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)

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.

Live Videos: One Hand Loves The Other, Strezo, Antic Clay (2/23/2007) The Drunken Unicorn

Last Saturday night I went to the Stickfigure Distribution February Showcase and caught some ATLiens. First up was Antic Clay, whose double disc album Hilarious Death Blues from last year I loved. He is a bit too country for the hipsters, but if you can get over that, he makes some great music. Next up was Strezo, who I thought did an impressive set. Frontwoman Kristin Strezo combined beautiful vocals with some strange performance art that I really dug. While I've had trouble getting into their album, I have to say they were really good live. One Hand Loves The Other closed out the show, and did some acoustic versions of their songs and a cover, of which I got videos below. I bought their remix album after the show and it is very cool. They will be at The Star Bar tonight, so you should check it out.

Antic Clay:



Strezo:





One Hand Loves The Other:





One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Remix : Don't Know (Music For People Mix)

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

My number one favourite musician, Jim O'Rourke, has a new album coming out this year! He is also reissuing some old stuff. We will celebrate with some Videos:

Interview:


Performing "Not Sport, Martial Art" & "Fuzzy Sun":


Playing with a TENORI-ON:


With Sonic Youth doing "Rain On Tin":


An Atlanta DJ we heart, Treasure Fingers, is blowing up and Brooklyn Vegan has a TF post full of treasures. Amidst all his touring, he will be doing the FUCKYESSS this upcoming Thursday night at The Drunken Unicorn late with another great ATL DJ, Le Castle Vania. If you haven't been to one of the FUCKYESSS shows, you're missing out because they are really fun. Also, at the TF myspace page, you can download his 40 Minutes In The Champagne Room mix for free. We jammed it at the Ohmpark party a few weeks ago and it was off the hook.

One Hand Loves The Other : Tortoise (Treasure Fingers mix)


Saul Williams will be at The Loft on April 4th.

RJD2 will be at The Variety Playhouse on April 2nd.

Colin Meloy of The Decemberists will be at The Variety Playhouse solo April 10th.

Earfarm notices some trends in names of bands at SXSW.

Missy Elliott is about to debut the first ever 3-D music video next week. Sounds supa dupa fly.

Islands have new material floating around. Here's a taste:

Islands : The Arm


The Roots' next album will feature guest appearances from Mos Def, Common, and Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. Really? Fall Out Boy?

Slipknot, Disturbed, Dragonforce, Mastodon, and a bunch of other metal bands will be at Lakewood Amphitheater on August 1st for The Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival (Mayhem Fest has a nice ring to it).

Thurston Moore just dropped an itunes EP called Live from SoHo, that is pretty much what the title says. I guess I have to finally go get an itunes account.

The new Death Cab For Cutie album is called Narrow Stairs.

Pretty much every single Of Montreal cover you could ever want can be found here.

Langerado has a full schedule coming sometime next week. We'll also have a Langerado preview super-post some time next week. On the festival tip, it is rumoured that the Bonnaroo line-up gets dropped next week too, so stay tuned for all the exciting festy news.

Dream Theater is releasing a digital EP on march 31st.

Peter Moren of Peter, Bjorn And John is releasing a solo album called The Last Tycoon in April.

Corndogarama 2008 at Lenny's will be going down June 26th-29th.

The New Pornographers and Okkervil River will be in Athens, Ga at the Georgia Theater on April 17th but no Atlanta date.

Witch, featuring J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) on drums, is releasing their second album, Paralyzed, on march 18th.

Del The Funky Homosapien and Aceyalone will be at A3C 2008 hip-hop fest at the Midtown Music Complex March 20th-22nd.

Porcupine Tree is releasing an EP of a live performance featuring only Steven Wilson and John Wesley doing rare material from last year called We Lost The Skyline.

Here's another video from the kickass Yeasayer show two weeks ago at The Earl. "Sunrise":



The Whigs on Letterman:



The Selmanaires "Broken Mirros in The Mud":

Live Review: Stickfigure Distribution January 2008 Showcase

Last week I caught two of the four nights in a row of Stickfigure at The Drunken Unicorn. If you are somehow unfamiliar with Stickfigure, they have been an Atlanta underground music institution since 1992 and consistently put out Atlanta's most interesting independent releases. Wednesday night I got there just in time to catch most of Big Penguin. They were doing the power duo thrash punk thing and it was cool:



Next up was Zandosis. They were a serious noise-jam band beating on weird instruments and using lots of feedback. I thought it was decent, but as much as I like noise, I think it was a little over the top for me.



I had just recently discovered Sorry No Ferrari, so I was excited to catch them again. I'm a sucker for straight-up post-rock instrumental bands, and so far I think they are the best of this sort of thing I've heard in Atlanta. They really rocked out hard for this one:







As many of the folks got drawn into the usual MJQ Wednesday night hipster dance party, Music For People put on a great performance to close out the night.



I returned for the final night on Saturday. First up was Nerdkween, someone who has been on my radar for a long time, but I had never been able to really check out until now. I thought she was really awesome and wish I had looked into her sooner. She does "post modern pop tunes" and they are ever so dazzling. I highly recommend checking her out.



After that it was time for Killick. He was a dude playing some weird 18-string cello/guitar hybrid instrument designed specifically for him to play called the H'arpeggione. He was doing what he described as "Appalachian-Trance-Metal". Very interesting stuff:



After that it was time for The Subliminator. If you don't know him, he does avant-garde spoken word and plays Theremin machines. He is very cool and very unique and if you like music as art, it's mandatory you check him out. As always, he put on a great show:





Envie is a band (or I guess project) that I had been meaning to look into, but never did for some reason. Big mistake, because they were really good. Very interesting art-pop that I thoroughly enjoyed. Sean of Lid Emba was even playing drums. They were probably my favourite discovery of the showcase.











The final act of the night was One Hand Loves The Other. I thought their self-titled debut album was one of the better local releases of last year and had been wanting to see them live for a while. I hadn't realized until seeing them that Mikey from Music For People was in the band. They put on a great show and I'm excited to see what this band does in the future because they are certainly poised to be something special. They will be playing Stickfigure's February Showcase along with Strezo, Sick Figures, and Antic Clay, whom I'm very excited to see, on the 23rd at The Drunken Unicorn, so you should catch that show.









Overall, I thought the Stickfigure January Showcase was pretty awesome. It's great to see so many talented and creative artists in the ATL doing their thing. The event highlighted everything good about the state of music right now in this town and all over the world.

What Up In The ATL?

There are some hott new local releases out this week. First, The Selmanaires's second LP, The Air Salesman, is now available:



Also, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause's The Rustic Contemporary Sounds of comes out today:



You can stream both albums here. They are are also both doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records at 7pm tonight.

I think this has been available for a while, but I just found out out about it. The newest Slushco EP:



Info and tunes on the Slushco Myspace. Buy it here.

The Black Lips are playing a free show at GSU today at noon:



After kicking ass last Saturday night at our One Year Anniversary Party, This Piano Plays Itself will be on WREK 91.1 FM at 10pm tonight. Don't miss it!

Tonight, there's a show:



Tomorrow night, the Stickfigure 2008 Showcase begins with 4 nights in row at the Drunken Unicorn featuring some of Atlanta's greatest up and coming artists:

Tomorrow night: Music For People, Sorry No Ferrari, Bigpenguin, Zandosis
Thursday night: Entertainment, The Feeding Fingers, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba
Friday night: Retconned Cover Band, Fur Elise, Tree Creature, Sailor Winters
Saturday Night: One Hand Loves The Other, Envie, The Subliminator, Killick!, Nerdkween

It's $5 for each night of the showcase, and if you like good music and are not familiar with many of those names, do yourself a favour and hit up atleast one of those, because every night is a killer line-up.

Thursday night at Lenny's is a stellar show with Perestroika, Chopper (ex-Blame Game, Deerhunter), Fag Static, and maybe even The Orphins (90% sure according to the Lenny's site)

Friday night at Lenny's there is this:




Friday night The Whigs are at The Earl and there's also this band called Manchester Orchestra that is rumoured to be from Atlanta at The Loft.

For the hippies, Friday night Perpetual Groove is at The Variety Playhouse, and Saturday night Col. Bruce Hampton is at The Loft and The Machine (Pink Floyd cover band) is at the Variety Playhouse.

For the hipsters, Saturday night Anna Kramer And The Lost Cause and The Selmanaires are having their dual CD release show at The Earl.

What a great week for music in Atlanta!

This Week In The A

Tonight Georgie James, featuring members of Q And Not U, will be at the Drunken Unicorn.

Wednesday night offers many great options. There is The Selmanaires, The Coathangers, and Ponderosa at The Drunken Unicorn, there is The Howlies, Judi Chicago, and Giant Tigers at The Earl and Type-O Negative at the Masquerade.

Stickfigure Distribution has a show at 141 Moreland Ave Thursday night featuring Das Kapital, Canadian Rifle, The Brokedowns, and The Kiwis.

Saturday night at Lenny's there is a big show featuring The Toxic Avenger, One Hand Loves The Other, Judi Chicago, Treaure Fingers, and Preston Craig. Also Saturday night, Stars will be at The Variety Playhouse.

Georgie James : More Lights


The Selmanaires : The Air Salesman


The Kiwis : Mexico


Toxic Avenger : Stage Diving


Stars : The Night Starts Here

This Weekend I'll See You In The A

In addition to our free beer and great music Saturday night, there is a lot of cool stuff going on in the city. Thursday night The Other Sound Festival begins at the Drunken Unicorn with Moresight, Pistolero, Mary O. Harrison, and Envie. Friday night it continues at The Earl with Allnightdrugprowlingwolves, Lay Down Mains, The Press, The Yum yum Tree, Citified, and Fernadina. The Coathangers CD release party is at The Star Bar Friday night. If you're more hippy than hipster, Dark Star Orchestra are at the Variety Playhouse Friday night. If none of those strike your fancy there is The Pendletons, Auditioning Alice, Sonen, and The Sea Lions at Lenny's.

Saturday night The National, The Rosebuds, and Doveman are at The Variety Playhouse. The Other Sound Festival continues at Lenny's with Luigi, Club Awesome, One Hand Loves The Other, The Orphins, The Jupiter Watts, Novelift, Silent Kids, and Disassemble. Another big show Saturday night is The Close's final show at the Earl with The Liverhearts and Teen Wheat. Remember, even if you go catch one of the other great shows of the night, our party will be going late so come over for the afterparty.

Sunday The Jupiter Watts are playing the dunch at The Earl and The other Sound Festival ends at 11:11 Teahouse with Untied States, Tenth To The Moon, Jeff Evans, and Batata Doce.

The Press : Noxious Saucy Beast : Trade Blows


One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Other : Tortoise


Untied States : Retail Detail : Immaculate


Luigi : Found On The Forest Floor : Mariposa


The Rosebuds : The Night Of The Furies : I Better Run


The Jupiter Watts : Jupiter Watts : Hello

The Other Sound Festival

Check this out:

Atlanta, GA, August 1, 2007 – The third-annual Other Sound Music
Festival expands this year to include four nights of live music at
Atlanta's leading independent music venues. Festival organizers
announced the lineup for the festival featuring over 20 bands from six
Atlanta-based labels. The festival takes place September 6-9, 2007.

Headlining acts include All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, at the Earl;
Moresight, at the Drunken Unicorn; Luigi, at Lenny's and Untied States
at the 11:11 Teahouse.

"We feel like the festival will be highlighted by live acts," said
ISP-Music's Eric Holder, "Club Awesome's rock and roll pool parties
are becoming legendary as well as Moresight's shows which end up
feeling more like a revival than a concert."

Once again organizers opted not to include any bands that played the
previous year, hoping to focus on exposing attendees to music they may
not have heard before. "We just thought including the same bands from
last year would defeat our purpose, plus it keeps our Other Sound
sampler CDs more relevant," noted Kim Ware, festival founder and
owner/operator of Eskimo Kiss Records and Conundrum Booking.

While only three years young, The Other Sound Festival already has a
history of exposing audiences to some of the best music in the area.
Past acts include Deerhunter and Snowden, who have catapulted into the
national scene through performances at SXSW and features on MTV.
Ultrababyfat, who garnered national success in the nineties, played
last year to promote their first release in five years (on local indie
Two Sheds Music).

Participating labels include Eskimo Kiss Records, Two Sheds Music,
ISP-Music, Goodnight Records, Passive Aggressive Network and
Containment Theory Records, along with local booking agency Conundrum
Booking. For more information visit http://theothersound.net.

The 2007 Other Sound Schedule (subject to change):


Thursday, Sept. 6 @ Drunken Unicorn
9:30 PM – Envie
10:15 – Mary O. Harrison
11:00 – Pistolero
12:00 - Moresight

Friday, Sept. 7 @ The EARL
8:45 PM – Fernandina
9:40 – Citified
10:20 – The Yum Yum Tree (side stage)
11:00 – The Press
11:40 – Lay Down Mains (side stage)
12:20 – All Night Drug Prowling Wolves

Saturday, Sept. 8 @ Lenny's
8 PM – No Disassemble (side stage)
8:35 – Silent Kids (main stage)
9:10 – Novelift (side stage)
9:45 – The Jupiter Watts (main stage)
10:20 – The Orphins (side stage)
11:00 – One Hand Loves the Other (main stage)
11:45 – Club Awesome (side stage)
12:30 – Luigi (main stage)

Sunday, Sept. 9 @ 11:11 Teahouse
7 PM – Jeff Evans
7:45 – Batata Doce
8:30 – Tenth to the Moon
9:30 – Untied States

This Weeks Shows In The A

Tommorrow night I'm really excited to check out Porturgal. The Man at the Drunken Unicorn. I've discovered this Alaskan band just this year and have absolutely loved their material. Go check out their myspace, go to this show, and then pickup their new album Church Mouth.

Wednesday there's two really great shows to check out. First, if you go to the suburbs and catch Ted Leo and The Pharmacists and Birds of Avalon, a band we caught earlier this year opening for Beach House who is really great. If you want to stay ITP, three great local bands are playing at the Drunken Unicorn: Moresight, Untied States, and Elevado.

Thursday night Stickfigure Distribution has a great show at The Earl with One hand Loves The Other, Ninetynine (featuring Sleater Kinney's original drummer), and Strezo.

Friday night Rob's House Records has a great show at the Earl with Deerhunter, The Spooks, and Chopper.

Here's a few tunes to listen to:

Portugal. The Man : Church Mouth

Birds Of Avalon : Bicentential Baby

Untied States : It's Not Goodbye

One Hand Loves The Other : Don't Know

Deerhunter : Ponds

Hot Shows In The A

ATL bands represent hard this week:



Tonight Ohmnpark favourites Untied States are at the Earl for their 7" release party with some out of town bands. Check the new 7" out:



Thursday night the Drunken Unicorn has two acts we love. Get there early to see Lid Emba and stay late to see Marnie Stern thrash with Hella's drummer.



Friday night Lenny's has Deerhunter, Brass Castle, and The NEC and Saturday night they have One Hand Loves The Other and Judi Chicago. Both shows are free, what a bargain!

Corndogorama = Hells Yeah

This is probably Atlanta's best music festival and I really wish they would not have scheduled it the same weekend as Pitchfork Fest, but oh well, I'll at least go tonight. I'm interested to see what it will be like for the first time at the new Lenny's. For those of you going to this, here's what i suggest you don't miss:

I'm not very familiar with most of Thursday's line-up but Friday, make sure you go see Parade at 6pm or The Coathangers at 10pm. Saturday is an incredible line-up. Be sure to get there 12:30 pm to catch DJ Klever. 2pm go see Slow Motion Crash and at 2:30pm don't miss The Orphins. At 6:15pm check out Zoroaster and 7pm brings the biggest conflict of the fest between Untied States and The Preakness. One Hand Loves The Other hits the stage at 10:30pm and at 11:30pm be sure to see The Selmanaires and Snowden back-to-back. On Sunday, be sure to get there by 3pm to see Moorish Idols. You should check out Tenth To The Moon at 4pm and the Jupiter Watts at 5pm. And of course Atlanta's biggest band right now, Mastodon, closes out the corn dogs at 9:30pm.

Get more info at the Corndogorama site.

Here's some videos to get you in the mood: See you tonight!

Monday Mash-Up

St. Vincent will be at The Earl Wednesday night, her new album Mary Me Comes out tomorrow and there's an album release party for it that night at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur. Here's a video:



The other two albums that come out tomorrow of interest to me are Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Smashing Pumpkin's Zeitgeist.

Here's the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' video:



There's a new DVD telling the story of Syd Barrett.

Hot Chip is working on the new album.

There is a free Panda Bear DVD in the works.

Here's the new New Pornographers track: Myriad Harbour

Creative Loafing has an article on One Hand Loves The Other. I've been listening to the album, and it is really interesting. Check out an obnoxious youtube live recording:



Slash from Gun "N" Roses will be a playable character on Guitar Hero 3.

Ohmpark Recommended Shows this week:

• Sonen, Ruby Isle, Spectralux at The Drunken Unicorn Wednesday night.
• The Decemberists featuring the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Chastain Park Amphitheatre Friday night.

Corndogarama is this weekend and we will break down the line-up for you later this week. Also, The Ohmpark crew will be in Chicago this weekend covering the Pitchfork Music Festival so check us out in between seeing amazing music here in the A.