A Random Mp3 Trilogy: Au, The Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhart
Photo by Daniel Addy
One of the more promising experimental pop bands to emerge in recent years is Portland Oregon’s Au. They just released their third consecutive EP. It is titled Versions, and is made up mostly of reworked songs from their first two releases. I usually don’t like rehash/remix EPs, but Au completely transforms their older material into something entirely new and equally as tremendous. Here is the first track, an original:
After At War With The Mystics I had completely lost faith in the Flaming Lips‘ future album making abilities, but it turns out I jumped off the bandwagon prematurely. Thankfully on Embryonic they took a sharp turn away from Mystics‘ stadium pop drivel and went back to where they really shine, being weird. Not every song on here is a home run, but even the misses at least contain some interesting components.
Photo by Lauren Dukoff
Devendra returns with yet another extraordinary effort, magically weaved together from seemingly normal, conservative musical elements. While he continues to move into more accessible territory stylistically, he still manages to retain that special intangible gift that sets him apart from the other billion folky singer songwriters. Freak scene purists may not be digging this one, but take it for what it is and I think it’s hard not to love.
- Posted by Davy Minor on November 5, 2009 at 7:19 am
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Humpday Randomnimity
TV On The Radio will be at The Tabernacle October 25th.
Jenny Lewis will be at The Variety Playhouse September 30th.
Atlas Sound is opening for the Stereolab show at The Variety Playhouse September 26th. Damn that show is gonna be awesome.
Deerhoof is going to be at The 40 Watt in Athens, GA Halloween night, but not coming to Atlanta. Well, I spent Halloween last year at The 40 Watt to see Of Montreal, so I guess this will be two in a row.
The Fiery Furnaces have a 51-track live album coming out by the end of August.
Another Fleetwood Mac reunion coming next year.
Best Buy started selling vinyl, started selling music from local and unsigned artists, and now will start selling musical instruments. Someone really hip must have got a promotion over there recently.
Iran is about to have its first concert involving a pop singer from the Western World in 30 years.
David Byrne and Brian Eno are dropping an album together in less than a month.
Tom Waits‘ recent show at The Fox Theater here in Atlanta is available at NPR.
Silver Jews documentary heading to DVD soon.
A new The Streets album due out in September.
My new favourite blog on the interwebs right now is Hipster Runoff. It is hilarious.
The ludicrously amazing line-up of My Bloody Valentine curated ATP Fest in New York just added Lightning Bolt and Les Savy Fav among others, and they still have tickets available. In case you don’t know what the best festival line-up of the year looks like, here you go:
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19TH – DON’T LOOK BACK
THURSTON MOORE PERFORMING PSYCHIC HEARTS »
TORTOISE PERFORMING MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE »
MEAT PUPPETS PERFORMING MEAT PUPPETS II »
BUILT TO SPILL PERFORMING PERFECT FROM NOW ON »
BARDO POND PERFORMING LAPSED »
PATTON OSWALT »
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20TH – CHOSEN BY ATP
FUCK BUTTONS »
LOW »
GROWING »
EDAN WITH GUEST DAGHA »
SHELLAC »
THEE SILVER MOUNT ZION ORCHESTRA »
THE DRONES »
POLVO »
WOODEN SHJIPS »
HARMONIA »
OM »
AUTOLUX »
APSE »
ALEXANDER TUCKER »
LES SAVY FAV »
LIGHTNING BOLT »
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST – CHOSEN BY MY BLOODY VALENTINE
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
DINOSAUR JR. »
LILYS »
YO LA TENGO »
MERCURY REV »
MOGWAI »
LE VOLUME COURBE »
BOB MOULD »
SPECTRUM »
GEMMA HAYES »
THE WOUNDED KNEES »
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE »
ROBIN GUTHRIE »
I can’t friggin wait.
Ok, videos:
Chromeo:
Devendra Banhart:
M83:
- Posted by Davy Minor on July 30, 2008 at 5:49 am
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Video Of The Day: The Eternal Children
Here’s a great documentary by David Kleijwegt on some musicians that I really dig, CocoRosie and Devendra Banhart. In the second video below, you’ll notice Antony touch on the current music revolution of this decade that I constantly espouse.
Part 1: Click here to read the entire post…
- Posted by Davy Minor on January 17, 2008 at 1:48 pm
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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:
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 13, 2007 at 5:04 am
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