Video Of The Day: The Year Punk Broke

Most of the Ohmpark crew is up in the wilderness over the extended weekend, but while i have internet for a brief minute, here’s a great documentary on Sonic Youth and Nirvana on tour in Europe in 1991 that you must watch if you have never seen it. Here’s all hour and a half of it:

Monday Mash-Up

So at first i didn’t know what to think about the new Smashing Pumpkins album, but the more i listen to it and get comfortable with it the more I like it. Here’s a track i like alot:

Smashing Pumpkins : Zeitgeist : Neverlost
Here’s a little something to jam out to:

Sonic Youth : A Thousand Leaves : Hits Of Sunshine
Another classic:

Ugly Cassanova : Sharpen Your Teeth : Hotcha Girls
Here’s some interesting releases out tommorrow that i’m excited about:









Here’s some Tokyo Police Club:

Here’s The Shins:

For the Atlanta college kids like me, Summer 2007 is over. I went to some cool fests, saw some great shows, and had a fun time so I leave you with this today:

Grandaddy : Just Like The Fambly Cat : Summer…It’s Gone

Friday Free-Style

Let’s get today started with a new Liars video:

One of the guys from Klaxons broke his leg stage diving.

Black Lips‘ new album, Good Bad Not Evil, hits stores September 11th. Vid:

Vegoose added the following acts:

  • Mastodon
  • moe.
  • M.I.A.
  • Robert Randolph and The Family Band

You can watch a streaming Flaming Lips show here tonight and tommorrow.

Joanna Newsom will be back in Atlanta at the Woodruff Arts Center Symphony Hall on Saturday November 17th.

The Long Blondes will be at the Earl on November 12th. I’ll have more on them for you next week but for now:

Listen to some new Fiery Furnaces songs from their upcoming new album here.

Madlib in Bollywood? check it out.

Final Fantasy will be at The Drunken Unicorn November 6th.

More Tegan And Sara:

Tori Amos will be in Atlanta somehwere on November 14th.

Band Of Horses‘ new album drops October 9th.

I leave you today with Sonic Youth from a recent Daydream Nation show:

Torrent Of The Day: Sonic Youth (7-6-2007)

Here’s a Daydream Nation show for you:

Sonic Youth, 2007-07-06, Ferrara, FLAC (AUD > R09; Daydream Nation show)

Sonic Youth, 2007-07-06, Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle Festival, Piazza Castello, Ferrara, Italy

Recording by Nic: hung around neck in strap (see sy2007-07-06.jpg) > built-in stereo mic > Edirol R-09 (16-bit, 44.1 kHz) > USB > PC hard drive > Audacity (switched left and right channel, track splits) > .wav files

Conversion and seed by rappard [at] gmail [dot] com: .wav files > Trader’s Little Helper 1.1.1.90 (fixed sector boundary errors) > FLAC Frontend 1.7.1 (verify, align on sector boundaries) > flac 1.1.4 (level 8) > Mp3tag v2.37a (renamed, tagged); added ffp and md5 files; took the liberty of correcting and editing the taper’s original text file slightly

01 Teenage Riot
02 Silver Rocket
03 The Sprawl
04 ‘Cross The Breeze
05 Eric’s Trip
06 Total Trash
07 Hey Joni
08 Providence
09 Candle
10 Rain King
11 Kissability
12 The Wonder
13 Hyperstation
14 Eliminator Jr.
15 first encore call
16 Reena
17 Incinerate
18 Jams Run Free
19 Pink Steam
20 Or
21 second encore call
22 What A Waste

Taper’s notes: I was in the second row center for the first 4 songs, but the pogo/pushing/screaming/blasphemous shouts ;-) were just unbearable, so during the ‘Cross The Breeze coda I moved back a bit to the side of the stage in front of the left speaker stack. There I stumbled into some good friends of mine and everything became a sort of celebration, a bit of small talking, screaming and singalong added by the surrounding crowd (not too good for the recording….sorry), but we didn’t talk while they played, so you’ll hear a bunch of banter and stupid sentences in Italian/local dialect between the songs. All in all I think this is a pretty decent audience recording, especially considering this has been my first “taping” experience ever without a soundboard input and I never tried the Edirol “on the field”. The sound was pretty good, Kim’s voice a bit too low in the mic maybe and the drums not too clear, but no major issues. I had to switch the channels because I “wore” the recorder with a sort of necklace, and could not point it towards the stage as you’re supposed to do with it.

Pitchfork Music Festival: Day 1

We got to the park about a half an hour before the gates opened and found a pretty long line. The gates didn’t end up opening until about 5:30pm, but as soon as they did, you could see kids going through the gate and then running as fast as they could to go get a close spot. The security checkpoint at the entrance was very slack and the entire line probably got through the gate in 1o minutes. We decided to setup close at the stage for GZA and Sonic Youth, and got a really good spot. I did a little exploring and was very impressed with the music shop area and the $1 beverages. We listened to Slint do Spiderland from far away and it was hard to hear most of it, but what I could hear sounded good (We also listened to them sound check a lot of it while waiting outside in line). Shortly afterwards, The GZA and his entourage took the stage we were at and did what i believe was most of Liquid Swords. Unfortunately, none of the real Wu-Tang members showed up as The Genius explained he was skipping a Wu-Tang Clan show in Amsterdam to be here, but Cappadonna and the other guys with him i didn’t recognize did a good job backing him up.

After that it was time for Sonic Youth to do Daydream Nation. As soon as the show began, the crowd went nuts, and not necessarily in a good way. There were so many people pushing and trying to get up front and it was so tightly packed that the entire show would be a battle of endurance and will to survive. I don’t know if it had to do with the amount of young kids, or the low priced tickets allowed too many scrubs in, or maybe just the ultra-hipster pitchfork crowd, but it was pretty annoying to me (I’ve decided to coin a new term for these douche bags with no concert etiquette; Hipsters going through puberty I will now refer to as “Pubesters”). On the flip side though, that was the best Sonic Youth show I have ever seen. They did Daydream Nation so well, and added to and improved almost every song, all I could keep thinking was, there is no other band in the world that could play an album they wrote almost 20 years before and make it so amazing to listen to and seem so relevant. They jammed out parts of each song and every single one blew my mind. After doing the album, they came out with Mark Ibold of Pavement and played three songs from Rather Ripped as the encore. Listening to “Incinerate”, “Reena”, and “Jams Run Free” in the context of just listening to Daydream Nation pretty much solidified in my mind that Sonic Youth is probably the greatest band to exist in the history of electric guitar music on every level with the exception of maybe The Beatles. I know that may seem a little too much to say, but there is no band ever that has been able to exist 25 years without breaking up, and been able to write some of the best albums and put on some of the best shows of the time that far into their career. These guys are just pure musicians that have never let anything keep them from making the best music of several generations and Pitchfork and most of the acts there would probably never even exist without them. We finished the night off drinking pitchers of Ohmpark’s favourite beer, Fat Tire, and it would be a perfect end to an amazing day in the Windy City.

Torrent Of The Day: Thurston Moore at SXSW

Thurston performing songs from an upcoming solo album. Drogging with an acoustic:

Thurston Moore and Friends (sonic youth) 2007-03-xx sxsw – austin – tx (16-bit) (FLAC)

Thurston moore w/
Steve Shelley on drums and Sumara Lubelski on violin
03-16-07
Mohawk patio
Sxsw
Austin tx
Trks 1-7

03-17-06
End of an ear
Sxsw
Austin tx
Trks 8-14

Mics>dat>cd>eac>sf6>flac>td>you

i think moore did 6 shows at sxsw. here are two. good quality. end of ear is real good quality. fits on 1 cd. i have been to alot of festivals and sxsw is THE best. plus i only spent $3 on music.

Torrent Of The Day: Sonic Youth (1-5-1985) (DVD)

This is one of my favourite all-time bootlegs. Sonic Youth in the middle of desert. Get it:

SONIC YOUTH – Gila Monster jam – 1/5/1985 – Mojave Desert, CA – DVD NTSC







SONIC YOUTH – Gila Monster jam – 1/5/1985 – Mojave Desert, CA – DVD NTSC

ok, this is the legendary concert from the Mojave Desert from their Bad Moon Rising tour. it is no longer in print. it was made from a VHS transfer i did using MySonicDVD. its decent quality, not bad for such an old show.

SET LIST

Brother James
Kill Yr Idols
Intro
Brave Men Run
Death Valley 69
I Love Her All The Time
Ghost Bitch
I’m Insane
Indian Beat (Flower)
Burning Spear

Videos Of The Day: Bonnaroo

Here’s the video Beck had in the middle of his show:

Sonic Youth:

The Mars Volta:

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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