We Own This Town: Music

Back due to unpopular demand, it’s horror host Michael Bleeds and another spooky extravaganza of local spooky songs. As past year’s rituals have demonstrated, our journey begins creepy and delightful but we descend into proper creepy, full-on. This edition of the show has many favorites from past years and plenty of brand new classics. Michael Bleeds keeps it well balanced. When you’re done with this one, be sure to revisit the archives from 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and the first from 2017. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Brandy McMaxwell — “Evil The Song” The Spirit League — “Scare Easy” Iven — “The Reaper Is A Scary Guy” Bad Luck Mattress — “Mayhem Dong” Boo Dudes — “Skeleton Dog” DARK DAZE MVSIC — “Cycle of the Wolf” The Phantoms Of Saturn — “The Black Cat” MALCO — “Boo Dudes – Shes So Skeletal MALCO Remix” Blavery — “Vampire Slayer Stakes and Crosses” Shaboi — “Dr Jekyll and Ms Hideous” Eric Slick — “Dig Through The Ditches Burn Through The Witches” Coley Kennedy — “Just Like Kiss Halloween 83” Joe Zempel — “Cedar Womb” Bats — “I Put A Spell On You” Fetching Pails — “The Witching Hour” Petty — “Dracula ” B L O O P R — “halloween party” V To Z — “The Darkness Of Us All” Sean Parrott — “They Were Hunted” Makeup And Vanity Set — “Black Phillip The Witch” Haze Anderson — “The Thing” Stuffed Spider — “Monster Makeup” MALCO — “Castle Arachnid” Children Of The Night — “Adrift At Dark” The Spirit League — “One Last Dance” Black Moon Mother — “Watch It Burn” Soot — “Fire Ants” Total Wife — “Not” German Error Message — “Lilt” SONGS OF LLORE — “Cicadas Frogs Racing Cars” Stuffed Spider — “Enfield Pattern” (excerpt)

We Own This Town: Music strives to be a podcast showcasing new and notable music from Nashville and surrounding areas. For this episode, we focus more on the notable moreso than on the new. Having personally curated this show for eighteen years, these songs have left an impression. They span the musical gamut and, even at over 2 hours, this barely scratches the surface. If anything, I hope this can stand as an introductory primer for anyone curious about what made the Nashville music scene so special and what actively makes it so special today and onward. That’s total wife on our cover; an absolutely unbelievable talent. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Self — “Cannon” The Features — “Armani Suede” And The Relatives — “Cowboy Jazz” Apollo Up! — “Walking The Plank” Meemaw — “Blue In The Blacklight” Kindercastle — “Beddie Bye” The Non-Commissioned Officers — “Ellie” Character — “Theme From ‘Starkweather’” B L O O P R — “Hold the F Up” Negro Justice (feat. Corduroy Clemons) — “Work in the Morning” Ron Obasi — “Dem Crackas” DeRobert The Half-Truths — “We Party” Houston Kendrick — “Ugly Vybes” Jensen Sportag — “2×2” Uncle Skeleton — “Renfro” Dewey Decibel — “Ice Farmer” Hotpipes — “The Future is Where We Belong” Peachy — “Waiting” How I Became The Bomb — “Secret Identity” German Error Message — “Murmuring” Volunteer Department — “Old Friend” $avvy (Feat. Mike Floss) — “BagPurse feat Mike Floss ” Namir Blade — “Patlabor” Jonesiii From The Moon — “One Love” Forget Cassettes — “Instruments of Action” HR Lexy — “Get on with it” Body Electric — “Plastic Arrows” Eardrummer — “Ultra” The Weird Sisters — “WAITING SO LONG” D Watusi — “Brother & Sister” Styrofoam Winos — “Stuck In A Museum” Glossary — “Trouble Won’t Last Always” Total Wife — “still asleep” Make Yourself At Home — “Blue Apollo” Thomas Luminoso — “Speed Bug” Zook — “Evergreen”

It may have been six weeks since our last episode but there’s been no shortage of fantastic new local music to check out. My apologies for the silence but I will make up for it with nearly two hours of wall-to-wall goodness. This playlist was meticulously curated and then I let the Randomizer Machine shuffle it all up. The results are great no matter how you hear it. Enjoy! That’s Purser on our cover with a photo by Emily April Allen. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Phoneswithchords — “Bitter Blink” Tristen — “New Punching Bag” Hands Down Eugene — “Saros Painting” LUNAR Clayhead — “Ramen Noodles” Cyborg9K — “Advent of the ICBM” Wesley The Boys — “Full-Time Asshole” Tom Spiker And Matt Glassmeyer — “El Batcho” The Medium — “Feel The Dream” Sean Thompsons Weird Ears — “Storms Comin Tonight” Jo Schornikow — “Upstream” Rig B — “i stay up until 3am every night” RAP Ferreira — “reciting the alphas bet” Purser — “Dust” Quinn Hills — “Lipstick Lace” Rube — “where were coming from” Phoneswithchords — “The Speed of Time” RIFFT — “An Unforgiving Sky” ShvdowBoy — “Tiger Lilly” John Davis — “Please Be My Love” Through — “Shadow Box” Username — “grip w auntie” Blaqspace — “hands” TB8S — “Wave of the Wand” Candynavia — “superbowl” Book NOT Brooke Zina — “IV THATS OK” Belly Full Of Stars — “hissandmisses” Eve Maret — “origin of evergreen” Make Yourself At Home — “0000”

Whoops, almost a month between episodes. Hate it when that happens but, hey, life has its varying priorities. What I love is that I was able to put together 2 hours of local music without batting an eye. The backlog is deep – a mile deep you might say – but that means that sharing local goodness with you is easy! It may not all be brand new but, as the saying goes, if you’ve never heard it before, it’s new to you! Fingers crossed Episode 398 won’t take near as long (it won’t). That’s Downasaur on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music and other songs by Test Kitchen. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Crave On — “Orange Light in a Dark Room” Janella Rosa — “Gentle Soul” Slow Salvation — “Call A Friend” Ben Garnett — “Open Your Books” John Condit — “Craving Connection” Repeat Repeat — “Assholes” Make Yourself At Home — “Spinning Plates” Palm Ghosts — “Last Chance Kid” General Trust — “Apologia” Rich Ruth — “No Muscle No Memory” Digyphus — “Among Verticals” GeoVoc — “its over kid” Pallet — “draft 1” Levi J Miller — “WHENEVER IM READY” Birdy On The Moon — “Bluebells” Meade Forsythe — “Please Respond” Downasaur — “St Francis Kickflip” Magic In Threes — “Its Good to be the King” The Broken Tree — “The Weary Muse” BROKE — “Dont Hold Back” Nate Nakshian — “Million Miles From U” Carmen Canedo — “next time around” Thayer Sarrano — “Bells” Sun Seeker — “A Dirty Bath Of Everything” Molly Parden — “Eagle Rock feat John Canada” Hands Down Eugene — “Barry Shorts Campaign” Spodee Boy — “Moonshine Canyon” MAANTA RAAY — “MAANTA RAAY Theme” Jerry Roe — “Mind the Sea Wall”

Ending the year on a holiday compilation just didn’t feel right so this episode came together with the quickness! The upside to the wealth of Nashville music is that it doesn’t take much to put together something superbly enjoyable. Here’s around 90 minutes of local tunes to take you outta 2024 and into 2025. See you on the other side. That’s Heru Heru on our cover. “Main Theme” by Upright T-Rex Music. Click here for full episode notes Follow us on Instagram or shoot us a DM with your music submission: @weownthistown . Zook — “Disappear” Styrofoam Winos — “Rollin With You” The Angels Of Death — “Build An Altar” Mouth Reader — “Trees” Lawfulgoof — “Solar Punk” Heru Heru — “Hip-Hop Is On The Way” Heres Johnny LUNAR — “SINGIN ASS BOY (feat Dot-Com Intelligence)” Nodark — “the craft” Matt The Watt Gives — “Cutting Ties” Harper Mayo — “Hey Ollie” Casters — “Memory” Tom Barrett — “Two Places at Once” Erin Rae — “On Her Side” Suck Face — “Exit” Thayer Sarrano — “Carried Away” Jejune Jr — “Happy” Jejune Jr — “Happy Outro” Cassette Stress — “Hand of Benediction” Quiet Oaks — “I’m Over It (I Guess)” The F-use — “Pretty” Vera Bloom — “Bohemian Junk” Suck Face — “Golden Eye (feat Volunteer Department)” Zook — “Absolute Misery” Nativity Dog — “Part I”