Atlanta Bands & Artists On Twitter

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I tried to compile as many local bands and artists that I could who tweet, but if you notice anyone left off, please add them to the comments.


Atlanta Musicians On Twitter:

Abby Go Go @abbygogorocks
Adam Bruneau @adambruneau
Adron @adronshows
All The Saints @allthesaints
Anna Kramer @annakramermusic
Attention System @AttentionSystem
Attractive Eighties Women @aewsome
Black Lips @TheBlackLips
Bret Phillips (13 Day Mission) @bretwp
Can Can @cancanband
Carnivores @carnivoresatl
Club Awesome @clubawesome
CJ (A Fight To The Death) @CJ_AFTTD
Dead Confederate @DeadConfederate
Dres Tha Beatnik @dresthabeatnik
Envie @enviemusic
From Exile @FROMEXILE
Gringo Star @Gringo_Star_Atl
Janelle Monae @JanelleMonae
Judi Chicago @JudiChicago
Jungol @Jungol
Justin Sias (Los Buenos, Batata Doce) @justinsias
Le Castle Vania @LeCastleVania
Lindsay Appel @LindsayAppel
It’s Elephant’s @Itselephants
Lions And Scissors @lionsandscissor
Mastodon @cracktheskye
Nerd Parade @nerdparade
Nerdkween @nerdkween
Nigredo @nigredomusic
Noot d’ Noot @nootDnoot
Odist @ODISTMUSIC
Pistolero @Pistolero_Atl
Randy Garcia @rgmuse
Reklein @Reklein
Slushco @SlushcoMusic
Small Reactions @smallreactions
Snowden @SnowdenMusic
Spy Magnet @spymagnet
Tealights @TealightsBand
The Cogburns @TheCogburns
The Constellations @_constellations
The Goldest @TheGoldest
The Orphins @The_Orphins
This Piano Plays Itself @ThisPianoPlays
Thy Mighty Contract @thymighty
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun @TodaytheMoon
Twin Tigers @twintigers
Untied States @UntiedStates
Venice Is Sinking @veniceissinking

Guide To The End Of 2009 Album Releases

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The 2009 record release season pretty much comes to an end this week, but here is everything left to come out this year that I’m interested in checking out. I also linked each release with the best possible preview or review of it that I could find, so click on anything you’re interested in and learn about it:

October 20:

Atlas Sound Logos
Dark Meat Truce Opium
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Excepter Black Beach
Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Summer of Fear
OOIOO Armonico Hewa
The Roots How I Got Over
Russian Circles Geneva
Sufjan Stevens The BQE
Tickley Feather Hors d’Oeuvres
White Denim Fits
White Rainbow New Clouds

October 24:

Untied States Instant Everything, Constant Nothing

October 27:

Between The Buried And Me The Great Misdirect
Devendra Banhart What Will Be
Good Graces Bring on the Tambourines!
Jesu Opiate Sun
Pelican What We All Come To Need
Pyramids w/ Nadja S/T

November 3:

Efterklang and the Danish National Chamber Orchestra Performing Parades
Jookabox Dead Zone Boys
Morrissey Swords

November 10:

Asobi Seksu Rewolf
Bibio : The Apple & The Tooth
The Notwist Sturm
Tori Amos Midwinter Graces

November 17:

Real Estate Real Estate

December 8:

Animal Collective Fall Be Kind

Fall Record Release Guide 2009

September 15:

Neon Indian Psychic Chasms
Muse The Resistance
Q-Tip Kamaal the Abstract
Sparklehorse & Fennesz In The Fishtank 15
The Dodos Time To Die

September 22:

Castanets Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts
Girls Album
Islands Vapours
Mum Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Sea Wolf White Water, White Bloom
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Higher Than The Stars
Thom Yorke Pulled Apart By Horses/The Hollow Earth
Times New Viking Born Again Revisited
Twilight Sad Forget the Night Ahead
WHY? Eskimo Snow

September 29:

Harkens The Hands Askew Thou
Panther Entropy
The Avett Brothers I and Love and You
Chromeo DJ-Kicks

October 6:

A Place to Bury Strangers Exploding Head
Air Love 2
Built To Spill There Is No Enemy
Califone All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Daniel Johnston Is And Always Was
Evangelista Prince of Truth
Jemina Pearl Break It Up
Lou Barlow Goodnight Unknown
No Age Losing Feeling
Port O’Brien Threadbare
Sufjan Stevens Run Rabbit Run
The Clientele Bonfires on the Heath
The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come
The Raveonettes In and Out of Control

October 13:

Baroness Blue Record
Broadcast TBD EP
Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights
The Flaming Lips Embryonic

October 20:

White Rainbow New Clouds
Atlas Sound Logos
Do Make Say Think Other Truths
Excepter Black Beach
Flight of the Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky
Fuck Buttons Tarot Sport
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Summer of Fear
Russian Circles Geneva
Sufjan Stevens The BQE
Tickley Feather Hors d’Oeuvres

October 27:

Good Graces Bring on the Tambourines!
Pelican What We All Come To Need
Jesu Opiate Sun
Pyramids w/ Nadja S/T
Between The Buried And Me The Great Misdirect

Fall Festival Guide 2009

The summer may be just about over, but the festival season is still going on strong. I’m going to break down the rest of the best until the new year:

Bumbershoot (Seattle, WA) September 5 – 7

The Lowdown: This Northwestern festival has been a pillar of the US city based music and art festival scene for almost 40 years. I’ve always wanted to go to this and have heard so many good things from people who have.

Best Bets: Modest Mouse, De La Soul, No Age, Holy Fuck, Gang Gang Dance, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mt St Helens Vietnam Band, Say Hi, Akron/Family, Metric, Franz Ferdinand

The Verdict: Would be a great way to spend Labor Day Weekend, but a little too far for too little a lineup.

Trinumeral (Horse Shoe, NC) September 9 – 13

The Lowdown: Beginning January 1st, 2001, this festival has been held every year when the day, month, and year numbers match up (9/9/09). In addition to the date of the event changing every year, the festival has taken place in various locations previously including Atlanta. It tends to be a cultural nexus between Jambands, Electronic music, and Hip-hop.

Best Bets: Béla Fleck, RJD2, Pnuma Trio, Gift of Gab, Jungol

The Verdict: I would imagine that this is a very fun event, but the price tag is a bit too high for the music.

All Tomorrow’s Parties (Monticello, NY) September 11 – 13

The Lowdown: The world’s greatest festival franchise returns for a second year in their now annual intimate get together at a weird country club in upstate New York. I went last year and it was probably the coolest fest I have ever experienced. Most definitely the best fest lineup left this year.

Best Bets: The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Crystal Castles, Deerhoof, Boris, Deerhunter, Autolux, Atlas Sound, Akron/Family, No Age

The Verdict: Anyone not going to this is a sucker.

Monolith (Morrison, CO) September 12 – 13

The Lowdown: This will be the fest’s third year of operation out of the beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheatre. It boasts an impressive gathering of middle tier acts.

Best Bets: The Mars Volta, Of Montreal, Phoenix, Health, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Royal Bangs, Neon Indian, Starfucker, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit

The Verdict: A great excuse to check out one of the US’s best large outdoor venues.

Click here to read the entire post…

Summer Record Release Guide

6/23

Bibio Ambililance Avenue
Birds of Avalon Uncanny Valley
Deastro Moondagger
Deer Tick Born on Flag Day
Dinosaur Jr. Farm
Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Foreign Born Person to Person
Regina Spektor Far
Sunset Rubdown Dragonslayer
The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death
The Mars Volta Octahedron
Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship

6/26

It’s Elephant’s Gets Along

6/30

Moby Wait For Me
Wilco Wilco (The Album)

7/7

Bowerbirds Upper Air
Oneida Rated O
Son Volt American Central Dust
The Minus 5 Killingsworth
Tiny Vipers Life On Earth

7/14

The Octopus Project Golden Beds EP

7/21

Fiery Furnaces I’m Going Away
Portugal The Man The Satanic Satanist
Riceboy Sleeps Riceboy Sleeps

7/28

YACHT See Mystery Lights

8/04

Circulatory System Signal Morning
Fruit Bats The Ruminant Band
Sian Alice Group Troubled, Shaken etc.
Throw Me The Statue Creaturesque

8/11

Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

8/18

Destroyer Bay of Pigs EP
Lil Wayne Rebirth
Mute Math Armistice
The Postmarks Memoirs At the End of the World

8/25

Mew No More Stories…
The Arctic Monkeys Humbug
Zechs Marquise Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare

9/08

Blk Jks After Robots
HEALTH Get Color
Yo La Tengo Popular Songs

9/15

Muse The Resistance
The Dodos Time To Die

9/22

Castanets Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts
Islands Vapours
Pearl Jam Backspacer
Porcupine Tree The Incident
Twilight Sad Forget the Night Ahead
WHY? Eskimo Snow

Summer Festival Guide 2009

With Bonnaroo a week away, I’m totally in summer festie mode now. So I figured I would break down everything worth considering left to fest this season and evaluate whether it is worth your economic stimulus:

June 4 – 7: Wakarusa (Ozark, AR)

The lowdown: A jamband heavy festival formerly based in Kansas, sometimes called the “Poor Man’s Bonnaroo”, has been happening since 2004.

Best bets: STS9, Gov’t Mule, Les Claypool, Buckethead, Galactic, The Hood Internet

The verdict: Only for hippies, but definitely a fun one.

June 5 – 13: Riverbend Festival (Chattanooga, TN)

The lowdown: Huge corporate city festival happening since 1981.

Best bets: Dead Confederate, Willie Nelson, The Wailers, The B-52′s

The verdict: Worth checking out if you happen to accidentally end up in Chattanooga.

June 5 – 6: Wanee Music Festival (Live Oak, FL)

The lowdown: Allman Brothers affiliated festival heavy in southern jambands that has been happening since 2005.

Best bets: Allman Brothers, Gov’t Mule, Umphrey’s McGee, Keller Williams, The Doobie Brothers, Buddy Guy

The verdict: Great if you want to just chill out on some headies brah.

June 6 – 7: Virginia-Highland Summerfest (Atlanta, GA)

The lowdown: This will be the 26th year of this typical Atlanta neighborhood fest.

Best bets: The Constellations, Manchester Orchestra, Cowbow Mouth

The verdict: I hope you’re not going here for the music.

June 11 – 14: Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (Manchester, TN)

The lowdown: “The superbowl of music festivals” has been the flagship of this decade’s golden age of festivals.

Best bets: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Phish, Nine inch Nails, Mars Volta, TV On The Radio, Of Monteal, Bon Iver

The verdict: Wouldn’t miss it for anything.

June 25 – 28: Athfest (Athens, GA)

The lowdown: The Athens music scene’s greatest showcase.

Best bets: Twin Tigers, Cinemechanica, A Armada, Pegasuses-XL, We Versus the Shark, Dead Confederate

The verdict: I wish this wasn’t the same weekend as Corndogorama.

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Ohmpark’s Guide To Twitter & Musicians

The social networking website Twitter has blown up hard in 2009, so hard that it is already experiencing a Vampire Weekend-esque backlash. To illustrate just how intense Twittermania ’09 has been, the site grew by 33% in January, 55% in February, and 131% in March of this year. I first got introduced to Twitter by some of my tech savvy friends a little over a year ago, and back then having a few thousand followers was unreal, and now that douchey Punk’d guy is closing in on 2 million. But before the hype, the site started out as an efficient communication network for web 2.0, early adapter bloggy types. When I first started using it, the website would crash and go down every single day and i still liked it. Suddenly in 2009 the thing has gone mainstream with Oprah and CNN using it, so since I have been a fan of Twitter for some time now, I figured I would talk about how my music obsessed self uses it to help out the clueless.

First for the noobs, Twitter is micro-blogging. You post something that is 140 characters or less, and people “following” you can see what you post. It is basically a glorified status messages, like what Facebook, Gmail, or AOL use. Here is a good article tracing back the history of status messages. So what is so great about a status message website?

140 characters may seem like a small amount of data to be meaningful, but a tweet can pack a serious punch. Sure there are people who tweet some really boring garbage, but, you don’t have to follow them. And yes, the word “tweet” gets really annoying fast, but there cool things possible with it. I’ve seen news stories broken by people on twitter because other journalists couldn’t get access (think Gaza, India, Madagascar). Thanks to url shorteners, Twitter is used heavily to refer people to more extensive content of interest. If you are following the right people, you basically have an RSS feeder with editorial. In otherwords, Twitter helps you keep up with all the cool things going on in Internetland. For example, I follow many larger music news sites on Twitter, and those sites tweet about news stories I am interested in so I don’t miss anything.

Probably my favourite thing is, unlike Facebook and Myspace, Twitter connects people based on the content of what they are talking about, rather than static information contained in a profile. I don’t know about you, but most of my Facebook friends end up being people I already know in real life, like random people I barely even knew in High School and could honestly care less about now. I have rarely, if ever, made a new, worthwhile connection through Facebook. In contrast, most of the people I follow on Twitter I did not know before I connected with them in the virtual world. I have made so many great connections with interesting people via Twitter who I wouldn’t even know existed without it.

With respect to bands and musicians, there is a lot of potential in Twitter. Fans always yearn to have meaningful connections with the artists they love, and with technology those artists can give their fans unprecedented access. A great example of getting the most out of new/social media was Deerhunter‘s utilization of a blog, which expanded their fanbase and strengthened the connection between them and the fans they already had. Exactly how artists can make Twitter work for them will depend on the creativity of the artist in using it, but there is no doubt in my mind that many artists will benefit from using it. Others agree.

So for those of you that are either artists looking for good examples of how to use Twitter, or you just want some cool people to follow, here are my favourite 3 tweetmaster musicians and why I enjoy following them:


Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear @EdwardDroste

Droste seems to be the most genuine, accessible musician on Twitter. He talks about random things he and the band are doing. He actually responds to random people. He’s everything a stalker could hope for. One of the fun recent things followers have been able to enjoy is his attempt to get Snoop Dogg to remix/collaborate with Grizzly Bear:

Just gonna keep trying to get snoop’s attention with my twitter spirit. Where there’s a will there’s a way. Right @snoopdogg?

It is really meta to stalk someone as they are stalking someone else.




Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails @trent_reznor

It is hard for me to think of another musician who I enjoy hearing talk about things more than Trent Reznor. He always has a very insightful opinion. He also utilizes technology better than anyone, so naturally he is a Twitter superstar. He has been giving away backstage passes to fans via Twitter. He has been talking about his struggles with Apple over a NIN Iphone app. Here are a few choice tweets:

Kutcher / King / DiddyDumDum on CNN doing everything in their power to make Twitter seem as un-cool as possible.

…now maybe I shouldn’t have taken that fourth viagra…

starting to lose control of body functions, may have just pulled a Fergie and peed in my pants a little.




Nick Thorburn of Islands @NickfromIslands

My favourite twittering artist is Nick Thorburn. He comes up with really random, hilarious things to say that make me laugh out loud all of the time. The dude could be as good a comedian as he is a musician. Recently he posted a bunch of fake covers to the next Islands record:

http://twitpic.com/3xi7n – NEW “ISLANDS” ALBUM COVER + TITLE REVEALED!!!!

http://twitpic.com/40c0m – “ISLANDS” NEW ALBUM + TITLE REVEALED FOR REAL THIS TIME!!!!!!!

http://twitpic.com/43rpf – FOMGF! “ISLANDS” NEW ALBUM COVER IS FINALIZED!!! THX FOR VOTING FOR YR FAVOURITE!! WZF!

Here are some other funny tweets:

Went to the extenz party at sxsw last night, and i thought that the line up would have been, you know, bigger

Apparently if i go to exit 27, make left, go to roses parking lot and leave lights on, i will get a blow job.

I’m so behind the times I just now got a case of the SARS

Fuck, you know you’ve made it when Denny’s is following you.




Ok, so if you are into music and are looking for some folks to follow, here is some reference material for you:




International/National artists I recommend following:

Akron/Family @akronfamily
Andrew Bird @andrewbird
Blitzen Trapper @BlitzenTrapper
Evangelicals @evangelicals
Final Fantasy @owenpallett
My Brightest Diamond @zosima
Pearl Jam @PearlJam
Sonic Youth @thesonicyouth
St. Vincent @st_vincent
The Decemberists @colinmeloy
Tokyo Police Club @TokyoPoliceClub


Atlanta Bands on Twitter:

Adam Bruneau of Kiwis @adambruneau
All The Saints @allthesaints
Attention System @AttentionSystem
Attractive Eighties Women @aewsome
Club Awesome @clubawesome
CJ of A Fight To The Death @mediahostage
Dead Confederate @DeadConfederate
Dres Tha Beatnik @dresthabeatnik
Eric of From Exile @ericguenther
Janelle Monae @JanelleMonae
Judi Chicago @JudiChicago
Jungol @Jungol
Le Castle Vania @LeCastleVania
It’s Elephant’s @Itselephants
Lions And Scissors @lionsandscissor
Nerd Parade @nerdparade
Nerdkween @nerdkween
Tealights @TealightsBand
The Constellations @_constellations
The Orphins @The_Orphins
This Piano Plays Itself @ThisPianoPlays
Thy Mighty Contract @thymighty
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun @TodaytheMoon
Venice Is Sinking @veniceissinking


Atlanta Music Scene Tweeters I Recommend Following:

Atlanta Music Guide @atlantamusic
Bean Summer @Beansummer
Cable & Tweed @cableandtweed
Criminal Records @criminalrecords
Dominick Brady @DomBrady
Drive A Faster Car @driveafastercar
Drunken Unicorn @drunkenunicorn
Eskimo Kiss @eskimokiss
Fear Of Arthropods @juliareidy
Have You Heard @adamtrimble @usersname
Indie ATL @indieATL
Indie Music Tech @duncanfreeman
Kiss Atlanta @kissatlanta
OK Productions @OKProductions
Pine Magazine @pinemagazine
Premier Events @premierevents
Star Bar @StarBarAtlanta
The Earl @EARL_EAV
The Happenstance @thehappenstance
The Leila @theleila
Ticket Alternative @MyTATix
Tight Bros Network @tightbros
Vacation Gallery @vacationgallery


And obviously, we are tweeting too:

Davy Minor @Ohmpark
Clint Miller @badclinty


I’m sure I’m leaving some folks out, so who do you like to follow on Twitter? Leave your suggestions in the comments…

Early Summer Album Releases

Here is a list of records coming in the next couple of months that either I have already heard and think are good or albums I’m excited about listening to for the first time:

5/12:

Acid Mothers Temple: Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixer
Passion Pit: Manners

5/19:

Clues: Clues
Iron & Wine: Around the Well
Jason Lytle: Yours Truly, the Commuter
Jeffrey Lewis & The Jackals: ‘Em Are I
White Rabbits: It’s Frightening

5/26:

Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us
Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest
The Paper Chase: Someday This Could All Be Yours
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Tori Amos: Abnormally Attracted To Sin

6/8:

Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP

6/9:

Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca
So Many Dynamos: The Loud Wars
Sonic Youth: The Eternal

6/23:

Deastro: Moondagger
Dinosaur Jr.: Farm
Dream Theater: Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Foreign Born: Person to Person
Lil Wayne: Rebirth
Regina Spektor: Far
Sunset Rubdown: Dragonslayer
The Dear Hunter: Act III: Life and Death
The Mars Volta: Octahedron
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship

6/30:

Wilco: Wilco (The Album)

7/07:

Bowerbirds: Upper Air

7/21:

Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away
Portugal The Man: Satanic Satanist
Riceboy Sleeps: Riceboy Sleeps

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