What Up 420 In The ATL?
Start today by watching Deerhunter cover Pylon’s “Cool” at their New york show last Friday night where they performed their entire forthcoming album, Microcastle.
It is a mammoth week for music in the city. The biggest event of the week, 420, is being celebrated by two fests, Nophest and Sweetwater. Atlanta’s Mice In Cars had this to say about the choice between the two on myspace:
Well, you have 2 options. You can go see some crappy bands that aren’t in touch with the local music scene, pay A LOT of money for crappy beer from someone that rhymes with (and tastes like) Feetwater. Or you can come to the 3 day Festival featuring tons and tons of local musicians, artists, Djs and performers, watch movies, oh and did I mention FREE BEER. I don’t know, you pick.
I couldn’t agree more. Ohmpark is going to be at Nophest in full force all weekend for what looks to be a spectacular time. We’ll have a full guide to Nophest 4 & 20 out tomorrow some time.
Before I go into all the other awesome shows going on here this week, I just want to say a few things about the shows I caught last weekend. Saturday night I went to see Big, the collaboration between Outkast’s Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet. It was a pretty interesting combination that I’m really glad I got to experience, although I didn’t quite love everything about it. Seeing Big Rube do some spoken word was super cool. The most striking thing to me were the visual effects, which I think eclipsed the vast majority of big concerts I’ve seen. It doesn’t make sense to me why bands with a big budget don’t do more to utilize the technology in this realm that the Atlanta Ballet seems to be sporting. Also, last night I caught the Explosions In The Sky show at the Variety Playhouse. It was exactly as I anticipated, a serious assault of post-rock. Those guys are just so good.
Tonight I plan to catch The Ruby Suns at the Drunken Unicorn.
There are some other really sweet shows going on tonight as well:
Center Stage: Spoon, The Walkmen, White Rabbits
The Earl: VHS Or Beta, Tigercity
Variety Playhouse: Iron & Wine, Califone (SOLD OUT)
Thursday night there are two really interesting shows:
The Earl: Ski Club (former Kill Gordon, Sovus Radio, Variac), Josh Roberts and The Hinges, Passer By (Reunion show!!!)
Star Bar: Dead Confederate, The Constellations, Hands Down Eugene (Free)
Friday night I’ll be hitting Nophest, but there are some other cool shows going on worth mentioning:
Masquerade Music Park: Feist
Lenny’s: The Selmanaires, Coathangers, Sleep Therapy
Saturday is National Record Store Day and Criminal Records is having a ton of bands performing at the store for free. Here’s the schedule:
BAND SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Outdoor stage:
1:00 PM – The Bridges
2:00 PM – Ocha La Rocha
3:00 PM – Bobby and the Soft Spots
4:00 PM – Suitcases
5:00 PM – Judi Chicago
6:00 PM – The Coathangers
7:00 PM – Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause
8:00 PM – Noot d’Noot
Indoor stage:
2:30 PM – Single Malt Solution
3:30 PM – Trances Arc
4:30 PM – Club Awesome
5:30 PM – Dead Confederate
6:30 PM – Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra)
7:30 PM – Hope for agoldensummer
8:30 PM – Janelle Monae
Saturday night there are some more great shows to see:
The Earl: The Liverhearts (CD Release Show), Lay Down Mains, Rizzudo
Star Bar: The Jupiter Watts, Long Knives, Spy For Hire
Some non-420-fest things going down Sunday include:
The Earl: Cassavettes (Dunch 1pm-3pm)
Masquerade Music Park: “Gigantour” Megadeath, Job For A Cowboy, High On Fire, In Flames, Children Of Bodom
See you at the shows!
- Posted by Davy Minor on April 14, 2008 at 3:11 am
