Friday Free-Style

Deerhunter is opening for a handful of Nine Inch Nails dates including the Atlanta show on August 13th at the Gwinnett Center Arena. That should be a pretty sweet show. Also, it appears that Deerhunter has found a replacement for Colin Mee.

Boris will be at The Earl on July 5th.

Yo La Tengo is scoring a movie for Super Bad director Greg Mottola.

Roger Waters' flying pig took off during his performance and never came back. The remains of the pig were found later this week.

Dr. Dog has a new album coming out July 22nd.

Shearwater will be at The Earl on June 13th.

Wolf Parade will be at The Variety Playhouse on July 28th.

There is this Girls Rock Camp going on at Eyedrum July 14th-19th.

Watch a new Kaki King video here.

Fleet Foxes will be at The Drunken Unicorn on July 5th.

Grizzly Bear has added some non-Radiohead-opening dates, the closest of which is in Nashville, TN on July 31st, and I'm thinking I may drive up there for that one.

A Jimi Hendrix sex tape has been discovered.

Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD, died this week.

Metalocalypse and Dethklok will be at The Tabernacle on July 2nd.

Times New Viking will be at The Earl on June 23rd.

The Cinematic Orchestra on Kimmel:



New Cloud Cult video:



Phosphorescent doing the Black Cab Sessions:

Friday Free-Style

Yes are doing a 40th anniversary tour and will be in Atlanta at the new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park on August 4th. Tickets go on sale today at 10am so go get them.

La Blogotheque is really cool in case you didn't know, and here's the Black Lips sessions:

SPLIT BLACK LIPS #1 3 SONGS TIED
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SPLIT BLACK LIPS #2 EVERYBODY'S DOING IT
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Outkast's tour manager died of a drug overdose. Here's that new new Outkast:

Big Boi featuring Andre 3000 & Raewkon : Royal Flush


Atlas Sound has another hott track at his blog.

Apple is talking about offering unlimited access to the itunes library for a fee.

Lollapalooza early bird tickets are on sale now, but there is still no official line-up.

This year's installment of Camp Bisco July 17th-19th includes Disco Biscuits (3 nights), Snoop Dogg, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, MSTRKRFT, !!!, Lotus, DB, Amplive, and more.

Outside Lands Fest in San Francisco, Ca August 22nd-24th will include Radiohead, Tom Petty, Beck, Wilco, Primus, Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Broken Social Scene, Andrew Bird, Black Mountain, Bon Iver, and more.

Chris Strawn of Atlanta's Brass Castle has a solo album, I Left My Hat In Hades, out now.

Andrew Bird is blogging for the New York Times.

Listen to Dirty Projectors cover Bjork's "Hyperballad" here.

The Flight Of The Conchords self-titled LP comes out April 22nd and you can see the tracklist here. Jam a track:

Flight Of The Conchords : Ladies Of The World


Stream the new Black Keys album here.

Fleetwood Mac plans to join the reunion club next year, possibly with Sheryl Crow. (?)

Emo kids are getting attacked in Mexico.

You can get the Die! Die! Die! show at The Earl last week from Have You Heard.

Girl Talk has a new album out very soon and will be in Athens, Ga at the Georgia Theater tonight.

Read about the new Of Montreal album here.

I didn't get any recordings of Bon Iver at SXSW, but others did, so go listen.

Nine Inch Nails will be at the Gwinnett Arena August 13th.

Southern Shelter has a show from Hardy Morris and Brantley Senn of Dead Confederate.

Pearl Jam is finally touring around the south a bit this summer, but not Atlanta.

Creative Loafing has a piece about Silent Kids.

Be Your Own Pet will be at the Variety Playhouse May 23rd. Universal cut three songs from their new album, Get Akward, because they were too violent. This is the same label that has released albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, Marilyn Manson, and Nine inch Nails. Obviously, Jemina Pearl could kick all of their asses. Check their new vid:




More new videos:

Phosphorescent:



WHY?:



Raveonettes:

Photos: SXSW Day 2 - 3-13-08 in Austin, TX

Genghis Tron








Holy Fuck












Phosphorescent












Evangelicals












Bon Iver

Video Of The Day: Phosphorescent "Wolves" Live At SXSW 2008

I'm currently uploading some pics while chilling at the Ecstatic Peace show here in Austin. The folks from Indian Jewelry just sat down next to me and are hanging out. Man I love SXSW. Google video finally allowed one of my vids from yesterday to go through, so here it is:

SXSW 2008 Day 2: Thursday

Yesterday I started my day at Emo's, but it was so crowded and I wasn't really digging the bands I heard so, I dipped out across the street to the Brooklyn Vegan party at Emo's Annex (there are about 700 different Emo's venues) because the BV party the night before was so much fun. I caught a band called WHY? that was pretty good.



After that, I decided to just walk up and down the main strip and listen to the music coming from each bar and try to discover some bands I hadn't heard of. Outside some Irish pub I heard a really intriguing band, so I went inside to check them out. It was a band from Dublin, Ireland called Delorentos. They were total dance-rock, like Bloc Party before they started getting all soft and lame. I got a live video, but Google video is acting hella lame today, so I can't post the plethora of vids i took yesterday until a later date. But I did manage to find their official video(although I don't think it is their best song):





After some more walking around I heard another band that sounded promising from a dive called Agave. The Brooklyn, New York trio Appomattox rocked really hard, doing loud post-punky rock.



After that it was time to head back to the Annex, where I caught Men, members of Le Tigre doing the laptop DJ thing. The day before, me and Biggie C were discussing this new trend where bands go DJ and how most of the time they aren't that good at it, but this was an exception as they rocked the dance floor hard.



After that, it was time for Phosphorescent, one of the artists I was most excited about seeing at SXSW. He put on a great performance, doing much heavier versions of his stuff than I would have guessed considering how soft and low-key the album is.







Near the end of the show, I noticed Matthew Houck kept looking at someone in the crowd and cracking up laughing. I finally heard someone screaming stuff at him and turned around. It turned out to be Miles Seaton of Akron/Family acting like he was an obsessed fan. For the Phosphorescent finale, he came down into the audience and sang to the Akron/Family boys:



After that, we stuck around and caught Holy Fuck. I'm not much of a dancer and these days it takes something really special to get me to throw down, but Holy Fuck is just the perfect combination of dance music and noise for me to get really into it. You ATLiens who will be around town on Monday really need to go down to The Drunken Unicorn and catch them playing with A Place To Bury Strangers and Atlanta's badasses All The Saints.





After a short break in the onslaught of great shows, I went and caught Islands. They played almost nothing but new material, and it sounds great. I took a ton of videos, so expect those to show up here sometime in the next few weeks.











After that, it was on to Mohawk's patio to catch one of then night's best line-ups. I got there just in time to catch the end of another Phosphorescent set, where he closed with a 10 minute vocal looping jam. After that, I discovered another great act from California called Bodies Of Water. Really cool stuff with lots of vocal harmonizations. They will be at The Earl Monday night with Sons And Daughters so there is another hot Atlanta St. Patty's Day show you can catch.





Then it was time for Evangelicals. I have been in total love with their new album, so I had been really hyped up for this show. They did not disappoint. They came out with massive blacklights and a fog machine, dressed in a style that was half goth, half candy-raver, and went through songs off the new record. Again, expect many live videos to pop up around here in the near future.



Next up on the outdoor stage was Bon Iver. They went through a handful of the beautiful songs on For Emma, Forever Ago, and wow did they sound good. If you have yet to pick up this album, you are missing out.





After that, we switched up things entirely by seeing Indian Jewelry. I would describe their sound as Liars meets Atlanta's Subliminator. It was a spectacle of strobe lights and minimalist percussionists that were there more to dance than to make music. Very interesting show.



We closed out the night at Emo's Outside stage. I got there just in time for the end of Islands' set, but this time they closed with the amazing "Swans (Life After Death)". Unfortunately, the one dark moment of the entire festival came as some sound guy walked out on stage with a few minutes left in the song right and the PA shut off. They actually cut off their last song. Nick Thorburn found a microphone that was still hooked into the PA and yelled "Fuck SXSW!" Everyone started booing, it was a crazy scene.

After that debacle, We ended our night with an awesome set from Austin's The Octopus Project.



It's on to more music, so I'll holla at you later.

Monday Mash-Up

REM, The National, and Modest Mouse will all be at Lakewood Amphitheater on June 21st.

Tom Petty will be playing at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park. You're probably thinking, what the hell venue is that? Me too. So I googled it, and it is a new venue in Atlanta (actually Alpharetta, Ga) that will open in May. Check it out.

Phosphorescent is doing a huge tour and totally skipping the south. Lame. Although if you go to SXSW with us you can catch him there. Lucky me. Here's a vid:



Listen to Thom Yorke doing cool stuff on BBC Radio 2.

After 43 years, Israel has un-banned The Beatles from their country. Maybe the middle-east can give peace a chance now.

Jimmy Page says no more Led Zeppelin concerts until at least September because Alison Krauss is way more important. I guess that means no Bonnaroo LZ.

A Jane's Addiction box set is in the works.

Destroyer will be at The Earl on April 28th. Yaher!

Cable And Tweed has a sweet Andrew Bird show from 2003 at The 40 Watt in Athens, Ga up.

High Sierra Music Festival has released a rather uninteresting line-up.

MSTRKRFT will be at The Masquerade on March 13th.

The mysterious Vineland Festival that was supposed to go down in New Jersey in August is being scrapped this year and will hopefully debut in 2009. All Points West Fest (Coachella East) announced they were going head-to-head with Vineland the same weekend in about the same spot last week.

Jazz Fest in New Orleans has announced a line-up. It goes down April 25th-May 4th.

Watch Mastodon go bowling and get drunk:



Frog Eyes "Idle Songs":



Nada Surf "I Like What You Say":



Vampire Weekend "Cape Cod Kwasa Kwasa" (live):

Monday Mash-Up

Here's a snippet of that new, new Outkast:

Da Art of Storytellin' Part 4


Cool shows I recommend checking out this week:

Tuesday:

MJQ CONCOURSE: aesop rock, black moth super rainbow, dj signify 21+ (http://www.tightbros.net - get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)

Variety Playhouse: of montreal, grand buffet

Wednesday:

DRUNKEN UNICORN: prefuse 73, voice of the seven woods, blank blue 18+ 9:00PM (http://www.thedrunkenunicorn.net - get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)


The Fiery Furnaces are awesome and here's a new vid:



It looks like My Bloody Valentine is really going to do this reunion thing.

Acid Mother Temple will be at the Earl on March 20th.

New Orleans' Jazz Fest has announced a few headliners (The Neville Brothers, Tim McGraw, and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly) and some dates(April 25th-June 4th). Full line-up announcement will come next year.

The White Stripes and Beck are working together on some stuff.

I just got hipped to Next To Last Festival in Athens, Ga in a few weeks and it looks interesting.

Sigur Ros are working on another album.

See what Animal Collective are cooking up for 2008.

Some more vids:

Grizzly Bear:



Division Day:



Phosphorescent (Live at The Earl):



Castanets:



Iron And Wine covering Radiohead at Pitchfork Fest:



Soulsavers:



Akron Family:

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Today's theme: From Old-school folk to Nu-school dope

Iron And Wine



Iron And Wine's 2005 EP Woman King was one of those rare EPs that are so good you forget it is not a full-length album. He hit a stride in his songwriting that produced purely beautiful, perfect songs and the question was whether this was a peak moment or whether Sam Beam could continue on in this fuller, more engaging type of stuff as opposed to his earlier, quieter folk songs. With his third LP, The Shepherd's Dog, he has proved that Woman King was no fluke and that he is wholly capable of producing top-notch tunes in bulk. Check it out yourself:

Carousel


Lovesong Of The Buzzard


Iron And Wine's Myspace

Buy The Shepherd's Dog Here


Soulsavers



The British production and remixing team of Rich Machin and Ian Glover's second album, It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, has been in my heavy rotation lately and it should be in yours as well. Featuring Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan on vocals all over it, it's a great album that sort of feels like a more folksy and bluesy version of The Cinematic Orchestra. The opening track "Revival" is such an epic and gorgeous song:

Revival


Paper Money


Soulsavers' Myspace

Buy It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land Here


Phosphorescent



I just listened to Pride last night for the first time and was blown away by how awesome this album is. Typically I let a new album marinate in my brain for a little while before I talk about it here, but I felt the short release sort of reminded me a lot of Iron And Wine in a more indie-rock way and when I experience a rare amazing first listen I have to pass it on. Phosphorescent is Athens, Ga native Matthew Houck and is someone that I did not know about until now but will be looking into deeply. Check it:

Wolves


A Picture Of Our Torn up Praise



Phosphorescent Myspace

Buy Pride Here


Castanets



Another great band i've just recently got turned on to is Castanets, aka Raymond Raposa plus revolving cast. The psychedelic folk action on their latest release, In The Vines, is a challenging but vastly rewarding listen that I like more and more every time I jam it. There's something so cool about taking such a conservative sound such as folk and pushing the limits of experimental with it.

Rain Will Come


Three Months Paid


Castanets Myspace

Buy In The Vines Here