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.

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A Saturday Superpost

Before I get started, I just want to shout out to Lern for fixing my Internet. It feels good to be blogging from my own house again. Anyways, let’s get started with festivals as there were some big announcements this week. The biggest would be All Points West (Coachella East). The festival will include two nights of Radiohead, which is ridiculous. Here’s the line-up so far:

Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Underworld, Kings of Leon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cat Power, The Roots, The New Pornographers, Youssou N’Dour, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Metric, CSS, Girl Talk, Chromeo, The Go! Team, Amadou & Mariam, The Black Angels, Sia, The Felice Brothers, K’Naan, Jason Isbell, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Alberta Cross, The Virgins, Black Kids, Mates of State, Duffy, Forro in the Dark, Nicole Atkins, Juana Molina, Little Brother, Rogue Wave, Neil Halstead and Your Vegas.

Outside of Radiohead the line-up seems a bit weak to be charging $258 for a weekend pass, but I guess with Coachella selling out last year so fast, they have decided to really push the price limits this year. Regardless, though, I may still go to this on the strength of seeing Radiohead in such a cool location and hanging out in New York City. Tickets go on sale this Friday. The fest goes down August 8th-10th. Get all the info at the website.

Other Festivals that made some noise this week:

All Good Fest (July 11th-13th in West Virginia) announces line-up:

Michael Franti & Spearhead
Keller Williams and the WMD’S
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Railroad Earth
Tea Leaf Green
The Bridge
Hot Buttered Rum
RAQ
Bonerama
Pnuma Trio
The Wood Brothers
Bassnectar
Outformation
Telepath
deSol
Basshound
 Plus many more artists still to be announced

Tickets go on sale Tuesday. All Good website.

10,000 Lakes Fest (July 23th-26th in Minnesota) announces line-up:

Phil Lesh & Friends
The Flaming Lips
Michael Franti & Spearhead
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Mickey Hart Band (featuring Steve Kimock & George Porter Jr.)
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
Slightly Stoopid
Dark Star Orchestra
Panjea with Michael Kang
JJ Grey & MOFRO
New Mastersounds
Everyone Orchestra
The Wood Brothers
Cornmeal
WBPN
The Hue
 With over forty additional acts still to be announced

Get all the info at the 10K Lakes website.

Virgin Fest in Baltimore, MD has set dates August 9th & 10th for this year’s event, going head to head against All Points West.

Atmosphere have a new album out in April.

The RIAA thinks music pirates are mostly crack-dealing terrorist murders.

Coldplay is finishing their newest album.

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I Heart The A

Not much blogging over the long weekend while I was out enjoying the beautiful weather and sweet events. I spent alot of time in East Atlanta including the East Atlanta Strut and the Go Funk Yourself uber-house party. The really fun weekend is mostly a blur to me and I don’t have much objective journalism for you, so here’s some tunes from some of the artists I might have seen:

Parade : Answer Me : Lunch Lady

Anna Kramer : Anna Kramer : I Can’t Take It

Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Postcard From Four Walls Down

Howlies : Howlies : Angeline

This week is fairly enormous for great shows. Tonight I’m going to see Bjork and Klaxons at the Fox. Diplo is going to be at MJQ tonight too. Wednesday night at Lenny’s is Zoroaster‘s CD release party featuring Daath. Wednesday night is also the beginning of Atlantis Music Conference, Atlanta’s answer to South By Southwest. Thursday night John Vanderslice and Bishop Allen will be at The Earl. Pretty much every venue in town has an interesting show Friday night but i like the Eyedrum show with Vietnam, Random Violets, Subliminator, and Tree Creature. Saturday night is just ridiculous. Do Make Say Think and Atlanta’s Moorish Idols are going to be at The Earl. Queens Of The Stone Age are at The Tabernacle. Girl Talk and Dan Deacon are at MJQ. Then Sunday night The Apples In Stereo will be playing for free at Piedmont Park(Park Tavern).

Bjork : Volta : Wanderlust

Queens Of The Stone Age : Era Vulgaris : I’m Designer

Zoroaster : Dog Magic : Brazen Bull

Do Make Say Think : You, You’re A History In Rust : In Mind

Girl Talk : Night Ripper : Give And Go

Moorish Idols : Moorish Idols : Fer-De-Lance

Monday Mash-Up

Snowden is playing a show next Saturday to make up for missing Corndogorama. It is supposed to be their last Atlanta show before going and making their next record. It will also feature Psychic Hearts and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter‘s solo project Atlas Sound. Yaher!

Akron/Family has a new album coming out September 10th called Love Is Simple. Remember they will be in Athens, Ga at the 40 Watt on September 15th and I highly recommend checking them out because they were one of the best shows I’ve seen all year. Check it out:

The new season of PBS’s Austin City Limits TV show begins in October and will feature Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The Decemberists, Wilco, Regina Spektor, Explosions In The Sky, Lucinda Williams, and others.

The new Prefuse 73 album called Preparations comes out October 23rd.

Eddie Vedder’s anti-George Bush comments during the Pearl Jam Lollapalooza show got edited out of the webcast by AT&T.

Nine Inch Nails are working on a TV show based on their latest album Year Zero.

Cat Power is doing another covers album.

Amy Winehouse has got some drama.

Remember the Black Lips are playing the Clairmont Lounge Thursday night. Here’s a video for a track from the upcoming album:

Theree other good local shows this week include Slow Motion Crash at The Masquerade Tommorrow, From Exile at Lenny’s Wednesday night, and The Orphins and Moorish Idols at ISP Thursday night..

Beach House and Grizzly Bear are touring together, but unfortunetly nowhere near Atlanta. You out of town readers need to go see this if they are playing near you. Here’s the video for Beach House‘s “Master Of None”:

Ok, Here’s some new videos. New Devendra Banhart:

Chemical Brothers:

Bjork:

Bjork Is Coming!!!

According to my research, Bjork has never come to Atlanta before. All of that changes this year as she has blessed our fair city with one of only a handful of North American dates. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am. This is a once in a lifetime event that you cannot miss. Here’s some vids:

Video Of The Day: Bjork

Here’s Bjork’s entire performance at Coahella this year:

Monday Mash-UP

MTV is all on Atlanta’s nuts and the Drizzle showed me this video featuring Deerhunter, Snowden, and Black Lips.

Marnie Stern will be at The Drunken Unicorn on July 26th.

Built To Spill is doing a bunch of touring but nowhere near here.

Austin City Limits Festival has announced a partial line-up including:

White Stripes
Bjork
Peter, Bjorn and John
Joss Stone
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Decemberists
Rose Hill Drive
Andrew Bird
Augustana
Robert Earl Keen
Beau Soleil
Gotan Project
Indigo Girls
Heartless Bastards
Andy Palacio

The ACLFest rumors blog is reporting these bands are confirmed:

  • Blonde Redhead
  • Decemberists
  • White Stripes
  • Bjork
  • Joss Stone
  • Heartless Bastards
  • Peter, Bjorn and John
  • Rodrigo Y Gabriela
  • Rose Hill Drive
  • Augustana
  • Beau Soleil
  • Gotan Project
  • Indigo Girls
  • Andy Palacio
  • Stephen Marley
  • The Little Ones
  • Raul Malo
  • Jones Family Singers
  • Eli Young Band
  • Kevin Gordon
  • Ben Kweller
  • Jake Owen
  • The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
  • Charlie Musselwhite
  • Andrew Bird
  • Sara Hickman
  • The Jellydots
  • Kings of Leon
  • Ryan Bueter
  • Christina Bell
  • Robert Earl Keen
  • Rev. Horton Heat
  • Asleep at the Wheel
  • Blue Mother Tupelo

ACLFest happens September 14th-16th in Austin, TX and the full line-up is supposed to be announced this Thursday. Tickets are already on sale and they go pretty fast.

The Disco Biscuits‘ own music festival, Camp Bisco, has announced its line-up and it includes Infected Mushroom, Amon Tobin, Girl Talk, Holy Fuck, STS9, and of course Bisco themselves. This fest takes place in New York on August 16th-18th.

There is a Smashing Pumpkins tribute album coming out featuring The Deftones and Ben Kweller.

!!! want to get to work on a new album.

You can download some Grizzly Bear tracks from their Daytrotter session here. Don’t miss that link! Here’s one of the tracks: He Hit Me

Here’s a douche bag of music videos:

Bjork : Army Of Me (At Coachella 2007) :

Bjork : WanderLust (At Coachella 2007) :

Fiona Apple : Across The Universe

Liars : Let’s Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack

Serena-Maneesh : Sapphire Eyes

Nirvana : Smells Like Teen Spirit

Tori Amos : Smells Like Teen Spirit

Torrent Of The Day: Bjork (5-3-2007)

The one time I was lucky enough to see Bjork was at this venue, and it was amazing.



Björk 2007-05-03 Björk ~~2007-05-02 – Radio City Music Hall – NYC, NY ~USA (FLAC)


Björk
2007-05-02
Radio City Music Hall
New York, NY USA

Digital Master Recording
Recorded from Front of Board Center
Orchestra Row PP, Seat 509

DPA 4021′s > Marantz PMD-660 (Oade BCM) > 16bit 44.1 .wav >
Soundforge (set fades) > CDWave 1.95 (tracking) > Flac
Frontend (level 7, align sector boundaries) > flac

I did not edit or adjust the equalization of this recording at all. You are
hearing the concert as it happened. The sound in the venue was amazing,
however the bass and the beats were heavy and thumping and you can
feel that in your chest. I was in the sweet spot. I used top of the line
equipment. Do the math.

Recorded and Produced by
danlynch
2007-05-03

Bjork Hub:
bjorkhub.no-ip.info

http://bjorklossless.goudwater.nl

Setlist:
01 Earth Intruders*
02 Venus as a Boy
03 Aurora
04 I See Who You Are**
05 Oceania
06 Dull Flame of Desire***
07 All is Full of Love
08 The Pleasure is All Mine
09 Pagan Poetry
10 Jóga
11 Where is the Line
12 Army of Me
13 Innocence
14 Wanderlust
15 Pluto
Encores:
16 [encore break]
17 [band introductions]
18 Anchor Song
19 Declare Independence

*With Konono N°1
**With Min Xiao-Fen
***With Antony Hegarty

Please support this wonderful and unique artist at

http://www.bjork.com

Video Of The Day: Bjork

This is from Saturday Night Live last night:

Video of the Day

Bjork video in Lo-Def: