Nophest 2012 Schedule

Over the time this blog has existed, Nophest has consistently been one of the best local music festivals, and this year they’ve put together an enormous lineup, ambitious even by Nophest standards, showcasing so much of the local underground scene. Here’s the schedule currently for the four day fest in the East Atlanta Village August 23rd-26th.

Thursday, August 23:

The EARL:

8:30p Darling Norman
9:30p Layman’s Envy
10:30p Pillage and Plunder
11:30p Baby Baby
12:30a NovaKord

529:

9p Story of a Life
10p Cardova
11p Hip to Death
12a The Issues
1a Sexual Side Effects

The BASEMENT:

9p Mack Messiah
10p The Flannels
11p Capillaries
12p Demonaut
1a Dyess


Friday, August 24:

JOE’S:

8p Misery Loves Chachi
9p Sue G. Wilkinson
10p Abby Wren & What it is

The EARL:

8:30p The Ascent of Everest
9:30p Hail the Titans
10:30p Mice in Cars
11:30p Nigredo
12:30a From Exile

529:

9p Nerdkween
10p Powerkompany
11p Pink Pompeii
12a Cusses
1a Fishhawk

The BASEMENT:

9p Ryan Noise
10p Treeclmbr & Shuhandz
11p We Roll Like Madmen
12a NNXT
1a R_Garcia


Saturday, August 25:

JOE’S:

2p Chickens and Pigs
3p SEXBBQ
4p Vincent the Dog
5p Lacuna M
6p Imagination Head
7p Strange Planet
8p Heavy Florist
9p The Romans
10p New Terminus

The EARL:

8:30p 2ndOrder
9:30p Swank Sinatra
10:30p Sneaky Hand
11:30p Nerd Parade
12:30a Jungol

529:

9p Signs of Iris
10p Stereomonster
11p The FountNHead
12a Abby Go Go
1a Special Olympiad

The BASEMENT:

9p Slowpoke Rodriguez
10a Toy Devils
11a Blasted Goat
12a Twin Trances w/ Advantage Lendl & Order of the Owl


Sunday, August 26:

JOE’S:

2p Pocket Dreams
3p Clibber Jones Ensemble
4p Wasted Wine
5p Nebraska Jones
6p Phossy Jaw
7p The Acorns
8p Seranaders
9p Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters
10p Hello Ocho

Nophest website

Nophest 2012 Initial Lineup

One of this city’s greatest DIY festivals, Nophest, returns to East Atlanta again this year for an extended weekend August 23rd through 26th. Here’s a portion of the lineup and schedule for 2012, but expect plenty of additions.

The EARL Stage:

Thurs. August 23:

NovaKord
Baby Baby
Pillage and Plunder
Layman’s Envy
Darling Norman

Fri. August 24:

From Exile
Nigredo
Mice in Cars
Hail the Titans
The Ascent of Everest

Sat. August 25

Jungol
Nerd Parade
Swank Sinatra
Sneaky Hand
2ndOrder


529 Stage:

Thurs. August 23:

Sexual Side Effects
Hip to Death

Fri. August 24:

Fishhawk
Cusses
Pink Pompeii
Powerkompany


Weekend passes sell for $15, and one day passes for $7.50.

Nophest website

[Photos & Videos] Red Sea, Little Tybee, From Exile, Oryx and Crake, New Animal @ 529 (8/25/11)

Photos by Kevin Griggs
Videos by Davy Minor

New Animal:

Oryx and Crake:


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[Videos] White Light Forest Choir, Jungol, Nerd Parade @ Nophest 2010

Nophest
July 24th, 2010
Eyedrum


White Light Forest Choir:


Jungol:


Nerd Parade:

[Mp3] R_Garcia: “Unicorn On The Cob”

From fronting Nerd Parade to masterminding this week’s DIY music festival Nophest, multi-instrumentalist Randy Garcia is a musical force in Atlanta. His latest solo offering kind of slipped through the cracks when it got released around the holidays and I didn’t get a chance to discuss it, but it’s one of the best local records to emerge this year. The aptly named Everything Ever spans an impressively diverse range of sound for a primarily electronic album. Containing deep pop sensibilities, it’s also surprisingly catchy and attention grabbing for an instrumental piece. He’ll be performing as R_Garcia Thursday night at the opening Nophest round at Eyedrum, and here’s a fun, slightly Dan Deacon-esque jammer that even includes a really sweet guitar solo in the middle:

R_Garcia: “Unicorn On The Cob”

Buy Everything Ever

R_Garcia website

Nophest 2010

One of my favourite local music festivals, Nophest, has relocated to Eyedrum and expanded to four days, July 22-25. I have attended three previous Nophest incarnations, and all three were ridiculously fun. Here’s the lineup and schedule:

Thursday, July 22:

8:30PM – Blee’s Company
9:00PM – Threv
9:30PM – Phylum Sinter
10:00PM – Chief Acid Officer
10:30PM – Reklein
11:00PM – R_Garcia
11:30PM – Ryan Noise
12:00AM – Richard Devine
12:30AM – Citizen Green
1:00AM – 3KStatic
1:30AM – Hassler/Butcher
2:00AM – Johnny Jitters

Friday, July 23:

8:15PM – McNary
9:00PM – Extraordinary Contraptions
9:45PM – Hip to Death
10:30PM – Sunglasses
11:15PM – Vegan Coke
12:00AM – Meut
12:45AM – Dirty Lungs
1:30AM – Before the Solstice
2:15AM – The Humboldt Trio

Saturday, July 24:

12:00PM – Safe Word
12:45PM – Tracer Metula
1:30PM – Mark Jacobus
2:15PM – Right at Home
3:00PM – Kyle Robbins
3:45PM – Poodleface
4:30PM – Drew Kohl
5:15PM – Capibara
6:00PM – Intrepid Souls
6:45PM – Envie
7:30PM – Bodega Roja
8:15PM – White Light Forest Choir
9:00PM – Swank Sinatra
9:45PM – Nerd Parade
10:30PM – Jungol
11:15PM – Esoteric Drift
12:00AM – Johan Ess
12:45AM – Sonen
1:30AM – JHelix & Less’Noise
2:15AM – Marcus Wilbur

Sunday, July 25:

1:30PM – Visitor
2:15PM – Liquid Apparatus
3:00PM – Cinetrope
3:45PM – Manteis
4:30PM – Sensitive Chaos
5:15PM – Fader Vixen
6:00PM – Tay0
6:45PM – Suicide Lane
7:30PM – Finite State Machine
8:15PM – minkEy boodle
9:00PM – Indigovox
9:45PM – 10:15PM – The Fabric
10:30PM – A_Scissors
11:15PM – alGARhythm
12:00AM – S&M (Sue G. Wilkinson and Mike Cady)

You can get tickets to all four nights for $15. More info at the Nophest website.

Photos: Fishhawk, Nerd Parade, Tree Creature, Nomen Novum, This Piano Plays Itself, Larvae, Jungol, Onset @ Nophest 2009

Photos 1 – 11, 17, 18, 20, and 24 by Clint Miller
Photos 12 – 16, 19, 21 – 23, 25 – 35 by Kevin Griggs

Onset:

Jungol:

Larvae:


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Nophest 2009: Schedule and Ohmpark Kickoff Party

Nophest’s new summer festival format hits WonderRoot for three days at the end of this month. Ohmpark helped curate the opening Friday night lineup this year, and I am getting very excited about it. Not only will this fest be showcasing some of the best in Atlanta’s DIY scene, but it is so cheap, you can’t afford to miss it. Day passes are going for $5 and 3-day weekend passes for $10, and you can purchase them now at Nophest’s website.

Nophest 2009 Schedule:

Friday, August 28 (Ohmpark Kickoff Party):

8:00pm — Onset (featuring members of From Exile)
9:00pm — Jungol
10:00pm — Larvae
11:00pm — This Piano Plays Itself
12:00am — Nomen Novum
1:00am — Tree Creature

Saturday, August 29:

2:00pm — Johnny Stan
3:00pm — Clap for Daylight
4:00pm — Citizen Green
5:00pm — Hip to Death
6:00pm — Envie
7:00pm — Supermodel Crash
8:00pm — Wighat
9:00pm — Extraordinary Contraptions
10:00pm — Nerd Parade
11:00pm — Fishhawk
12:00am — Summer Dare
1:00am — The Secret Life Orchestra

Sunday, August 30:

2:00pm — Ashbury Keys
3:00pm — Free Ticket
4:00pm — Sensitive Chaos
5:00pm — Dustin and the Furniture
6:00pm — Sunday Drive Bye
7:00pm — Intrepid Souls
8:00pm — Mice in Cars
9:00pm — Paper Moons (Austin, TX)
10:00pm — Jonesplan
11:00pm — The Swear
12:00am — Jesse Nobody
1:00am — Reklein

Nophest website

Nophest 2009 Sets Dates

Atlanta’s greatest DIY festival returns! Typically in the past, Nophest has occured twice a year, once around April 20th, and once in the late fall, but this year’s Nophest 420 never happened and I was worried a local festival that I loved might have disappeared. But, that is not the case. They have decided this year to do one Nophest to rule them all and make it a summer festival. Nophest 2009 is going down at WonderRoot August 28-30. It will be a while before more details become available, but I can let you know that Ohmpark is going to be involved and that this festival is going to be amazing, so make sure to mark down your calendars now.

Nophest website

Nophest 420 2008
Nophest 420 2007

The Final Fests of 2008: CMJ, Voodoo, The Fest, Troika, Fun Fun Fun, Nophest

The 2008 festival season is coming to a close, so before the best-of-2008-list season begins, there are still a few fests worth looking into:

CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival (Oct 21-26) (New York, NY)

CMJ is New York’s version of SXSW, but instead of hipsters descending into a small town for a week, It’s mostly bands and music biz folks descending upon the hipster capital. I have yet to go to this but I have heard great things about it. The quantity of quality bands you can see across New York City on an average night is mind-boggling alone, so to increase that exponentially is something that shouldn’t be missed. If you want to keep up with all of that, my two favourite New York music blogs, Brooklyn Vegan and Earfarm have you covered.

Earfarm’s Guide to CMJ

Brooklyn Vegan’s Guide to Hip-Hop at CMJ

KEXP @ CMJ live shows

CMJ Website

The Voodoo Experience (Oct 24-26) (New Orleans, LA)

Check out our coverage from last year’s Voodoo.

This year, I will be making it back for my third ever Voodoo appearance, but I will just be going on Saturday to catch The Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, and Lil Wayne. You can take a look at the Schedule here, but other notable artists include: Stone Temple Pilots, TV On The Radio, DevotchKa, Man Man, Wyclef Jean, Josepth Arthur, Ghostland Observatory, Thievery Corporation, Fishbone, Dead Confederate, Good Guys, R.E.M., NERD, Butthole Surfers, Ozomatli w/ Chali 2na, Tokyo Police Club, and Quintron & Miss Pussycat. Here are some photos Clint Miller took from last year:


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Nophest Reveals Initial Schedule

Nophest’s second installment of 2008 is going down Thanksgiving weekend and they just announced their schedule for the event so far. Before the festival begins, I would expect events going down at other venues, but right now they only have shows scheduled at WonderRoot:

Friday, November 28

WTR RECORDS SHOWCASE – schedule coming.

Saturday, November 29

12:00p TBA
1:00p TBA
2:00p TBA
3:00p LoveSpark
4:00p The Jungle
5:00p Jesse Nobody
6:00p Bambara
7:00p Mice in Cars
8:00p Extraordinary Contraptions
9:00p A Fight to the Death
10:00p Envie
11:00p Batata Doce
12:00a Pistolero
1:00a Trial By Fire

Sunday, November 30

12:00p TBA
1:00p Toby Foster
2:00p Dustin and the Furniture
3:00p Red The Exploder
4:00p Miles from Pangaea
5:00p Eric Zero
6:00p 13 Day Mission
7:00p Single Channel System
8:00p The Balkans
9:00p Gift Horse
10:00p Wighat
11:00p Swank Sinatra
12:00a Missle Command
1:00a TBA

Presale tickets are already on sale for $10 each day or $20 for a weekend pass. For more information on Nophest, check out their website.

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