[Mp3] Wizard Smoke: “Weakling”

This Saturday (April 30) night at the Drunken Unicorn, Wizard Smoke give their latest record, The Speed of Smoke, a physical release on cassette and vinyl after giving it away for free digitally last month. The record centers around their characteristic doomy stoner metal riffs and screaming vocals, but this offering is constructed much more dynamically than previous efforts. It’s a little outside of my normal taste range, but it’s definitely worth rocking in the right head space.

Wizard Smoke : “Weakling”

Download The Speed of Smoke

An Atlanta Mp3 Trilogy: Fishhawk, Reklein/R_Garcia, Wizard Smoke

fishhawk

I just got a copy of Fishhawk‘s Bells Underwater, which got released early in the summer. Their sound is somewhere vaguely in TV On The Radio territory, and while stylistically it is a little too far outside of my normal taste range, I have to admit that it is very well done. The production quality alone makes this a worthwhile release to check out. At 15 tracks, the record has a little too much fat on it, but it also has some really great moments.

Fishhawk : Panic Attack

Buy Bells Underwater

Fishhawk myspace




reklein

Reklein are a local electronic group that do nice laid back Intelligent Dance Music. They have recently released their newest album, Piedmont, and it has been growing on me more and more with each listen. Typically I find myself a little bored with something this chill and atmospheric, but there are so many interesting, little quirky things going on throughout this record. Nerd Parade‘s Randy Garcia just did a cool remix of one of the tracks, so check it out and then go grab a copy of Piedmont for free:

Reklein : Cassidy (R_Garcia 1337 IDMZ Mix)

Download Piedmont for free

Reklein myspace

R_Garcia website





Wizard Smoke @ Corndogorama 2009

Wizard Smoke are a metal super-group associated with local bands such as Maserati, Attractive 80′s Women, Dust Rabbit and Cassavetes. They do droney, doomy stoner metal that sounds exactly what you would expect from that description. So it isn’t exactly breaking new ground, and I have great difficulty enjoying the monotone screamy vocals, but beyond that this band rocks out pretty hard. So if you enjoy this sort of thing, you can go download their debut album for free:

Wizard Smoke : III

Download Live Rock In Hell for free

Wizard Smoke myspace

Corndogorama 2009: Saturday (Day 1)


All photos by Clint Miller

We got a later start yesterday than I would have liked and didn’t make it to Corndogorama until The Goldest began their set. I loved their EP, but in previous occasions thought their live show was a bit lacking. This time they sounded really good.

I got some lunch at the Australian Bakery, which has served as our Corndog home base for escaping the heat and grubbing, and then caught Sonen. Their set at last year’s corndog was lackluster, but this year it was not enjoyable at all. The vocals were very loud in the mix, and these two so called “vocalists” have no business singing. It was hard to even give the music underneath much of a chance with how bad the vocals were.

Next, Nomen Novum played one of the better live sets I’ve seen them do. They started out with some guitar loop build up songs and then moved to more electronic stuff near the end. While the duo churned out the tunes, they were joined by a dancer for this set who even contributed some neat sound effects using blades of grass.


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