Everything is Better in the South! or Whatever Brains and Natural Child rock my world!

Okay guys, it's not secret that I have a weird love affair with Southern culture. I may have been raised an upper middle class liberal New York Jew, but I'd much rather drink Budweiser and watch NASCAR than read the New York Times and pretend to like wheat grass. I made this blingee of my baby Kyle Busch. He didn't make the Chase this year, but I still lurve him!


Anyway, another thing that seems to be always awesome about the South is the music. I love nothing more than a punk band made up of cute Southern boys with a bit of a drawl. I think Thomas Function is my favorite band of all time.

Anyway, I recently have become acquainted with two southern bands that blew me away!

Whatever Brains is from North Carolina. They played at Silent Barn in October and completely blew me away. They were polite, cute, and brought along poppers that they shared with everyone all night. Oh yeah, their garagey punk is pretty good too. Here's a cute band pic of them with an MP3 mysteriously hidden behind it. And yes, those are poppers in that pic.


Natural Child is an adorable band from Nashville that took me by surprise during CMJ. They played an unplanned/unexpected set after The Beets at Don Pedro's for one of the Impose parties. There was no one there, but I still had some beer left, so I figured I might as well stick around for them. It was incredible, the ten or so people that stuck around for them stormed the stage and everyone rocked out together, just chilling with the chillness.
They play one of my favorite kinds of music: Stupid punk- just gross and stupid and kind of sloppy in a way that is super charming. I went to see them the next night at The Charleston for their official CMJ showcase (with a bunch of other awesome Nashville bands including winner of CMJ JEFF the Brotherhood). Out of the whole clusterfuck that was CMJ, Natural Child had the biggest effect on me.
Listen to the sounds that this cute band pic makes:


Can someone please fly me to the South and find me a cute Southern boyfriend who likes punk music and will treat me like a lady?

Thanks!