Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here’s a few pics and a vid:

Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don’t know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin’s Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:

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Live Review: The Echo Project

The newest fest to spring up in this golden age of weekend festivals was right here in Atlanta last weekend. My crew ran 5 cars deep last Thursday afternoon in very little traffic or delays (just me making a few wrong turns) on the way to The Echo Project. We arrived around 5pm to find a very empty field:

We setup camp and commenced drinking at our campsites. Thursday night Dubconcious performed about 50 feet from our camp, which was almost at the entrance of stage area. One very nice thing about a small festival as opposed to, say, Bonnaroo, is most everyone is a short walk to all the action. Friday we went to the stages before noon and were rewarded with a Flaming Lips sound check. They performed at least 2 full songs and treated it as a mini-performance:

We then checked out Elevado next, and now that I know their new album well, it was very enjoyable. They seemed to be having some issues with the sound equipment, and were not very happy about. Frontman Justin Sias was hilariously crazy jumping down in the audience to dance around, crawling under the stage and disappearing for a while and then for the finale laying motionless in the audience clutching a ghetto trombone. Between how good this band is and all they do with ISP, i definitely put them in the high echelons of Atlanta’s kickass music scene. The Echo Project security tried to stop me from taking pictures with my cellphone because i didn’t have a photo pass, but since no one will give me a photo pass, we gotta go guerrilla:

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Monday Mash-Up

It’s a big week for shows in Atlanta. First, tonight Sunset Rubdown will be at the Drunken Unicorn. You can listen to some recent live tracks from them here. Arcade Fire and The National will be at the Atlanta Civic Center tommorrow night. Thursday night From Exile will be at the Masquerade. Friday night Blonde Redhead and Annuals will be at the Variety Playhouse. Modest Mouse and Man Man will be at the Masquerade Music Park Saturday night. Here’s some tracks to get you in the mood:

The National : Brainy

From Exile : Cataclysm

Blonde Redhead : Spring And By Summer Fall

Annuals : Carry Around

Modest Mouse : Spitting Venom

Modest Mouse : Parting Of The Sensory

Man Man : Banana Ghost

Last weekend was the first time I’ve ever been to Inman Park Festival and it was pretty awesome. Here’s some photos:

There’s a couple new releases I’m excited about this week both from artists I’ve loved since I was a kid. I hope they don’t suck:



Here’s some interviews to read:

Here’s The Mars Volta on the Henry Rollins Show:

Day Of The Baphomets (part 1):

Day Of The Baphomets (part2):

Interview:



Tetragrammaton (part 1):

Tetragrammaton (part 2):

Torrent Of The Day: Man Man (3-21-2007)

Man Man‘s album Six Demon Bag (#45 of 2006) is badass and you should check them out:

Man Man 2007-03-21 Magic Stick, Detroit, MI (16-bit) (FLAC)

MAN MAN
Magic Stick
Detroit, MI
March 21, 2007

audience recording.

FOB, slightly left of stage. ~30 feet back.

Church Audio STC-9000 mics & preamp > iriver iHP-120 > WAV (M) > Sound Forge 8.0 (DC Offset correction, Normalize, Fade In/Out, Track Splits) > WAV > FLAC v.1.1.4

Setlist (Thanks Hawksorama! Setlist will need to be added manually to info file.):

1. New Song #1
2. Against The Peruvian Monster
3. Banana Ghost / Zebra (beginning)
4. Zebra (end)
5. New Song #2
6. Black Mission Goggles (beginning)
7. Black Mission Goggles (end) / New Song #3
8. New Song #4
9. Hot Bat into New Song #5 / Push The Eagle’s Stomach
10. Sarsaparilla / New Song #6
11. Engrish Bwudd / Young Einstein On The Beach
12.ENCORE (this is either New Song #7 , or them just making a lot of noise to close the show)

Recorded and transferred by Paramnesiac.

Sugarkane’s Top 50 Albums of 2006

2006 was a great year for me, and the main reasons are mostly related to music. I decided to do this list in December because i wanted to learn about as much music as possible, and what I thought would take a few days ended up taking almost 2 months, but it was extremely educational for me and i feel very good about this list. There were so many albums that I would like to give props to and cutting it down to 50 was hard. On a technical note, I went by U.S. release date with the exception of Laura’s Radio Swan Is Down (It was released in Australia over a year ago and has no U.S. release date). Feel free to blast it:

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