Live Videos: Plants & Animals, Strezo @ The Earl (3/4/09)


Strezo:


Plants & Animals:

What Up In The ATL?

The Best Shows In Atlanta March 2 – 8:

Tuesday:

Tapes ‘n Tapes, Wild Light @ The Earl

Wednesday:

Plants & Animals, Strezo @ The Earl

Zepubicle with Tatsuya Nakatani @ Eyedrum

Thursday:

Batata Doce, Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, Sorry No Ferrari, This Piano Plays Itself, Tous les Jours with DJ Press Play @ Star Bar

Tokyo Police Club, Harlem Shakes, Ruby Coast @ The Earl

Le Castle Vania, RRRump, Eli Smith (Fuck Yesss Dance Party) @ Drunken Unicorn

Friday:

Mi Ami, Thank You, Untied States @ 529

Gringo Star, Wild Sweet Orange, The Electric Cycles @ The Earl

Futureshock, Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, the Krewe of Grateful Gluttons, DJs Black Dominoes and Lil Ray (Sopo Bike Co-Op Pary) @ Lenny’s

Saturday:

Modest Mouse @ The Tabernacle (SOLD OUT)

Annuals, Jessica Lea Mayfield, What Laura Says @ The Earl

Morrissey @ Variety Playhouse (SOLD OUT)

The Selmanaires, Social Studies @ 529

Annuals, Howlies @ Criminal Records




Plants & Animals : Mercy
Tokyo Police Club : Citizen Of Tomorrow
Annuals : Carry Around
Tapes ‘n Tapes : Cowbell
Thank You : Empty Legs

My Favourite Songs of 2008: Ohmpark Mixtape #6

So here is a playlist comprised of many of my favourite songs from the year. Not all of my favs are here, but I think all of the essentials are in it. I tried my best to build this as a flowing playlist more than just a collection of songs, so the order and even some of the selections reflect that. I really need to do more mixtapes. Based on Hypemachine/elbow popularity, I know everyone loves that Fleet Foxes song, but I decided instead to treat you to a better song from one of the bands that FF is ripping off. Anyways, here is an hour and half of the best songs of 2008. Jam them hard while you can, because in about 3 days they aren’t hip anymore:

Islands : The Arm
Sigur Ros : Gobbledigook
Atlas Sound : Recent Bedroom
Kaki King : Life Being What it Is
MGMT : Weekend Wars
Department of Eagles : No One Does It Like You
Animal Collective : Water Curses
Antony And The Johnsons : Another World
Mount Eerie w/ Julie Doiron & Fred Squire : Voice In Headphones
My Morning Jacket : Touch Me I’m Going To Scream pt. 1
Beach House : Used To Be
Portishead : The Rip
Summerbirds In The Cellar : Now We Are Ugly Inside
Hot Chip : One Pure Thought
M83 : Kim & Jesse
Bon Iver : For Emma
Plants And Animals : Guru
Destroyer : Shooting Rockets (From The Desk Of Night’s Ape)
Deerhunter : Nothing Ever Happened
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead : The Betrayal Of Roger Casement And The Irish Brigade

What Up In The ATL?

Best shows in Atlanta from October 20th – 26th:

Monday:

Ringo Deathstarr @ Drunken Unicorn

Wednesday:

Opeth, Baroness, High On Fire @ Center Stage

Plants & Animals, Born Ruffians @ The Earl

Thursday:

The Explorer’s Club, Tealights, The Blacks @ The Earl

Friday:

Ben Kweller, Whitley @ The Earl

Saturday:

TV On The Radio @ The Tabernacle


Ringo Deathstarr : Sweet Girl
Baroness : The Birthing
Plants & Animals : Feedback In The Field
The Explorer’s Club : Don’t Forget The Sun
Ben Kweller : Ice Ice Baby

SXSW 2008 Day 4/Wrap-Up

Ok, I promise this is our last SXSW post. Most Likely. Anyways, the last day of the fest started with us sleeping in a bit later than normal, but we made it in time to catch Plants And Animals at an Urban Outfitters next to UT campus. They rocked it out:

After a long hike back to the main strip, Biggie C and I split up. He went to catch Dead Confederate, who ended up using almost all of their set doing cover of Sonic Youth’s “Diamond Sea”. I went and caught Sea Wolf:


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Photos: SXSW Day 4 – 3-15-08 in Austin, TX

Plants & Animals

Dead Confederate

What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

SXSW Bands are invading my Ipod and CD players now that I am back. There are so many to look into, but a few albums from the bands I managed to catch have stood out as some of the best of 2008 so far:

Kaki King

Originally from Atlanta, Kaki King is singer/songwriter/guitar player Katherine Elizabeth King. Her guitar work is an interesting style that is very percussive using slaps and taps. Her newest album, Dreaming Of Revenge, has been in my heaviest of rotations since catching her in Austin. It is about half instrumental ethereal post-rocky stuff, half fascinating and alluring pop songs. This release seems to be a little under the radar right now in hype-land, but it is too good to stay that way for long:

Life Being What It Is

So Much For So Little

Buy Dreaming Of Revenge here

Kaki King Myspace

Plants And Animals


photo by: Caroline Desilets

While doing my 2007 year end research and digging, Plants And Animal’s With/Avec EP was one of the best discoveries I came across. One of the things I love about this band is they attempt to make each and every song a monumental event. Their debut LP, Parc Avenue, takes everything great about their short release and expands it on this tremendous album.

Mercy

Good Friend

Buy Parc Avenue Here

Plants And Animals Myspace

Bon Iver

Since everyone on the Internet has rightfully fallen for this album and sung its praises for ages now, I won’t go on a tirade about, but just make sure to check it out if you haven’t because it lives up to the hype:

Flume

Lump Sum

Buy For Emma, Forever Ago here

Bon Iver Myspace

Ohmpark’s Top 10 Best EPs Of 2007

An EP, or Extended Play, is the sweet spot between a full album and a single. Typically between 10 and 25 minutes, although what has come to define the difference between EPs and LPs can sometimes be blurred. Usually EPs get a bad rap, as it carries with it connotations of being “less-than” and not good enough to be a proper album, but I like seeing variations in the art medium. There are EPs like Alice In Chains’ Jar Of Flies and Radiohead’s Airbag/How Am I Driving? that beat most full lengths. Also, EPs afford an artist the chance to showcase things that don’t fit in the context of a larger piece of work, or explore a different sound without moving fully in that direction. Anyways, I’d take an EP of nothing but the goodness over a full-length comprised mostly of filler surrounding a few good songs any day.

In 2007 I actually heard many great EPs. A few of which I’ll give honorable mentions that just missed this list that are worth-while include Joanna Newsom And The Ys Street Band, Vampire Weekend, and Black Kids‘ Wizard Of Ahhhs, of which I’ve come around a little bit on now that I’ve listened to it more. Here are the 10 most essential short-length albums of 2007:

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