Thursday Night In The A: The Fiery Furnaces

The Fiery Furnaces and White Rabbits will be hitting the Variety Playhouse tonight. I’ve been a Furnaces fan for a long time, but it’s taken me a while to get into their newest record, I’m Going Away. It is probably their most pop record to date, and it just felt too normal and ordinary at first for such a regularly strange band. But suddenly it is growing on me a lot, and even though I don’t prefer this approach from them, they have pulled it off excellently. They are playing in a different setup for this tour, plus they are turning their shows into Pro-Health Care Reform Rallies, so tonight should be interesting for sure. More reading about FF, including about their forthcoming Silent Record, can be found here.

The Fiery Furnaces : Ray Bouvier

The Fiery Furnaces : Keep Me In Dark

Buy Tickets for tonight’s show

Buy I’m Going Away

The Fiery Furnaces website


On The Road: Chicago

The midwest has been very kind to us so far. In St. Louis, TPPI played with a band called Target Market, who not only turned out to be the best band they’ve played with so far, but they were really cool, hospitable dudes that even coincidentally happened to be friends with So Many Dynamos (who I blogged about last time). We had a mini-rager at their house in southern Illinois.

Target Market : Highways
Target Market myspace

Chicago was also a very fun time. Birthday celebrations, family of the band coming out, and some old friends from the ATL made the night a serious party. We ended up camping on a rooftop overlooking the city and then having our tent destroyed at five in the morning by a hurricane strength thunderstorm. So far, I’m barely getting five hours of sleep a night and fatigue is starting to set in a little bit, but we’re all pushing hard and everyone is in great spirits still. We are about to take it to Michigan shortly, but for now, here is a mini-mix of Chicago artists:

Anathallo : Noni’s Field
Tortoise : Gigantes
Wilco : I’ll Fight
The Fiery Furnaces : The End Is Near
Andrew Bird : Anonanimal

Bonnaroo 2008 Friday (Day 2): The Sun, The Fiery Furnaces, The Free Beer Tent; This Is Why I’m Hott

Friday morning started about 4 hours after Thursday night ended for me with the sun making things too uncomfortable for me to sleep late. I grabbed some breakfast and got an early start on the day. I got to the media area to do some blogging and listen to the media orientation speech. They laid out everything we could and couldn’t do, and none of it really seemed to effect what I’m doing. I don’t have all access, but it seems like there are lots of artists in the media area doing interviews and such, so that has been really cool. I gave the guitarist from Minus The Bear some daps before catching some shows.

First up was The Fiery Furnaces. They did a set that was very similar to the set they did at The Variety Playhouse earlier this year, except this time they had a thimble player to make it a 5 piece. It was extremely tight and heavily weighted by Widow City songs, which I love. At some point a cardboard cutout of Eleanor made its way into the crowd, followed by other cardboard cutouts that I thought at first were the rest of the band, but then I saw one of them was Bradford Cox and realized they were from the Converse ad.


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Photos: Holy Fuck, The Fiery Furnaces, Super Furry Animals on 1-30-08 @ Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA

Holy Fuck

The Fiery Furnaces

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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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Ohmpark’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2007

2007 was an incredible year of music and there were so many albums I really liked that didn’t make this list. I noticed that most of the lists I pay attention to were very similar to one another this year as opposed to last year. Also, I’ve found myself in more of a disagreeance with those lists than last year. If there is any theme to be taken out of this list, I think it’s that I feel like too many great albums were underrated by the blogosphere elites, and that they were way in love with some albums I think are overrated. This list represents my personal assertions more so than the rest of the Ohmpark crew, but I worked hard to get every one’s opinions and influences in this thing. Feel free to comment on how much you hate or love it. I feel like every album on this is an essential one from last year, so go listen to some new music:

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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

Monday Mash-Up

Here’s a snippet of that new, new Outkast:

Da Art of Storytellin’ Part 4
Cool shows I recommend checking out this week:

Tuesday:

MJQ CONCOURSE: aesop rock, black moth super rainbow, dj signify 21+ (http://www.tightbros.net – get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)

Variety Playhouse: of montreal, grand buffet

Wednesday:

DRUNKEN UNICORN: prefuse 73, voice of the seven woods, blank blue 18+ 9:00PM (http://www.thedrunkenunicorn.net – get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)

The Fiery Furnaces are awesome and here’s a new vid:

It looks like My Bloody Valentine is really going to do this reunion thing.

Acid Mother Temple will be at the Earl on March 20th.

New Orleans’ Jazz Fest has announced a few headliners (The Neville Brothers, Tim McGraw, and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly) and some dates(April 25th-June 4th). Full line-up announcement will come next year.

The White Stripes and Beck are working together on some stuff.

I just got hipped to Next To Last Festival in Athens, Ga in a few weeks and it looks interesting.

Sigur Ros are working on another album.

See what Animal Collective are cooking up for 2008.

Some more vids:

Grizzly Bear:

Division Day:

Phosphorescent (Live at The Earl):

Castanets:

Iron And Wine covering Radiohead at Pitchfork Fest:

Soulsavers:

Akron Family:


What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Today’s theme, IRCILFs:

PJ Harvey

Having an artist you’ve been a fan of for a long time drop an album that completely reawakens your fandom for that artist is such a cool thing. PJ and me go way back, and I had sort of come to the conclusion that maybe she was another victim of losing your edge as you get older and that the sort of music she used to make required a youthful angst to be phenomenal. That may or may not be true, but instead of trying to recapture her roots (Like her slightly unsuccessful attempt on Uh Huh Her), she went in a completely new direction with an album packed full of piano ballads. I was starting to doubt I was listening to the right album at first listen until I heard her sing the album title. It’s like since Cat Power decided to be Wynonna Judd, PJ Harvey decided to pick-up where Chan left off after You Are Free. The results are an amazing piece of work if you don’t have any pre-conceived notions of what you want to hear from her. I’ve been jamming it hard and you should too:

The Devil

Dear Darkness

Buy White Chalk Here

PJ Harvey Myspace

The Fiery Furnaces

Another musical act I used to be obsessed with but sort of fell off the bandwagon is The Fiery Furnaces. As much as I respect the art of Rehearsing My Choir, I could never really get into it. And I don’t dislike Bitter Tea, but it didn’t really do it for me either. But their newest release, Widow City, is everything i loved from this band and more. When I first discovered these guys at Coachella, I remember just being blown away by the ridiculous amount of twists and turns in the music, switching time signatures and melodies every few seconds, but still retaining a sound that contained pop sensibilities. Widow City is a return to walking between art and pop and they do it so well:

Ex- Guru

Clear Signal From Cairo


Buy Widow City here

The Fiery Furnaces Myspace

Humpday Randomnimity

The Echo Project has revealed what artists are playing which days. I also just realized Elevado is on the line-up. I’ve been jamming their latest release hard lately:

Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Song Of A Purple Man

There’s a bunch of cool stuff going on at Islands/The Unicorns camp.

Islands : Return to The Sea : Swans (left After Death)

Somebody died at a recent Smashing Pumpkins show.

ok, here’s bunch of great random tracks for today cuz that’s the kind of mood i’m in:

Caribou : Andorra : After Hours

The Fiery Furnaces : Gallowbird’s Bark : Tropical Ice-Land

Cyann & Ben : Sweet Beliefs : Let It Play

Eddie Vedder : Into The Wild : Society

Grandaddy : The Early Demos : You Want Me Back

Friday Free-Style

Battles will be at the Drunken Unicorn June 15th.

The Fiery Furnaces will be at the Earl on July 7th. Here’s a vid:

June 1st Deerhunter, The Carbonas, Selmanaires, and The Coathangers will be playing at the Whirly Ball in Roswell, Ga. You can gain free admission to the event by going to Criminal Records and picking up a copy of the Whirlyball 7″, featuring songs from all of these artists.

Modest Mouse‘s Eric Judy has been missing some shows mysteriously.

Jam Cruise 6 has announced its line-up. The drug-induced boatride festival lasts 5 days and leaves Ft. Lauderdale on January 4th, 2008.

Aesop Rock‘s new album, None Shall Pass, is due out August 28th.

The Go! Team has a new album coming out this year.

Some Smashing Pumpkins stuff got stolen and they still have no non-festival US dates.

Cee-lo is starting his own record label. Here’s a vid:

Tori Amos is working on a Broadway musical.

New Order have split up again.

Marilyn Manson and Slayer will be at Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre on July 28th.

The Summer Slaughter Tour featuring Necrophagist, Decapitated, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation, As Blood Runs Black, Arsis, The Faceless, Ion dissonance, Beneath the Massacre will be at The Masquerade on June 6th.

Here’s some shows I recommend for the weekend:

Friday:

Son Volt, The High Strung at the Variety Playhouse.

Luigi, The Jupiter Watts, Parade at Lenny’s.

Lady Sovereign, Matt And Kim, King Kong (Ethan Buckler from Slint) at the Drunken Unicorn.

Saturday:

The Clientele, Beach House, The Close at The Earl.

Ben Gibbord (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service), David Bazan at Center Stage. (Sold Out)

Cypress Hill, Galactic, Sick Puppies, The Zac Brown Band at Centennial Park.

Interviews:

Here’s a new video from Air:

Here’s a new !!! video: