Humpday Randomnimity

Bonnaroo made some line-up additions:

Cat Power
Zappa Plays Zappa
The Disco Biscuits
MSTRKRFT
Chromeo

Decent additions, but only the electronic acts get me excited. This is what we want.

Sasquatch Music Festival, the big daddy Memorial Day fest that goes down at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington state, just released a line-up:

R.E.M. / The Cure / The Flaming Lips U.F.O. Show / Death Cab For Cutie / Modest Mouse / M.I.A. / Flight Of The Conchords / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Michael Franti & Spearhead / The Breeders / Built To Spill / The Hives / Tegan & Sara / Ghostland Observatory / Ozomatli / The New Pornographers / Blue Scholars / The National / The Kooks / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Cold War Kids / Beirut / Rogue Wave / Okkervil River / Fleet Foxes / Kinski / Mates of State / Sera Cahoone / Crudo (featuring Mike Patton & Dan The Automator) / Battles / Destroyer / Dyme Def / The Blakes / Pela / Jamie Lidell / The Cops / Dengue Fever / Siberian / Say Hi / White Rabbits / David Bazan / The Little Ones / "Awesome" / Dead Confederate / The Heavenly States / 65daysofstatic / Grand Archives / Vince Mira with the Roy Kay Trio / Joshua Morrison / Throw Me The Statue / J. Tillman / The Shaky Hands / Thao Nguyen with the Get Down Stay Down / Matt Costa / The Cave Singers

That's a hell of a line-up and now I'm really considering going to this. The Gorge is considered by many as the coolest venue in the US. Tickets are reasonably priced and go on sale Saturday March 8th. More details on their website.

Sonic Youth is headlining an Arkansas festival called Dickson Street Fest in April with Charlie Daniels, 38 Special, Shooter Jennings, Michael Franti and Spearhead, and Little Feat. Weird line-up.

North Korea has invited Eric Clapton to play a concert there confirming that he indeed sold his soul to play guitar.

Medeski, Martin, And Wood have three albums planned for this year.

John Mellencamp and horror writer Stephen King are collaberating on a musical set to debut in Atlanta.

You can stream the new Tilly And the Wall album here. Watch new video here.

Cloud Cult have released a new single for their forthcoming album in April:

Cloud Cult : Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) : When Water Comes To Life


Track down a Velvet Underground 1967 vinyl bootleg to download here.

Have You Heard did a session with Atlanta's Trances Arc. I had been hearing some noise about this band, but now that I've looked into them, they are so not our style.

Wilco will be on Saturday Night Live this weekend.

Dimmu Borgir will be streaming a live concert on April 5th.

Dr. Dre is getting in the alcohol business.

The Deftones are entering the studio next month to work on a new album.

Shearwater have a new single for their upcoming album due in June:

Shearwater : Rook : Rooks


Watch a Snowden rehearsal from their blog:


Snowden Rehearsing from nopayne on Vimeo.

New Boris:



Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings on Fox 5 news:



Smashing Pumpkins "SuperChrist":

Monday Mash-Up

Kid Rock got arrested Saturday night after his show here in Atlanta at a Dekalb Waffle House for beating up a customer.

Japanese metal experimentalists Boris will be doing a free in-store performance at Criminal Records at 4pm today, and then playing at The Earl tonight. I highly recommend checking them out.

Boris : Pink : Farewell


Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo project) has released a tracklist of the new album due out next year.

Mike Patton will be the voice of Bionic Commando in a video game.

Dinosaur Jr will be in Athens, Ga at The 40 Watt on December 3rd.

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Walla got jacked by US Homeland Security. They confiscated a hard drive he had been using to work on his upcoming solo album.

Band Of Horses had a line-up change.

The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer each have a new album coming out early next year.

Watch the Panda Bear unreleased DVD People Party:

Part 1:



Part 2:



Interview:



Queens Of The Stone Age on Letterman:



Klaxons on Conan:



Here's Tori Amos on Craig Ferguson:



Arsis has finished up their new album due out next year. They will be playing with Enslaved and Atlanta's From Exile on November 2nd at the Masquerade:



You can download an mp3 of Diplo remixing Black Lips "Veni Vidi Vici" here.

While I was at Echo Project, I saw a bunch of flyers for a 99x show with Modest Mouse, Silverchair, and Silversun Pickups on December 16th, but I can find no existence of this on the internets.

Mute Math on Conan:

Friday Free-Style

November 30th, The Black Lips, Snowden, Deerhunter, and The Selmanaires will be at the Variety Playhouse together for an epic night of Atlanta music.

The Sword will be at The Earl on December 3rd. Check them:



The much-anticipated-by-me new The Mars Volta album, Bedlam In Goliath, is not going to be released until January 29th of next year. An old school vid for you:



The Langerado Music Festival in Florida, which usually kicks off the festival season, has moved to Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation(most famously known for the place Phish played new years eve 2000) for next year's event taking place March 6th-9th 2008. The line-up announcement and tickets sales are coming in November and we'll hit you with it when it happens. Phish at Big Cypress:



Battles are releasing a new EP, Tonto+, featuring live tracks and and remixes from their stellar full length of this year, Tonto.

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance will finally be released on DVD, which means that now you have to pay for it instead of downloading it for free on the live music torrent sites.



New Eminem track might be here.

Of Montreal will be at the Variety Playhouse on November 20th. Tickets are on sale today so get them quick because this will sell out.

Opeth and Dream Theater will be touring together in the US next year. No word if their coming here yet. Opeth vid:



White Rabbits will be at The Earl November 6th.

Before playing at the Earl October 22nd, Japan's Boris will be playing at Criminal Records at 4pm in the afternoon. I highly recommend checking them out:



Morrissey will be at The Tabernacle on November 5th.

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to F@ck with, and they cleared the first ever Beatles sample.

Read about the guy who makes crazy-ass guitars for Sonic Youth, Liars, Blonde Redhead and Lightning Bolt.

Read some interviews:

• Neil Young
• The Decemberists
• Battles
• Jose Gonzalez
• Devendra Banhart
• Iron And Wine
• Okkervil River

I leave you today with this controversial SNL vid: