March 3, 2018 (Saturday) - Live at The Cobra in Nashville is Thayer Sarrano. Her set this evening is in support of Tape Deck Mountain, all to honor that band's freshly released record - Echo Chamber Blues. Tape Deck Mountain are Nashville-transplants by way of San Diego. Also appearing tonight is The Inscape, similarly Nashville by way of California -- turn right on the Pacific Coast Highway and just keep driving. Brazenly breaking the mold this evening are Those Far Out Arrows, en route from Omaha, Nebraska. Each of these acts boasts several albums to their credit. In addition to Echo Chamber Blue, the Tape Deck Mountain catalog features: Sway (2013), and Ghost (2009), alongside a couple EPS. The Inscape catalog claims: We're All Wrong (2017), Paradise Lost and Other Sounds (2014), and No Expectations (2012). The turntable of Those Far Out Arrows is likewise stack three-high: Where Are You? (2016), From the Sun (2016), and a self-titled debut from 2014. Thayer Sarrano claims Shaky (2015), Lift Your Eyes to the Hills (2012), and King (2009). Providing the umbrella for tonight's meteor shower at The Cobra is the The Nashville Psych Alliance, proudly going where country music has never gone before. Silver Cord Cinema kindly proffers the light-craft.  

January 27, 2018 (Saturday) - The 5 Spot Revisited. Thayer Sarrano. She's the one doing the revisiting. Out on Highway 65 (It's an Interstate, actually.) Courtesy of Cold Lunch Recordings, Sarrano performs live at this East Nashville venue of world reputation. Our spurious readership will recall, if their memory stands whatsoever to any purpose, that this same Cold Lunch was responsible, two weeks ago, for the Cold Lunch Cares Coat Drive, which went down at H.O.M.E. (Helping Our Music Evolve), also along the banks of the Cumberland. In addition to Sarrano, three other bands take The 5 Spot stage this evening. There is Brooklyn-based headliner Soft Fangs, whose latest album -- Fractures -- from 2017, is out on Disposable America. Previous Soft Fangs adventures into the recorded medium include: The Light (EIS Records, 2016), and a self-titled EP from 2014, (again on Disposable). Two Nashville-based bands round up tonight's bill. There is Summer Palace, with an EP - Summer Callus - to their credit. There is Zook, whose own EP of that same year of 2017 - Carrots - is likewise available on Bandcamp.

According to our extensive Scriptorium Archives, where prolix is the norm, and which may occasionally overstate things for effect, but which would never intentionally lead anyone astray, at least not too far along the paths of our paradisiacal gardens, Thayer Sarrano last invaded The 5 Spot in September of 2017. On that occasion, it was the inimitable Cosmic Thug Records who hosted the proceedings. This evening Cold Lunch Recordings acts as the surrogate. Many thanks to them both.