Monday Mash-Up

It's a big week for shows in Atlanta. First, tonight Sunset Rubdown will be at the Drunken Unicorn. You can listen to some recent live tracks from them here. Arcade Fire and The National will be at the Atlanta Civic Center tommorrow night. Thursday night From Exile will be at the Masquerade. Friday night Blonde Redhead and Annuals will be at the Variety Playhouse. Modest Mouse and Man Man will be at the Masquerade Music Park Saturday night. Here's some tracks to get you in the mood:

The National : Brainy

From Exile : Cataclysm

Blonde Redhead : Spring And By Summer Fall

Annuals : Carry Around

Modest Mouse : Spitting Venom

Modest Mouse : Parting Of The Sensory

Man Man : Banana Ghost


Last weekend was the first time I've ever been to Inman Park Festival and it was pretty awesome. Here's some photos:








There's a couple new releases I'm excited about this week both from artists I've loved since I was a kid. I hope they don't suck:






Here's some interviews to read:

• My Brightest Diamond
• Jarvis Cocker
• CocoRosie
• Explosions In The Sky
• Animal Collective
• Ted Leo
• Bjork
• Peter Bjorn And John

Here's The Mars Volta on the Henry Rollins Show:

Day Of The Baphomets (part 1):



Day Of The Baphomets (part2):



Interview:



Tetragrammaton (part 1):



Tetragrammaton (part 2):

Live Show: Modest Mouse (5-3-1997)

photo by Naheed

Modest Mouse will be here Saturday so here's a show. The Modest Mouse traders are in the process of torrenting every known MM show that exists on Dimeadozen, so you should check it out.

The info file says "Source Unknown." The sound is good, either a SBD or a real good AUD. This show was supposed to be posted last week by a participant in our little Mouse gig postings but hasn't been, so I'll do it. Enjoy and thanks to the original seeders and tapers..

Modest Mouse
May 3, 1997
Fox Theater, Boulder

Source Info: Unknown

Setlist: (click to listen)
01: Dramamine
02: Truckers Atlas
03: Neverending Math Equation
04: Grey Ice Water
05: Breakthrough
06: Other People's Lives
07: Tundra/Desert

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Videos Of The Day: Nirvana

Thanks to V for hitting me with these, they really bring me back:

Torrent Of The Day: Jimi Hendrix (7-4-1970) (DVD)

Jimi Hendrix 1970-07-04 Atlanta Pop Festival (NTSC)

Jimi Hendrix
July 4, 1970
Middle Georgia Raceway
Byron, GA

Video: Low Gen Vhs > ? Author > DVD
NTSC
8000kbs
4:3, 720x480, 29.97 fps

Audio: MPEG-1, Layer 2
48kHz
384kbs (2 chnls)

Fire
Spanish Castle Magic
All Along The Watchtower
Foxy Lady
Purple Haze
Hey Joe
Red House
Stone Free
Star Spangled Banner
Straight Ahead
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Jimi Hendrix - Guitar
Billy Cox - Bass
Mitch Mitchell - Drums

Video of the Day: Dream Theater

Old school Dream Theater without keyboard player.... and the singer from Napalm Death? Weird.

Virgin Fest Full Line-up

Better than I expected, maybe i'm not going to Lollapalooza after all:



Tickets go on sale May 5th and cost $175.

Virgin Fest Webpage

Friday Free-Style

There's a whole bunch of stuff going on in Atlanta this weekend. The Inman Park Festival is always a good time. I'll definitely be checking out the Space Rock Con 2007. Silent Kids, The Preakness, and Mary O. Harrison at Lenny's will be a great Friday night show. No matter what you do this weekend, make sure to record the Henry Rollins Show on IFC tonight because The Mars Volta will be performing some kick ass stuff you can check out here. In fact, you should watch this amazing performance in its 47 minute entirety, Live At the Lowlands (aka one of the best DVD Bootlegs I Own):



Seriously, if you didn't watch that TMV video, you are missing out.

Pitchfork Fest, aka the Best American Festival of the Year, just added Califone, The Sea And Cake, Yoko Ono, and some bands i don't recognize. Chicago gets some killer fests.

The awesome Coachella Festival kicks off today. I wish I could have gone because the two I went to before were amazing. The hotel in the desert that I paid to stay in before tickets sold out keeps calling me and it's annoying. I'll be checking out the webcast as you should. I've watched several fests on webcast and they are pretty cool. Remember when you're wasted late night, go to your computer and watch Sonic Youth and Bjork. You won't be disappointed.

If you want to know the latest in American festival news, Live Music Blog has you covered.

The Raconteurs are making another album.

Here's a teaser for the Marc Benevento (of the Benevento-Russo Duo) album of his month long run at New York City's Tonic featuring a plethora of other great artists. Check it:



May 8th is Grateful Dead Day.

Creative Loafing talks about "Art Mondays" at Apache Cafe.

You can stream the new Dntel album at here.

Here's a really cool top 25 all-time hip-hop records list. Outkast's ATLiens is number one on it. No surprise. Watch why:





Spinal Tap is getting in on the reunion craze.

Dave Grohl talks about the new Foo Fighters album.

Snoop Dogg has been banned from Australia.

Willie Nelson avoided jailtime from his marijuana charge.

Ween is finishing up a new album.

VBS has a some great videos documenting Norgwegian Black Metal.

Here's Amy Winehouse on the Tonight Show this week:



Here's Regina Spektor on the Late Show last Friday:



I'll leave you today with this portion of the movie Coffee & Cigarettes featuring RZA, GZA, and Bill Murray. I love this:



Beware Of That Serious Delirium

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

CocoRosie : The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stilborn



This album has been pretty much trashed by most of the blogosphere (Pitchfork gave it a 2.3) but I really love it. I don't have a lot of familiarity with their previous albums (although that will soon change) but i really believe that Ghosthorse And Stillborn holds up to almost any record to come out this year. CocoRosie is two sisters doing indie-folk with a little opera and hip-hop thrown in. They both do vocals, and one plays alot of instruments and the other plays experimental percussion instruments like children's learning devices and gold chains. Check it out:

• Promise
• Japan
• Animals
  

Check Out CocoRosie Myspace

Buy The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn Here


Low : Guns And Drums



I have been listening to many mediocre albums lately and Guns And Drums has been an exception. This Duluth, Minnesota trio has something really special here and I wish I would have gotten into this band earlier. Stylistically they feel like a stripped down indie rock outfit with very anthemetic songs, or "Slowcore" as they are known, and i will be delving deep into this band's catalog after hearing this great album. Give it a listen:

• Breaker
• Pretty People

Low's Myspace Page

Buy Guns And Drums Here

Space Rock Con 2007

Saturday and Sunday Lenny's will be doing this fest and it looks interesting so I figured i'd highlight it:



We've covered The Subliminator and Tenth To The Moon before, but if you want to know what some of those other artists are all about, check them out:

Dharma Son Collective

Tree Creature

Romannis Motte

Earl Modern Witch Trials

EEther

Phazers On High

Alien Spyz

Torrent Of The Day: Meat Puppets (12-29-1994)

Meat Puppets 1994-12-29 Electric Ballroom; Tempe, Arizona (FLAC)

Meat Puppets
Electric Ballroom
Tempe AZ 12-29-94

Recorded by Dave Holmes with
Unk Mics>Sony D3 DAT

Transfered by Mike Schuncke with
Sony R500 DAT>
Microtrack 24/96>
CD WAV editor>
SF 6 dither 48k>44.1>
Flac 7> you

Never to be Found
Station
We Dont Exist
Violent Eyes
Severed Godess Hand
Things
Oh Me>
Sam>
Another Moon
Sleepy Peepee
Plateau
Why
Coming Down
Open Wide>Space
Backwater
Up on the Sun
Rain
Lake of Fire
Tennessee Stud
Touchdown King
Lost
Monsters
Crawdad Hole

A Drunken Blitz Saturday Night (Featuring Nophest and Untied States)

So, here's what I remember...

At the trap. Newcastle. it begins. Depart with the drizzle. Cryptograms blasts. Cabbage town. Teahouse. 11:11. Bud light kegs. Fill up cups. Beautiful day to chill outside. Lecture on music software. Show and tell. Projector. sample bank. beer. move the mouse. coding the tunes. laptop action. beer. Night falls. where's the bathroom? beer. more computer jams, now I want a cigarrette. beer. Lots of jars with lots of organic stuff. Suddenly, Cyborg Transvestite. Drum machines. yelling. black dress. big metal plate. banging. dancing, yelling, banging, beats, evil beats, it just died. no, now its back. Cyborg Punk will never die. beer. porching. bum cigarettes. way too harsh a cigarrette. head feels funny. need more beer. beer. kids rapping about suicide bombers. doing interviews with crowd while performing. beer. back to the spaceship. East Atlanta is blurry. maybe that's me. pizza. pbr. aw yeah. must get to gas station before midnight. millerlite case-ish. ISP Space. chillin. Biggie C. moorish posse. beer. really foggy now. i'm guessing beer. Untied States time. wait, who is that chick on the drums? new line-up? woah. beer. The States bring the noise. hells yaher. beer. I think i'm blind in one eye. maybe both. time to take it back to the park. beer. smoke. too drunk to stay awake. goodnight.

These two artists put on a damn good show at Nophest(4-21-2007) so check it out:

Johan Ess

Graham Coleman

Video Of the Day: Built To Spill

Torrent Of The Day: Black Sabbath (12-19-1970)

Black Sabbath 1970-12-19 Paris 12/19/70 ["War Pigs" Bootleg] (FLAC)

BLACK SABBATH

DATE : 12/19/70

VENUE : L'Olympia, Paris, France

LINEAGE : "War Pigs" Bootleg CD > CDR (1) > FLAC

SETLIST :

Paranoid
Hand Of Doom
Iron Man
Black Sabbath
N.I.B.
Behind The Wall Of Sleep
War Pigs
Fairies Wear Boots

Videos Of The Day: Elliott Smith

Just listened to XO the other day and I think I'm on an Elliott Smith kick again. Here's some vids:

Torrent Of The Day: Ween (5-18-2000)

ween 2000-05-18 - the roxy theatre - atlanta, ga an epic show...

ween at the roxy theatre
atlanta, ga 2000-05-18

disc 1

Ice Castles, The Grobe, She Wanted to Leave, Piss Up A Rope, Buckingham Green, Captain
Fantasy, Don't Get Too Close to My Fantasy, Even If You Don't, Wavin' My Dick In the
Wind, Dr. Rock, Springtheme, Voodoo Lady, The Mollusk, Roses Are Free, Push the Little
Daisies

disc 2

Back to Basom, Demon Sweat, Up On the Hill, Never Squeel, You Fucked Up, Mr.
Richard Smoker, Pandy Fackler, Reggaejunkiejew, Stella Blue, Ocean Man, Mister Would
You Please Help My Pony, Hot For Teacher

disc 3

E: Bananas and Blow, Blarneystone, Take Me Away, Stroker Ace, Put the Coke on My Dick,
Baby Bitch, Homo Rainbow, Spinal Menengitis, Big Jilm, North Pappy Flappy > LMLYP

source: akg460/ck61>V2>SBM1>D8>D8 - fob, approx. 6' roc

notes: this was a very fun night and it's probably my favorite ween concert. it was a great
time thanks to good friends, and ween! thanks to JK and Dianne!! not too many folks taped
and this is the best source of the show. it has circulated fairly well, i believe, but here it is
for those ween fans who don't already have it. it's also a great show for those not so familiar
with the brownness. kudos to kirk miller!! the coolest sound guy there is.
slap some comments on me - they taste good on the bun!
john m

Monday Mash-Up

Grizzly Bear and Feist will be at the Variety Playhouse June 15th.

Animal Collective is going on tour but the closest they get to Atlanta is Birmingham, AL. Here's a video:



Snowden is going on tour with Kings of Leon and The Features, and all three will be here at the Tabernacle on June 1st.

Cable and Tweed has some tracks from the Sufjan Stevens show at the Fox Theater last September.

Beirut are working on a new album.

Smashing Pumpkins have a tracklist for the upcoming Zeitgeist due out July 7th.

The Decemberists are doing some dates with an orchestra and will be playing with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on July 13th at Chastain Park.

Gorillaz are retiring, except maybe a movie.

The Chemical Brothers have released a tracklisting for their new album, We Are The Night, due out June 19th.

Bright Eyes is heading out on tour and will be at the Fox Theatre on June 18th.

Pete Yorn has been added to Bonnaroo.

Calvin Johnson is releasing an album called Calvin Johnson & the Sons of the Soil tommorrow on his own label, K Records , and will be at the Drunken Unicorn on June 6th. Here's a video:

Torrent Of The Day: Arctic Monkeys (2-20-2006)

The new album comes out tommorrow so here's a show from a year ago:

Arctic Monkeys 02 20 2006 Black Session Paris FLAC

ARCTIC MONKEYS
2006-02-20
Studio 105, Maison de Radio-France
Paris, FRANCE

The ARCTIC MONKEYS recorded live at the studio 105 at the " Maison de Radio-France" in Paris and broadcasted on french public radio France-Inter on the 20th of february 2006.

Lineage : FM -> Creative soubdblaster soundcard line-in -> Wave -> Nero Burning Rom -> CDR -> EAC -> Wave -> dbPower Amp ->FLAC

The view from the afternoon (part 1)
The view from the afternoon (part 2)
I bet you look good on the dancefloor
You probably could'nt see for the lights but you were staring at me
From the Ritz to the Rubble
Perhaps vampires is a bit strong but...
When the sun goes down
Red light indicates doors are secured
Still take you home
Dancing shoes
Bigger boys and stolen sweethearts
Mardy bum
Fake tales of San Francisco
A certain romance

Live Show: !!! (4-9-2007)

!!! (chk chk chk)
Black Session

Studio 105, Maison de Radio France, Paris

Recording and simultaneous broadcast : 04-09-2007

Lineage : FM -> CDWAVe -> FLAC -> you

(click to listen)

01 Myth takes
02 All my heroes are weirdos
03 Track 4
04 Bend over Beethoven
05 Heart of hearts
06 A new name
07 Yadnus
08 Must be the moon
09 Hello? Is this on?
10 Me and Giuliani down by the school yard (a true story) (cut)


Last track is cut out by the news break. No future broadcast was announced.

Recorded and cut by svp, for you. No edit at all. bernard Lenoir's comments are situated at the end of some tracks. Two minor drop outs.

The broadcast ended half an hour ago. Goodnight now!

Support the artists and independent (record) stores!

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Live Review, Photos, and Videos: The Books, Todd Reynolds (4-20-07) Variety Playhouse

Review by sleo
Photos by BiggieC
Video by bobloblaw79

Friday night The Books tour stopped in Atlanta promoting the new tour/online only Play All DVD. The show started out with Todd Reynolds, a masterful violinist with effects pedals and a bass drum. Todd also used a large screen to display many graphics that were developed by a variety of artists. Not only could Todd play a mean violin with twists and turns throughout his elaborate, overlapping melodies, but his use of the pedals and bass drum also added an intriguing element of intensity to his visual effects. My favorite visualization shown by Todd was a portrayal of riding on the British monorail. The artist took footage from the front and back of the train at the same time and displayed each perspective side by side. The journey down the rail was traveled at the same rate of Todd’s violin bow, and quickly became mesmerizing to watch. Todd had also cleverly designed his musical piece around his artist friend’s footage to coincide with the changing directions, speeds, and overlaps of the different angles from which the artist filmed his journey on the rail.

Then The Books took the stage and totally blew me away. It’s not often enough that I get to go to a show that has so much going on in their music and on stage that I can’t even tear my eyes away. The duo also utilized the large screen on stage with several videos that went along perfectly with every song. They showed a wide variety of footage, from creations of simplistic and distorted graphics of the alphabet to old family videos. Nick consistently held the mellow tone of their music with his acoustic guitar, while Paul contributed dramatic melodies on his skeletal cello. Throughout all of their songs, several different samples of voices and music filled in over the acoustic sound of their instruments from what seems like quite an extensive library of sounds. There was not a large turnout for the show, yet the crowd that was there was thoroughly entertained as the sounds of their enthusiasm throughout the entire performance was thunderous. It was additionally nice to be able to chillax and see everything going on with such a friendly and upbeat crowd. Todd Reynolds came out to join the duo for a few of their songs, which made for a more complex and compelling performance. They even did a phenomenal cover of a Nick Drake song from his album Five Leaves Left (which they admitted to having done last year at their performance at the EARL). I had a great time at the show and really can’t wait to see what else these guys can come up with.

(Click for larger photos)

Todd Reynolds



The Books

















"Cello Song" (Nick Drake cover)
Note: The video is very dark but the sound quality is listenable)

Video Of The Day: Bjork

This is from Saturday Night Live last night:

Albums I Love: Liquid Swords

Yesterday Pitchfork announced that in addition to Sonic Youth perfroming Daydream Nation at Pitchfork Fest, Slint will be doing their Spiderland and the GZA will be doing Liquid Swords. I'm a Big Wu-tang Clan fan and this is an amazing hip-hop album. The entire clan shows up for this, like most of the '90s solo Wu-Tang stuff, and I'm curious as to how many of the clan will be backing "The Genius" for this special show. If you're not familiar with this record, it is a must have so check it out:

• Living In The World Today
• 4th Chamber
  

Cold World:



I Gotcha Back:



You need to get to Chicago in July:

Friday, July 13:

Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation
GZA/Genius performs Liquid Swords
Slint perform Spiderland

Saturday, July 14:

Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72 & JSBX)
Clipse
Iron and Wine
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
Battles
Fujiya & Miyagi
Oxford Collapse
Dan Deacon
Beach House
Professor Murder
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15:

New Pornographers
Stephen Malkmus
De La Soul
Of Montreal
Jamie Lidell
Menomena
Klaxons
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketweb. Three-day passes cost $50, Friday night costs $15, Saturday and Sunday individual passes cost $25, and a Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35.

420 Free-Style

We'll start today with some good 420 video:







Joanna Newsom is doing a couple dates with Bjork. The Ohmpark crew has contacted our travel agents.

Grizzly Bear had to cancel some dates, but they will be on MTV2's Subterranean this Sunday night. Set your DVRs.

Lily Allen has cancelled most her remaining US tour because she hates America. She'll still play Bonnaroo.

Black Lips have a new album coming out this year and Pitchfork loves them.

Wilco has toys made after them.

Stephen Malkmus' new album is exactly “67.4685% completed".

Emusic has surpased 300,000 subscribers. If I bought digital music, that's where i'd get alot of it, but 8-track cassettes just sound so much warmer.

My Morning Jacket will be performing with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at this year's Lollapalooza Festival, taking place in Chicago's Grant Park, August 3-5.

Austin City Limits Festival has tickets on sale now despite not announcing a line-up until mid-May. I'm getting a little bit tired of the sell tickets to a mystery line-up thing.

Minus The Bear have a new album coming out this year.

Rob's House Records talks to Creative Loafing about house parties.

U2 is writing music for an upcoming Spiderman musical.

Sigur Ros are releasing a book this summer about them touring. Here's a great video:



Radiohead's awesome Com Lag (2 + 2 = 5) EP will finally be released in the US on May 8th.

Tool has a massive amount of re-scheduled tour dates including a June 4th appearance at the Gwinnett Center and a headlining spot at Bonnaroo.

Dream Theater has announced some US dates, but nowhere near here. Here's a video:



Internet radio is getting the shaft.

Devendra Banhart is working on a new album.

Smokin' Interviews:

• Drive-By Truckers
• Man Man
• M Ward
• Sleater-Kinney
  
• Cat Power
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• CocoRosie

I'll leave you with this video clip:

Live Show: Porcupine Tree

The new Porcupine Tree album drops next week and i'm very excited about it. Here's a short show with interviews and songs off the new album PT did that aired Tuesday on BBC radio:

Porcupine Tree
BBC Maida Vale Studios
FM Broadcast (off air)

Recorded 13 April 2007
First Broadcast 17 April 2007

Clear recording with a very little hiss audible during the interviews. 9Ω / 10

1.Steven Wilson interview 2.22
2.The Pills I'm Taking 5.56
3.Gavin Harrison interview 0.25
4.Halo 5.38
5.Steven Wilson interview 0.47
6.Fear of a Blank Planet 7.15
7.Outro Daniel P Carter 0.08

More of this session due to be broadcast on BBC 6Music (digital only) on Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show on April 28th at 10pm.

Official site info:
http://www.porcupinetree.com/news.cfm

Notes:
Two tracks from the new album, although 'The Pills I'm Taking' may be a name for a subsection of one of the longer tracks (my copy hasn't arrived in the post yet).

Please support Porcupine Tree by buying the new album 'Fear of a Blank Planet ', or any of their other works.
They are a pro taping, pro trading band. They have been very active in supporting their internet community. So please support them by buying official releases.

Torrent Of The Day: Frank Zappa (11-17-1981)

FRANK ZAPPA 1981-11-17 The Ritz, NYC (FLAC)

FRANK ZAPPA

November, 17, 1981, The Ritz, NYC

Master Cassette recorded from WLIR >NAK BX-300>WAV (SB Audigy)>CD-R>EAC>Flac

I picked this up at DIME.
Perfectly great show!!
Enjoy!!!

Disc 1
01. Treacherous Cretins (fades in)
02. Montana
03. Easy Meat
04. You Are What You Is
05. Mudd Clubb
06. The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
07. Dumb All Over
08. Heavenly Bank Account
09. Suicide Chump
10. Jumbo Go Away
11. Envelopes
12. Drowning Witch
13. What's New In Baltimore
14. Moggio
15. Bamboozled By Love
16. Sinister Footwear

Disc 2
17. Stevie's Spanking
18. Cocaine Decisions
19. Nig Biz (fades out)
20. Doreen
21. Goblin Girl (fades in)
22. Black Page #2 (q: Smoke on the Water)
23. Tryin' To Grow A Chin
24. Strictly Genteel
25. Al DiMeola Intro
26. Clownz On Velvet* (world premier)
27. Ride Like The Wind**
28. Zoot Allures
29. This Is My Story (fades in)
30. Whippin Post (Reggae Post)
31. Watermelon In Easter Hay

With Al DiMeola on guitar (*)

With Al DiMeola on guitar and Brian Peters on vocals (**)

Videos of the Day

Today's Theme: Psychadelia....




Now something a little less music and more cerebral; This video was made in 1975 by John Whitney, a pioneer in computer graphics. Before digital computing (used for this piece), he used World War 2 surplus analog ballistics computers to use lights to draw directly on film. Music by Manoochehr Sadeghi.

420 In The ATL

One of the greatest holidays of the year, April 20th, is upon us and Atlanta celebrates 420 in style. Here's a guide to blazing the day away in Atlanta. Weather is looking pretty good so far:



First, the glass shop 42 Degrees offers discounts on glass pieces every April 20th so a great way to get your day started is to go shopping. Next, there are two big festivals going on in the same area:

Hippies: you can go over to Candler Park and check out the Sweetwater 420 Fest. From 2pm to 11pm enjoy Atlanta brewed beer and hang out with a fellow wooks. The festival is free to attend and boasts a music line-up including Dubconscious, Mad Professor, Captain Soularcat, Squirrelheads, and Neau Hall And The Magnificent 7. I went to the festival 2 years ago and it was very fun and very packed out.

Hipsters: you can go over to the 11:11 Teahouse and check out the Nophest 420 @ 11:11. The festival runs from Friday to Sunday starting at 8pm Friday and Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the small stage inside, there will be an outdoor stage as well. The fest has an extensive line-up of bands and DJs and various performance art. One day passes cost $10 and weekend passes cost $25 and both include free beer.


If you want to get in on the Earth Day community service action, here's what we recommend:

For you "all ages kids", April 20th happens to also be National & Global Youth Service Day (NYSD), the largest volunteer service event in the world. For more info on that, click here.


There are a ton of great shows going on Friday night. The Ohmpark crew is going to be checking out The Books at the Variety Playhouse we highly recommend you attend.


The Books

Another great show Friday night is Japan's Acid Mother Temple at the Earl.


Acid Mother Temple


If you are into 420 Reggae Rockfests, Lenny's is having one Friday night:

LENNY'S (NEW LOCATION!): the green hit (cd release), groove stain, the bastard suns, indofin, bpm, sassparilla the singing gorilla 21+ early show 8PM - $7 KNOCKWURST HAPPY HOUR 7PM-8PM (420 REGGAE ROCKFEST!!! Get here early at 7pm for some free snausages! www.lennysbar.com)


Late night if you can't find one of the various house parties celebrating 420 around the city, It's as good a night as any to head to Decatur and drink at the Decatur Social Club. Baring the city run tourist and police trap of Underground Atlanta, Decatur is the only place in the city you can drink at bars until 4am.

If you're such a stoner that you can't get off your couch, the G4 television network is doing 420-themed programming including showing The Big Lebowski. What an awesome movie.

We wish you a fun and safe 420 Weekend and smoke one for us!

Torrents of The Day: Wanee Festival 2007

Here's some good southern jamband action from the Wanee Festival in Florida last weekend:

Oteil and the Peacemakers - 4/14/07- Wanee Festival, Live Oak, FL

Gov't Mule - 4/13/07- Wanee Festival, Live Oak, FL

Derek Trucks Band - 4/14/07 - Wanee Festival, Live Oak, FL

Here's some video footage of Gov't Mule at the fest last weekend:



And here's some footage of Derek Truck Band:

Video Of The Day: Sound Tribe Sector 9

STS9 is streaming their concerts tommorrow night and Friday night here. Here's them new years eve 2005-06 at the Tabernacle:

Torrent Of The Day: My Morning Jacket (11-12-2006) (DVD)

My Morning Jacket 2006-11-12 The Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA (NTSC)

My Morning Jacket
11/12/06
The Tabernacle
Atlanta, GA

audio source: AT853RX's > UA-5 > JB3; Brian Meccia
video source: Panasonic PV-DV953D > miniDV & tripod (static shot); SYF8

aspect ratio: 16:9
video bitrate: 8000 +/- kbps
audio codec: DVD LPCM AUDIO
audio bitrate: 1536 KB/s


disc 1:

At Dawn
X-Mas Curtain
Wonderful Man
Gideon
The Way That He Sings
Off The Record
It Beats For You
Wordless Chorus
Phone Went West
Lay Low
Dondante


disc 2:

Easy Morning Rebel
One Big Holiday
Run Thru
They Ran
E: By My Car
Golden
Steam Engine
Anytime
Mahgeetah


sync/edit/author: SYF8
menus: Killer

Humpday Random Tracks

Listen to the track and find more info on the artist by clicking on the picture:

St. Vincent


photo by tod seelie

St. Vincent : Now Now


Fujiya And Miyagi



Fujiya And Miyagi : Cassettesingle


Elk City



Elk City : Cherries In The Snow


Dntel



Dntel : Dumb Luck

Torrent Of The Day: Pelican (4-8-2007)

Pelican is a post-metal band I've been kinda getting into lately. They have a new album called City Of Echoes coming out June 5th. Listen to their songs at their myspace, and then check this torrent:




Pelican 2007-04-08 Patronaat, Haarlem, The Netherlands (FLAC)

live at Patronaat, Haarlem, The Netherlands
April 8th 2007

supported by These Arms Are Snakes


recorded live and transferred by Bliv

source: CSB's (low-cost version) --> battery box with fixed bass roll-off --> Iriver H120 with Rockbox
transfer: Iriver H120 --> USB --> Sound Forge 8 (tracking, EQ, normalization) --> Flac level 6 --> YOU!
location: Center, about 4 m. from the stage


Tracks:

01. intro (00.57)
02. Bliss In Concrete (06.02)
03. City Of Echoes (07.17)
04. Drought (08.45)
05. Lost In The Headlights (04.18)
06. Dead Between The Walls (05.49)
07. Far From Fields (06.06)
08. Aurora Borealis (05.13)
09. Red Ran Amber (13.11)
10. encore break (02.35)
11. Mammoth (07.51)


Total time: (68.04)


Notes:
* Very chatty crowd, you can even hear people talk during some of the louder parts. It doenst affect the general quality IMO.
* Support These Arms Are Snakes was recorded as well.

Weekday Shows This Week

There's a bunch of great shows to check out this week:

Tonight:

APACHE CAFE: bfd, dj scissor hands, dres tha beatnik 18+ 10PM / $10 (www.apachecafe.info)

DRUNKEN UNICORN: one hand loves the other, the skies we built, kate myers 18+ 9 pm / $7.00 (STICKFIGURE DISTRIBUTION PRESENTS - http://www.stickfiguredistro.com)

Wednesday Night:

DRUNKEN UNICORN: arbouretum (thrill jockey records), david karsten daniels all ages 9:00 (http://www.tightbros.net - ( get advance tickets here: http://www.ticketalternative.com ))

VARIETY PLAYHOUSE: clap your hands say yeah, elvis perkins in deerland All Ages 8:30 pm / $20

Thursday Night:

MASQUERADE - HELL: the locust, daughters, cattle decapitation $12.50 7pm

SMITH'S OLD BAR: rose hill drive, earl greyhound, morning state $10 9pm

THE LOFT: de la soul, rhythm roots all-stars 9pm doors / 21+ with valid ID Tickets cannot be purchased for this show!!! To gain entry, RSVP at www.scion.com/livemetro

Video Of The Day: Dinosaur Jr

New video for a new song:

Torrent Of The Day: Neil Young (11-17-1992) (DVD)

Neil Young 1992-11-17 WTTW Studio Chicago IL (NTSC)

Uploaded by Axel(a.k.a. RoryGallagher), Friesland, Germany.

Neil Young:

Video Source: TV broadcast
Taper: unknown
Video Bitrate: 7599(DVD1) and 5499 to 5999(DVD2) kb/s VBR 29.970 Frames/s
Picture format: 4:3
DVD Author: unknown

Audio Source: TV broadcast
Lineage: see below
Taper: unknown
Audio Codec: MPEG-1 Layer 2
Audio Bitrate: 0xc0:48000Hz 384 kb/s tot , Stereo

Lineage: TV broadcast > ? > DVD > my 2DVD+ (> thetradersden > YOU)
very good quality of audio and video
File Size: 7.72GB (requires two DVD5)
Length: 64:26min(DVD1) and 90:35min(DVD2)
Very wonderful artwork provided by Cor from The Netherlands. Thanks so much for this great cooperation.
Artwork for one of my previous ul´s also added.
Information: http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=17856

WTTW Studio, Chicago, IL, 17th November 1992
DVD1:
00) Introduction
01) Long May You Run
02) From Hank To Hendrix
03) Unknown Legend
04) Love Is A Rose
05) Pocahontas
06) Like A Hurricane
07) War Of Man
08) The Needle And The Damage Done
09) Tonight's The Night
10) One Of These Days
11) Such A Woman
12) Harvest Moon
DVD2:
01) Dreamin' Man
02) Natural Beauty
03) Don't Let It Bring You Down
04) Mr. Soul
05) Powderfinger
06) Sugar Mountain
07) You And Me
08) After The Goldrush
Length: 51:23min
Bonus footage:
01) Interview 16th November 1992
Length: 39:12min
Personal
Neil Young: Vocals, Guitar, Organ


Important Note: AVOID MP3 ~ Don’t Let It Bring You Down

Even More Important Note: please use this show for trading ~ never sell it (you may go to hell ~ which is not confirmed)

For the passion of music,
P&L

(Source: Rob E., thanksabillion bro´)

Videos of the Day: Radiohead

The perpetual music debate between Ichuda and I rolled on last night in drunken fashion, and here's some vids of our respective favourite Radiohead songs:

Live Show: Iron & Wine (2-8-2007)

He does some new songs:

Iron & Wine
2007-02-08
The Pabst Theater; Milwaukee, WI, US

Taped By: Matt Krueger and Kevin Kohl

Tracked and Edited By: Matt Krueger

Source: Soundboard > FM > Sony CFS-200 > 1/8th inch stereo analog cable > M-Audio Revolution Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > CD Wave 1.94.5 > FLAC Level 8 (Trader's Little Helper 1.1.1)

Tracklist:
01 - (DJ Intro)
02 - Die
03 - He Lays In The Reins
04 - Sodom, South Georgia
05 - (Talking)
06 - Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
07 - Lovesong Of The Buzzard
08 - Free Until They Cut Me Down
09 - (DJ Break/Talking)
10 - House By The Sea
11 - Naked As We Came
12 - Peace Beneath The City
13 - Muddy Hymnal
14 - Boy With A Coin
15 - Jezebel
16 - Carousel
17 - (DJ Break/Talking)
18 - Resurrection Fern
19 - The Trapeze Swinger
20 - (Crowd Noise/Talking)
21 - Upward Over The Moutain
22 - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
23 - (DJ Outro)

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Pitchfork Fest Artist Additions

This fest is on its way to having the best line-up of the year for me, here's what they just added:

Deerhunter
Menomena
Klaxons
Fujiya & Miyagi
Oxford Collapse
Beach House
Dan Deacon
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic

In case you don't know, Pitchfork Festival will be held in Chicago July 13-15 and will also include Cat Power, New Pornographers, Clipse, Stephen Malkmus, De La Soul, Iron and Wine, Of Montreal, Girl Talk, Jamie Lidell, Grizzly Bear, Battles, the Ponys, Professor Murder, Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound, and, of course, Sonic Youth performing their landmark 1988 album Daydream Nation (in collaboration with All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back). The best part is the 3-day pass only costs $50! Ill be there, will you?

Pitchfork Music Festival webpage

Friday Free-Style

The Pixies' Frank Black aka Black Francis is releasing some albums this year.

Sonic Youth is re-issuing Daydream Nation this year with 15 live songs from that tour including a Beatles cover and a Neil Young cover.

Wow, I just mentioned four amazing and influential artists. How about some awesome vids:

The Pixies:



Sonic Youth:



The Beatles:



Neil Young:



On the heels of Ben And Jerry's success with the Stephen Colbert ice cream, Queen is getting a flavor called "Bohemian Raspberry".

DMX breaks laws.

Jim Morrison is still involved in legal battles.

The new Whites Stripes album comes out June 19th.

Over 100 Million ipods have been sold.

The new Queens of The Stone Age album comes out June 12th.

Bonnaroo announced their line-up for the Cafe Tent:

Angel and the Love Mongers
Bang Bang Bang
Dave Barnes
benzos
The Biscuit Burners
Pieta Brown
Cage the Elephant
Sam Champion
Christabel and the Jons
Rocco DeLuca (solo)
Dixie Dirt
Dubconscious
The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
Piers Faccini
Favourite Sons
Fiction Plane
Tim Fite
Haale
Jescoe
Alexa Ray Joel
Langhorne Slim
Manchester Orchestra
Jennifer Niceley
Brandy Robinson
Salvador Santana Band
Jonah Smith
Smokin’ Dave and the Premo Dopes
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Tenderhooks
Tin Cup Prophette
The Westside Daredevils
The Whigs

Frog Eyes will be at the Drunken Unicorn on May 14th. Here's a Frog Eyes live video:



Busdriver will be back in Atlanta opening for CocoRosie at the Masquerade May 10th.

I forgot to mention this last week because my Friday Free-Style was so late, but the new season of the Sopranos and the new season of Entourage started last week. I'm a huge fan of HBO and I highly recommend you get to a TV with HBO Sunday night at 9pm.

M.I.A. has new album coming out on June 26th.

Arbouretum will be at the Drunken Unicorn next Wednesday night.

You should read about women in the metal.

Creative Loafing has an article about Stone Mountain representin'.

WRAS Georgia State radio lists the 5 worst band names.

Listen to an Amy Winehouse live show here.

Listen to a streaming Lily Allen show here.

Interviews:

• Deerhunter
• Wilco
• Love Of Diagrams
• Low
• Bright Eyes
• Marnie Stern
• Ted Leo
• CocoRosie
• Clap your Hands Say Yeah

Here's some Marnie Stern videos:

Torrent Of the Day: Morphine (4-13-1996)

Morphine 1996-04-13 8x10 Club {Baltimore MD} (16-bit) (FLAC)

Morphine
04-13-96
8x10 Club
Baltimore, MD

Source: Schoeps MK4s (ORTF, 10' above stage center) -> VMSO2IB -> SBM-1 -> Sony TCD-D7
Lineage: DAT(c) 48khz -> FLAC
Transfer: DA-20 -> Monster coax -> DiO 2496 -> SF 6.0 -> CDWave -> FLAC

Disc I
01 Intro
02 Have a Lucky Day
03 I'm Free Now
04 Honey White
05 Early to Bed
06 Sharks
07 Whisper
08 Yes
09 Eleven O'Clock
10 Super Sex
11 I Know You (part III)
12 Candy
13 All Wrong
14 Shame
15 Wishing Well


Disc II
01 Mark talking
02 Cure For Pain
03 Virgin Bride
04 Thursday
05 Potion
06 Buena
07 Radar
08 I Know You (part II)


Notes: (from the taper, posted on Easytree)

The sound in the 8x10 was phenominal that night. They beefed up the house PA system to handle
the low frequencies this band generated.

This one did a great job of picking up the lows..........definitely one of my better stealth efforts.
The balcony at the old 8x10 was 10 ft away from the stage. If you could get your mics out over it, you
got great sound as well as good crowd isolation.

Im interested to know what you think.......I cant believe it was almost nine years ago!

cheers- Mike

ps-Im not responsible for any speaker damage resulting from playing this too loud ; ^ )

Thanks to cps for providing the DAT.

Transfer by BLG
compiled on 02-13-05

Lollapalooza Line-up Breakdown

Ok, so the Lollapalooza site still hasn't updated itself with all of the line-up, but everyone is reporting it as:

Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Muse, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, the Roots, Patti Smith, Kings of Leon, the Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV on the Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love & Special Sauce, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, the Hold Steady, Jack's Mannequin, Stephen Marley, Sound Tribe Sector 9, M.I.A., Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, the Rapture, the Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes n Tapes, Heartless Bastards, the View, the Cribs, the Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Sam Roberts Band, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & the Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite, Carey Ott, Matt Roan.

Daft Punk:



Iggy And The Stooges:



!!!:



Peter Bjorn And John:



So, now it is time to break it down and decide whether I'm going to travel to it again this year. First, The bands that I have not seen yet but want to really bad include: Daft Punk, Iggy And The Stooges, !!!, TV On The Radio (I won't be able to catch the shows tonight or tomorrow), and Peter Bjorn And John. Bands that I've seen multiple times but I will still travel to see include Pearl Jam and Yo La Tengo. Bands I want to see and haven't yet, but wouldn't necessarily convince me to travel to see include Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Black Keys, Amy Winehouse, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Son Volt, Silversun Pickups, The Rapture, Tapes n Tapes, Annuals, and Illinois.

The big decision all depends on The Smashing Pumpkins and Virgin Festival in Maryland the same weekend. Seeing the Smashing Pumpkins is a big priority for me this year, and so far the only US dates they have are Virgin Fest and Live Earth (and I'm not going to Live Earth). I think i will wait a little while for Virgin Fest to announce its line-up, but I'm leaning towards Lollapalooza for 2 reasons:

1. There is no doubt in my mind that The Smashing Pumpkins will do a plethora of US dates. Billy Corgan is trying to hype this thing up as much as possible with the album drop weirdness, being so mysterious about the Pumpkins tour line-up, and I think he is purposefully not announcing US dates yet to get people to want them to more and create more hype.

2. Besides SP, i doubt that Virgin will be able to deliver a better line-up than Lolla. That line-up there is pretty deep, and if Virgin is going to exclude most if not all of those acts, i just don't see how it could be much better. Here's the mini-line up of the two Canadian versions of Virgin Fest: Vancouver and Toronto. Other than Bjork, who will definitely not be in Maryland, those line-ups are way too commercial radio and small.

Another thing is i am kinda put off by deciding to compete head-to-head with such a great, already established festival. When Music Midtown in Atlanta tried to go head-to-head with Bonnaroo, how did that work out?

So, my final decision is Virgin Fest has about a week or two to put their cards on the table, and if not, I'm heading to see Perry and Company again.



Versus


Hey baldy, where them US dates at?

A Weekend In The A (featuring Sebadoh, Snowden, From Exile, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba)

Last weekend I tried to hit up as many different shows as possible. First, i went and checked out the Snowden and Selmanaires show at Rob's House (Records). Rob's House was just some dude's house in East Atlanta. They had a keg for people to drink and a tiny basement where the bands played to a tightly packed crowd of 30-50. The show time said 3pm, but i got there at 5pm and was still able to catch the end of The Selmanaires set. Snowden played next and rocked the basement out. I really like the idea of taking a typical keg party, adding some great bands and doing it early in the afternoon. Good stuff.


Snowden in Rob's Basement

After hitting some bars up and taking a smoke break at my house to listen to an album or two, i headed to the Earl to catch the Jupiter Watts show. i stayed for an hour and pretty sure i didn't see the Jupiter Watts but was way too drunk at this point to concentrate on doing a good review, so I'll have to come and see them again. I made it back to my neighborhood and hung out with the boys in From Exile late night as they did a mini-acoustic set:





In May, From Exile is going on tour on the east coast and Ohmpark will be taking it on the road with them chronicling this journey. We will have more details on that as soon as the tour is completely booked, but it is going to be a fiasco and I hope our non-ATL readers will come check them out. They just purchased an old prisoner transport van for the trip:



On Sunday i finally got a chance to check out the ISP Space. I have to say that i like it. It is very small, but the concept and the vibe are great. I had no idea who any of the bands playing were before i went, but i was very impressed with two of them. Lid Emba is Sean Moore playing on drum machines, a drum set, and a synth. Really cool ambient, noise, experimental electronic stuff. He closed with a really interesting mash-up/reinterpretation of Black Sabbath's War Pigs, and despite being one of the most over-covered songs of all time, it was still stunning. I got a copy of his debut album, Reason Isn't Radar, and after an initial listen, I really like it.



Next up was Tenth To The Moon. This three piece consisted of two older gentleman on bass and keys, and some crazy kid fronting the band switching around from vocals, to drums, to drum machines. I guess on a broad scale I would call it experimental noise-dance. At one point the vocalist pulls out a huge metal shield that is plugged into the sound system that he beats to death with his drum sticks. Really good music and a very entertaining live show that you should check out.





I finally made my way over to Sebadoh at the Variety Playhouse just in time for Lou and the boys to come on. I'm not very familiar with Sebadoh, but they were really good. An enjoyable relic of the '90s. I have to say I enjoyed seeing Lou Barlow solo or Dinosaur Jr much more, but it was cool to see another manifestation.

RIP Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84. I don't usually get too into celebrity deaths and such, but Kurt Vonnegut was a amazing writer, a true life champion, and a hero to a "countercultre kid" like me. Cheers to you sir!

Video Of The Day: Of Montreal

I know it seems I post something Of Montreal related every week, but they are rad. I'll try to make this my last for a while and pack in some info. Cable And Tweed has a bunch of posts on them this week related to the karaoke show, complete with mp3 highlights, and the 411 on Fo Montreal. Tonight you can catch them on the Conan O'Brien show so set your DVRs. Pitchfork called Kevin Barnes' celly and discussed the dilly. Finally, Bobloblaw79 caught this Led Zeppelin cover at the 2-24-2007 show at the Variety Playhouse:

Torrent Of The Day: The Grateful Dead (2-26-1977)

One thing you might not know about me is that The Grateful Dead is one of my favourite all-time bands. Despite inventing an entire genre of imitators, there's still nothing like this group. If you aren't very familiar with these guys you should download this show, get really baked, and jam it:

1977-02-26 San Bernardino WBOTB 83283 flac16

Grateful Dead
February 26, 1977
Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA

7" Betty Board Reel @ 7 1/2 ips >
PCM501ES > DBX Type 1 decoder >
PCM501ES analog out > Fostex D5 @ 48kHz >
Fostex D5 optical S/PDIF out (Jace's tape) > disk
Transferred by Tim Deibert 2-17-2002

Disc 1 of 3: [76:51]

Set One:
1. Terrapin Station (11:07)
2. Tuning (1:27)
3. Minglewood Blues (5:19)
4. They Love Each Other (7:11)
5. Estimated Prophet (7:16)
6. Sugaree (11:01)
7. Mama Tried (2:53)
8. Deal (6:01)
9. Playin' In The Band -> (14:44)
10. The Wheel -> (7:08)
11. Playin' In The Band (2:37)

Disc 2 of 3: [53:12]

Set Two:
1. Samson & Delihah (6:11)
2. Tennessee Jed (8:40)
3. The Music Never Stopped (6:19)
4. Help>Slipknot -> (13:21)
5. Franklin's Tower (13:58)
6. Promised Land (4:37)

Disc 3 of 3: [40:26]

1. Eyes Of The World -> (9:03)
2. Jam -> (2:50)
3. Dancin' In The Streets -> (9:48)
4. Around & Around (8:21)
5. Tuning (2:37)
6. E: U.S. Blues (7:44)


NOTES:
* Sound Forge 5.0 peak normalization to 98%.
* Tuning and stage chatter has been preserved.

Notes from trailmix 3-14-07:

† Project WBOTB
† these shns were SBE fixed (by set), then encoded to flac16 (level 6). This entire process was repeated, resulting in identical wav md5s.
† The original shns were created in 2002, but they're not in circulation and didn't exist in the database (which is why these shns were converted and fixed).

Live Review And Photos: Ratatat, 120 Days, Despot (4-10-07) The Loft

Last night, my Ohmpark buddies and I went to the best show I have seen yet at The Loft in Atlanta: Ratatat and 120 Days. Sugarkane dropped this band on me only a few weeks ago, and I have been trying to catch up. I found the crowd at the show to be an uncommon mix of indie hipsters and video-game styled music enthusiasts. I blame this on the venue's proximity to Georgia Tech; perhaps one of the only 'subculture' groups in the city with as healthy an addiction to Internet celebrity and fanfare as the indie crowd. Those 'old-wave' synths and lo-fi sine waves really get those pencil pushers moving...

Ratatat pull an interesting array of fans together by using their old-school aesthetic to drive their rock star image and still somehow bring a heavy dose of hip-hop into their music. Personally, I love their take on some of the popular trends in music happening today; one being the http://www.8bitpeoples.com type synths. The other, of course, is the pervasive influence of hip-hop culture and how it has become an increasingly central part of mass entertainment culture through the Internet. Ratatat accomplishes a unique intersection of subcultures and styles without becoming confusing or undefined; they have a defined sound.

I had the hardest time explaining to my friend what made Ratatat better than other bands that have latched onto the 8-bit-synth trend/aesthetic (depends how much you scoff/respect it). I hate to say this, but it was the same thing that birthed rock into the mythic proportions it was to consume: the guitar. It makes the entire live show for a band that's noise-space is 75% synthetic. Other bands have attempted this approach ( http://www.myspace.com/anamanaguchi to a further degree, for example), but not quite to the sweet spot of trendiness that Ratatat has found....

I should also mention 120 Days, who put on a great opening set. Probably pretty disappointed with American crowds; piles of guitar effects strung up with the analog synths proved these guys could play the trendiest dance club as easily as a a rock and roll dive. I was very impressed and ran home to check them out; I think most of the crowd was surprised.

Note from BiggieC: Ichuda got to the show after Despot was on. I personally enjoyed him very much. I was stoked to see he could rap without a hype man or DJ. His best song was "Get Rich or Try Dying."

Also I'd like to thank Catherine for granting me a photo pass.


(Click for larger photos)


Despot







120 Days
















Ratatat

Lollapalooza Line-up Leaked

AV Club is reporting (maybe take with grain of salt):

It's being officially announced tomorrow, but for you my friends... Here tis. Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Ben Harper, Muse, Iggy & The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, The Roots, Patti Smith, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV On The Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, Hold Steady, Jack's Mannequin, Stephen Marley, STS9, MIA, Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, The Rapture, The Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes N Tapes, Heartless Bastards, The View, The Cribs, The Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins, Sam Roberts, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & The Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite Carey Ott, Matt Roan Phew! I just typed all of that. All for you, dear readers.

Link is here: http://www.avclub.com/content/newswire/lollapalooza_2007_lineup_one

We'll find out tommorrow if this is correct, then i'll break it down.

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Cyann & Ben : Sweet Beliefs


picture by Philippe Lebruman

This French band kinda has elements of Sigur Ros, Explosions In the Sky, Mew, Radiohead, and some other stuff. Seriously, it's an amazing hybrid of great styles. Their new album, Sweet Beliefs, is stunningly gorgeous and a great "take-you-on-a-sonic-journey" album. Pick yourself up a copy:

• Words
• Let It Play

Check Out Cyann And Ben

Buy Sweet Beliefs Here


Amon Tobin : The Foley Room


Shot by Maryse Larivière

This Brazillian born, Uk bred DJ does jazzy IDM and DMB that could border into post-rock in sound. Typically known for great sampling, Amon Tobin incorporates mostly in the field recordings such as cats eating rats and ants eating grass(WTF) on this album. He seems to be worried that illegal file sharing could be hurting his album sales so if you like the tracks, support him and get the album cuz it is worth it:

• Vanilla's The Killer
• Staight Psyche

Check Out Amon Tobin

Buy The Foley Room Here

Video Of The Day: The Ponys

I've been jamming this album hard lately, so here's a pitchfork video of them:

Live Earth Initial Line-up Announced

Al Gore's Live Earth, the environmental verison of Live 8, has announced its headliners. It will be held in different major world cities simultaneously on July 7th of this year (the same day the Smashing Pumpkins drop their new album). Hopefully MTV will do more brilliant coverage of the event (like when they didn't show all of the Pink Floyd reunion). Much like Live 8 ended poverty, these are the musicians that will reverse global warming with music at Giants Stadium in New Jersey:

Kanye West
AFI
Kelly Clarkston
Akon
KC Tunstall
Alicia Keys
Ludacris
Bon Jovi
Sheryl Crow
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Mathews Band
Rihanna
Fall Out Boy
Roger Waters
Smashing Pumpkins
John Mayer
The Police

I have to say it makes me cringe to see Roger Waters and Smashing Pumpkins on the same bill as Kelly Clarkston and Fall Out Boy. Notable acts at the London Live Earth include Beastie Boys, Bloc Party, Foo Fighters, Genesis, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. If you are interested in cutting global CO2 emmissions and are a die hard Bon Jovi fan you can get tickets Monday morning here.

Torrent Of The Day: Radiohead (Bonnaroo)

This is an essential show to have, so in case you don't, here:

radiohead bonnaroo 6/17/2006 - 16-bit version

Radiohead
2006-06-17
What Stage - Bonnaroo
Manchester, TN

16-bit version
Taper: SpeshulEd

Set List
------------------------------------

--Disc One--
01 Intro
02 There, There
03 2+2=5
04 15 Step
05 Arpeggi
06 Exit Music
07 Kid A
08 Dollars & Cents
09 Videotape
10 No Surprises
11 Paranoid Android
12 The Gloaming
13 National Anthem
14 Climbing Up The Walls
15 Nude
16 Street Spirit (Fade Out)

--Disc Two--
01 The Bends
02 Myxomatosis
03 How To Disappear Completely
04 You And Whose Army?
05 Pyramid Song
06 Like Spinning Plates
07 Fake Plastic Trees
08 Bodysnatchers
09 Lucky
10 Idioteque
11 Karma Police
12 House Of Cards
13 Everything In Its Right Place

Video Of The Day: KYLESA

7 Shows In 5 Days

Obviously the big show this week is TV On The Radio at the Variety Playhouse friday night. It's sold out, but tickets are currently still available for the show Thursday night at the 40 Watt in Athens. Here's five other great shows this week.

Tuesday April 10th:

Ratatat, 120 Days, Despot at The Loft (9:00pm/18+ $14 ($16 under 21))



Wednesday April 11th:

Gringo Star (CD Release), Phonograph (NY), Morning State at The Earl (9:00pm/21+ $7)



Thursday April 12th:

Black Lips, Snowden, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves at Lenny's Bar (9:00pm/21+ $10 suggested donation for Jessica Juggs benefit)

Bobloblaw79, thanks for these videos from 3-27-2007:





Friday April 13th:

Continue And Save, Parade, The Winter Sounds at Lenny's Bar (9:00pm/21+ $5)



Saturday April 14th:

The Orphins, Moorish Idols, The Subliminator at ISP Space (9:00pm/all ages free(donations))

Torrent Of The Day: The Breeders (1993 tour)

The Breeders xxxx-xx-xx various venues 1993 Tour (Double Trouble) (FLAC)

The Breeders various dates 1993 Tour (Double Trouble)
Lineage: CD Silvers>EAC>Flac Frontend>Flac (Level 8)


Contains:

1. Iris
2. Cannonball
3. Saints
4. Hag
5. Fortunately Gone
6. When I Was a Painter
7. Doe
8. Limehouse
9. Only In 3's
10. Doe
11. Hellbound
12. Safari
13. Happiness is a Warm Gun
14. Driver
15. Do You Love Me Now?
16. Don't Call Home
17. Fortunately Gone
18. I Just Wanna Get Along
19. When I Was a Painter
20. Limehouse
21. Iris
22. Opened

Releases Of The Week

Three albums I'm excited about:

Blonde Redhead : 23



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CocoRosie : The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn



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Rosebuds : Night Of The Furies



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Live Videos and Review: Menomena, The N.E.C., Midwives (4-3-2007) Drunken Unicorn

Tuesday night I arrived at the Drunken Unicorn at 8:15pm because I thought I read somewhere that doors opened at 8pm. Well, they didn't end opening until about 9:20pm. I spent a good hour at the coffee shop next door playing Super Mario Brothers on the DS and then went in with the large crowd of folks waiting to be let in. First band up was Jeffrey Butzer's Midwives. They came out in masks and and matching suits like a classic ska/surf outfit and then did some fantastic surf rock. I've been getting into this genre a lot lately going back and listening to old stuff so it was great to hear a band doing that style so well. They even had a tiny piano for like kids that they would play on some songs. Really cool:



Next up was this band called the N.E.C. It includes members of Kill Gordon and Snowden's Jordan Jefferes. I like both of those bands but I was disappointed with this project. They sounded like the a watered-down version of the Black Lips with less intensity and less of an edge. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it just felt too much like a cheap ripoff. Near the end, some kids in the crowd came on stage hitting some of the band with vegetables and it just came off very contrived and out of place. Due to Snowden blowing up and Jordan Jefferes not having much extra time, he has left the band since this show and the N.E.C. will continue on as a three-piece:



I had been listening to Menomena's new album all the time lately and I was very excited about the show. I was not let down. Most of the set included songs off of Friend And Foe and they played them beautifully. They made use of an extensive instrumentation for a three-piece including an e-Bow and a Moog Taurus. There's something special about a band where everyone can take on vocal duties and shine. They seemed very appreciative of the crowd response and recalled bad previous trips to Atlanta while talking a lot of smack about Smith's Old Bar. You could tell that they were loving the crowd and were utilizing the energy well. If you have not looked into this band, do so because their album is one of the best to come out this year and they put on a hell of a show. My friend Bobloblaw79 took some videos:

Video Of The Day: Blonde Redhead

Torrent Of The Day: Pearl Jam (10-6-1991)

Pearl Jam 1991-10-06 (FLAC)

Pearl Jam
10-6-91
Palladium: Hollywood, CA

Source: Original Silver Bootleg > EAC > WAV > FLAC

Notes from pjnola24:
I don't know if this is a PRE-FM SBD or an FM Broadcast show. The Hard to Imagine Website claims that this show is available only as FM Broadcast. This is probably accurate; however it seems that the sound quality is just as good as some PRE-FM SBD shows that I've heard. The left/right separation on the guitars is fairly good and the clarity and separation of the individual instruments is pretty good as well.

Also note, that this IS the complete show. Pearl Jam was apparently an opening band for Alice and Chains and Soundgarden for this particular show.

1 - Wash
2 - Once
3 - Even Flow
4 - Alive
5 - Jeremy
6 - Why Go
7 - Porch

Live Show: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2-12-2007)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will be at the Variety Playhouse Wednesday, April 18th.



Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
La Cigale, Paris

February 12nd, 2007

Simultaneous broadcast on France Inter, program C'est Lenoir

Lineage : FM receiver (stereo) -> CDWAVe -> SoundForge -> wav. -> FLAC -> you

Setlist :

(click to listen)

01. Satan Said Dance
02. Is This Love
03. Love Song N°7
04. Details of the war
05. In this home on ice
06. Yankee go home
07. By the skin of my yellow country teeth
08. Gimmie some salt
09. Over and over again
10. Goodbye to mother and the cove
11. Heavy Metal

Recorded and edited by svp, for you. Only edit is fade in at the beginning and fade out at the end of the concert.
Enjoy, this is a great gig by a great band!
Support the artists and independent (records) stores!

DOWNLOAD LOSSLESS TORRENT HERE

Lollapalooza Update

My Favourite Lolla show last year: Sleater-Kinney

In case you don't know, early bird tickets are currently available for the fest right now at $165 (no service or shipping charge is cool though). The Line-up will be announced on Thursday but we've already been reporting confirmations as they happen on the Lollapalooza message board. Here's a handful more of confirmations and the evidence of that confirmation:

The Satin Peaches ( http://www.last.fm/event/34715 )
Satellite Party (http://www.perryfarrell.net/index.php?action=fullnews&id=53)
The Fratellis (http://www.thefratellis.com/tour/)
Ted Leo + Rx (http://www.lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=88101)
Cold War Kids (http://lollapalooza.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=89151&mpage=1&key=&#89295)

Live Music Blog is reporting that another Chicago fest, Intonation Fest, is not happening this year due to too much festival competition. Pretty lame considering Jon Brion was going to curate it. I guess I'll only be going to Chicago twice this year. As soon as Lollapalooza drops the official line-up, we'll break it down. Remember, ticket prices are gonna go up, so snag them tickets quick.

Friday Free-Style

Late edition because I got uber-drunk last night dancing like a fool at East Side Lounge. I highly recommend you go there on a Thursday night and check out the Rare Form DJ Crew. Saturday night I'll be checking out the Jupiter Watts CD Release show at the Earl. Cable And Tweed has a good article on them complete with mp3s.

The Police are talking about maybe doing an album. This video should make you laugh:



Sebadoh is at the Variety Playhouse Sunday night. Read up.

Seattle's September festival Bumbershoot has announced a partial line-up including The Shins and The Wu-tang Clan. I have to say compared to the ba-jillion other festival line-ups this year its pretty weak.

Wilco will be in Atlanta at Chastain Amphitheatre on June 19th right after playing Bonnaroo. The new album, Sky Blue Sky, comes out May 14th and is all over the Internet right now. Low will be opening for them.

Keith Richards snorted his father.

Pearl Jam have officially confirmed they will be headlining Lollapalooza. Here's some videos:







REM talk about the new album they are about to make.

Super Furry Animals have new album out in August.

TV On The Radio's Daivd Sitek is producing the new Massive Attack album.

Queens Of The Stonage new album is due out by July.

Perpetual Groove, The Whigs, and The Drive-By Truckers are headlining Athfest is Athens, Ga June 20th-24th. They will announce full line-up soon.

Man Man is touring with Modest Mouse and they will both be here on May 5 at the Masquerade.

How about a GWAR video:



Check out this new website for the new Porcupine Tree album.

James Iha is officially ruled out of the Smashing Pumpkins reunion stuff.

Mattias Gustavsson of Dungen is releasing a solo album on April 17th.

CocoRosie will be at the Masquerade on May 10th.

Andrew Bird is touring but the closest to Atlanta he will get is Nashville, TN.

Interviews:

• Bright Eyes
• The Decemberists
• Thermals
• Dean And Britta
• Peter Bjorn And John
• Shearwater
  

The Decemberists are at the Tabernacle tonight so i will leave you with some Decemberists videos:

Torrent Of The Day: Of Montreal (3-22-2007)

A good friend of mine taped this show:

Of Montreal & Loney, Dear 2007-03-22 The Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC (FLAC)

Of Montreal & Loney, Dear
2007-03-22
The Grey Eagle
Asheville, NC

Source: SP C4s [ Oade Mod Marantz PMD671 > CF card [wav 16/44.1]
Transfer: CF card > usb > harddrive > Audacity [normalize / track splits] > wavs > xACT v1.59 > flac
Taped by: Team WWHJD? + Sugarkane/Leah
Transferred by: Team WWHJD?

________________________________________________________________________

Loney, Dear

Disc 1
01 Sinister in a shape of hope
02 ????
03 The meter marks OK
04 Battle of Trinidad and Tobago
05 I am John


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Of Montreal

Disc 1
01 intro
02 Suffer For Fashion
03 Sink The Seine
04 Cato As A Pun
05 Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
06 Labrynthian Pomp
07 She's A Rejecter
08 We Were Born the Mutants Again With Leafling
09 October Is Eternal
10 I Was A Landscape In Your Dream
11 Vegan In Furs
12 Chrissy Kiss The Corpse
13 Forecast Fascist Future
14 I Was Never Young
15 Rapture Rapes The Muses
16 Gronlandic Edit
17 A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger
18 The Party’s Crashing Us

Disc 2
ENCORE:
01 ...audience + banter...
02 Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider
03 Faberge Falls For Shuggie
04 Raspberry Beret [Prince cover]
05 Requiem For O.m.m.2

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NOTES:
Due to having only one set of batteries, just the first 5 songs by Loney, Dear were recorded...apologies for not providing a full set...CHEERS to Sugarkane & Leah for helping keep an eye on the gear during beer runs!

Heather Jr says: Support independent artists -- buy their albums, go to a show, get a t-shirt, sleep with a rockstar

http://www.ofmontreal.net
http://www.loneydear.com/

Diatribe Of The Day: What Is A Musician?

The night after St. Patrick's Day a couple weeks ago, Me, Ichuda, and some other friends spent the night getting drunk in a dive bar on the beach at Tybee Island. We ended up getting in like a 5 hour discussion and argument about Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. I'm not going to rehash this tired debate here, but I am going to address a single element of the argument that has come out in previous music debates. There are certain phrases that people use when trying to make a point about particular music that always bother me. A simple example of this is: "Every *Insert artist or genre here* song sounds the same". When I hear someone make an argument like this, It translates into my head as "I don't know what I'm talking about". The phrase that came up in this argument that I've heard in similar arguments with many different people was "*Insert band or artist here* are/is a great songwriter(s), but not (a) good musician(s)."

I hate when someone says something like this. It really infuriates me because there are a lot of layers to this sort of thinking that I disagree with. First, somehow the word "musician" has come to mean something different to people than its actual definiton. Certain people in this mind frame think that there is a black and white dichotomy between being a song-writer and being a musician. Either you are songwriter, a musician, or both. Not only is this oversimplification lack an understanding of the evolution of music, but it totally redefines the word "musician" to only account for those who can play an instrument technically proficient according to conventional norms determined by some popular thought based in tradition. It basically boils down to, the faster you can play a scale, the better a musician you are.

Now, I do not disagree that in assessing how good a musician someone is, its fair to take into account how technically proficient that person is. But that is only a part of the greater picture. These classical-rock fundamentalists rob the word of every other meaning and dimension it possesses. Here's some definitions of the word 'musician' that i can find on the web:

Answers.com:

One who composes, conducts, or performs music, especially instrumental music.

Websters-online-dictionary.org:

1. Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession).

2. Artist who composes or conducts music as a profession.

But I think I like Wikipedia's best:

A musician is a person who plays or composes music Musicians can be classified by their role in creating or performing music:

• A singer (or vocalist) uses his or her voice as an instrument.
• An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.
• Both singer and instrumentalist can be improvisers, who create real time music.
• Composers and songwriters write music.
• A conductor coordinates a musical ensemble.

Musicians may also dance or produce choreography. The concept of the musician and the status of the musician in society varies from culture to culture.

You will notice that by definition, song-writing is musicianship. The song-writer is not a separate sphere outside of the musician, but one flavor of musician. You'll also notice that "conducting" is included in all three definitions. A conductor doesn't even actually make any music or sounds, but it still considered a musician. The conductor manipulates the music using the musicians as his instrument. Music is making art with sound. You have to think on that raw, fundamental level to really understand what a musician is. To better illuminate my perspective on these two types of musicians and their importance I think in terms of comic books, The song-writer is the penciller and the technically proficient are the inker. The song-writer creates art and the technically proficient perfect it but there's lots of different dimensions, and variations, and combinations. So arguing about who is a better musician between some who is purely a song-writer and someone who is purely a master of their instrument is impossible on a certain level. That's not to say that value judgements don't exist. The musician who can combine both as well as each of those clearly is a better musician.

Another problem with this argument is the limited conception of what passes for being a master of an instrument. There are classical musicians who believe that jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll aren't "real music" and that musicians in those genres are not as good as classical musicians because they don't do specifically what they are used to. Assuming that particular styles are objectively better than others is something that i will never agree with. As music evolves, styles evolve and just because a particular guitarist hasn't been practicing a particular old style of music over and over again does not necessarily mean they are any less proficient at their instrument. They may be inventing a new style of playing the guitar that the rock dinosaur guitarists could never do. Also, as technology is moving more and more rapidly, what constitutes an "instrument" is changing and a particular musician doesn't have to even touch classical instrumentation. Mastering making music from a computer is just as important as mastering music on a drum set.

The best way i can illustrate how i conceive what makes a great musician is to give an example. I consider Jim O'Rourke one of the greatest musicians of all time because he can play any instrument as good as the best and each with a distinct sound unmatchable, he can write brilliant songs, some of the best lyrics I've ever heard, he has a good and distinct voice, he can improvise at high levels, he has created some of the best pop songs and some of the most challenging and innovative experimental music I have ever heard, he has produced some of the best albums of the last decade, he mixes, he collaborates constantly with great musicians, and he is insanely prolific. The truly great musician to me is the one than can master as many different dimensions of music as possible.

So, I'm taking "musician" back. The next time someone is going on and on about some dude who can shred on a guitar in his sleep but couldn't write a good song, tell your friend "yeah, he's really good at his instrument, but he's not a good musician." and wait for that reaction.

Your reward for reading all of that garbage is a few Jim O'Rourke tracks:

Jim O'Rourke : Insignificance : Memory Lame

Sonic Youth : Murray Street : Rain On Tin

Loose Fur : Loose Fur : Carnival Knowledge

Jim O'Rourke : Terminal Pharmacy : Terminal Pharmacy

Listen to Blonde Redhead's new album "23" now on myspace

Blonde Redhead's new album "23" arrives in stores next Tuesday. For now you can stream the entire thing on myspace.

Just go to:

Blonde Redhead myspace

Blonde Redhead is about to kick off their summer world tour and will be in Atlanta on Friday, May 4th at Variety Playhouse. Get tickets here:

Variety Playhouse Ticket Club

(You must sign up but trust me it's better than supporting ticketbastard)

Live Show: Beirut (3-16-2007) SXSW

Beirut
March 16, 2007
South By Southwest
KLRU Studios
Austin, TX

SOURCE:
KEXP Uncompressed 44.1kHz PCM Stream [1,411kB/sec] > Total Recorder v6.0

LINEAGE:
WAV [44.1kHz] > CD Wave Editor v1.94.4 > Flac Level 8 > You (Your copy will be CDR(1) if burnt)

GENERATION:
WAV [44.1kHz] > FLAC

LENGTH: 55:54

SETLIST: (click to listen)

01 Island Song
02 Carousels
03 After The Curtain
04 Moribond
05 My Family Role
06 Elephant Gun
07 Sunday Smile
08 Closing Song
09 Mount Vroclai
10 The Gulag Okestar
11 Brazil
12 Scenic World
13 The Canals Of Our City

NOTES:
-Recorded via KEXP's uncompressed 1.411kB/s stream.

BAND INFO:
-http://www.http://www.beirutband.com
-http://www.myspace.com/beirut
-http://www.kexp.org

RECORDED BY:
Dave Caley / dcaley(AT)torontotapers.org (2007.03.17)

Download Losslesss Torrent Here

Torrent Of The Day: Built To Spill (7-13-2006)

Built To Spill 2006-07-13 The Depot, Salt Lake City, Utah (16-bit) (FLAC)

Built To Spill
2006-07-13
The Depot
Salt Lake City, UT

Disc I
1. Car
2. Goin' Against Your Mind
3. Else
4. Good Ol' Boredom
5. Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
6. Rearrange (Gladiators cover)
7. Big Dipper
8. Kicked It In The Sun

Disc II
1. Conventional Wisdom
2. Bomb Shelter Part 2 (Halo Benders cover, Calvin Johnson film in background)
3. Carry The Zero
4. They Got Away
5. Untrustable
Encore:
6. Broken Chairs

Notes: bts2006-07-13d1t01 was spliced with a different source because the ADK source was incomplete.

Source: bts2006-07-13d1t01: Audix m1290 (cardioids, DIN, DFC, balcony rail)> Sound Devices MP-2> Sony PCM-M1 All other tracks: ADKTLs (XY, DFC, balcony rail> Motu Traveler @ 24/48> Compaq laptop

Lineage: Master Wavs> Spark XL 2.82 (spliced d1t01 w/ the ADKTL source, fades, tracks)> Wav> xACT 1.58> Flac16 level 8

Taped by Dave Marshall & Alex Widner

Compiled by Alex Widner xawidner AT yahoo_com

Live Videos And Photos: Deerhunter (4-2-2007) Criminal Records

Monday we went down to check out Deerhunter doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records. I picked up their new EP, Fluorescent Grey, and it is great. Biggie C tooks some photos:



















I video taped the show and it was the first show I've ever video taped. Check it out in low-def:

"Cryptograms":



"White Ink":



"Hazel St":



"Spring Hall Convert":



"Flourescent Grey"/"Tech School":

Humpday Random Tracks

Listen to the track and click the album cover to get more info:



CocoRosie: Rainbow Warrior





Illinois: Alone Again





Ruby Isle: Teenage Riot (Sonic Youth cover)





Voxtrot: Firecracker

Torrent Of The Day: Zozobra (3-25-2007)

Some new stoner-metal for you. Not to be confused with nu-stoner-metal.

Zozobra 2007-03-25 The Triple Rock Minneapolis, MN (FLAC)

Zozobra
The Triple Rock Social Club
Minneapolis, MN
Sunday March 25th 2007

Taper: empty (neveragain1980 AT yahoo DOT com)
Location: ROC, 20' right drink rail, ~10' ^
Mic Config: DIN (20cm, ~90º)
Source: Studio Projects C4's > UA-5 (BM2p+) > iRiver h120 (Optical @ 16bit 44.1kHz WAV)
Conversion: h120 > USB > PC [WAV > FLAC5 + Verified]
Edit: Tracking in CD Wave. Fade out in Sound Forge 7.
Size: 361MB (WAV) 210MB (FLAC)
TRT: 35:47

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

1. Silver Ghost
2. Invisible Wolves
3. Peripheral Lows
4. Soon To Follow
5. The Blessing
6. Kill And Crush
7. Levitate
8. Caldera

Notes: Opening for Isis and Jesu. Long live Hydra Head Records.

Zozobra is a metal band that was first conceived by Caleb Scofield during 2006. Zozobra are currently on tour in the United States with Isis and Jesu. Zozobra has allowed Caleb Scofield the chance write his own songs for the first time ever, unlike Cave In and Old Man Gloom. - wikipedia

www.myspace.com/zozobra505
www.hydrahead.com
www.sonicfrontiers.net/php/story-17.html - Interview with Caleb

Clell Tickle: Indie Marketing Guru

This video is kinda old. (like SO last year ya NOOB) Anyway it should get you ready for this year's Pitchfork Music Festival who just added New Pornographers, Battles, Stephen Malkmus, The Ponys, and De La Soul. Tickets are only $50 for the weekend that includes Friday nite's performance of "Daydream Nation" by Sonic Youth. You'd be crazy not to go.

Also check out "Human Giant" the new MTV show from Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Jason Woliner. (Some of the people from the above skit)

Videos Of the Day: Bands In Atlanta This Week

Menomena will be at the Drunken Unicorn tonight. Looks to be a great show.



Blood Brothers will be at The Masquerade this Saturday night:



Sebadoh (featuring Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr) plays at the variety Playhouse Sunday night:

Torrent Of The Day: The Decemberists (3-31-2007)

The Decemberists 2007-03-31 Messiah College, Grantham, PA

The Decemberists
March 31, 2007
Brubaker Auditorium, Messiah College, Grantham, PA

Church Audio STC-11s > CA-9100 Preamp > iRiver h120 (16 bit/44.1 wav)

Transfer: wav file > usb wire > Sound Studio (Mac OS 10.3.9) > split files .aif (volume boost by +15 db, plus some mixing) > flac (xACT)

Location: about 20 rows back on the floor, center stage

Comments:
Easily the most "rocking" Decemberists show I've ever seen or heard. Colin says early in the show that Chris Funk (the band's guitarist) made up the setlist for the show. They played The Crane Wife part 1 only, which was interesting (and better than linking it with part 2). We got to hear the live debut of a b-side from The Crane Wife, a song that is MUCH better live than the studio version: The Perfect Crime #1. Also, an encore of The Tain was a nice surprise (though I would have liked one more album song to close the show). The in-crowd entertainment was a re-enactment of the battle of Gettysburg instead of the Charge of the Light Brigade (especially nice to hear the guy behind me cheer loudly when Colin says the Confederates had won the battle). A fan got up on stage during O Valencia to sing backup and play a percussive noise maker. After the show I got to shake hands with John, the drummer, and say hi to Jenny, the keyboard/accordion player, as I walked through the building towards my car. It was a great show.
Now, the sound in a college gym is terrible. The mix was also a bit light on Colin's vocals in my opinion. For some reason I ended up with a lot of static in the left channel, so a bunch of songs have the right channel doubled to avoid the digi-noise from the left mic. There is more crowd than I'd like in the recording too, but that's what you're going to get when people talk and shout requests through the whole show. Overall, with the volume boost I think it's a very solid recording for the given conditions. Please share freely and only in lossless formats.
Questions/Comments:
subpop12@hotmail.com

01. Intro music
02. Shiny
03. The Island, Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll not Feel the Drowning
04. Banter (where are we tonight?)
05. July, July!
06. Banter (Slinky on stage)
07. The Crane Wife (pt.1 only)
08. The Bachelor and the Bride
09. Song for Myla Goldberg (slow version)
10. The Perfect Crime 1/(What Goes On by The Velvet Underground)/The Perfect Crime 2
11. O Valencia
12. A Cautionary Song (with the battle of Gettysburg)
13. Encore break
14. The Tain (I-VI)

Live Review: DJ Klever, Snowden, Variac (3-31-07) Lenny's (Plus, The Ohmpark Kenny Crucial Challenge)

Saturday night while Biggie C and Sleo went to the Ted Leo show, I decided to play the hipster and go to Lenny's. After grabbing some food and watching the first half of the Florida v. UCLA Final Four basketball game in Little Five Points I journeyed alone to the show. When I got there the place was very empty, but was packed tight by the end of Snowden's set. The hipster bicycle club Faster Mustache was celebrating its second birthday and everyone who's anyone in the Atlanta indie scene was in attendance including Bean Summer (Lenny's booking agent), Preston Craig (KissAtlanta and Decatur Social Club), and Kenny Crucial. Ok, we're going to stop the story here for a minute to talk about Kenny Crucial.

Last year at Bonnaroo, Sleo and I waited 6 hours to have a good spot for the Radiohead show. About midway through sitting and standing in a packed crowd, this guy is trying to squeeze past us and Sleo starts yelling at him. Apparently some other folks were holding his spot in front of us , and we eventually let him pass. Now I could go on a digression about concert attendee etiquette, but I'll spare you. After we got back to Atlanta, we started to notice the same guy that cut in front of us at almost all of the shows we were going to. We even developed nicknames for him. Just a couple weeks ago, Creative Loafing here in Atlanta ran a cover story devoted to this same guy. He goes by the name "Kenny Crucial" and you can learn more about this "local legend" and "Philosopher" at his own site. Well, now the Atlanta scene is consumed with Kenny-Crucial-Mania. Even Atlanta Music Guide, who is always like 3 years behind the trends, has an article about him. So, I'm going to bite. We here at Ohmpark will feed into the hype and have some fun with this.

Another weird personality I met this year while hitting fests was Beatle Bob. Beatle Bob looks like a retarded Gallagher Brother( ok, a more retarded Gallagher Brother) and i first saw him at Wakarusa last year at the Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker show on stage dancing around in a really strange and ridiculous way. I later talked to him briefly at Bonnaroo and saw him go on stage and introduce both Sonic Youth and Sleater-Kinney at Lollapalooza. There are many mythical stories about Beatle Bob such as the fact that he has supposedly gone to a show every day since 1996 and disputed claims that he was a radio DJ in St. Louis (his hometown). He is known nationally , has a dance named after him, somebody is making a documentary about him and there is even a petition to have him stop being such a spectacle called Beatle Bob Sit Down.

So, here's the deal. St. Louis can suck it. We're going to try and make Atlanta's own Kenny Crucial bigger than Beatle Bob. It's going to be a difficult endeavor because Beatle Bob is very big. We are going to undertake a multi-phase plan. Phase one: We are announcing the Ohmpark Kenny Crucial Challenge. KC needs even more exposure. He needs full coverage. So, from here on out we are challenging you, the reader, to catch Kenny Crucial at shows with your camera phone. You can send your pics to icaughtkenny@ohmpark.com or just post them at Camura if you have an account. We will post the best phone logs here and keep up with the adventures of The Crucial One. After a yet-to-be-determined time, we will award the photographer of the best Kenny Crucial pic some concert tickets to a band they like. Most likely. So, be on the look-out. He is usually at the front of the most hipsterish show of the night. Here's a pic to help you find him, but it's not hard:



Good luck!

ok, what was i writing about? Oh yeah, the show. First I saw Variac and they were ok. Kinda sounded like a sloppy mix of Blur and the Black Crowes. They aren't bad at what they do, it is just what they do is kind of boring and derivative. After a tri-cycle race inside the venue was held, Snowden went on. I had never seen Snowden, but they have been hyped pretty heavily lately and some believe they could be the Nirvana that breaks the Atlanta scene through. I listened to their music and I always thought it was good, but I just didn't understand why everyone was so in love with them. Well, after seeing them live, now I know. They take that Bloc Party intensity and amplify it ten fold. They are the anti-Interpol in that way. I highly recommend you check them out live because it was amazing. I don't know that they can single-handedly blow up the Atlanta scene, but they a great band:







Next up was DJ Klever. This was my first time seeing him as well and it was off the chain. I hadn't seen a crowd in a club dance that hard since I was a raver. He led off with a Tomahawk Chop anthem with a beat and it then went all over the place. Just an amazing DJ. I mean, he is an international superstar and rightly so. I'll be catching him and Snowden every chance i get:







Klever is touring with the Gza and they will be doing Atlanta on May 28th at the Loft. Snowden are playing with the Selmanaires on April 7th at Rob's House.

Video Of The Day: The Apples in Stereo

Torrent Of The Day: The Mars Volta (3-31-2007) (w/new drummer and new songs)

The Mars Volta 2007-03-31 Berkeley Community Theater (FLAC)

The Mars Volta
Live at the Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley, CA
March 31, 2007


Taped from the lower balcony.

Recorded with:
Giant Squid Omni Mics > Battery box w/bass roll-off > iRiver H100 w/Rockbox installed
>Split into tracks, EQed, and normalized using Cubase LE
>Exported to .wav
>Flac using FLAC Frontend

Setlist:
1. Fela Kuti's "Expensive Shit" (pre-show music) + Fistfull of Dollars Intro
2. Rapidfire Tollbooth (new)
3. Roulette Dares
4. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus
5. Viscera Eyes
6. Idle Tooth (new)
7. Drunkship of Lanterns
8. Vermicide
9. Tetragrammaton
10. Meccamputechture
11. Day of the Baphomets

Notes:
New drummer- Thomas Pridgen- he is LOUD on this recording.
Cedric was a bit sick, so vocals werent exactly top notch

Photos: 3-31-07 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams

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Love of Diagrams













Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

March Wrap-Up

A quarter of 2007 is over and it was a lot of fun. So far, 2007 is turning out to be a great year in music delivering stellar albums, great shows, and an unprecedented amount of good American music festivals shaping up. I've noticed some interesting trends. For instance, In 2005 it was looking like Arcade Fire and Bloc Party we're going to ascend to greatness and that Modest Mouse had lost everything good about it. One respective album from each band later, Arcade Fire and Bloc Party don't feel so much better than the rest of the pack(although that could easily change) and I can't think of a bigger, better, more important American band in the last 13 years than Modest Mouse.

Anyways, March was a busy month for Ohmpark. Ichuda reviewed the Mastodon show and the Red Sparrowes show. Biggie C got some good pics of the Grizzly Bear show and the Sparklehorse show:





I sat down with the boys from Passer By. Biggie C got some fantastic photos of The Slip and Gringo Star:





Sleo did a review of one of the moe. shows in Atlanta. I did a write-up on the Producer Battles at Apache Cafe's World Famous Mic Club. Biggie C got some shots at the Beach House and Birds Of Avalon show:



Me and Biggie C went to the Explosions In The Sky, The Paper Chase, and Eluvium show:



Biggie C caught the 404 Noise and Experimental Festival:



Biggie C dropped the first Ohmpark Mixtape and wrote a heart-felt letter to Joanna Newsom. Annereade reviewed the new Modest Mouse album. And Biggie C shot up the Kid Koala and Samadha show.

We hope you're enjoying Ohmpark and remember if you have any suggestions or comments or want to hip us to a band or some news or a show, hit us up at: info@ohmpark.com

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