Murfreesboro, Tenn. – (This) coverage of the Murfreesboro, TN area’s 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, within the February 2022 issue of area-monthly, [the] Murfreesboro Pulse.

Area music reviews of the time included local artists ranging from alt. R&B/hip-hop, singer-songwriter-rapper, Marlena Minecci, to the alt. garage rock of Collegetown; Alex Tumbleson’s ramble-folk in the Barnum Brown EP -even some nerdcore/anime-core, pogo street punk in the Oi!takus EP covered in the Pulse’s September 2021 issue (other reviews at time: Safari Room’s first album, Summer. ‘20; The TN Warblers, Feb. ‘23; Firkenstein, March ’22; Roland Justice, Jan 22; Heru Heru, Dec. 21 [all, https://boropulse.com/]).

Venue-wise, places like Ethan Rose’s Crossroads punk house (out Memorial Blvd./Lebanon Pike) and DRKMTTR, (Dickerson Pike, Nashville) were being (re-)discovered, during and after the pandemic. Some existing venues from the twenty-teens, such as The Laundry Room (Bradyville Pk.), some Boro Fondo host houses (see maps), and even MTSU’s KUC Theatre stood as places for these kids in these twenties -these ideas, stage acts, and lineups- to go, gather, meet, exist, cook, vent, and nurture -as well as surge.

It was a time in the Murfreesboro annals where the polarity of musical influences stylistically bridged other area-popular genres -and their followers/fandoms- to create concentric circles of local influence, growing bigger and bigger, to become “area influence,” with its own eccentricity and esotericism.

It’s a scene from the ground up, and seemingly takes a fresh breath, year to year, co-opting the gambit of haggard, generational evolution left behind to fend for itself, and from time to time, these kids -those bands touring in, those touring out, and those remaining, always- all tie together to create something bigger than themselves: a local-Murfreesboro Punk/Metal Scene Pt. 1: An economy.

Murfreesboro-based, anime-core, punk sextet, The Oi!Takus, who on a local level, bridge their love for late 70’s, fast-paced, UK “Oi-Oi” punk (also that sub-genre’s early-90’s, Berkely, CA revival through traditionalists like Rancid, and Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards) with the fandoms of manga and anime (known as Takus, pronounced “Tah-koos”). Oi-takus then filks, or lyricizes their own anime fan fiction into the “oi-oi,” structured, faster tempo’d, street punk subgenre (the verb, “filk,” is a misspelling of “folk” music, insinuating writing into/onto an already established work [such as putting “i” in “folk”).

This bridging is on one end of the local-fame spectrum.

On the other end, IV & The Strange Band, an initially Murfreesboro-produced band, went to the national stage, in the twenties, bridging sludge metal to an already area-established, traditional Nashville country western music, then touring the country, extensively, with nine local stops in the Twenties, according to Wiliams, from Nashville’s Mercy Lounge, Nov. 2021, to Murfreesboro’s Panther Creek Brews, June of ‘22, all the way to a current, Nov., 2024 show at Madison, Nashville’s “The 58” Room in The Eastside Bowl, still bridging among touring out, and (re-)visiting the S. Rutherford Walmart.

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And, As Middle TN’s local, Murfreesboro area, Punk/Metal scene swathed vast between local and national fame -as well as bridging intent- yet again, the breadth and reach of a Murfreesboro music scene from one end of the fame spectrum to the other was as big as it had been since recent nostalgia, Spongebath records era in the mid-nineties, Pink Spiders popularity and Richie Kirkpatrick playing David Letterman with Jessica Lea Mayfield’s band in the aughts and tweens, IV & The Strange Band, late teens and into twenties –Protomen’s 20th Anniversary, 2024!

But, while these kids and acts are playing laundry rooms, and fortunately permitted to college campuses -and somehow, a standing, vestige-of-its-kind punk house maintained and resided in by actual punks making money, as such (seriously like the folks you see in late 1970’s UK, New York, and Chinatown, LA footage. It’s awesome), there’s even an underground to THAT, underlying the Hayden Gists, Alex Sagers, Jasons Dietz and Galaz, the Milton and Delanes, the Matthew “Grady” Olsons, the John McGhees and Chase McCutcheons, the Lee Roberts and Shonda Pubs, The Hambones, the Rhinovirus, The Mammoths, The Action Cat Zines, The Scarletts of Misandry, The Adam Corso house cooks, The Robyn Meadows, Jesses, Bens and Mos, The Scouts and the Decayed Doll, …and the flyer makers’ hilariously precise, yet seemingly random, off-top-of-head, sub-genric descriptions, who make this economy gnarl.

How TO:

The Process (from The Bottoms to the Pinnacle building) (or, The process of getting off the ground into the Murfreesboro house show scene/How to Break into the House).
–A schedule of the pandemic can be found at When Did the Pandemic Start and End? | Northwestern Medicine [(lasted ~Jan., 2020 – May, 2023, according^].

With Pandemia in full motion, in the middle of Covid restrictions, AND with a February 2022 review of Circuit Circuit’s debut EP just written/about to come out, it was unbeknownst CIRCUIT CIRCUIT was playing CxR the night we decided to go [path of communication to get there–>House Show Alliance -> Ethan’s FB messages for permission to bring a minor -> then going to check out what I’ve been writing about, but doing it live (i.e., follow-up, live reviews).

Post-hardcore/glitch-metal/math-punk quartet, Circuit Circuit’s Facebook Page started Feb. 17, 2022, promoting a tour date projected out to the summer’s June 12, 2022 date @ The Bug Jar, in Rochester, NY, seemingly anticipatory for a show, back home from MTSU, with bands, P.S. You’re Dead (synthy, post-hardcore, math-sass, grind punk out of Buffallo), 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 run -> CHatt run, seemingly hopping homebases, jumping friendly tours for a couple of shows, and not only taking new chops learned in Murfreesboro to NY, but by touring back down, bringing some NY and Pittsburgh influences back to MT state -another part of the economy- as well as a good example of both an “in” and “out” band, as Circuit Circuit toured both in and out from Murf. state and NY. A harder run, their second year, Circuit Circuit got started early, throwing the next promo [show flyer for a Crossroads Punk House (CxR) event] for a January 28, 2023 featuring The [Sound] That [Ends] Creation (chaotic, grind-core screamo jazz in from TX), [Circuit Circuit], Officer Down (Murfreesboro, power-violent, scram punk [hipster screamo]), Medusa’s Hairdresser (Nashville-based, black metal, punk crust), and Daedalus (“Middle TN Blackened Skrunky Noise”), all of which made up the, “7pm, Donations for the tour band encouraged”-kind of lineup that evening. The two bold in this column^ = good indications of a functioniong, money producing economy.

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After CxR, Circuit Circuit would follow the hustle starting the year out at, seeming, Dickerson Pike VHS rental shop, yet Nashville venue, DRKMTTR, February 19, 2023 with THIN (“NY Mathgrind”), The Sound That Ends Creation (see last pp), The Wind In The Trees (“Baltimore Grind”), Bled To Submission (Nashville-based, harsh sludgery grindcore), for an, “8pm, All Ages. 13adv, 15dos” [dos: day of show] show.

After a good start to the second year, Circuit Circuit co-toured with friends made, once again (The Wind In The Trees and Blind Tiger), through early winter, and into Blind Tiger’s hardcore, metalcore, South Central Heat Tour (early spring/March), then The Sounds Of The End Of Creation tour throughout April and May.

Next, 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 to go, gather, meet, exist, cook, vent, and nurture -as well as surge.

With a little gusto, progressively and concentrically successful years develop, bridging off areas and fandoms (example: having local bands from the host city share the bill with those bands traveling/touring in to incidentally fill out a well-traveled culture), bridging areas to ultimately create a bigger picture -a bigger inclusion- with multiple forms of currency in order to exist.

Circuit Circuit’s March 15, 2022’s last show of The Blind Tiger tour, at The Firehouse, in Birmingham, AL, was 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 of which was orgainized with bands of different influence, from different parts of the country, by an Alabaman collective, to produce art that eventually moves along.

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, Graveyard Gallery (in the bottoms, a section of Murfreesboro downtown by the train tracks). This was Circuit Circuit’s first time on a “presented by Muddy Roots,” bill, too, July 22, 2023, opening with Toxic Culture (hardcore anarchy-sided punx out of Murfreesboro, TN), Local 58 (hardcore beatdown crust punk of Murfreesboro, TN), and Spinning Lodge (trans sludge punk-metal out of Murfreesboro) (+ & all ages, 10 adv, 15 dos).

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

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), as Circuit Circuit got a fresh, new linktr.ee link to help compile their socials, contact, and releases into a hub, during the progress…

“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), with a show with Wiltwither (progressive, Illinois, math/metalcore), the day after in Baltimore, MD.

Again, such tediousness is how these gusto bands, their weird dive bars, and their touring friends’ years go, learning how to speedball the experience into the next year until whatever desirable (or forced) outcome is reached on the fame and longevity spectrum. Immense good times are had by all, as well as a lot of hard work, but there’s Handling the little things to get things moving into something bigger -something, “Presented by,” -then staying on top of it 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 situations, such as enrolling at universities via a personal and/or societal direction to answer, “what’s next after high school?” -or simply, being born in the area, as a local raised in, and creating, the access/channels for you and others that will grow to create it with you (friends) or, at least, like-minded cohorts who’ll make music with you in a comfortable space.

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.

–As Circuit Circuit’s Facebook page started February 17, 2022, beginning the process of strive to an always band, or local staple, Circuit Circuit’s real initial kick-off for 2022 (their first year) was, to the effect of a live show at cXr, January 29, 2022, just a few weeks before their Facebook page started (and just a little before the pandemic began to ease)… -and, as presented by Ethan Rose, who lives just upstairs at the Crossroads Punk House.

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…A vestige of its kind, as like imagining CBGB’s historic walls, with layers of spit, blood, and beer -obviously a solid room. these intro pics were taken over the course of couple of years, not just 1/29/22..

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 free-stream on Bandcamp, a place to get your music, and to get your music out, grassroots. Save in favorites on your browser/download the app. Within, there’s an opportunity for real, local exploration, playing dj, 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, was and to get a feel of what’s going on, including a follow-up to said review with a live review. 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 when practicing punk and journalism).

With the intensity of the live shows these punk/metal-urgists have, there, 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 & OMFG (NY), or Hong Kong Cafe (LA), both original, proto-American punk clubs frequented by the original stud-vested and mohawk’d kids out of the late 70’s and 80’s New York. Or U.K. Or Chinatown, L.A. that you have look up.
That punk. The kind that jumps oceans). I mean, a good gauge is, when talking to other venues, complimenting them on feeding and breathing the scene, yearly, you could mention, “You’ve got your sht tgh better than cXr, seemingly,” but then the second sentence is, “but they’re Punk (and they do have it tgh, just punk af).”

Nonetheless, the exit out of driveway after a lovely, moshy, but stereotypically drenched, punk room learning experience probably had by all, was a good metaphor for the night, as 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
ing through puddles with someone who’s a about to start driving, with me not knowing if we’re gonna make it out safe, we finally made maneuvered without hitting anything. Lilly has a pretty punk story to tell,t 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.

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Playing that evening was Circuit Circuit (w/ Kade Hernandez), Nashville band, Linwood, and touring band, Revenge Bodies, coming in from Little Rock,
Arakansas.

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 the warm-up into
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 workshop 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 compositions. Can be jazzy when everyone’s counter melodies coincide with the bass’ chorus to cresendo, too. Teamwork.

[time??]–Nonetheless, the difference within Linwood’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.

(~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.

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 their catalogue over the course of a couple of years’ push, released the EP they were working on, at-the-time, live, plus a song in there from Cupid Demos. Cool way to workshop/sneak-debut an album release to an already receptive crowd within a six-song test-run, while, at the time, it’s being recorded in studio. + a cover and an old, first EP track thrown in for the Jan. 29, 2022, CxR

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24:24, CxR 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.

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.

Sheriff 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.

“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,”].

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!” they said.

Damn,” responded another.

33:20, bands still loading and unloading, “Oh, shit!” as boots and cases clang 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/knowledgeable 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 (no audio) we stayed for the remainder until somehow rocking out of that pot-holey driveway. Following Linwood was Little Rock “in” band, Revenge Bodies, to spead the word, followed by Circuit Circuit, who explained some things for the paper.

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and a bit of a time jump: This is Misandry

Murfreesboro, Tenn – As the years begin, and become warm, bands come out. You’ll see them post on Instagram and Facebook. They start practicing. The shows start. Boro Fondo’s application process starts… The whole scene gets going at the beginning of the year. So, it’s like taking a breath, because every year is like taking a breath, for this scene. It’s nice.  

As the Murfreesboro-local, Punk/Metal scene took a fresh breath in 2025, locally formed, fuzz buzz-communicative, hive-punk quartet, Misandry, held a second-to-last band practice, April 30, 2025, before they debuted their self-titled EP, MISANDRY DEMO, live, for the first time, May 11, 2025, just three months after the studio/phone version was released out of Mulletfreaaak Youtube channel, February 3, 2025. Both live events took place downstairs at Murfreesboro staple-vestige punk venue, Crossroads Punk House.  

A few factors helping this year’s Misandry stand out: frontwoman, Lei Tellez, was in residency at Crossroads at the beginning of the year so, April 30, 2025, was back to familiar ground, with other tenants, Seth and little Scarlett, waiting for the rest of the band.

Comprised of The Scarletts 1) Devine, guitarist, and of local merch designer/screenprint shop at Hatchet Studios, and a key figure in the organizational prowess of the Murfreesboro music scene, this decade, as well as 2) little Scarlett, who is learning to play Ethan Rose’s bass found probably found leaning against the wall next to BeetleJuice, in the hallway, earlier. Reggie (of new-Murf sickos, Carbonator, and guitar abuser for always Murf. band, Spinal Fluid [hardcore, “Southern Punk Fckheads”], as well as up and coming staple, area creator, Dru the Drifter [DIY, power pop egg punk]), mans the drums.  

Tellez notices it fluctuates like that, as her first band broke up, winter of last year, only for her to take a road trip with Scarlett Devine, when the warmer months picked back up, gaining actual, real members for this new band, according to Tellez. Scarlett Devine is a seeming mentor/older sister of Misandry’s string section. 

Within their six-song debut set, May 11, the stings –sorry, strings- are tuned with similar frequencies to bees maelstroming new, area riffs around your head, and through the effect of the sickest, wholesomeness heard through the front door of Cxr, at their practice, a tutoring on bass to guitar, from one sister to another. 

 Misandry played a six-track set under fifteen minutes, including with sentiments in Spanish by Tellez, reacting to times when federal immigration enforcement agents (ICE) began detaining Nashville residents in the spring of 2025.  

CxR House cat, patricia, greets new friends at the porch. 

And since in this beehive world of 2025, seeing as she who controls the fuzz, controls the buzz, little Scarlett is overheard being taught bass theory and rhythm tricks by the finesse and delicacy of Devine through the open CxR front door at April 30th’s practice, to prepare The Scarletts for Misandry’s to-be, distinct/definitive buzzing fuzz communication between the guitar and bass / the two of them, live. 

Ethan’s bass is another story unto itself, but for the time, it’s a macguffin within the scene that has fueled as many bands as the motivation of these young kid’s to do a tight fifteen within the couple hours of practice, making a difference before the sun blows up in a billion years, anyway.  

Just think of all those Ethan’s bass particles separated out there in space, rejoining the rest of them, but with the sickest local fuzz of any particles.   

So this is Misandry, right now, taking a breath… 

It’s hardcore punk for hardcore girls. They’ve gotten really close with the Birmingham scene, so they feel they’ve doubled and tripled, a lot, according to Tellez.  

MISANDRY DEMOS can be found @ and after releasing the EP on Mulletfreaaak Youtube Channel, February 3, 2025/at MISANDRY DEMO – YouTube. …The six, fast-punched cXr-hive tracks buzzing fuzz on the EP video begin at 0:00, 1:22*, 2:04, 3:26*, 4:39, with (*) being the bee-est. 

Here are some excerpts from their May 11, 2025 live debut at Cxr:

Misandry’s premiere, May 11, 2025, was joined by Catheter (Birmingham, arousal-hate, power punk), Bolt Swallower (Fairview, TN alley vomit shred), and Inverted Cross (VA black/thrash speed metal). 

Another live video brought together by MulletFreaaak (Scarlett D.) can be found at mulletfreak does misandry

A conversation to get over to CxR, then Scarlett’s Hatchet Studio instagram:

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A fuller view of what Ethan Rose, Scout Cerveny, and The Crossroads do in the area: FORM-A-BAND LIVE AT CXR AUG 24, 2024 7″ record pressing, Funky Frankenstein Records, Ethan Rose: “FFRecords This record was hand crafted and individually cut in real time using a 1950s Presto recording lathe. It is a unique piece. It is not the same as a traditional pressed record. It was not made in a factory by massive hydraulic presses. It was carved from an 8ft sheet of polycarbonate plastic, shaped, sanded, waxed and cut in real time by one person. because of th3 method emplyed to produce this record it may have “horns”, a term used to describe raised ridges on either side of the groove. If your record sounds inconsistent or absolutely horrible when you put it on this is because the needle is riding on the horns between the grooves. Simply tap your needle with your finger to nudge it fully into the groove. All records are tested after cutting and will playback correctly on properly weighted turntables. This record will not harm your needle. THis record will not degrad after multiple plays. This record will however attract lint so be sure to clean the record and your needle often. -Murfreesboro, TN- www.funkyfrankenstein.com

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, August 5, 2023’s Punk Prom, at Panther Creek Brews (714 W. Main, now FOR RENT) 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 fest is the long-running, Murfreesboro organization of an annual, all-day, venue and house show-hopping, bike ride celebration of the local arts and alt.-music scene that started out getting drunk on a bike in Murfreesboro, late aughts and early teens, and seeing how late into the night the municipality’s tolerance of an increasingly wobbly bike mob would stretch. But through evolution (a couple of generations, as the first’s knees now start to hurt, meanwhile some of the children made at Boro Fondo are old enough to organize themselves)-Boro Fondo has become an organizational force-to-be-reckoned for more than a decade, growing equivalent to a bank, seemingly self-sustainableon social good grace/access to like-passioned help, merch and ticket/door sales and donations, logistical chaos, and sometimes emotional catharsis.

It’s a socio-organization.

At the drop of an act, or a rain drop, these volunteers, learning from one another over the years of the active Twenty Twenties Boro Fondo (about fifteen to twenty of them), 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 (including maintenance and pickup) just to help chip in for those socio purposes.
In waves, since the early aughts/the last twenty years, the area has been a steppingstone, from Murfreesboro to Nashville, simply as an admirable, and closest, hoppin’ metropolis for the young’ns for a Music City, and with even better opportunities to raise families and excel at pharmacy, for instance. Has been for forty years. But since about the times of Boro Fondo’s inception, and the proto-Tour de Fun, before that, right around 2010, waves of kids from this new, and nationally recognized, Recording Industry Major, within MTSU, that bolstered state-of-the-art (new, digital) MIDI equipment/technology at the turn of the millennia, helped graduate, or not, these kids to a thriving East Nashville scene -a new mecca for recording industry, area-alt. rock, and especially alt. rock country, huge back then, as old sad bastard music was starting to take over. like of The Civil Wars.

That was just the makings for the stew, at the time.

Twenty years has passed, and Nash has got folks like The Protomen, an, in hindsight, aptly-named, original Murfreesboro, Nintendo-core/hardcore-to-arena rock stage show geographically bridging 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 the result of what such commitment of those that moved up there bright eyed and bushy tailed, twenty years ago, have become over time, as heard on their latest release, Woodland (August 2024, out of Woodland Studios, East Nashville). It’s classy.

To rant, it was an area good mix of productive community before woo-girls and Broadway became a crucial tourism attraction, but a necessity to thrive, to some, when MTSU kids could moved on to the next step. In a way, it helped the formation of Boro Fondo to start as a zeitgeist. The remnants of a previous scene, seemingly and eventually, collected itself -punk rock and metal kids hanging around, or born here- 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, though. Punk and Metal did.

“Boro Fondo was born to continue the tradition of a previous festival known as ‘Tour de Fun.’ From 2010-2012 ‘Tour de Fun’ existed at the confluence of two strong grassroots communities in Murfreesboro, the DIY music scene and the bicycle community. The result was an incredible and unique festival, part DIY show and part critical mass. After the 2012 festival the original founder Tyler Walker relocated to Nashville proper. A group of people involved with the festival felt that it was something special to Murfreesboro and wanted to see it continue, thus Boro Fondo was born in the tradition of European cycling festivals. The cast of organizers has fully turned over multiple times throughout the years, but the spirit of the festival remains the same as the day it was conceived,” according to borofondofest.org.

-That, too.

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 any 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 a bike mob swell traveling over the single lane bridge by what was MayDay Brewery, or walking out to go to work, and realizing your house became a stop, all of a sudden.

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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:

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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, but now, cross dressing:

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 (schedule up top) 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 Meadow‘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 the venue that would eventually, with the help of the Murfreesboro House Show Alliance’s Facebook group thread, introduce me to Aly Dellinger of Flummox) (*Flummox did not perform at Punk Prom 2023)].

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, “Fck Olli Got?” Fck All he got?” *“Fck Oli-
garchs!?” (That is Hayden’s voice).

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:

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, 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 intense, 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 the bar (crowd chatter), There are some, “Uh, muh Gah. Every time I…” and “I think that…”’s happening, with some gig-
gles and laughs, next to the railroad tracks. […]

“Shit kicks ass,”

“Shit kicks swamp’s ass,”

“SHit’s swampy,” they say –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.

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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. “I’m glad I brought this shitty t-shirt with me,” guy says.

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 onthe PA, it’s one of the members of Big, If True –recent Pulse Review, October 2024. 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 3rd studio/1st 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 was melding them to being the scene’s Black Flag,] before hearing Blaine Neal’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. ]

A conversation with Scout Cerveny:

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–Bologna Pogna appeared at Muddy Roots Music Festival 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.

Around 14:20, you can hear, faintly, Bologna Pogna playing the Little Tent at their scheduled time, 11:30 am, among the field recording, and lawnmowers. You might think the hum is a lawnmower, until an actual lawnmower starts up, but it’s them. By that time, I was walking the back field, I believe, a little behind, but both Bolgna Pogna and I were kinda doing our own thing. It was awesome. I used to Sunday morning distribute with The Pulse, to the Little Tent’s Bologna Pognas of Muddy Roots festivals, past withThe back end of Sunday Morning Muddy Roots church, in the beginning.

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

-from 2:22, to ~11:00 in this recording^ = Ethan Rose interview, between Oi-Takus and Bologna Pogna sets at PUnk Prom, Aug.5, 2023:

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.

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 (good okay).

[…] I’m covering the punk stuff and this is obviously an awesome place to start. You are 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…

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[…]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).

11:02 – 12:13, Bologna Pogna’s warm-up (and audience chatter for a minute). Then, 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 way of Bologna Pogna lead singer, Blaine Neal, 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”), isolated here:

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, tiny 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) “FCK YEAH. FCK 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.

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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, Blaine, “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 Zander 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 lyricizing “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??

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,” Blaine said (crowd member, “Wooo!”) (More yeah’s and weees!).

Audience member: We’d love to see it!

Blaine: …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 (also @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, in 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…”

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

0:00, Robyn Meadows: 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…

Bologna Pogna | Facebook

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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, now: 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 Rose 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 deepthroat 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?”

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 Rose, 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!” said Matty.

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Wak: The on 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 “Fckin Punks, Fckin 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.”

Wrekt’s “Get Drunk!”, ends 20:33.

audio, 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.

Hunter 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 on mic 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, again: 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.

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 (BCP), and kicking off exactly when pandemia hit, March 2020 [Re-run debut show], with early 20’s, Hunter on vocals (drummer of then and 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, 2020, that kicked off exactly with pandemia.With everyone at Media Rerun for Local 58’s very first show, 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” (fb).

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.

Local 58’s 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 LP’s, too (They kept “Bald”).

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)

Difference 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!!

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 execution 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 […]

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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).
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 (slam pop out of Denver), and Skinman (Hatiesberg hardcore).

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, lovingly, for the song].

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

Mic emcee Robyn, 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!

[…] :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!

[…] 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!’

“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.”

[…] 6:50, 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, Annette: 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.

Robyn 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.

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.

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

: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.”

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W Main St. 24 (8:25 length): 

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.

-But, Back at 8:48 pm, Spinning Lodge, Punk Prom, Panther Creek Brews, 37130

(12:16, song (set?) ends)

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!” said Hayden…

…For Boro Fondo 2023 (just two months later, 9/29-10/1/23)!!

So, a short time later, as Pandemia within 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, but 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 making 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 annual (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 Brewery and the train depot with Chrome Halo Tattoo & Body Piercing chipped in, as well as Silly Goose Patches (Boro Organizer, Robyn’s business), Fondo hosts, Ace Sign Company, Far Too Lound AV/DJ, “for letting [Boro Fondo] use sound equipment this year!” And, Gnarly Prints (Hunter’s printing shop) printed Boro Fondo’s 2023 t-shirts, as well as past sponsors, such as Murfreesboro recycling service, Recyclops…

-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/)]

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“Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who came out and partied with us this weekend!! […] We especially want to thank the bikers who show out every year!! Of course thank you to the volunteers who put this whole thing togehter! This was possibly our first year staing on schedule the whole of the main day, and that’s no easy feat. Our volunteers worked SO hard to make this happen, without them there is no fest. Thank you to all […] that joined us and displayed Murfreesboro’s vibrant artistic scene,” Boro Fondo 2023, Murfreesboro, TN, Boro Fondo Festival FB.

“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 follow-up, public debriefing ceremony, this year….

And, as normal as the latter-season recaps of all the hard work, any given year, there was New Years show posted, Oct. 8, 2023, scheduled for January 9, 2024…

[In attempt to make a Murfreeesboro-local punk/metal scene event flyer, with some subgenric band descripts, shotgun-style, to form a generic, local flyer from a latest twenty-twenties (so far) iteration of itself (using Boro Fondo 2023 list, on other page, plus some) :

[Also remember, these are all area-local bands (hide your kids)]:

Peregrihn – epic, soothing 80’s synthwave/experimental, melancholic retrowave/midi steeldrum vaporwave/chopped and smoothed screwjazz out of Nashville. Latest, “Seraph,” unknown release date.

Los Swamp Monsters – multi-everything, Louisiana/tex-mex, alligator swamp rock out of Maryland, Murfreesboro, and Muscle Shoals.

Bon Mi – Winnipeg garage-emo country out of Murfreesboro.

Dumpster Pussy – “sex neutral, neurotic bubblecore”/echoing, Agoraphobic sax bubblegrunge (“Paraniod – Grown up version,” a solid song.

Poplar Creek – Nashville emo drum math/abyss, pop-screamo.

Ghost Town Remedy – seemingly Louisville rationalized, operatic power pop/Fang-pop, “vampire,” Olivia Rodriguez cover.

Spinal Fluid – Always, “Southern Punk Fckheads”/Murfreesboro-based, calculated, egg punk/fine-handed, lo-fi hardcoresurgery punk; latest, “Americanized: Alternate Version,” May 2025

Local 58 – staple, stabby chainsaw massacre post-egg crust

Oi!Takus – Oi punk/nerdcore anime filk.

Jake Kroll – Murfreesboro, optimistic dredge, grungefuzz bedcore hauntology/ “Post punk for Ghouls and Goblins [a dream trio would be Kroll, Glisson, and Bunson].

Still Satellite – Murfreesboro-poetic, solo, loop fusion R&B punk/ multi-instrumental, post-punk, deli-loop edm.

Regdar and the Fighters -dysfunctional relationship electronic/glitch dependency electronica

Growler – Nashville, developmental emogaze/riff emo stag (riff-emotive stagnation emo)

Casual Sects – Always, Helvig and Brunson’s “sadboi grunge-pop band”/Fang-pop, garage sadcore live jangle

Honey Dagger – Nashville-based “Loft Rock”/psychedilic, sad-Bread glow.
Black Market Kidney Surgeon – Murfreesboro-staple/always, deepthroat, hardcore crust punx noise

Barricaded Suspects – Nashville, “ecclectic hardcore”/TN sawtooth thrashcore/tubeamp gaunt thrash

Skeetzo N Krysis – public psychosis stage metal storytime/burning ship metal-punk/offensive asylum punk-metal (SkeetZo N’ Krysis Videos | ReverbNation)

Neptune the Mystic – Nashville symphonic proto-goth/industrial metal

Badhippy – “Dirty thrash punk outta Nashville”/ lost driving, sludge thrash

Murdered in a record shop – La Vergne hardcore oi/Anti-landlord pogo

J Logan – Nashville beatside light-hop

Ceeto Bankz -Nashville buckshot rap

Sokol Sound – Nashville “Minimal dubs and Half-time”/Nash dubstep, halftime

Plague Summer – Knoxville cusackcore spazpop/Knoxville electronic anxiety pop

Petal – Throng Punk Metal metal

Decline – Throgo metal

Barcode – Garage pop Egg punk salsa

You Will Burn – Hardcore Florence Thrash punk

Aye Mammoth -staple/always Desert metal, heavy doom/Murfreesboro Stoner Doom boogie

Serotonin – bifocal post-emo hardcore out of Maryland, D.C.

Flummox – trans-metal gun advocates/divacore

Spinning Lodge – gender neutral growl tap

Big, If True – Nashville goof punk, grunge pop/Nshville indie power pop

Medusa’s Hairdresser – Nashville hardcore blackened crust metal

Dru the Drifter – scene king, “DIY power pop egg punk”

IV & The Strange Band – traditional Nashville country & western sludge

Bologna Pogna – old folks motorcyle grunge punk

Misandry – beehive thrash punk vent

Circuit Circuit – post-hard, glitchcore/ “post hardcore glitch metal, math punk”]

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The remainder of the Folk & Proper News, Muddy Roots 2025, Summer edition contains the second installment of area author, Steve Vire’s “Whitewash Chronicles,” a true-tale, youth-Kerouacian, all-American balls, “That don’t happen anymore,” story, brought to you by Steve and his big friend, Big Chad, can be found at Whitewash Chronicles, cont’d (2nd installment) – Folk & Proper News.

Photography for the story by Sam Wilson, area-photographer capturing the essence of Tennessee through his hair when it gets too long.

The first installment of Steve Vire’s Whitewash Chronicles, with area photography by Sam Wilson can be found at The Whitewash Chronicles – Folk & Proper News

Sam Wilson’s work can be found at instagram, @sjacobwilson

Steve can also be found on Facebook, Stephen Vire | Facebook, as well as Somewhere Place Else: Rockvale Farm Will Pickle Nearly Anything – The Murfreesboro Pulse, and Somewhere Place Else Farm – Rockvale, TN to tell the farm’s tale.

For more information on the origins on Muddy Roots Music Festival, and the DIY organization of a fifteen-year, running, valley party, visit Jason Galaz at the QR codes: