Friday Free-Style

Black Lips will be at the Clairmont Lounge Augsut 16th:

The hot show to go to tonight is:

Peter Bjorn And John are going to do a show as Kanye West‘s backing band.

So the indie version of those terrible Now That’s What i Call Music compilations has been revealed and here’s the track list:

This Is NEXT Volume 1 (due out August 21st):

01 Bloc Party – “The Prayer”
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Cheated Hearts”
03 Sonic Youth – “Do You Believe in Rapture?”
04 The Shins – “Phantom Limb”
05 Spoon – “The Underdog”
06 Bright Eyes – “Four Winds”
07 Cat Power – “Lived in Bars”
08 Neko Case – “Hold On, Hold On”
09 Of Montreal – “Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse”
10 Deerhoof – “The Perfect Me”
11 The Hold Steady – “Chips Ahoy!”
12 Cold War Kids – “Hang Me Up to Dry”
13 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – “Colleen”
14 M. Ward – “Chinese Translation”
15 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Satan Said Dance”

Neil Young‘s Greendale is going to be a graphic novel.

Atlanta’s own Black Lips and Deerhunter are playing All Tommorrow’s Parties Halloween fest in London with Liars and Deerhoof.

Speaking of Deerhunter, Bradford Cox had a little more to say on his robbery:


I just wanted to post something to let you guys know that Lenny’s is not a dangerous place. Everyone there was extremely helpful and nice that night. They are like family to us and I didn’t mean for this event to put them in a negative light. They have armed security and are now hiring police as well. It’s a rad venue and I still plan on playing there whenever we have the chance. Please help spread the word that Lenny’s is not sketch town. And be safe. The reason we got in trouble was because I was wasted and we parked on a shady street a few blocks away. Stick with friends. And hope your friends are as good as Lockett. :)

bradford

An Arctic Monkeys side project is in the works.

Get a limited edition Thurston Moore tape here.

Here’s the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the Late Show:

New Black Keys video:

New White Stripes video:

Live Review: Black Keys, Dinosaur Jr (6-21-2007) The Tabernacle

I’ve been to shows at the Tabernacles countless times but I’ve never gone to a show there early before. It was really strange being in that building with the lights on and hardly anyone there. Also, it seemed either Camel cigarettes sponsored the show or bought out the venue because they allowed smoking again and had Camel ads everywhere. We were calling it the “Camelacle”. After waiting a while up front, Dinosaur Jr came on and rocked a pretty short set. About half of the set was songs from the new album, which I like a lot. What was most interesting to me is they were playing songs from Dinosaur Jr‘s entire catalog, instead of just songs off of the albums with Lou and Murph. Unfortunately, they seemed to mess up the songs they did from post-Lou/Murph-Dino Jr, including J totally missing a part on Out There and the other guys busting out laughing. Overall though, it seemed more endearing then annoying from the listeners point of view and my 3rd show seeing the original line-up reunited was very good.

We decided to go up to the balcony for the Black Keys as we were all still tired from Bonnaroo. The Black Keys are a band that I respect but don’t really like . They are just too conventional rock ‘n’ roll for my taste, but they put on a great show and after seeing the White Stripes sound too thin as a two-piece the weekend before, the Black Keys filled out nicely and proved a two-piece can hit you hard in a live setting.