Ohmpark Mixtape #11: An Autumn Mix

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Yo La Tengo : Here To Fall
No Age : Losing Feeling
Sian Alice Group : Through Air Over Water
Health : We Are Water
Neon Indian : Terminally Chill
Bear In Heaven : Dust Cloud
Sea Wolf : White Water, White Bloom
Baroness : Swollen And Halo
Porcupine Tree : Time Flies
Karen O and The Kids : All Is Love

Harvest Of Hope Festival Day 2

I started out the day hanging out with my neighbors at camp, who were all cool peeps. It turned out some of them were also there as press. It took me a while to secure my creds and power up my equipment, so the first band I saw was Deerhunter. The core members performed as a 4-piece and they played 2 new songs in a set that was heavy in older stuff. It was a very good show that finished off with a beautiful noise jam. The second video below is the first new song they played, but to perfectly honest, I thought it was a little boring. The other new one was great though:


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Harvest Of Hope Schedule

Sched.org has the Harvest Of Hope Festival schedule, and it looks pretty good. The Sunday night hip-hop superjam is going to be incredible. You can access the full schedule here. I’m not going to post the entire thing, but here are some highlights I am most excited about:

Friday:

5:00pm Grand Buffet
6:45pm The Mae Shi
7:15pm King Khan & The Shrines
8:15pm Tokyo Police Club
9:45pm Girl Talk

Saturday:

11:30am Lymbyc Systym
2:00pm Deerhunter
3:15pm Health
5:45pm John Vanderslice
6:45pm The Mountain Goats
8:15pm Tilly & The Wall

Sunday:

11:30am Summerbirds In The Cellar
1:35pm Harlem Shakes
3:10pm Inspectah Deck
3:45pm Holy Fuck
4:15pm Murs
5:20pm Kool Keith
6:15pm Ra Ra Riot
6:25pm Diplo
7:45pm KRS-One
8:15pm Black Kids
9:05pm GZA
10:00pm The National
10:00pm GZA + KRS-One + Keith Murray + Kool Keith


Harvest Of Hope Website

See you there!




Lymbyc Systym : Narita
Health : Tabloid Sores
John Vanderslice : Manual
Harlem Shakes : Strictly Game
Holy Fuck : Lovely Allen
Murs : Everything

What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

While I have been gallivanting around for the last month, hott new albums just keep on dropping. I’m abridging an already succinct segment to keep up. Here’s three episodes of What The Hell shrink wrapped together. Since I am a big fan of the run-on sentence, I give you micro-reviews of my summer soundtrack so far:

First up, some artists whose sounds characterize the best and brightest of this decade:

Animal Collective (Baltimore, MD)

One of the greatest bands of this generation offer up 25 more minutes of bliss.

(BUY Water Curses)(Myspace) Animal Collective : Water Curses

No Age (Los Angeles, CA)

2008 hypelicious duo that lives up to its praises, so don’t miss out on one of the best albums of the year so far.

(BUY Nouns)(Myspace) No Age : Teen Creeps

Excepter (Brooklyn, NY)

Electronic noise stuff that is as fun as it is creative and weird.

(BUY Debt Dept.)(Myspace) Excepter : Kill People

Pyramids (Denton, TX)

Post-rock that actually lives up to that genre’s ethic of breaking down conventional song structures rather than sounding like everything else, so pick up a favourite album of mine so far this year and blast it.

(BUY Pyraminds)(Myspace) Pyramids : This House Is Like Any Other World

Russian Circles (Chicago, IL)

Think Pelican except tighter, more epic, and in power-trio form.

(BUY Station)(Myspace) Russian Circles : Campaign

Ok, now here’s some dance music for those long summer nights:

Health (Los Angeles, CA)

Health‘s debut full-length from last year gets remixed into a perfect dance-noise album.

(BUY Disco)(Myspace) Health : Triceratops (Acid Girls Remix A)

Crystal Castles (Toronto, ON)

These controversial Canadians are making dance songs that sound fresh and interesting.

(BUY Crystal Castles)(Myspace) Crystal Castles : Crime Wave (Crystal Castles v. Health)

Femme Fatality (St. Louis, MO)

These guys are like the Eminem of the dance-rock world, and while not all of this album is top-notch, when they hit it right it’s really fun.

(BUY One’s Not Enough)(Myspace) Femme Fatality : Still Alive

Girl Talk (Pittsburgh, PA)

The king of the ridiculous ADD party-mash-up album ups the ante again.

(BUY Feed The Animals)(Myspace) Girl Talk : In Step

And then some indie-rock with an alt-country twang:

Silver Jews (Nasheville, TN)

Brilliant songwriting that makes an ancient pop genre sound new and intriguing.

(BUY Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)(Myspace) Silver Jews : Suffering Jukebox

Bowerbirds (Raleigh, NC)

I missed this 2007 gem, but it got a recent re-release with bonus tracks, so make sure you catch it too.

(BUY Hymns For A Dark Horse)(Myspace) Bowerbirds : Hooves

Rotary Downs (New Orleans, LA)

This album is like Mellow Gold era Beck meets Kerosene Hat era Cracker meets Pavement.

(BUY Long After The Thrill)(Myspace) Rotary Downs : C’mon, Take A Hit

Ok, all new heavy rotation list coming.

Humpday Randomnimity

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out last week for our show at WonderRoot. Royal Bangs, This Piano Plays Itself, and Nomen Novum all put down fabulous performances. We video taped everything and will have that, as well as all the Bonnaroo footage I got, available soon.

Get the new Girl Talk album here.

Silver Jews will be at The Variety Playhouse September 13th.

Dead Confederate‘s CD release show will be at The Earl September 20th.

Fag Static‘s debut LP comes out July 12th.

Tilly And The Wall and The Ruby Suns will be at The Variety Playhouse July 24th. Don’t miss this one!

Wolf Parade will be at The Variety Playhouse July 28th.

Black Kids will be at The Earl September 23rd.

Mogwai will be at The Variety Playhouse September 15th.

Stereolab will be at The Variety Playhouse September 26th.

Dr. Dog will be at The Earl September 6th.

Tegan And Sara will be at The Tabernacle September 30th.

Conor Oberst is touring but the closest he is coming to Atlanta is Tennessee in August.

A Place To Bury Strangers and Sian Alice Group will be at The Drunken Unicorn October 18th.

The Shins are releasing their next album on their own label.

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are releasing their next album (January 2009) om their own new label.

Smashing Pumpkins are planning a Gish box set re-release and a tour based around it.

Festival Happenings:

Athens Popfest schedule up

All Good schedule up

Lollapalooza schedule up and late night shows announced

Voodoo announced line-up

Austin City Limits schedule up

Zach Hill video (really awesome, watch this one!):

Lil Wayne on Jimmy Kimmel:

HEALTH live at ATJ Fest:

And for laughs Trey Anastasio (Phish) graduating from drug court:

What Up In The ATL?

Sunday I went to The Earl for Dunch and caught The Jupiter Watts doing a really nice, chill performance:

Check out this video of Mastodon in the studio working on their follow up album to 2006′s Blood Mountain:

Deerhunter are doing a show in New York this weekend where they will play the new album they are currently recording, Microcastle, in its entirety. I really hope they do the same thing here in the A soon.

The Lasch will be at Lenny’s tonight.

Tomorrow night the place to be is The Drunken Unicorn for HEALTH, Club Of Rome, and One Hand Loves The Other.

HEALTH : Triceratops
Club of Rome : Let’s Go USA
Thursday night you can catch Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) at The Variety Playhouse or go local and check out The Howlies, The Orphins, and The Hotpipes at The Earl.

The Orphins : Camp Cryotop

Colin Meloy : We Both Go Down Together
Friday night I highly recommend going to the This Piano Plays Itself CD release party at Under The Couch. I can’t wait to hear their album.

This Piano Plays Itself : There Are Segments Of Revolving
And Sunday night is the Explosions In The Sky show at The Variety Playhouse. The originally scheduled show is sold out, but they added an afternoon show that same day, so go get your tickets before it sells out too.

There are some cool DIY shows going this week too if you like house parties:

141 Moreland Ave is hosting Pool Party, P. S. Elliot, Bandolier!, it’s Elephant’s, Wrister Tuesday night.

I Can Fly House is hosting Capsule, Furnace, Fag Static, The Sunglasses Wednesday night.