Win Two Tickets To Langerado 2009! (Also, Langerado Added Deerhunter, Modest Mouse)

Ohmpark is giving away two tickets to the Langerado Music Festival! Enter now for your chance to win!:

With Deerhunter and Modest Mouse added to the already impressive lineup, it looks like I will be kicking off the festival season yet again at Langerado. From now until February 18th, you can enter to win 2 tickets for free. Langerado recently announced what bands were playing each day. Also, check out our coverage of last year’s Langerado here.

Held for the first time this year at Bicentennial Park, Miami, Florida, the festival takes place from March 6-8th. The current lineup includes: Death Cab For Cutie, Snoop Dogg, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Thievery Corporation, Broken Social Scene, Girl Talk, The Faint, Bad Brains, Tortoise, DeVotchKa, Holy Fuck, Tokyo Police Club, King Khan And The Shrines, Cloud Cult, The Faint, Tricky, Chromeo, Mute Math, Black Kids, Lotus, The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey’s McGee and many more. More artists are still to be announced!

Visit www.langerado.com for more information.


Of Montreal last year:

Ohmpark’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2007

2007 was an incredible year of music and there were so many albums I really liked that didn’t make this list. I noticed that most of the lists I pay attention to were very similar to one another this year as opposed to last year. Also, I’ve found myself in more of a disagreeance with those lists than last year. If there is any theme to be taken out of this list, I think it’s that I feel like too many great albums were underrated by the blogosphere elites, and that they were way in love with some albums I think are overrated. This list represents my personal assertions more so than the rest of the Ohmpark crew, but I worked hard to get every one’s opinions and influences in this thing. Feel free to comment on how much you hate or love it. I feel like every album on this is an essential one from last year, so go listen to some new music:

Click here to read the entire post…

Mistle Toe Jam 2007

This is gonna be a pretty awesome show:

They’ve just announced set times:

5pm doors
Silversun Pickups 5:30-6:15pm
The Shins 6:40-7:25pm
Silverchair 7:45pm-8:45pm
Modest Mouse 9:15-10:30pm

For more info, check here.

Some jams:

Silversun Pickups : Carnavas : Melatonin
The Shins : Wincing The Night Away : Sleeping Lessons
Modest Mouse : This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About : Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset
Silverchair:

Monday Night Mash-Up

Smashing Pumpkins have announced more tour dates and will be in Athens, Ga November 7th.

Ghostface Killah is doing a college campus tour sponsored by Adult Swim and will be at Georgia Tech October 10th. …And You Will Know Of From The Trail Of Dead will also be going on an Adult Swim sponsored tour with Dethklok of the series Metalocalypse. There are no dates for that yet and I’m not sure really how a band on a cartoon will play live shows.

Voodoo Festival, which we will be covering in New Orleans, LA at the end of October, has released a schedule.

Cable and Tweed have a review of the Black Lips, Selmanaires, and Coathangers show in Athens, Ga last week complete with live mp3s from the night. They also have a Do Make Say Think live show up.

Confessions Of A Music Addict have a great preview of the upcoming Atlantis Music Festival in Atlanta this week.

Band Of Horses will be at The Park Tavern in Piedmont Park October 14th.

Albums coming out tommorrow that I’m going to check out:





Get some nice PJ Harvey tracks here.

John Stewart will be hosting the 2008 Oscars.

Here’s some videos:

M.I.A.:

Modest Mouse:

Arcade Fire :( ACL Fest 2007):

Friday Free-Style

The Black Keys and Dinosaur Jr will be at the Tabernacle on June 21st. The Black Keys have released a free, live EP you can download here. Also, here’s Dinosaur Jr on Letterman:

Monolith Festival, happening at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado on September 14-15, has announced their line-up and it includes The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Spoon, and Kings Of Leon, all of who will be at Bonnaroo.

Stewart Copeland wants The Police to do a very unique show for Bonnaroo.

Galactic‘s new”hip-hop album” comes out August 21st, and their late-night Bonnaroo performance will include guest appearances from Charlie 2na, Lyrics Born, Gift For Gab, Mr. Lif, and more.

Check out the new White Stripes video for Icky Thump:

Portishead are doing some shows for All Tommorrow’s Parties in December.

Paul McCartney talks politics.

REM have begun working on another album.

Motley Crue are sponsoring a petition to have Paris Hilton jailed.

Simon and Garfunkel reunited for a recent concert.

Liars‘ new self-titled album comes out August 28th.

Voxtrot will be at the Drunken Unicorn on June 27th.

Ani DiFranco has an interesting retrospective coming out.

Pitchfork continues with around the clock coverage of Deerhunter. The ATL is about explode!

Learn the history of Norwegian Black Metal.

Sonic Youth release the deluxe version of Daydream Nation on June 25th.

The Simpsons Movie soundtrack looks to have a lot of terrible artists.

You can buy Neko Case‘s bra on ebay here. She joined M Ward and Jim James of My Morning Jacket on Conan:

Guitar Hero 3 has announced its tracklisting, including Smashing Pumpkins‘ Cherub Rock and Muse‘s Knights Of Cyndonia. it will also feature wireless guitars.

Ghengis Tron will be at Swayzes in Marietta, Ga on July 25th.

Herbie Hancock will be at Jazzfest this weekend in Piedmont Park.

A Handful Of Interviews:

I’m a big fan Grizzly Bear, so here’s a solo track from GB‘s Daniel Rossen: Deep Blue Sea
Also, here’s a great video of them playing on the beach:

Here’s Modest Mouse on The Late Show:

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):

Live Show: Modest Mouse (5-3-1997)


photo by Naheed

Modest Mouse will be here Saturday so here’s a show. The Modest Mouse traders are in the process of torrenting every known MM show that exists on Dimeadozen, so you should check it out.

The info file says “Source Unknown.” The sound is good, either a SBD or a real good AUD. This show was supposed to be posted last week by a participant in our little Mouse gig postings but hasn’t been, so I’ll do it. Enjoy and thanks to the original seeders and tapers..

Modest Mouse
May 3, 1997
Fox Theater, Boulder

Source Info: Unknown

Setlist: (click to listen)
01: Dramamine
02: Truckers Atlas
03: Neverending Math Equation
04: Grey Ice Water
05: Breakthrough
06: Other People’s Lives
07: Tundra/Desert

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Review-”We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank” – Modest Mouse

I once made a statement that Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie was one of the greatest writers of our time. A friend of mine quickly shot back, “Pft, Isaac Brock can say in two words what takes Ben Gibbard a whole song”. In this statement he was not bashing Gibbard, an artist my friend also had great admiration for, but was simply stating that none of Brock’s contemporaries formed such clear thesis as “People are made of water and shit” or “We’re put here just to make more dirt”.

Prior to last week I would consider Ugly Casanova’s “Sharpen Your Teeth” to be Brock’s last great work. The 2004 Modest Mouse release “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” just didn’t do much for me. Save for his circular ramblings about language on “Blame it on the Tetons”, I found it lacking the core Modest Mouse essence that has separated the band from a Franz Ferdinand or a Wolf Parade. While the songs were still instantly recognizable as Modest Mouse, they lacked the darkness and simple complexity of their precursors.

Some would be quick to blame this fall from grace on the majors. However, this just doesn’t seem to hold water; I dare you to deny the greatness of “The Moon & Antarctica”, the band’s major label debut. Others would point to Brock’s personal problems; a stint in short stint in jail for a DUI and an attempted murder charge. While this sort of trouble would be enough to knock anyone of their game, “The Moon & Antarctica” was releases on the heals of rape accusations which eventually forced Brock to move from Seattle, WA to Gainesville, FL to escape a scene that had turned against him. To make matters worse, drummer Jeremiah Green, whose mesmerizing drumming defined some of the bands earlier work, had a break down during second day of recording and quit the band. Add to the mix new producer Dennis Herring, who the band had never before worked with, and it is a wonder this album was ever completed at all. For all its low points, the album “Good News…” stuck to very tight concept and found the band progressing from releasing a collection of loosely connected songs to creating a statement as an album. Not to mention it went platinum and has outsold all the previous Modest Mouse releases combined.

After suffering through a less than stellar and more than expensive live show from their second tour for “Good News…” I was ready to say good-bye. I wanted to hold on to the old Modest Mouse. I had no interest in anything that grew out of the same pot that “Good News…” was planted in. Upon the reading of the return of their drummer Jeremiah Green and the addition of Johnny Marr (of the fucking Smiths, WTF), I had shard of hope that Modest Mouse might be able return to greatness. When the new album was leaked to the P2P networks I couldn’t resist; I had to have a listen (I have since purchased both the Deluxe CD and LP editions of this incredible album).

While those hoping for a return to the “Dial-a-Song” days could possibly still be disappointed by “We Were Dead Before the Ship Began to Sink”, this album is far from the worst and very close to the best Isaac has ever penned. Songs like “Parting of the Sensory” not only close the curtains on the brightness of “Good News…” but they also mark the return of phrases like “Some day you will die and somehow something’s going to steal your carbon”. This album takes lessons learned in album crafting from “Good News…” and applies them to Brock’s core competencies: musings of the universe, morality, and infinity. However, people expecting a second “Good News…” are not denied either. “Dashboard” has been aptly labeled “Float On 2″ for better or worse. Anyone who can’t make it through to “Florida” will probably declare that nothing has changed from “Good News…”.

For me, Brock’s best work to date is studies in the canon “Cat Faces” from his Ugly Casanova release “Sharpen Your Teeth”. To a lessor extent this album revisits this application of layered vocals. The call and response and panned vocals add a width to the Modest Mouse sound that can’t really be found anywhere else in rock today. However, I think the main strength of this album is how it draws on every previous version of Modest Mouse: there is the intensity of “Tundra/Desert” in “Parting of the Sensory”, there is rarely shown sweet side of “Sleepwalking” and Trailer Trash” in “Little Motel”. “Parting of the Sensory” seems to share the sonic landscape that made “The Moon & Antarctica” one of the most important albums of this decade, and “Fire it Up” and “Dashboard” take a page from the radio friendly songs found on “Good News…”.

Whatever you’re looking for in Modest Mouse, chances are you will find it on this album (save for some of the very early antics). If you want to hate their commercial success and totally bash them for selling out; you will certainly find plenty of fuel to do that in the first ten minutes of this album. If your looking for return to their “glory days” it is here too, it just takes a little more effort. If your looking for a defining statement of what Modest Mouse is or a good introduction to the band, this is album is probably your best bet.

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