Dethklok Free Show Tommorrow Night! Explosions In The Sky, Fiery Furnaces, Holy Fuck, Super Furry Animals Next Year!

There are so many concert announcements going on right now it’s hard to keep up. The fictional band Dethklok from the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse will be playing at Center Stage Thursday night. The first 450 people in line get in the show. Thanks to It Covers The Hillsides on the heads up. Get a taste:

Explosions In The Sky are returning to Atlanta April 13th, this time at The Variety Playhouse. Here’s 22 minutes of EITS bliss:

And what promises to be an amazing show, Fiery Furnaces, Holy Fuck, and Super Furry Animals are all playing a show together at The Variety Playhouse on January 30th. Super Furry Animals are dropping a new album on January 22nd, The Fiery Furnaces‘ Widow City from earlier this year is one of the year’s best, and I’ve been jamming the new Holy Fuck album, LP, like crazy lately. It is some top tier psychedelic dance music. Check it:

Holy Fuck : LP : Royal Gregory
Holy Fuck : LP : The Pulse

Humpnight Randomnimity

Three interesting shows this week i didn’t mention earlier are:

I can’t decide which Saturday night show to hit up after Joanna Newsom, so I’ll probably coin flip or something. With the Thursday night show, I guess I’m going to offer the dissenting opinion relative to all the other blogs in town that I would recommend going to Smashing Pumpkins and Explosions in The Sky over the free Star Bar thing. I know Black Kids are somewhat local and blowing up thanks to the ‘fork, but I’ve listened to that EP a few times and it just doesn’t stand out to me that much. It’s not bad or anything, but it sounds like a dancier ripoff of the whole Swan Lake spectrum of indie-rock and its just not exciting me that much relative to all the other stuff I’ve been listening to lately. Also, I caught Judi Chicago last month, and as much as I hate ripping on locals, I have to call it like it is, and I think they just pretty much suck. Just because you perform crappy music in your underwear doesn’t make up for the crappy music you are performing. I mean, the show is free so it’s probably worth going if you don’t have the cash for the other show, but I just wanted to get my opinion out there.

Now I’ll cool off the haterade and give you a nice PJ Harvey vid:

Back to the haterade, Band of Horses are doing 3 New Years shows at the Earl and tickets go on sale Friday. BOH, or “Fisher Price, My First My Morning Jacket” as I like to call them, are another band that I think receive a little too much praise relative to what every other band on Earth is doing right now. Cease To Begin isn’t a bad album or anything, but it’s not a great one either.

Someone who is worthy of the hype is coming to Eyedrum in January:

The onslaught of My Bloody Valentine reunion rumors continue.

Want to see what Dethklok look and sound like live? Here you go:

Here’s a The Octopus Project vid:

In case you had forgotten how awesome Marnie Stern is or you are a new ohmpark reader, here’s a vid:

Between The Buried And Me are an awesome metal band that i’ve recently been jamming alot:

In case you don’t know, Radiohead did some crazy webcast stuff last week. I’ve got a huge-ass article planned as i haven’t really talked about the new album much and i’m still listening to it like crazy. Until i get a chance to go on an In Rainbows lovefest, here’s my favourite song from it done live on the webcast:

Monday Night Mash-Up

Smashing Pumpkins have announced more tour dates and will be in Athens, Ga November 7th.

Ghostface Killah is doing a college campus tour sponsored by Adult Swim and will be at Georgia Tech October 10th. …And You Will Know Of From The Trail Of Dead will also be going on an Adult Swim sponsored tour with Dethklok of the series Metalocalypse. There are no dates for that yet and I’m not sure really how a band on a cartoon will play live shows.

Voodoo Festival, which we will be covering in New Orleans, LA at the end of October, has released a schedule.

Cable and Tweed have a review of the Black Lips, Selmanaires, and Coathangers show in Athens, Ga last week complete with live mp3s from the night. They also have a Do Make Say Think live show up.

Confessions Of A Music Addict have a great preview of the upcoming Atlantis Music Festival in Atlanta this week.

Band Of Horses will be at The Park Tavern in Piedmont Park October 14th.

Albums coming out tommorrow that I’m going to check out:





Get some nice PJ Harvey tracks here.

John Stewart will be hosting the 2008 Oscars.

Here’s some videos:

M.I.A.:

Modest Mouse:

Arcade Fire :( ACL Fest 2007):