Tonight In The A: Secret Black Lips Show, Girl Talk Afterparty

If you didn’t score a ticket to the Girl Talk show tonight at The Variety Playhouse. there are other great options to check out for your Thursday night. First, the opening acts for Girl Talk, Grand Buffet and Hearts Of Darknesses wil be making their way over to The Highland Inn for a free after party in conjunction with the Kirkwood Ballers Club:

Also, rumour has it The Black Lips are playing a show tonight at The Earl under the name The Renegades, an ancient incarnation featuring some of these guys. The line-up is full of Black Lips approved bands, so if you can’t get enough of the retro-garage punk, you should definitely check it out.

Grand Buffet : Dark Autumn

Black Lips : Not A Problem (live)

So Many Records To Buy

Yesterday was a massive record release date. Here’s the list of the interesting ones, and while I’m only halfway through this list currently, I’ve yet to find one that isn’t good:

Marnie Stern: This Is It…
Deerhoof: Offend Maggie
Department Of Eagles: In Ear Park
Antony And the Johnsons: Another World EP
Lambchop: OH (Ohio)
Land Of Talk: Some Are Lakes
Castanets: City OF Refuge
Annuals: Such Fun
El Guincho: Alegranza
Rosebuds: Life Like

if you’re looking for a physical place to walk into and buy records like these, you could go to my favourite shop, Criminal Records in Little Five Points. From Tomorrow to Sunday they will be having a 25% sale on most items to get ready for the move next week to their new location. Criminal Records will still be in Little Five Points, just in a place 3 times the size of the old store over at 1154-A Euclid Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 between Bang-On and The Porter Bar. It’s even going to have a full stage inside for in-store performances. It’s unclear what’s going on with the old location, as before i had heard rumours they were going to keep that for comics and games, but it now seems like they are taking everything to the new place.

That’s not the only record store that moved, as Ella Guru, a joint I had heard about but never seen, is now in a new location as well near Inman Park/L5P. I really haven’t been to too many Atlanta record store outside of Criminal, Wax ‘n’ Facts, and Vacation. And all of those old rave/techno record stores that don’t exist anymore. I hear Decatur CD is cool, but I rarely go to Decatur. Are there any other cool record shops in Atlanta I’m missing?

Anyways, here’s some classic performances at the old Criminal Records store:

Mastodon:

Black Lips:

Dungen:

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Black Lips And Gringo Star Team Up On Tour


Black Lips at The Variety Playhouse last year

Two of the bigger ATL bands, Black Lips and Gringo Star, have each been out conquering seperate parts of the world, but just last night crossed paths and did a show in New Jersey together. They will be doing another show together in Brooklyn Thursday night, so you New Yorkers should go check out our ambassadors. Other dates:

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Black Lips Touring With The Raconteurs

The A Town’s merry pranksters are going to be opening for a handful of dates on The Raconteurs North American tour. Currently, their tour van broke down, they are stranded in Norway, and their new hotline is down. Bummer. Black Lips US Dates (with The Raconteurs):

05/27/08 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
05/28/08 Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
05/30/08 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
06/3/08 Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
06/4/08 Montreal, QUE @ Metropolis
06/5/08 Toronto, ONT @ Ricoh Coliseum
06/7/08 Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
06/9/08 Columbus, OH @ LC Amphitheater
06/10/08 Cincinnati, OH @ National City Pavilion
08/1/08-08/3/08 Lollapalooza @ Grant Park

Black Lips : Veni Vidi Vici (Capt Crunk Remix)

Friday Free-Style

Yes are doing a 40th anniversary tour and will be in Atlanta at the new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park on August 4th. Tickets go on sale today at 10am so go get them.

La Blogotheque is really cool in case you didn’t know, and here’s the Black Lips sessions:


SPLIT BLACK LIPS #1 3 SONGS TIED
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SPLIT BLACK LIPS #2 EVERYBODY’S DOING IT
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Outkast’s tour manager died of a drug overdose. Here’s that new new Outkast:

Big Boi featuring Andre 3000 & Raewkon : Royal Flush
Atlas Sound has another hott track at his blog.

Apple is talking about offering unlimited access to the itunes library for a fee.

Lollapalooza early bird tickets are on sale now, but there is still no official line-up.

This year’s installment of Camp Bisco July 17th-19th includes Disco Biscuits (3 nights), Snoop Dogg, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, MSTRKRFT, !!!, Lotus, DB, Amplive, and more.

Outside Lands Fest in San Francisco, Ca August 22nd-24th will include Radiohead, Tom Petty, Beck, Wilco, Primus, Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Broken Social Scene, Andrew Bird, Black Mountain, Bon Iver, and more.

Chris Strawn of Atlanta’s Brass Castle has a solo album, I Left My Hat In Hades, out now.

Andrew Bird is blogging for the New York Times.

Listen to Dirty Projectors cover Bjork’s “Hyperballad” here.

The Flight Of The Conchords self-titled LP comes out April 22nd and you can see the tracklist here. Jam a track:

Flight Of The Conchords : Ladies Of The World
Stream the new Black Keys album here.

Fleetwood Mac plans to join the reunion club next year, possibly with Sheryl Crow. (?)

Emo kids are getting attacked in Mexico.

You can get the Die! Die! Die! show at The Earl last week from Have You Heard.

Girl Talk has a new album out very soon and will be in Athens, Ga at the Georgia Theater tonight.

Read about the new Of Montreal album here.

I didn’t get any recordings of Bon Iver at SXSW, but others did, so go listen.

Nine Inch Nails will be at the Gwinnett Arena August 13th.

Southern Shelter has a show from Hardy Morris and Brantley Senn of Dead Confederate.

Pearl Jam is finally touring around the south a bit this summer, but not Atlanta.

Creative Loafing has a piece about Silent Kids.

Be Your Own Pet will be at the Variety Playhouse May 23rd. Universal cut three songs from their new album, Get Akward, because they were too violent. This is the same label that has released albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, Marilyn Manson, and Nine inch Nails. Obviously, Jemina Pearl could kick all of their asses. Check their new vid:

More new videos:

Phosphorescent:

WHY?:

Raveonettes:

Video of the Day: The Black Lips at GSU 1/22/08

This video is from the finale of the Black Lips show in the courtyard at the campus of Georgia State University. I really have to throw some props out to these guys they weathered some cold, rainy weather on just a small break from an overseas touring schedule to play this little show for WRAS. This finale creates some madness from the crowd and you just have to watch to see what I mean. Once again guys, you put on a hell of a live show!!

Also, I want to let you know that the Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab (DAEL) has YouTube channel of Atlanta bands getting filmed in studio on campus. If you want to see what’s shaking in the Atlanta scene check out some of their videos for some fantastic performances!

Here’s another video from the Selmanaires to give you more of an idea of how the studio shows function:

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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Humpday Randomnimity

Tonight is for this:

Radiohead is coming to Atlanta! Also, In Rainbows debuts those chart things at number one.

The Mars Volta have made an adventure game called Goliath The Soothsayer to promote the new album out in a few weeks (I can’t wait!). Check it out.

Black Lips are doing a free show:

Black Lips ” Veni Vidi Vici”:


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