Photos: Scion Rock Fest at The Masquerade in Atlanta, GA (2-28-09)

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Scion Rock Fest: Information and Artist Additions

If you have been trying to figure out how to get Scion Rock Fest tickets, here is how to get them:

To obtain tickets to the fest please visit http://www.scion.com/rock and enter your email address in the register box. If you live within a 60 mile radius of a retail pick up location you will be given the option of stores close to you. Choose the store easiest for you to visit and you will be emailed a confirmation to get a pair of tickets at the that location. Bring this confirmation to the store to obtain your tickets. If you live outside that radius your name will be added to a will call list to get tickets day of at the venue and you will be emailed a confirmation for that. Early arrival is highly recommended, as a ticket does not guarantee entry. Once the park is full, that’s it.

Scion Rock Fest just recently added some more acts to the lineup:

Converge
Pig Destroyer
Septic Flesh
Coalese
Trash Talk
Evil Army
US Christmas
Gaylord
Apocalyptic Visions

Those acts will join the badass list of bands we already reported:

Mastodon
Neurosis
High on Fire
Boris
1349
Cryptopsy
Torche
Nachtmystium
Wolves in the Throne Room
Baroness
Harvey Milk
Kylesa
Zoroaster
Withered
Krallice
Toxic Holocaust
Skeletonwitch
Rwake
A Storm of Light
Warbringer
Salome
Suidakra
Tyr
Alestorm

Keep in mind this is free and going down February 28th at The Masquerade. Here is a nice, short playlist of the bands I’m most excited to see:

Boris : Laser Beam
Baroness : The Birthing
Torche : Grenades
Kylesa : Where The Horizon Unfolds
Harvey Milk : Motown
Neurosis : Water Is Not Enough

Scion Rock Fest

This big ATL event seems to be off the radar, but luckily my metal insiders tipped me off. The line-up features pretty much every single band from the particular type of metal that I enjoy most, so I’m excited:

Mastodon
Neurosis
High on Fire
Boris
1349
Cryptopsy
Torche
Nachtmystium
Wolves in the Throne Room
Baroness
Harvey Milk
Kylesa
Zoroaster
Withered
Krallice
Toxic Holocaust
Skeletonwitch
Rwake
A Storm of Light
Warbringer
Salome
Suidakra
Tyr
Alestorm

The event is taking place all day long at The Masquerade on February 28th. It is free as long as you have a ticket, but where exactly one can obtain these elusive tickets is anyone’s guess (If you know, let me know).

Edit: Decatur CD will have some tickets next week. Thanks to Justin T for the tip!

Scion Rock Fest website

Humpday Randomnimity

Bonnaroo made some line-up additions:

Cat Power
Zappa Plays Zappa
The Disco Biscuits
MSTRKRFT
Chromeo

Decent additions, but only the electronic acts get me excited. This is what we want.

Sasquatch Music Festival, the big daddy Memorial Day fest that goes down at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington state, just released a line-up:

R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / Say Hi / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / “Awesome” / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers

That’s a hell of a line-up and now I’m really considering going to this. The Gorge is considered by many as the coolest venue in the US. Tickets are reasonably priced and go on sale Saturday March 8th. More details on their website.

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Monday Mash-Up

Kid Rock got arrested Saturday night after his show here in Atlanta at a Dekalb Waffle House for beating up a customer.

Japanese metal experimentalists Boris will be doing a free in-store performance at Criminal Records at 4pm today, and then playing at The Earl tonight. I highly recommend checking them out.

Boris : Pink : Farewell
Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter‘s solo project) has released a tracklist of the new album due out next year.

Mike Patton will be the voice of Bionic Commando in a video game.

Dinosaur Jr will be in Athens, Ga at The 40 Watt on December 3rd.

Death Cab For Cutie‘s Ben Walla got jacked by US Homeland Security. They confiscated a hard drive he had been using to work on his upcoming solo album.

Band Of Horses had a line-up change.

The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer each have a new album coming out early next year.

Watch the Panda Bear unreleased DVD People Party:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Interview:

Queens Of The Stone Age on Letterman:

Klaxons on Conan:

Here’s Tori Amos on Craig Ferguson:

Arsis has finished up their new album due out next year. They will be playing with Enslaved and Atlanta’s From Exile on November 2nd at the Masquerade:

You can download an mp3 of Diplo remixing Black Lips “Veni Vidi Vici” here.

While I was at Echo Project, I saw a bunch of flyers for a 99x show with Modest Mouse, Silverchair, and Silversun Pickups on December 16th, but I can find no existence of this on the internets.

Mute Math on Conan: