newspaper edition found at The Murfreesboro-Local, Punk/Metal Scene (Pt. 1): The Folk & Proper Newspaper version, online – Folk & Proper News

[this] Coverage of the Murfreesboro, TN-area Punk and Metal scene of the Twenty-Twenties began trying to fix the sub-genric description, “glitch rock,” or “glitch punk,” to area “post-hardcore/glitch-metal/math-punk group,” Circuit Circuit’s debut, Circuit Circuit EP, in an area-monthly, The Murfreesboro Pulse’s February 2022 issue.

[Area, critical] music reviews at the time included local artist EPs by alt. R&B/hip-hop, singer-songwriter-rapper, Marlena Minecci, the alt. garage rock of Collegetown, Alex Tumbleson’s ramble-folk, Barnum Brown EP, and (SPike’s quote at Pentegram show, porch conversation ) The Oi!takus EP, all to showcase what the area had in store, ranging from hip-pop/r&b, “girl blues”, 90’s indie-influence throwbacks, personably relatabley homely folk, and even manga/anime-core, respectively.

Venue-wise, places like Ethan Rose’s Crossroads punk house and DRKMTTR were being (re-)discovered, during and after the pandemic, with some existing venues from the twenty-teens, such as The Laundry Room, some Boro Fondo host houses, and even the KUC Theatre standing as places for these kids -these ideas, stage acts, and lineups- to go, gather, meet, exist, formulate, vent, test out, and nurture- as well as surge, along with any new venues that are created to run the gambit of such haggard, generational evolution.

[ Over time and attention, it all ties together to create recognizable patterns. ]

[ Over a bit of time, it all starts to get really cool. ]

Example coverage from The Murfreesboro Pulse, May 2022:  

[A breadth of area reviews of the same time: Safari Room’s first album, Sept. ‘22; The TN Warblers, Feb. ‘23; Firkenstein, March ’22; Roland Justice, Jan 22; Heru Heru, Dec. 21 (all, https://boropulse.com/)].

It was a time in the Murfreesboro annals where the spectrum of, or the polarity of, the area’s music scene and their influences were being bridged together other area-popular/particular genres of music, their followers/fandoms, and especially the bands coming in, going out, and always remaining, in the area, ranging from Murfreesboro-based, anime-core, punk sextet, The Oi!Takus, who on the local level, bridge their love for late 70’s, UK “Oi-Oi” punk (and the early-90’s, Berkely, CA revival/traditionalist nature through/of bands like Rancid, and Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards, with that particular punk sub-genre being inspiration [“oi-oi,” street punk]) with the fandoms of manga and anime (Otakus, pronounced Oy-Tah-koos) by filking/lyricizing anime fan fiction, or manga fan literature. into their “oi-oi, “street punk subgenre, on one end of the spectrum (the verb, “filk,” is a misspelling of “folk” music, insinuating writing fan fiction written into/onto an already established work), while IV & The Strange Band, an initially Murfreesboro-produced band, went to the national stage, bridging sludge to an already area-established, traditional country western music, and touring the country with it, extensively, with local stops along the Twenties at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge in Nov. 2021, and Murfreesboro’s Panther Creek Brews in June of ’22, all the way to a current, Nov., 2024, Madison, Nashville’s “The 58” room at The Eastside Bowl -on the other end of the spectrum, still bridging among touring out, and visiting the S. Rutherford Walmart (an always admired and sought after local production that makes it onto the national stage through the exact same process done so at the local level when simply getting your idea off the ground).

It was Murfreesboro in its
Twenty-Twenties.

And, As Middle TN’s local, Murfreesboro area, Punk/Metal scene swath was vast between local and national fame, as well as bridging intent, yet again –or, the breadth and reach of the local metal/punk scene from one end of the fame spectrum to the other was as big as it had been since recent occurrences (reminiscing Sponge bath records in the nineties, Pink Spiders popularity, and Richie Kirkpatrick playing David Letterman with Jessica Lee Mayfield’s band, in the aughts and tweens, and IV & The Strange Band, late teens, into twenties, etc.- these kids, and acts were playing laundry rooms, fortunately permitted to college campuses, and somehow, a vestige-of-its-kind that’s managed to sustain: an actual punk house (maintained and resided in by actual punks who travel out into the world as such to make their money/the sht you see in late 1970’s UK and New York footage. It’s awesome).

…Just led by a new generation (with remnants of the previous to tell the tale).

The Process of (From The Bottoms to the top), with Pandemia in full motion/right in the middle of Covid restrictions, with a February 2022 review of Circuit Circuit’s debut EP just written/about to come out, it was unbeknownst they were playing CxR until House Show Alliance -> Ethan’s FB messages, then “going to check out the reviews, live” (i.e., live reviews), kicked in. 

(or, The process of getting off the ground in the Murfreesboro house show scene/How to Break into the House).

A schedule of the pandemic can be found here [~Jan., 2020 – May, 2023], via Northwestern Medicine.org [nm.org].

The descriptions of the bands are the funnest part of this whole thing. Some are mine, but the ones that are not are quoted.

Post-hardcore/glitch-metal/math-punk quartet, Circuit Circuit’s Facebook Page started Feb. 17, 2022, promoting tour dates beginning/projected out to June 12, 2022 @ The Bug Jar in Rochester, NY, perhaps playing a show back home from MTSU during the summer months with bands, P.S. You’re Dead (synthy, post-hardcore, math-sass, grind punk, of out of Buffalo), ShallowTeeth (mathcore/hardcore metal out of Buffalo), and Katspo (progressive, post-hardcore based out of Rochester, NY), before heading back down to Chattanooga, June 17, 2022 to open for Hazing Over (death metal/hardcore beatdown in from Pittsburgh), as presented by Scenic City Hardcore… So, an early summer NY -> CHatt run, seemingly via homebases, and jumping on a friendly tour for a show, not only taking new chops learned in Murfreesboro to NY, but touring with NY influences, and Pittsburgh tour-ers.

A harder run their second year, Circuit Circuit got started early, throwing the next promo-show flyer up for a Crossroads Punk House (CxR) event for January 28, 2023. The [Sound] That [Ends] Creation (chaotic, grind-core, screamo jazz) came in from TX), [Circuit Circuit,] Officer Down (Murfreesboro, power-violent, scram [hipster screamo] punk), Medusa’s Hairdresser (Nashville-based, black metal, punk crust), and Daedalus (“Middle TN Blackened Skrunky Noise”), all made up the, “7pm, Donations for the tour band encouraged,” kind of lineup, that evening.

After that, Circuit Circuit would follow the hustle, starting out at Dickerson Pike seeming VHS rental shop, Nashville venue, DRKMTTR, with THIN (“NY Mathgrind”), The Sound That Ends Creation, The Wind In The Trees (“Baltimore Grind”), Bled To Submission (Nashville-based, harsh sludgery, grindcore), February 19, 2023 (8pm, All Ages, 13adv, 15dos).

From there, Circuit Circuit co-toured with friend’s made, thus far, The Wind In The Trees and Blind Tiger, through early winter, and into Blind Tiger’s South Central Heat Tour in March; then, The Sounds Of The End Of Creation tour throughout April and May, and onto the annual Knoxville Hardcore Festival promoted by the East Tennessee Hardcore Collective, by June (https://www.facebook.com/EastTNHardcore/). 

-A pattern was developing as to how these bands come into existence, as well as sustain, with a little gusto, as these progressively successful years require the bridging of fandoms, having local bands from the host city share the bill with bands in whatever situation that got them to tour out and play at least one show as if they’re inviting each other, or bridging the distances between localities, combining their communities, such as March 15, 2022’s last show of The Blind Tiger tour, at The Firehouse, in Birmingham, AL, with Meadows (ten-year, ambient-post hardcore, emo-screamo out of Birmingham), Selim Sivad (hardcore/hxc screamo out of Birmingham), and Couch Therapy (Birmingham pop-punk, emo, grunge-power from 2018). All brought together from different times and space by a local collective to produce art that eventually moves along a monetary or social economy to whatever grandiosity it can handle: How to be part of a scene/how a scene is made and fueled.

Of course, during all of this, their 2^nd EP was in the works, and to be released July 7, with a single and video for the track, “Deleted Skin.”

-“First single, came out June 16, 2023, out of Dark Trail Records,” (@ Lawnchair Youth white wall), said Circuit Circuit’s Facebook page.

Band merch started going out at the end of June, 2023.

Circuit Circuit played with already well-established, Belushi Speedball (crossover Thrash/Metal; Louisville hardcore), for a Belushi Speedball Beach Party at downtown Murf. venue (in the bottoms) Graveyard Gallery, presented by Muddy Roots, July 22, 2023, with Toxic Culture (hardcore anarchy-sided punk out of Murfreesboro, TN), Local 58 (hardcore beatdown crust punk of Murfreesboro, TN), and Spinning Lodge (trans sludge punk/metal out of Murfreesboro), as the openers (all ages, 10 adv, 15 dos).

Circuit Circuit’s “BODY SONGS, [their] second EP, is out everywhere,” was announced July 6, 2023.

There was a Body songs release show @ The Basement, August 25th, with Clot (blackened grindcore/death metal sludge out of Atlanta), Caregiver (Nashville-based, post-hardcore, shoegaze screamo punk), and my wall (Nashville-based, doom punk, noise meditation). That happened, as Circuit Circuit got a fresh, new linktr.ee link to help compile their socials, contact, and releases into a hub, during the progress…

As well as, “Hitting a couple of southeast dates with Freeze MF [DIY UK Hardcore skatepunk metal out of Philly],” was posted, early September, then wrapping up the year at Welcome to the Family Fest 2023, at The Milestone Club, Oct. 20-22 in Charlotte, NC -then, with Johnny Booth (metalcore out of Wantagh, NY)- and, then, Wiltwither (progressive, Illinois, math/metalcore), the day after in Baltimore, MD…. 

…which is pretty much how these bands, these weird dive bar and tours, and these touring band’s years go, learning how to speedball the experience into the next year until whatever desirable outcome is reached, and immense good times are had by all (i.e., a lot of hard work, handling the little things to get things moving into something bigger, then staying on top of it, and all while thinking about what’s next, taking it on the road, and recording the next album… -and some want to die onstage.

From the onset, these folks put themselves in certain situations, such as enrolling at universities via a personal and/or societal direction as to what’s next after high school -or simply, being born in the area, raised and steeped in the access/channels to your surroundings and with those that will grow to create a scene with you), figuring out some friends, or like-minded cohorts -who’ll make music with you in a comfortable space, and then finding a place around town who will let you play what you want for all your friends when you think its ready, maybe even at a local hotspot you already hang out at, to jumpstart some bridging. Document all of it to create an online presence. Do that over and over again, being awesome in the moments.

–However, as their Facebook page started February 17, 2022, in the process or strive to “forever,” or when becoming an “Always” band (or local staple), Circuit Circuit’s initial kick-off for 2022, or start to all of this getting out there, was to the effect of a live show at CxR, January 29, 2022, just a few weeks before their Facebook page started (and maybe just a little before the pandemic began to ease)… -as presented by Ethan Rose, who lives just upstairs at Crossroads.   

When confronted with the phrase, “ask a punk,” when seeking information within the scene, the next question should be, “well, where do you find one around here?”

CXR

An Intro: Audio, “Lebanon Rd” January 29, 2022″ [Crossroads (cXr, CxR, CXR) Punk House, 6097 Lebanon Pike/Memorial and Jefferson @ Market/”Ask A Punk”] 

(All of these bands reside on Bandcamp, a place to free stream your music, to get it out, so get that programmed into your phone/download the app. There’s an opportunity to do some real local-radio-station-dj exploration, here, and all you have to do is type a name into the search bar. Get on it).

I first took Lillian, Brittany’s fifteen year old daughter, out there to check out what the “glitch rock” of a Circuit Circuit live show, post-Pulse review is, and to just get a feel for what they’re doing out there (a follow-up; a live review, and teaching stuff to a kid when you’re trying to learn it yourself: all methods that gets you into some pretty cool circumstances and fuels drive, if practicing journalism).

Now, with the intensity of the live shows these punk/metal-urgists get off on that goes hand-in-hand with the mud, blood and beer-stained scenery -or what makes Ethan’s Crossroads punk house a vestige of its kind- is mucho similar to the danky, spit-drenched and moist, merch-stickered drab of an empty CBGB’s (original, proto-American punk club in downtown New York, frequented by the just as vestige-y, stud-vested and mohawk’d kids out of the late 70’s and 80’s New York, and the U.K. streets, even earlier. That punk. The kind you have to google, and that have the power to jump oceans, and back).    

The exit out of the driveway after a lovely, moshy, but very stereotypical, drenching, vestige punk house experience that was had by all, was actually a good metaphor for the evening. I didn’t have any reverse lights on the little four-cylinder, five speed truck I was driving, so backing out of Ethan’s pot-holey-ass, car-strewn, packed driveway, rocking back and forth in a stick shift through puddles while someone who’s about to start driving, with me, not knowing if we’re gonna make it out alive– we finally made it out without hitting anything. Lilly has a pretty cool story to tell, too, as well as a lack of fear walking into those spaces, already knowing what’s going to happen and how to handle herself at a mosh pit.

Linwood (opening band): Warms up clanks, bangs, and taps, setting up their set/musical instruments.  

“Can we just start?” 

:24, cXr punkhouse emcee, “Hey, everybody, we’re gonna get going. This is Linwood, from Nashville. Give it up” (room woots). 

-Carrying over the high-register string clanks of a warm-up into such a screamo uproar, then into bursts of Can-influenced, math-tinged and counter-mushed, polar, scale notes on guitar and bass, Linwood is a multi-vocalist, emo/screamo punk trio coming in from Nashville, with more elongated compositions than your average punk jams, seemingly to harness the emotional spiel, but “punk’d” enough in experimental guitar shriek and vocal amplitude to fit right in at the TN vestige-of-its-kind punk house, The Crossroads, on Lebanon Pike, as the intensity of Linwood’s “Delusions of Progress,” stops as soon as it starts, then punk-screams back into this math-tinged/polarity-scaled, robotic counter melody to the drum’s tap crash.  They’re emo/screamo punk. 

2:25, “Thanks. We’re Linwood (muffled mic audio and crowd murmurs). 

They’d been pushing a tryptic of introductory EP fillers called Cupid Demos (DIY released, Feb. ‘21), but opened the Jan. 29, 2022 Cxr show, almost a year later, with “Delusions of Progress,” followed by, to the effect of, a proto-version of the following track “Rhea Surge,” on their, then, being worked out for studio recording, Shadows of Progress, recorded and mixed @/released out of American Weekend (Sam Winiger), June 24, 2022 (https://linwoodband.bandcamp.com/), both making practice-debuts from Linwood’s follow-up second EP.   

Linwoods sounds a hardcore, gutteral screamo + Can (with the bass), but on a 90-degree math-rock rule at the choruses and bridges, with sharper, Thursday influence in feel and structure. They still bounce around screaming, but to some pretty mathy, and two thousand aughts guitar for their more-complex-than-punk song structure. Can be jazzy when everyone’s counter melodies coincide with the bass’ chorus to cresendo, too. Teamwork. 

[ ??–Nonetheless, the difference within Circuit Circuit’s two years, or between the two EP’s, is good growth.

A little more sophistication in presentation, while maintaining the lo-fi, DIY accessible virtues within their studio production, engineered and mixed by Sam Winiger, is all can really ask.  ??where meant?]

(~10:00) “Sorry about that quiet part. Y’all were getting into it, and we were like, ‘nope’” (crowd laughs), “but this one goes hard all the way through, so y’all can get into this one…,” Robbie (Possibly Eli, or Sean), of Linwood, says. 

[ 10:20, Lily, “Can I go outside?” 

F&P: Yeah. ]

Linwood singer: …All right, I thought it was a different song, but you can still go hard to it.  

[ 10:40, Lillian: Sorry, that was making my stomach hurt].

10:43, Linwood’s seeming Sonic Youth-inspired track picks up, “Himorogi Branch,” from Cupid Demos. 

13:26, after “Himorogi…”: “Thank you for coming. Thanks to Crossroads for having us. This place is nice. We’ve never been here. I think this is our first time being in Murfreesboro, too. Really cool feel,” says Linwood vocals, Robbie (possibly Eli, or Sean).

“We got, like, three more? This one’s one or our covers…” 

-All illegible screaming, drums, bass and guitar blasts, right off the bat, that are historically used to beat up any structure, or emphasize a stern “fck you” to the audience.

[ 16:53 – dude on porch, “I had this vape in my pocket. I don’t know where the fck it went.” 

Lily: “We can go back in, now, if you want…” 

F&P: Okay… ]

Linwood, after song: “Circuit Circuit invited us here, and they’re so awesome. Thank you (Crowd cheers) They’re so cool.  Ah, [I accidentally live ate some pasta (?)”   

“We got two more? ‘Good night…” and “Forever Young?’” 

Linwood breaks into the penultimate track, “Goodnight Alibi,” from Shadows Like Water. 

20:43 -and for their last song, they down-tune for effect. 

21:00, Linwood, in Bowen Yang voice (Robbie, possibly Eli, or Sean), “All right cool. This has been really fun. Thank you. Thank you all for being here. This is so many people in here, holy shit (crowd, “woot!”). This is frckn awesome. 

Linwood plays out the ultimate, “Dread Corrupter,” released as a single, out June 17, 2022, to become last track on latest Shadow Like Water EP, June 24, 2022. Their debut, Angel Demos, was released Feb. 2021.

–Linwood, through DIY, building your catalogue over the course of a couple-years’ push, released the EP they were at-the-time working on, with a song in there from Cupid Demos.  Cool way to workshop/sneak-debut an album, to an already receptive crowd in a six-song set, sneak-playing their EP which was, at the time, being recorded in-studio, plus a cover, and an old, first EP track thrown in for the Jan. 29, 2022, CxR set. 

24:24, crowd member, or Ethan: Hey, did somebody drop a phone? I found a phone, if anybody dropped it. It is cracked… No? [lost objects are placed on top of the PA/amp, next to door front door] ..There you go.  

Ethan, on mic: Also –Oh, yeah- Just like that, Revenge Bodies, from Arkansas, is up next, and I have the tip bucket. Put money in the tip bucket (crowd: chatter picks back up). 

26:23, Crowd member/searcher, “Hey, did anybody find a watermelon Esco?”  

Another crowd member, “what’s that?” 

Searcher, “-like an Escobar vape…” 

Another another crowd member mumbles a find. 

Searcher, “Helllll yeah.” 

Crowd chatter picks back up and turns to porch chatter, going outside (“…is that a thai place?” to people talking about booking bands, “bro, do you have my lotion?!” -to “Heyo, there’s cops” (31:00). 

“31:14, “Hey-yo, if anybody’s smoking anything, put it away. Cops are here!” 

Chatter, “What?” “Oh, great” “I need my stuff.” “Do you know where my car is?” (31:34) Front door closed. 

Sherrif officers walk down the driveway   

“Y’all parked at the dollar general?” -the cops came out that night (32:00) 

“Yeah,” a front yard girl said. 

“No, no. I’m right there [in front yard].” 

“Cool,” cop said. 

“Anybody parked at Dollar General?” he turned to others. 

“Yeah,” “Yes,” “I did,” chimed in some front yard girls. 

“Move your car to the gas station, or the school, right there.” 

  “Okay,” the girls said. 

Immediately on the PA in the house, “Hey, y’all, listen up. If you parked at the Dollar General, move yo shit. There’s a school, right here, with a huge parking lot. That’s fair game, and I think the gas station is cool, but if not, [you can always park at the school]. Mostly, park at the school, whatever you want… […] Move yo shit from Dollar General. Unless you got a receipt, then you can be, like… 

Crowd member: “I got a receipt…” 

[Editor’s note: As of the Boro Fondo, 2024 dates, the Crossroads Market clerk said to, “hey, is it cool if I park at the end parking spots, over here, to run across the street. I’m not gonna be past 9 or 10…” He said, to the effect of, “that’s cool, but not for a long time because we’re closing at 10,” but I was buying weed, too].  

35:24 (a couple minutes later), CxR porch-reasoning ensues: 

“Well, we played DrkMttr back in December, and they tell us to park at the Dollar General, and then they started towing people,” an unknown band member said. 

[…] “I went up to someone, like, ‘guys, there’s nowhere to park. You need to tell someone. I’m like, I guess no one helped them!” 

“Damn,” responded another. 

33:20, bands still loading and unloading, “Oh, shit!” -boots and cases clanging up the steps. 

“So where do we go,” someone going to move their car asks. 

“You just go over there. There’s a huge parking lot,” folks helped him out. 

35:59, “Yeah, it should be okay,” a member of the house says… 

“Yeah, the first time I dealt with the cops […] they were cool,” someone mumbles in the background. 

A member of the house/knowledgable Cxr personnel: “If the cops do show up, though, they’re not coming in the house, y’know. They know the drill. They’ve been here before…”  

“They never give a sht. They’re too fckn spooked…” another front yard person says. 

[…] Helpful household member: “Like, if you’re really holding something hot, and you have it a little bit, but, like, other than that, you’re okay.”

[Audio goes back inside. Crowd chatter, and sets/band’s instruments being switched out]. 

[Back outside, porch]. 

37:41, porch chatter, “This…I think that I’m worried I wouldn’t get to hang where I used to be just, like, punk…  

“But, yeah, this is not a different venue. This is a weird venue,” someone responded. 

Picture-wise, we stayed for the remainder, until somehow rocking out of that pot holey driveway, following Revenge Bodies (description and pictures), and Circuit Circuit (Pics, Pulse review). 

Don’t forget about the additional lead singer of Circuit Circuit being adamant of anti-groping, to the effect of, “a guy who someone has accused is here, and you better not fckn do it,” looking right at him.

Linwood can (also) be found across the icons at Amazon Music, iHeart, Tidal, Boomplay, Pandora, YouTube Music, and don’t forget, https://linwoodband.bandcamp.com/.  

Revenge Bodies full catalogue can be found at https://revengebodies.bandcamp.com/, with social updates and future dates at https://www.facebook.com/Revbods9/ (Facebook), and https://www.instagram.com/revengebodieslr/ (instagram).

–Earplugs were a wise idea for this January 29, 2022, show and CxR, in general. The high, painful frequencies are pretty bad in certain spots, as these small, box rooms are typically/simply set up best to eliminate feedback. Next to walls can be bad, depending where the amp across the room is facing.

Local cXr Press:

[ On August 5, 2023, Folk & Proper spoke with an, at the moment, Wrekt drummer, Ethan Rose, head coordinating resident/operator of Crossroads Punk House, owner/operator of FFRecords (FunkyFrankensteinRecords), and multi-insturmentalist for multiple local, punk bands, to which he described a local publication had done an article on him in the past (later, this article, in Punk Prom audio, “Anyway, ETHAN ROSE INTERVIEW/Tiny Black Flag (Bolgna Pogna), W Main St 12 (17:52).”

-What Ethan was referring was an article written by Logan Langlois of The Tennessee Tribune Ethan: ]

“CXR: The Cornerstone of Murfreesboro Punk Rock”

Logan Langlois, The Tennessee Tribune, January 13, 2023

MURFREESBORO, TN — Local music scenes taking place in the surrounding areas of the internationally famous ‘Music City’ often get overlooked in local reporting. In these spaces around Nashville, more alternative expression is allowed and even becomes treasured by fiercely loyal communities in the counterculture. One such community which has also seen an explosion in popularity recently is the Murfreesboro punk scene.  

This new exposure has brought about a new wave of rabid audience members and bands fueling the audience’s mosh pits, but the boom has surprisingly not led to an increase in venues hosting concerts. In fact, most punk shows in Murfreesboro typically happen within the walls of one house venue, CXR (pronounced “crossroads”), a venue which is run by two of the most respected punks in the Murfreesboro scene, Ethan Rose and Scout Red.  

“The moment right now is definitely very Crossroads-centric … by sheer fact that we had a long period of a monopoly on the house shows ‘cause we’re the only ones … doing them anymore,” said Ethan with a dry belch from their chest.  

Ethan began booking for the operators of the already-popular CXR house venue a little while before the torch was eventually passed to them in 2019. Scout would move into CXR a year and a half later in September of 2020, originally sleeping in the house’s library room on an old, filthy. Scout would eventually make their way into a vacant space upstairs when the room’s previous occupants moved out. 

“It’s not really a living environment that you ask to move into. You kinda get like invited … that’s what happened with me, and I love it ‘cause … I think first time I came to Crossroads was like 2018 … and … instantly fell in love with it ‘cause it’s just, like [a] feeling of community and family. Flash forward a few years and now I live here and it’s a really, like, kind of surreal experience.”  

Within the overall community and general sense of family, the two say that the shows which take place at CXR are largely “unhinged” and that “you never know what you’re going to get.” They also said the newest influx of people in the punk scene has been the youngest crowd they’ve ever seen, which they believe has to do with the punk subculture becoming a trend on TikTok over the 2020 COVID quarantine. After the quarantine lifted, some of the first interactions that this new younger audience had in over a year would be the punk shows they sought out because of TikTok. Many would quit coming after just a few shows, but still, others would choose to stay after identifying with and finding acceptance in the local punk scene.  

CXR has also been increasingly hosting rap shows on a regular basis, showing support for any music which represents counterculture, the underclass, and raises social issues. Rapper Kandi Lake was even recently quoted as saying “I haven’t done one at Crossroads yet, but I really want to. I feel like that’d be super dope. I like the energy that it has.”  

CXR can be found on social media under @cxr_punkhouse on Instagram. Shows are also posted under the Facebook group Murfreesboro House Show Alliance, a page that hosts promotions for all Murfreesboro house shows. CXR: The Cornerstone of Murfreesboro Punk Rock – The Tennessee Tribune.
Logan Langois @The Tennessee Tribune’s story has an accompanying sub-reddit, “CXR: The Cornerstone of Murfreesboro Punk Rock,” on the r/murfreesboro thread, posted 2y ago from tntribune.com, by u/d00fus666.

And, a fuller view of what Ethan does at the Crossroads (and the transition into his curatorship):

And, the into-the-Twenty Twenties-transition, as previous generation passes the lot: 

Crossroads/CXR Facebook page, Ethan and Scout takeover, April 22, 2022 

So, with the mix, breadth, and coverage of a “burgeoning scene,” either coming around, coming back around, or simply peaking its head out from the underground, again, August 5, 2023’s Punk Prom, at Panther Creek Brews (714 W. Main, now —- ——) was a great collective of local/area screechos coming out of the storage units to get some sun, post-pandemic …presented by Boro Fondo.

Now, Boro Fondo is a long-running, area-staple organization that started out getting drunk on a bike and seeing how late into the night the municipality’s tolerance would stretch, but through evolution -a couple of generations (as one takes enough time for knees to start hurting, all-the-while, the kids made at Boro Fondo’s grow older and take interest in organizing them)-Boro Fondo has become an organizational, force-to-be-reckoned, as they’re on par with the banks in their own, self-run economy sustainable by social good grace/access to like-passioned help, merch and ticket/door sales and donations, and sometimes, emotional catharsis. At the drop of an act, or a rain drop, these volunteers, learning from one another, over the years (about fifteen to twenty of them), of the active Twenty Twenties Boro Fondo, can re-arrange, mix from scratch, or conjure, a weekend festival, on-the-fly, or much less to them, an all-out, one night, rager-lineup (and maintenance) just to help chip in for those purposes.

These guys are your Hambones, and Alexes, and Jasons, and Micah’s, John McGhee’s and Chase McCutchersons, and Lee Roberts, and his bartenders, Mary and Haley, as well as ——– at the Campus Pub. They run your after hours cleaning services for MTSU, drive your buses, sell your Hispanic neighbors homes, work for MTSU, itself, or simply have full time jobs at recording engineer studios, with the time and accessibililty to span the breadth of what a vast group of folks in a town can come up with, musically, to add to the annals and footprints.

{ In waves, since the early aughts/the last twenty years, the area has also been a steppingstone from Murfreesboro to an generationally popularizing Nashville, an admirable, and closest, hoppin’ metropolis for the young’ns in Music City -and even, better opportunities to raise families and excel at pharmacy, in the past- but since about the times of Boro Fondo’s inception in 2013, the waves from a new, and nationally recognized, Recording Industry Major, within MTSU, that bolstered state-of-the-art MIDI equipment/technology (digital), of the turn of the millennia, were rocking out to a burgeoning-to-thriving East Nashville scene, harboring a new mecca for area-alt. rock, and especially alt. rock country, as that was just the makings for the stew being made there, at the time. Twenty years has passed, and we’ve got folks like The Protomen, an, in hindsight, aptly-named, original Murfreesboro, Nintendo-core/hardcore-to-arena rock stage show, all the way to folks like Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, who have become quintessential, and quixotic, East Nashville, over the past 20 years, now showing a result of what folks that moved up there bright eyed and bushy tailed would become, over time, with their latest release, Woodland (August 2024, out of Woodland Studios, East Nashville).

It was a good mix of productive community before woo-girls and Broadway became a crucial tourism attraction, and a necessity to thrive, to some, but when MTSU kids could move on to the next step, which was into the Nashville of the aughts and teens to be neighbors, as they moved into adulthood, and in a way, the formation of Boro Fondo was the start of a zeitgeist, as the previous scene, seemingly and eventually, collected remnants of itself -punk rock and metal kids- growing into it, to resurge, and fill the vacuum of the previous generation’s musical and migratory habits. The previous generation didn’t inhibit this. Punk and Metal were an obvious choice, and they took it.]

The previous generation didn’t inhibit it. The Punk/Metal was just an obvious choice, such a neglected kid, and the kid took it, not giving a shit.

Boro Fondo came in to organize all that anarchy and chaos of what was left.

Boro Fondo’s event production and coverage spanned from the MTSU and Murfreesboro Proper neighborhoods, and the, now, referred, “Boro-Muda Triangle,” which entails the three-bar crawl on Greenland, between The Campus Pub, Gentleman Jim’s, and The Boro Bar & Grill, down to The [north] Bottoms area, with Chrome Halo, Graveyard Gallery, and what was Panther Creek Brews. From there, a bike ride or carpool could lead all the way out to CxR shows, at the Walter Hill line, and the other way, to any stop on any past, present, and future Boro Fondo festival houses that have sprinkle-mapped Murfreesboro’s area’s arts cultivation for a dozen years. It’s wild seeing their bike mob swell the single lane bridge traveling next to what was MayDay Brewery, or walking out to go to work, and realizing your house became a stop for a show, all of a sudden.

As for the Twenties, the carrier-onners, organizers, and cleaner-uppers came up against a different task than trying to stay up on a bike until the end of the night, and were maneuvering to suffice a need/scratch an itch of that goofy-ass, young scene’s existence: To make people’s lives better having fun participating in the world, and especially with cool sht that’s just laying around, like hardcore music and angst.

[ Even during the global Covid Pandemic that made up the early 2020’s, the layover from the previous generation from the twenty-teens, were still maneuvering, just to suffice the itch. ]

[ The annual Boro Fondo Festival, where usually one to three “In,” “Out,” and “Always,” bands would play volunteering, local scene affiliates’ businesses and houses from the Murfreesboro Proper area, for example, traveled to and fro via an organized, scheduled, en masse traffic jam of mostly fixed gear bike hipsters, clinging to the side of the road since the organization’s inception in 2013 occurred during a popularity of East Nashville culture, and that TN mix of Music City of the weird, popular cities of the time, such as Portland, or Austin -just to a Tennessean degree, but the 2020 bike ride was held online, postponed until a projected Sept. 2021 (Boro Fondo 8), due to the pandemic, starting the Twenty-Twenties. ]

For the 2020 Boro Fondo Festival, when pandemia was still just setting in and the festival was intended to carry on, like always, around the time of year Boro Fondo usually ramps up, March-early April:

…Even still posting applications for vendors and volunteers to help out at each stop, April 1…

But, Pandemia was setting in

An April to August 2020 time-jump:

However, there’s Adaptability

And Organization…

The Boro Fondo organization started taking submissions at the beginning of August for “5-20 minute video[s] to be a part of BORO FONDO VIRTUAL TELETHON EXTRAVAGANZA,” sent to the organization’s borofondo@gmail.com account, “and are due a month and a half later, on September 14th.

“If you don’t have the capability to make a decent video on your own, contact us and we MIGHT be able make arrangements to help you record your set,” Boro Fondo said, *August 1, 2020, Boro Fondo Facebook page announcement.

“Boro Fondo is totally ONLINE (and a rights reserved mark) this year! Watch the stream starting TOMRROW AT NOON on the Boro Fondo Festive page , Murfreesboro House Show Alliance [WILL COME UP LATER] or the Boro Fondo YouTube Channel,” said the-day-before announcement, Boro Fondo FB page, Sept. 25, 2020!

(Band sub-genric descriptions: Big, if True – alt., contemporary adult, grunge pop goof-punk; Billy Batts & The Made Men – straight hardcore punk from ATL; Black Market Kidney Surgeon – deepthroat crossover thrash-crust; Brantwood – smooth-indie, garage psych rock; Casual Sects – alt. sadboi grunge pop; Betty Vou Plait -acoustic ukelele folk; Commander Keen – Cookeville indie stoner surf; Death of Self – hardcore, Chicago speed-punk needing bass; Dusty Whytis – solo-“banjo-picking, guit.-fiddling hobo” songbird; Flummox – Love; Fugly Screw & The 2×4’s – Goodlettsville/Nashville ska punk; jack – backroom, Video Culture, pogo-stoner metal; Jake Kroll – way post punk, staple-local; Jibber Jabber – pop-pogo problems; Justin Scott Riffs – inst. arena rock-metal riffage; Karate Chad – alt. dreampop shoegaze; LizardBrain – ?; Local 58 – chain punk violence; Maiden Mother Crone – experimental, wall of sound shoegaze; Max Moss – solo picked guitar beat-hop; Methdad – Murf. passion electronica; Mr. and the Mrs. – married punk; Nuclear Bubble Wrap – alt. Spongebob covers; Neptune the Mystic – industrial, smyphonic metal; Regdar and The Fighters – box noise TMBG head chatter; E. Roy Lee – Nashville vestige mutant punk).

The full 2020 Boro Fondo Festival can be found here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPifXSbWDj0, as a testament to adaptation, and powering through.

After a bit of reminiscence and radio silence on the Boro Fondo Festival Facebook page for the remaining 2020 (par for the course, every year. Facebook posts after the big Boro Fondo event are pretty much pictures everyone took, then waiting for the next gear-up after the New Years) …2021 rolled around. …with Pandemia anticipated:

Stir-back events like a two day, summer, “Welcome Back Fest,” July 9th and 10th were posted mid-April 2021, at The Kitchen (1311 Minerva Blvd.), with sets by “Jake Kroll (ft. Joey Glisson & Sterling Walpert)(“local teenage jangle punx”), Honey Dagger (New project, ft. members of Shin Kira) (“DIY post-punk diddly widdlys”), This is A Thing (“Honky tonkin’ alt country cowboiz”), The Return of: Casual Sects (“grungy tweepop & Pixies worship – first live show since 2018!”), and Karate Chad (“washed out and vibin’”); while day two, out at the Crossroads (6097 Lebanon Rd.), had sets of Local 58 (“angsty savant garage thrash”), Nuclear Bubble Wrap (“weird music for weird people”), Scorched Vatika (“extra crispy heavy jams”), Spinning Lodge (“shreddy and to the ready”), Shin-Kira (“kings of the pit”), Toxic Culture (“dislikes authority”), Thetan (“loud”), and a surprise super group of all this madness, to top.

Online announcements proceeded as normal with the Boro Fondo organization taking band and artist applications, with a flyer made, April. 19th, 2021, and setting Boro Fondo’s dates to Septembers 25, and 26, intended for outside, again.

[ BORO FONDO, MURREESEORO Tn 9/25 – 9/26 2021

[Okay, band subgenric descriptions: AMPITHEATRE – ANTLER HOPKINS BE GOOD ELLIOT BIG, IF TRUE BLACK MARKET KIDNEY SURGEON BLUE WILLOW BON MI BRANTWOOD CAPITAUST DEATH CULT CASEY JO AND THE FRIDAY NIGHT DAD”S • CASUAL SECTS CIRCUIT CIRCUIT • COURTNEY: DAEDALUS-DAWSON ROYALTY.

DOWN BOY • EVAN NEPTUNE – FABLE CRY -FIVE TON FACES

GALLSTONES GHOST TOWN REMEDY – GLAMPER

HONEY DAGGER-JACK. JAKE KROLL FKARATE CHAD KENTUCKY DERBY CON MAN-LIZZARDBRAIN LOS SWAMP MONSTERS MEDUSA’S HAIRDRESSER MIDNIGHT TRUST – MY WALL NEPTUNE THE MYSTIG-NO LOVES

NORTH PACIFIC NUCLEAR BUBBLE WRAP FOITAKUS

QUALLS SAFETY CAT SATURDAYS HEADLINERS SHIN KIRA)

SHANNON MCNEIL-SIDELINE HEROES – SPINNING LODGE

THE DIRTY DELUSIONS THINGS INHELL-TOMATO JAKE

VENUES IN ORDERI

MOAB FORMER LITTLE THEATRE- YELADOOR

ACE SIGN – CENTURY 21- THE KITCHEN

METEOR MAJEURE THE BORO

CAMPUS PUB& CROSSROADS

SPONSORED BY CHROME HALO TATTOO & PIERCING JACKS GUITARCHEOLOGY, BORO PULSE, FF RECORDS CONCERT PRODUCTION & FORREST YORK GUITARS ]

–Another April to August time-jump in posts, like last year, to the effect of only a “recent societal apocalypse,” disclaimer, as no route had been designated [in 2022], and had “some bands drop, and a couple were added […] omitting the Little Theatre Stop [end of Ewing, R.I.P.]. -And splitting those bands between Boro Fondo affiliate venues, local DIY bike shop, MOAB (was on square, but moved to the Memorial, Goodwill shopping center), as well as house show venue, YelaDoor.

But, Then…

And much like the usual process, and much like bands breaking into/building up the scene, year to year (like Circuit Circuit), the same process for 2022 -submitting applications (in July, this year, though, and open for a month), through Sept. 24th-25th, 2022’s dates and venues were established…

To help fund 2022’s event, Grace and Glory Tattoos, and Muddy Roots, and findahomeintn.com (all Jason Galaz) were added on, with Jack’s Guitarcheology (Casual Sects frontman, Jack Brunson’s guitar shop), Gnarly Prints, Chrome Halo (Skate Shop), Level 13 (hair studio), and Monty’s Barbershop, all joined the scene to inhibit growth and like-minded comradery/community with the Murfreesboro Punk/Metal scene.

…and the 2022 flyer was made.

Boro Fondo 2022 logo art, Bee from @spinninglodge

The full/fully updated schedule was announced Sept. 7, 2022, just three weeks until set dates, and an quick reference, Sept. 19, 2022, on the FB page (as well as flyer for each stops along the way):

The Route was mapped…

And, of course, a couple of disclaimers/thankfully not Pandemia announcements:

And, then…

The pandemic, y’ant shuttin’ them down!

Bands like Los Swamp Monsters were coming down from their early Maryland punk and rock scene exposure to play with the rising, Big, If True: a couple, local-area goofballs; The Daddy Sisters (Bowling Green glam punk); and Weak Daze (——), at stop three –Panther Creek Brews on W. Main- while Local 58 and Toxic Culture (a couple of always bands) were inviting in Skeetzo N’ Krysis (psycho metal) for the Chrome Halo shows (other end of W. Main), at stop four.

Le Honkey Chateau (formerly Joey’s House), at 74 N Church, with Sleepy Giants (—- —-), Anthony J Milan (—– _——-), and Still Satellite (—- —–), had Recyclops, a local trash and recycling pick up service for the event, to help out with some macro-global matters.

Aye Mammoth made their first appearance in the twenties at stop 7 of Boro Fondo 2022, at the newest venue, Houseland, a spur of the moment venue whipped up out of necessity for the event, this year, at 463 Evergreen St.

[ –Jason Galaz began sponsoring his award-winning realty venture, findahomeintn.com, in which he’s bridged Hispanic communities, and others, with the American housing market process, 2023. Billboards towards Chatt, on I-24🤘
https://nashvillevoyager.com/interview/exploring-life-business-with-jason-galaz-of-muddy-roots/]

[ -Another reason for pointing out the breadth and swath of the bike traffic cell that Boro Fondo is to consider the mileage this fixed-herd covered. Impressive. ]

[ ==Calculate mileage, including if anyone trekked to Cxr… ]

[ -and had those pics and clips going until the end of November, and another radio silence until March the next year (caluculate mileage)(somebody’s fitbit stats?) ]

[What happened 2023 leading up to this?] [Murfreesboro House Alliance Show intro, showing what’s going on during the beginning of the year, through Boro Fondo?]

-But, Boro Fondo did it again, in 2023, too (just a different stress).

All right, back to Punk Prom, By January 2023, the pandemic was ending, and the scene carried on as even-more-normaler, but still young, and now, cross dressing:

[What happened 2023 leading up to this?, possibly a section in Pt. 2, introducing House Show Alliance in 2023 (how far thread go back?)]

Punk Prom was advertised by mid-June on the Boro Fondo Facebook page, scheduled for August 5, 2023, at Panther Creek Brews, down by the W. Main St. train depot, and during all the vendor and artist application process the Boro Fondo organizers endure up until that point, every year, preparing for Boro Fondo around Septembers.

This first major event outside of the pandemic was presented by Boro Fondo, and sponsored by Muddy Roots, Ace Sign Co., and Concert Production, Far Too Loud AV/DJ, Jack Guitarchealogy, Gnarly Prints, and Silly Goose Patches, Fondo planner, Robyn ——‘s jacket, and anything, patch business (“patch-sion job😁) -as well as the first sponsoring by Graveyard Gallery (next to Chrome Halo and in bottoms with Panther Creek, by early August.

[ and who would eventually, with the help of the Murfreesboro House Show Alliance’s Facebook thread, introduce me to Aly Dellinger of Flummox) .

-Flummox’ 2020 Boro Fondo video screenshots, or House Show Alliance thread pics of her 30th birthday flyer

-Applications for Boro Fondo band and vendors closed at the end of June.]

[ start Punk Prom here, using Alex’ photos with yours, if can:

Alex was first mentiond taking photos at Punk Prom photographer, Aug 6 2023 post; it’s @lexistagramasm, @c.sheffield_art, and @sillygoosepatches

Alex’ Aug 9th photos (contrast) (in pics), Boro Fondo pics with the last band at Panther with girl drummer, again, before moving off, scheduling the New Years bash, already, and a much remembrance posts of the two days of Boro Fondo 2023 (1st day, —-, 2nd day hangover fest out at Ethan’s) (mud wrestling pic in fb link) ]

[Back to] Punk Prom, Presented by Boro Fondo, Panther Creek Brews, August 5, 2023, Murfreesboro, TN:

Recording: West Main St. 10, Aug. 5, 2023 (5:40, length): walking up. 

F&P, :56: “Do I get tickets here?” ($10, csah) 

Door: “Yes.” 

1:00, Oi!-Takus (Slyme, lead vocals): This next song is about being a nerd [and not getting away with it/being away with]. It’s called, “Nerd Rage.”  

“Yipee-Oiiiiiiiii, I got nothin’ but Nerd Rage, my boi!” into fast-paced [cali?], oi-oi punk. 

***Dude, @ 2:00, the train goes through to this song. Fck yeah. 

2:40 – 3:15, Hayden: “THis next one’s about the greatest anime of all time! [Jake!(?) Jinks? Bleach??!]”  

-Oi!takus’ “King Of The Hill Is Best Anime”   

3:08, seamlessly/through a machine gun snare count up, (SLyme, “GO!”), “M.C.F.G.” (Music City Freaks and Geeks). 

=crowd chants along, then seamlessly (only can tell the transitions by subtle change in bass line, as he doesn’t say anything…) into 

-4:27, Spyke, “You guys fckn stiiink!”/Oi!takus’ “Shower Chan.” 

5:19, “WHat?! You’re going to Punk Prom? Wear some fckn deoderant!”  

Audio cuts after the five songs to, “Fuck Olli Got?” Fuck All he got?” *“Fuck Oligarchs!?” (That is Hayden’s voice👉) .

Members in video include: 

Also, a little wrap up of what they were up to at the time/that year (I mean, they’re practice space is in Murf, but what shows and venues have they been frequenting? 

Ex: The Oi!Takus had been working/gigging/touring with their debut, The Oi!takus – EP, a six-track, pogo-punk rager, since July, 2021, and leading up to their second releases, How To Date An Anime Girl, June, 2022. 

[by increasingly adding new tracks to their sets over the course of time they’re written and practiced –leading up to ]

“W. Main St. 11” audio (15:41), Punk Prom, Panther Creek Brewery, 8/5/23:  

Audio opens, crowd chatter (pic from back of picnic tables)  

:15 “How you doin’ tonight?!” (crowd woots), :28 “It’s fckn hot,” continues Spike Slyme .

“Shout out to everyone that dressed up, tonight, … you know, considering what day it is,” Spike said. 

“This next one’s about dressing up. This one’s called “Cosplay Girl,” a song kinda structured like The Melvin’s “Punk Rock Girl,” with some grindier verses, and puns intended, Oi-Oi punk, chanting “Just You, Me, and My Giiiiirlllll!!!!” 

3:20: Thank You! We’ve got two more! 

“And, on the topic.. of of, like, not –[er] on the topic of “Possible,” Possibly is not consent, doesnt matter what you’re into, the way you’re dressed, and eating mushu corn…,” Oi!takus guitarist, Hayden Gist says. 

“This goes to abusers, as well. Keep your hands to your fckn self,” Spike says (the third band’s lead singer at CxR, 1/29/22, was adamant about no groping, too. Even said, someone was in the room right then, and they know who they are.  very intent, evil eyes on that one (frontman standard? passionate about it within the scene) 

3:38, Oi!Takus goes into scene-anthemic, “Hands To Yourself,” from their second album, How To Date An Anime Girl. 

5:45, Hayden, “Thank You!” (crowd cheers); Oi!Takus seamlessly transitions into The Oi!takus EP’s “Manga Man,” closing out the set. 

6:50, Hayden, “Sing it with us!!! (Crowd chants into chaos, “Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!” thourgh crescendo, bridge, vocalist thrash rasping outro, and all. “OOOOoiiiiiiiiii!” 

7:38, Hayden “Thank you. This is my time. Stick around for all the rest of the bands.  

F&P starts walking inside for water.  

7:50, Hayden, from back at the back garage/stage area, “This water sucks, dude!” 

Somebody with mic, “Heard that,” (Crowd chatter, then walking around). 

8:30, inside Panther Creek, in line at bar (crowd chatter), There are some, “Uh, muh Gah. Every time I…” and “I think that…”’s happening, with some giggles and laughs, next to the railroad tracks. […] “Shit kicks ass,” “Shit kicks swamp’s ass,” “SHit’s swampy,” -a table of yard girls.  

10:01, F&P to Spike Slyme, frontman of Oi!takus, in line: “Good show, dude.” 

Slyme: ‘Preciate it. 

F&P: Good show. Are you from Murfreesboro? Nashville area? 

Slyme: We’re based out of Murfreesboro. Our practice space is here in Murfreesboro, so that’s pretty much where we’re based. I’m live out of Cookeville, though, about an hour and a half away.” 

F&P: Okay, that’s pretty cool (F&P buys us some waters).  

Slyme: I really appreciate that. 

F&P: You’re very welcome. 

[…] 11:13, both of us walking outside, F&P: Oop. Sorry. I’m trying… I didn’t know you were following me.] 

Slyme: Oh, my bad. I was jumping in here from….  

F&P: …So, you guys all come out of Cookeville? 

 Slyme: I come out of Cookeville. Most of us either live in Murfreesboro, or in Nashville. 

F&P: I gotcha. 

Slyme: The Green… -Our bassist lives in [Greenborough area?] 

F&P: So, just a good collective of Middle, and Almost Eastern Tn. 

Slyme: Yeah, I mean, I grew up around here, so that’s why this is my scene. I live in Cookeville, now. I went up there because I went to TN Tech before I dropped out a few years later.  

F&P: There you go. Sometimes that happens. 

Slyme: And, it’s cheaper to live there than it is to live here, so… 

F&P: Well, it sounded good, dude. I like “Punk Rock Girl,” as always. -I’ll talk to you in a little bit. 

Passing someone, walking by?:  “That –that, trying to play something that everybody knows….” -deeper voice, just passing by.  

Slyme: Thank you.  

 13:05 (pics, 6:30PM) F&P to Merch Table: You guys… 

Girl at desk: I’m movin’. 

F&P: It’s all right. You guys mind if I take pictures of the merch table? 

Merch girl: Of course. Yeah. 

F&P: I appreciate you much. 

Merch girl: We’re raffling all these items off, and the patches are “pay what you want” (PWYW). 

F&P: Okay. So, this is raffle stuff? 

Raffle and patch girl:  Yes.  

F&P: That’s awesome. 

Merch table girl: Including the skull. We’re raffling off the disco skull. 

F&P: Nice. Hopefully no one mistakes it for a pinata! 

Merch girl, laughs, (crowd chatter) 

13:39, bumping into folks being super polite, crowd chatter, PA blastin’ shreds,  

13:44, merch table girls get high pitched greeting, when someone shows up. Guy, “I’m glad I brought this shitty t-shirt with me.” 

14:20, Crowd chatter, outside, fans, …” not part of the cards, ‘What’s That Stench?”, “One time, becuse Ansel? still had to go to Atlanta…”, and another shriek n’ greet, “Oh my gaad!” 

14:58, -you can tell its someone’s phone plugged into the PA.  

[Writer’s note: The first licks of Lit’s “My Own Worst Enemy,” come on, and a girl close to me in the back, “Aww!” before being cut off by someone changing the track, real quick.  Song’s first opening chords, still memorable, and affecting the youth, like Jimmy Buffet and Rupert Holcomb songs]. 

[***Editor’s time travel, back to the present, December 7, 2024 note:  

…The song they quickly changed it to, from Lit, I actually think person controlling the playlist on the PA, it’s one of the members of Big, If True –recent Pulse Review, October 2024 (https://boropulse.com/2024/10/big-if-true-i-can-see-my-house-from-here/). When I Shazam’d the audio recording on iPhone, it pulled up the background song at Panther Creek at that moment as “Timekeeper,” from Big, If True’s 3^rd studio/1^st full length, Sorry, We’re Not Better. Big if True is so scene! 😀] 

–Anyway… Got some water. It tasted wonderful.



BOlogNa PogNA: TINY BLACK FLAG HAPPENS

At the time, they were just a bologna pogna[, but little did I know my mind’s melding them being the scene’s Black Flag,] before hearing Blane’s voice, but from there, publishing the Nashville/Ryman and Hatch issue (Winter 2023, Folk & Proper physical Newspaper) learned me/taught about Emmylou Harris’ grammy winning, 1992, Live at the Ryman album, which saved Nashville’s abandoned gospel tabernacle-to-societally-abandoned building down on 5th Ave. It tied together the notion to reach out to Bologna Pogna bassist, Scout Red Cerveny, about producing an album of theirs in order to review it for The Pulse, and hard-to-believe, but find out, that’d would’ve been Bologna Pogna’s first recorded anything, according to Scout.

[I was introduced to Bolgna Pogna, who forever facilitated my own organizational, and philanthropic prowess, as they showed crazy ideas are possible and can happen, and get this, …DIY!- And they will forever be tiny-Black Flag, lost to forever, now. ]

-Bologna Pogna appeared at Muddy Roots the following September 3, 2023, hucking bologna across a field in Cookeville, TN, while raging Proper Punk at 11 am on a Sunday morning. It was angelic unto itself, as they say. 

Anyway, [back to] ETHAN ROSE INTERVIEW/Tiny Black Flag (Bolgna Pogna), W Main St 12 (17:52, length) recording: 

…Crowd chatter like, “Ah, Should I get two beers??”, until 2:22: 

F&P: Ethan, right? 

Ethan Rose: Yeah. 

F&P: I think I’ve talked to you once before and it was to get permission to come over to crossroads with my teenager. 

Ethan: Oh, cool. 

F&P: I’ve been meaning to talk to you for a long time, but I caught you right when, I guess she’s about to raffle off, so I’ll talk to you in a second.. 

Ethan: Ok. 

2:46, on Mic: All right! (mic levels way loud) (crowd hewhews) We have baskets that look like this, with little papers on them that you can use to vote for “Prom Thing.” We will be crowning a “Prom Thing,” at the end of the night. You will win a special hat (crowd laughs, wewws). 

Please cast your ballots at the front. Thank you,” Merch/organizer says. 

“Hey, talk about the raffle,” said audience member. 

Emcee (Robyn?): “We’re supposed to have a raffle! We’re going to be raffling off this disco skull that Lexi made. We’re gonna be raffling off a Gnarly Prints, little basket; art by Casey Sheffield, and the little raccoon poster.  Tickets are a dollar. You can buy as many as you want, just hold onto your stub, and we will also announce four winners at the end of the night. 

–crowd, a couple of ‘yeah!’s 

3:46, F&P: All right, so anyway… Local journalist. I’ve been writing for The Pulse, for about a decade –I don’t know if you know those guys- 

Ethan: Yeah! Yeah. 

F&P: I’ve wound up –he’s got me on album reviews, and stuff like that- 

Somebody walks up to Ethan, “You playing after Bologna Pogna?” 

Ethan: Yep. 

F&P: …it’s a bunch of local stuff, and a lot of stuff like Oi!takus (I said Oi-tuh-kus, it’s pronounced Oi-Ta-koos) comes across the desk. It’s fckn awesome, dude.  

[ […] I’m wanting to talk to you, a) for The Pulse, and b) I’m starting my own newspaper yadayada,…  

Ethan: Okay (a good okay). 

[…] I’m covering the punk stuff, and this is obviously an awesome place to start. You’re here, and that’s great, so I’m just introducing myself, and all like, ‘I’m gonna track you down again.’ ]

 Ethan: It’s great to formally meet you. 

F&P: Great to formally meet you, dude. 

Ethan: Yeah, actually, I had a story in The Pulse. It was about a decade ago. It was about my record cutting business that I run. It was about the same time they did –I think I had one in –what’s the other Murfreesboro paper? 

F&P: The Pulse, The Post… 

Ethan: It might’ve been The Post. 

F&P: Daily News Journal? 

Ethan: It was either Daily News Journal, or The Post, did a story on me [Louis Langois’ story from The Tennessee Tribune, up top] […]. It was really cool. I enjoyed it. Yeah, if you’d like to do some other stuff, I’d love to do it.  

F&P: It’s just painting a picture of what’s going on, now/What’s it like out there. 

Ethan: Yeah, I’ve been doing it for thirteen years, now, so…. 

F&P: Some of these kids are running through MTSU, and they’ll produce a record through [the] [RIM] program, but do it, then –[and] then, they leave, so… 

Ethan: Well, I went through the program, too, when I was younger, so, yeah, I see the pipeline, y’know (laughs). 

F&P: It’s a pretty interesting pattern to recognize. 

Ethan: It is. It is. MTSU is a special place. I’ve always thought that –so, MTSU is the only public university that offers the Recording Industry concentration (RIM Program, or Recording Industry Major). And, you know about academic common market? You know what that is? 

F&P, nods no. 

Ethan: So, it’s like, if you live in a state that doesn’t offer the degree that you want a public university, you can come to MTSU for in-state tuition prices. 

F&P: Yeah. 

Ethan: So, that’s how I came here, because I grew up in Kentucky. Scout came here, because they grew up in Illinois, for the same reason. And, I think it’s like, the way it works out in the real world is any kid that comes from, like, a working class background, that can’t afford a private university, and they’re interested in the music business, they wind up here, and it creates a culture where everybody you’re in class with is a musician, or interested in being involved in music, in some degree, and it creates fertile ground for starting bands, or scenes, or whatever cultural ephemera of all kinds.   

Ethan: But it’s very unique in that way. I’ve never seen a place that has the same thing going on. 

F&P: Murfreesboro’s got it going on. Has been for 10-13 years.

Ethan: A gem of the South. 

[F&P: But, yeah, just checking in with the bands, and stuff like that. If I have any questions, I’m definitely  going to yell atcha.  

Ethan: Yeah. Please do.  

F&P: I’ll hitcha up on Facebook as you put up posters, and what not.  

Ethan: Yeah. If you ever want sit down and have a drink, and talk about stuff, I’ll do that, too… 

F&P: Absolutely. That’s what I’m aiming for. 

Ethan: Absolutely. ]

F&P: THat’s awesome, man. I’m glad you’re here. It’s good to run into you. 

Ethan: Are we friends on Facebook? 

F&P: I believe so. Pretty sure. 

Ethan: Good. Good. Yeah, hit me up anytime. Or, if you want my cell phone number, I’ll give you that. Like, sometimes, I try to stay off social media, as much as I can, so it might take me a day or two to see the message, but if you want to text me, I’m pretty good about texting back. 

[…] F&P: Will do.  

-Yeah, I’m just slinking around this spot, tonight. Been excited about checking it out. There’s a drag show going on over at The Boro, which I’m probably not gonna go to because that’s a whole ‘nother thing. 

Ethan: Oh, is that tonight? 

F&P: Yeah. 

Ethan: Oh, cool. 

F&P: I think that’s the only other thing going on 

Ethan: Neat. I didn’t even know about that. Sht. 

Ethan: You know who put it together?  [https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A474Z5kL7/?]

F&P: The Boro people? 

Ethan: I know Justin is one of the bartenders at The Boro. He’s a good friend of mine. 

Ethan: I’m glad they’re back. I know it was kinda iffy for a minute. Lee was thinking about retiring, so… 

F&P: Yeah, he bonked out over the last summer, and came back finally.  

Ethan: Can’t blame him. Sometimes you need a break. He’s been running it for-fckn-ever. I’m sure he gets tired of it, running it for such a long time. 

F&P: He’s got it set up to where he can do whatever he wants to. He’ Murfreesboro’s Jimmy Buffett, or something. 

Ethan: Oh, definitely. He gives that vibe, too (laughs) (~9:30)

[…] (crowd chatter until, 10:50 – 11:04, first guitar sturms….  It’s punk metal strums.)  

 …It’s Bolgna Pogna’s Punk/Metal strums (the way a band tunes into A440, like a symphony warming up, but a punk quartet). (10:50-11:02- 13:00).

10:52, Audience Member: What the fck? (and, Audience chatter).

10:52, Audience Member: What the fck? Audience chatter

11:02 – 12:13, Bologna Pogna’s warm-up (and audience chatter for a minute).

Bologna Pogna debut EP, Bologna Pogna LIVE AF, (if you) WANT!

I mean, Fuuzzzzyy grunge, metal-ized punk –or, metal instrumentation and effects mashed into short, bursty, punk compositions, completely inaudible lyrics, and then, by the way of lead singer, Blane, walking around looking super pissed off (preppin’ for what’s next) in Henry Rollins stride, a ferocious, higher-than-expected-pitched mayhem ensues.

So, Bologna Pogna’s debut EP, Bologna Pogna LIVE AF, (if you) WANT! is, from ~13:00 in W Main St 12 recording (previous section, Ethan’s interview).  

Plus, this video:

Plus, this audio recording, W. Main St. 13 (9:57 length)…

…makes Bologna Pogna’s Bologna Pogna LIVE AF (if you) WANT! in full 🤘

Fck Bologna Pogna. 

(Transcription of the whole EP:)

[…]Act 1, EP STARTS, 13:00, W. Main St. 12 (and 0:00, excerpt), Audience member about a vape; another shriek-greet in the background, “It’s called a quincher, it’s like a regular….” (13:04) “FUCK YEAH. FUCK YEAH.” 

-13:08, or :08, Guitar fuzz creeps up from the garage of Panther Creek.  

–Zander cranks the fuzz,

–Scout starts fingering bass scales. 

–The train blows (13:44, or :40, in excerpt). 

14:35, W Main 12, or :50 – 1:00, excerpt, Blaine, ready?

14:05, or 1:03, Bologna Pogna: Everybody get over here. 

“Get off your little stoop.” 

“Get off your chair.” 

“Get up, get up and get in the pit.” 

“Don’t be a loser. Don’t be that guy.” 

1:20, “It’s time to get active.” 

Audience member: I’m just gonn leave my stuff right here. Friend: And I’ll stand right here in case they start pushing…

14:35-15:42, or 1:38 screech- 2:43 (in excerpt), Bologna Pogna’s first song.

Then, from 15:42 in full W Main St 12 (17:52) field recording (in previous section, Ethan’s interview) (or edited excerpt, two recordings above -the 3:26 one, at 2:43), Scout, W Main St. 12, continues, “This is our first time playing since, I think, Bonnaroo” (crowd cheers). 

15:58/2:55, excerpt), second song: Fuzzy as ehll guitar, again. Surfer bass, at first. “What Do You Want?!” (Lyrics: “You not a real cop?” “You cunt! You cunt!”? -Crowd cheers). -until 4:30, excerpt.

17:30, W Main St. 12, Bologna Pogna front man, Blaine Neal (4:30, excerpt): Y’all know the deal… SHort, and fast set –gonna be a very short set…. And, so, who’s got a beer?… Out of the car… Make that two …thanks. No?  …ok.   (through W Main St. 12 audio cut, at end). 

Then, Act 2, the video above, at 6:50 PM (above): 

Then, Act 3, the remaining transcription of W Main St. 13 (9:57) (previous recording, just above):

:18, crowd chatter, Scout practicing next song. 

:33, Blaine Neal, “We don’t know our own songs. You’re gonna have to give us a minute… 

Guitar tunes, a little 

:56, Bologna Pogna breaks loose, third song,“Oi! Oi!”-metal, Fckn Nailing it on the bass and guitar.

2:26, amp stops fuzzing (~Minute and a half-tune). 

Meanwhile, Zander and Scout practice next track; 2:56, Blane, “Thanks for coming to Punk Prom –OH MY GOD, THEY HIT THE SECOND [TOWN?] 

2:56, Bologna breaks loose, again (fourth track) with the melody Hunter and Scout were practicing a second ago, as mayhem becomes a full fledge metal’d punk song, full dedication and focus (finishes at 3:47, less than a minute) -Crowd chatter. 

4:00 – fifth track, Death-Surfer mayhem, again. Solid drums, in “Rite-Aid, You Suck.” 

-Bologna Pogna is a solid band, no matter what their appearance or your straight up fuck off attitude does for you, while singing “All I got is blood for you. All you want is more and more. Fight me, you freaking whore,” as the chorus chants, [“Rite-Aide, You SuCK!”] (Bologna Pogna guitar solo makes an appearance in there (~5:30, thrash scratchy), “Rite-Aid, you’re so fckn old, UUuuggghhhh!”). 

6:30 F&P, to an audience member: he was about to ask who they are. 

Audience member: Who they are?? 

F&P:  Yeah. 

Audience member: …Bolgna Pogna. 

6:35, Lead singer, Blaine Neal: Oldie, but a goodie. I promised short and fast. This is our last song. …And, yeah. We will be at Muddy Roots (crowd member, “Wooo!”) (More yeah’s and weees!) 

Audience member: We’d love to see it!  

Lead singer: …A good ol’ right of our Southern Jesus… 

Audience member, laughs.  

7:14, BLaine, sixth song: “This is not our song.” -Dark, Misfits sounding mayhem ensues. 

Blaine: …“More… C’mon!.. C’mon!! Thank you! Thankyou,” as the guitar shreds doom intro. 

Scout: “Our [father/daddy] called you fckn faggot growing up, Fuck You! Fuck You!” 

Blaine, starting a solid, hate vent/maelstrom, “Fuck you! Yeah! You called me a Pussy!” before unrecognizable lyrics kick in the garage door (of our childhoods). 

8:56, Blaine, after song/Bologna Pogna set: -That works…  good enough… good enough. 

(audio turns into Crowd chatter/Elijah?) 

[And that’s the transcription of Bologna Pogna’s Bologna Pogna LIVE AF (if you) WANT! ]
 

…9:48, F&P: Bologna Pogna.

W Main St 17 (1:31 length) Bologna Pogna frontman, BLaine Neal interview: 

0:00, F&P: All right, Bologna Pogna playing Muddy Roots, you talked to [Jason, Milton, and Delane] and got the in… 

Bologna Pogna frontman, Blaine Neal: Yeah 

F&P: You know what tent you’re playing? 

Blaine: I think we’re playing the smallest tent possible. 

F&P: Okay. I gotcha. I was in those tents, last year –not playing- but I know how it is. It’s a good smell. 

Blaine: Yeah, we got a good time slot. We got, like, 11:30, on Sunday,  

F&P: Fck yeah. 

Blaine: So, it’s right before everybody leaves –like, everybody’s about to leave. 

F&P: Playing everybody’s exit song, or something? 

Blaine: Yeah. Yeah. 

F&P: -They’ll stay and watch you. 

Blaine: People are gonna stay to watch, look, and then go. It’s pretty sickly. I’m excited about it. 

F&P: -Congratulations on that, man. 

Blaine: All right, ‘preciate it. 

(His talking voice is deeper and surf-ier than his singing voice) 

F&P: This is the first time I’ve got to see you, so I just wanted to say ‘Rock n’ roll.’  

Blaine: Awesome. I appreciate it. We’re super-excited. Good stuff. 

F&P: Talk to you more, man. 

Blaine: Yeah, you too. 

[ one of Blaine’s bambi nicole (photographer) pics on _ugly_ass_ instagram (Blaine’s), and SaoirseS cccelasticaa (aslso @faerygrrrl) on bolognapognatn instagram] 

Graveyard gallery vid on bolognapognatn insta from Graveyard Gallery 12.16.23 by @hxggxrd 

CHeck out their reels “we’ll find you,” and “bullshit,” and “show videos” 

Pic of Blaine standing underneath kids on roof top, favorites –before interview? ]

-cont’d, W Main St 17 (1:31 length), :42: PA, and Crowd banter…” DOn’t you. Do that. To me. No. No, I’ll say it, though. Don’t hit his toms. It’s not what it’s for,” on mic… 

From background, “I need more of this….” 

“Wait, wait wait, I need one more. This is for a photoshoot.” [Picture of Ethan with a beer can in his mouth, favorites]. 

MERCH, Punk Prom, W Main St. 14, audio recording (1:39, length):

0:00, Merch table lady, Robyn?: Punk Prom patches, at the front. They’re pay what you want (PWYW). You could pay a penny, if you want, but I would like you to pay more. So, get a pay what you want patch at the front, while you’re voting for Prom Thing. If you want to vote for someone, and you don’t know their name [ask a Punk], and then we’re raffling off –a reminder- a disco skull, a gnarly print, a Casey Shefield heart… 

(Crowd Chatter, PA turns back on) 

*They PayPal, and also take cards. 

Motorcycle revs up to leave, ~1:00, crickets chirping hard 💖 (pic in hearted photos, 7:05PM) 

-Bologna Pogna facebook page can be found at https://www.facebook.com/bolognapognatn/

W. Main St 15 (7:29 length), WREKT: 

Opens, crowd chatter and crickets chirping. Wrekt is setting up. 

Wrekt! is a local, area-scene, staple/always, hardcore street pogo punk quartet comprised of Matty, Jodi, Wak, and Ethan, just fckn sht up, in colloquial punk terminology.

2:08, Hayden Gist, orgainzer: CHeck, check, uhhhh, hey, hello. Big announcement, Spyke and Skyler bought a 24 pack of water, that’s in their car. They’re just giving it out, so go find’m, if you’re thirsty (crowd member, “Go Spyke!”). Very important to keep hydrated in this weather, even though it’s cooling off a little bit. 

-(back to crowd chatter, literal crickets chirping). 

3:27, first riffs (Wak?) (WHo is Wrekt?, followed by sick, warming up riffs from each, until 4:48, Ethan starts warming up his 1-1-2-1-1, and it turns into a momentary rager. 

An “Always,”Band: Matty on guitar and Vox, Jodie on bass and Vox, Wak on guitar, and Ethan on drums, Wrekt is a Nashville-area whirlwind of hardcore, street pogo-punk inhabiting the never-say-die grit within the punk genre, as these kids grew up getting their kicks thriving from DIY successes, as well of the lo-fi qualities that sticker Wrekt’s catalogue and clothes, when wearing them –so much so there’s no fcking idea which songs from my recording match any of theirs in the catalogue, be theirs seemingly recorded on a briefcase at Crossroads, like in Wrekt’s Early Demos (March, 2018), or Wrekt’s WE ARE THE PUNX MK/Wrekt split (June, 2019), studio-recorded, well-equipped. They’re all fckn ragers, just in different settings. Wrekt is a live show band. 

-At Muddy Roots 2023, I watched Ethan deep throat a mic that’d been used all day in the small tent, then suck in/inhale passed the mic to get his roar breath, and roar into the lodged mic. There’s no telling what he directly inhaled onto his lungs for that one, but the scream was pretty fckn good. That could’ve been Black Market Kidney Surgeon…

4:23, Hayden greeting, “Yes! How’s it going?” 

Vocal checks/mic checks until 6:04 

Audience member, right before, “I only hope the beetles come out again… Stop spazzing out,” as Jodie’s bass sets the pace as Matty screeches in, Wak attacks the rhythm, and Ethan’s machine gun snare blast into (I have no idea. “Check, check, check?) from [the Wrekt catalogue].  Shredded pretty hard, though. 

Wrekt IS a live band.

W Main St. 16, (25:47) Wrekt/Wak/Clover:

15:, Jodie: This song is about when you run out of beer. It’s called, “Smash and Grab Beer Run” (crowd woots). 

:38, “We’re gonna play something…” 

1:00, “Smash and Grab Beer Run” 

2:25, lead singer, Jodie, “Hey, hand me a beer.  There’s a beer out there, and its mine, and I need somebody to bring it to me. Beer out there, and it’s mine…. 

Crowd friend, “I gotchew.” 

Jodie, chatter with the crowd, between songs: “gimme a beer. Gimme a beer….” 

“The beer witch! The only kind of witch I like…” 

–Jodie: “How you guys doin’?” (crowd cheers) 

Audience member: [Gropin’?] you in the bathroom!(?) 

Jodie: Whatever you do, don’t [grope?] with this guy. -This next one’s called “Public Love!” 

Wrekt goes into “Punk Will Survive.” 

Jodie: This next song is about what we’re doing right now. It’s called, “Let’s Just Get Drunk.” 

Ethan, on the drums, rattles off. Sick drum song, “Let’s Just Get Drunk” (6:28, crowd cheers). 

Jodie: I think Matt’s gonna sing you a song. Something about, uh, being cool, or something… 

Audience member: Wak! 

Jodie: Oh, it’s [Blake?]. Wak’s gonna come up and sing (Crowd chants). 

Wak: All right. This is the one, I literally wrote this one for work because if […] and I said, uh -I don’t know if y’all if you know this, but the [train comes by, again] American Dental Association gives out an award for the best dentist, right? This year they had to switch the trophies because the last guy got rid of all the plaques (crowd: OOOHHHH!) 

Jodie: See, this is why we don’t give him microphones… 

Wak leads off, “Still Fucking Here.” (Crowd goes apey) (pics of swirl) (Alex, I think, taking pics picture, 7:23 PM) Ends with crowd belting last line, “Still Fucking HEre!” 

Wak?: That’s one in my height, anyways… 

9:57, “Oi Oi, fuckin’ Oi,” says Matty? 

1! 2! 3! 4! (I think it’s a cover)  

“Give Me A FCkin Beer!” Matty? 

Wak: …The one night I don’t have my headlamp 

12:04, a cover?  End song, 13:16 (crowd cheers). 

13:40, Jodie: You guys having a good Punk Prom? (Crowd Wooh’s!) 

“Cool thing about it is you can always fuck shit up, because you should.” -WREKT

13:53, Wrekt’s “Fuckin Punks, Fuckin Skins” -Buncha punks around the mic, this one, 5:53, ”Thank you guys, so much…” 

F&P: Thank you! 

Wrekt: This is the part of the set where we teach you about philosophy. It’s called, “Living Right” 16:18, Audience member: “Nobody teaches me how to…” 

“Living Right,” blasts off, 16:20 – 17:54 (crowd goes nuts). 

18:00, Ethan? “Thank you guys so much” (crowd cheers and woots). 

Murfreesboro’s starting to break cool. 

Wak: I don’t know if y’all notice, but I’m old, and a lot of these old folks that’ll talk a bunch of shit about the way it was (crowd raars), I think that y’all have a better scene then… Like, there’s more peolpe here than our shows were, and it’s just kind of a radder form of camaraderie. People still love punk rock. 

Jodie: THis one’s called, “Let’s Get Drunk.” 

“Get Drunk!”, ends 20:33 

[ 21:45, Clover, “I fckn knew it was you, man.” 

F&P: Clover, I had no idea you’d show up, but now it makes sense. 

Clover: Yeah, of course. Fck yeah. 

F&P: Did you ever make it to Smyrna the other night? 

Clover, nods no: But, dude asked for your information, and I never got it. I never saw you, again. But, he wants your information so he’ll talk to you –the guy that I was talking about? 

F&P: Yeah. 

Clover: So, whenever you get a chance. 

Left off, 22:21 (Clover talking) (Musics going apey behind us). ]

23:30, crowd: “We love you!” 

Wrekt: Thakn you. We’re Wrekt. We’re selling merch, and sht, over there, if you want it. 

[ Clover: I’ll send it to him, and make sure he get it, becuase, he was super excited about it. 

F&P: …gettin’ them digits… 

Clover: Ehhhhh.  

Vampyre: You work at Corelife, still, right? 

F&P: Yeah. Do you? 

Vamypyre: Yeah. 

F&P: Do you really? 

Clover: I do. I still do. 

Vampyre: Yeah. 

F&P: You do? My names Bryce. Scott hires me -our collective boss- he hires me to come in and take shifts whenever there’s somebody not on dish, or something, so that’s how I know… 

Vampyre: Oh, okay –So, who the fck is there tonight!   

We laugh. ]

24:15: Merch announcer, “Lovin’ life. Thank you. All right, guys, last chance to vote for “Prom Thing.” This is happening. 

[ F&P, to Clover and The Vampyre: Yeah, you guys need to do the raffle. ] 

Announcer, Robyn Meadows: So, after the next band –after Local 58, and before Spinning Lodge, we’re going to announce “Prom Thing,” and the raffle winners… 

[ F&P, showing Clover and Vampyre where raffle box is, F&P: Known about this weeks ago, through Ethan promoting… 

Clover: I know Ethan. He’s my buddy. He’s my homeboy. Where’s he at? 

Vampyre: Literally, I’ve known him for years. 

Vampyre: Have you ever been to Crossroads? 

F&P: Yeah.  

Vamprye: You’ve been to Crossroads?! Holy shit! 

F&P: Last time I was there was for an Oi!takus show, and they were playing tonight, so maybe you were there. That was a great show. –Audio cuts. 

W Main St. 18: 9:12 length (recording below):

Crowd chatter, and I think it’s Elijah that passed, talking on the phone: “I’ve got a buddy of mine at work that called me over to a promising show at the, uhhh, what is this brewery…” 

[to F&P] Elijah?: “What is this place called?” 

F&P: Panther Creek  

Elijah: “Panther Creek Brewery,” into the phone, as he walks off. 

:30, death guitar, warm-up strums, Bass playing around ascending bending triplets, Guit. hits with wave effects, Cymbals clank. 

LEad singer tries to hit the pitch of the reverb. 

Local 58 is warmed up… 

2:52, some crowd chatter, two girls talking about ACT and SAT essay submissions: 

2:48, (even the homeschool kids get out) Homeschooled girl, in audience: I took the ACT’s and SAT’s. I just submitted my last essay because I get homeschooled [for the rest of the year?]. I just did my sophomore year essay. And, they didn’t even know… 

Another crowd girl:  -because it’s from a different school? [Not from a school?]… 

Homeschooled girl, It’s just, like, where [?], and all I… 

2:59, on mic, it could be a little louder than this… A little moooore –warm up growling into the mic.   

Homeshooled girl: [..] I took it online, [..] it’s all open note. Open book [..] I was like, Jesus Christ. 

[Grunting, hawking continues] 3:24, on mic –what? Oh, no. I’m in the band. …maybe later. 

Homeshooled girl: [..] I took it online, [..] it’s all open note. Open book [..] I was like, Jesus Christ. 

3:44, on mic: all right, that’s the end of that… 

3:56, Local 58, “All right! What the Fck is up Deny’s!!” (Crowd cheers)… Fckn love sayin’ that, and it’s not even my line.” 

4:05, Hunter: Hey, guys… Uh, am I loud enough? …You, too. 

“ANyway, Thank you for coming out to the Punk Prom. You all look great! Look at you! We’re here! Look at all of you! Ah!… ” Hunter says.

4:20, Hunter: So, we’re local 58. We’re retarded, and this is how our first song goes… 

Local 58 (members Glisson, Hunter Bates, other Glisson[?], and Adam) with the back of Hayden’ Gist’s head.

Local 58 is an angry chainsaw massacre of hardcore crust punk, Post Egg Hardcore, chain-metal passion collective of the Murfreesboro’s Jake Kroll, Hunter, Adam, and the Glisson brothers, if you count Tyler Glisson’s “mouth noise,” on “Bald,” (track from their debut EP, FRAUD, May 2020) enough passion. [GET MEMBERS RIGHT]

Making their transition from area-late twenty teens, Bucket City Punx, and kicking off exactly when pandemia hit, March 2020 [Re-run debut show], with early 20’s, Hunter on vocals (drummer of the, then, future Bologna Pogna), an introduction to Jake Kroll, a 16 yr. old DIY’r, on guitar, and Joseph Glisson on drums and Vox (vocals), for FRAUD, [un]chained out of BCP HQ, May 6 2020, for an album release party at Media Rerun for Local 58’s very first show, March 7, that year, that kicked off exactly when pandemia, March 2020, with everyone at Media Rerun for Local 58’s very first show, March 7, that year. Early  Hunter on vocals gets almost kicked in the balls (drummer for future, Bologna Pogna), with Josh Glisson on the guitar and theremin, drums and Vox, Jake Kroll on guitar, where “JAKE GETS HIT JOEY GETS MAD HUNTER GETS ALMOST KICKED IN THE BALLS THERIMEN GETS PLAYED,” 

[ “Wednesday, May 6^th, 2020, we will releasee our FIRST EP AT EXAPCTLY 5 PM CENTRAL! FOUR LUOD CRAZY FAST HARDCORE NOISE PUNK JAMS THAT SHOWCAE DYING SCREAMED VOCALS AND BUZZSAW GUITARS. 
YouTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud linds will be posted around that time,” LOCAL 58’s Facebook band page says, May 6, 2020.   

(links in be email) 

Then/there, They’ve got early 20’s, Hunter on vocals (drummer of the, then, future Bologna Pogna), an introduction to Jake Kroll, local scene chef, on guitar, and Joseph Glisson on drums and Vox (vocals) and theremin.  

PICS, LOCAL_58_BAND, insta. (Ethan in a sling) (No one with masks) ]

 Their follow up, Chain Death, wouldn’t be released until December, 2022, to add a little more to the catalogue (or battle-log), and is seemingly a full length, at 14 tracks, but only 17 minutes, as they’ve managed to punk out EP’s, too (They kept “Bald”). 

[Punk Prom, Aug 5, 2023] 4:20, Hunter: “Hey, We’re local 69. We’re retarded. This is how our first song goes…” 

Local 58 belts into “Chain Death,” the opening track to Chain Death, Local 58’s hardcore, beatdown, crust punk follow-up. (6:23 crowd cheers) 

Differnence between these albums is they left the Atari Teenage Riot path, and jumped on the metal train with the second release… It’s the addition of a BAss!! 

–The scene cook, Adam ——-??, as the Aug 6, 2022, we’re-back-in-the-storage/practice space vid cretist Jake, as Jake, Joey, as Joey, Huntrr, as Hunter, and Adam as Adam.  

[ It’s noticeable how most the other bands’ lead singers/frontmen who have control issues play bass. Adam’s not a control freak, it seems, but has an intent of depth and proper exectution when it comes to his live playing. He also chefs for the scene at major occasions, such as Boro Fondo, and any other hi-occupancy shows.  

*Wrekt’s Jodie plays bass (pick of him sitting beside the stage for an earlier show) *I don’t know him, but the bass in a punk metal band controls the flow, seemingly. He who controls the fuzz, and the instrument that enunciates it over the drums and guitar shred, for guidance, has a major roll. ]

6:29, Local 58‘s starting to shift into metal, right before our ears in [Prostate Cross State?]. FUZZY AF (crowd cheers. 

Video with Adam on bass, Jan 27, 2023 post, FB  

7:45 “Next songs about Sonic the Hedgehog, and all the good he’s done for our country!” (crowd cheers) 

Glisson(?): This next song is called…. NOTHING (crowd cheers) (lyrics, “When you wake up every fckn day/you medicate indubidably…”), going right into as punk operatic, as can get in composition, but metal-growled for an ultimate lack of remaining lyrical clarity (crowd goes apeshit at aburpt song end, Audio cuts). 

LOCAL 58 POST: BORO FONDO VIRTUAL TELETHON EXTRAVAGANZA! (FONDO 2020) 

[ FB Skips to March 30, 2022 

Picture of June 15, 2022 announcement in photos.  

This show was a culmination of how they spent 2023 putting a dry run together by falling out of advertising after the DRKMTTR show promotion (or switched to Insta?) (EVER-EVOLVING BAND) with merch, three new music videos, and a Drkmtter show, Feb 5, 2023, with Destiny Bond, out of Colorado, and Skinman, out of Mississippi. 

They very much so fill out the most recent local line-ups at the hip spots, when needed/when a little anger-core fuzz is needed. 

[Don’t forget “Hameboner,” (track 8) is that Hambone getting smacked up and laughing, or doing the smacking up, and laughing? (to F&P’s knowledge, Local 58 did not play “Hamboner,” to which Hambone replied, about a year later when asked if he was on vocals for that track because the vocals sound like they’re holding someone down and punching them in the arm, “——–“) ]

[ Now, Colorado and Mississippi are states, but DRKMTTR is a state of mind…… 

(and another place I fell in love with Aly from Flummox)

DRKMTTR(?) ]

W Main St. 19 (17:13, length):

Mic emcee, be sure to do this -the third take. There it is… 

Audience member: But a patch! 

emcee, buy a patch. Do that. 

Another audience member: Donate to Boro Fondo! 

Emcee: donate –Well, donate to Boro Fondo. Yes. …Uh, gimme a something. Gimme your money… 

Another audience member: Hector McGee-ah for Prom Queen! Yeahhhh!! 

Emcee: what? 

Last audience member, “er, Hector!” 

Mic, Give me. Your money. Specifically. 

Last audience member, No. …He goes… …He don’t play around with the money sht…. 

:27, Mic/emcee: We’ve been around a while… (fast, fuzzy metal metal riffs ascend into a punk fury, jumbled metal lyrics blipped with spoken word frenzy into an echoed punk maelstrom uncertain coming from the belching amps or open garage they’re playing from. All within the first thirty seconds of the fifty second opener. Metal Punk. 

1:35, “So anyways, I was saying…” 

Audience member: Everyone give Hunter a kiss! 

Mic, basfully …cause… cause that.. 

Another girl: As you should! 

Hunter on mic? -Thank you so much. Just a sec… I got it… I see you. 

(instruments get back into workable order). 

2:22, Glisson?: “We’re gonna do ‘Bald.’  You know the words… “

Glisson and Hunter, “Everyone, ‘Throw out your hair!’ ‘Throw out your hair!’ 

No, its that brunette dude, “Throw out your hair. THROW OUT YOUR HAIR!” 

2:33, Local 58’s “Bald,” (lyrics previously included), 3:22 – Audience goes apey.  

Audience dude, into a grungy, “With arms wide open!/Under the moonlight!…” 

Hunter, grabs the mic, “I wann get titty-fckd by the Bucket City fckn Punx, baby, yeah!” 

Crowd, ‘yeeeaaaahhhh!’ 

4:12, finishes the rest of “Bald.” 

Somebody on mic, “So, I hate to be the bad guy, but I will give you a huge kiss –if you consent- if you not fck up my microphone stand (crowd cheers). That’s more for me than it is for you, if I’m being honest.  Um… 

4:56, Yeah, we’re all tangles up here… This songs about something that’s going on in FLorida that’s totally real. It’s when people flush their joints down the toilet and they get piled in the swamp… 

Local 58’s “Alligator Meth.” 

6:34, crowd chatter 

6:50, We got sixteen more (crowd cheers). Be sure to really, really go hard for these last sixteen. 

Audience member: sixteen hearts! 

Local 58: We’re really almost done, though. It’s really five. You’re okay. 

7:15, Local 58’s, “Killer Klowns,” best exemplifies how one “punks metal,” or makes “metal, punk’d,” by taking the grunge fuzz of a high watt, and super loud, bass amplifier (and sometimes bass lead, because of the dominance of the amplification), and applies the fuzz to a short, punk-genre style composition of simplistic song structure, usually less than two minutes, of no more than a couple of verses, couple of choruses, sometimes a bridge, and even more sometimes, a solo/extended solo during the bridge.  

Melding the two technicalities of the genre bridges the communities attached to the sounds they hold so dearly/true (Metal melds, in the area.  Has for years. Clowns, too).  

8:35, crowd hoots, crowd chatter, cymbals…

9:14, Hunter, “all right, the last one.” 

9:–, “Thank you guys. That was…. our set (crowd cheers). Speaking of, we got up next is Spinning Lodge!” 

Crowd: Spinning Lodge! (to chatter) (audio cuts). 

Punk Prom Raffle:

12:00, Robyn Meadows (?), Thank you for coming here, by the Foro Bondo. Thank you to all the bands: Wrekt, Bologna Pogna, Spinning Lodge, Oi!takus, Local 58. Stick around for after this we’ve got Spinning Lodge. They’re the last band. You don’t want to miss them. 

“Now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… Prom THing. Drum roll please (crowd mouths a drum roll until somebody jumps on the snare)  

Punk Prom Robyn, “Anette Becca!” (crowd cheers) Come get your crown! 

12:42, Anette: I Really need this, guys. Thank you (crowd shrieks, “Go Becca!”). 

Robyn, “Next, we’re gonna announce our four raffle winners, so get you tickets out. If you bought a raffle ticket, grab them, now (crowd chatter) 

Robyn: All right. First up, we have 4 4 3 0 1 0 

Audience; wait! Wait!  

Robyn: […] I’m gonna read the other ones. You’ll have the time to come see us at the booth to get your prize. The next one […] 4 4 3 0 6 4…(audiecne member, yew!)\ 

Robyn, All right, […] two to go. 4 4 3 0 2 1(louder Yawww!) 

Robyn: All right. Since you’re the first person who saw their ticket, you get to pick wether yo want the discoskull, the gnarly prints bundle –wchich comes in small, or 2x, for the shirt- the Kasey SHeffiled art, or the racoon, with the art print. Come see us. You get first pick. 

Emcee All right. Last raffle winner… 4 4 3 0 4 7… (audience member, waaahhhhh!!) 

Robyn, … you just won a raffle. Anyway… 

Audience member: Start over! 

Robyn: 4 4 3 0 3 4 (audience woman: Yes! Yes!!) You get second pick! All right! 

“Your ticket has a number on it!  […] 4 4 3 0 3 5! …All right, last winner…” 

–a couple of more problems with the winners-to-be, so had call a couple more new numbers… 

16:08 Robyn: All right! If you have won a raffle, come see us! That everybody? All right. Come see us at the tent.  Spinning Lodge is next. Stick around (16:24) (crowd chatter, remainder audio; –All this ~8:16PM).  –Spinning Lodge starts setting up, 8:26 PM.
 

Spinning Lodge

is a transgender, hardcore punk, sludge metal quartet based out of Murfeesboro, with an, at the time, brink-of-release, nine-track, self-titled EP that included a few singles ranging all the way back to Nov. 2021’s “Infernal Breath,” “Bloody Boy,” and “Bog Girl,” out August 11, 2023, comprised of Barbara Spunk on vocals, Jesse McKee on bass, Keith Cripps on guitar, and Ryan Elizabeth Cripps on drums. The EP was recorded by The Cripps and mastered at West West Side Music with an album release show at, “Ask A Punk,” (at CxR), with Tijuana Bible, Dru The Drifter, The BackAlley Hookers, and Amy Gdala August 14, 2023.

 W Main St 20 (:33) 

Crowd chatter, and crickets.

W Main St 21 (3:34):  

Crowd chatter, :11, Spinning Lodge bass and guitar warms. Warm-up, wretch growls bullet out into the mic. Pretty gnarly, anticipatory warm-up with that bass string tension (crowd chatter, PA back-noise). 

W Main St 22 (:53) 

Crowd chatter, PA shredder 

W Main St 23 (3:47): 

Opens, warm up shredding. Drums are up. Crowd woots. 

:47, More wretch grows, in a coarse, hoarse voice, Barbara Spunk, “All right, guys, we’re SPinning Lodge. We’re gonna play some music for you (crowd wretches) (Barbara wretches back into the first song)” 

:51, Spinning Lodge’s (“Blood is All You Need”?).

3:30, Thank you all so much for coming out tonight (crowd roars). It’s hot as fuck out here. It’s really hot.  

Barbara:, And this another song that’s fast (crowd woots) 

W Main St. 24 (8:25 length): 

:14, Crowd chatter, reverb punches: “Y’all… [it’s hot]. Barbara starts barking like a chihuahua, and the crowd does too. A couple meows, later. Barbara, “who’s my good girl? Who’s my good girl?!” 

1:07, Spinning Lodge, “Resent.” 

3:11-3:12 (3:14, fckyeah), song, ? – 4:42, fck yah, starts winding down at 6:29, but no, 7:21, crowd cheers, Barbara: Give it up for [? and Barabara]. I haven’t even said nothing. 

“So, we just [reflected on ourselves], maybe, just the other day. And guess what? We have an album coming out next [week],” Barbara says (crowd cheers). 

“So, that’s gonna be good. Tiny little celebration…” [crowd chatter]  

8:14, Barbara wretches-to-warm, “Good to know…”

(Between 8:46PM and 8:48PM, Barbara takes of their clothes) 

W Main St. 25 (16:53):

Crowd chatter, bass fuzz. 

:12, Barbara, “you got any H2O?” 

Barbara, “This next ones about how [it’s not my fault, it’s the drummer’s?] [I want you to follow the leader?] -People start wail moaning back at the corner, monkey and bird calling. 

1:24, Spinning Lodge, “Please Don’t Talk to Me” -they punk out a Slider song? Joni Mitchel-ling the guitar, Barbara still keeping the rasp growl vocals until guitar switches back to a reasonable, arena effects setting that still overpowers everything as Barbara claws the lyrics out. Lovely track. 6:21, crowd erupts, and inaudible, 6:26 “We got one more song left…” 6:38, I guess we played it two times, now, but… 6:42, crowd, chant, “Dance Song! Dance Song!” 

6:49, Spinning Lodge’s “Itsy Bitsy Spider?” metal’d af (not Dance Song) 

10:09, song change? There are, like, three before this one (I laugh around 10:24). 

Lyrically, Spinning Lodge’s self-titled, studio debut, is all about the smoke battered lungs and atonement; erections, I think, and conflicting transgender duality; Gettin’ a piece of the pie over rich guys; the rise of “Bog Girl, through “ABERRATION FLAGELLATION LACERATION [and] EXECUTION,” as well as “LIES, HATE, LUST (I’M A PRODUCT OF APATHY, worship me),” Spinning Lodge lyricizes.

Crowd chatter/hardcore crowd chatter, as everyone starts popping the balloons, 13:15 

Hayden: Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Thank you everybody so much for coming to Punk Prom! (crowd yews). I say huge thanks to the bands. I don’t remember what they all are off the top of my head, so just Thanks to the bands! -Ah, let’s see. Spinning Lodge, Oi!takus, Wrekt, Local 58, and –I’m missing one. What was the other one…- Ah, I knew I would forget one of the. WHat was the other one –Bologna Pogna! Thank you guys so much. There you go. There you go! (14:05) 

All right, so we’re gonna ask a very huge favor of you. If you left trash around anywhere, please, please, please, pick it up. You don’t have to clean up after everybody else’s stuff, but if you’ll clean up your own, we’d really appreciate it. […] We really love this space. We definitely want to continue using it. We want to use it for Fondo, so we want to respect the space. And, speaking of which, please, please come to Boro Fondo at the end of September (crowd cheers). We’ve got an amazing festival, and an amazing lineup prepared for you guys. It’s gonna be awesome. Again, thank you for coming (crowd cheer and chatter). 

14:38, F&P: THank You! 

Hayden Gist: And huge congratulations to our winners! 

F&P walks off as balloons are still being popped, PA picks back up… back into the crowd chatter. 

15:44: “Everybody’s leaving…”

…For Boro Fondo 2023!!

As Pandemia in local minds passed over the course of 2023, allowing normality restored, or the closest thing to it an area can produce and organize, Boro Fondo 2023 was not only properly pre-gamed by Boro Fondo’s Punk Prom collective, they seemed to be growing as recognition and sponsorship gradually picked up in the twenties, with Fondo announcing the festival’s lineup at the Boro Fondo Facebook homesite, August 17, 2023.

“The official lineup is here!! We are so excited to showcase all this amazing talent! We have added a third day this year to allow even more artists to play […] Thank to @alexofandra (photographer, Alex Sager) for creating the poster for this year, and @kelviratats for amking the art, as well as all of our amazing sponsors that help make this event FREE! Share this and spread the word. FONDO FOREVER!! (fixed-gear bike, rainbow, and up-heart emojis😊)

First in line, sponsors Grace & Glory Tattoo (with Jason, Milton, and Delane), followed by Muddy Roots‘ sponsorship, synergizing the annaul (and twelve years old, by this time), Muddy Roots Music Festival in Cookeville, TN with their ususal end-of August/start-of-September weekend dates. Graveyard Gallery, a newer venue down in the Bottoms, next to Panther Creek and the train depot with Chrome Halo Tattoo & Body Piercing chipped in, as well as Silly Goose Patches (Boro Organizer, Robyn’s business), Fondo host, Ace Sign Company, Far Too Lound AV/DJ, “for letting [Boro Fondo] use sound equipment this year!” Gnarly Prints printed Boro Fondo’s 2023 t-shirts, as well as past sponsors, such as Murfreesboro recycling service, Recyclops…

-all were fix-geared up for 2023…

-And, out of Lebanon, TN, Jack’s Guiarcheology (Jack Brunson), built up the Boro Fondo .org website… (https://borofondofest.org/) [(https://www.jacksguitarcheology.com/)] [(https://www.instagram.com/jacksguitarcheology/)]

The lineup set scheduled, Sept. 30:

The main day (of three) (Sept. 29, 2023) map drawn out by photographer, Alex Sager (But, instead of beginning at Ace, like last year, Century 21 [with a big anniversary coming up] jumped in to handle the Fest’s start)…

…And Boro Fondo volunteer, lead vocalist, drummer, printer, and cinematographer, Hunter‘s VHS promo…

And, then…

“Thank you to all our sponsors who help make this festival happen every year!” added the Boro Fondo Facebook page.

“And thanks again to every single person who joined and helps us keep Boro Fondo alive!!! See ya next year (fixed-gear bike, rising love, magic, and rainbow emojis🤘).

-There was a public debriefing ceremony, this year….

And, as normal, recaps of the hard work, that year, [There was New Years show posted Oct. 8, scheduled for January 9], then radio silence until May 7, 2024…

Boro Fondo, remaining 2023 pics, alexofandra’s, and NY annoucment…
Video of Ethan’s record…
finish the subgenric descriptions…

-Funky Frankenstein Records recording, CxR, 8/24/24…

Murfreesboro-local, Punk/Metal scene of the Twenty-Twenties, Pt. 2, tbd.

-Again, please, All of these bands can be found on their bandcamp pages (excepting Bologna Pogna).