A Saturday Superpost

Before I get started, I just want to shout out to Lern for fixing my Internet. It feels good to be blogging from my own house again. Anyways, let's get started with festivals as there were some big announcements this week. The biggest would be All Points West (Coachella East). The festival will include two nights of Radiohead, which is ridiculous. Here's the line-up so far:



Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Underworld, Kings of Leon, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cat Power, The Roots, The New Pornographers, Youssou N'Dour, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Metric, CSS, Girl Talk, Chromeo, The Go! Team, Amadou & Mariam, The Black Angels, Sia, The Felice Brothers, K'Naan, Jason Isbell, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Alberta Cross, The Virgins, Black Kids, Mates of State, Duffy, Forro in the Dark, Nicole Atkins, Juana Molina, Little Brother, Rogue Wave, Neil Halstead and Your Vegas.

Outside of Radiohead the line-up seems a bit weak to be charging $258 for a weekend pass, but I guess with Coachella selling out last year so fast, they have decided to really push the price limits this year. Regardless, though, I may still go to this on the strength of seeing Radiohead in such a cool location and hanging out in New York City. Tickets go on sale this Friday. The fest goes down August 8th-10th. Get all the info at the website.


Other Festivals that made some noise this week:

All Good Fest (July 11th-13th in West Virginia) announces line-up:

Michael Franti & Spearhead
Keller Williams and the WMD'S
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Railroad Earth
Tea Leaf Green
The Bridge
Hot Buttered Rum
RAQ
Bonerama
Pnuma Trio
The Wood Brothers
Bassnectar
Outformation
Telepath
deSol
Basshound
Plus many more artists still to be announced

Tickets go on sale Tuesday. All Good website.


10,000 Lakes Fest (July 23th-26th in Minnesota) announces line-up:

Phil Lesh & Friends
The Flaming Lips
Michael Franti & Spearhead
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Mickey Hart Band (featuring Steve Kimock & George Porter Jr.)
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
Slightly Stoopid
Dark Star Orchestra
Panjea with Michael Kang
JJ Grey & MOFRO
New Mastersounds
Everyone Orchestra
The Wood Brothers
Cornmeal
WBPN
The Hue
With over forty additional acts still to be announced

Get all the info at the 10K Lakes website.

Virgin Fest in Baltimore, MD has set dates August 9th & 10th for this year's event, going head to head against All Points West.

Atmosphere have a new album out in April.

The RIAA thinks music pirates are mostly crack-dealing terrorist murders.

Coldplay is finishing their newest album.

Air are putting out an expanded 10th anniversary version of Moon Safari loaded up with extras.

Bat For Lashes is going into the studio next week to work on a second album. It is supposed to be darker and more electronic and I can't wait.

Spoon will be at Center Stage April 14th with The Walkmen and White Rabbits. They are also releasing an EP in April.

Klaxons will begin recording a new album in May.

No Age have a new album out in May.

Blitzen Trapper have some new EPs and will be at The Drunken Unicorn March 20th.

Tilly And The Wall will be at The Drunken Unicorn March 16th.

Drum 'n' Bass DJ Grooverider got sentenced to 4 years in jail in Dubai for possession of Marijuana.

Andre 3000 has a new clothing line.

Check out this:

Bjork : Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)


Amplive : Rainydayz Remixes (of Radiohead's In Rainbows) : Video Tapez (featuring Del The Funky Homosapien)


Robert Plant and Alison Krauss:



Johnny Cash and Cypress Hill Mash-Up (watch this one!):



Black Mountain on Conan:

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

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:

Rock The Bells: Rage Against The Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, more...

Tickets Go On Sale this Saturday at 10am. That's a helluva hip-hip line-up