What Up In The ATL?

For those of you not going to Bonnaroo this weekend, there are plenty of great shows to check out ITP:

Tonight I’m hoping to catch the show at Lenny’s that was supposed to happen yesterday at the 5 Spot. The mammoth Monday night line-up includes Apocalyptic Visions, Club of Rome, Burden of Vision, Nerdkween, Empty Jester, Rev Rebel, Cherri Swan, SoSoDeath.

Tomorrow night the Dysrhythmia, Chopper, Battlecat, We Be The Echo show at The Earl is very enticing.

Wednesday night if don’t have ticket to the sold out Vampire Weekend show at The Variety Playhouse, you can check out Mudhoney, Birds Of Avalon, Anna Kramer at The Earl or you can see Aceyalone and Dilated Peoples at The Loft.

Thursday night you should check out the Gringo Star, Colour Revolt show at The Loft.

Friday night I like Shearwater, Silver Lakes, and Jeffrey Butzer at The Earl, but Ladytron at The Variety Playhouse is cool too.

Saturday night you should check out the I Can Fly House hosting Lay Down Mains, New Brutalism, Hawks, Chrissakes.

Sunday night I recommend checking out W-S Burn at 11:11 Teahouse

Preview some bands:

Shearwater : Leviathan Bound

Colour Revolt : Naked And Red

Birds Of Avalon : Measure Of The Same

Dysrhythmia : Sleep Decayer

W-S Burn : Counting Plastic Toys

Club Of Rome : The Ballad of Phil Spector

Humpday Randomnimity

Bonnaroo made some line-up additions:

Cat Power
Zappa Plays Zappa
The Disco Biscuits
MSTRKRFT
Chromeo

Decent additions, but only the electronic acts get me excited. This is what we want.

Sasquatch Music Festival, the big daddy Memorial Day fest that goes down at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington state, just released a line-up:

R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / Say Hi / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / “Awesome” / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers

That’s a hell of a line-up and now I’m really considering going to this. The Gorge is considered by many as the coolest venue in the US. Tickets are reasonably priced and go on sale Saturday March 8th. More details on their website.

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Sugarkane’s Top 50 Albums of 2006

2006 was a great year for me, and the main reasons are mostly related to music. I decided to do this list in December because i wanted to learn about as much music as possible, and what I thought would take a few days ended up taking almost 2 months, but it was extremely educational for me and i feel very good about this list. There were so many albums that I would like to give props to and cutting it down to 50 was hard. On a technical note, I went by U.S. release date with the exception of Laura’s Radio Swan Is Down (It was released in Australia over a year ago and has no U.S. release date). Feel free to blast it:

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