Bradford Cox (Deehunter, Atlas Sound) Tour Dates

Deerhunter does a few dates over the next week and then begins opening for Nine Inch Nails shows. As soon as that is over, Atlas Sound will be touring with Stereolab. Bradford is hitching to some sweet tours:

Deerhunter Tour Dates:

Thu 07/31 - The Village Tavern Mt. Pleasant SC %
Fri 08/01 - The Boot Norfolk VA %
Sun 08/03 - McCarren Park Pool Brooklyn NY
Tue 08/05 - Air Canada Centre Toronto ON ^
Wed 08/06 - Big Orbit's Soundlab Buffalo NY
Thu 08/07 - Mohegan Sun Arena Uncasville CT ^
Fri 08/08 - DCU Center Worcester MA ^
Sat 08/09 - The Sugar Tank Lancaster PA
Sun 08/10 - Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh PA
Mon 08/11 - 123 Pleasant Street Morgantown WV
Tue 08/12 - Knoxville Civic Coliseum Knoxville TN ^
Wed 08/13 - Gwinnett Arena Atlanta GA ^
Tue 09/02 - Red Rock Pavillion Morrison CO ^
Wed 09/03 - E Center Salt Lake City UT ^
Fri 09/05 - Oracle Arena Oakland CA ^
Sat 09/06 - The Forum Inglewood CA ^

% w/ All The Saints
^ w/ Nine inch Nails

Atlas Sound Tour Dates:

Sat 09/20 - Detroit Bar Costa Mesa CA *
Sun 09/21 - The Glass House Pomona CA *
Wed 09/24 - La Zona Rosa Austin TX *
Fri 09/26 - Variety Playhouse Atlanta GA *
Sat 09/27 - 40 Watt Club Athens GA *
Mon 09/29 - Cats Cradle Carrboro NC *
Tue 09/30 - 9:30 Club Washington DC *
Wed 10/01 - The Trocadero Theater Philadelphia PA *
Thu 10/02 - The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza New York NY *

* w/ Stereolab

Atlas Sound : Sea Burial

Deerhunter "Agoraphobia":

Deerhunter Streaming Some Microcastle Songs

If you haven't heard Deerhunter's newly leaked, upcoming album, Microcastle, you can listen to songs from it at Deerhunter's myspace page. I love "Nothing Ever Happened"!

Deerhunter myspace

What Up In The ATL? (New Deerhunter!)

Deerhunter's Microcastle just leaked on the Internet today. OMFG! It is a totally different beast and still ridiculously awesome. Now we just need a release date so I can get this on vinyl. Get excited!


Tomorrow night I recommend you catch Gravel Undertone , Sons Of Roswell @ Smith's Old Bar or Knife And The 4th Ward Daggers, Teenage Cool Kids, Jesse Nobody, and Tendaberry @ I Can Fly House:




Tuesday night The World Famous Mic Club and D.R.E.S. Tha Beatnik have moved into Lenny's Tuesday night slot with "The Wax Factor":




Wednesday night I like The Long Shadows, The Black Hollies, So So Death show @ The Earl.




Thursday night I highly recommend the Icecaps, Battlecat, Tenth To The Moon, Missile Command, The Unaware show @ The Star Bar. It's free. Then don't forget the monthly Fuck Yesss dance party featuring Treasure Fingers and Le Castle Vania starts at midnight @ The Drunken Unicorn.






Friday night Howlin Rain will be at The Drunken Unicorn.


Saturday night I'm going to see Dead Confederate and All The Saints @ The Earl


Saturday and Sunday The Five Spot has some really cool stuff going on:

Monday Mash-Up

Southern Shelter posted a Deerhunter show from last year in Athens where they opened with a song from their upcoming album. Here's a vid of a recent practice:


Deerhunter - Winter Never Stops (Acoustic) from Bradford Cox on Vimeo.

Snowden's tour with Colour Revolt starts today.

The Black Lips are still on the road.

DMX got arrested on drug charges and animal cruelty.

Stereolab will be at The Variety Playhouse September 26th.

There is a documentary in the works on the Los Angeles club Largo that will feature Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, Andrew Bird and others.

Some high schoolers made a Sonic Youth documentary about a 2006 show in Las Vegas.

My Morning Jacket will be at The Fox Theatre on August 27th.

Jam Cruise 7 announced its line-up, and it includes many jambands.

Madonna will be at The Phillips Arena November 24th.

The Vaselines have joined the reunion bandwagon.

The new Beck album produced by Danger Mouse and featuring Cat Power will be out sometime soon this summer.

Holy Fuck did a Daytrotter session.

Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene has an album coming out July 22nd.

Pearl Jam are working on a new album.

Dan Deacon has a new album coming out.

Vegoose is not happening this year.

Tom Waits will be at The Fox Theatre on July 5th.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds:



Gnarls Barkley:



Death Cab For Cutie documentary from Current TV:

What Up 420 In The ATL?

Start today by watching Deerhunter cover Pylon's "Cool" at their New york show last Friday night where they performed their entire forthcoming album, Microcastle.



It is a mammoth week for music in the city. The biggest event of the week, 420, is being celebrated by two fests, Nophest and Sweetwater. Atlanta's Mice In Cars had this to say about the choice between the two on myspace:

Well, you have 2 options. You can go see some crappy bands that aren't in touch with the local music scene, pay A LOT of money for crappy beer from someone that rhymes with (and tastes like) Feetwater. Or you can come to the 3 day Festival featuring tons and tons of local musicians, artists, Djs and performers, watch movies, oh and did I mention FREE BEER. I don't know, you pick.

I couldn't agree more. Ohmpark is going to be at Nophest in full force all weekend for what looks to be a spectacular time. We'll have a full guide to Nophest 4 & 20 out tomorrow some time.

Before I go into all the other awesome shows going on here this week, I just want to say a few things about the shows I caught last weekend. Saturday night I went to see Big, the collaboration between Outkast's Big Boi and the Atlanta Ballet. It was a pretty interesting combination that I'm really glad I got to experience, although I didn't quite love everything about it. Seeing Big Rube do some spoken word was super cool. The most striking thing to me were the visual effects, which I think eclipsed the vast majority of big concerts I've seen. It doesn't make sense to me why bands with a big budget don't do more to utilize the technology in this realm that the Atlanta Ballet seems to be sporting. Also, last night I caught the Explosions In The Sky show at the Variety Playhouse. It was exactly as I anticipated, a serious assault of post-rock. Those guys are just so good.

Tonight I plan to catch The Ruby Suns at the Drunken Unicorn.



There are some other really sweet shows going on tonight as well:

Center Stage: Spoon, The Walkmen, White Rabbits
The Earl: VHS Or Beta, Tigercity
Variety Playhouse: Iron & Wine, Califone (SOLD OUT)

Thursday night there are two really interesting shows:

The Earl: Ski Club (former Kill Gordon, Sovus Radio, Variac), Josh Roberts and The Hinges, Passer By (Reunion show!!!)
Star Bar: Dead Confederate, The Constellations, Hands Down Eugene (Free)

Friday night I'll be hitting Nophest, but there are some other cool shows going on worth mentioning:

Masquerade Music Park: Feist
Lenny's: The Selmanaires, Coathangers, Sleep Therapy

Saturday is National Record Store Day and Criminal Records is having a ton of bands performing at the store for free. Here's the schedule:

BAND SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Outdoor stage:
1:00 PM - The Bridges
2:00 PM - Ocha La Rocha
3:00 PM - Bobby and the Soft Spots
4:00 PM - Suitcases
5:00 PM - Judi Chicago
6:00 PM - The Coathangers
7:00 PM - Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause
8:00 PM - Noot d'Noot

Indoor stage:
2:30 PM - Single Malt Solution
3:30 PM - Trances Arc
4:30 PM - Club Awesome
5:30 PM - Dead Confederate
6:30 PM - Andy Hull (Manchester Orchestra)
7:30 PM - Hope for agoldensummer
8:30 PM - Janelle Monae

Saturday night there are some more great shows to see:

The Earl: The Liverhearts (CD Release Show), Lay Down Mains, Rizzudo
Star Bar: The Jupiter Watts, Long Knives, Spy For Hire

Some non-420-fest things going down Sunday include:

The Earl: Cassavettes (Dunch 1pm-3pm)
Masquerade Music Park: "Gigantour" Megadeath, Job For A Cowboy, High On Fire, In Flames, Children Of Bodom

See you at the shows!

The Hometown Hottness: Atlas Sound

photo by Biggie C

Last week we caught the Atlas Sound show at The Drunken Unicorn (2/19/08). For those who don't know yet, Atlas Sound is the solo project of Deerhunter's Bradford Cox. He just released his first full-length album, Let The Blind Lead those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, but it is far from the first material he has put out under the Atlas Sound name. On his blog, Cox regularly puts out material he makes over a weekend, or old stuff he did when he was a kid, or all sorts of interesting music available to everyone for free. To me, his blog is a revolutionary medium for musicians. While there certainly have been plenty of extremely prolific artists before him, Bradford is able to have a much more intimate experience with his audience, regularly giving away his material to his fans directly, and so far, there is no one else who is pulling this off so successfully. As the Internet continues to steer the world of music into interesting directions, Mr. Cox has embraced these trends and utilized them to enhance his art.

What's even better is that almost all of his material that I have listened to in this way is good. I'm still jamming out the Orange Ohms Glow EP constantly that he put on his site weeks ago. The new proper LP is stunning too, a very different beast than Cryptograms.

For the live shows, Bradford has put together a nice collection of musicians to form the Atlas Sound Music Group. He came on stage repping a No Age T-shirt. Another thing I love about him is how he manages to team up with and support many of the other great new musicians in their prime right now. The Atlas Sound performance struck me very differently than the many Deerhunter shows I caught last year. When writers talk about Bradford, they aways bring up things like the dress wearing and all of the supposedly obscene blogging he was doing last year. He is always billed as a spectacle because of this and he sort of became a polarizing figure. While I'm sure that many of the things he did also functioned as attention grabbers, it always felt like they were more about forming a barrier of inaccessibility between him and the audience. As if it were more a distraction from the fear of putting himself and his work out their in an honest and naked way for all to see. Even at the end of the year when he ditched most of the stage act, he would always feel distant on stage, and this Atlas Sound show was the first time to me that he seemed to have a very inviting demeanor and open up. He seems to be more comfortable with putting all of his being on display and for a fan like me, it was pretty amazing to see.

Biggie C got some photos:













I got some videos, "Recent Bedroom" (I love this song so much):



"Quarantined":



"Scraping Past":



"Winter Vacation":



"Requiem For All The Lonely Teenagers With Passed Out Moms":



Sloan Simpson taped the entire show and you can find that here at Southern Shelter.

Atlas Sound Myspace

Buy LTBLTWCSBCF Here

Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Lotus Plaza Blog


Bonus: White Rainbow

White Rainbow is is on tour with Atlas Sound, in fact the one man loop-fest badass is in the Atlas Sound Music Group. His set was really cool too, you can listen to it at Southern Shelter also. A couple pics from Biggie C:





White Rainbow Myspace

Ohmpark's Top 10 Best EPs Of 2007

An EP, or Extended Play, is the sweet spot between a full album and a single. Typically between 10 and 25 minutes, although what has come to define the difference between EPs and LPs can sometimes be blurred. Usually EPs get a bad rap, as it carries with it connotations of being "less-than" and not good enough to be a proper album, but I like seeing variations in the art medium. There are EPs like Alice In Chains' Jar Of Flies and Radiohead's Airbag/How Am I Driving? that beat most full lengths. Also, EPs afford an artist the chance to showcase things that don't fit in the context of a larger piece of work, or explore a different sound without moving fully in that direction. Anyways, I'd take an EP of nothing but the goodness over a full-length comprised mostly of filler surrounding a few good songs any day.

In 2007 I actually heard many great EPs. A few of which I'll give honorable mentions that just missed this list that are worth-while include Joanna Newsom And The Ys Street Band, Vampire Weekend, and Black Kids' Wizard Of Ahhhs, of which I've come around a little bit on now that I've listened to it more. Here are the 10 most essential short-length albums of 2007:


10. Animal Collective : People



This EP feels more like a single, but the title song is so good that it makes this short release something special. The two songs that lie between the studio and live versions of "People" are both really cool too. People was the prologue to a banner year for the Collective.


9. Illinois : What The Hell Do I Know?



A collection of simple songs that touch on everyone from The Flaming Lips, to Beck, to Wilco in sound. There is nothing groundbreaking on this seven track collection, but Illinois do what they do well, and that's write some really sweet jams. I'm excited to see what this Pennsylvania band will do next.


8. Elevado : This World Is On Fire



On the bigger and longer side of the EP spectrum, Atlanta's own Elevado put forth one of the better local releases of the year. This self-produced effort bounces around stylistically while retaining a very connected whole piece of work. Standout songs like"Postcard From Four Walls Down", "Song of A Purple Man", and my favourite, the early-Floydy "Hypnopaedic Sunshine", kick ass and anchor this sonic journey.


7. Parade : Answer Me



I've found over the course of the year that every time I revisit Answer Me I fall in love with a different song. It seems no matter what mood or state of mind in, something on this 5 track release speaks to me. Parade are one my favourite bands in Atlanta and if you read this blog, they are mandatory listening.


6. Deerhunter : Fluorescent Grey



The local hype-monsters followed up the epic Cryptograms with this four song EP, of which the two pieces are inextricably linked and many are treating the two as one whole. I tend to treat Fluorescent Grey as Deerhunter in its most accessible and "poppy", which they also do really, really well, and more a short sequel. Either way, it's over 16 minutes of pure gold.


5. Plants And Animals : With/Avec



I've just recently gotten hip to this Montreal group and have fallen in love with this EP. At 4 songs and 25 minutes, this band can jam with the best of them while never ambling to something that doesn't feel deliberate. They do rootsy yet epic folk soundscapes that remind me of Jim O'Rourke, Sufjan Stevens, The Grateful Dead and Jeff Buckley at times, and make this release feel bigger than a full-length as you immerse yourself in it.


4. Porcupine Tree : Nil Recurring



This 28 minutes-plus spanning prog-jam fest is a collection of 4 songs from the Fear Of A Blank Planet recording session. I tend to treat it as an epilogue to FOABP, mostly because i like the ending to Nil Recurring better. It has guest stars like King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and FOABP songs completely redone into new songs. If you have yet to look into this band, now is the time.


3. Portugal. The Man : It's Complicated Being A Wizard



Before going in a blues-rock direction with Church Mouth, Portugal. The Man released this electronically driven piece of work, comprised of a first 23-minute song and then followed by the same song broken up into a track for each movement, creating an endless loop of music. In addition to the gimmick of the EP's structure is some of the best tunes this young and talented Alaskan outfit have done. Don't overlook this album.


2. Grizzly Bear : Friend



Grizzly Bear's follow-up to last year's mind-blowing Yellow House is longer than many full albums and packed full of redone songs, unreleased gems, and guest appearances from all sorts of indie superstars, most notably to us ATLiens is Deerhunter's Bradford Cox (Atlas Sound). Despite the jumbled mess of sources, the album itself is a fairly cohesive listen and musically it is top-notch. With this latest installment, this band is fast becoming one of my favourite of the decade.


EP Of The Year:

Moorish Idols : Moorish Idols



At less than 17 minutes, Moorish Idols make the most of it in their debut release, just pure sonic euphoria from start to finish. Lyrically the stories and characters pull you into a beautiful piece of work that is an aesthetically pleasing experience on every level. While the sound is fairly conservative relative to most of what I love, they do what they do perfectly, and it's hard for me to think of a four song succession from this year that I enjoy more. I'm looking forward to seeing what these guys do with the vast amount of potential they possess.

Photos: Black Lips, Deerhunter, Snowden, The Selmanaires - 11-30-07 @ Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA

The Selmanaires








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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!

Deerhunter News

If you haven't already heard, Deerhunter are going to be on hiatus for an undisclosed amount of time. This is all according to a post by Bradford Cox on their blog. I'll repost the letter below for you:

Goodbye 21st Century

So we have one show left tomorrow night in Leipzig, Germany. Then we drive through the night to Prague where we fly home from early in the morning. This tour has been really insane. We met a lot of amazing people and finally got to play the UK, making our debut at the forum even. We are totally grateful for the opportunity to play everywhere we did. When we started this band years ago we never imagined playing outside of Atlanta, so this has all been like a hallucination. We are all exhausted now and ready to be home. I would like to announce that the show we are playing at Primavera in Barcelona (I hope to god i spelled that right) will be our last for quite some time. It will also be the last time we are ever playing the Cryptograms set we have been playing for the last two years. After that the band are going on hiatus. We all need some time to organize our lives. Thanks to everyone who has helped us out. This has been a crazy year that I will always remember.

Love,
Bradford

P.S. we will still post stuff on here but probably not just as regularly and you can pretty much rest assured it will be solo stuff and not deerhunter, so if you are one of those people who are like, "why doesn't bradford start his own blog", delete your bookmark. deerhunter is sleeping now.

P.P.S. I miss my mom and dad making me go to church when i was a kid.

P.P.P.S. everyone should absolutley check out adam and greg's amazing ambient new age blog.

**More Deerhunter News**

The guys just had a set posted on Daytrotter.com mostly full of songs that I am not familiar with except for Heatherwood off of the Flourescent Grey EP and Dr. Glass from Cryptograms. If you aren't already familiar with Daytrotter, all of the tracks are available for free download right off that page.

Also... Below is some video coverage that Bradford did for MTV while at CMJ Music Marathon last month in NYC:

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Live Review: Deerhunter, No Age, Fag Static (9/27/2007) Drunken Unicorn

I had no idea who Fag Static was before seeing them at this show, but apparently they are sort of supergroup of Atlanta bands, most notably Blame Game. They setup their equipment in front of the Drunken Unicorn stage on the ground and the crowd circled around them. If i were to look up the term "post-rock power trio" in a music dictionary, i imagine that this band would be the definition. They were very impressive and I would highly suggest checking these guys out when they return from the mini tour they are currently on.

No Age played next on the stage. The dynamic duo put down a good show, but i wasn't super impressed. i've been having a bunch of issues with two-pieces this year, and i understand its cool to see so few people put together so much sound and all, but it still didn't engage me enough. I do plan to look into these guys more though because i've really enjoyed the studio work I've heard from them and i would still recommend seeing them live.

After some hipster comedian told abortion jokes, Deerhunter took the stage as a five-piece, including former member Colin Mee. According to Pitchfork, Colin has atleast played a few shows with them after this but is not officially back in the band yet. Before playing, they got every light inside the venue turned off except the front cans doing some strobe action. This lighting effect was really cool becasue at times it was completely dark and it felt like you were in a cave or something. The set was a straight balls-to-the-wall noise blast that offered little of Bradford's stage antics. I loved this set because it was so loud and powerful and very different then the previous times i have seen them. Unfortunetly technical difficulties have lost all of the pics I took of the night(and the Animal Collective show the night before >:( ) except a couple from my camera phone.

Deerhunter Homecoming Week

This year's Homecoming Queen

Between their massive touring schedule, Atlanta's children of the hype will be in town this week. Monday night at the Drunken Unicorn you can catch Bradford's solo project, Atlas Sound, opening up for The Dirty Projectors. I've just started jamming The Dirty Projector's new album, Rise Above, and it is really cool. The album is a weird attempt to cover Black Flag's Damaged. I don't know much Black Flag (although I'm about to educate myself) so I can't judge how cool their take on them is, but the music itself is really good stuff. Thursday night Deerhunter, now a 4-piece, will also be performing at the Drunken Unicorn with No Age, a band David has been really into, so I'm excited to check them out. Make sure to have your homecoming ribbons ready.

Atlas Sound : So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) [Everly Brothers Cover]


The Dirty Projectors : Rise Above : What I See


Deerhunter : Deerhunter/Alphabets Split 7" : Adorno


No Age : Weirdo Rippers : Every Artist Needs A Tragedy


Check out the Deerhunter Blog

Word On The Street

Colin Mee, guitarist for Deerhunter, has parted ways with the band. Hear what he has to say about it here. The drama continues for these guys, but hopefully everyone involved continues making great music and the hype is justified.



Speaking of hype, Creative Loafing did a story on The Coathangers and the blowing up of said band. I'm reserving any real judgement about this band until I listen to the album and see them today at Criminal Records, but listening to their songs makes me laugh, and that's cool.



ISP Space is closing down. I have to say that this is a bummer to me because I really enjoyed the shows I saw there.

Here's some Black Lips news from their myspacing:

The Black Lips' newest opus, Good Bad Not Evil which you can stream in its entirety onMySpace this week, comes out September 11. For the momentous occasion, Black Lips are doing a special show at MJQ in Atlanta. How do you get into the show? Well, it's easy. Starting Tuesday, September 4, Good Bad Not Evil will be available for pre-order at ye olde Criminal Records. If you truck down early to pre-order the record, you not only get a spiff-tastic DVD of Black Lips Live in Israel which you can't get your paws on anywhere else, but you get the secret handshake invite to the show on September 11. Assuming the show doesn't sell out before release date, there will be CDs available as your ticket in at MJQ on the day of the show, but why would you risk it? Oh, and you only get the DVD if you pre-order or buy at Criminal on release date. So if you've got nothing to do on Tuesday during your lunch break besides sneak a couple of pints, head down to Criminal and pre-order that gem and get ready for the show.

Here's a video @ Radio Har-Hatzofim, JERUSALEM ISRAEL:



Okkervil River will be at The 40 watt in Athens, Ga October 3rd.

Wondering what the chicks from Sleater-Kinney have been up to? Check this out

Burn To Shine, a cool film series where they have a bunch of bands from a city play a song in a house about to get demolished, is about to do one in Atlanta featuring Mastodon, Deerunter, Black Lips, Snowden, The Selmanaires, The Coathangers, and Shannon Wright.

The internets are exploding with rumours that My Bloody Valentine will be reuniting and playing Coachella next year. Let the 2008 festival line-up speculation madness begin!

You can stream the great new Minus The Bear album here.

Remember that Midlake is at The Earl tonight. Don't miss it:

Check out this video: Midlake - "Roscoe"



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Atlanta Music Updates

Saturday night I went to Lenny's for their one year anniversary show. Unfortunately Atlas Sound, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo/side project, did not show up and Psychic Heart's mini-set didn't start until after 11:30pm, but at least Snowden kicked ass as always. Stickfigure Distribution has just reissued their self titled EP debut release. Here's a sample:

Snowden : Snowden : Good News


Buy Snowden Here



Also, here's the title track from last year's Anti Anti:

Snowden : Anti Anti : Anti Anti



Deerhunter's Blog has got some really cool stuff on it, including mp3s from their first release, a split 7" with Alphabets featuring their former-now-deceased bassist and of which there were only 300 copies pressed. Check it out here:



They are about to be doing some serious touring, so go check them out:

Aug 30 2007 9:00P
Black Cat Backstage w/ Clockcleaner Washington DC, Washington DC
Aug 31 2007 7:00P
Seaport Music Festival w/ Battles New York City, New York
Sep 1 2007 9:00P
Ottobar w/ Soft Circle, High Places Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 6 2007 8:00P
Neumos w/ Grizzly Bear Seattle, Washington
Sep 8 2007 9:00P
Doug Fir Lounge w/ Bobby Conn Portland, Oregon
Sep 27 2007 8:00P
Drunken Unicorn w/ No Age, Fag Static, Cut Teeth Atlanta, Georgia
Sep 28 2007 8:30P
Mercy Lounge w/ No Age, Bows and Arrows Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 29 2007 8:00P
The Wire presents Adventures In Modern Music Festival @ Empty Bottle w/ No Age Chicago, Illinois
Oct 1 2007 8:00P
Canopy Club / Club Void w/ Nudge Urbana, Illinois
Oct 2 2007 8:00P
Southgate House Newport, Kentucky
Oct 25 2007 8:00P
Elevate Festival @ Dom im Berg Graz, Austria
Oct 26 2007 10:00P
Bad Bonn Dudingen, Switzerland
Oct 27 2007 8:00P
Palace St. Gallen, Switzerland
Oct 28 2007 9:00P
Kaserne w/ Frog Eyes Basel, Switzerland
Oct 30 2007 8:00P
Recyclart Brussels, Belgium
Oct 31 2007 8:00P
Maroquinerie Paris, France
Nov 1 2007 8:30P
Tanned Tin Festival @ Auditori i Palau de Congresos w/ The Ex, Xiu Xiu and many more! Castellon, Spain
Nov 2 2007 6:30P
ATP presents Release The Bats @ The Forum w/ Liars, Black Lips, Deerhoof, and Fuck Buttons London, United Kingdom
Nov 3 2007 8:00P
Nasty Fest VIII @ The Faversham w/ The Black Lips Leeds, United Kingdom
Nov 4 2007 7:30P
ABC2 Glasgow, Scotland
Nov 5 2007 8:00P
The Village Dublin, Ireland
Nov 6 2007 8:00P
Liars Club @ The Social Nottingham, United Kingdom
Nov 7 2007 8:00P
Saki Manchester, United Kingdom
Nov 9 2007 8:00P
Vera Groningen, Netherlands, Groningen
Nov 10 2007 8:00P
Tivoli w/ Dirty Projectors Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht
Nov 13 2007 8:00P
Debaser Malmo, Sweden
Nov 14 2007 8:00P
Garage Oslo, Norway
Nov 15 2007 8:00P
Debaser Slussen Stockholm, Sweden

Here's a track from their first LP:

Deerhunter : Turn It Up Faggot : Tech School


The Black Lips new album, Good Bad Not Evil, hits stores on September 11th. They are on tour right now too, and their live shows are amazing, so hit one of these up:

Aug 30 2007 8:00P
The Roadhouse Manchester
Aug 31 2007 8:00P
The Social Nottingham
Sep 1 2007 8:00P
The Faversham Leeds
Sep 2 2007 8:00P
Optimo Glasgow
Sep 3 2007 8:00P
Fibbers York
Sep 4 2007 8:00P
White Heat London
Sep 6 2007 8:00P
The Cellars Oxford
Sep 7 2007 8:00P
The Engine Rooms Brighton
Sep 12 2007 8:00P
40 Watt Club Athens, Georgia
Sep 13 2007 8:00P
Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina
Sep 14 2007 8:00P
Sonar Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 15 2007 8:00P
Black Cat Washington, DC, Washington DC
Sep 16 2007 8:00P
Khyber Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 18 2007 8:00P
Bowery Ballroom New York, New York
Sep 19 2007 8:00P
Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York
Sep 21 2007 8:00P
The Middle East Upstairs Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sep 22 2007 8:00P
La Sala Rossa Montreal, Quebec
Sep 23 2007 8:00P
The Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, Ontario
Sep 25 2007 8:00P
Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
Sep 26 2007 8:00P
Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, Ohio
Sep 27 2007 8:00P
The Mad Hatter Covington, Kentucky
Sep 28 2007 8:00P
Logan Square Auditorium Chicago, Illinois
Sep 29 2007 8:00P
Mad Planet Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Sep 30 2007 8:00P
Triple Rock Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oct 2 2007 8:00P
The Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Oct 3 2007 8:00P
Grand Emporium Kansas City, Missouri
Oct 4 2007 8:00P
The Loft Dallas, Texas
Oct 5 2007 8:00P
Emo’s Austin, Texas
Oct 6 2007 8:00P
The Engine Room Houston, Texas
Oct 7 2007 8:00P
One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, Louisiana
Oct 11 2007 8:00P
Richard’s On Richards Vancouver, British Columbia
Oct 12 2007 8:00P
The Crocodile Cafe Seattle, Washington
Oct 13 2007 8:00P
Dante’s Portland, Oregon
Oct 15 2007 8:00P
Great American Music Hall San Francisco, California
Oct 17 2007 8:00P
Glasshouse Concert Hall Pomona, California
Oct 18 2007 8:00P
The Casbah San Diego, California
Oct 19 2007 8:00P
Troubador West Hollywood, California
Oct 20 2007 8:00P
Echoplex Echo Park, California



Here's a few classics:

Black Lips : Let It Bloom : Not A Problem


Black Lips : Black Lips : Freakout


The newest band to break out in the A-town is The Coathangers. This all female four-piece is releasing their debut, self-titled record on Rob's House. Here's a couple tracks from it:

The Coathangers : The Coathangers : Nestle In My Boobies


The Coathangers : The Coathangers : Don't Touch My Shit!


They will be doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records next Tuesday:



They are also on an extensive tour:

Aug 31 2007 9:00P
PERFORMER MAGAZINE PRESENTS: The Drunken Unicorn w/ Beat Beat Beat and Cola Freaks Atlanta, Georgia
Sep 4 2007 7:00P
Criminal Records- Album Release InStore! Atlanta, Georgia
Sep 7 2007 8:00P
Star Bar CD Release Show w/ Chopper Atlanta, Georgia
Sep 12 2007 9:00P
40 Watt Club w/ The Black Lips and The Selmanaires!! Athens, Georgia
Sep 13 2007 9:00P
Drunken Unicorn w/ Chainestereo [TMNGW], and The Skylarks (formerly Variac) ATL, Georgia
Sep 14 2007 9:00P
Circle Bar w/ RATZINGER! New Orleans, Louisiana
Sep 20 2007 8:00P
Atlantis Music Conference '07 Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 10 2007 8:00P
Radio show @ WSBF in Clemson, SC Clemson, South Carolina
Oct 15 2007 9:00P
Show with JAY REATARD and BABY SHAKES at LENNYS! Tha dirtay dirty, Georgia
Oct 24 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ Snowden, Ponderosa@ The Drunken Unicorn Atl, Georgia
Oct 25 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour w/ 63 Crayons@Caledonia Lounge Athens, Georgia
Oct 26 2007 9:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour (blackbeard's lost weekender fest)@The Cave Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Oct 27 2007 9:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ The Griefs, The Points, +1 TBA@Fight Club Washington DC, Washington DC
Oct 29 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour w/ Sudden Walks, Guilty Faces@Cousin Larrys Danbury, Connecticut
Oct 30 2007 9:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS, The Konks, Hospital Rats@PAs Lounge Somerville (Boston), Massachusetts
Nov 4 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS, Human Eye, Terrible Twos@Lager House Detroit, Michigan
Nov 5 2007 9:00P
Coathangers 2007 Tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS, Jail @Cactus Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nov 6 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS, Cococomas @Ronnys Chicago, Illinois
Nov 9 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS @Murphys Memphis, Tennessee
Nov 10 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS @ Saturn Bar New Orleans, Louisiana
Nov 11 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour / DEMONS CLAWS, Wizzard Sleeve, Hibachi Stranglers@Blind Mule Mobile, Alabama
Nov 14 2007 8:00P
Coathangers 2007 tour w/ DEMONS CLAWS @ The Drunken Unicorn ATL, Georgia

This Weeks Shows In The A

Tommorrow night I'm really excited to check out Porturgal. The Man at the Drunken Unicorn. I've discovered this Alaskan band just this year and have absolutely loved their material. Go check out their myspace, go to this show, and then pickup their new album Church Mouth.

Wednesday there's two really great shows to check out. First, if you go to the suburbs and catch Ted Leo and The Pharmacists and Birds of Avalon, a band we caught earlier this year opening for Beach House who is really great. If you want to stay ITP, three great local bands are playing at the Drunken Unicorn: Moresight, Untied States, and Elevado.

Thursday night Stickfigure Distribution has a great show at The Earl with One hand Loves The Other, Ninetynine (featuring Sleater Kinney's original drummer), and Strezo.

Friday night Rob's House Records has a great show at the Earl with Deerhunter, The Spooks, and Chopper.

Here's a few tunes to listen to:

Portugal. The Man : Church Mouth

Birds Of Avalon : Bicentential Baby

Untied States : It's Not Goodbye

One Hand Loves The Other : Don't Know

Deerhunter : Ponds

Live Show: Deerhunter (7-26-2007)

Grizzly Bear has deemed Deerhunter one of the three best bands of 2007. Those guys definitely know good music. Here's a show from Dime:

Deerhunter - 7/26/07
Caledonia Lounge - Athens, GA

(click to listen)

01) Intro
02) Cryptograms
03) White Ink
04) Wash Off
05) Dr. Glass
06) Spring Hall Convert
07) Hazel St
08) Fluorescent Grey
09) Octet
10) Strange Lights

[Team Clermont Summer Festival]

www.myspace.com/deerhunter

Bradford Cox - guitar, vocal
Moses Archuleta - drums
Josh Fauver - bass
Colin Mee - guitar
Lockett Pundt - guitar

Recorded, transferred and mixed by Sloan Simpson

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Hot Shows In The A

ATL bands represent hard this week:



Tonight Ohmnpark favourites Untied States are at the Earl for their 7" release party with some out of town bands. Check the new 7" out:



Thursday night the Drunken Unicorn has two acts we love. Get there early to see Lid Emba and stay late to see Marnie Stern thrash with Hella's drummer.



Friday night Lenny's has Deerhunter, Brass Castle, and The NEC and Saturday night they have One Hand Loves The Other and Judi Chicago. Both shows are free, what a bargain!

Pitchfork Music Festival: Day 3/Wrap-Up

The final day started with Deerhunter and I was interested to see what they would do on what was probably one of the biggest crowds they've played to. They brought their A game and Bradford Cox shined on stage. They even got some of Grizzly Bear to jam with them at the end. There's something special about seeing two of the best young bands today teaming up like this and gives me even more optimism about the state of music today. We watched The Ponys from far away and they sounded good with the exception of the entire PA system going down for half of it. Seriously, Pitchfork Fest's sound system seemed to get even worse as the days went on and I've never seen anything like that at a music festival. Next up we watched Menomena put on a really good show. They seemed especially loose and maybe over excited or something but that seemed to work favourably for their sound. This is another band that if you haven't got into yet, i strongly urge you to check them out. The next band I went to see was The Sea And Cake. It was hard for me to believe how bad it was considering how much I like this band. In their defense, the sound system did seem to be especially terrible for their set, but I do not like the direction this band has gone in. The show and the new album both seem like their missing the magic this band used to conjure up. I caught a little bit of Stephen Malkmus playing a solo set. It was good but it's just not exactly my thing. The best show of the day for me was Of Montreal. This band combines art with fun like no other. They did a few new songs, Kevin Barnes wore a few outfits, they even played a little football on stage. I waited a really long time to see Klaxons next. They were good but the weak sound system on the third stage made it seem more underwhelming than it should have. We ended the night watching De La Soul do a solid performance.

Overall, the fest was fairly interesting and a good experience. They must do something about the sound system because it was way too amateur for a festival of this size. I know the ticket prices were low, but if I have to pay another ten or twenty bucks to get to listen to more than the band's monitors for half the shows, it might be a good idea. The actual line-up mostly delivered on the hype, but I think Pitchfork could do a little better job scheduling. The venue was nice but if they want this event to get any bigger they're going to need to relocate. I will say that the security was extremely light and well behaved, and I am always a big fan of that. Overall, Pitchfork Fest gets a thumbs up from me but need to improve some things for next year.

Deerhunter Drama

If you don't know, pitchforkmedia, who's festival I'm flying out to see tomorrow, has got a huge man crush on Atlanta's own Deerhunter. Hey, It's cool, i think they're amazing too. But seriously, Pitchfork reports every bowel movement Bradford Cox has (literally), and ofcourse all those non-ATLien hipsters out there are gonna backlash against constantant hyping, cuz that's what hipsters do. Experience the drama only as Pitchfork can bring it to you:

Here's their "news" from yesterday to catch you up:

Deerhunter Blog: First Poop, Now Porn

Just reporting about this band makes us feel like crazy stalkers

You'd think writing poetry about a bandmate's dumps would be intimate enough for pretty much any prominent indie rock frontman-- but not for Deerhunter's Bradford Cox. The question is, how intimate do you want to get? If your answer is intimate enough to know every harrowing detail of his sexual fantasies, you're in luck!

Today, the band's blog officially becomes one of the seediest corners of the internet as Cox posts a series of pictures of (possibly underage?) boys, each accompanied by explicit imaginings of fetishist sex involving blood, drugs, beatings, and, dear god, more turds. Click here at your own risk (be ready to clear that browser cache!), and don't say we didn't warn you when the Feds show up at your door. Or Bradford's door.

What are you gonna blog about next, dude? Terrorism?

Here is Pitchfork's amazing journalism from today:

Deerhunter's Cox Explains Recent Blog Posts

Some heavy stuff's been going down on the blog recently inaugurated by the members of Deerhunter; a few silly posts on the band's digestive prowess, followed by one not-so-silly post featuring some rather explicit sexual exploration. And, now, an explanation of sorts. After receiving a number of responses to the band's blog update yesterday, frontman Bradford Cox removed the post and added this statement:

First of all, if you do not like what i'm about don't read this blog or buy our records or come see us play. If you think we are overhyped and shitty then find another band that strikes your fancy and go hang around their blog. I am not trying to shock anyone. To those who recognized it, yeah, Dennis Cooper is a huge influence on me since I was about 15. I highly recommend his blog (denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com). Now onto something more serious... Don't even think about pulling this child pornography shit with me. I have not used a single image that did not come from a legitimate site that keeps age records. Child Pornography is fucked up, and as someone who was sexually abused since I was seven, I take it pretty seriously. I don't need thought police on here. You can eat the shit you'll be seeing photos and journal entries about in the next day. I can't help it that some of you think I am sick or fucked up or twisted. My job is to express myself how I best know how. Usually a mixture of sadness and humor. I was really writing about lonliness. I don't feel like I need to defend the fact that I am fucked up because I was fucked with and sexually abused at a VERY young age. At this point in my life I am a 25 year old virgin with a body image that decreases exponentially everytime some dipshit with a blog takes a jab at how ugly I look. I don't blame myself for my adolescent fantasies because I am still an adolescent, looking for someone to connect to, I guess. Sorry to get all serious but I don't need this shit from cunts that come here expecting "Shock and Awe". That's not what we are about. We are about honesty. Everyone shits. Honestly. And everyone has fucked up things they hide. I show mine with a sense of humor.

When we spoke to Cox today (July 12) about the controversial blog post, he emphasized that, in writing the entry, he was "not trying to create some kind of sensationalistic magnet for attention." He added, "The news article that you guys wrote-- if you want to call it that-- inspired a lot of people to start writing really negative, attacking things about me on our blog, which eventually inspired me to remove that blog entry. I'm not doing anything illegal, or anything I'm ashamed of. There's not a single image I would use that wasn't from a site that had legal documentation, requirements they have to meet for showing somebody's age. Not a single image I used was of an underaged person. I would never, ever support anything that was exploitative of actual children. Child pornography is a fucking hardcore term. And I take that very seriously considering I was abused as a child."

Repeatedly evoking-- as he did in his most recent blog entry-- the name of radical explorations of sexuality in the work of author Dennis Cooper (to whom he considered the entry an homage), Cox opined, "Culture has already gone through so many radical shifts in terms of what's acceptable, realism, dadaism, fucking punk rock. A lot of it has been about not taking yourself too seriously, and just allowing shit to just come out of you, stream-of-consciousness style." Cox saw the recent entry not as an expression of any personal sexual desire, but rather as what he terms 'existential humor.' "The last entry on our blog was violent, and kind of a bizarre fantasy," he says, "but it's not like a fantasy we actually had. Those were presented as jokes."

Cox is aware that many of his actions could be construed as controversial, but repeatedly emphasizes how far controversy is from his intentions. "The blame," Cox admits, "I guess could rest on me for writing something controversial. But the intended audience for that are people who identify enough with our music and the culture surrounding it, and know enough about us to understand the context of it, which is really, really reliant on humor, and not seriousness. It's kind of like absurdist, existential, over the top, funny and sad humor."

Deerhunter will be playing Boston tonight, and the Pitchfork Music Festival over the weekend. [MORE...]

My favourite Bradford quote is: "The news article that you guys wrote-- if you want to call it that..."

So my message to you hipsters out there is the backlash to the backlash to the hype has officially begun and now its cool to like Deerhunter again. I mean, they do amazing studio work and put on a hell of a show, and if you're really hip you can just ignore the Pitchfork hype.

Deerhunter, see you this weekend, and Bradford, dude, eat some food or something, what are you anorexic?

For more humorous Deerhunter related reading, check out their myspace page.

Summer Slacking

It's vacation time at Ohmpark right now, but we'll be back a full strength on Monday so check back then and we'll be hitting you hard with that music related 411. A couple of quick things for now, though:

The Smashing Pumpkins will be at The Fox Theatre on October 30th. Learn all the details on tickets here. My full review on the Asheville residency will be forthcoming next week. Here's the new video for Tarantula:



Check out this awesome Grizzly Bear video.

Don't forget if you're in Atlanta this weekend, go to the Fiery Furnaces and Deerhunter show tommorrow night at The Earl.

Pride Weekend In Atlanta

In case you don't know, Midtown is going to be packed full of people for the Atlanta Pride Festival this weekend. If that doesn't tickle your fancy, there's some good shows you can check out. Tonight I'm going to the Black Keys/Dinosaur Jr show at the Tabernacle. Also tonight at Smthi's Old Bar is The Nightwatchman aka Tom Morello doing acoustic protest rock. For you hippies out there, Railroad Earth will be at the Variety Playhouse Friday night. For you hipsters out there, Tentonic, The Dark Romantics, and Slow Motion Crash will be at the Drunken Unicorn Friday night. It appears stoner-metalists Zoroaster are playing at both the Ten High and Lenny's tommorrow night too. Saturday night i'm hoping to check out The Rosebuds at The Earl. Then Sunday night Deerhunter will be at the Drunken Unicorn.

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

Monday Mash-UP

MTV is all on Atlanta's nuts and the Drizzle showed me this video featuring Deerhunter, Snowden, and Black Lips.

Marnie Stern will be at The Drunken Unicorn on July 26th.

Built To Spill is doing a bunch of touring but nowhere near here.

Austin City Limits Festival has announced a partial line-up including:

White Stripes
Bjork
Peter, Bjorn and John
Joss Stone
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Decemberists
Rose Hill Drive
Andrew Bird
Augustana
Robert Earl Keen
Beau Soleil
Gotan Project
Indigo Girls
Heartless Bastards
Andy Palacio

The ACLFest rumors blog is reporting these bands are confirmed:

• Blonde Redhead
• Decemberists
• White Stripes
• Bjork
• Joss Stone
• Heartless Bastards
• Peter, Bjorn and John
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela
• Rose Hill Drive
• Augustana
• Beau Soleil
• Gotan Project
• Indigo Girls
• Andy Palacio
• Stephen Marley
• The Little Ones
• Raul Malo
• Jones Family Singers
• Eli Young Band
• Kevin Gordon
• Ben Kweller
• Jake Owen
• The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Andrew Bird
• Sara Hickman
• The Jellydots
• Kings of Leon
• Ryan Bueter
• Christina Bell
• Robert Earl Keen
• Rev. Horton Heat
• Asleep at the Wheel
• Blue Mother Tupelo

ACLFest happens September 14th-16th in Austin, TX and the full line-up is supposed to be announced this Thursday. Tickets are already on sale and they go pretty fast.

The Disco Biscuits' own music festival, Camp Bisco, has announced its line-up and it includes Infected Mushroom, Amon Tobin, Girl Talk, Holy Fuck, STS9, and of course Bisco themselves. This fest takes place in New York on August 16th-18th.

There is a Smashing Pumpkins tribute album coming out featuring The Deftones and Ben Kweller.

!!! want to get to work on a new album.

You can download some Grizzly Bear tracks from their Daytrotter session here. Don't miss that link! Here's one of the tracks: He Hit Me

Here's a douche bag of music videos:

Bjork : Army Of Me (At Coachella 2007) :



Bjork : WanderLust (At Coachella 2007) :



Fiona Apple : Across The Universe



Liars : Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack



Serena-Maneesh : Sapphire Eyes



Nirvana : Smells Like Teen Spirit



Tori Amos : Smells Like Teen Spirit

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

Live Videos And Photos: Deerhunter (4-2-2007) Criminal Records

Monday we went down to check out Deerhunter doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records. I picked up their new EP, Fluorescent Grey, and it is great. Biggie C tooks some photos:



















I video taped the show and it was the first show I've ever video taped. Check it out in low-def:

"Cryptograms":



"White Ink":



"Hazel St":



"Spring Hall Convert":



"Flourescent Grey"/"Tech School":

Friday Free-Style

Aw yeah, it's Friday again, Deerhunter or Kid Koala tonight! What to choose? Ted Leo and the Pharmacists will be at the Variety Playhouse Saturday night. I still don't know whether i'm going to that or the DJ Klever/Snowden extravanganza. Here's some videos to help me decide:

Deerhunter:



Ted Leo And The Pharmacists:



Snowden:



DJ Klever:



The Flaming Lips, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother and more have made original tracks for the upcoming Spiderman 3 movie.

Bono is now a knight.

Sasquatch! Music Festival has added Clinic, Blackalicious, The Polyphonic Spree, and an extra Beastie Boys instrumental set plus many more acts. Check it out. Beastie Boys have a new album coming out this year.

Patti Smith is doing a covers album.

The new season of the Henry Rollins Show, starting next month, will feature live performances from The Mars Volta, The Stooges, and Ryan Adams and interviews with Marilyn Manson and Iggy Pop.

Black Eye Peas member Taboo got arrested for driving too high.

Tegan And Sara release their new album, The Con, in July.

The Smashing Pumpkins first performance will be in Paris. I'm kinda glad they will get their rust out overseas before (hopefully) playing a bunch of US dates.

Marilyn Manson and Slayer are going on tour together this summer. Marilyn Manson has new album out in June.

Korn and Evanescense are co-headlining this years helping of the Family Values Tour. Nu-metal will never die!!!

moe.down festival has added Ryan Adams and The Meat Puppets to their line-up. This fest held the August 30th-September 2nd in New York will also feature Medeski Martin and Wood and 6 sets from moe. over the weekend. 6 sets of moe. would make me mow down some wookies.

The Black Crowes are working on a new album.

The White Stripes have gotten creative with their marketing and created a puzzle about their new album:




Isaac Brock is not feeling the pressure of having the Billboard's #1 album.

Ratdog and Keller Williams will be at Chastain Park on July 7th.

The Preakness have a new 7" coming out.

Here's a new Trans Am video featuring former-The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore acting:



Kevin Barnes is already working on another Of Montreal album.

Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke are collaberating with some others to form a noise-supergroup. Yaher!

Thurston Moore is working on a new solo album at J Mascis studio produced by John Agnello (Rather Ripped #16 of 2006). There's a video of Thurston performing one of the songs at SXSW here.

Brightblack Morning Light will be at the Earl April 23rd. Here's an MP3: Everybody Daylight

Arctic Monkeys and Be Your Own Pet will be at the Tabernacle on May 19th.

Ozzfest is building its line-up, and Atlanta's Daath is playing some dates among others.

Interviews on the read-read:

• Of Montreal
• Black Lips
• The Decemberists
• !!!
• Ted Leo
• Cold War Kids
• CocoRosie
• Bright Eyes
• Explosions In The Sky
• The Shins
• Pelican

Some Vids to discover and then go read the interview:

Pelican:



CocoRosie:

7 Shows In 7 Days

The Atlanta concert season is scorching hot as there are some great shows coming up this week. I highly recommend you check out all of the linked bands below cuz they are all great. Here's how you should spend the next week:

Wednesday March 28th:

People Noise (ex-VHS or Beta), Spectralux, Pacifico at The Earl ,$7, 21+, 9:00pm

Thursday March 29th:

Deerhunter, Psychic Hearts, Long-Legged Woman at the 40 Watt in Athens, GA, $5, 18+, 9:30pm

Friday March 30th:

Kid Koala, Samadha, Rob Wonder at the Drunken Unicorn, $10, all ages, 9:00pm

Saturday March 31st:

DJ Klever, Snowden, Variac, Julius Airwaves at Lenny's, (Faster Moustache 2 year BirthDay Party and MTV will be filming) $10, 21+, 9:00pm

Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Love Of Diagrams at the Variety Playhouse, $15, all ages, 8:30pm

Monday April 2nd:

Deerhunter in-store performance at Criminal Records, Free, all ages, 7:00pm

Tuesday April 3rd:

Menomena, Jeffrey Butzer/MIDWIVES at the Drunken Unicorn $8, all ages, 9:00pm

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Deerhunter

Right now i'm listening to Deerhunter Cryptograms like crazy. Here's the first 5 tracks to listen to:

• Intro
• Cryptograms
• White Ink
• Lake Somerset
• Providence

Buy Cryptograms Here

Andrea Belfi


If you like ambient noise stuff, check out Andrea Belfi Between Neck And Stomach. It's really good:

• Extraevil
• Sleeping With Extraevil

Buy Between Neck & Stomach Here

Zozobra


If you're into stoner metal, you should check out Zozobra Harmonic Tremors:

• Soon To Follow
• Silver Ghost
• Invisible Wolves

Buy Harmonic Tremors Here

Releases Of The Week

The Apples In Stereo : New Magnetic Wonder

Bloc Party : A Weekend In The City

Deerhunter : Cryptograms

Photos: 1-20-07 Deerhunter, Psychic Hearts, The Selmanaires- 40 Watt Athens, GA

(click to enlarge)

The Selmanaires





Psychic Hearts











Deerhunter