels to rust. This may be one of the most exultant albums ever made about failure.
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Lucero w/ Sleepercar, Glossary
Wed. 07/16 | 7:00PM @ Emo's (Downtown)
Lucero's music is part punk, part country, part rock 'n roll, and they've never met a tour they didn't like. They're a band that doesn't have fans as much as the…more»
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Undertow - J. Tillman / Christian Kiefer / Monahans / Glossary / Magnolia Summer /...
Thu. 03/13 | 8:00PM @ Habana Calle 6 (Downtown)
This is American Music -- Grand Champeen, Two Cow Garage, The Drams, Glossary
Tue. 03/11 | 8:00PM @ Beerland (Downtown)
STEVIE TOMBSTONE 09:00 PM,ONE MISSISSIPPI 10:00 PM,GLOSSARY 11:00 PM,GRAND CHAMPEE...
Sat. 04/28 | 7:00PM @ Hole in the Wall (Campus)
Undertow Showcase
Thu. 03/15 | 8:00PM @ Habana Calle 6 (Downtown)
Glossary 8:00 p.m. - Waterloo 9:00 p.m. - Magnolia Summer 10:00 p.m. - Christian Kiefer 11:00 p.m. - Monahans 12:00 a.m. - Dolly Varden 1:00 a.m.
Twangfest and KDHX-FM Day Show
Thu. 03/15 | 12:00PM @ Jovita's (South of the river)
Inside: 5pm – Los Straitjackets with Big Sandy 4pm – Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados) 3pm – Glossary 2pm – Jim Lauderdale 1pm – Elizabeth Cook 12pm – Tripwires (m…more»
Two Cow Garage (CD Release), Miranda Sound, Mic Harrison, Glossary, Tim Easton, Th...
Wed. 03/14 | 9:00PM @ Mother Egan's Irish Pub (West Sixth)
A founding member of At The Drive-In and the frontman of Sparta, singer-guitarist Jim Ward knows how to pack a sonic punch. But he’s got a tender side, too; for the past few years he’s been releasing a trickle of solo songs on compilations that show more of the rustic side he brings to his sporadically active side project Sleepercar. The band’s recent debut, West Texas, is a full-bodied and confident expression of Ward’s guitar-and-piano-drenched pop tunes, twangy epics that fall somewhere between those of Wilco and Radiohead. Memphis punk-country outfit Lucero headlines behind 2006’s Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers. It’s a set of songs that doesn’t do much to repel the quartet’s persistent Replacements comparisons—which is a good thing. Opening: Glossary.