Bonnaroo 2008 Friday (Day 2): The Sun, The Fiery Furnaces, The Free Beer Tent; This Is Why I’m Hott

Friday morning started about 4 hours after Thursday night ended for me with the sun making things too uncomfortable for me to sleep late. I grabbed some breakfast and got an early start on the day. I got to the media area to do some blogging and listen to the media orientation speech. They laid out everything we could and couldn’t do, and none of it really seemed to effect what I’m doing. I don’t have all access, but it seems like there are lots of artists in the media area doing interviews and such, so that has been really cool. I gave the guitarist from Minus The Bear some daps before catching some shows.

First up was The Fiery Furnaces. They did a set that was very similar to the set they did at The Variety Playhouse earlier this year, except this time they had a thimble player to make it a 5 piece. It was extremely tight and heavily weighted by Widow City songs, which I love. At some point a cardboard cutout of Eleanor made its way into the crowd, followed by other cardboard cutouts that I thought at first were the rest of the band, but then I saw one of them was Bradford Cox and realized they were from the Converse ad.


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What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

After seeing Marnie Stern‘s amazing show last week and getting excited about Joanna Newsom‘s return to the ATL, today is all about the ladies:

Tegan And Sara (Vancouver/Montreal, Canada)

I’ve admittedly only gotten into this duo recently but I’ve been enjoying their new album, The Con. Very catchy and upbeat, but not lacking in character or style. I think I will be going to see them at the Roxy in November.

Tegan And Sara Myspace

Buy The Con Here

St. Vincent (US)


photo by tod seelie

St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, has been a member of the Polyphonic Spree and in Sufjan Stevens touring band last year. I’m a little behind the rest of the blogosphere on this one, but now that i have her album, Marry Me, I’m loving it. You will too:

St. Vincent Myspace

Buy Marry Me here

The Long Blondes (Sheffield, UK)

The debut album from this 5-piece, Someone To Drive You Home, sounds like Tragic Kingdom-era No Doubt meets Blondie, but in a good way. This album is definitely pop and the subject matter is a little surfacy, but if you can deal with that, you’ve got a high quality album with some really catchy and fun songs:

The Long Blondes Myspace

Buy Someone To Drive You Home here

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:

Video Of the Day: Tegan And Sara



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