Humpday Randomnimity

TV On The Radio will be at The Tabernacle October 25th.

Jenny Lewis will be at The Variety Playhouse September 30th.

Atlas Sound is opening for the Stereolab show at The Variety Playhouse September 26th. Damn that show is gonna be awesome.

Deerhoof is going to be at The 40 Watt in Athens, GA Halloween night, but not coming to Atlanta. Well, I spent Halloween last year at The 40 Watt to see Of Montreal, so I guess this will be two in a row.

The Fiery Furnaces have a 51-track live album coming out by the end of August.

Another Fleetwood Mac reunion coming next year.

Best Buy started selling vinyl, started selling music from local and unsigned artists, and now will start selling musical instruments. Someone really hip must have got a promotion over there recently.

Iran is about to have its first concert involving a pop singer from the Western World in 30 years.

David Byrne and Brian Eno are dropping an album together in less than a month.

Tom Waits' recent show at The Fox Theater here in Atlanta is available at NPR.

Silver Jews documentary heading to DVD soon.

A new The Streets album due out in September.

My new favourite blog on the interwebs right now is Hipster Runoff. It is hilarious.

The ludicrously amazing line-up of My Bloody Valentine curated ATP Fest in New York just added Lightning Bolt and Les Savy Fav among others, and they still have tickets available. In case you don't know what the best festival line-up of the year looks like, here you go:

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH - DON'T LOOK BACK
THURSTON MOORE PERFORMING PSYCHIC HEARTS »
TORTOISE PERFORMING MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE »
MEAT PUPPETS PERFORMING MEAT PUPPETS II »
BUILT TO SPILL PERFORMING PERFECT FROM NOW ON »
BARDO POND PERFORMING LAPSED »
PATTON OSWALT »

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH - CHOSEN BY ATP
FUCK BUTTONS »
LOW »
GROWING »
EDAN WITH GUEST DAGHA »
SHELLAC »
THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION ORCHESTRA »
THE DRONES »
POLVO »
WOODEN SHJIPS »
HARMONIA »
OM »
AUTOLUX »
APSE »
ALEXANDER TUCKER »
LES SAVY FAV »
LIGHTNING BOLT »

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST - CHOSEN BY MY BLOODY VALENTINE
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
DINOSAUR JR. »
LILYS »
YO LA TENGO »
MERCURY REV »
MOGWAI »
LE VOLUME COURBE »
BOB MOULD »
SPECTRUM »
GEMMA HAYES »
THE WOUNDED KNEES »
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE »
ROBIN GUTHRIE »

I can't friggin wait.

Ok, videos:

Chromeo:



Devendra Banhart:



M83:

Road Trippin'

I spent my Thanksgiving holiday down in St. George Island, Florida and decided for my drive down I would catch up on my 2007 releases and listen to nothing but albums I haven't listened to. The first album I popped in was Aceyalone's new Lightning Strikes. i had really enjoyed some of his older stuff, but on my first listen of this one, i thought is very under par. Hip-hop is a style I truly love, but it is so hard for me to find stuff that i really dig these days. I'm guessing I just don't have the right exposure to the good stuff, but there has been very little this year that has floored me and that makes me sad.

Next up was the new M83 album, Digital Shades (Vol. 1). I thought it was pretty good, but I don't think it comes anywhere close to Before The Dawn Heals Us. The biggest difference i think between the two is this album seems less aggressive and engaging, but rather hangs around in their more ambient, trancey texture stuff, which is still great. I think this would be an excellent come down album after a really crazy night of drugs.

M83 : My Own Strange Path


The next jam was Polytechnic's debut album Down Til Dawn. This band sounds to me like a mix between early Rolling Stones and The Sea And Cake. It was a pretty solid listen all the way through but not an album that is going to blow your mind.

Polytechnic : Running Out Of Ideas


I had been hearing some noise about 65daysofstatic and finally checked out their new album, The Destruction Of Small Ideas. Upon my first listen, I was really into it and enjoyed it thoroughly. The band does post-rock suped up with strong classical technique and much more range than I've come to expect from this genre. This will probably end up being one of the better post-rock albums of this year.

65daysofstatic : Wax Futures


Next up was Dan Deacon's Spiderman Of The Rings, which had been on my list to listen to for way too long. His experimental electronic stuff is suberb and I highly recommend checking him out if you haven't. I'll be blasting this album non-stop for a while and am excited to see him in Atlanta early next year.

Dan Deacon : Wham City


As I cruised through some back roads between Valdosta and Tallahassee I put in the new God Is An Astonaut, Far From Refuge. Unfortunately I missed this post-rock three piece at Echo Project, but everyone who went to see them said they were really good, so I've been diving into them lately. The album is a solid release for the genre that I enjoyed immensely, but it doesn't really bring anything new to the table.

God Is An Astronaut : Grace Descending


Finally, I finished the journey off with what was probably the most enjoyable listen of the trip, current Wilco guitarist/badass Nels Cline's Draw Breath. If you were a little disappointed with the lack of adventurousness on Sky Blue Sky, this experimental jazz album is right up your alley featuring his instrumental trio called the Nels Cline Singers.

Nels Cline Singers : Caved-in Heart Blues