On October 26th, we all met on the streets of The Gulch in Nashville for the annual Monster Block Party. Today, we are delighted to release the official photos from the event!

Check out our photo galleries to bring back all the memories from this year’s spooktacular. All you social monsters can share the photo albums with your friends and family so they can view (and probably be jealous of) the massive event for themselves. Be sure to tag yourself and everyone you know our Facebook gallery.

Thanks to everyone who came and made this year’s Monster Block Party such an amazing experience. We’ll see you next you next year!

Monster Block Party Photo Album

• Monster Block Party 2013 Photos by Jeff Filer

Disco Donnie Presents and Ultimo would like to extend a special thank you to the numerous volunteers, performers, and dedicated staff for their hard work, dedication, and commitment to making this year’s Monster Block Party the eerie spooktacular it was.

We also want to recognize the City of Nashville, Nashville Fire and Police Departments, Club Anthem, 12th and Porter, Music City Pizza, Haunted Hell Nashville, SM and Sizemore Entertainment for their valued assistance and support!

We couldn’t have pulled it off without all of you. Keep up the great work and we’ll see you next year!

Lost a personal item at Monster Block Party? Don’t worry. You still have a chance to locate IDs, cell phones, personal clothing items and more. Contact leon@discodonniepresents.com to see if what’s lost has been found. All unclaimed items will be donated to charity or discarded, where applicable.

After months of planning and waiting, Nashville’s annual Monster Block Party has officially come to a close. All of us at Disco Donnie Presents and Ultimo would like to give a huge THANK YOU to the thousands of you who made it such an unforgettable experience.

We loved watching all of you fill the streets in The Gulch while danced in your costumes to some great music. No matter the festival, no matter the event, it will always be incomplete unless you the music lovers come and fill the dance floor. So THANK YOU AGAIN for all of your support! We couldn’t do it without you.

After months of impatiently waiting, Nashville’s Halloween spooktacular Monster Block Party is finally here. Get ready to take our music to the streets and down to The Gulch at 12th and Porter where the subs are booming and the artists are ready to perform. See you on the dance floor! Beware of monsters.

Hello Nashville! Are you starting to get pumped for Monster Block Party? As we countdown the final hours until we head to The Gulch at 12th and Porter this Saturday, October 26th, we just wanted to give you monsters some last minute reminders about the upcoming event.

To help you plan the next few hours, we’ve created a list of all the important details you need to know and gathered them all on one page so you can get ready worry-free.

Still don’t have your ticket? Skip the hassle at the gate and buy yours today.

Artist Schedule

We’re excited to finally release the artist schedule for the upcoming event. With three areas of sound, make sure you don’t miss any of your favorite performers and plan out your night in advance.

View the Artist Schedule!

Guidelines and Reminders

It’s almost time for Nashville’s spooktacular event Monster Block Party to take over The Gulch at 12th and Porter. Here are a few other guidelines and reminders to make sure you have a seamless and worry-free Monster experience.

View the Guidelines and Reminders!

Important Ticket Reminders

Tomorrow we’ll be gettin’ down in The Gulch at 12th and Porter for Nashville’s Monster Block party and in preparation of the spooktacular event, we have a few ticket reminders to make sure you have a fun and carefree Monster experience.

View the Important Ticket Reminders!

With a spooktacular lineup of artists and monsters set to walk amongst you, get ready for Nashville’s annual Monster Block Party taking over The Gulch at 12th and Porter this Saturday, October 26th. Still don’t have your tickets? No worries! Online tickets sales will continue through the day of event!

We’re excited to finally release the artist schedule for the upcoming event. With three areas of sound, make sure you don’t miss any of your favorite performers and plan out your night in advance. We’ll see you soon!

Aokify Main Stage

• 12:30 AM – 02:00 AM Steve Aoki
• 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM Borgore
• 10:00 PM – 10:40 PM Waka Flocka
• 09:00 PM – 10:00 PM Garmiani
• 08:00 PM – 09:00 PM Oreo vs Negative Feedback
• 07:00 PM – 08:00 PM Parebaer & Trick J
• 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM Keno

Anthem Stage

• 01:00 AM – 02:00 AM Ivan Coronel & Raytek
• 12:00 PM – 01:00 AM Infected Angel
• 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM Backcountry Beatdown (Skektek & Souljunk)
• 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM Skinny B
• 09:00 PM – 10:00 PM Khaos
• 08:00 PM – 09:00 PM T-Marsh
• 07:00 PM – 08:00 PM Tim Prince
• 06:00 PM – 07:00 PM Devin Penner

12th & Porter Stage

(Set Times TBA)

• JT Groove
• Sister Crayon
• Blue Sky Black Death

Tomorrow we’ll be gettin’ down in The Gulch at 12th and Porter for Nashville’s Monster Block Party and in preparation of the spooktacular event, we have a few ticket reminders to make sure you have a fun and carefree Monster experience.

If you haven’t bought your tickets to the festival yet, don’t fret! Online ticket sales will continue on through to the day of the event.

Eventbrite Mobile App

For all our Monsters who have smartphones, take advantage of the Eventbrite App on both iOS and Android devices. Skip the hassle of printing and dragging your ticket around, just pull up your tickets on your phone to check into the event.

Ticket Warning

Do not buy tickets from scalpers. Beware of frauds. Assure your admission into the event by buying your ticket from an authorized ticket outlet. Authorized ticket outlets include the MonsterBlockParty.com website, Eventbrite.com website, official Monster Block Party street team members, and at Grimey’s Preloved Music and Icon Tattoo located in Nashville, TN.

The Monster Block Party will take place rain or shine. All acts advertised have confirmed their appearance, however acts are subject to change without notice. Guard your tickets carefully — just like cash!

Based out of Seattle, Monster Block Party duo Blue Sky Black Death have been making alluring productions for quite some time now. Though separately, members Kingston and Young God had respected careers as producers, after signing with Mush Records in 2005 the two originally joined forces to create an instrumental album.

Young God remembers the early days of the outfit, “We weren’t really working as a unit until a year, maybe two years before that album. Kingston was doing some production for some people, but I was mostly working by myself. The Mush thing was originally going to be just an instrumental album with a few vocal tracks. Then we decided that the vocal tracks wouldn’t have gone that well with the instrumental tracks, so it was, like, why don’t we just do a double album, because that’s bold and no one really does that [on their first album]. The guy from Mush was cool with it, so we just decided to do that.” Their debut, A Heap of Broken Images, was released in 2006 to an overwhelming amount of support. During the making of the album, the two decided to change their original moniker of Torso to their current name, which is a skydiving phrase alluding to beauty and death.

Seven years after A Heap of Broken Images, BSBD have released a seriously extensive amount of work. A quick read of their discography will find six hip-hop albums with rappers Nacho Picasso, Hell Razah, Jean Grae, and Holocaust, two instrumental albums, two electronic albums in Third Party and Slow Burning Lights and three mixtapes – we haven’t even mentioned their latest offering.

Having just been released on Fake Four on October 1st, Young God and Kingston are still celebrating the release of their the five-track instrumental album Glaciers. A cumulation of a decade’s worth of hip hop and instrumentalism, the album is rich in its ambient, shoegaze and subdued rock influences. With most of the tracks going past the 10-minute mark, Glaciers allows the listener to create their own imagery and get lost within the music. We hope the duo shares some of their latest efforts when they take the stage at the 12th St Pavilion for the annual Monster Block Party in Nashville this Saturday, October 26th. Tickets are going fast, so grab your today!

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The music of Oakland-based outfit Monster Block Party talent Sister Crayon is an eclectic marriage of intensity and influences – and unabashedly so. Originally from Sacramento, their sound is saturated with trip-hop beats, soaring operatic vocals, distorted guitars and sonic textures that allow you to drift into the waves of the music. Previously performing under the name Silent and Clemintine, the band now consists of lead vocalist Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez playing backing tracks. Sister Crayon was the result of a daring sound change for Lopez, “I didn’t want to be shy anymore and I wanted to have a name that was bolder and a completely different alter ego.”

Their debut album Bellow is the perfect example of how the group can create a deep intimacy between artist and audience. Lopez explains, “When I think of someone bellowing, I just see a sad, really powerful thing coming out of someone. Years of an exhausting type of feeling.” Recorded at the famous Hangar Studios in Sacramento, the poetic and mythological lyrics on Bellow have a way of relating to a wide array of people in a number of hopeless circumstances. “[Almost] all of the lyrics are mini-conversations to people [who] I could never really tell [things] face-to-face,” Lopez explains, “so the song’s going to be what I really want to tell you, though I may never tell you this was written for you.”

Sister Crayon spent last fall recording their EP Cynic released earlier this year in April. Like its predecessor, the five-track EP is a confessional piece, bringing personal topics to light for both members. “For me, writing is a form of therapy, because I can’t really afford it, to be honest. There are so many unresolved things, just in life in general, that I’m still trying to process. And the only way to really feel comfortable or okay about it is by singing every night. If we have a tough night or tough day beforehand, I’ll look forward to playing a show because it’s a huge form of some kind of release. And I know for me, if I don’t play a show, I start — if there’s too much of a time period in-between shows, I don’t feel okay; I don’t feel normal. Something’s missing.”

The EP was finished over the course of a weekend and during the last day of recording, Lopez, Fernandez and their producer Wes Jones wrote and recorded the song “Meager Leavings” in one sitting. Using an experimental session with vintage synths and a variety of drum machines, both Lopez and Fernandez felt they had discovered the sound they were looking for all along. With the release of Cynic, Sister Crayon have begun writing new material for their second full-length, set to be released in late 2013. Don’t miss Sister Crayon at Monster Block Party in Nashville this Saturday, October 26th. Secure your spot to the spooktacular.

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