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Best shows in Atlanta November 9 – 15:

Wednesday:

Monsters of Folks (Conor Oberst, Jim James, M Ward and Mike Mogis) @ The Tabernacle

Abby Go Go, Attached Hands, Ventricles @ 529

Thursday:

Shonen Knife, Jeff The Brotherhood, The N.E.C. @ The Earl

Times New Viking, The Axemen, Balkans @ Star Bar

Lotus, Big Gigantic @ Variety Playhouse

Back Pockets, Br’er, Nomen Novum, Christ Lord @ Eyedrum

Friday:

Benevento Russo Duo, Sean Bones @ The 5 Spot

Recompas, Life at Sea @ 529

A Fight To The Death, Blair Crimmins and the Hookers, Hurricanes of Love @ Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge

Saturday:

First Annual Ear Ball (Tree Creature, Envie, Killick, many more) @ Eyedrum

Pretty Lights, Gramatik @ The Masquerade




Monsters Of Folk : Say Please
Jeff The Brotherhood : Bone Jam
Times New Viking : Move To California
Benevento Russo Duo : Play Pause Stop
Pretty Lights : City Of One

Langerado 2008 Preview

Langerado just released the schedule today and it looks pretty good. Here is my personalized schedule so far. If you are still on the fence whether to go to this one, I’m gonna go through some of the smaller acts that I’m really excited about. The first band on the “Swamp Stage” is right here from Altanta, Dead Confederate. I believe they are going to be one of the ATL bands that get big nationally by the end of this year (they were handpicked to open for R.E.M. at SXSW), because their new EP is really awesome. Jam this track and pick up this EP:

Dead Confederate : The Rat

Vampire Weekend is another band that is on the super-hype lately in blogland. While I enjoy their new album, I think it is one of those “good but not great”. They are just a little too gimmicky and lacking a tad bit in substance. Regardless of that, though, I’m very excited to see them live because I think they will be pretty cool to see. Check them out:

Vampire Weekend : Walcott
An album I really enjoyed from last year is !!!‘s Myth Takes. They are organic dance rock that sort of sound like a an indie-rock version of STS9 or those sorts of bands with lyrics/vocals. I’ve been wanting to catch them live for so long because I’ve heard how much fun their shows are. If 311 isn’t quite your bag, or you’ve seen them like 10 times like me, this band is really worth checking out:

!!! (chk chk chk) : Break In Case Of Anything
So, one of the biggest draws to Langerado for me is Built To Spill. They are one of my all time favourite bands. Since I have like a million BTS live shows, this seems like a good time to share one. Behold 1999-05-09 (Early Show):

1. Made Up Dreams
2. Center of The Universe
3. Kicked it In The Sun

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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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Torrent Of The Day: The Benevento-Russo Duo (9-9-2006)

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benevento-russo duo
the troubadour
west hollywood, Ca
September 9th 2006

tape: akg483>lunatec V3> da-P1 @48k
transfer: da30mk11> ECHO MIAMIDI> wavelab v5.0[resampled to 44.1k]> cdwav v1.94.5> flac16(level 8)
tape and transfer by: justin hoogerwerf

disc 1:

1. Play, Pause, Stop 9:57
2. Sunny’s Song 4:58
3. Soba 6:34
4. Memphis 5:30
5. Echo Park 4:41
6. Bye Ya 11:16 Thelonious Monk
7. Becky 6:35
8. Something For Rockets 6:51
9. Welcome Red 6:45

disc 2:

1. Best Reason To Buy The Sun 5:46
2. Hateframe 8:59
3. Mephisto 10:52
4. Walking, Running, Viking 3:56
5. Three Question Marks 12:27
6. My Pet Goat 13:03
encore:
7. Paranoid Android 10:05 Radiohead

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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