What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

The theme for today is Atlanta artists. In fact, all of these acts are on the Atlanta label Stickfigure. I find myself liking so much of their roster.

Sorry No Ferrari

If you read Ohmpark regularly, you know I’m a fan of this mathy, posty 4-piece instrumental outfit. They totally destroyed it at the WonderRoot show we put on over the summer and this 5 track EP they have recently put out displays they are just as impressive on record as they are live. They will be at Lenny’s next Friday night, so don’t miss what may be their last show with their current drummer:

Sorry No Ferrari : Tuba Toothpaste

Buy The Get Down Syndrome here

Sorry no Ferrari Myspace

Nerdkween

Nerdkween, the moniker of Monica Arrington, has been making lo-fi, ethereal pop music since the beginning of this decade, but just now released her first proper full-length album, Synergy. The album employs low-level electronic distortion that contrasts the gorgeous and minimalistic ballads she performs, creating an interestingly contradictory feel, combining the very human, naked emotions of her songs with a very unnatural, technological aura. Even though the distort-your-music-production craze of this year is starting to wear a little thin on me, the utilization here is unique enough to rise above being just a gimmick. Plus, the music is beautiful:

Nerdkween : If

Nerdkween : Earning My Disgrace

Buy Synergy here

Nerdkween Myspace

The Subliminator

The word speaking and theremin playing avant-garde artist known as The Subliminator, aka Serson Brannen, returns with his sophomore album, Rake. This latest effort brings everything you would want and expect from his dark, experimental project. While you definitely need to be in the right mood to jam this one, I think it is a rather accessible album for something so crazy and over the top. Dive into the abyss:

The Subliminator : Howl!

The Subliminator : Appliances

Buy Rake here

The Subliminator myspace

The Subliminator Invades Florida Tomorrow

Another avant-garde demi-god in the A, The Subliminator, is doing a tour of Florida starting tomorrow. The Subliminator combines spoken word with playing theremins to form a very unique and and interesting style. No matter what kind of music you are into, seeing him live is something everyone should do at least once. If you are in Florida, go check out on these shows:

The Subliminator tour dates:

May 29 – Jacksonville, FL @ Club Eclipse
May 31 – Tallahassee, FL @ The Speed Shop
June 3 – Miami, FL @ Churchull’s
June 4 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Area 7
June 5 – Orlando, FL @ Central Station
June 6 – Gainesville, FL @ George’s Meat And Produce Gallery
June 7 – Tampa, FL @ The Pegasus Lounge
June 8 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Transisitons Gallery
June 28 – Atlanta, GA @ Corndogorama

The Subliminator myspace

Here’s him live:

Ohmpark’s Guide To Nophest 4&20

The weekend is almost here and I am very excited. Nophest announced a third stage of bands for Sunday April 20th at The Doogallery. For details on that and the full schedule, go to the Nophest website. I’m going to break down the acts that stand out to me and help you discover some new bands from the massive line-up. Click on the band name to listen to some tracks on their myspace or website:

Friday:

7:45pm Lovesick Scientist: A project of Justin Sias (Elevado) that is produced by Brian Slusher (Slushco). With those two top tier ATL musicians involved, it has to be good.

8:30pm R_Garcia: I’ve just sort of been introduced to Randy Garcia through Nophest, but everything I sees points to him being a pretty badass musician and dude, so I’m ready to catch this one.

9:15pm Missile Command: A band featuring members of Elevado. We got a sneak preview performance of these guys at our one year anniversary party and they rocked out hard so I’ve been excited to catch the Missile Command again. Here’s some tracks to jam:

Level Up

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Live Review: Stickfigure Distribution January 2008 Showcase

Last week I caught two of the four nights in a row of Stickfigure at The Drunken Unicorn. If you are somehow unfamiliar with Stickfigure, they have been an Atlanta underground music institution since 1992 and consistently put out Atlanta’s most interesting independent releases. Wednesday night I got there just in time to catch most of Big Penguin. They were doing the power duo thrash punk thing and it was cool:

Next up was Zandosis. They were a serious noise-jam band beating on weird instruments and using lots of feedback. I thought it was decent, but as much as I like noise, I think it was a little over the top for me.

I had just recently discovered Sorry No Ferrari, so I was excited to catch them again. I’m a sucker for straight-up post-rock instrumental bands, and so far I think they are the best of this sort of thing I’ve heard in Atlanta. They really rocked out hard for this one:


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