Humpday Randomnimity

I’m a busy bee getting ready to head to New Orleans to cover Voodoo Fest this weekend, but here’s some pics with a news story linked:











Here’s some more Rabbit In The Moon vid-action for you:

I’ll be catching Ghostland Observatory this weekend:

And finally, Islands are awesome:

Live Review: The Echo Project

The newest fest to spring up in this golden age of weekend festivals was right here in Atlanta last weekend. My crew ran 5 cars deep last Thursday afternoon in very little traffic or delays (just me making a few wrong turns) on the way to The Echo Project. We arrived around 5pm to find a very empty field:

We setup camp and commenced drinking at our campsites. Thursday night Dubconcious performed about 50 feet from our camp, which was almost at the entrance of stage area. One very nice thing about a small festival as opposed to, say, Bonnaroo, is most everyone is a short walk to all the action. Friday we went to the stages before noon and were rewarded with a Flaming Lips sound check. They performed at least 2 full songs and treated it as a mini-performance:

We then checked out Elevado next, and now that I know their new album well, it was very enjoyable. They seemed to be having some issues with the sound equipment, and were not very happy about. Frontman Justin Sias was hilariously crazy jumping down in the audience to dance around, crawling under the stage and disappearing for a while and then for the finale laying motionless in the audience clutching a ghetto trombone. Between how good this band is and all they do with ISP, i definitely put them in the high echelons of Atlanta’s kickass music scene. The Echo Project security tried to stop me from taking pictures with my cellphone because i didn’t have a photo pass, but since no one will give me a photo pass, we gotta go guerrilla:

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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