Hottlanta Videos: Mastodon, Deerhunter, We Fun

Mastodon has been marching along triumphantly supporting their new incredible album, Crack The Skye. They recently did David Letterman and he gave them this introduction: “ I won’t lie to you, I’m frightened.” Here is the video:

They have been doing a ridiculous amount of interviews and such, so here is a three part interview with drummer Brann Dailor:

Part 1:

Part 2 here
Part 3 here

Also, Brann Dailor is guest starring on the new album from Atlanta’s avant-garde musician Killick. Here is a short video teaser for the album, titled Exsanguinette:

Mastodon myspace

Killick Myspace

In case you haven’t heard it yet, Deerhunter‘s upcoming EP Rainwater Cassette Exchange is yet another top-notch installment from Atlanta’s ever-amazing nu-gazers. They just did The Breeders‘ curated ATP festival and happened to team up with the Deal sisters for a little superjam. Here is a video of the performance:

Here is a nice fan made video for Deerhunter‘s “Famous Last Words” from the forthcoming EP:

Deerhunter myspace

Finally, I had totally missed the fact that Pitchfork.tv is showing the Atlanta music scene documentary We Fun until Friday of this week, so if you haven’t seen it yet, you can right now (as long as it isn’t already Friday):

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Live Review: Stickfigure Distribution January 2008 Showcase

Last week I caught two of the four nights in a row of Stickfigure at The Drunken Unicorn. If you are somehow unfamiliar with Stickfigure, they have been an Atlanta underground music institution since 1992 and consistently put out Atlanta’s most interesting independent releases. Wednesday night I got there just in time to catch most of Big Penguin. They were doing the power duo thrash punk thing and it was cool:

Next up was Zandosis. They were a serious noise-jam band beating on weird instruments and using lots of feedback. I thought it was decent, but as much as I like noise, I think it was a little over the top for me.

I had just recently discovered Sorry No Ferrari, so I was excited to catch them again. I’m a sucker for straight-up post-rock instrumental bands, and so far I think they are the best of this sort of thing I’ve heard in Atlanta. They really rocked out hard for this one:


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