Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day Mash-Up

Athens Popfest, going down August 12th-16th, dropped their line-up over the weekend, as Athens, Ga superbloggers, Cable And Tweed, was all on top of it:

Roky Erickson & The Explosives, The Music Tapes, Elf Power, Dark Meat, Boyracer, The Apes, Bunnygrunt, Thee American Revolution, Circulatory System, My Teenage
Stride, The Faintest Ideas, We Versus the Shark, Casper & the Cookies,
Cryptacize, Ruby Isle, The Great Lakes, Fishboy, Cars Can Be Blue, Love
Letter Band, Andy From Denver, The Buddy System, The Smittens,
Supercluster, The Coathangers, The Selmanaires, Spring Tigers, Dead Confederate, Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies, Velcro Stars, Red Pony
Clock, Big Fresh, the Lolligags, Secret History, Judi Chicago, Hot Pants
Romance, Nana Grizol, The Sterns, Thrushes, Laminated Cat, Fat Planet, The
Ocelots, The Besties, Twin Tigers, The Afternoon Naps, Boy Genius, the Hotwalls, Amo Joy!, Oh Sanders, That's My Daughter, Little Birds, A Faulty Chromosome, Panda Riot, Patience Please, Railcars, Tendaberry, One Happy Island, The Hat Company, The Young Untold, Bad Animal, Oh Fortuna, Good Graces, Night Driving in Small Towns, Umbrella Tree, Noisycrane, Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars, Allison Weiss, Whistling School for Boys

Very nice. They are still planning on adding 16 more bands and a $60 festival pass will get you into all day and night shows. I plan to be there.

Bonnaroo is going to be nationally televised for the first time ever this year on Cable's Fuse TV.

Daniel Johnston will be at The Variety Playhouse June 26th.

Brian Wilson has a new album dropping September 2nd.

Carla Bozulich's Evangelista and Xiu Xiu will be at The Drunken Unicorn August 23rd.

Treasure Island Music Fest is happening in San Francisco Labor Day weekend and the line-up is pretty sweet.

Sonic Youth has a greatest hits compilation for Starbucks coming out with songs selected by Radiohead, Beck, The Flaming Lips, David Cross and other cool SY fans.

Okkervil River has a new album due out Septmeer 9th.

The Smashing Pumpkins have a DVD coming out later this year and are talking new album early next year.

New York Gov. David Paterson has given rapper Slick Rick a pardon for attempted murder.

Peter Bjorn And John claim to have two albums coming out by the end of the year, one of whihc will be instrumental.

Hot Chip played an acoustic session for NPR.

Suggested video wathcing:

Ratatat "Mirando":



Tickley Feather "Fancy Walking":



Band Of Horses "Is There A Ghost":



Cut Copy "Hearts On Fire":


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Monday, October 8, 2007

It's Echo Project Week!



For me, this is gonna be a killer week. Wednesday I'm heading up to Asheville to catch Porcupine Tree. Thursday I come back and head a little OTP for Echo Project. Then on Monday I'm heading to Birmingham to catch Earlimart. A few Echo Project details I forgot to cover is that Common got added and that Dubconscious will be playing at the campgrounds Thursday night. As excited as I am about the festival, there happens to be a ridiculous amount of great shows in the Atlanta area this weekend, so if you can't go to Echo, there's still plenty of great tunes to be absorbed:

Tuesday night The Brunettes and The Preakness will be at The Earl.

Wednesday night Ghostface Killah will be at Georgia Tech.

Thursday night Octopus Project and Morning State will be at the Drunken Unicorn.

Friday night offers many great options: Caribou at the Earl, Minus The Bear at the Variety Playhouse, and Portugal. The Man at The Loft.

Subtle and Sunset Rubdown at the Drunken Unicorn Saturday night is pretty sweet.

Sunday is packed out too with Ryan Adams at the Fox, Band of Horses at Park Tavern, and my pick for best show of the week, Earlimart at the Earl.

Minus The Bear : Menos El Oso : Drilling


Portugal. The Man : Church Mouth : Shade


Earlimart : Mentor Tormentor : Happy Alone


The Octopus Project : Hello, Avalanche : I Saw The Bright Shinies


Caribou : Andorra : Eli


Sunset Rubdown : Random Spirit Lover : For The Pier (And Dead Shimmering)

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Torrent Of The Day: Band Of Horses
















Picture by Renee McMahon

Band Of Horses 2007-07-02 The Showbox Seattle, WA (16-bit) (FLAC)

Band: Band Of Horses
Venue: The Showbox
Location: Seattle WA
Date: 07-02-2007

Source: Sound Pros SP-CMC-4U Audio Technica U853's > XLR - ISI-1 >
M-Audio Microtrack (44.1khz 16 bit) {Mics in hat-XY Left side 10 feet Back}

Recorded & Seeded By Basshead basshead02 (at) yahoo (dot) com

Transfer: Soundforge 9.0 Pro (Fade in fade out only)-> CDWave for track splits->
FLAC Frontend.


01 Ghost In My house *
02 Great Salt Lake
03 Weed Party
04 First Song
05 Monsters
06 Ode to the LRC *
07 Funeral
08 Wicket Gil
09 Part One (Savannah)
10 The 99? *
11 Our Swords
12 The Fuckin Way To your Heart? *
13 Act Together #
14 Chained And Bound %


* From new cd - Best Guess on Song Title (6 is correct)
# Ron Wood Cover (Jagger/Richards)
% Otis Redding Cover

These guys are great. New stuff is solid, looking forward to October 2007 for their second cd release. Go get their first album "Everything All the Time" while you wait. Not sure on the new song names. Number 1 seems obvious enough, 6 is correct, 11 is hard to tell - the night and i??, and 12 should be the name of the song - but probably isnt. Great covers too. Enjoy!! -Basshead

More Pictures: http://www.seattleweekly.com/slides...lery=444&type=1

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

As you're reading this, I've already emarked on my journey to uber-drunkeness in Savannah to celebrate one of my favourite holidays. You can watch my intoxicated phone logs of the weekend here. Since i won't have many sober posts until I get back monday night, I'm leaving you with an action-packed "Friday Free-Style" featuring tons of mp3s, videos, links, etc. Have a fun weekend:

The Paper Chase blew my ear drums out at the Explosions In The Sky show Tuesday night. Check them out:



Kid Rock smacked a woman because she realized his music sucks. Seriously.

Watch the new video from Arctic Monkeys here. They will be playing the Tabernacle May 19th.

Chis Cornell has a few solo tour dates and a solo album out called Carry On April 30th.

Busta Rhymes is too dangerous to be in new York City.

The Greyboy Allstars are releasing their first studio album nine years. It's called What Happened To TV? and it's out April 17th.

Here's a new Disco Biscuits Video:



Ratatat are working on a second hip-hop mixtape. Listen to some tracks from it:
Remember Ratatat will be at the Loft on April 10th so get your tickets now.

Music For Robots has posted a list of mp3s from bands playing at SXSW. You should really check it out and listen/download that shiznit.

Listen to a track off the new Wilco album Sky Blue Sky: Wilco - What Light

Listen to a track off the new Blonde Redhead album 23: 23

Everybody is going crazy about the new Arcade Fire album. After a few good listens, I like it, but I'm not willing to crown them yet. I think if you compare it to the best albums to come out this year, it just doesn't hold up. It's definetly worth checking out though. Here's a track in case you haven't heard it yet(doubtful):
Intervention

For you hip-hop heads, here's a track from the forth coming
Hieroglyphics crew Souls Of Mischief member A-Plus: Patna Please

Meshuggah have new album due out in September.

Rush have a new album coming out May 1st and you can listen to a song off it at their site.

Ansur are working on their seocnd album.

Lenlow has done a mash-up with a Peter Bjorn and John track: “Bjorn Slippy”

Here's a Deftones video:



Here's a video of Portishead's live performance last month:



Here's a Nine Inch Nails video for a track off the new album:



Creative Loafing has an article on rapper Busdriver, who will be opening up for RJD2 next Tuesday at the Variety Playhouse.


Some SXSW related mp3s:
The Band Of Horses show Wednesday night was great. Here's some photos i took with my phone:

Arizona:



Carey Ann Hearst and The Gun Street Girls:



Band Of Horses:









Here's some interviews for you:
Here's a Simpsons clip to get you into the holiday spirit:

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