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Nine Inch Nails last week (photo credit: Rob Sheridan)

Tonight Nine Inch Nails and Deerhunter are playing at the Gwinnett Center Arena, so that is the big show of the week. If you aren’t planning on heading to the ‘burbs for that, I recommend going to the Drunken Unicorn tonight and catching Intronaut, Behold… The Arctopus, and Mouth Of The Architect. Behold… The Arctopus‘s Skullgrid made our Top 50 albums list from last year, and Intronaut have ties to fellow post-metal act Jesu, who are awesome in case you don’t know. Intronaut is about to drop their newest full-length next month entitled Prehistoricisms, so jump on the bandwagon now before they are hott.

Behold… The Arctopus : Scepters

Intronaut : Australopithecus

Tomorrow night The Faint will be at the Variety Playhouse. I just listened to their newest LP, Fascination, and it was very interesting for a dance-rock sort of thing. I honestly haven’t had too much exposure to these guys before now, but I think I’m going to go check them out and fix that.

The Faint : Machine In The Ghost

Friday night the Star Bar is the place to be with 3 great local acts: Cassavettes, Warm In The Wake, and The Goldest.

Warm In The Wake : Tame Thoughts

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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Ohmpark’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2007

2007 was an incredible year of music and there were so many albums I really liked that didn’t make this list. I noticed that most of the lists I pay attention to were very similar to one another this year as opposed to last year. Also, I’ve found myself in more of a disagreeance with those lists than last year. If there is any theme to be taken out of this list, I think it’s that I feel like too many great albums were underrated by the blogosphere elites, and that they were way in love with some albums I think are overrated. This list represents my personal assertions more so than the rest of the Ohmpark crew, but I worked hard to get every one’s opinions and influences in this thing. Feel free to comment on how much you hate or love it. I feel like every album on this is an essential one from last year, so go listen to some new music:

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