So they rep the little A's more than the big A these days, but we'll still claim them ITP anyways. Their debut full-length, Wrecking Ball, hits stores September 16th and I can't wait. It is supposed to be 10 songs, about an hour long, and contains a 12 minute jammer. They are doing a record release show at the Earl September 20th so don't miss that. You can watch Hardy Morris do "The Wrecking Ball" acoustic backstage at Bonnaroo here. And a recent live show for you:
Dead Confederate, All The Saints Tour Begins Tomorrow
Dead Confederate at SXSW
Two local bands that we have been hyping this year are hitting the road together tomorrow. They both do dirty, gritty, psychedelic music with a southern twang, or as I would broadly call it, "Post-Southern Rock". Dead Confederate spent Memorial Day weekend at Sasquatch Fest and All The Saints' new LP, Fire On Corridor X, just came out today. Full album review forthcoming, but all you need to know right now is that it is really good and you should get it.
Dead Confederate & All the Saints tour dates:
May 28 - Washington, DC @ DC9 May 29 - New York, NY @ Pianos May 30 - Ashbury Park, NJ @ The Saint May 31 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber June 1 - Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears June 3 - Baltimore MD @ Sonar June 4 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 June 5 - Asheville, NC @ The Rocket June 6 - Knoxville, TN @ Barley's June 7 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Dead Confederate tour dates:
June 14 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo June 17 - Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Co# June 18 - Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre# June 19 - Tuscon, AZ @ Rialto Theatre# June 20 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern# June 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Little Radio (on Aquarium Drunkard Show) June 24 - Sacramento, CA @ Empire Room# June 25 - Bend, OR @ Midtown Ballroom# June 26 - Spokane, WA @ Big Easy# June 28 - Denver, CO @ Soco Music Experience July 2 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue# July 5 - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Fest
# w/ Drive By Truckers
All The Saints will also be at Corndogorama June 28th. You ATLiens be sure to go see The Earl show next Saturday. Videos:
Tonight there are two big shows going on. Jay Reatard is big on the hype tip right and will be doing his thing as Lenny's. You can find more about him at his myspace or watch videos of him fighting with his audience here. If you are in love with the Black Lips, then this is probably the show for you to catch. While I wouldn't mind catching Jay Reatard, I am way more excited to see Destroyer tonight. Most people have been on the Destroyer-backlash bandwagon, but I absolutely love Trouble In Dreams. "Foam Hands":
Another album I have been jamming hard is Genghis Tron's Board Up The House. They will be at The Masquerade tomorrow with Converge. Genghis Tron at SXSW:
The other good show tomorrow night is at the Earl with Atlanta's Envie and One Hand Loves The Other, who has gone through some inner turmoil lately. It is a bit confusing to me, so here's Gavin from Stickfigure explaining the situation:
hey everyone,
One Hand Loves The Other are going on hiatus. Lou Rodriguez (the vocalist) is planning to reform the band but it appears at this point that he will be the only member continueing as one hand loves the other.
Mike Johnson, Mary Knight and Nancy Shim will be forming a new band. It is not 100% certain if Nancy Shim is leaving One Hand Loves The Other as well, but Mike Johnson and Mary Knight are playing their final performances with One Hand Loves The Other over the course of the next week. Of course in the age of reunion tours we can not definately say final shows @ this point now can we. but we can state that it will years before you can see this line up of the band every again.
the shows are as follows:
Tuesday April 29th @ the Earl. One Hand Loves The Other is headlining and performing with mystery palace and envie.
Saturday May 3rd @ Vinyl. Like Clockwork and When Rocky Beats The Russian are headlining since it is their cd release show. The Judies are also playing. At this time we do not know whether One Hand Loves The Other is opening or playing second.
take care,
gavin
So this week seems to be your last chance to check this out.
Other cool shows I like this week:
Friday: Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir at The Masquerade Friday: Cracker, Dead Confederate at the Variety Playhouse Saturday: Yeasayer, ManMan at Lenny's
One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Remix : Tortoise (Treasure Fingers remix)
Record Store Day In Atlanta: Dead Confederate, The Coathangers, Club Awesome
I spent a few hours last weekend at Criminal Records for their Record Store Day celebration. Here are the three local bands who played there that matter most:
Dead Confederate:
We've been talking about them for a while now around Ohmpark and the justified hype is starting to get some traction on the webs post-SXSW. Earfarm spent some time with them while they were down in Austin and has a bunch of cool material. Speaking of SXSW, you can get an entire performance here. Southern Shelter has just put up a show on their site where Dead Confederate played nothing but Sonic Youth covers at The 40 Watt in Athens earlier this year here. A sample:
Dead Confederate : Silver Rocket (Sonic Youth cover)
At Criminal:
They are touring steadily this summer, so go check them out:
23 May - Seattle, WA @ KEXP 24 May - Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Festival 28 May - Washington D.C. @ DC9 29 May - New York, NY @ Piano's 30 May - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Saint 31 May - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber 1 June - Boston, MA @ TT the Bears 4 June - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 5 June - Asheville, NC @ The Rocket Club 6 June - Knoxville, TN @ Barley's 7 June - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl 14 June - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo 17 June - Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Company* 18 June - Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre Flagstaff* 19 June - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre* 20 June - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern* 24 June - Sacramento, CA @ Empire Room* 25 June - Bend, OR @ Midtown Ballroom* 26 June - Spokane, WA @ Big Easy - Spokane* 5 July - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Festival
* w/ Drive by Trucker
The Coathangers
The Coathangers quick rise to ATLien elite status last year is an interesting phenomenon, and while I'm not the biggest fan of bands getting popular in this town solely because of their stage act and attitude rather than their music, these girls back up their their brash aura with clever lyrics and catchy tunes. I stumbled across this great remix of one my favourite Coathangers songs on the 'net last night:
The Coathangers : Parcheezie (Griff Remix ft. Fitzgerald)
Here they are doing that song last Saturday:
And Kimcriminal has one up too, she has tons of vids of in-store Criminal Record performances you an check out here.
They are also on summer tour, so go to a show:
2 May - Atlanta, GA @ The Star Bar 9 May - Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Old Bar (500 Songs For Kids) 15 May - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn 16 May - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor 23 May - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn 7 June - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn 9 June - Nasheville, TN @ Springwater Supper Club 10 June - Hot Springs, AK @ The Exchange 11 June - Fayetteville, AK @ New Deli House * 12 June - Wichita, KS @ Barleycorns * 13 June - Norman, OK @ Opolis * 14 June - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada * 15 June - Austin, TX @ Emo's * 2 July - Detroit, MI @ Alvin's 3 July - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class 6 July - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor
* w/ El Paso Hot Button
Club Awesome
Atlanta's Club Awesome, known for their pool parties and "Whyte Tygre" suit, are what I would describe as in the greater post-punk/post-pop vicinity. I arrived too late to get some video of their show, but I did pick up a handmade advance copy of their debut album, and it is really good. Here's a track:
3 May - Atlanta, GA @ Smith's Olde Bar (500 Songs For Kids) 25 May - Wilmington, NC @ Soapbox (We Festival) 29 June - Atlanta, GA @ Lenny's (Corndogarama) 5 July - Atlanta, GA @ Star Bar (July 4 Weekend Fest)
We stayed in St. Pete Beach Wednesday night to make our Thursday traveling a bit shorter. After getting to the exit around 1pm, We heard a rumour that it was taking over 4 hours waiting in line to enter the festival grounds at the last stop gas station that was bustling with activity. It turned out to be more like 2 hours, which wasn't too bad considering everyone had to go down a one-lane road.
We hurried to set up camp fast as there were very dark thunder clouds closing in. We just barely had enough time to get everything up before a torrential downpour soaked everyone and everything. As we navigated around the grounds, we discovered there were many obstacles to watch for like barbed wire fences and cow dung everywhere, so that certainly makes things interesting.
I showed up to Dead Confederate just in time, and they really rocked out. This was my first chance to catch the Georgian band, and it was everything I had hoped for. I highly recommend checking out these guys.
After that I joined pretty much every person at the fest for Les Claypool. While I think he is an awesome bassist and Primus is pretty cool, I think I've grown tired of his solo act after seeing it too many times. After a little while of not really enjoying the set, I opted to head back to camp and pound some brews. I came back to catch Dark Star Orchestra and as always, I enjoyed what I heard, before I passed out in the field.
Now it's time to stop blogging and catch some more music.
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
Langerado just released the schedule today and it looks pretty good. Here is my personalized schedule so far. If you are still on the fence whether to go to this one, I'm gonna go through some of the smaller acts that I'm really excited about. The first band on the "Swamp Stage" is right here from Altanta, Dead Confederate. I believe they are going to be one of the ATL bands that get big nationally by the end of this year (they were handpicked to open for R.E.M. at SXSW), because their new EP is really awesome. Jam this track and pick up this EP:
Vampire Weekend is another band that is on the super-hype lately in blogland. While I enjoy their new album, I think it is one of those "good but not great". They are just a little too gimmicky and lacking a tad bit in substance. Regardless of that, though, I'm very excited to see them live because I think they will be pretty cool to see. Check them out:
An album I really enjoyed from last year is !!!'s Myth Takes. They are organic dance rock that sort of sound like a an indie-rock version of STS9 or those sorts of bands with lyrics/vocals. I've been wanting to catch them live for so long because I've heard how much fun their shows are. If 311 isn't quite your bag, or you've seen them like 10 times like me, this band is really worth checking out:
So, one of the biggest draws to Langerado for me is Built To Spill. They are one of my all time favourite bands. Since I have like a million BTS live shows, this seems like a good time to share one. Behold 1999-05-09 (Early Show):
The Benevento-Russo Duo is one of my favourite jambands. The keyboard/drums power duo that backed up Trey and Mike of Phish are not only a great live show, but they are one of the few hippy bands who know how to make a great album too. Check them:
Pelican is a post-metal band that I really got into last year. You were probably thinking that Bonnaroo was the only hippy fest this year to bring in some metal, but you were wrong:
Dan Deacon is another big draw to Langerado for me because he is so awesome. He was just here in the ATL last month, so you should check out our review and jam him:
Minus The Bear is another artist that had an album in out Top 50 album list from last year. They do music that sounds very radio-friendly and accessible, but has some serious musical depth:
Finally, a band that I was totally obsessed with last year was Of Montreal. I caught them plenty of times last year, but they are so good live I can't wait to see them again. If you go to Langerado, be sure to catch this:
So, now go get tickets to Langerado and we'll party down!
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