Corndogorama 2008 Thursday (Day 1)

The corndog man was there. Tall boys were on ice. Stage managers were running a tight ship to get bands playing on time. And there was music. With a post in the same spirit of the festival, Thursday…

My arrival just before Loose Screws produced a PBR and then the night began with some punk jams. The band also seemed to enjoy them.


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Friday Free-Style

Radiohead did a DJ set on BBC 1 and you can listen to it here. It’s pretty rad, you should really jam that today.

Black Lips are doing a bunch of record store shows while they are on tour:

2/5 – Portland, Oregon: Jackpot Records, 6:30 pm
2/8 – San Francisco, CA: Amoeba Records, Berkeley, 6:30 pm
2/17 – Denver, CO: Twist & Shout Records, 2:00 pm
2/24 – Dallas, TX: Good Records, 4:00 pm
2/26 – Lawrence, KS: Love Garden Records, 1:00 pm
2/29 – Madison, WI: Mad City Music, 6:30pm
3/10 – New York, NY: Other Music, 6:00pm
3/21 – Memphis, TN: Shangri-la Records, 6:00 pm

Full Black Lips tour schedule here. Also there’s this out:

You can get it here.

Thurston Moore did a soundtrack for a forthcoming porno.

Colin Meloy‘s (The Decemberists) solo acoustic live album is coming out soon.

The Fiery Furnaces are getting election crazy and holding a caucus to determine what theme they will choose for their next record.

Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs worked on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie Where The Wild Things Are. The rumor going around when Deerhunter cancelled those shows opening for Grizzly Bear and Sparklehorse back in early 2007 was that Bradford Cox went to work on that with Karen O. That would be cool if that is true.

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Monday Mash-Up

One of the dudes from the Black Lips recently shut down a big Atlanta Magazine photo shoot with a fire extinguisher. Typical.

Pitchfork interviews Bradford Cox (Atlas Sound/Deerhunter). Also typical.

Atlanta’s Attractive Eighties Women have a live album out this week:

AEW sound ’80s hardrock like their name would denote, but with really funny lyrics full of Atlanta references. Check it out:

They Shoot Hipsters, Don’t They

Pandamonium

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