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:

Langerado 2008 Day 3: Saturday

I got an early start on the music and checked out Blitzen Trapper first. I have had trouble getting into their new album, but for an afternoon festival live show, they were perfect. The country sounding stuff they do is not my flavour, but the psychedelic stuff they do is right up my alley.









Next up was The Bad Plus. The jazz trio jammed out some great music, including a jazz rendition of Rush's "Tom Sawyer" that was hilarious and awesome at the same time. The drummer totally floored me. He was incredible. The way he could switch between volumes on every single lick drumming so fast was something I hadn't seen done quite like that before. Also, he looked like he was having the time of his life playing their music.







After some blogging, I checked out Pnuma Trio for a little while. They were good, but I think they are much more fun to catch as a late night set.



Next I caught Ben Folds who did a solid show.







After a crucial recharge and refuel, I caught the end of the Medeski, Scofield, Martin, and Wood set, and it was great. There seemed to be way less people at the R.E.M. show than at the Beastie Boys headlining slot the night before. We were able to get a pretty decent spot just minutes before they went on. The show was good, they played a bunch of older songs that I love that I had forgotten existed. They did some newer stuff too, but I just can't seem to get into it.



Finally I made my way to Pelican, who ripped out a top notch set.







I think Dan Deacon canceled the fest, but it is entirely possible that I was too intoxicated after Pelican to know what happened. I was told that I caught the Disco Biscuits. I probably enjoyed it.

The weather got beautiful during the day and very cold at night. I've been having a blast so far, so it is time to stop all this blogging and live up the last day. I'll post the Day 4/Wrap-up after I return to the ATL for a brief moment before heading to SXSW.

Monday Mash-Up

I want to thank everyone who came out for our show Friday night, and thanks to Parade, Brass Bed, and Delta Co for playing some great sets.

The Mars Volta show that we reported would be at The Tabernacle on Saturday, April 5th and then disappeared has reappeared again. Tickets go on sale this Saturday at 10am.

Also remember that Bonnaroo tickets go on sale this Saturday at noon.

The Grammy Awards happened last night, but I don't care, so if you do, every other blog is talking about it.

UNKLE are calling it quits.

Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried And Me, and 3 will be at The Tabernacle on May 28th.

Mastodon is about to go back to the studio and work on a new album due out by the end of the year.

Deerhoof have added a guitarist and are now a 4-piece again.

The Long Blondes' new album, Couples, will be out April 8th.

Ladytron has a new album coming out and will be at The Variety Playhouse on June 13th.

Jay-Z will be at Phillips Arena April 8th.

You can find the entire SXSW line-up here. You can find all the non-official events going on here.

Kanye West, NERD, and Lupe Fiasco will be at The Gwinnett Arena May 4th.

Beck admits some of his songs' lyrics were nonsense.

I've got the flu for the third time this winter, so things might be a little quiet around here the next couple of days.

Hot Chip:



R.E.M.:



Black Kids:



Clinic: