What Up In The ATL?

Atlas Sound 2night! Last Chance!

I noticed that at the Atlas Sound Myspace you can listen to every song on the new album. If you've yet to come to the dark side, go give it a jam session and I think you'll be convinced. For you OTP readers that are ready for Bradford to come to you, here's the tourdates:

Feb 19 2008 9:45P
Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, Georgia
Feb 20 2008 8:00P
Local 506 Chapel Hill
Feb 21 2008 9:00P
Black Cat Backstage WASHINGTON
Feb 22 2008 8:00P
Johnny Brendas PHILADELPHIA
Feb 23 2008 8:00P
Mercury Lounge New York, New York
Feb 24 2008 8:00P
Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York
Feb 26 2008 9:00P
Middle East Upstairs CAMBRIDGE
Feb 27 2008 8:00P
Casa Del Popolo Montreal, Quebec
Feb 28 2008 8:00P
Legendary Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario
Feb 29 2008 8:00P
Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
Mar 1 2008 8:00P
Empty Bottle Chicago
Mar 2 2008 8:00P
Triple Rock Club Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mar 5 2008 8:00P
Pats Pub Vancouver, British Columbia
Mar 6 2008 8:00P
High Dive Seattle, Washington
Mar 7 2008 8:00P
Holocene Portland, Oregon
Mar 8 2008 8:00P
Bottom of the Hill San Francisco, California
Mar 11 2008 8:00P
Echo Los Angeles

Tomorrow night there is another ATL Superstar extravaganza:



Here is a little something from Colin "The Great Deserter" Mee's non-Deerhunter project:

Chopper : Rolling Thvnder


Friday night the ATL Superstar-mania continues with too many Superstars for one show:



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Oh, and it don't stop there. Saturday night is The Stickfigure Distribution February Showcase at The Drunken Unicorn featuring One Hand Loves The Other, Strezo, Antic Clay, and Sick Figures.

Just another great week to be a music fan in the A. Get out and see some shows!

Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here's a few pics and a vid:









Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don't know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin's Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:



Find out why My Bloody Valentine didn't do Coachella here, and "Don't worry--they'll come to America."

So all the wookies and hippies pissed off about Metallica at Bonnaroo are rallying around the newest festival to emerge in this golden ago of American festivals. Behold Rothbury Fest:

Dave Mathews, Band Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh And Friends, Primus, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gov't Mule, STS9, Colbie Caillat, Slightly Stoopid, The Black Keys, Keller Williams And the WMD's, Yonder Mountain String Band featuring John Fishman, Gogol Bordello, Citizen Cope, The Disco Biscuits, Medeski Martin And Wood, Ray Lamontagne, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, Drive-By Truckers, Of Montreal, Etown Radio Show, The Dresden Dolls, Gomez ,Brett Dennen, Taj Mahal, Mike Gordon, Zappa Plays Zappa, Crystal Method DJ Set, JJ Grey And Mofro, The Greyboy All-Stars, The Secret Machines, Railroad Earth, Beth Orton ,Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels, A3, Bettye Lavette, Emmitt Nershi Band, Lotus, EOTO, Panjea with Michael Kang, Yard Dogs Road Show, State Radio, The Beautiful Girls, Sage Francis, Tea Leaf Green, Bassnectar, Pnuma Trio, Diplo, Flosstradamus, The Juan Maclean, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, DJ Rekha, Dead Confederate, Motion Potion, DJ Rootz, Sojorn Busdriver

So if you're one of those folks that wish it were 2003 and every hippy festival had the exact same line-up every year, you'll be ecstatic about this one. It goes down July 3rd-6th in Rothbury, Michigan. Rothbury Fest website.

A festival that I'd probably be slightly more interested in checking out is the New England Metal Fest. They got a line-up too:

The fest will be merging with Gigantour for one-night, as the Friday night portion of the show will feature Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy and High on Fire, so the first night is officially Gigantour night. Saturday’s lineup will be headlined by Dimmu Borgir, Shadows Fall and Behemoth. Sunday will feature Ministry, Meshuggah and Nevermore. And that’s just the friggen headliners. Take a look at the rest of the bands expected to play on the show:

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Overkill, A Life Once Lost, God Forbid, Disfear, Hate Eternal, Municipal Waste, Shai Halud, Soilent Green, Skeletonwitch, The Acacia Strain, Vital Remains, After the Burial, Animosity, As Blood Runs Black, Belay My Last, Born of Osiris, Briandrill, Classic Struggle, Cockpunch!, Cold World, Dead to Fall, Demiricous, Eluveitie, Elysia, Embrace the End, Emmure, The End, Ensiferum, First Blood, From a Second Story Window, Full Blown Chaos, The Ghost Inside, Hemlock, Impending Doom, Keep Of Kalessin, Kid Deposit Triumph, Ligeia, Mensrea, Monstrosity, On Broken Wings, Recon, Red I Flight, Rhinoceros, Shipwreck a.d., Since the Blood, Sleeping Giant, Sons of Azrael, Stick to Your Guns, Stray from the Path, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganze, Trap Them, Turisas, Tyr, Unexpect, Unholy, Vanna, Veil of Maya, Waking the Cadaver, Winds of Plague, Withered, and Xtyrantx.

Pretty exciting! The event will take place from April 25 to 27 at the Palladium in Worcester, MA.

Stereogum posted some funny Valentines cards, so even though I'm a day late, here's a few:











You can go get Amplive's Radiohead In Rainbow remixes here while you ge ready to snag tickets tomorrow or are stoked about the tickets you got yesterday.

Yeasayer is coming back to Atlanta with Man Man on May 3rd at Lenny's. I'll be there. Some jams:

Man Man : Top Drawer


Yeasayer : 2080 (Brenmar remix)


Yeasayer : Sunrise (Hey Champ remix)


New Death Cab album tracklist here.

British Sea Power will be at The Earl on April 21st.

Sonic Youth are about to start working on a new album due out next year. YESSSSS!

Pelican will be at The Masquerade on April 26th.

Handsome Furs are doing 5 Florida dates and nothing in Georgia.

Opeth's new album, Watershed, comes out June 3rd.

Get the Ratatat Remixes Volume 2 here.

Pine interviews Atlanta's Cassavetes.

Ghengis Tron is streaming their new album on their myspace.

Listen to Thom Yorke's NPR Valentine's Day DJ set here.

Boris has a new album out on April 29th called Smile.

Passion of Weiss has some new stuff from Atlanta's Jamie Radford.

The Subliminator has a new album due out next month.

New Beach House:



British Sea Power:



Radiohead:



Justice:



The New Pornographers:

What Up In The ATL?

Atlanta's From Exile have re-released their epic 2006 debut full-length album Crushing Reality for FREE right now at their website. I highly recommend going and getting that because it really is such a great album. From Exile are currently in the studio recording their newest record which should be out later this year. Also, stop by their myspace.



Another Ohmpark favourite band, Moorish Idols, has gone on a hiatus of sorts to shift their focus on David Norbery's newest project, Nomem Novum. Nomem Novum will have a 7" called Mantis Man out in March and a full-length to follow in November. You can check out the great new tunes at the myspace. There are a handful of shows coming up that you should check out:

02/09/2008 08:00 PM - parkgrounds amphitheater w/Recompas
02/22/2008 09:00 PM - LennysWithTheOrphinsBenefitForSarahJones
03/20/2008 09:00 PM - Drunken Unicorn w/ Blitzen Trapper
04/05/2008 09:45 PM - Drunken Unicorn w/ ENON

Nomem Novum : Aunt Urn


Last week we talked about the new Slushco album, When I Met The Boss Of Nova, being released. Apparently there were some technical issues with CDBaby where it was released digitally, but you can now go purchase the new album here. While I was waiting for that, I finally bought a copy of the self-titled album and it is really awesome. I'm on a heavy Slushco kick right now, but I'll have more on that in a few days.

Tonight there a couple hippy friendly shows. The Greyboy Allstars will be at Smith's Old Bar and I'll be going to The Tabernacle to catch Ween again.

Tomorrow there a few great shows. I'm way stoked about the Super Furry Animals, Fiery Furnaces, Holy Fuck show at The Variety Playhouse. At the Earl, you can catch High On Fire and A Life Once Lost. At The Starbar you can catch Scott H Biram.

Thursday night you can go see Zoroaster at the Drunken Unicorn or Brass Castle and Undomskulen at The Earl.

Friday night you can check out many of what I call the "nu-Black Lips" Atlanta bands such as The Howlies, The NEC, and Thee Crucials.

Saturday night The Earl has yet another awesome show with Rizzudo and The Liverhearts: