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• EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK •
APRIL, 2007 IN REVIEW
Hello ListenNashville readers. April was a fantastic month! ListenNashville joined the myspace community in April, and aside from all of the unsolicited, in-your-face, sexually charged advertising that I'm bombarded with every second that I'm logged in, it's been a rather positive experience. ListenNashville has the coolest friends on the planet—you guys rock!
Jennifer Niceley kicked off the month with a mesmerizing performance at The Basement. Niceley's music is like listening to the ghost of Billie Holiday singing her way back to the physical dimension with the hope of salvaging abandoned dreams. Joe McMahan is Niceley's guitarist and producer. On his tremelo drenched '56 Goldtop Reissue, McMahan delivers ambient guitarwork reminiscent of Robbie Krieger's trippy contributions to The Doors. McMahan's string arrangements on Niceley's unreleased demos found on her myspace page are nothing short of brilliant.
Matthew Perryman Jones lit up The Rutledge with an early u2 inspired set of rolling ambient alt-rock with a hopeful melancholy timber. Jones's music is easily on par with super-star groups u2 and Coldplay, and where Coldplay's lyrics are, ultimately, too literal and timely, Jones's lyrics contain the kind of poetic indirection that transform good into classic. For The Rutledge set, Andrew Osenga provided the guitar-work and backing vocals. Osenga is involved in several projects -- do not miss his 3rd & Lindsley performance on Monday, May 7th.
Finally, Jeremy Lister proved that he deserves to have the full weight of a Warner Brothers' Marketing blitz behind him. Lister's 12th & Porter show was a super-tight set of hook-heavy alternative rock that draws from McCartney's Wings project, Buckley, and Jason Mraz. If Warner Brothers has any sense at all, they will release a Jeremy Lister debut CD and squash radio stations with it. I'd even start listening to the radio again if they did. See you at the shows! —Vincent Wynne, Editor
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