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Live Show: Tom Waits (11/21/1976)

2008-05-15T08:00:00.000-04:00

He will be at The Fox Theater on July 5th. It looks like tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am, so check out info here. I really want to see this, but it looks like the cheapest tickets are $67. Damn. Anyways, here is a cool live show from 1976 I found:

Tom Waits 11/21/76
Ivanhoe Theater
Chicago, IL

1. Emotional Weather Report

2. Invitation to the Blues

3. Virginia Avenue

4. Jitterbug Boy

5. I Can't Wait to Get Off Work

6. Fumblin' With the Blues

7. Pasties & a G-String

8. Small Change

9. Eggs & Sausage

10. The Piano Has Been Drinking

11. Tom Traubert's Blues

Download Lossless Torrent Here

DIY Nation: Soundlab 84

2008-05-14T15:27:00.000-04:00

After returning from my Radiohead roadtrip, I recharged and headed out to Cabbagetown or Reynoldstown (I'm not sure exactly where the line is) for a house party last Saturday night. The party was hosted by the guys from Missile Command, featuring some of Atlanta's most prolific artists and all-around cool dudes. The house was perfectly suited for this sort of thing, with great porches, a front living room converted to a small venue, and plenty of booze to go around. And of course the show was absolutely free. ATL superstars were out and about for this one.

I thoroughly enjoyed all 4 bands on the bill. Everyone there was rocking loud and hard. The cops came at least twice, but must have been pretty cool because the music never stopped. I have not attended a ton of house parties on the east side of town, so its great to see people doing it right outside the college kid infested neighborhood I live in. I got some videos, and while the sound is pretty decent, the lighting was way too dark. But if you want to watch the blurry shadows bringing it hard, I've uploaded them to youtube anyways (think of them as audio recordings):

Missile Command:

Icecaps:

Black Skies:

All The Saints:

Bands I Heart: 65daysofstatic

2008-05-14T15:11:00.000-04:00

65daysofstatic is a really great band that doesn't get enough hype on the blogosphere, including here. Their full-length from last year was our #30 best album of 2007 and I had only mentioned them once before that, so here's some 65daysofstatic stuff. This UK outfit is broadly a post-rock band, but they break down more genre walls then most any band you can paint with that brush. They just dropped a new video on youtube earlier this week in support of their new EP/Single, The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties:

"Dance Parties (Distant)":

So they seemed to have gone post-dance-rock with this EP and these guys have the ability to conquer just about any sort of feel they want. Here's another track from it:

65daysofstatic : The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties : Goodbye, 2007

They are touring around with The Cure right now and will be at the Gwinnett Center Arena on June 15th. Here is a recent torrent form one of those shows:

65daysofstatic 2008-05-10 Wachovia Spectrum/Philadelphia, PA (16-bit) (FLAC)

65daysofstatic
(Opening for The Cure)
Wachovia Spectrum
Philadelphia, PA
May 10, 2008

Recording Location: Section 226, Row 16, Seat 7

Source: SP-CMC-19 > SP-SPSB-1 > Edirol R-09

Editing and Conversion: Audacity 1.3.4 (Editing and track splitting) > Trader's Little Helper 2.1.0 (FLAC conversion and fingerprint creation)

1. Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
2. Await Rescue
3. Fix The Sky A Little
4. Primer
5. Retreat! Retreat!
6. Radio Protector

65daysofstatic Myspace

Buy The Distant and Mechanized Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties Here

One last live video:

Album Review: You Know People I Know People

2008-05-14T00:56:00.002-04:00

Morning State: You Know People I Know People

Morning State finally released their debut full-length album last week after having to scrap the first recording due to their label collapsing. You can read all about that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-esque storyline here. The album released is actually from a second, separate recording session earlier this year with Asa Leffer (The Whigs, Dark Meat, The Pendletons) at DARC in Athens, GA over an 11 day span.

The album opens with "Sad Is When I'm Driving" and is the perfect intro track to this band. At moments it is melodic and reserve, others it is rocking hard delivering the best of its collective members. Sweet and concise guitar riffs, driving rhythms on the drums, straightforward, catchy hooks from vocalist Russ Ledford, and a tease of their bottled up potential to jam out. The album builds up momentum with the short second track, "Hurry, Hurry", before they drop one of the obvious hit songs, "Never So Strange." The version of this track seems so much more laid back and tentative from what I remember of it live. It helps with the overall flow of the album, but something about the song itself seems lacking.

"Grown Up (Atlanta)" is up next and is my favourite song on this record. I usually go back and listen to this one again every time I put You Know People in my CD player. It channels everything I enjoy about bands like The Foo Fighters and Queens Of the Stone Age. The jam at the end of the next track,"On A Walk," really sells the guitar work on this album. Evey riff they employ seems to be the right decision for the particular feel they are trying achieve.

After a bit of a slow down, another standout tune,"That's Quite A Rash," picks up the velocity and really highlights the things that appeal to me most about this band. The two tracks that close out You Know People make for an interesting finale. As I understand it, "What Did You Want" was a newer song that wasn't on the original recording. The extended jam in it seems so uncharacteristic for these guys, but feels so right. "Knives" ends an album that always seems stronger when its louder, bigger, faster, harder with their softest, most downbeat tune. The paradoxical ending accentuates both the potential this band has and exposes the quirks in its identity.

The biggest problem with this record is that the somewhat derivative, '90s rock aesthetic might discourage someone with a progressive taste in music casually listening from digging deeper into the nuances and depth You Know People possesses. At the same time its idiosyncrasies may prevent it from being gobbled up in radio-pop land. The line they ride I think is a very interesting experiment in the current music climate, and I'm intrigued by both how it will turn out, and where these guys will go next. Even the way the album ends feels more like a question mark than an exclamation point. I'll be patiently awaiting the answer.

Morning State will be at The Star Bar Tomorrow night for a CD Release party with Casper And The Cookies.

Morning State : You Know People I Know People : Grown Up (Atlanta)

Morning State : You Know People I Know People : That's Quite A Rash

Morning State Myspace

Buy You Know People I Know People here

Live Review: Radiohead (5/8/2008 & 5/9/2008) Atlanta & Charlotte

2008-05-13T17:51:00.004-04:00

Last week I was on Radiohead overload and I loved it. I think maybe every single person I know in this city was at the Atlanta show. They are so damn popular now. I mean no matter what sort of style or taste in music of people I know, they all at least can appreciate this band. One down side of this is that there is going to be a crowd with some douches in it, as I've heard many people complain. But I would challenge anyone to tell me about a sold out show at Lakewood that didn't have its share of annoying people attending.

That said, I was probably one of the more annoying people at the show. Since I had seen them 4 times before this and I was pretty much stone cold sober for all of those concerts, I decided to get blotto for this one. Since the night is pretty much a blur, and most people reading this blog were probably also there, I'm just gonna note a couple of things:

I do not like overbearing cops and security at concerts, and there was way too much of that. People were getting arrested two cars down from where we were hanging out before the show. Why is it illegal to drink on private property at a concert but its ok to walk around with alcohol on Georgia Tech campus, which is lawfully not allowed anytime, during a football game? It is just such a stark contrast between the Phish shows I would go to back in 2000 at Lakewood and what that place has become now. I mean there really isn't much else worthwhile about seeing a show at that sized venue except the bigger-than-life party atmosphere.
While I'm ranting about how much I don't like Lakewood, Liars just didn't sound good in that venue. It was really disappointing to be listening to songs you know and love but not really enjoy them because you are like 7 miles from the stage. It made me not feel so bad being unable to catch a Radiohead show with Grizzly Bear opening.

Anyways, since a torrent of the Atlanta show has yet to surface, here's some vids:

"Pyramind Song":

"Lucky":

"Talk Show Host":

To do the review of the Charlotte show the next night, I want to welcome Ohmpark's newest contributor, Josh West. I'm looking forward to many more great contributions to the site from him, and since he is a total Radiohead super-fan, this is a very appropriate debut:

@ around 1:39pm Friday 9 May 2008, I strolled through the door at Ohmpark to find comparable degrees of hungoverness to my own. We recounted the slides of our memory as an obligation – needing to put to rest the previous nights ecstasies in Atlanta in order to fully anticipate lightening striking us twice. With that, we were on the road to Charlotte where Radiohead was waiting once again.

Fast forward to the house lights falling. We found our way with beers in hand to the middle of the lawn as the cheers of the crowd gave way to the slow, soulful "All I Need." After a few songs to warm the crowd, as well as the band, and then…
all engineering efforts began to come alive. For starters, there are five cameras scattered about the stage positioned on a band member, instrument, or both and their feeds are displayed side by side in the widest of widescreens behind the band. So, if you're at the back of the lawn, you can still see Jonny go apeshit.

The fun (and electrical engineering) doesn't stop there. The band also decided to drape themselves in 50 or so waterfalls of light that vary between about 20 to 30 feet in length each. When they're in the middle of a jam, you can see this shit from space.
And for the rest of the evening, as they sprinkled a song or two from albums past amidst our new In Rainbows favorites, the five piece came off as very seasoned and highly coordinated professional showmen – because they are. At times I couldn't decide on the most interesting thing to watch – whether it be Thom's maniacal dancing or the other thing on the screen they happened to be making noise with at the time. Thankfully, there was only one thing to listen to.

Further, when you have accumulated the catalogue that Radiohead have over the past 15+ years, you can construct a setlist that has it all. They're like that campy-ass summer blockbuster movie that has something for everyone, except they're actually good. The opportunity to serenade his girlfriend during "Exit Music (For A Film)" proved to be too much for one young gentleman. Juxtapose that with this really long-haired girl completely wigging out and bumping into everything during "Idioteque" – but hey, don't we all? I smelled plenty of the sticky during "Sail to the Moon" and the pit went nuts for Thom on the kit throughout "Bangers & Mash."

…which lead promptly into the highlight of the evening as the main set closed with an absolutely explosive "Bodysnatchers." I've been challenged to find the words and the best I've got is this: never before has the onslaught of sight and sound translated into my body moving the way it did. I'm white, getting older, and I'll be very pressed to recreate such an outcome. Others around me, notably Biggie C, were also appropriately affected.

The band, as well as I, got a much-needed break after that. However, the treats continued as they returned to the stage to perform back-to-back numbers not appearing on major albums with "Go Slowly" followed by "Talk Show Host."
Most of the crowd proceeded to wet themselves after the first chords of "Planet Telex" and it was actually here that I felt the band silenced all doubters wherever they might be found – getting everyone going on an oldie. The lights were synced perfectly and undeniably pained over for this one. They held this ace for long enough and were really just showing off at this point.

The show closed with the perennial favorite, "Paranoid Android" introduced in one of Thom's few addresses to the audience as, "This one's a naaass-tee lit-tle bas-tard" followed promptly by "Reckoner."
In all, everyone had the opportunity to laugh, cry, clap, sing, dance, hug, fist-pound, high-five, bob their head, hold a lighter (if you're into that), burn one down (cause I'm into that) and look at the people around them periodically with that holy-shit look on their face.

If they're coming to a city near you, bottom line: go to the show. If you have to, drop some bills on the dude about 1000 feet from the venue who looks like your dad. He'll be referring to the band as "Them Radioheads." You'll pay more than face value on the ticket, but this is pragmatically irrelevant. Get in.

You can download the Charlotte show here. Jonny took some pictures on the Radiohead blog, and here are a couple:

Monday Mash-Up

2008-05-12T10:37:00.004-04:00

Southern Shelter posted a Deerhunter show from last year in Athens where they opened with a song from their upcoming album. Here's a vid of a recent practice:

Deerhunter - Winter Never Stops (Acoustic) from Bradford Cox on Vimeo.

Snowden's tour with Colour Revolt starts today.

The Black Lips are still on the road.

DMX got arrested on drug charges and animal cruelty.

Stereolab will be at The Variety Playhouse September 26th.

There is a documentary in the works on the Los Angeles club Largo that will feature Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, Andrew Bird and others.

Some high schoolers made a Sonic Youth documentary about a 2006 show in Las Vegas.

My Morning Jacket will be at The Fox Theatre on August 27th.

Jam Cruise 7 announced its line-up, and it includes many jambands.

Madonna will be at The Phillips Arena November 24th.

The Vaselines have joined the reunion bandwagon.

The new Beck album produced by Danger Mouse and featuring Cat Power will be out sometime soon this summer.

Holy Fuck did a Daytrotter session.

Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene has an album coming out July 22nd.

Pearl Jam are working on a new album.

Dan Deacon has a new album coming out.

Vegoose is not happening this year.

Tom Waits will be at The Fox Theatre on July 5th.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds:

Gnarls Barkley:

Death Cab For Cutie documentary from Current TV:

What Up In The ATL?

2008-05-12T00:23:00.003-04:00

Tonight I recommend going down to The Earl for a killer show. It starts off with Atlanta supergroup Batata Doce. Then a local band called When Rocky Beat The Russian. I had no idea who they were until researching this week's show listings and discovering the songs on their myspace page to be very impressive and intriguing. The show is headlined by North Carolina's The Physics Of Meaning, who is lead by multi-instrumentalist Daniel Hart. Hart is a member of St. Vincent and John Vanderslice's band and even contributed to recordings by The Polyphonic Spree, Annuals, and The Rosebuds.

The Physics Of Meaning : Down At Columbia And Cameron

Tomorrow there are two big shows to check out. Devotchka at The Variety Playhouse or Blood On The Wall at The Earl. I'm planning to Catch BOTW, but I think both of those would be good.

Blood On The Wall : Hibernation

Devotchka : Transliterator

Thursday night you can choose from The Coathangers at The Drunken Unicorn or Morning State at The Star Bar.

Friday night there are lots of ATLien shows for you to catch:

Star Bar: Sovus Radio, The Clutters, All The Saints
Lenny's: Howlies, The Hiss, Chainstereo
Drunken Unicorn: Carbonas, Test Patterns, Pincho Gringo (Rob's House Showcase)

Saturday night I like the Dropsonic, Self-Evident, 13 Day Mission show at The Earl.

Sunday night Laura Veirs is playing at The Earl but I am more excited about Indian Jewelry at Eyedrum:

Tonight In The A: All The Saints

2008-05-10T15:45:00.004-04:00

I just got back from Charlotte and my second night of Radiohead (full Ohmpark review coming soon) so I am pretty worn out from traveling and drinking, but there is a sweet house party in the Reynoldstown/Cabbagetown that I'm going to check out, and you should too:

I have been listening to All The Saints' upcoming album and it is really good. Even OTP blogs have taken notice of these guys, so catch them while they're hott!

All The Saints : Fire On Corridor X : Sheffield

All The Saints Myspace

Corndogorama 2008 Inital Line-Up

2008-05-09T13:20:00.004-04:00

So I was on Lenny's website and I noticed they had some of the line-up for Corndogorama posted, check it out:

Thursday June 26:
Special Olympiad
Trial By Fire
Loose Screws
The Holland Dutch
Attractive Eighties Women
Tenth To The Moon
Thee Crucials
Heinous Bienfang
Blood Vessels (featuring Brent Hinds of Mastodon)
Grey Goo

Friday June 27:

Proton
Janelle Monae
Spy For Hire
Holy Faith
James Hall
Noot D' Noot
Judi Chicago
Dan Deacon

Saturday June 28:

Battle Cat
Jeff Myers
The Hiss
DJ Kwaku
Gringo Star
Snowden
The Life And Times
Dropsonic
The Howlies
Anna Kramer
Abandon The Earth Mission

Sunday June 29:

Dj Corvette
Caddle Summer
Birds In The Cellar
Bitch
Cassavettes
Blackberry Smoke
Cinemechanica
Maserati
The Georgia Satellites
The Khans (US)
Zoroaster

Looking like a great start. If you are unfamiliar with Corndogorama, it is probably the best music fest Atlanta has to offer, highlighting some of the greatest bands in the city each year.

Corndogorama Website

Lenny's Bar Website

The Orphins, Nomen Novum Micro-Tour Starts Tomorrow

2008-05-08T16:20:00.003-04:00

Two of the best bands in this city are doing a few OTP dates over the extended weekend. If you read Ohmpark regularly, you know we are big Nomen Novum fans, but we don't talk about The Orphins nearly enough, mostly because they haven't been the most active band since releasing their first full-length, Drowning Cupid, back in 2004. I just recently purchased another copy of it because I had lost my original, and have had it back in my listening rotation. It has got to be one the best albums to ever come out of the A.

The Orphins : Drowning Cupid : Camp Cryotop

Both bands are working on albums right now and I can't wait to hear them. If you are in one these lucky cities, you are required to catch the show:

May 9 - Knoxville, TN @ The Birdhouse
May 10 - Charlotte, NC @ Yauhaus
May 12 - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge

The Orphins Myspace

Nomen Novum Myspace

Torrent Of The Day: Dark Meat (4/27/2008)

2008-05-08T15:56:00.004-04:00

I finally got around to listening to Athens, Ga's Dark Meat. Very interesting stuff. As I listen to Universal Indians, I find myself really loving the extremely weird stuff, but not so into their particular brand of southern rock during the more accessible parts. But despite my own subjective hang-ups with them, they are certainly worth looking into.

Dark Meat : Universal Indians : Angel Of Meth

Dark Meat 2008-04-27 The Nomad Minneapolis, MN (MBHOs) (FLAC)

Dark Meat
The Nomad World Pub
Minneapolis, MN
Sunday April 27thth 2008
Taper: empty (neveragain1980 AT yahoo DOT com)
Location: DIN (~20cm, ~90º), DFC 15' back, ~10' ^
Source: MBHO 603a + KA200N > Mil Spec Silver Quad customs > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 48kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB 2.0 > PC [WAV > TLH lvl 6 + Tested > FLAC]
Edit: iZotope RX (48 > 44.1) CD Wave (tracking) Sound Forge 9 (fade out)
TRT: 45:15

Please Do Not sell this recording. Share & trade it freely.
Please Do Not circulate mp3s or other lossy formats.

01. intro
02. One More Trip
03. Last of the Frontiers
04. No One Was There
05. Freedom Ritual
06. New Eyes
07. Future Galaxies
08. Three Eyes Open
09. outro

www.myspace.com/darkmeats
www.archive.org/details/DarkMeat

They are touring so go check them out:

May 9 - Visalia, CA @ The Cellar
May 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo Lounge
May 14 - Houston, TX @ Walter's On Washington
May 15 - Austin, TX @ The Mowahk
May 16 - Ft. Worth, TX @ Lola's
May 17 - Dallas, TX @ Good Records
May 18 - Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
May 19 - Columbia, MO @ Mojo's
May 20 - Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar
May 21 - St. Louis, MO @ The Blue Bird
May 22 - Champaign, IL @ Mike N Molly's
May 23 - Chillicothe, IL @ Summercamp Fest
May 24 - Chicago, IL @ Av/Aerie
May 26 - Toronto, ON @ Lee's Place
May 27 - Montreal, QC @ Zoobizarre
May 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
May 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Space 1026
May 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas
May 30 - Woodstock, NY @ Mountain Jam

Sorry No Ferrari May Tour

2008-05-08T09:50:00.003-04:00

Atlanta post-rockers Sorry No Ferrari are hitting some spots in the Southeast later this month, so if they are coming to your city, don't miss them:

May 21 - Athens, Ga @ Tasty World
May 22 - Charleston, SC @ The Village Tavern
May 23 - Jacksonville, FL @ Doozer's
May 24 - Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic
May 25 - Tampa, FL @ Transitions Art Gallery (early show)
May 26 - Orlando, FL @ A House Party
May 27 - Orlando, FL @ TBA
May 28 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Beta Bar
June 12 - Atlanta, Ga @ The Earl
July 22 - Marietta, Ga @ Swazye's

Here's them at Nophest:

Sorry No Ferrari Myspace

The New Hottness To Me: Jeffrey Lewis

2008-05-07T22:17:00.003-04:00

The greatest discovery I made at SXSW came the very first night. I scored a great spot up front by the stage at the Brooklyn Vegan showcase. I decided to chill there for the next act, whom I didn't recognize, to be up front for Kaki King later on. My expectations were low, because something about the tired "Frontman's Name" and "The Band's name" formula always seems to lead to a bad act unless the frontman previously was part of a great band. Jeffrey Lewis and The Jitters was an exception to this, and ever since catching that show, I have been enthralled with him.

It has been an extremely long time since I discovered a new personal music hero, and it is rare indeed that a person I hadn't even heard of a few months ago could earn such respect with me, but Jeffrey Lewis is just that amazing. Lewis is the paradigm of an artist. Not only does he make great music, but he also draws cool comics, and in both endeavors they are completely about unrestrained self expression. He is the greatest incarnation of the DIY ethos I have ever heard. His songs are powered by extremely clever lyrics, but the music captures the perfect simplicity that reminds me of the magic of Daniel Johnston, or Nirvana's Unplugged album, or Beck or Neil Young stripped down acoustic songs. I will always be more impressed about taking the most basic of music structure and making it stand out above everything else rather than the almost athletic nature of playing scales and rhythms faster than anyone. I like those who can do both best, but if I have to choose one, music is about art first to me, and at this point, I can't think of anyone else that does music purely in that realm better than Jeffrey Lewis.

On a completely personal level, I couldn't have discovered him at a better time in my life. I'm at a point where I'm making some serious life choices that are intended to allow me to live my life on my own terms. I want to pursue a life centered around art and self-expression and writing, and Jeffrey Lewis's back catalog is a very reassuring and pertinent soundtrack to this new, weird and mysterious road I'm traveling on. Get obsessed with me:

Jeffrey Lewis : Tapes From The Crypt : Gravity Sue

Jeffrey Lewis : 12 Crass Songs : Big A

Jeffrey Lewis : It's The Ones Who've Cracked That The Light Shines Through : Don't Let The Record Label Take You Out To Lunch

Jeffrey Lewis : Tapes From The Crypt : Complete History Of Jeff's Sexual Conquests, Vol. 1

"History Of Communism In China":

Jeffrey Lewis: On A Balcony, (part 1) "Heavy Heart":

Jeffrey Lewis: On A Balcony, (part 2) "If Life Exists":

BBC Interview:

Jeffrey Lewis Myspace

Videos Of the Day: Sad Kermit

2008-05-07T17:59:00.007-04:00

I saw these on Stereogum and they were cracking me up, so I have to share them here. As sadkermit.com explains:

Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance and pain. The songs and videos on this webpage shed light on Sad Kermit's descent into his dark, hurting world.

Sad Kermit doing Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt":

Elliot Smith's "Needle In The Hay":

And you can even download mp3s from the site of sad Kermit songs. Since it is Radiohead week in Atlanta, here's "Creep":

Sad Kermit : Creep (Radiohead)

Live Show: The Dodos (10/20/2007)

2008-05-07T15:31:00.004-04:00

The Dodos
2007-10-20
Doug Fir
Portland, OR, USA
*a thir13en blend*
recorded by yltfan

Source 1: SBD>iRiver h140
Source 2: Nakamichi cm300>iRiver h120

01 Chickens> Trades and Tarriffs

02 Men

03 Horney Hippies

04 The Ball

05 Fools

06 I'ts That Time Again>Paint The Rust

07 Jodi

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Bonus: A snippet of The Dodos jamming with Akron/Family in LA:

Live Videos: Destroyer (4/28/2008) The Earl

2008-05-05T10:55:00.000-04:00

Last week's Destroyer show at The Earl was awesome. I cant stop listening to Trouble In Dreams. I really love the lead guitarist. Here's a taste:

What Up In The ATL?

2008-05-05T08:54:00.001-04:00

Radiohead!!! I am all pumped up about catching them in Atlanta on Thursday and I even decided to ball out and catch them again in Charlotte Friday night. I've been wanting to see a Liars show for forever, so I'm excited about that too. Here is the entire Radiohead Glastonbury 2003 set to get you hyped up for this week's biggest event:

Before I get into the rest of what is going on this week, I'm gonna hit you with a bit of last week. Here is Genghis Tron from last Tuesday night:

Last Thursday our crew hit up the Fuck Yesss Le Castle Vania birthday bash at The Drunken Unicorn and had a blast:

Saturday night everyone in my neighborhood was partying with all the college kids graduating and getting ready for summer. I caught an impromptu, late night jam session between members of two of Atlanta's hottest metal bands, Daath and From Exile. Both are working on new albums currently that should be out this year. In this video, they start out on an FE lick, and end up in a total blues jam (The cops showed up shortly after this):

Eskimo Bliss got some photos of the Yeasayer show last Saturday night here.

Have You Heard did some recordings with Atlanta's Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun, and they sound really cool.

In this week's edition of our obligatory Bradford Cox update, he has dropped another great, thematic Atlas Sound EP on his blog. I'm jamming it now, and I love this song:

Atlas Sound : Things I Miss EP : Marietta

Tonight there is a big show at The Earl. Atlanta's Morning State is having their album release party for You Know People, I Know People. The album comes out tomorrow everywhere, and it is great. I'll have a full review later this week. Also joining them for this one is Brooklyn's The XYZ Affair and Washington, DC's Jukebox The Ghost.

Jukebox The Ghost:

Jukebox the Ghost - Good Day (Live at Pianos, Sept. 07) from Gus on Vimeo.

Other cool shows going on in the A this week I recommend:

Wednesday:

The Earl: Club Of Rome, Brass Castle, Pride Parade
Star Bar: Riddle Of Steel, Chopper, Royal Thunder

Thursday:

Lenny's: Sonen, Gravel Undertones, Tenth To The Moon, Night Moves, The Bright Lights

Friday:

The Earl: It's Elephant's, Mice In Cars, The Winter Sounds

Saturday:

I Can Fly House: The Felon Wind, Clan Of The Cave Bear, Blastoids!

What The Hell Am I Listening to?!?

2008-05-03T15:18:00.003-04:00

The theme for today is artists that should be more hyped on the interwebs:

Evangelista (Los Angeles, CA/Montreal, Canada)

I discovered Carla Bozulich's Evangelista right when I started Ohmpark, and it was one of my favourite albums from 2006. She has now taken the name of that album as the name of her band and just released Hello, Voyager, which has gathered everything I loved about Evangelista and upped the ante. What Carla Bozulich brings to the table is dark and and in your face vocals and lyrics that hit you hard in the depths of your soul. She is experimental, but not in a way that is hard to appreciate, and she jumps from style to style without ever seeming ambling or lost. I'm totally in love with this release right now, so don't miss out:

Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space

Paper Kitten Claw

Evangelista Myspace

Buy Hello, Voyager here

Genghis Tron (Philadelphia, PA)

I just caught this arty-metal trio this week and they were badass. With bands like Mastodon and Mastodon Jr (Baroness) getting attention in the indie rock blog world, it is only a matter of time before these guys get their own hype bandwagon. Armed with digital drums instead of a drummer and lots of keys, their synthetic brand of metal create a very interesting aesthetic that stands above a genre that doesn't always reward outside-of-the-box thinking. No matter where your tastes lie, there is something worthy of your ears on Board Up The House.

Board Up The House

City On A Hill

Genghis Tron Myspace

Buy Board Up The House here

Brass Bed (Lafayette, LA)

We had Brass Bed in Atlanta for a house party earlier this year and they absolutely killed it. They do a '60's psychedelic style blended with many other influences that feels fresh and original. Their first professionally recorded release, Midnight Matinee, is one of those rare albums where every single song on it is a hit, while the sum its parts make up a fun and engaging sonic experience. Get hip to them before the inevitable blow up:

So I Shrugged My Shoulders

Postcard: Paris

Brass Bed Myspace

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Friday Free-Style

2008-05-02T15:53:00.000-04:00

Deerhunter is opening for a handful of Nine Inch Nails dates including the Atlanta show on August 13th at the Gwinnett Center Arena. That should be a pretty sweet show. Also, it appears that Deerhunter has found a replacement for Colin Mee.

Boris will be at The Earl on July 5th.

Yo La Tengo is scoring a movie for Super Bad director Greg Mottola.

Roger Waters' flying pig took off during his performance and never came back. The remains of the pig were found later this week.

Dr. Dog has a new album coming out July 22nd.

Shearwater will be at The Earl on June 13th.

Wolf Parade will be at The Variety Playhouse on July 28th.

There is this Girls Rock Camp going on at Eyedrum July 14th-19th.

Watch a new Kaki King video here.

Fleet Foxes will be at The Drunken Unicorn on July 5th.

Grizzly Bear has added some non-Radiohead-opening dates, the closest of which is in Nashville, TN on July 31st, and I'm thinking I may drive up there for that one.

A Jimi Hendrix sex tape has been discovered.

Albert Hoffman, who discovered LSD, died this week.

Metalocalypse and Dethklok will be at The Tabernacle on July 2nd.

Times New Viking will be at The Earl on June 23rd.

The Cinematic Orchestra on Kimmel:

New Cloud Cult video:

Phosphorescent doing the Black Cab Sessions: