Hijacking Music Festival 2011 Schedule

One of the last local fests of the year, Hijacking Music Festival hits the Goat Farm this Saturday (Nov. 12th). As you may have already noticed, I’ll be performing a reading from my novel there. Also, there will be plenty of music and art to enjoy. Here’s the schedule:

4:20pm – Psychedubasaurus Rex
5:00pm – Paperwork
5:30pm – Gun Party
6:00pm – Hello Cobra
6:30pm – Ethereal
7:00pm – Cloudeater
7:30pm – Sneaky Hand
8:00 pm – Davy Minor
8:30pm – Arablak
9:00pm – BOSCO
9:30pm – A: the Color
10:00pm – ODIST
10:30pm – Clan Destined
11:00 pm – Jack of Hearts
11:30 pm – Dark Room
12:00 am – heRobust
12:30 am – TRICIL

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door.

Hijacking Music Festival 2011 Sampler

The 2011 Hijacking Music Festival, happening at the Goat Farm Saturday, November 12th, recently released a sampler of the cornucopia of local acts performing at the fest. Check it out below:

Hijacking Music Festival Facebook Page

Hijacking Music Festival Sampler 2011 by hijackingmusic

Hijacking Music Festival

The Hijacking Music collective is putting on a festival July 17 at Lenny’s. Here’s the lineup:

Arablak
Jungol
ODIST
Miles From Pangea
Pschedubasaurus REX
The Humboldt Trio
Bodegas Brovas
DT of Clan Destined
Sneaky Hand
Before the Solstice
Holy Ghost
Paperwork
Relapse
Tricil
Uprise Dub

Things get kicked off around 3pm and tickets are $10. You can download a music sampler of the artists playing the fest and get more information at the Hijacking Music Fest website. I feel like I haven’t been to Lenny’s in years, so I’m looking forward to having a good reason to return.

Underground Hottlanta: The Hijacking Music Collective


Miles From Pangea

One of the many things I love about the Atlanta music scene is the sense of community that is very prevalent between artists, and everyone else associated with it. It is common around here for bands who share a vision to come together and help each other promote themselves and record and things like that. Industrial Strength Promotions is great example of this.

Recently I became aware of one such conglomerate called “Hijacking Music”. It consists of 3 new and talented bands including 13 Day Mission (ATL), Beatrix Kiddo (Athens), and Miles From Pangea (Marietta). All three are instrumental groups that I would consider in the greater realm of post-rock and everything I’ve heard from them shows a ton of promise and potential. They have a recording studio they use called the “O Zone Lair” and they even have a blog: O Team Press. Give them a listen:

13 Day Mission : Eat All Speaking Canaries

13 Day Mission : El Spectaculare

Beatrix Kiddo : Lena

Beatrix Kiddo : Dominique Dawes

Miles From Pangea : Blackwater Pond

Miles From Pangea : Crimson Sky

In terms of official releases, so far there is only 13 Day Mission‘s EP from last year, Ex Incendia Libertas, which I have been jamming out constantly over the last couple weeks, and it is available for free at their myspace. I highly recommend you go pick that up. Also, this Friday night, you can catch all three bands at 11:11 Teahouse with me for what looks to be a pretty awesome night of music and art:

13 Day Mission Myspace

Beatrix Kiddo Myspace

Miles From Pangea Myspace


13 Day Mission