Humpnight Randomnimity

I just wanted to say thanks to Elevado, This Piano Plays Itself, Eric Guenther and Ben Wetzelberger of From Exile, and Missile Command for playing our One Year Anniversary party last weekend and thanks to all of you for coming out. It was truly an epic event. Here’s some pics from the night:

Missile Command:

Elevado:

This Piano Plays Itself:

Biggie C video taped almost all of the sets, so expect videos posted soon. Just an extra note, in all of the madness of the DJ Douschebag set, I spilled beer on my laptop, so until I get a new one in a couple of weeks, I’m borrowing computers to blog, so I will be limited a tad bit in my posting.

Tomorrow night you can catch Missile Command at The Earl:

Portishead‘s new album, Third, is out in April.

Stars will be in Athens, Ga at the Georgia Theater on March 22nd, but is skipping Atlanta.

Tokyo Police Club have also forsaken Atlanta to play in Athens, Ga on April 7th at the 40 Watt. They also have their first full length album out called Elephant Shell.

Lil’ Wayne got arrested for having drugs on his tour bus.

Passion Of Weiss had this Chris Rock video up today and I remembered how much I loved it when it came out back in the day:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are working on a new album.

Liars‘ Angus Andrew suffered a back injury but it is unclear if this will affect their upcoming tour. Remember they are scheduled to play The Earl with No Age on Valentines Day.

Bradford Cox has posted demos and out-takes from their Fluorescent Grey EP on his blog.

Pine Magazine interviews Matthew Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces. I can’t wait to see them next week.

Blitzen Trapper will be at The Drunken Unicorn March 20th.

Be Your Own Pet have a new album, Get Awkward, out on March 18th.

The Coachella East fest will be called “All Points West Fest”.

Scott Weiland is talking Stone Temple Pilots reunion.

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta has a new solo album out February 5th called Calibration. TMV‘s The Bedlam in Goliath comes out Tuesday. I’m about to freak out waiting to hear these.

Tapes ‘N Tapes have their second album, Walk It Off, coming out on April 8th.

The Streets have a new album coming out in April.

The guys from Hot Chip have side projects.

Black Moth Super Rainbow will be at The Drunken Unicorn on March 10th.

Midlake are working on a new, “darker” album.

Pelican will be at The Drunken Unicorn on March 12th.

Mike Doughty will be at The Melting Point in Athens, Ga Sunday night.

You want to watch Amy Winehouse smoking crack? ok, sure:

Feist “I Feel It All”:

Saul Williams “Sunday Bloody Sunday”:

The Mars Volta “Wax Simulacra” on Letterman:

Friday Free-Style

Grizzly Bear, one of my favourite bands these days, is releasing an EP called Friend on November 6th. The ten track EP features a collaboration with Beirut‘s Zach Condon and Grizzly Bear covers by Band Of Horses, CSS, and Atlanta’s own Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter). Here’s a The Crystals cover on the EP:

Grizzly Bear : Friends : He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Menomena have a new video out:

Led Zeppelin reunion rumours are growing traction.

Creative Loafing reviews the new Black Lips album out on Tuesday. Remember you can still preorder it from Criminal Records and go to the release show that night at MJQ.

A couple of Home Park bands, From Exile and The Lasch, are playing the Faster Moustache‘s 24 hour urban bicycle race this weekend. Some live FE:

The Pipettes will be at Vinyl on October 16th.

So i just finished the first season of Showtime’s Weeds and I like it alot. Here is The Shins‘ James Mercer covering the Weeds theme song.

Wanna know where hip-hop is these days? 50 cent and Kanye West are going to have a debate on BET about who has a better album with play-by-play from ESPN’s Stuart Scott next Tuesday when their albums come out. I’m not making this up.

The Klaxons, after winning some prize that I don’t really care about but everyone on the internet seems to, are working on a new album.

Here’s Amy Winehouse performing at the Mercury Awards (that prize that the Klaxons won):

Built To Spill are awesome and here’s an interview.

More interviews:

Here’s some Queens Of The Stone Age vids to get your weekend rocking:

Torrent Of The Day: Amy Winehouse (1-24-2007)



Amy Winehouse 2007-01-24 Kalkscheune Berlin – Germany (FLAC)

Amy Winehouse Kalkscheune Berlin Germany 2007-01-24

- first tour to germany -

analog cable FM – pc – editing – cue sheet – cuesplitter – flac8 – md5 – you -
(no artwork, taper me)

Know You Now
Tears Dry On Their Own
Just Friends
Cherry
Addicted
I Heard Love Is Blind
Take The Box (hard end)
Back To Black
Rehab
Me & Mr. Jones
You Know I’m No Good
Love Is A Losing Game
Valerie