Post-Friday Free-Style

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HEALTH are doing a remix album of their debut album due out in May.

The newly reunited Stone Temple Pilots will be at the new Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park on August 23rd.

Prince has been added to the Coachella line-up.

Thurston Moore is narrating a documentary on the "Straight Edge" phenomenon.

RZA is releasing another Bobby Digital album this year.

It seems Natalie Portman and Devendra Banhart might be dating or something.

The Roots' new album comes out at the end of this month and they will be at The Fox Theater on May 23rd.

Kanye West is now a travel agent.

The Echo Lounge is about to reopen as the East Atlanta Icehouse.

Vampire Weekend will be in Atlanta at The Variety Playhouse on June 11th.

Vanilla Ice got arrested.

Foxy Brown is about to get out of prison.

Deerhoof have a new album coming out this year.

Wolf Parade have a new album coming out in June.

Asobi Seksu have a new album due out this year.

Demonoid is back.

Here's Jessica Juggz shooting flames from her vagina:



Tapes 'n' Tapes on Conan:



New Hot Chip:

One Pure Thought


Beach House "Gila":

Photos: Beach House, Papercuts, The Meeks Family on 3-1-08 at The Earl in Atlanta, GA

The Meeks Family




Papercuts








Beach House

Video Of The Day: Beach House "Heart Of Chambers"

Beach House week continues as their newest video has been spreading through the Internets like wildfire. Tonight they are at The Earl. I'll see you there.

What Up In The ATL?

There are a ton of good shows this weekend, so we will list them:

Tonight:

The Drunken Unicorn: Slow Motion Crash, Ringo Deathstar, Siberia My Sweet
I Can Fly House: The Gunshy, Mustangs And Madras, Thy Mighty Contract, Hawks
The Earl: The Preakness, Dylan Kight And The Nigtbirds, Long Knives
The Star Bar: The Carbonas, The NEC (Free show)

Friday:

The Drunken Unicorn: Morning State, De Novo Dahl, Sleep Therapy
Star Bar: Dead Confederate, Ski Club, Ocha La Rocha, Twin Tigers
The Tabernacle: Regina Spektor
141 Moreland Ave: Young Livers, Benard, 40 Hells
Lenny's: Sonen, Judi Chicago, The Modern Society
Decatur Social Club: The Rare Form DJ Crew

Saturday:

The Earl: Beach House, Papercuts, The Meeks Family
Variety Playhouse: Dark Star Orchestra
Drunken Unicorn: Joe Lally (Fugazi), Edie Sedgwick, Martyr & Pistol
Under The Couch: The Ataris

Sunday:

Variety Playhouse: Jose Gonzalez
141 Moreland Ave: Ghost Mice, Wrister, The Riot Before, Witt Wisebram
The Five Spot: Rev Rebel, The Ropes (featuring former drummer of The Mars Volta Blake Fleming), Hawkeye Pierce

Beach House: Album, Tour, Win Free Tickets!

Next week is officially Beach House week as their new album Devotion comes out on Tuesday and they will be playing at The Earl on Saturday with The Papercuts. I am pretty stoked about both as I loved their self-titled album and both times I saw them live they were awesome. You can win all sorts of prizes including tickets to the show, check it out:



Full Tour List:

02/28 Baltimore, MD Gspot
02/29 Chapel Hill, NC Local 506
03/01 Atlanta, GA The Earl
03/02 Birmingham, AL BottleTree Cafe
03/03 Memphis, TN The Hi Tone Cafe
03/04 Hattiesburg, MS The Thirsty Hippo
03/05 Baton Rouge, LA Spanish Moon
03/06 Houston, TX Walter's on Washington
03/07 Austin, TX Emo's
03/08 Denton, TX Hailey's
03/10 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture
03/11 Phoenix, AZ Modified
03/12 San Diego, CA The Casbah
03/13 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
03/14 San Luis Obispo, CA Steynberg Gallery
03/15 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
03/17 Portland, OR Holocene
03/18 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
03/19 Vancouver, BC Media Club
03/21 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
03/22 Denver, CO Hi-Dive
03/24 Omaha, NE The Slowdown
03/25 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
03/26 Chicago, IL Schubas
03/27 Cleveland, OH The Grog Shop
03/28 Toronto, ON El Mocambo
03/29 Montreal, PQ Casa del Popolo
03/31 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
04/01 Middleton, CT. Wesleyan University
04/02 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
04/03 Philadelphia, PA The Barbery
04/04 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel

Video action in case you missed it:



Preorder Devotion Here

Beach House : Devotion : D.A.R.L.I.N.G.



photo by biggie c

Friday Free-Style

Last weekend I caught Nomem Novum (newest project from Moorish Idols) at ParkGrounds and it was pretty cool. Here's a few pics and a vid:









Baroness will be at The Masquerade on March 20th. Even Pitchfork don't know that.

Stone Temple Pilots are playing Wisconsin's Rock Fest.

The new Gnarls Barkley album, The Odd Couple, comes out April 8th.

Chris Rock, one of my favourite comedians, has been added to the Bonnaroo line-up and will be performing on the main stage. Awesome. How about a music video:



Find out why My Bloody Valentine didn't do Coachella here, and "Don't worry--they'll come to America."

So all the wookies and hippies pissed off about Metallica at Bonnaroo are rallying around the newest festival to emerge in this golden ago of American festivals. Behold Rothbury Fest:

Dave Mathews, Band Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Phil Lesh And Friends, Primus, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Gov't Mule, STS9, Colbie Caillat, Slightly Stoopid, The Black Keys, Keller Williams And the WMD's, Yonder Mountain String Band featuring John Fishman, Gogol Bordello, Citizen Cope, The Disco Biscuits, Medeski Martin And Wood, Ray Lamontagne, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, Drive-By Truckers, Of Montreal, Etown Radio Show, The Dresden Dolls, Gomez ,Brett Dennen, Taj Mahal, Mike Gordon, Zappa Plays Zappa, Crystal Method DJ Set, JJ Grey And Mofro, The Greyboy All-Stars, The Secret Machines, Railroad Earth, Beth Orton ,Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels, A3, Bettye Lavette, Emmitt Nershi Band, Lotus, EOTO, Panjea with Michael Kang, Yard Dogs Road Show, State Radio, The Beautiful Girls, Sage Francis, Tea Leaf Green, Bassnectar, Pnuma Trio, Diplo, Flosstradamus, The Juan Maclean, The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker, DJ Rekha, Dead Confederate, Motion Potion, DJ Rootz, Sojorn Busdriver

So if you're one of those folks that wish it were 2003 and every hippy festival had the exact same line-up every year, you'll be ecstatic about this one. It goes down July 3rd-6th in Rothbury, Michigan. Rothbury Fest website.

A festival that I'd probably be slightly more interested in checking out is the New England Metal Fest. They got a line-up too:

The fest will be merging with Gigantour for one-night, as the Friday night portion of the show will feature Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job For A Cowboy and High on Fire, so the first night is officially Gigantour night. Saturday’s lineup will be headlined by Dimmu Borgir, Shadows Fall and Behemoth. Sunday will feature Ministry, Meshuggah and Nevermore. And that’s just the friggen headliners. Take a look at the rest of the bands expected to play on the show:

The Dillinger Escape Plan, Overkill, A Life Once Lost, God Forbid, Disfear, Hate Eternal, Municipal Waste, Shai Halud, Soilent Green, Skeletonwitch, The Acacia Strain, Vital Remains, After the Burial, Animosity, As Blood Runs Black, Belay My Last, Born of Osiris, Briandrill, Classic Struggle, Cockpunch!, Cold World, Dead to Fall, Demiricous, Eluveitie, Elysia, Embrace the End, Emmure, The End, Ensiferum, First Blood, From a Second Story Window, Full Blown Chaos, The Ghost Inside, Hemlock, Impending Doom, Keep Of Kalessin, Kid Deposit Triumph, Ligeia, Mensrea, Monstrosity, On Broken Wings, Recon, Red I Flight, Rhinoceros, Shipwreck a.d., Since the Blood, Sleeping Giant, Sons of Azrael, Stick to Your Guns, Stray from the Path, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganze, Trap Them, Turisas, Tyr, Unexpect, Unholy, Vanna, Veil of Maya, Waking the Cadaver, Winds of Plague, Withered, and Xtyrantx.

Pretty exciting! The event will take place from April 25 to 27 at the Palladium in Worcester, MA.

Stereogum posted some funny Valentines cards, so even though I'm a day late, here's a few:











You can go get Amplive's Radiohead In Rainbow remixes here while you ge ready to snag tickets tomorrow or are stoked about the tickets you got yesterday.

Yeasayer is coming back to Atlanta with Man Man on May 3rd at Lenny's. I'll be there. Some jams:

Man Man : Top Drawer


Yeasayer : 2080 (Brenmar remix)


Yeasayer : Sunrise (Hey Champ remix)


New Death Cab album tracklist here.

British Sea Power will be at The Earl on April 21st.

Sonic Youth are about to start working on a new album due out next year. YESSSSS!

Pelican will be at The Masquerade on April 26th.

Handsome Furs are doing 5 Florida dates and nothing in Georgia.

Opeth's new album, Watershed, comes out June 3rd.

Get the Ratatat Remixes Volume 2 here.

Pine interviews Atlanta's Cassavetes.

Ghengis Tron is streaming their new album on their myspace.

Listen to Thom Yorke's NPR Valentine's Day DJ set here.

Boris has a new album out on April 29th called Smile.

Passion of Weiss has some new stuff from Atlanta's Jamie Radford.

The Subliminator has a new album due out next month.

New Beach House:



British Sea Power:



Radiohead:



Justice:



The New Pornographers:

Friday Free-Style

I've mentioned it already, but since I love this band so much, I'll bring it up again. Beach House will be at The Earl with Papercuts on March 1st. Here is a song from the forthcoming Devotion available in February (or now bootlegged):

Beach House : Devotion : Gila


This Wednesday (12/19) you can watch the new Sigur Ros movie Heima at the Midtown Art Cinema with me.

I've been listening to Marnie Stern again a bunch lately, so here's a funny mash-up I had missed:

The Hood Internet - Absorb the Lip Gloss


The Smashing Pumpkins have new material to release at the beginning of next year.

Hot Chip have a new album, Made In The Dark, coming out February 4th.

Remixes of Thom Yorke's Eraser are coming soon.

Creative Loafing did a piece on Fag Static this week. When I caught them opening for Deerhunter, they were really awesome.

Pimp C RIP

Tori Amos lays the smack down:



Flight of The Conchords will be releasing a full-length album in April.

Ok, a little personal note: After 8 and a half years as an undergrad at Georgia Tech, I graduate tomorrow morning. The ensuing bender may limit my posting for the next few days, but we have all sorts of goodies for you next week including our Top 50 Albums of 2007, plus tons of other best of nonsense.

Best 2006 Albums Of 2007

Before I inundate you with all of my best of 2007 stuff, I want to do a little addendum to my 2006 top 50 Albums list. Over the course of this year I discovered some albums that came out last year but wasn't aware of because I wasn't blogging and researching obsessively then. These albums here should all have deserved to be on my top 50 list because they are all amazing. Despite being released in '06, though, these albums will always make me think of this year because of all the great times I had with them as the soundtrack. Pick up these essentials:

Beach House : Beach House



Final Fantasy : He Poos Clouds



Midlake : The Trials Of Van Occupanther



Portugal The Man : Waiter: "You Vultures!"



Silversun Pickups : Carnavas



Snowden : Anti-Anti



Untied States : Retail Detail

What up In The ATL?

It's Atlanta Superstar Week!

Wednesday night we got a big show for you. We've got two of Atlanta's biggest music icons, Preston Craig and Kenny Crucial (Mack Messiah), performing live. Plus some great up-and-coming bands like Morning State, The Pendletons, and Delta Co. On top of all that, it's to raise money for Atlanta's Refugee Community. Be there:



And that's not all kiddies. The Atlanta superstars are all over the place this week with a very exciting line-up Friday night at the Variety Playhouse. This town's greatest hipster bands, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Snowden, and The Selmanaires will all be on one stage together:



If for some weird reason you aren't into that show, GWAR will be at The Masquerade Friday night. Saturday night Atlanta superstar week continues with Anna Kramer opening for Southern Culture On The Skids at the Earl. Next Monday night you can choose between a Shannon Hoon-less Blind Melon at the Masquerade or seeing The Sword at the Earl.

Cool Winter shows that you needs to knows:

12/13/07 The Orphins, The Liverhearts at the Earl
12/31/07 (NYE) The Black Lips at The Drunken Unicorn
1/4/08 Graboids at Lenny's
1/7/08 Dan Deacon at Eyedrum
1/21/08 DJ Shadow + Cut Chemist at The Loft
1/24/07 Chopper (members from ex-Blame Game, Deerhunter), Fag Static at the Drunken Unicorn
1/26/08 The Machine at Variey Playhouse
1/30/08 High On Fire at The Earl
3/1/08 Beach House at The Earl
3/20/08 Acid Mothers Temple at The Earl

Yeah, those look like some killer shows!

Monday Mash-Up

Snowden is playing a show next Saturday to make up for missing Corndogorama. It is supposed to be their last Atlanta show before going and making their next record. It will also feature Psychic Hearts and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo project Atlas Sound. Yaher!



Akron/Family has a new album coming out September 10th called Love Is Simple. Remember they will be in Athens, Ga at the 40 Watt on September 15th and I highly recommend checking them out because they were one of the best shows I've seen all year. Check it out:



The new season of PBS's Austin City Limits TV show begins in October and will feature Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The Decemberists, Wilco, Regina Spektor, Explosions In The Sky, Lucinda Williams, and others.

The new Prefuse 73 album called Preparations comes out October 23rd.

Eddie Vedder's anti-George Bush comments during the Pearl Jam Lollapalooza show got edited out of the webcast by AT&T.

Nine Inch Nails are working on a TV show based on their latest album Year Zero.

Cat Power is doing another covers album.

Amy Winehouse has got some drama.

Remember the Black Lips are playing the Clairmont Lounge Thursday night. Here's a video for a track from the upcoming album:

Theree other good local shows this week include Slow Motion Crash at The Masquerade Tommorrow, From Exile at Lenny's Wednesday night, and The Orphins and Moorish Idols at ISP Thursday night..

Beach House and Grizzly Bear are touring together, but unfortunetly nowhere near Atlanta. You out of town readers need to go see this if they are playing near you. Here's the video for Beach House's "Master Of None":



Ok, Here's some new videos. New Devendra Banhart:



Chemical Brothers:



Bjork:

Live Review: Galactic, Cypress Hill, Beach House (5-12-2007)

Last Saturday night I went and checked out the Southern Comfort Music Experience being held for free in Centennial Olympic Park downtown. The show was free and 21+, two things I'm a fan of. The rainy weather during the day kept the turnout very low, so we were easily able to get front row for Galactic. As I mentioned before, we pregamed watching a Stanton Moore instructional video, and it was a great way to get ready for a Galactic show. This was the first time I had seen them without "The Houseman" doing vocals, which I had hated in the past, so I was looking forward to hearing them as an instrumental group. They came out and put on a great show. I'm very picky about which jambands I like, and these guys are definitely a group I enjoy. They do a great job of taking genres and styles that have been very played out and breathe new life into them. Near the end of the set, Hip-Hop artist Mr. Lif joined them on stage to do a few songs including one off of the upcoming Galactic "Hip-Hop" album that will feature collaborations with Lyrics Born, Ladybug Mecca (Digable Planets) Gift For Gab (Blackalicious) and unfortunetly Lateef The Truth Speaker (man does he suck), plus many more. (There are reports that Charlie 2na will be performing with them at Bonnaroo) . Here's some pics:















We decided to get out of the front to avoid the rowdy rednecks and the highly efficient and large security force for Cypress Hill. There was a slight downpour for a few minutes between sets, but it was the only rain we'd see. Cypress Hill came out with no elaborate stage setup as i had seen them use the first time I saw them, but they still brought the music full force. Despite a little new material from their upcoming album, the set was very "hit-friendly" and the entire crowd celebrated with billows of smoke.



I left near the end of Cypress Hill's set to catch Beach House at The Earl. I arrived with plenty of time to get up front and enjoy this great duo. They did some new songs, one i really loved, and perfect renditions of their self-titled album's best stuff. I seriously recommend checking out their album if you haven't, because it is beautiful. The boys from Deerhunter were next to me at the show and they seemed to be digging it too. They closed with "Master Of None", probably my favourite of theirs. The lighting was even worse than last time so I didn't get any really good shots, but you can always look at Biggie C's photos of Beach House earlier this year at The Earl. I wanted to catch The Clientele, who was on afterwards, but it didn't work out.



Galactic torrents:

Galactic 2007-01-26 Roxy Theater, Atlanta, GA

Galactic 2007-01-27 Roxy Theater, Atlanta, GA

More goodies:

Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth: I Love You Mary Jane

Beach House : Master Of None

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

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

Thanks for reading!

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

!!! : Myth Takes

!!! (pronounced "chk chk chk") are sort of a punk version of the Disco Biscuits. Aggressive rock meets funky disco dance music. This is a great driving album and you should scoop it up:

• Myth Takes
• All My Heroes Are Weirdos

Buy Myth Takes Here

!!! Myspace


Beach House : Beach House

Since seeing them at the Earl on Sunday, I've been jamming this album hard all week. Beach House is Alex Scally on guitar and Victoria Legrand on keyboard and vocals. They play live with sampled drum tracks they recorded. Really chill stuff that certainly has a beachy aesthetic. Check it:

• Master Of None
• Auburn And Ivory

Buy Beach House Here

Myspace Page

Photos: 3-11-07 Beach House, Birds of Avalon @ The Earl, Atlanta, GA

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Birds of Avalon













Beach House