Future Atlanta Albums: Mastodon, Snowden, Pistolero


Mastodon

Mastodon‘s newest record, Crack The Skye, still doesn’t have an official release date yet, but many sources say it looks to hit stores late March. The band will be revealing the artwork for the new album on Monday, so it is definitely coming soon. Brann Dailor talks about the theme of the album:

There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. He goes out of his body, into outer space and a bit like Icarus, he goes too close to the sun, burning off the golden umbilical cord that is attached to his solar plexus. So he is in outer space and he is lost, he gets sucked into a wormhole, he ends up in the spirit realm and he talks to spirits telling them that he is not really dead. So they send him to the Russian cult, they use him in a divination and they find out his problem. They decide they are going to help him. They put his soul inside Rasputin’s body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin’s body through the crack in the sky(e) and Rasputin is the wise man that is trying to lead the child home to his body because his parents have discovered him by now and think that he is dead. Rasputin needs to get him back into his body before it’s too late. But they end up running into the Devil along the way and the Devil tries to steal their souls and bring them down…there are some obstacles along the way.

Well, that is interesting. As you know Mastodon will be playing the Scion Rock Fest next month, so I’m sure that show will be full of new numbers. Until then, you can listen to a tease of a new song on their website, and here is a new song from the album called “Divinations” from their Bonnaroo set:







Snowden @ Variety Playhouse (11/30/07)

Pretty much since i started this blog i have been patiently waiting for Snowden‘s follow up to 2006′s Anti Anti, and it looks like we are starting to get really close. On Snowden‘s great blog, David Payne gives a progress report:

In Snowden news, there’s another new song Jordan just finished (really good one) and now we’re about to start shopping some demos around. The whole album is basically written and now we’re just looking for the right option in regards to releasing it. I know it’s taking a long time to come out, but we didn’t want to rush this one. The sound has evolved quite a bit with this batch of songs and I think people will dig it. Thanks to everyone for having patience. New music from Snowden will definitely drop this year!

Well I know I can’t friggin’ wait. Here is a great video of them working on these infamous demos floating around elite ears right now:

And here is a live video of a new song called “Red Handed”:







Pistolero

Atlanta’s Pistolero is dropping their sixth release in two years, an LP entitled Warface, on April 25th. Here is the track list for it:

1. Monster Cable
2. Sniveling Little Git
3. Thieves & Murderous Other Bits
4. Yellow House
5. Postcard from the Apocalypse
6. Tug
7. Spreadsheets
8. Cuttin In (Eva’s Last Dance)
9. Picture Perfect
10. Sunburn
11. North Island Toot
12. King of Atlanta
13. Lonesome Train

Here is a track from it to preview:

Pistolero : Yellow House

Pistolero blog

Scion Rock Fest

This big ATL event seems to be off the radar, but luckily my metal insiders tipped me off. The line-up features pretty much every single band from the particular type of metal that I enjoy most, so I’m excited:

Mastodon
Neurosis
High on Fire
Boris
1349
Cryptopsy
Torche
Nachtmystium
Wolves in the Throne Room
Baroness
Harvey Milk
Kylesa
Zoroaster
Withered
Krallice
Toxic Holocaust
Skeletonwitch
Rwake
A Storm of Light
Warbringer
Salome
Suidakra
Tyr
Alestorm

The event is taking place all day long at The Masquerade on February 28th. It is free as long as you have a ticket, but where exactly one can obtain these elusive tickets is anyone’s guess (If you know, let me know).

Edit: Decatur CD will have some tickets next week. Thanks to Justin T for the tip!

Scion Rock Fest website

New Mastodon Album Coming Soon, But Not Soon Enough

Their next record, Crack The Skye, is all finished but we won’t hear it until sometime “early next year”, whenever that is. I can’t wait. For those of you who are also eagerly anticipating its release, here are some interviews to soak up. First, Brann Dailor was interviewed by Metalshrine. And here is a three part video interview with Brent Hinds talking about the new album, tattoos, and getting sucker punched at the MTV VMAs:

Crack the Skye track listing:

01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
I. Usurper
II. Escape
III. Martyr
IV. Spiral
05. Ghost of Karelia
06. Crack The Skye
07. The Last Baron

So Many Records To Buy

Yesterday was a massive record release date. Here’s the list of the interesting ones, and while I’m only halfway through this list currently, I’ve yet to find one that isn’t good:

Marnie Stern: This Is It…
Deerhoof: Offend Maggie
Department Of Eagles: In Ear Park
Antony And the Johnsons: Another World EP
Lambchop: OH (Ohio)
Land Of Talk: Some Are Lakes
Castanets: City OF Refuge
Annuals: Such Fun
El Guincho: Alegranza
Rosebuds: Life Like

if you’re looking for a physical place to walk into and buy records like these, you could go to my favourite shop, Criminal Records in Little Five Points. From Tomorrow to Sunday they will be having a 25% sale on most items to get ready for the move next week to their new location. Criminal Records will still be in Little Five Points, just in a place 3 times the size of the old store over at 1154-A Euclid Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 between Bang-On and The Porter Bar. It’s even going to have a full stage inside for in-store performances. It’s unclear what’s going on with the old location, as before i had heard rumours they were going to keep that for comics and games, but it now seems like they are taking everything to the new place.

That’s not the only record store that moved, as Ella Guru, a joint I had heard about but never seen, is now in a new location as well near Inman Park/L5P. I really haven’t been to too many Atlanta record store outside of Criminal, Wax ‘n’ Facts, and Vacation. And all of those old rave/techno record stores that don’t exist anymore. I hear Decatur CD is cool, but I rarely go to Decatur. Are there any other cool record shops in Atlanta I’m missing?

Anyways, here’s some classic performances at the old Criminal Records store:

Mastodon:

Black Lips:

Dungen:

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Atlanta Album Preview: Mastodon

Drummer Brann Dailor is describing their fourth full-length as “real creepy and spaced out and different.” They are currently recording it in Atlanta with Brendan O’Brien, and the final track is supposed to be 15 minutes long. Mastodon are getting huge right now and this could be the record that solidifies them as Atlanta’s biggest of this decade, so I can’t wait to hear it. They debuted three new songs at Bonnaroo, and here is audio and pics of “Divinations”:

You can find the other two on the interwebs if you are resourceful (here’s one). Check out a funny video of them in the studio this year working on their “covers album”:

Bonnaroo 2008 Saturday (Day 3): Thirty Epic Hours

Bonnaroo always has a momentum all its own and no matter how you imagine your weekend to go, it ends up being a completely different experience. Saturday morning I woke up around 4am in the morning after sleeping through crazy thunderstorms that wrecked our camp. Most of the people in my crew were coming back from seeing late night shows and we hung out and talked about our Friday experiences. The rain continued on and off for the rest of the morning, so I had some beers for breakfast and chilled out under our shelters that hadn’t been destroyed. I caught an hour power nap around 9am, and then headed out for the day. I walked around the campgrounds for a while taking in the atmosphere. The rain had died out mostly by then, and people were out and about in the muddy conditions.


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Friday Free-Style

Let’s get your weekend started with some local flavour. Atlas Sound will be remixing a Sian Alice Group song for a forthcoming EP. Here’s a video for one of my favourite Atlas Sound songs, “Recent Bedroom”:


Atlas Sound- Recent Bedroom from Michael E Palm on Vimeo

Atlas Sound : Virtual 7″ No. 3 : No Longer
The Snowden tour is coming soon:

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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.

Monday Mash-Up

REM, The National, and Modest Mouse will all be at Lakewood Amphitheater on June 21st.

Tom Petty will be playing at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park. You’re probably thinking, what the hell venue is that? Me too. So I googled it, and it is a new venue in Atlanta (actually Alpharetta, Ga) that will open in May. Check it out.

Phosphorescent is doing a huge tour and totally skipping the south. Lame. Although if you go to SXSW with us you can catch him there. Lucky me. Here’s a vid:

Listen to Thom Yorke doing cool stuff on BBC Radio 2.

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Humpday Randomnimity

Last Tuesday night I caught Midlake at The Earl and they were really awesome. Here’s a couple bad pics ( I swear I’m getting my own real camera soon):

If you are unfamiliar with these guys, think Thom Yorke meets Fleetwood Mac. They just released a digital EP called Oak And Julian. Here’s a cut and a bonus:

Midlake : Oak & Julian : Roscoe (acoustic)
The Chemical Brothers : We Are The Night : The Pills Won’t Help You Know (Featuring Midlake)
So, the Echo Project‘s 3rd round of artist auditions didn’t all come out at once and I missed a few additions when I reported it last week. Here is the full Echo Project Line-Up:

The Killers
Phil Lesh & Friends
The Flaming Lips

Thievery Corporation
moe.
 The Roots
Spoon
Cypress Hill
Les Claypool
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Umphrey’s McGee
The Disco Biscuits

 Stephen Marley
Rabbit in the Moon
Gza (Genius) and Slick Rick featuring the Fyre Department
The Bravery
Medeski Martin & Wood
MSTRKRFT
Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues
Polyphonic Spree
Butch Walker
JJ Grey & Mofro
Secret Machines
Son Volt
Avett Brothers
Perpetual Groove
Brazilian Girls
Man Man
RJD2
Lyrics Born
The Album Leaf
The Benevento Russo Duo
Tea Leaf Green
ALO
God Is An Astronaut
Bassnectar
Ryan Shaw
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
The Egg
Toubab Krewe
Wood Brothers
Snowden
Futureman and His Black Mozart Ensemble
RAQ
Dubconcious
Spam Allstars
Afromotive
Greenskeepers
Lazaro Casanova
Marc Ford
Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance
Telepath		 Little Birdy
Collective Efforts
Boom Box
Marchforth Marching Band
Scissors For Lefty
Dead Confederate
Benzos
Barrel House Mamas
Strut
Something Japanese
Grimace Federation
Spencer Durham Band
Jamie McLean
3S Hostage
Sam Thacker
Lord Is My Shotgun
Entropy
Ployd
Mike Zarin
Sorted
Munir
Random Rabbit
Sonar
Soundwave
Mayhem
Habersham/Numinous
Secret Live
Brandon B
Treasure Fingers
Truform
Chris Grass
Eric ZBD
and more…

The two big additions i missed were Spoon and Rabbit In The Moon. Back in my short-lived raver days, Rabbit In The Moon was my favourite electronic artist. They are like taking Flaming Lips and GWAR to a rave; their live show is an incredible spectacle. DJ Monk is no longer part of the team, but with Confucius still producing the music and weird-ass frontman Bunny doing really trip stuff on stage, I can guarantee the spun out wooks are gonna love this show. If you are going to this fest, don’t miss this show(and don’t be sober for it):

Bunny was riding in a ball across the audience way before Wayne:

Mastodon‘s Brent Hinds is in the hopsital from a head injury that occurred at the MTV Video Music Awards. Some Mastodon related vids:

Featuring Queens Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme:

News report on Mastodon:

And here’s an Eddie Vedder track featuring Sleater-Kinney‘s Corin Tucker:

Eddie Vedder : Into The Wild (movie soundtrack) : Hard Sun

Video Of the Day: Mastodon

Here’s the awesome new video for my favourite song from Blood Mountain, “Sleeping Giant”:

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