Tayls and Wag

DOORS at 10:00pm

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Tayls

The East Nashville Power Pop band Tayls transports listeners into a temporary dwelling of rock ‘n’ roll fantasy. Their dynamic pop-punk anthems and effervescent energy has captured hearts across Nashville, creating a multisensory experience while providing a feeling of belonging. The Nashville Scene describes the group as “stylistically omnivorous, pulling from a variety of disciplines from folk to glam, with a flair for grand gestures that nods to The Flaming Lips.” Beyond that, Tayls is a band about friendship. The group takes a kitchen-sink approach to live performance, with an ensemble cast of Nashville talent, and stage theatrics akin to Bowie or Queen. The band’s self-proclaimed genre, Friendship-Punk, combines a DIY ethos with a do-it-together spirit.

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Wag

In the year 2000, seven-year-old Cramer Lewis was obsessed with Elton John. But he couldn’t find a single peer who shared his love of the soulful, 70s piano rock godfather. Then, at a summer league swim meet, he met Garnett Bullock, and everything changed. Fast forward 22 years—the two friends have added many more musical obsessions to their shared pallet (Steely Dan, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Vulfpeck, to name a few). When the two pals decided to move into a single-wide trailer by the Gastonia dirt track, their shared musical obsessions mixed with an irresistible creative impulse, resulting in a cascading chemical reaction hitherto unknown to the human species, which scientists refer to simply as — WAG.

Today, WAG is a Charlotte-based four-piece, delivering highbrow songwriting and low volume funk to audiences across the southeast. From the trailer to the top shelf, WAG’s high-energy, self-reflexive songwriting is at once silly and substantive; carefree and careful; heartless and heartfelt. WAG believes music, the best music, lives in the spaces between the sound. It is push and pull, light and dark. That subtle, howling “ahh” that Stevie Wonder lets out just before the outro in “As,” the sardonic way that Steely Dan teases the blues in “Peg,” or the hopeful condemnation of Prince’s refrain in “Controversy;” these are the details that move WAG; the sort of details that they breathe into their original music; the sort of details that leave you wondering how a song could be at once so tender and so mean. Today, WAG consists of not just Bullock (bass/vocals) and Lewis (guitar). The group also employs the powerful and sultry Chandler Carrigan (vocals/keys) and rounds out the rhythm section with Steve Cornacchia (drums).

WAG is a postmodern creature, perfectly aware of itself, and just serious enough to give its next joke a little more bite. They’re four friends with a lot of life and love under their belts, who believe in one another as well as the power of music as a conduit for good will. To lift you up. To make you smile. To help you move, and wag a while.

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