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, ManMan at Lenny's
One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Remix : Tortoise (Treasure Fingers remix)
Bonnaroo's "Big Announcement" this week was that Widespread Panic is replacing The Allman Brothers and doing their 43rd headlining spot at the 'roo. They also added Les Claypool, Charli 2na, Super Drag, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Adele, Grand Ole Party, and The Postelles. Other than WSP, those are some decent additions, but I'm way more excited about the acts they added to the Cafe/nightclub, including Dead Confederate, Colour Revolt, De Novo Dahl, Phonograph, Bear In Heaven, Howlin Rain, and Royal Bangs, all of which are acts that I am interested in checking out. I'll be doing a piece on all the lesser know 'roo acts very soon.
Pecanne Log had the extened trailer to We Fun up, so check it:
Pitchfork Fest addedSpoon, The Dodos, and Les Savy Fav. That is turning out to rather sweet line-up.
You can download a reversed version of the new Gnarls Barkley album for free here.
The RIAA spent $2.8 million dollars lobbying the government in 2007. Honestly, I would have expected that to be much higher.
Nick Thorburn of Islandstalks some smack about Vampire Weekend. Indian Jewelry has a new album coming out called Free Gold! and will be at Eyedrum on May 18th. I can't wait to catch them again.
Hella's Zach Hillhas a solo album coming out featuring a ton of really cool guest musicians such as Marnie Stern, No Age, Les Calypool, and Marco Benevento.
Ok, I promise this is our last SXSW post. Most Likely. Anyways, the last day of the fest started with us sleeping in a bit later than normal, but we made it in time to catch Plants And Animals at an Urban Outfitters next to UT campus. They rocked it out:
After a long hike back to the main strip, Biggie C and I split up. He went to catch Dead Confederate, who ended up using almost all of their set doing cover of Sonic Youth's "Diamond Sea". I went and caught Sea Wolf:
After that we met back up and went down to Waterloo Park where they had a free concert with three stages packed full of the big names at SXSW. It was like a mini festival in itself. We caught a bit of Yeasayer's set:
After that we sort of chilled out on 6th Street and did some resting and people watching. Fatigue finally caught up to me on my last day of the fest, so we balled out on a nice steak to get my mojo back and then went to one of the Emo's joints and caught Maps And Atlases. They brought a full finger tapping assault:
By the end of that set, everything on the main strip was packed out like crazy, and we weren't really feeling the vibe, so we headed down the street to catch the last Todd P event of the weekend. Todd P is a party thrower from Brooklyn, New York that is a champion of DIY shows and had put togther the acoustic show on campus we caught the first night, so we figured it would be cool. Here' a little vid about him:
The party was at a tiny dive bar called Ms. Bea's. Behind the building, a huge crowd of folks were chatting about, drinking, and catching good music on some make-shift stages. A band I discovered at the show who put on a really cool set was Sian Alice Group. At the end of the night we were waiting at the merch table for someone to sell us a CD, and we totally busted some dude trying to steal the bands' merch. It was a funny and surreal occurence, but we ended up meeting the Social Registry folks because of it, and they were really nice.
The last act we caught of SXSW was Atlanta's Atlas Sound. I tried not to see too many local acts I could catch here while in Austin, but as we are Bradford Cox super-fans around here, we couldn't resist. I thought he was at his best for the perfect way to end a great week:
All in all, SXSW was one of the most enjoyable fests I have ever been to in my life, and if you have been seeing all the ludicrous amount of coverage over the Internet for the last month and feeling jealous, just remember that when tickets go on sale next year and know that the huge price tag is well worth it in my opinion. Especially considering the big time fests like Bonnaroo and Coachella have upped their prices significantly now. Taking into account the enormous amount of free and unofficial events going on all weekend, you could have a stellar time without dropping a cent for tickets.
Also, The weekend in Austin was the greatest physical incarnation of the music revolution going on that I have ever seen. There were enormous choices. There were super exclusive industry parties and the best DIY shows in the US all within walking distance of one another. If there was one theme I took from the weekend, it is that art is alive and well in our culture and becoming more prevalent every day. It is rare a festival really inspires me, but SXSW turned to be a rather transcendental experience for myself. I'll have some long-winded discourses about various items the fest made me ponder about soon, but here's a final best-of-guide to SXSW 2008:
Stone Temple Pilotsare 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, BandWidespread 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,SojornBusdriver
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 RadioheadIn Rainbow remixes here while you ge ready to snag tickets tomorrow or are stoked about the tickets you got yesterday.
Yeasayeris coming back to Atlanta with Man Man on May 3rd at Lenny's. I'll be there. Some jams:
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:
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)
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 Moorejust 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 calledNarrow 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 Theateris releasing a digital EP on march 31st.
Peter Moren of Peter, Bjorn And Johnis releasing a solo album called The Last Tycoon in April.
The New Pornographers and Okkervil Riverwill 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 Treeis 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":
Live Photos, Videos, And Review: Yeasayer, MGMT, Morning State (1/18/2008) The Earl
Before throwing down at 1084 for our party last week, we went down to The Earl to catch this great show. First up was Atlanta's own Morning State. They had just recently recorded their first full-length album and the label they had just signed to went under, so they had to go and re-record the entire album with Asa Leffert (Dark Meat, The Pendletons, The Whigs) in Athens, Ga so they could release it. Recording an album is a big undertaking, so I'm sure having to do the whole thing again would be frustrating, but it looks like they've made the most of it:
“The whole label thing sucked. It was really nice to have someone tell us that they were going to front the money for our album and release it and spend a bunch of cash on marketing it. When the label folded we had hoped to keep what we recorded but in order to do that we would have had to sign another contract and we decided it was best to walk away from that whole mess and just do it all over,” says frontman Russ Ledford. “We’re really excited to have a chance to re-make the album though and create something even better. We also have a lot of energy because of this whole situation, and I think that’ll really come out in the recordings.”
This recent show they brought it hard and I think they were the best I've seen them live yet:
Photo by Biggie C
Next up was Yeasayer, whose album All Hour Cymbals I've been jamming hard since I discovered it. The four-piece were incredible live and had so much energy on stage. The lead singer somehow cut his hand when he was jumping on his monitor and had blood running down his arm for half of the show, but it didn't seem to phase him too much. Biggie C took some photos:
See the blood:
"Wait For the Summer":
You'll notice in this second video that the crowd was a bit fratty. Others noticed as well:
The final act of the show was the other New York band, MGMT. I had seen them open forOf Montreal on Halloween last year and enjoyed them. They played another good show, but I think Yeasayer's complete awesomeness kind of overshadowed them a bit. I found myself really digging some parts and not really into others. I bought the album, Oracular Spectacular, at the show and I think it is pretty great. This band certainly has potential to be something special. Biggie C got some nice shots:
Since I had technical issues and couldn't get a video, here are some MGMT goodies:
So the big local fiasco that happened last week that we hadn't talked bout yet was the MF Doom show. Apparently MF Doom came out way late in the morning, lip-synced to 20 minutes of a CD, and a bunch of people don't even think it was really him (he always wears a mask). From the MJQ promoter via myspace:
Many apologies go to all of you who came out to the MF DOOM show last night at MJQ and paid $30 of your hard earned money only to watch him lip sinc for 20 minutes at 1:30 in the morning. This was by far one of the single worst experiences I’ve had as a club promoter and I sincerely apologize if you walked away feeling cheated. To make matters even worse MF DOOMS appointed doorman took off with all the money from the door after the show! As soon as we realized the money was stolen we decided to help ourselves to all of MF DOOMS merchandise which included a bunch of T shirts and posters. So, in an effort to make it up to everyone who walked away feeling cheated, we’re giving away all the merchandise for free so come and get it while supplies last!! And if that’s not enough, feel free to let MF DOOM aka Daniel Dumile know how you really feel by calling him at his home in Kennesaw Georgia.
DANIEL T DUMILE 4038 MAXANNE DR NW KENNESAW GA 30144-2147 (678) 445-0992
All the best,
Randy Castello / Tight Bros Network
Damn.
Ruby Islehave decided to start covering whatever song is #1 on the blog mp3 aggregator Elbows each week and releasing it for free. This is such a cool idea. Here's their cover of Beach House's "Gila" (you can listen to the original here):
So, Xiu Xiu and Fucked Uphave filed a lawsuit against RJ Reynolds Tobacco for using their names, plus tons of other indie groups, in a Camel cigarettes add in Rolling Stone magazine without their permission. Add this douchiness to running Bob Dylan cover stories every three months and having no clue what the best music of 2007 was, and Rolling Stone may be more out of touch than MTV.
The Smashing Pumpkins are digitally releasing an acoustic EP called American Gothic on January 2nd.
Snowden is so hott the television show CSI Miami has used their cover of "Time Of the Season":
If for some reason you read this in time to check it out, Snowden are DJing tonight at DSC.
A cool show I recommend checking out tomorrow night:
I've been spending a ridiculous amount of time listening to albums from this year i hadn't got a chance to listen to until now to make sure I leave no rock unturned for my Top 50 albums list. I'll try to update my "heavy rotation list" sometime over the next few days, but until then, listen to these tracks of the stuff I've like best and then go get the album:
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew : Spirit If... : Gang Bang Suicide
I 'm chilling at Octane coffee shop right now because Comcast is horrible and my internet service through them basically doesn't work, so between that and me chillaxing for the holidays, posts will be sparse. My year end lists are taking a little longer than expected because i take them very seriously and i don't want to miss anything. I would anticipate my best EP list up around Christmas and my best LP list up right before New Years. Happy Holidays and Thanks for reading Ohmpark!
