The Minks

Thursday, March 5, 2020

with special guest Reality Something

Thursday, March 5, 2020
Doors 7:00 PM / Showtime 8:00 PM
All Ages
 

Artist website: The Minks

Pre-sales for all shows end at noon on the day of the show. Tickets are will call only, nonrefundable, but transferable to another person (for the same show). All tickets are general admission.

The Minks are Nashvilles psychedelic-bloos band, heavy on the rock and roll. Were talking low-down, all the way, purse-lipped, eyes-shut, head-whirling kind of rock and roll. The bands palpable sound has roots in every music fans top tenfrom Lou to Patti to Creedence to Hank. Mixed with raw, jangly instrumentation and soulful saccharine vocals, its as much a throwback as it is an answer to the often overlooked underbelly of Nashvilles rock and roll scene.

Frontwoman Nikki Barber began writing and recording songs in a makeshift, basement studio at a young age. She decided to move to Nashville where Barber created the rock and roll four-piece band, The Minks. With the same innovative garage rock spirit she started out with, Barber, alongside coproducer Joe Bissiri, began recording her debut album, Light & Sweet, at her home in Nashville.

Light & Sweet is about finding the silver lining amongst the madness- a timely call to arms about staying positive in a world that can often times feel bleak. I wrote these songs as I was living on my own for the first time and calling out the bullshit within my life. These songs were outlets for me to heal, which I hope they will do for other people as well, says Barber.

The Minks are here. Let's boogie!

Reality Something

Dirty Money is the newest single from buzzy Nashville alternative-band Reality Something. A fun, sexy rock song that blurs genre lines and highlights the band’s penchant for duality within a song— in this case, with Dirty Money being somehow both tongue-in-cheek and no bullshit at once.

Dirty Money is the first new song since ‘Life Noise,’ the band’s gritty, confessional, and poetry-infused debut LP which was released in 2018 on taste-making Nashville label Infinity Cat Records— cementing Reality Something as one of Nashville’s most important new bands, a force of sweet/sour honest lyrics and blistering guitars in a tight package.

The songs in the past have been written primarily by Elena Franklin (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), but Dirty Money is the first of the new music to be released to have been written (not to mention recorded, produced, and mixed) by Kingsley Brock (lead guitar, also formerly of infamous Nashville garage band Turbo Fruits). Reality Something has always had Ethan Place on drums (referred to lovingly by Elena as her and Kingsley’s “weird third twin”), and is now completed by new bassist Davis Haley.