Live Videos: Cinemechanica (4/24/2008) Drunken Unicorn

I was able to get out of work with just enough time to catch Cinemechanica at The Drunken Unicorn last Thursday night, and again they were straight up spectacular. I think they may be my favourite Athens band short of Of Montreal right now. Here they are rocking out:

Video Of The Day: Feist (On Colbert)

What Up In The ATL?

Tonight there are two big shows going on. Jay Reatard is big on the hype tip right and will be doing his thing as Lenny's. You can find more about him at his myspace or watch videos of him fighting with his audience here. If you are in love with the Black Lips, then this is probably the show for you to catch. While I wouldn't mind catching Jay Reatard, I am way more excited to see Destroyer tonight. Most people have been on the Destroyer-backlash bandwagon, but I absolutely love Trouble In Dreams. "Foam Hands":



Another album I have been jamming hard is Genghis Tron's Board Up The House. They will be at The Masquerade tomorrow with Converge. Genghis Tron at SXSW:



The other good show tomorrow night is at the Earl with Atlanta's Envie and One Hand Loves The Other, who has gone through some inner turmoil lately. It is a bit confusing to me, so here's Gavin from Stickfigure explaining the situation:

hey everyone,

One Hand Loves The Other are going on hiatus. Lou Rodriguez (the vocalist) is planning to reform the band but it appears at this point that he will be the only member continueing as one hand loves the other.

Mike Johnson, Mary Knight and Nancy Shim will be forming a new band. It is not 100% certain if Nancy Shim is leaving One Hand Loves The Other as well, but Mike Johnson and Mary Knight are playing their final performances with One Hand Loves The Other over the course of the next week. Of course in the age of reunion tours we can not definately say final shows @ this point now can we. but we can state that it will years before you can see this line up of the band every again.

the shows are as follows:

Tuesday April 29th @ the Earl. One Hand Loves The Other is headlining and performing with mystery palace and envie.

Saturday May 3rd @ Vinyl. Like Clockwork and When Rocky Beats The Russian are headlining since it is their cd release show. The Judies are also playing. At this time we do not know whether One Hand Loves The Other is opening or playing second.

take care,

gavin

So this week seems to be your last chance to check this out.

Other cool shows I like this week:

Friday: Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir at The Masquerade
Friday: Cracker, Dead Confederate at the Variety Playhouse
Saturday: Yeasayer, Man Man at Lenny's

One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Remix : Tortoise (Treasure Fingers remix)


Yeasayer : Sunrise (Hey Champ remix)

Videos of The Day: Coachella 2008

Here's some vids from Coachella over the weekend:

Prince covering Radiohead:



Animal Collective "Comfy In Nautica":



Portishead "Roads":



Hot Chip "Ready For The Dancefloor":

Albums I Love: Perfect From Now On

There is probably no other album that has affected me as profoundly as Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On. It is easily one of my top three personal favourite albums of all time. Back around the beginning of this decade, I got my first real exposure to indie rock as a great friend and roommate at the time would be jamming Modest Mouse and Built To Spill incessantly. At first I hated it, especially Issac Brock's vocals. I talked so much smack about these bands, and then one day after listening to them over and over, something inside me clicked. Suddenly, the more I listened to those two bands, the more I enjoyed them. It was at that point where I lost interest in the jambands, classic rock, and techno I had been listening to after initially coming to college. These new bands I discovered seemed to have so much depth compared to everything else I had been listening to at the time, and I basked in the ecstasy that can only be felt appreciating music as art.

Simultaneously as I was starting to embrace and explore good, progressive music, I was also going through a period of self discovery and trying to figure out what my life was all about. At almost the exact moment I got obsessed with Perfect From Now On, I had a spiritual epiphany of sorts, and listening to this album was instrumental towards that occurring. While I know that Doug Martsch is always downplaying the importance of lyrics in interviews, PFNO is one of the most brilliantly conceived and executed concept albums ever written; metaphysically epic yet simple words armed with beautiful melodies and long, complex song structures that no other album, BTS or otherwise, has come close to reproducing again. While classics like Darkside Of The Moon and OK Computer dealt with similar questions central to our existence, they failed to provide any real path to deal with these issues. Perfect From Now On not only takes you on a similar journey of despair, but also contains a framework for addressing these problems. And not in a preachy, tell-you-what-I-think way, but in a more abstract method where different listeners can reach different verdicts based on their own interpretations and experiences. The music I love the most is the sort that can be successful and enjoyable on as many different levels as possible, and it is hard for me to think of another album that conquers the multitude of emotions and aesthetics that this one does.

I managed to snag some tickets for ATP New York and I am ecstatic to catch Built To Spill performing this album. If you have never listened to this one, obviously I can't recommend it enough:

Built To Spill : Perfect From Now On : Kicked It In The Sun



"Stop The Show":



"Velvet Waltz":



Here is an instrumental jam session that Doug and Brett Netson did on Record Store Day in Boise, Idaho as a bonus:

DOUG MARTSCH & BRETT NETSON of
BUILT TO SPILL
19 April 2008
Boise, Idaho
Record Exchange
National Independent Record Store Day - In-store appearance

Sonic Studios DSM-6s > Sonic Studios PA-6LC3 (middle bass roll-off setting) > iRiver H120

No setlist - improvised jam

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

Track 5

Track 6

Track 7


Download Lossless Audio Torrent Here

Download Video Torrent Here

Video Of The Day

Alice Cooper is no joke;



Apparently, the woman he pulls up in the beginning and the dancer at the end are the same person; his wife...

A great entertainer.

Video Of The Day: "M-Train"

Ok, here's another hilarious Atlanta affiliated rap video from my Alma Mater (thanks to teh 1337s for pointing this out):

Friday Free-Style

Let's get your weekend started with some local flavour. Atlas Sound will be remixing a Sian Alice Group song for a forthcoming EP. Here's a video for one of my favourite Atlas Sound songs, "Recent Bedroom":


Atlas Sound- Recent Bedroom from Michael E Palm on Vimeo

Atlas Sound : Virtual 7" No. 3 : No Longer


The Snowden tour is coming soon:



Check out how fun Snowden tours can be:



Mastodon and Neurosis are interviewed by Pitchfork.tv

Mastodon have a massive tour schedule between their Bonnaroo appearance and their Rockstar Mayhem Tour:

Jun 14 - Manchester, Tennessee @ Bonnaroo (2:00P)
Jul 9 - Seattle, Washington @ White River Amphitheatre
Jul 11 - Sacramento, California @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Jul 12 - San Francisco, California @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Jul 13 - San Bernardino, California @ Glen Helen Pavilion
Jul 15 - Fresno, California @ Save Mart Center
Jul 16 - San Diego, California @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 18 - Phoenix, Arizona @ Cricket Pavilion
Jul 19 - Albuquerque, New Mexico @ Journal Pavilion
Jul 20 - Denver, Colorado @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 22 - Kansas City, Kansas @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 23 - St. Louis, Missouri @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 25 - Dallas, Texas @ Smirnoff Music Centre
Jul 26 - San Antonio, Texas @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul 27 - Houston, Texas @ Sam Houston Race Track
Jul 29 - Tampa, Florida @ Ford Amphitheatre
Jul 30 - Miami, Florida @ Sound Advice Amphitheatre
Aug 1 - Virginia Beach, Virginia @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Aug 2 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania @ Post Gazette Pavilion
Aug 3 - Scranton, Pennsylvania @ Toyota Pavilion
Aug 5 - Boston, Massachusetts @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Aug 6 - Uniondale, New York @ Nassau Coliseum
Aug 8 - Toronto, Ontario @ Downsview Park
Aug 9 - Detroit, Michigan @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug 10 - Chicago, Illinois @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Aug 12 - Atlanta, Georgia @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
Aug 13 - Indianapolis, Indiana @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
Aug 15 - Camden, New Jersey @ Tweeter Center at The Waterfront
Aug 16 - Hartford, Connecticut @ New England Dodge Music Center
Aug 17 - Washington DC @ Nissan Pavilion
Aug 19 - Buffalo, New York @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

"Sleeping Giant":



Long time friends of Ohmpark, Parade, have announced their show tonight at Lenny's is going to be their last. They still have a new forthcoming album in June, but are not planning to do any shows in support of it apparently. This is very sad news for us, so here's some Parade tracks to jam and if you never caught them, go see them tonight while you still have a chance.

Parade : The P EP : Slow Tuesday


Parade : A Red Button : Penelope Shoes


Parade : Answer Me EP : That's Hott


You can stream the new Portishead album here.

Coachella will be webcasting performances this weekend here.

Download a new NIN song here.

Blood On The Wall will be at The Earl on May 13th.

Jambase has a really great piece on Akron/Family, who we love.

The AthFest line-up is out, and notables include Dark Meat, Cinemehanica, We Vs. The Shark, Elf Power, Twin Tigers, Venice Is Sinking, and Dubconscious. The fest is going down June 18-22 in Athens, Ga.

Rock The Bells tour is back and looking good, but the closest it is coming to us is Miami, FL:



Tegan And Sara are coming back to Atlanta for two dates at Chastain June 16 & 17.

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst is doing a solo album.

Peter Bjorn And John's next album is going to be completely instrumental.

Southern Shelter has the Explosions in The Sky show in Atlanta a few weeks ago for you to download or listen to here.

Radiohead on Conan (The Atlanta show is getting so close!):



Portishead on Jools Holland:



Jane's Addiction's latest reunion show:



Tokyo Police Club on Letterman:

Videos Of The Day: Kaki King

I just don't feel like she gets enough exposure on the web considering how awesome she is, so here's some vids:

"Pull Me Out Alive":



The Making Of Dreaming Of Revenge (part 1):



The Making Of Dreaming Of Revenge (part 2):



The Making Of Dreaming Of Revenge (part 3):

Tonight In The A: Cinemechanica, Bad Dudes, Ho-Ag, The Liverhearts

Cinemechanica

This show at The Drunken Unicorn tonight is gonna be hott so here's a few tracks to entice you into catching it:

Cinemechanica (Athens) : Brain Tarp


Bad Dudes (Los Angeles) : King Kong


Ho-Ag (Boston) : American Mall (Elek)


The Liverhearts (Atlanta):

Record Store Day In Atlanta: Dead Confederate, The Coathangers, Club Awesome

I spent a few hours last weekend at Criminal Records for their Record Store Day celebration. Here are the three local bands who played there that matter most:

Dead Confederate:



We've been talking about them for a while now around Ohmpark and the justified hype is starting to get some traction on the webs post-SXSW. Earfarm spent some time with them while they were down in Austin and has a bunch of cool material. Speaking of SXSW, you can get an entire performance here. Southern Shelter has just put up a show on their site where Dead Confederate played nothing but Sonic Youth covers at The 40 Watt in Athens earlier this year here. A sample:

Dead Confederate : Silver Rocket (Sonic Youth cover)


At Criminal:



They are touring steadily this summer, so go check them out:

23 May - Seattle, WA @ KEXP
24 May - Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Festival
28 May - Washington D.C. @ DC9
29 May - New York, NY @ Piano's
30 May - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint
31 May - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber
1 June - Boston, MA @ TT the Bears
4 June - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
5 June - Asheville, NC @ The Rocket Club
6 June - Knoxville, TN @ Barley's
7 June - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
14 June - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
17 June - Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Company*
18 June - Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff*
19 June - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre*
20 June - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern*
24 June - Sacramento, CA @ Empire Room*
25 June - Bend, OR @ Midtown Ballroom*
26 June - Spokane, WA @ Big Easy - Spokane*
5 July - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Festival

* w/ Drive by Trucker


The Coathangers



The Coathangers quick rise to ATLien elite status last year is an interesting phenomenon, and while I'm not the biggest fan of bands getting popular in this town solely because of their stage act and attitude rather than their music, these girls back up their their brash aura with clever lyrics and catchy tunes. I stumbled across this great remix of one my favourite Coathangers songs on the 'net last night:

The Coathangers : Parcheezie (Griff Remix ft. Fitzgerald)


Here they are doing that song last Saturday:



And Kimcriminal has one up too, she has tons of vids of in-store Criminal Record performances you an check out here.



They are also on summer tour, so go to a show:

2 May - Atlanta, GA @ The Star Bar
9 May - Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Old Bar (500 Songs For Kids)
15 May - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
16 May - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
23 May - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
7 June - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
9 June - Nasheville, TN @ Springwater Supper Club
10 June - Hot Springs, AK @ The Exchange
11 June - Fayetteville, AK @ New Deli House *
12 June - Wichita, KS @ Barleycorns *
13 June - Norman, OK @ Opolis *
14 June - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
15 June - Austin, TX @ Emo's *
2 July - Detroit, MI @ Alvin's
3 July - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
6 July - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor

* w/ El Paso Hot Button


Club Awesome



Atlanta's Club Awesome, known for their pool parties and "Whyte Tygre" suit, are what I would describe as in the greater post-punk/post-pop vicinity. I arrived too late to get some video of their show, but I did pick up a handmade advance copy of their debut album, and it is really good. Here's a track:

Club Awesome : Trainwreck


They have a few shows coming up:

3 May - Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Olde Bar (500 Songs For Kids)
25 May - Wilmington, NC @ Soapbox (We Festival)
29 June - Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's (Corndogarama)
5 July - Atlanta, GA @ Star Bar (July 4 Weekend Fest)

Live Review: Nophest 4&20 2008

I spent the majority of last weekend at Nophest and had a really fun time. The weather was perfect, the fest was extremely chill and I got to see a ton of cool local artists. I don't really have a play-by-play analysis because I decided to just kick back and enjoy this one rather than play the hardcore journalist, plus after my DJ set on Sunday I was pretty obliterated. I ended up missing many of the acts I wanted to catch, but that typically happens at a fest packed to the brim with great bands. Missile Command was one of my favourite sets of the weekend. They were noisy and brutal, two things I highly appreciate. Envie was really stellar again, although the vocals and keys were not loud enough and they are the sort of band that I think requires a good sound setup. I really enjoyed the Ship To Shore set. Mice In Cars rocked it. And of course Sorry No Ferrari and This Piano Plays Itself both put forth typically amazing sets. If you missed this one, be sure not to make that mistake again and catch the winter edition later this year. Here's some photos I took:

R_Garcia:



Lovesick Scientist:



Missile Command:







Ship To Shore:



Mice In Cars:

Live Show: Fleet Foxes (4/14/2008)

The blogosphere has fallen in love with this band almost as hard as they did for Vampire Weekend pre-backlash. I like them, but I sort of file them in the same spot I put bands like Black Mountain and The Sword, a very enjoyable band, but not really the most original. And its not the Band Of Horses/My Morning Jacket similarities that bother me as much as the Neil Young riffs that seem overtly stolen. But regardless of their lack of progressiveness or uniqueness, they are still very nice to listen to, so here is a live show for you to jam:

Fleet Foxes
4.14.2008
The Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source: Microtech Gefell M300's > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 >
Firewire > Adobe Audition > CDWave > Flac16
Taped by: Lance Stack (inthistube [at] gmail.com)

Setlist (41:57):
1. Sun Giant

2. Sun It Rises >

3. Drops in the River

4. English House

5. White Winter Hymnal

6. Your Protector

7. Oliver James

8. Mykonos

9. Blue Ridge Mountains *



Notes:
* = w/ members of Blitzen Trapper

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Fleet Foxes Myspace

Best US Festival Of The Year: All Tomorrow's Parties Fest

OMFG!!!!!!!
Pitchfork reporting:

My Bloody Valentine (Curating the fest)
Built To Spill (performing Perfect From Now On) (That in itself makes this the best fest of the year)
Meat Puppets (Performing Meat Puppets II)
Thurston Moore (Performing Psychic Hearts)
Tortoise (Performing Millions Now Living Will Never Die)
Shellac
Mogwai
Polvo
Fuck Buttons
Autolux
The Drones
Low
Wooden Shjips
Edan with Dagha
Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra

Also, only 3000 tickets will be sold to the 3 day fest happening in New York, September 19th-21st. It looks to be really pricey, but I can't miss this one. ATP website. Tickets go on sale Friday.

Tonight In The A: Cloud Cult

Ok, I wasn't feeling the new Cloud Cult material I had listened to casually on the Internet or at SXSW, but I just got finished listening to the new album, Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes), and it is pretty damn good. So I retract any negative statements I made about it (this is one reason I'm not the biggest fan of early leaks). Not only are these guys a great band, but they are big time environmentalists riding a bio-diesel bus and putting out their releases on their label that uses recycled materials. When I caught them at SXSW they had a painter on stage creating art while they were performing. Tonight they will be at Smith's Old Bar, so I recommend checking them out:

Cloud Cult : Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) : May Your Hearts Stay Strong


Cloud Cult : Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) : Hurricane And Fire Survival Guide


Also, you can download a live show of theirs from earlier this month here.

Cloud Cult : Chain Reaction (4/11/2008)


Cloud Cult : Chemicals Collide (4/11/2008)


Cloud Cult Myspace

Buy Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) Here

A Random MP3 Trilogy

So I feel like posting a few random tracks. I bought The Breeders' new album, Mountain Battles, the day after it came out and so far I don't really know what to think of it. At moments I love it and others I want to turn it off. It feels like it is in another world from how I remember Title TK, which reminds me I need to jam that one again. I may end up totally falling in love with this one, or I might stop listening to it and never think about it again, but regardless, this song is great:

The Breeders : Mountain Battles : Bang On


Sonic Youth recently reissued their 1988 Ep Master-Dik, which I hadn't heard before this. I picked it up, and it is really cool. Here's a little cover from it:

Sonic Youth : Master-Dik : Beat On The Brat (The Ramones)


Finally, our very own Eric Guenther (From Exile) has started a music blog where he is releasing original music for free. The latest installment is a remix of a youtube video we had on here a couple of weeks ago that is really hilarious. He even dubbed in a badass guitar solo at the end. Check it out:

Southwest Dekalb Drum Majors : Bitch You Ride The Marta Bus (Eric Guenther mix)

Video Of The Day: Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear was on Conan last night jamming a new song. Check it:



Grizzly Bear : While You Wait For The Others (On Conan 4/21/2008)

What Up In The ATL?

Last weekend was a blast and I am still recovering from it, so posts will be brief today. Thanks to everyone who came out to Nophest!

The Hott Shows this week:

Tonight:

The Earl: British Sea Power, Film School

Tomorrow:

Smith's Old Bar: Cloud Cult, The Forms, Nerd Parade

Thursday:

Drunken Unicorn: Cinemechanica, HO-AG, The Liverhearts, Bad Dudes

Friday:

The Earl: Tapes 'N' Tapes, White Demin
Lenny's: Sonen, Parade, Twin Tiger

Saturday:

11:11 Teahouse: Lid Emba (CD Release), Tree Creature, Magicacada, Killick!
Drunken Unicorn: All The Saints, The N.E.C., Beluga, The Chops
The Masquerade: Thrice, Pelican
Star Bar: The Winter Sounds, Morning State, Sealions

Also, don't forget this weekend is Inman Park Festival, one of my favourite neighborhood fests.

Friday Free-Style

Bonnaroo's "Big Announcement" this week was that Widespread Panic is replacing The Allman Brothers and doing their 43rd headlining spot at the 'roo. They also added Les Claypool, Charli 2na, Super Drag, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Adele, Grand Ole Party, and The Postelles. Other than WSP, those are some decent additions, but I'm way more excited about the acts they added to the Cafe/nightclub, including Dead Confederate, Colour Revolt, De Novo Dahl, Phonograph, Bear In Heaven, Howlin Rain, and Royal Bangs, all of which are acts that I am interested in checking out. I'll be doing a piece on all the lesser know 'roo acts very soon.

Pecanne Log had the extened trailer to We Fun up, so check it:



Pitchfork Fest added Spoon, The Dodos, and Les Savy Fav. That is turning out to rather sweet line-up.

You can download a reversed version of the new Gnarls Barkley album for free here.

The RIAA spent $2.8 million dollars lobbying the government in 2007. Honestly, I would have expected that to be much higher.

The Clermont Lounge is up for sale.

Nick Thorburn of Islands talks some smack about Vampire Weekend.

Indian Jewelry has a new album coming out called Free Gold! and will be at Eyedrum on May 18th. I can't wait to catch them again.

Atlanta's Sean Costello died this week.

Outkast says the new new album will be out in 2009.

There is a Tori Amos comic book coming soon.

RZA just launched Wuchess.com.

Hella's Zach Hill has a solo album coming out featuring a ton of really cool guest musicians such as Marnie Stern, No Age, Les Calypool, and Marco Benevento.

Laura Veirs will be at The Earl on May 18th.

Earfarm points out that livepumpkins.net is really great for Smashing Pumpkins live shows.

The Fiery Furnaces are featuring String Cheese Incident's keyboardist on some of their tour dates this week.

Bill Cosby is going to drop a hip-hop album.

Some vids to take you through the weekend:

New Dan Deacon:



Animal Collective:

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE , BROTHER SPORT
by GrrrndZero

Wu-Tang:



Yeasayer:

Ohmpark's Guide To Nophest 4&20

The weekend is almost here and I am very excited. Nophest announced a third stage of bands for Sunday April 20th at The Doogallery. For details on that and the full schedule, go to the Nophest website. I'm going to break down the acts that stand out to me and help you discover some new bands from the massive line-up. Click on the band name to listen to some tracks on their myspace or website:

Friday:

7:45pm Lovesick Scientist: A project of Justin Sias (Elevado) that is produced by Brian Slusher (Slushco). With those two top tier ATL musicians involved, it has to be good.



8:30pm R_Garcia: I've just sort of been introduced to Randy Garcia through Nophest, but everything I sees points to him being a pretty badass musician and dude, so I'm ready to catch this one.



9:15pm Missile Command: A band featuring members of Elevado. We got a sneak preview performance of these guys at our one year anniversary party and they rocked out hard so I've been excited to catch the Missile Command again. Here's some tracks to jam:

Level Up


Dark Matter


10:00pm Push Button Action Man: This is an electronic music side project of Zachary Hollback, who has been a part of great Atlanta bands such as I Almost Saw God In The Metro, The Brodie Stove, and Tenth To The Moon. Here's a sweet electro-jam:

Gray Tile


10:45pm Blue Screen Love Scene: Electronic dance pop that sounds really nice.


BSLS

11:30pm Tenth To The Moon: Experimental music that incorporates dance and industrial sounds with lots of insanity. I caught them last year at ISP Space and thought they were extremely entertaining. They are on Stickfigure and it appears that Sean Moore of Lid Emba (who's new release I just listened to and is awesome, more on that soon) is now involved with the project:

Deadbeat Bath




11:30pm A Fight To The Death: If you're looking for some low-key Americana that is really good, checkout this ATLien band.


Saturday:

1:30pm Wonder Root Non-Profit Workshop: Wonder Root is a really cool organization supporting artists in the Atlanta area. I will be going more in depth about them next week, but just realize they kick ass and Ohmpark will be working with them to accomplish some neato things.

3:15pm Capibara: Never heard of this band before, but they have cool influences, and the two songs on their myspace feel like they may have some potential to rock out hard.

5:30pm Mooseknuckle Sandwich: Song names like "I Hate You We Should Fuck" and "Skull Fuck Of Death" are enough to spark my interest in this OTP band from Pensacola, FL. They seem brash and experimental, and I'm always looking for acts like that.



6:15pm Ship To Shore: Atlanta post-rocking trio I was unfamiliar with until now, but they sound really good.

6:15pm Citizen Green: Interesting sounding IDM.

7:00pm Devoradora: Nu-'60s Psych-rock power trio that sound damn good. This is high on my list of bands to catch at Nophest that I've never heard of before.



7:00pm The Subliminator: Atlanta's avant-garde demi-god armed with spoken word and theremins is a required show for anyone who reads this blog and hasn't seen him before. He's a badass and someone who has a special place in this city.



8:30pm Envie: I recently caught Envie for the first time this year at a Stickfigure Distribution show and they were awesome. You can check out a video and pics here. This is one of the best acts at the fest, so don't miss it.



Glass


9:15pm Swank Sinatra: These guys just seem to do unabashed rock 'n' roll that rocks hard.

9:15pm Harmaline: Cool sounding experimental electronic stuff.

10:00pm Nerd Parade: I've been hearing noise about these guys lately and am excited to finally catch them and see what it's all about. Cool sounding indie-pop.

10:45pm Cassavettes: I caught these guys late last year for the first time and became a fan. This one is definitely a can't miss show.




Sunday:

1:45pm Mice In Cars: This is another band high on my list to check out that i haven't before. They do a tasty blend of post-rock and post-punk. This is completely worth getting an early start for.

Our Focus Was So Strange


The Sky Is Drowning


4:00pm The Ohmpark Official Party featuring DJ Douschebag: Sunday night Ohmpark will be partying hard at the 166 Stovall Stage featuring acts such as Flexor81, S.K.I.P.(Orlando, FL), Gift Horse (Athens, GA), Chicken And Pigs, and DJ June Eleven. The show gets started with me spinning a 420 set as DJ Douschebag at 4pm sharp so be there by then for the a-party-calypse.

6:15pm Miles From Pangea: We just did a piece on Miles From Pangea and the other Hijacking Music bands so I am pretty stoked to catch them at Nophest.



7:00pm 13 Day Mission: Another Hijacking Music band I'm excited to catch, you'll notice their EP from last year is currently in my heavy rotation, and you can download the album for free by clicking on it.



8:30pm Sorry No Ferrari: ATL post-rockers that I have really enjoyed both times i caught them live this year. I have some videos here.



10:15pm Batata Doce: Atlanta super group fronted by a Brazillian singer. Seems rather interesting

11:00pm This Piano Plays Itself: They just finished their self-titled debut release and it is simply amazing. This is one of Atlanta's hottest up-and-coming bands and if there is one Nophest act you can't afford to miss, it is these guys. Behold:

Day Of Symmetry

Nomen Novum Photos, Tour, and 7" Info

With all the attention the Atlanta music scene gets for a certain bands on-stage antics and flaming pussy farts it's refreshing to know some people here are putting music and art first. Nomen Novum is just such a band. Led by Guitarist/Singer/Visual Artist David Norberry and also featuring Mark Godfrey and Alex Martin, as well as other guests musicians, Nomen Novum is a band that deserves a lot more attention from local and national fans.

Their recent 7" "Mantis Man" is a great record, from the production to the all the serious badass stuff that comes with it. For $5 you get all this:


For 5 bucks you couldn't buy all the blank media, paper, and materials that went into it. Fuck "Free" as the new price model, these guys are losing cash on each record they sell, if that's not dedication to your work then I don't know what is. You'll never get a greater deal on any piece of art.

You can buy the record from Criminal Records, Wax ’N Facts and Ella Guru. Or just send $5 to:

Nomen Novum
1572 Anita PL NE
Atlanta, GA 30306

and "if you have a sleeve color preference please specify." Luckily for the southeast Nomen Novum will be touring soon, here are the dates:

May 9 2008, 8:00P at The Birdhouse in Knoxville, TN

May 10 2008, 8:00P at Yauhaus in Charlotte, North Carolina

May 11 2008, 8:00P Village Tavern in Charleston, South Carolina

May 12 2008, 8:00P at Caledonia Lounge in Athens, GA

More Dates to come. Here is a sample track from the 7":
"Aunt Urn"


And here are some photos from their last show at The Drunken Unicorn:















The latest and more info at:
Nomen Novum myspace

Morning State New Album Finally About To Drop, Tourdates

Morning State's debut full-length, You Know People I Know People, is about to drop in a couple of weeks after some drama had delayed it. They had recorded the album last year and before it got released their record label collapsed so they were forced to re-record the entire thing this year over an 11 day span. The finished product sounds really good and I'll have a full review of the album when it comes out on May 6th. Next week they will leave on a short tour in support of it:

04/23 Birmingham, AL The Nick
04/24 Athens, GA Farm 225
04/25 Chattanooga, TN JJ’s Bohemia
04/26 Atlanta, GA Star Bar
04/28 Charleston, SC Tin Roof
04/30 Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern
05/05 Atlanta, GA The Earl*
05/06 Athens, GA Caledonia Lounge (CD Release Party)*
05/10 New York, NY Mercury Lounge*
05/15 Atlanta, GA Star Bar (Big Trouble In Little 5 / CD Release Party) w/ Casper and The Cookies

*w/ XYZ Affair and JukeBox the Ghost

Here's the new single that has been circling around the Internets:

Never So Strange


And you can listen to their WRAS 88.5 FM acoustic session here.

Live Videos: The Ruby Suns, Throw Me The Statue (4/14/2008) The Drunken Unicorn

The Ruby Suns

Monday night's sparsely attended show at the Drunken Unicorn was really sweet. I missed ATL's Chainstereo, but I hope to catch them soon, because they seem interesting. Throw Me The Statue, from Seattle and signed to Secretly Canadian, took a substantially long time to set up their equipment and seemed to suffer from various minor malfunctions throughout their set. But, for the pop-rock style of which I typically don't care much for, they played a thoroughly enjoyable show and seemed to be really nice dudes, volunteering more conversation with the audience before and after the show than most acts I see. Slightly after midnight, The Ruby Suns took stage. The 3-piece incarnation of Kevin McPhun's project did a respectable job of performing the music from an album that I would have figured to be very hard to reproduce live. I listened to Sea Lion again today and I love it so much. Here's some vids and pics:

Throw Me The Statue











The Ruby Suns

ACLFest Line-Up:

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Foo Fighters, Beck, and Mars Volta with no Jack Johnson is a classy way to handle a line-up. More info at Austin City Limits Fest website.

What Up 420 In The ATL?

Start today by watching Deerhunter cover Pylon's "Cool" at their New york show last Friday night where they performed their entire forthcoming album, Microcastle.



It is a mammoth week for music in the city. The biggest event of the week, 420, is being celebrated by two fests, Nophest and Sweetwater. Atlanta's Mice In Cars had this to say about the choice between the two on myspace:

Well, you have 2 options. You can go see some crappy bands that aren't in touch with the local music scene, pay A LOT of money for crappy beer from someone that rhymes with (and tastes like) Feetwater. Or you can come to the 3 day Festival featuring tons and tons of local musicians, artists, Djs and performers, watch movies, oh and did I mention FREE BEER. I don't know, you pick.

I couldn't agree more. Ohmpark is going to be at Nophest in full force all weekend for what looks to be a spectacular time. We'll have a full guide to Nophest 4 & 20 out tomorrow some time.

Before I go into all the other awesome shows going on here this week, I just want to say a few things about the shows I caught last weekend. Saturday night I went to see Big, the collaboration between Outkast's Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet. It was a pretty interesting combination that I'm really glad I got to experience, although I didn't quite love everything about it. Seeing Big Rube do some spoken word was super cool. The most striking thing to me were the visual effects, which I think eclipsed the vast majority of big concerts I've seen. It doesn't make sense to me why bands with a big budget don't do more to utilize the technology in this realm that the Atlanta Ballet seems to be sporting. Also, last night I caught the Explosions In The Sky show at the Variety Playhouse. It was exactly as I anticipated, a serious assault of post-rock. Those guys are just so good.

Tonight I plan to catch The Ruby Suns at the Drunken Unicorn.



There are some other really sweet shows going on tonight as well:

Center Stage: Spoon, The Walkmen, White Rabbits
The Earl: VHS Or Beta, Tigercity
Variety Playhouse: Iron & Wine, Califone (SOLD OUT)

Thursday night there are two really interesting shows:

The Earl: Ski Club (former Kill Gordon, Sovus Radio, Variac), Josh Roberts and The Hinges, Passer By (Reunion show!!!)
Star Bar: Dead Confederate, The Constellations, Hands Down Eugene (Free)

Friday night I'll be hitting Nophest, but there are some other cool shows going on worth mentioning:

Masquerade Music Park: Feist
Lenny's: The Selmanaires, Coathangers, Sleep Therapy

Saturday is National Record Store Day and Criminal Records is having a ton of bands performing at the store for free. Here's the schedule:

BAND SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Outdoor stage:
1:00 PM - The Bridges
2:00 PM - Ocha La Rocha
3:00 PM - Bobby and the Soft Spots
4:00 PM - Suitcases
5:00 PM - Judi Chicago
6:00 PM - The Coathangers
7:00 PM - Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause
8:00 PM - Noot d'Noot

Indoor stage:
2:30 PM - Single Malt Solution
3:30 PM - Trances Arc
4:30 PM - Club Awesome
5:30 PM - Dead Confederate
6:30 PM - Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra)
7:30 PM - Hope for agoldensummer
8:30 PM - Janelle Monae

Saturday night there are some more great shows to see:

The Earl: The Liverhearts (CD Release Show), Lay Down Mains, Rizzudo
Star Bar: The Jupiter Watts, Long Knives, Spy For Hire

Some non-420-fest things going down Sunday include:

The Earl: Cassavettes (Dunch 1pm-3pm)
Masquerade Music Park: "Gigantour" Megadeath, Job For A Cowboy, High On Fire, In Flames, Children Of Bodom

See you at the shows!

Torrents Of The Day: Portishead, Genghis Tron, Porcupine Tree

The new Portishead album, Third, drops at the end of the month, here's the video for the single and a show from this month to jam:



PORTISHEAD 2008-04-03 Columbiahalle, Berlin, GER (FLAC)

I've been really loving the new Genghis Tron album so here's a show from last week:



Genghis Tron 2008-04-08 The Triple Rock Minneapolis, MN (MBHOs) (FLAC)

And here's some cool demos from In Absentia from Porcupine Tree:

Porcupine Tree 2002-xx-xx In Absentia Sessions (Demos & Outtakes) (SHN)

Gringo Star Hit The Road This Week

Atlanta psych-rockers formerly known as A Fir-Ju Well are hitting the road on Wednesday in support of their new 7" as we wait for their debut full length as Gringo Star due out later this year. I've been a fan of these guys for a long time and I think they are about to seriously blow up. Pitchfork has noticed them already. Us Atlanta folks can catch them at a Cinco De Mayo Festival in the Highlands May 5th or at The Star Bar With The Howlies and The Blakes (Seattle) on May 9th. You other folks should catch them on tour:

Apr 16 2008 8:00P
Preservation Pub Knoxville, Tennessee
Apr 17 2008 7:00P
WEGL Auburn Radio Auburn, Alabama
Apr 17 2008 8:00P
Auburn Ale House Auburn, Alabama
Apr 18 2008 10:00P
White Water Little Rock, Arkansas
Apr 18 2008 11:00P
Midtown (1am late set) Little Rock, Arkansas
Apr 19 2008 3:15P
Vintage Vinyl (all ages) St. Louis, Missouri
Apr 19 2008 8:00P
Open Lot (all ages) St. Louis, Missouri
Apr 20 2008 3:00P
Analog Monkey TV -Live Performance/ Inteview Chicago, Illinois
Apr 21 2008 12:00P
JBTV Chicago, Illinois
Apr 21 2008 10:00P
Elbo Room Chicago, Illinois
Apr 22 2008 12:15P
School of the Art Inst of Chicago Ballroom Chicago, Illinois
Apr 22 2008 7:00P
Daytrotter Presents...Huckleberry’s Pizza Parlor Rock Springs, Illinois
Apr 23 2008 8:00P
Northside Cincinnati, Ohio
Apr 24 2008 9:00P
The Comet Cincinnati, Ohio
Apr 25 2008 9:00P
Belvedere’s (all ages) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Apr 26 2008 9:00P
Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
Apr 27 2008 9:00P
Bar (all ages) New Haven, Connecticut
Apr 28 2008 10:00P
Pianos New York, New York
Apr 29 2008 9:00P
The Glasslands Williamsburg, New York
Apr 30 2008 11:00P
Asbury Lanes (all ages) Asbury Park, New Jersey
May 1 2008 10:00P
Lit Lounge New York, New York
May 2 2008 9:00P
The Bog Scranton, Pennsylvania
May 3 2008 9:00P
Maxwell’s Hoboken, New Jersey
May 4 2008 8:00P
North Star Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 5 2008 7:00P
Cinco de Mayo Fest (Highlands) Atlanta, Georgia
May 7 2008 8:00P
Snug Harbor Charlotte, North Carolina
May 8 2008 9:00P
JJ’s Bohemia Chattanooga, Tennessee
May 9 2008 10:00P
Star Bar Atlanta, Georgia
May 16 2008 9:00P
Head on the Door Montgomery, Alabama

Here's a classic jam:

A Fir-Ju Well : El Torero : Neigh

Post-Friday Free-Style

If you noticed the site down last night, we were moving to different servers to handle the ever increasing love we receive from you. Thanks.

HEALTH are doing a remix album of their debut album due out in May.

The newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots will be at the new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park on August 23rd.

Prince has been added to the Coachella line-up.

Thurston Moore is narrating a documentary on the "Straight Edge" phenomenon.

RZA is releasing another Bobby Digital album this year.

It seems Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart might be dating or something.

The Roots' new album comes out at the end of this month and they will be at The Fox Theater on May 23rd.

Kanye West is now a travel agent.

The Echo Lounge is about to reopen as the East Atlanta Icehouse.

Vampire Weekend will be in Atlanta at The Variety Playhouse on June 11th.

Vanilla Ice got arrested.

Foxy Brown is about to get out of prison.

Deerhoof have a new album coming out this year.

Wolf Parade have a new album coming out in June.

Asobi Seksu have a new album due out this year.

Demonoid is back.

Here's Jessica Juggz shooting flames from her vagina:



Tapes 'n' Tapes on Conan:



New Hot Chip:

One Pure Thought


Beach House "Gila":

Another ATL Show Tonight

I just found out about an interesting show in my neighborhood, featuring a side project from one of the guys in Cinemechanica, plus 10 other acts. Check it:



Free show with bands and kegs is always a great idea. Directions here.

Live Review: The Mars Volta (4/4/2008) House Of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC

Ever since The Mars Volta show originally scheduled in Atlanta last weekend got canceled, I had been pretty bummed. The Mars Volta are very high on my list of favourite bands and I had only seen them once before at Bonnaroo 2005. So when I learned late last week that tickets were still available for the Myrtle Beach show, some of the crew and I decided to at the last minute to go. A very wise decision.

We arrived at the venue a little over an hour before the doors opened and already there was a large crowd. The House Of Blues had a VIP line to get in the venue before everyone else, and you had to purchase $15 worth of stuff from their store to get let into it. I had never seen anything quite like that before. Then upon entering the venue when doors opened, the security searches were about as comprehensive as I have ever seen. They used metal detectors and we had to empty our pockets into containers. I felt like I was at the airport. I got inside and quickly staked down a spot a few bodies from the front of the stage.

The Mars Volta would come on a few minutes later than scheduled and play for slightly over 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was everything I had hoped it would be. Thomas Pridgen is an absolute beast on drums. At certain points, Omar would be acting as conductor through jamming sections and it almost appeared like he was pissed at his band every once in a while. Maybe that's just the way he does it. I thought Cedric really shined, hitting everything flawlessly. He was throwing what I thought were guitar picks at Omar's brother playfully throughout the show. Also, I don't believe his hair is real. The setlist seemed to be a bit smaller than other setlists I had seen, but rather than getting to hear a ton of songs, I got to experience a ton of jamming, and I think I prefer that from this band anyways. Here is the set as best as I can determine, but there was a bunch of in-between parts I did not recognize at all:

Roulette Dares
Viscera Eyes
Wax Simulacra
Goliath
Ouroborous
Tetragrammaton
Agadez
Cygnus
Aberinkula
Drunkship

The venue itself had some of the best sound I've ever heard. About half way through the show I left my spot up front to hit the bar and I would just walk from one place to another and everywhere sounded great. The way the building was shaped was also very neat, as there were inclines in the floors so that you could see the stage from just about anywhere. Despite the fact I'm not the biggest fan of tight security, it seemed to be a necessary evil in such a professional arena. Especially considering the crowd, which was the one part of the experience I did not enjoy. Near the beginning of the show, a whole bunch of meatheads pushed their way to the front, and the crowd was full of examples why I would never want to live in Myrtle Beach. Cedric even had to yell at the crowd between songs because they were all talking through quiet parts and committing other various rude concert etiquette infractions.

But all in all it was a fabulous experience and I hope I get to catch them again sometime soon. Hopefully they'll reschedule their Atlanta date.

Albums I Love: Return To The Sea

After catching Islands a couple of times at SXSW, I have been on a serious tear with them lately. There is something special about an album that I can legitimately get obsessed with two seperate times. From the ashes of The Unicorns when Alder Penner left the band, Nicholas Thorburn and drummer Jamie Thompson formed Islands in 2005, and they recorded this instant classic album. Featuring guest appearances from members of Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade, I think that Return is a paradigm of how great music has become this decade. If you've never tried this one out, jam these tracks and videos and then go pick it up:

Swans (Life After Death)


Volcanoes






Of course the reason I bring this up is because Islands are about to release their follow-up album to this one, Arm's Way, on May 20th. Jamie Thompson left the band between the two LPs, so now Islands seems to be completely Nick Thorburn's own project now, with a retooled band around him that sounded incredibly tight at SXSW. Here is another track that is floating around the Internets from the upcoming album:

Creeper


I'm getting very excited about this one. The Islands are on tour as of next week and their last date is here in Atlanta on May 26th at The Masquerade. Don't miss it. Here is the new album cover to ponder:

What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

Ok, this episode of "What The Hell" is gonna be large on tunes. There seems to be so many worthwhile albums dropping right now, it is hard to keep up. A great problem to have. Here are the many bands I'm crushing on right now like a little music slut:

Russian Spy Camera (Athens, Ga)



I know Ichuda already did a review of this album, but I've really gotten into this one hard, so I'm going to continue to hype it. Let me stress that you can download their entire album for free from their website. If you like good music, you will be wronging yourself if you do not go pick that up.

Cryptology


Cults


Download Mutiny In The Kitchen With Knives here!!!

Russian Spy Camera Myspace


The Raveonettes (Copenhagen, Denmark)



One major trend from bands this year is albums produced with heavy distortion a la The Jesus And Mary Chain. Bands like The Magnetic Fields and Times New Viking are great examples. So far, though, I think The Raveonettes' new album Lust Lust Lust is my favourite to employ those sorts of techniques.

Dead Sound


Blush


Buy Lust Lust Lust here

Raveonettes Myspace


The Ruby Suns (Auckland, New Zealand)



The other popular trend in music this year is the Animal Collective influence. I'm surprised it took this long for AC to become so influential to new artists, but it was certainly inevitable. While The Dodos and El Guincho are fine acts, something about them feels like they are stealing the Collective's sound a little too much. Sort of like when I listen to Black Mountain or The Sword and their absorption of the '70s sounds. Sure they are fun and enjoyable to listen to, but I could never get totally obsessed with someone who is bascially copy-catting someone else. But, The Ruby Suns' new album, Sea Lion, seems to me to be the perfect blend of AC love and originality. They will be at The Drunken Unicorn Monday night.

There Are Birds


Kenya Dig It?


Buy Sea Lion here

The Ruby Suns Myspace


Hot Chip (London, UK)



The new Hot Chip joint didn't seem to get its fair fill of the Internet hype, but I've really been enjoying it. There are certainly some songs that are better than others, but the many great ones are really incredible. If you like dance music with a soul like I do, check this one:

Ready For The Floor


One Pure Thought


Buy Made In The Dark here

Hot Chip Myspace


Destroyer (Vancouver, BC, Canada)



Mostly because of Daniel Bejar's vocal style, Destroyer seems to be an act that you either love or can't really get into. Being on the love side of it myself, I'll make my plea to those who listened to it and thought "This sounds just like the last album". On the surface, sure, but if you dig into it, you'll find a much more epic experience and I think this may be his best yet. Destroyer will be in Atlanta later this month.

My Favourite Year


Shooting Rockets (From The Deck Of Night's Ape)


Buy Trouble In Dreams here

Destroyer Myspace

Queens Of The Stone Age Cancel Atlanta Date

The Soco Music Experience going down in Centennial Olympic Park next month just got way lamer. Queens Of The Stone Age, who was tapped to headline, have cancelled "Due to circumstances beyong our control". They have been replaced by Against Me!. I will not be attending now. For all of you QOTSA fans that are feeling a little depressed, I'll try to cheer you up with a secret acoustic show they did in 2002. Enjoy:

Band: Queens Of The Stone Age
Venue: Dachstock Reithalle
City: Bern
Country: Switzerland
Date: 18th Of November 2002

Recording: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > ? > Cassette > .Wav > .Shn > .Flac > Dime
Quality: A

Setlist:
01. Mosquito Song

02. Six Shooter

03. Bloody Hammer [Rocky Erickson]

04. Go With The Flow

05. Hangin' Tree

06. Detroit [Mondo Generator]

07. I'm Dead [Desert Sessions 5&6]

08. Gonna Leave You [Spanish Version]

09. Four Corners [Mondo Generator]

10. I Want You To Die [Mondo Generator]

11. First It Giveth

12. All That I Got? [Lanegan?]

13. Like A Drug [Desert Sessions 5&6]

14. No One Knows

15. On Jesus` Program [Lanegan]

16. Auto Pilot

17. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory [Johnny Thunders]

18. Another Love Song

19. Better Living Through Chemistry

Video Of The Day

Akon Calls T-Pain Feat Snoop Dogg (Cartoon Video)
Uploaded by PeteRock

butternut reduction

What Up In The ATL?

Sunday I went to The Earl for Dunch and caught The Jupiter Watts doing a really nice, chill performance:





Check out this video of Mastodon in the studio working on their follow up album to 2006's Blood Mountain:



Deerhunter are doing a show in New York this weekend where they will play the new album they are currently recording, Microcastle, in its entirety. I really hope they do the same thing here in the A soon.

The Lasch will be at Lenny's tonight.

Tomorrow night the place to be is The Drunken Unicorn for HEALTH, Club Of Rome, and One Hand Loves The Other.



HEALTH : Triceratops


Club of Rome : Let's Go USA


Thursday night you can catch Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) at The Variety Playhouse or go local and check out The Howlies, The Orphins, and The Hotpipes at The Earl.



The Orphins : Camp Cryotop


Colin Meloy : We Both Go Down Together


Friday night I highly recommend going to the This Piano Plays Itself CD release party at Under The Couch. I can't wait to hear their album.



This Piano Plays Itself : There Are Segments Of Revolving


And Sunday night is the Explosions In The Sky show at The Variety Playhouse. The originally scheduled show is sold out, but they added an afternoon show that same day, so go get your tickets before it sells out too.

There are some cool DIY shows going this week too if you like house parties:

141 Moreland Ave is hosting Pool Party, P. S. Elliot, Bandolier!, it's Elephant's, Wrister Tuesday night.

I Can Fly House is hosting Capsule, Furnace, Fag Static, The Sunglasses Wednesday night.

Videos Of The Day

The first video of the day - a deeper look into the underground of the Atlanta music scene (and MARTA's central role):



I want to remix this.


Although I'm not sure how well received this raunchy music video will be, our second video of the day is a european dance track by Le le. According to the youtube info entry, "It consists solely of drawings made by Piet Parra that are also used as loops during the live performances. The song is about bitches and eggs..."

Black Lips Touring With The Raconteurs

The A Town's merry pranksters are going to be opening for a handful of dates on The Raconteurs North American tour. Currently, their tour van broke down, they are stranded in Norway, and their new hotline is down. Bummer. Black Lips US Dates (with The Raconteurs):


05/27/08 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
05/28/08 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
05/30/08 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
06/3/08 Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
06/4/08 Montreal, QUE @ Metropolis
06/5/08 Toronto, ONT @ Ricoh Coliseum
06/7/08 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
06/9/08 Columbus, OH @ LC Amphitheater
06/10/08 Cincinnati, OH @ National City Pavilion
08/1/08-08/3/08 Lollapalooza @ Grant Park

Black Lips : Veni Vidi Vici (Capt Crunk Remix)

SXSW 2008 Day 4/Wrap-Up

Ok, I promise this is our last SXSW post. Most Likely. Anyways, the last day of the fest started with us sleeping in a bit later than normal, but we made it in time to catch Plants And Animals at an Urban Outfitters next to UT campus. They rocked it out:





After a long hike back to the main strip, Biggie C and I split up. He went to catch Dead Confederate, who ended up using almost all of their set doing cover of Sonic Youth's "Diamond Sea". I went and caught Sea Wolf:











After that we met back up and went down to Waterloo Park where they had a free concert with three stages packed full of the big names at SXSW. It was like a mini festival in itself. We caught a bit of Yeasayer's set:



After that we sort of chilled out on 6th Street and did some resting and people watching. Fatigue finally caught up to me on my last day of the fest, so we balled out on a nice steak to get my mojo back and then went to one of the Emo's joints and caught Maps And Atlases. They brought a full finger tapping assault:





By the end of that set, everything on the main strip was packed out like crazy, and we weren't really feeling the vibe, so we headed down the street to catch the last Todd P event of the weekend. Todd P is a party thrower from Brooklyn, New York that is a champion of DIY shows and had put togther the acoustic show on campus we caught the first night, so we figured it would be cool. Here' a little vid about him:



The party was at a tiny dive bar called Ms. Bea's. Behind the building, a huge crowd of folks were chatting about, drinking, and catching good music on some make-shift stages. A band I discovered at the show who put on a really cool set was Sian Alice Group. At the end of the night we were waiting at the merch table for someone to sell us a CD, and we totally busted some dude trying to steal the bands' merch. It was a funny and surreal occurence, but we ended up meeting the Social Registry folks because of it, and they were really nice.

The last act we caught of SXSW was Atlanta's Atlas Sound. I tried not to see too many local acts I could catch here while in Austin, but as we are Bradford Cox super-fans around here, we couldn't resist. I thought he was at his best for the perfect way to end a great week:







All in all, SXSW was one of the most enjoyable fests I have ever been to in my life, and if you have been seeing all the ludicrous amount of coverage over the Internet for the last month and feeling jealous, just remember that when tickets go on sale next year and know that the huge price tag is well worth it in my opinion. Especially considering the big time fests like Bonnaroo and Coachella have upped their prices significantly now. Taking into account the enormous amount of free and unofficial events going on all weekend, you could have a stellar time without dropping a cent for tickets.

Also, The weekend in Austin was the greatest physical incarnation of the music revolution going on that I have ever seen. There were enormous choices. There were super exclusive industry parties and the best DIY shows in the US all within walking distance of one another. If there was one theme I took from the weekend, it is that art is alive and well in our culture and becoming more prevalent every day. It is rare a festival really inspires me, but SXSW turned to be a rather transcendental experience for myself. I'll have some long-winded discourses about various items the fest made me ponder about soon, but here's a final best-of-guide to SXSW 2008:

Ohmpark at SXSW:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Biggie C's photos:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4

Largehearted Boy is keeping an archive of all downloadable or streaming performances from SXSW 2008 here.

Most over-hyped band of the fest: Vampire Weekend

Best blog showcase concerts: Brooklyn Vegan

Best blogging of SXSW: Passion Of The Weiss (READ THESE:)

"SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying"
"SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere…High Times at High Times…Why in God’s Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?"

Brooklyn Vegan got some great photos of Todd P's unamplified campus show we caught the first night here.

Lollapalooza Line-Up

The Chicago Sun-Times has dropped the line-up, and Perry Farrell is not happy about it:

Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Kanye West
Wilco
The Raconteurs
Louis XIV
Love and Rockets
Gnarls Barkley
Bloc Party
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
Lupe Fiasco
Flogging Molly
Mark Ronson
Cat Power
The National
G. Love & Special Sauce
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Explosions in the Sky
Brand New
Gogol Bordello
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
Dierks Bentley
Okkervil River
Amadou & Mariam
Blues Traveler
John Butler Trio
Girl Talk
Your Vegas
CSS
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & the True Loves
Battles
Steel Train
Jamie Lidell
Bang Camaro
Butch Walker
The Blakes
Mates of State
Tally Hall
Spank Rock
White Lies
Brazilian Girls
Magic Wands
Chromeo
Electric Touch
Duffy
Innerpartysystem
The Kills
The Postelles
Rogue Wave
The Parlor Mob
The Go! Team
Bald Eagle
Mason Jennings
Krista
The Gutter Twins
Ha Ha Tonka
Yeasayer
Witchcraft
Grizzly Bear
We Go To 11
MGMT
Sofia Talvik
The Weakerthans
Booka Shade
Santogold
Black Kids
Black Lips
Dr. Dog
Nicole Atkins & the Sea
The Ting Tings
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Whigs
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
Uffie
The Octopus Project
Cadence Weapon
Ferras
De Novo Dahl
Noah and the Whale
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
K’NAAN
Serena Ryder
Newton Faulkner

Looking damn good. The official announcement should come at 8am. Lollapalooza website.

Friday Free-Style

I'm about to head to Myrtle Beach for the night to catch The Mars Volta. Tickets for that show are still available so I would recommend quiting your day job and catching it. If you can't do that, the 13 Day Mission, Beatrix Kiddo, Miles From Pangea show 11:11 teahouse is going to be the hottness. If you are completely broke, here's a free show:



Lollapalooza is announcing its line-up on Monday, but the Chicago Sun-Times has leaked a bunch of it. The following bands have been confirmed:

Radiohead
Nine Inch Nails
Rage Against The Machine
Wilco
Grizzly Bear
Battles
The Raconteurs
Kanye West
Gnarls Barkley
The Black Keys
Broken Social Scene
G. Love And The Special Sauce
Blues Traveler
Mates Of State
Bloc Party
Cat Power
Stephen Malkmus
Girl Talk
Kid Sister
Office
The Cool Kids
The Go! Team
Jamie Lidell

That is serious line-up. This is going to be a big event. I think I'm gonna have to hit this one up. You may have noticed Grizzly Bear up there, and word on the street is that they are opening for some of Radiohead's dates. In other Chicago festival news, Pitchfork Fest has added some acts and the line-up is looking much better. As it stands:

Friday, July 18:

Pitchfork Music Festival and All Tomorrow's Parties
present "Don't Look Back" Public Enemy performing
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

* Mission of Burma performing Vs. *
+ one more to be announced

Saturday, July 19:

Animal Collective * Jarvis Cocker * !!! Vampire Weekend Dizzee Rascal Fleet Foxes No Age * Jay Reatard * * King Khan & His Shrines * Atlas Sound * The Ruby Suns * * A Hawk and a Hacksaw * * Occidental Brothers Dance Band International *
+ many more!

Sunday, July 20:

* Dinosaur Jr. * Spiritualized M. Ward * Ghostface and Raekwon * * The Apples in Stereo * Boris * Dirty Projectors * * Cut Copy * Extra Golden El Guincho * Fuck Buttons *
+ many more!

Keep in mind the ticket price is $65 for a weekend pass, which is a great bargain compared to the skyrocketing festival ticket prices from everyone else. Another festival announcement made some noise this week too: Baltimore's Virgin Mobile Fest. They announced their headliners:

Foo Fighters
Jack Johnson
Kanye West
Nine Inch Nails
Stone Temple Pilots

There's two things to note here. 1. The Stone Temple Pilots are indeed back and on the reunion bandwagon. They have announced that they have exactly 65 North American days scheduled right now. Talk about cashing in. Oh yeah, Scott Weiland is in a tiff with his other band, Velvet Revolver. 2. Why the hell is Jack Johnson headlining all these festivals? I mean seriously, this douche must be stopped. Jack Johnson is like a Dave Matthews who can't play more than three chords. The dude sucks.

Atlanta's Nophest 4 & 20 festival going down in a couple weeks has added more to its line-up and schedule and you can check it out at their website. Ohmpark is sponsoring the event, so expect epicness.

I had been rumour-mongering this forever, but Pitchfork has confirmed that Bradford Cox (Deerhunter/Atlas Sound) worked on The Wild Things soundtrack with Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs). They have also reported that Deerhunter is recording their new album, Microcastle, as a 4-piece, and Colin Mee is officially no longer part of the band.

R.E.M., Modest Mouse, The National tickets go on sale tomorrow.

Al Green has a new album coming out that was produced by ?uestlove (The Roots) and will be at Chastain Park Amphitheater on July 16th.

STS9 and Umphrey's McGee are going on tour together and will finish their journey here in Atlanta at The Masquerade Music Park on August 1st and 2nd.

Creative Loafing has a great piece of journalism this week as they document how ATLien Jessica Juggz shoots flames from her vagina. Yep, really. And you can catch her band Mourdella at The Earl tomorrow night.

CL also have a piece on Atlanta's Zoroaster.

Myspace says it wants some of that Internet money, buddy.

Neil Young has a new album coming soon.

Of Montreal are releasing a live DVD in the fall.

311 and Snoop Dogg will be at Lakewood Amphitheater on July 26th.

Check out some vids of the Ahleuchatistas, Sorry No Ferrari, 13 Day Mission show last week here.

The oldest recording of a human voice (1860) was just found.

Pitchfork.tv is looking really cool, so check out the schedule.

Southern Shelter posted the Elf Power show at The 40 Watt in Athens from last week.

The Nomen Novum (members of Moorish Idols) debut release, the Mantis Man 7" will be available at their show tomorrow night at The Drunken Unicorn.


Bjork "Wanderlust" 3D video done by the music video badasses that did Grizzly Bear's "Knife" video (REALLY WATCH THIS ONE):



R.E.M. on The Colbert Report:





And there's this:

Radiohead Nude Remix

A few days ago Radiohead announced a contest to remix their song "Nude" off of In Rainbows. A local musician and occasional contributor here on Ohmpark, Eric Guenther (From Exile) has met the challenge and done his own remix. Give it a listen, and if you like it, vote for our boy:

Live Show: Radiohead (4/1/2008)

To make up for my April Fools Day Rickrolling post, here's a Radiohead concert they did on April Fools Day this year. Listening to this spectacular show just gets me so excited that I'm going to be seeing them soon:

Radiohead (Evening Concert)
1st April 2008
BBC Radio Theatre, London, UK

Broadcast by BBC Radio Two on 1st April 2008 for "Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie"

01 Intro
02 Bodysnatchers

03 All I Need

04 Nude

05 Airbag

06 Reckoner

07 The Tourist

08 House of Cards

09 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi

10 Lucky

11 Everything In It's Right Place

12 Outro

Download Lossless Torrent Here

The Liverhearts Go On Tour, Drop New Album

An Atlanta band that is really impressing me lately is The Liverhearts. They have a new album they are about release called Ornament, and the live stuff I've heard from it sounds awesome. They leave on tour this Friday and are bringing the new album for you to pick up, so OTP readers be advised. They will return to Atlanta for their CD Release Show at The Earl with Lay Down Mains and Rizzudo on April 19th and will be opening for Cinemechanica at The Drunken Unicorn April 24th, so you ITP readers should hit both of those. Tour Dates:

4/4: charlotte:: Yauhaus
4/5: baltimore:: the nerve center
4/6: new haven::people's center
4/7: reading, PA::goggleworks center for the arts
4/8: NYC:: the Delancey
4/9: brooklyn::Don Pedro's
4/11: richmond:: Rumor's
4/12: winston-salem:: elliot's revue
4/13: knoxville:: the Birdhouse
4/19: atlanta:: The Earl#
4/26: atlanta:: The Drunken Unicorn%

#with Rizzudo, Lay Down Mains
%with Cinemechanica, HO-AG, Bad Dudes

The LiverHearts (Live in Atlanta)-The Last Song

Underground Hottlanta: The Hijacking Music Collective

Miles From Pangea

One of the many things I love about the Atlanta music scene is the sense of community that is very prevalent between artists, and everyone else associated with it. It is common around here for bands who share a vision to come together and help each other promote themselves and record and things like that. Industrial Strength Promotions is great example of this.

Recently I became aware of one such conglomerate called "Hijacking Music". It consists of 3 new and talented bands including 13 Day Mission (ATL), Beatrix Kiddo (Athens), and Miles From Pangea (Marietta). All three are instrumental groups that I would consider in the greater realm of post-rock and everything I've heard from them shows a ton of promise and potential. They have a recording studio they use called the "O Zone Lair" and they even have a blog: O Team Press. Give them a listen:

13 Day Mission : Eat All Speaking Canaries


13 Day Mission : El Spectaculare


Beatrix Kiddo : Lena


Beatrix Kiddo : Dominique Dawes


Miles From Pangea : Blackwater Pond


Miles From Pangea : Crimson Sky



In terms of official releases, so far there is only 13 Day Mission's EP from last year, Ex Incendia Libertas, which I have been jamming out constantly over the last couple weeks, and it is available for free at their myspace. I highly recommend you go pick that up. Also, this Friday night, you can catch all three bands at 11:11 Teahouse with me for what looks to be a pretty awesome night of music and art:



13 Day Mission Myspace

Beatrix Kiddo Myspace

Miles From Pangea Myspace


13 Day Mission

Live Show: Deerhoof (3/2/2008)

Deerhoof
March 2, 2008
Berlin (D) - Postbahnhof

DPA 4061 / MPS 6020 / Microtrack M-Audio 44.1 kHz, hanno's master, recorded from the left PA box

1. The Perfect Me

2. + 81 > This Magnificent Bird Will Rise

3. That Big Orange Sun Run Over Speed Light > Wrong Time Capsule

4. Spirit Ditties Of No Tone / (Greg speaks)

5. Flower > Rainbow Silhouette Of The Milky Rain > Holy Night Fever > Look Away > The Last Trumpter Swan

6. Dog On The Sidewalk > Milking


Download Lossless Torrent Here

Deerhoof Myspace

Jonny Greenwood Quits Radiohead, All North American Dates Cancelled!?! (Happy April Fools!)

This really sucks. The two biggest shows of the Spring in Atlanta, The Mars Volta and Radiohead, have now been cancelled. Jonny has decided he wants to do his own thing and that Radiohead has gotten too big. Read the latest here.

We Versus The Shark Spring Tour

Usually I don't get so into the Athens scene, but there is always some overlap when it comes between our two cities so here's a great Georgian band hott from their SXSW appearance:



We Versus The Shark are hitting the road for most of April and May in support of their new album, Dirty Versions, due out this month. Also, they are doing a covers album and releasing each song at the beginning of each month of 2008 here.

Apr 5 2008 8:00P
Clemson University Amphitheater Clemson, South Carolina
Apr 6 2008 9:00P
Farm 255 w/ Deaf Judges + Marriage Athens, Georgia
Apr 11 2008 8:00P
Bottletree Cafe w/ Colour Revolt, A Planet That Eats Planets (ex-Comrade) Birmingham, Alabama
Apr 12 2008 7:00P
Dragon’s Den w/ Attack the Gas Station, Further Reasoning New Orleans, Louisiana
Apr 13 2008 8:00P
TBA Houston, Texas
Apr 14 2008 8:00P
TBA San Antonio, Texas
Apr 15 2008 8:00P
TBA Odessa, Texas
Apr 16 2008 8:00P
Zeppelins Underground El Paso, Texas
Apr 17 2008 7:00P
Modified w/ the Valley Arena Phoenix, Arizona
Apr 18 2008 9:00P
Pehrspace w/ the Valley Arena, Bad Dudes, Guppies Los Angeles, California
Apr 19 2008 8:00P
TBA Los Angeles, California
Apr 20 2008 10:00P
The Prospector w/ the Valley Arena, Mike Watt and the Missingmen, Chotto Ghetto Long Beach, California
Apr 21 2008 8:00P
The Pizza Factory w/ the Valley Arena Riverside
Apr 22 2008 8:00P
Starline w/ the Valley Arena Fresno, California
Apr 23 2008 8:00P
Kimo’s w/ the Valley Arena, Long Legged Woman, the Drum (ex-Coachwhips) San Francisco, California
Apr 24 2008 8:00P
ATA w/ the Valley Arena, the Death Set San Francisco, California
Apr 25 2008 7:00P
Red Rock Coffee w/ the Valley Arena Mountain View, California
Apr 26 2008 8:00P
HELP! Chico, California
Apr 27 2008 8:00P
The Lil’ Red Lion Eureka, California
Apr 28 2008 9:00P
Towne Lounge w/ Alexis Gideon Portland, Oregon
Apr 29 2008 7:00P
El Corazon w/ Return of the Bison, The Centre Cannot Hold, Nazca Lines Seattle, Washington
Apr 30 2008 8:00P
Empyrean Coffee House Spokane, Washington
May 1 2008 8:00P
Friend Friend Friend Fest @ the Badlander Missoula, Montana
May 2 2008 8:00P
Red Light Books Salt Lake City, Utah
May 3 2008 8:00P
TBA Denver, Colorado
May 4 2008 8:00P
The Black Sheep Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 5 2008 7:00P
Ghost House w/ Wildcat Revival Lincoln, Nebraska
May 6 2008 8:00P
Castle Greyskull w/ Unicorn Basement Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 7 2008 7:00P
Nottingham Co-op Madison, Wisconsin
May 8 2008 8:00P
Fuck Mountain w/ Victor! Fix the Sun Chicago, Illinois
May 9 2008 8:00P
AC Rich Building w/ Child Bite, Prussia Pontiac, Michigan
May 10 2008 12:00P
Thawfest w/ North Lincoln, Bridge & Tunnel, others Kitchener, Ontario
May 11 2008 9:00P
Wavelength @ Sneaky Dee’s w/ the Guest Bedroom Toronto, Ontario
May 12 2008 8:00P
Black Dots w/ Danger Danger Mammoth Hunter Montreal, Quebec
May 14 2008 7:00P
The New Hawaii w/ Florida = Death Southington, Connecticut
May 15 2008 8:00P
Danger Danger Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 16 2008 8:00P
Cake Shop w/ Big Bear New York, New York
May 17 2008 8:00P
Middle East Upstairs w/ Big Bear, Ho-ag, Shore Leave Boston, Massachusetts
May 18 2008 8:00P
The Treefort w/ the Forms, Graphics Brooklyn
May 19 2008 8:00P
TBA New Brunswick, New Jersey
May 20 2008 8:00P
The Red and Black w/ Snack Truck Washington, Washington DC
May 21 2008 8:00P
TBA Richmond, Virginia
May 22 2008 8:30P
The Werehouse w/ St Peter Pocket Veto, Bronzed Chorus Winston-Salem, North Carolina
May 23 2008 8:00P
Spazzatorium Galleria w/ Bronzed Chorus, Irata, Nyos, Attached Hands Greenville, North Carolina
May 24 2008 8:00P
Yau House w/ Calabi Yau, Tiny Meteors Charlotte, North Carolina

We Versus The Shark : (After)life Things


WVTS Myspace

Torrents Of The Day: Langerado 2008

Langerado was fun:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4/Wrap-Up

Click the band to download their Langerado set:

Beastie Boys
Phil Lesh
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood
Gov’t Mule
Benevento Russo DuoUmphrey's McGee
Ghostland Observatory
Pnuma Trio
Les Claypool
The Roots
Sound Tribe Sector 9
The Disco Biscuits
!!!
Pelican
R.E.M.