Humpday Randomnimity

Tonight:



This new Radiohead album is awesome. Go get that right now if you don't have it. Here's a fun little track of Radiohead and Sparklehorse covering Pink Floyd:

Wish You Were Here


If you're smart you'll pre-order the new Grizzly Bear EP Friend and get a free lithograph:



A track from Friend:

Alligator (Choir Version) [Featuring Beirut and Dirty Projectors]


The new Beach House album, Devotion, comes out in February.

Listen to the new Bloc Party single:



Watch Joanna Newsom perform a new, untitled song from last weekend:



Animal Collective on Conan:



RZA talking about The Beatles:

Shows In The ATL

Shows getting announced left and right (click to get tickets):

08/17/2007: Good Friday Experiment (The Earl)
09/12/2007: Black Lips, The Selmanaires, The Coathangers (The 40 Watt, Athens, Ga)
09/13/2007: The Coathangers (The Drunken Unicorn)
09/15/2007: Akron Family (The 40 Watt, Athens. Ga)
09/17/2007: Blonde Redhead (The 40 Watt, Athens, Ga)
09/22/2007: Do Make Say Think (The Earl)
09/24/2007: VHS or Beta (The Earl)
09/25/2007: The Sea And Cake (The Earl)
09/25/2007: Bloc Party, Deerhoof (City Hall, Nasheville, TN)
10/06/2007: Yard Dogs Road Show (The Variety Playhouse)
10/14/2007: Earlimart (The Earl)
11/16/2007: Tegan And Sara (The Roxy)

Hopefully I can catch all of these.

A Weekend In The City

It's a great weekend for shows in the ATL. Today is all about Bloc Party. First, you can catch them for free doing a DJ set in Criminal Records at 6pm and later that night they will be at The Tabernacle with Maccabees and The Noisettes. While you are at Criminal Records, you can pick up the Whirlyball 7", which features songs from Deerhunter, Selmanaires, Carbonas, and The Coathangers. The purchase of that record will also gain you entrance to the show Friday night featuring all of those bands at the Whirlyball place in the 'burbs. I saw Mogwai there last year and it is an interesting venue. If you have a ticket to the soldout Kings Of Leon show at The Tabernacle Friday night, you will get to see the much better bands on the bill, Snowden and The Features. Another great Friday night show you could catch is Silver Lakes, Wax Fang, and Slushco at The Earl. Late night after all of the great music, Decatur Social Club is celebrating its 3-year anniversary and it looks to be really crazy.

Saturday and Sunday you should head down to The Virginia Highlands for Summerfest. The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer will be at Lenny's Saturday night while Mitch Easter, Tim Lee 3, and The Preakness will be at The Earl. I think I'll be checking oujt the Screening of the new Flight Of The Conchords HBO show sponsored by Kissatlanta at The Doo Gallery. As you might remember, I love these guys and am excited to see them at Bonnaroo. If you're interested in attending, it is free, but you must RSVP. If you're into hip-hop, you should go to The Masquerade Saturday night for Sage Francis, Buddy Wakefield, Buck 65, and Alias.

Ok, how about some tracks to preview:

• Bloc Party : The Marshalls Are Dead
• Maccabees : Latchmere
• The Selmanaires : Selmanaire Rock
• The Coathangers : Parking Lot
• The Features : Exhibit A
• Silver Lakes : Feel My Heartbeat
• Slushco : Jenny The Barfly
• Anna Kramer : I Can't Take It
• Mitch Easter : Sudden Crown Drop
• The Preakness : What They're Saying
• Flight Of The Conchords : Business Time
• Sage Francis : Mourning Aftermath

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!

Video Of The Day: Bloc Party

Doing "Like Eating Glass" Live:

Torrent Of The Day

BLOC PARTY / 22.01.07 / Black Session



BLOC PARTY
22/01/07, Black Session N°259, Studio 105, Maison de la Radio, Paris, FR
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Source : FM Stereo Receiver (Technics st-gt350) -> Ampli (Technics su-v500) -> M-Audio Revolution 5.1 -> Wav -> Wavs -> FLAC

Taped : Rezound 0.12b2
Edited : Rezound 0.12b3 (Splitted, DC Component removed)
fix : shntool 3.0.1
FLAC : FLAC 1.1.3 level 8

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01. Waiting for the 7.18
02. Positive tension
03. Banquet
04. Hunting for witches
05. This modern love
06. The prayer
07. Uniform
08. I still remember
09. So here we are
10. Little thoughts
11. Helicopter
12. Sunday *
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* : cut (missing the last 20-30s)

Releases Of The Week

The Apples In Stereo : New Magnetic Wonder

Bloc Party : A Weekend In The City

Deerhunter : Cryptograms