What Up In The ATL?

Tonight there are two big shows going on. Jay Reatard is big on the hype tip right and will be doing his thing as Lenny’s. You can find more about him at his myspace or watch videos of him fighting with his audience here. If you are in love with the Black Lips, then this is probably the show for you to catch. While I wouldn’t mind catching Jay Reatard, I am way more excited to see Destroyer tonight. Most people have been on the Destroyer-backlash bandwagon, but I absolutely love Trouble In Dreams. “Foam Hands”:

Another album I have been jamming hard is Genghis Tron’s Board Up The House. They will be at The Masquerade tomorrow with Converge. Genghis Tron at SXSW:

The other good show tomorrow night is at the Earl with Atlanta’s Envie and One Hand Loves The Other, who has gone through some inner turmoil lately. It is a bit confusing to me, so here’s Gavin from Stickfigure explaining the situation:

hey everyone,
One Hand Loves The Other are going on hiatus. Lou Rodriguez (the vocalist) is planning to reform the band but it appears at this point that he will be the only member continueing as one hand loves the other.
Mike Johnson, Mary Knight and Nancy Shim will be forming a new band. It is not 100% certain if Nancy Shim is leaving One Hand Loves The Other as well, but Mike Johnson and Mary Knight are playing their final performances with One Hand Loves The Other over the course of the next week. Of course in the age of reunion tours we can not definately say final shows @ this point now can we. but we can state that it will years before you can see this line up of the band every again.
the shows are as follows:
Tuesday April 29th @ the Earl. One Hand Loves The Other is headlining and performing with mystery palace and envie.
Saturday May 3rd @ Vinyl. Like Clockwork and When Rocky Beats The Russian are headlining since it is their cd release show. The Judies are also playing. At this time we do not know whether One Hand Loves The Other is opening or playing second.
take care,
gavin

So this week seems to be your last chance to check this out.

Other cool shows I like this week:

Friday: Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir at The Masquerade
Friday: Cracker, Dead Confederate at the Variety Playhouse
Saturday: Yeasayer, Man Man at Lenny’s

One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Remix : Tortoise (Treasure Fingers remix)
Yeasayer : Sunrise (Hey Champ remix)

Friday Free-Style

Bonnaroo’s “Big Announcement” this week was that Widespread Panic is replacing The Allman Brothers and doing their 43rd headlining spot at the ‘roo. They also added Les Claypool, Charli 2na, Super Drag, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Adele, Grand Ole Party, and The Postelles. Other than WSP, those are some decent additions, but I’m way more excited about the acts they added to the Cafe/nightclub, including Dead Confederate, Colour Revolt, De Novo Dahl, Phonograph, Bear In Heaven, Howlin Rain, and Royal Bangs, all of which are acts that I am interested in checking out. I’ll be doing a piece on all the lesser know ‘roo acts very soon.

Pecanne Log had the extened trailer to We Fun up, so check it:

Pitchfork Fest added Spoon, The Dodos, and Les Savy Fav. That is turning out to rather sweet line-up.

You can download a reversed version of the new Gnarls Barkley album for free here.

The RIAA spent $2.8 million dollars lobbying the government in 2007. Honestly, I would have expected that to be much higher.

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SXSW 2008 Day 4/Wrap-Up

Ok, I promise this is our last SXSW post. Most Likely. Anyways, the last day of the fest started with us sleeping in a bit later than normal, but we made it in time to catch Plants And Animals at an Urban Outfitters next to UT campus. They rocked it out:

After a long hike back to the main strip, Biggie C and I split up. He went to catch Dead Confederate, who ended up using almost all of their set doing cover of Sonic Youth‘s “Diamond Sea”. I went and caught Sea Wolf:


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Videos Of The Day: Yeasayer

Awesome new video for “Wait For The Summer”:

On Conan doing “2080″:

Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here’s a few pics and a vid:

Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don’t know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin’s Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:

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Friday Free-Style

My number one favourite musician, Jim O’Rourke, has a new album coming out this year! He is also reissuing some old stuff. We will celebrate with some Videos:

Interview:

Performing “Not Sport, Martial Art” & “Fuzzy Sun”:

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Live Photos, Videos, And Review: Yeasayer, MGMT, Morning State (1/18/2008) The Earl

Before throwing down at 1084 for our party last week, we went down to The Earl to catch this great show. First up was Atlanta’s own Morning State. They had just recently recorded their first full-length album and the label they had just signed to went under, so they had to go and re-record the entire album with Asa Leffert (Dark Meat, The Pendletons, The Whigs) in Athens, Ga so they could release it. Recording an album is a big undertaking, so I’m sure having to do the whole thing again would be frustrating, but it looks like they’ve made the most of it:

“The whole label thing sucked. It was really nice to have someone tell us that they were going to front the money for our album and release it and spend a bunch of cash on marketing it. When the label folded we had hoped to keep what we recorded but in order to do that we would have had to sign another contract and we decided it was best to walk away from that whole mess and just do it all over,” says frontman Russ Ledford. “We’re really excited to have a chance to re-make the album though and create something even better. We also have a lot of energy because of this whole situation, and I think that’ll really come out in the recordings.”

This recent show they brought it hard and I think they were the best I’ve seen them live yet:


Photo by Biggie C

Next up was Yeasayer, whose album All Hour Cymbals I’ve been jamming hard since I discovered it. The four-piece were incredible live and had so much energy on stage. The lead singer somehow cut his hand when he was jumping on his monitor and had blood running down his arm for half of the show, but it didn’t seem to phase him too much. Biggie C took some photos:


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What Up In The ATL?

This show is close to selling out and will be awesome, so go buy tickets now:

Other cool things going on:

Yeasayer : No Need to Worry

MGMT : Time to Pretend

The Lord Is My Shotgun : Get Some

Drug Rug : Winter Time

And don’t forget our One Year Anniversary party going on Saturday night!

Ohmpark’s Top 50 Best Albums Of 2007

2007 was an incredible year of music and there were so many albums I really liked that didn’t make this list. I noticed that most of the lists I pay attention to were very similar to one another this year as opposed to last year. Also, I’ve found myself in more of a disagreeance with those lists than last year. If there is any theme to be taken out of this list, I think it’s that I feel like too many great albums were underrated by the blogosphere elites, and that they were way in love with some albums I think are overrated. This list represents my personal assertions more so than the rest of the Ohmpark crew, but I worked hard to get every one’s opinions and influences in this thing. Feel free to comment on how much you hate or love it. I feel like every album on this is an essential one from last year, so go listen to some new music:

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Friday Night Free-Style

So the big local fiasco that happened last week that we hadn’t talked bout yet was the MF Doom show. Apparently MF Doom came out way late in the morning, lip-synced to 20 minutes of a CD, and a bunch of people don’t even think it was really him (he always wears a mask). From the MJQ promoter via myspace:

Many apologies go to all of you who came out to the MF DOOM show last night at MJQ and paid $30 of your hard earned money only to watch him lip sinc for 20 minutes at 1:30 in the morning. This was by far one of the single worst experiences I’ve had as a club promoter and I sincerely apologize if you walked away feeling cheated. To make matters even worse MF DOOMS appointed doorman took off with all the money from the door after the show! As soon as we realized the money was stolen we decided to help ourselves to all of MF DOOMS merchandise which included a bunch of T shirts and posters. So, in an effort to make it up to everyone who walked away feeling cheated, we’re giving away all the merchandise for free so come and get it while supplies last!! And if that’s not enough, feel free to let MF DOOM aka Daniel Dumile know how you really feel by calling him at his home in Kennesaw Georgia.

All the best,

Randy Castello / Tight Bros Network


Damn.

Ruby Isle have decided to start covering whatever song is #1 on the blog mp3 aggregator Elbows each week and releasing it for free. This is such a cool idea. Here’s their cover of Beach House‘s “Gila” (you can listen to the original here):

Ruby Isle : Gila (Beach House cover)
So, Xiu Xiu and Fucked Up have filed a lawsuit against RJ Reynolds Tobacco for using their names, plus tons of other indie groups, in a Camel cigarettes add in Rolling Stone magazine without their permission. Add this douchiness to running Bob Dylan cover stories every three months and having no clue what the best music of 2007 was, and Rolling Stone may be more out of touch than MTV.

Lou Reed will be the keynote speaker at SXSW.

Beck‘s Odelay is getting the “Deluxe Treatment” and will be available with lots of extra goodies at the end of next month.

David Byrne interviews Thom Yorke on In Rainbows.

The Long Blondes have a new album out in April.

The Smashing Pumpkins are digitally releasing an acoustic EP called American Gothic on January 2nd.

Snowden is so hott the television show CSI Miami has used their cover of “Time Of the Season”:

If for some reason you read this in time to check it out, Snowden are DJing tonight at DSC.

A cool show I recommend checking out tomorrow night:

I’ve been spending a ridiculous amount of time listening to albums from this year i hadn’t got a chance to listen to until now to make sure I leave no rock unturned for my Top 50 albums list. I’ll try to update my “heavy rotation list” sometime over the next few days, but until then, listen to these tracks of the stuff I’ve like best and then go get the album:

Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew : Spirit If… : Gang Bang Suicide
Plants And Animals : With/Avec : Lola Who?
Yeasayer : All Hour Cymbals : Sunrise
Jesu : Conqueror : Conqueror
Cloud Cult : The Meaning Of 8 : Chemicals Collide
Illinois : What The Hell Do I Know? : What Can I Do For You
I ‘m chilling at Octane coffee shop right now because Comcast is horrible and my internet service through them basically doesn’t work, so between that and me chillaxing for the holidays, posts will be sparse. My year end lists are taking a little longer than expected because i take them very seriously and i don’t want to miss anything. I would anticipate my best EP list up around Christmas and my best LP list up right before New Years. Happy Holidays and Thanks for reading Ohmpark!