[Video] Noot d’ Noot: “Know That Feelin’”
- Posted by Davy Minor on April 17, 2011 at 8:04 pm
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[Stream] Noot D’ Noot: From Ever Since
Noot D’ Noot released their newest record last month, and it is now available digitally via bandcamp. From Ever Since is the most purely funk record from them to date, as well as the most similar to their live show. There’s little experimentation or weirdness here, so it’s very straightforward and accessible, though I feel like they’re playing it a touch too safe. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Listen to it for yourself:
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 10, 2010 at 7:09 am
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Ohmpark’s Top 20 Atlanta Albums Of 2009
Most of the time in this city, bands rise and fall based on who they know and how exciting they are live. But for this list, I’ve considered only what is contained on their recordings. Over the course of the year I’ve given roughly 75 records from inside the perimeter a spin, and these are the essential twenty that I recommend listening to most. There are actually many records that I really liked that just missed the cut, so this was very tough to piece together, especially the final spots.
Looking at this list and comparing it back to my favourite local stuff over the two years before, it’s apparent that music in this city just keeps getting better. Atlanta’s independent music scene is running deeper than ever both in terms of quality and quantity of music being produced. Outside of Brooklyn, you’d need quite a compelling argument to convince me anywhere else in America has a better scene right now. Promising young bands keep popping up out of nowhere, and the veterans keep delivering the goods. It sure makes my job here a lot easier to have so much great music to blog about.
On a technical note, anything that has been released over the holidays I’m grouping in with my 2010 lists, and so a couple of albums on this list were released over the holidays last year. Take a gander:
20. Noot d’ Noot: Cash For Gold
19. Harken The Hands Askew: Thou
18. Slushco: Sometime Tonight
17. Sound On Film: The Eloquent Reginald
16. Thy Mighty Contract: Thy Mighty Contract
15. Club Awesome: Dynamos
14. Jungol: Places
13. Lee Harvey Oswald: Lee Harvey Oswald
12. The Selmanaires: Tempo Temporal
11. Tealights: Take Us By Sea
10. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange
9. Slushco: The Silver Surface Demos
8. The Orphins: Wish You Well
7. Mastodon: Crack The Skye
6. Lotus Plaza: Floodlight Collective
5. From Exile: Monolith
4. Nomen Novum: Paradises
3. Untied States: Instant Everything, Constant Nothing
2. Atlas Sound: Logos
1. Nomen Novum: November
In the Atlanta music scene, 2009 was the year of Nomen Novum. While most musicians take a whole year to scrap together enough decent songs to fill a good EP, the prolific Nomen Novum were able to drop two virtually perfect full-lengths, plus a great live EP, and they’re already posting new stuff to their myspace.
Although, all five records at the top of my list were legitimate contenders for Atlanta album of the year, and I would have probably been content with any ordering between them. The other 3 records to round out my top 5 each happened to be crafted over about 2 years, and the extra time and care in putting them together just right payed off. A big mistake I notice younger bands make is trying to push out a record too quickly on some arbitrary time scale and in the end get stuck with something that is less than what they are capable of producing. Atlas Sound, Untied States, and From Exile all spent more time than they probably wanted to on their respective albums, but the extra effort was well worth it in the end.
Looking back over this list after I finished it, I noticed that it is almost entirely dominated by veterans of the scene, and mostly by artists I was already familiar with before starting this blog. There is only one true first recording from its respective musicians to make the list. If I were to make a “Best Atlanta Artists of the Decade” shortlist, most of those artists would have an album included on this list, so I feel like it is a good snapshot of not just where the scene is at today, but where it has been heading for the latter part of the ’00s. There is so much diversity in sound and so much talent in this city, and if you have any interest at all in Atlanta’s music scene, don’t let anything on this list slip by you, because all twenty are well worth giving a listen.
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 13, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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Atlanta Music Genome
I noticed this last week on Noot d’ Noot‘s blog and thought that it was very cool:
Jah Scorp has been working on an ATL Genome for some time now, and Mark from Quadiliacha has realized his vision with this fully interactive graph. See how it all ties together HERE.
Make sure to go to fullscreen mode, it’s much easier to use. It’s scope is a bit limited, but it also has way too many bands I had never heard of before. I did a little google research and found the blog of the person who made this genome. You should check it out. You can see an earlier version of the genome here.
I’m sure this isn’t a phenomenon unique to Atlanta, but we sure do have a ton of musicians who were in a ton of different bands with each other. It’s great to see someone putting all that data together. Right before Have You Heard stopped operating, Cj from A Fight To The Death had begun working on his own Atlanta music genome. He did a good podcast breaking down the family tree of The Goldest that you should listen to here. All of this makes me realize I need to have much more content digging into the history of Atlanta’s music scene, so I need to go do some research.
- Posted by Davy Minor on August 24, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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An Atlanta Mp3 Trilogy: Sound On Film, Noot d’ Noot, Adron
Sound On Film @ Drunken Unicorn (6/30/09)
As I continue to dig deep through the Atlanta underground music scene looking for something new, I’m perpetually surprised that the well never seems to go dry. Just when I think everybody in this town doing something special is on my radar, I discover yet another fantastic artist. The newest gem in the rough that I believe is going to blow everyone in this town away in the coming years is Sound On Film. I’ve caught two live shows so far, both of which were extremely impressive, and I’ve just grabbed a copy of their new record, The Eloquent Reginald, and I can’t stop listening to it. Sound On Film‘s potential seems boundless, as they are barely out of high school, and at such a young age they seem more capable and talented then most veteran local bands. You can download their 5 song record below for free, so get on the bandwagon now before everyone else does:
Sound On Film : Julia Was A Lady
Download The Eloquent Reginald for free
Sound On Film myspace
Noot d’ Noot @ Corndogorama 2009
After catching Noot d’ Noot‘s triumphant Corndogorama performance this year, I picked up a copy of their newest release, Cash For Gold, and have been jamming it hard ever since. While I’ve warmed up to it over time, Goofer Dust was just a bit too abstract and ambling for me to really get into, but Cash For Gold seems to synthesize the best parts of their previous jazzier studio work with the brilliance of their funky live performances, resulting in a perfect, best of both worlds blend. On top of the actual music being top-notch, the packaging to the record includes plenty of fun extras, so go pick it up:
Noot d’ Noot : The Occasion
Buy Cash For Gold
Noot d’ Noot myspace
Adron @ Star Bar (6/25/09)
Adrienne McCann popped on my radar a while ago, but after a casual listen to a song or two, I had unfairly wrote her off as as just another ordinary local singer/songwriter, of which this town is filled to brim with. Once she had left us ATLiens behind in search of glory in New York, I didn’t think to check her out again until I heard recently that she was mulling over returning to the dirty south. I downloaded a copy of her new EP, Burdwurld, which she is giving away for free, and now I finally see what all the buzz was about. This city loves to get behind a pretty face regardless, or more often, in spite of actual talent or musicianship, but Adron most definitely has the artistic goods to back it up.
Adron : Renegade
Download Burdwurld for free
Adron myspace
- Posted by Davy Minor on July 29, 2009 at 2:47 pm
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Corndogorama 2009: Saturday (Day 1)
All photos by Clint Miller
We got a later start yesterday than I would have liked and didn’t make it to Corndogorama until The Goldest began their set. I loved their EP, but in previous occasions thought their live show was a bit lacking. This time they sounded really good.
I got some lunch at the Australian Bakery, which has served as our Corndog home base for escaping the heat and grubbing, and then caught Sonen. Their set at last year’s corndog was lackluster, but this year it was not enjoyable at all. The vocals were very loud in the mix, and these two so called “vocalists” have no business singing. It was hard to even give the music underneath much of a chance with how bad the vocals were.
Next, Nomen Novum played one of the better live sets I’ve seen them do. They started out with some guitar loop build up songs and then moved to more electronic stuff near the end. While the duo churned out the tunes, they were joined by a dancer for this set who even contributed some neat sound effects using blades of grass.
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- Posted by Davy Minor on June 28, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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Video: Noot d’ Noot “Fingers Like Steeples”
Atlanta’s Noot d’ Noot just dropped a new video from their upcoming 12″ mini-LP Cash For Gold. The record hits stores June 16th and according to the band it is “a pure 30 minute expression of tailshaking, mind-expansive joy-and-groove”. Here is their animated video for “Fingers Like Steeples”:
- Posted by Davy Minor on May 25, 2009 at 12:21 am
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Diatribe Of The Day: Atlanta’s Spectacle Arms Race
If you read this blog regularly, you know that for the most part we keep things very positive and tend to only cover stuff we like. When I do my show listings for the week, I only try to suggest shows that I genuinely would like to attend.I don’t have much interest in spending my time on music I don’t enjoy and there are plenty of other sites on the web that take pleasure in pitchforking folks. But as much as I prefer to be the cheerleader, especially for the Atlanta scene, I think it is important to sometimes contrast the good with the bad, and point out the things I don’t like. I think dissent has value, so pardon me for the haterade I’ve been drinking.
In my Corndogorama coverage, I took a jab at Judi Chicago, and they totally noticed it (OMFG, Judi Chicago reads this blog!!!) and responded with this comment: Click here to read the entire post…
- Posted by Davy Minor on October 16, 2008 at 3:41 am
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