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The Quest For The Best Atlanta Music Of 2008
No Face @ The Drunken Unicorn (12/3/08)
I’m just finishing up my best Atlanta music list of 2008 and I figured I would talk about a few of the contenders I hadn’t discussed yet this year. When I make my suggested show listings each week, I try to look into as many acts as I can that I don’t recognize playing The Earl or The Drunken Unicorn because their booking is so consistently high quality. I stumbled across an Altanta band I had never heard of called No Face and really loved the couple of songs I heard. I went to see them earlier this month at the Drunken Unicorn, and unfortunately it was very disappointing. Luckily I bought their album before they played, because their album and their live show are as different as night and day. All of You Mean So Much To Me’s strengths are absent from their 3-piece concert setup with uninspiring drumming and bass playing completely drowning out the soft vocals and occasional guitar playing from Chandler Kelley, the obvious brains behind the operation. It’s a shame, but I won’t hold it against his excellent record that I highly recommend getting. The carefully crafted instrumentation perfectly accentuates Kelley’s endearing song-writing, and there seems enormous potential from this ATLien if he can put together a stage act that rivals his splendid studio work.
No Face : If I Found Somewhere To Live
Fag Static
If screamy vocals are an impenetrable fortress between you and enjoying a band, than you should probably skip over this. If you can get beyond that, or even better, get on the vibe with them, this album is incredible. I had never got around to obtaining a copy of this until a few weeks ago, but I have been thoroughly jamming it ever since. Fag Static include half of the retired Atlanta band Blame Game. Fag Static is now actually a dead band as well, as the BG kids continue to jump around from project to project (Keep your ears out for Sunglasses and a Thy Mighty Contract record). So, before this album becomes just another buried treasure of this city’s scene, get hip to it:
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun
Last weekend when I was out in East Atlanta, I ran into a couple of the members of the now defunct Atlanta band Parade. They had come from the Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun show that I had totally forgot about and they highly recommended the band, so I bought both of their records(both came out this year). Upon listening to them, I discovered there are an enormous amount of parallels between Parade and TTMTTS. TTTMTTS is almost a bit too reminiscent honestly, but packaged in a more accessible, dance-rock-dance sort of way. While their songwriting may not be quite as tremendous as Parade’s yet, their execution is rather impressive. They certainly seem to have all the makings of a successful band in this city.
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun : The Lightning Exhibit : Terrain
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun : Hurry Up And Wait : Never. Always. Good.
Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun myspace
Expect my best Atlanta albums of 2008 list by the end of the weekend.
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 27, 2008 at 4:53 am
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Flight Of The Conchords Season Two, Episode One
The first episode of the new season of HBO’s Flight Of the Conchords has landed on the web, and here is the entire thing:
Bonus tunes:
Flight Of The Conchords : Robots
The Crazy Dogggz : Doggie Bounce
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 18, 2008 at 6:57 am
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Live Videos: My Brightest Diamond, Clare & The Reasons @ The Earl (12/07/08)
This was such a fun, incredible concert. Clare & The Reasons were the perfect openers for this show. I had had low expectations for My Brightest Diamond as a 4-piece being able to do the studio recordings justice, but it sounded breathtakingly flawless even with all of Shara Worden’s many guitar pedals broken. She combined extremely beautiful sounds with such an endearing personality for probably one of my favourite shows of the year. She is just one hell of a musician. Also, the crowd at The Earl was uncharacteristically hushed up for the quietest parts, although you’ll notice in the second MBD video the douchiest photographer in the city try his best to spoil things for everyone:
Clare & The Reasons:
My Brightest Diamond:
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 12, 2008 at 6:11 am
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The Rosebuds, The Love Language, The Preakness @ The Earl (12/01/08)
The Rosebuds
Last Monday night’s show at The Earl was a really good one. The Preakness did a typically solid set. The Love Language were nice live, although they are bit too conservative/old-school country-ish for my tastes. The Rosebuds‘ live show was thoroughly enjoyable and fun, and they appeared to have quite a fanbase in the ATL. Here are a ton of pics and videos:
The Preakness:
Click here to read the entire post…
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 9, 2008 at 3:56 am
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New Mastodon Album Coming Soon, But Not Soon Enough
Their next record, Crack The Skye, is all finished but we won’t hear it until sometime “early next year”, whenever that is. I can’t wait. For those of you who are also eagerly anticipating its release, here are some interviews to soak up. First, Brann Dailor was interviewed by Metalshrine. And here is a three part video interview with Brent Hinds talking about the new album, tattoos, and getting sucker punched at the MTV VMAs:
Crack the Skye track listing:
01. Oblivion
02. Divinations
03. Quintessence
04. The Czar
I. Usurper
II. Escape
III. Martyr
IV. Spiral
05. Ghost of Karelia
06. Crack The Skye
07. The Last Baron
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 8, 2008 at 6:25 am
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Monday Night In The A: The Rosebuds
Last year I had bought The Rosebuds 2007 album called Night Of The Furies, but after casually listening to it once, I put the CD in a pile with lots of other CDs and I never stumbled across it again for about a year. Before I drove up to New York back in September of this year for ATP, I started going through my library looking for CDs to listen to in my vehicle due to the lack of digital media player options. I found Night Of The Furies and ended up jamming it again on my journey and really fell in love with it. It is interesting how listening to different media can determine what you choose to hear. I recently picked up their newest, Life Like, and while it has taken me a little while to warm up to it, I’m starting to fall for it too, so I’m excited about the show tonight. The bill is also stacked with two top notch openers, fellow Raleigh, NC’s The Love Language and Atlanta’s The Preakness. Pine Magazine posted an interview with The Rosebuds and here’s some audio and video to get you hyped up for tonight:
The Rosebuds : Night Of The Furies : Silja Line
The Rosebuds : Life Like : Nice Fox
The Rosebuds : Life Like : Another Way In
“Box Car”:
“Get Up Get Out” live:
- Posted by Davy Minor on December 1, 2008 at 6:54 am
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Live Videos: Deerhunter, Times New Viking (Halloween)
Deerhunter
Here are some videos of the Halloween show at the Variety Playhouse. These two bands were great, but Pylon and Jay Reatard were excruciating to get through and wore me out by the time Deerhunter blasted through a Microcastle-heavy set. I’ve found myself really enjoying the addition of Whitney Petty to the line-up live. Now that Bradford is all business on stage and dropped his antics, her goofy, quirky persona is literally the side-show off by herself while everyone else is busy shoegazing. I’m still not in total love with Times New Viking like some, but they are pretty damn good. See all of Clint Miller’s photos from the show here.
Times New Viking:
Deerhunter:
Times New Viking
- Posted by Davy Minor on November 28, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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I Heart Blastoids!
When I went on tour with This Piano Plays itself and Kebert Xela earlier this summer, they played with an incredible band in Murfreesborro, Tennessee called Blastoids. At times they wear their Animal Collective influence on their sleeves a bit too much, but they have quite a range of psychedelic deliciousness that sound great even in the songs where they steer far away from that sound. Hopefully they’ll come down to Atlanta and play a show soon, but until then, they just released some new music videos for a couple of their songs, so check those out, and a few mp3s to get acquainted with an elite southeastern band:
“Cowboy”:
“Trout Dick”:
- Posted by Davy Minor on November 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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