Queens Of The Stone Age Cancel Atlanta Date

The Soco Music Experience going down in Centennial Olympic Park next month just got way lamer. Queens Of The Stone Age, who was tapped to headline, have cancelled “Due to circumstances beyong our control”. They have been replaced by Against Me!. I will not be attending now. For all of you QOTSA fans that are feeling a little depressed, I’ll try to cheer you up with a secret acoustic show they did in 2002. Enjoy:

Band: Queens Of The Stone Age
Venue: Dachstock Reithalle
City: Bern
Country: Switzerland
Date: 18th Of November 2002

Recording: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > ? > Cassette > .Wav > .Shn > .Flac > Dime
Quality: A

Setlist:
01. Mosquito Song

02. Six Shooter

03. Bloody Hammer [Rocky Erickson]

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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:

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Monday Mash-Up

Kid Rock got arrested Saturday night after his show here in Atlanta at a Dekalb Waffle House for beating up a customer.

Japanese metal experimentalists Boris will be doing a free in-store performance at Criminal Records at 4pm today, and then playing at The Earl tonight. I highly recommend checking them out.

Boris : Pink : Farewell
Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter‘s solo project) has released a tracklist of the new album due out next year.

Mike Patton will be the voice of Bionic Commando in a video game.

Dinosaur Jr will be in Athens, Ga at The 40 Watt on December 3rd.

Death Cab For Cutie‘s Ben Walla got jacked by US Homeland Security. They confiscated a hard drive he had been using to work on his upcoming solo album.

Band Of Horses had a line-up change.

The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer each have a new album coming out early next year.

Watch the Panda Bear unreleased DVD People Party:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Interview:

Queens Of The Stone Age on Letterman:

Klaxons on Conan:

Here’s Tori Amos on Craig Ferguson:

Arsis has finished up their new album due out next year. They will be playing with Enslaved and Atlanta’s From Exile on November 2nd at the Masquerade:

You can download an mp3 of Diplo remixing Black Lips “Veni Vidi Vici” here.

While I was at Echo Project, I saw a bunch of flyers for a 99x show with Modest Mouse, Silverchair, and Silversun Pickups on December 16th, but I can find no existence of this on the internets.

Mute Math on Conan:

I Heart The A

Not much blogging over the long weekend while I was out enjoying the beautiful weather and sweet events. I spent alot of time in East Atlanta including the East Atlanta Strut and the Go Funk Yourself uber-house party. The really fun weekend is mostly a blur to me and I don’t have much objective journalism for you, so here’s some tunes from some of the artists I might have seen:

Parade : Answer Me : Lunch Lady

Anna Kramer : Anna Kramer : I Can’t Take It

Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Postcard From Four Walls Down

Howlies : Howlies : Angeline

This week is fairly enormous for great shows. Tonight I’m going to see Bjork and Klaxons at the Fox. Diplo is going to be at MJQ tonight too. Wednesday night at Lenny’s is Zoroaster‘s CD release party featuring Daath. Wednesday night is also the beginning of Atlantis Music Conference, Atlanta’s answer to South By Southwest. Thursday night John Vanderslice and Bishop Allen will be at The Earl. Pretty much every venue in town has an interesting show Friday night but i like the Eyedrum show with Vietnam, Random Violets, Subliminator, and Tree Creature. Saturday night is just ridiculous. Do Make Say Think and Atlanta’s Moorish Idols are going to be at The Earl. Queens Of The Stone Age are at The Tabernacle. Girl Talk and Dan Deacon are at MJQ. Then Sunday night The Apples In Stereo will be playing for free at Piedmont Park(Park Tavern).

Bjork : Volta : Wanderlust

Queens Of The Stone Age : Era Vulgaris : I’m Designer

Zoroaster : Dog Magic : Brazen Bull

Do Make Say Think : You, You’re A History In Rust : In Mind

Girl Talk : Night Ripper : Give And Go

Moorish Idols : Moorish Idols : Fer-De-Lance

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

Friday Free-Style

Grizzly Bear, one of my favourite bands these days, is releasing an EP called Friend on November 6th. The ten track EP features a collaboration with Beirut‘s Zach Condon and Grizzly Bear covers by Band Of Horses, CSS, and Atlanta’s own Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter). Here’s a The Crystals cover on the EP:

Grizzly Bear : Friends : He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
Menomena have a new video out:

Led Zeppelin reunion rumours are growing traction.

Creative Loafing reviews the new Black Lips album out on Tuesday. Remember you can still preorder it from Criminal Records and go to the release show that night at MJQ.

A couple of Home Park bands, From Exile and The Lasch, are playing the Faster Moustache‘s 24 hour urban bicycle race this weekend. Some live FE:

The Pipettes will be at Vinyl on October 16th.

So i just finished the first season of Showtime’s Weeds and I like it alot. Here is The Shins‘ James Mercer covering the Weeds theme song.

Wanna know where hip-hop is these days? 50 cent and Kanye West are going to have a debate on BET about who has a better album with play-by-play from ESPN’s Stuart Scott next Tuesday when their albums come out. I’m not making this up.

The Klaxons, after winning some prize that I don’t really care about but everyone on the internet seems to, are working on a new album.

Here’s Amy Winehouse performing at the Mercury Awards (that prize that the Klaxons won):

Built To Spill are awesome and here’s an interview.

More interviews:

Here’s some Queens Of The Stone Age vids to get your weekend rocking:

Torrent Of The Day

Queens Of The Stone Age 2002-06-24 Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands (FLAC)

Queens Of The Stone Age
2002-06-24
Melkweg, Amsterdam
Netherlands

Tracklist:

01. Monsters In The Parasol (4:12)
02. Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (3:00)
03. You Would Know (4:15)
04. You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire (2:51)
05. Hanging Tree (3:29)
06. Song For The Dead (6:23)
07. I Think I Lost My Headache (6:41)
08. Avon (3:47)
09. No One Knows (4:36)
10. Ode To Clarissa (2:40)
11. Mexicola (5:23)
12. Tension Head (4:22)
13. Regular John (5:26)
14. Do It Again (3:02)
15. God Is On The Radio (11:03)
16. The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret (5:04)

Line up:

Josh Homme: Vocals, Guitar
Nick Oliveri: Vocals, Bass
Mark Lanegan: Vocals
Dave Grohl: Drums
Troy van Leeuwen: Guitar, Pedal Steel, Keyboard