Humpday Randomnimity

Tonight is for this:



Radiohead is coming to Atlanta! Also, In Rainbows debuts those chart things at number one.

The Mars Volta have made an adventure game called Goliath The Soothsayer to promote the new album out in a few weeks (I can't wait!). Check it out.

Black Lips are doing a free show:



Black Lips " Veni Vidi Vici":



Justice is going to be in Orlando, Fl, but not Atlanta. Kinda lame.

Caribou is also skipping Atlanta, but will be in Athens, Ga on April 2nd and then they are doing 5 Florida shows.

Man Man also picks Athens over us on March 8th. They have a new album out on April 8th called Rabbit Hands.

Vampire Weekend will be at The Earl on March 9th. Video:



Blitzen Trapper will be at The Drunken Unicorn on March 20th.

The Coathangers are releasing a new 7" in March.

Jose Gonzalez will be at The Variety Playhouse March 2nd.

Bill Callahan (Smog) will be at The Red Light Cafe on February 25th.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (which now includes Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney on drums) have a new album called Real Emotional Trash coming out on March 4th and will be at The Variety Playhouse March 26th.

Black Mountain and Blood On The Wall will be at The Earl on February 15th.

The Black Keys have a new album, Attack & Release, produced by Danger Mouse out on April 1st.

The big labels are shying away from DRM.

Creative Loafing interviews Yo La Tengo, who will at The Variety Playhouse Saturday night.

Barack Obama is chatting with hip-hop heads like Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Frank Black has a new release out in March.

Morrissey is trying to do a show in Iran.

You can stream the new Xiu Xiu album out January 29th on their myspace. New Vid:



Cool Silver Jews interview here.

Trent Reznor talks sales numbers from the Saul Williams Niggy Tardust album release experiment.

Review of Jon Brion's NYE show here.

New Thurston Moore video:



Eddie Vedder "Guaranteed":



Iron And Wine "Boy With A Coin":



MGMT on Letterman:



The Fiery Furnaces "Duplexes Of The Dead":

Humpday Randomnimity

The Echo Project has revealed what artists are playing which days. I also just realized Elevado is on the line-up. I've been jamming their latest release hard lately:

Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Song Of A Purple Man


There's a bunch of cool stuff going on at Islands/The Unicorns camp.

Islands : Return to The Sea : Swans (left After Death)


Somebody died at a recent Smashing Pumpkins show.

ok, here's bunch of great random tracks for today cuz that's the kind of mood i'm in:

Caribou : Andorra : After Hours


The Fiery Furnaces : Gallowbird's Bark : Tropical Ice-Land


Cyann & Ben : Sweet Beliefs : Let It Play


Eddie Vedder : Into The Wild : Society


Grandaddy : The Early Demos : You Want Me Back

Monday Night Mash-Up

Smashing Pumpkins have announced more tour dates and will be in Athens, Ga November 7th.

Ghostface Killah is doing a college campus tour sponsored by Adult Swim and will be at Georgia Tech October 10th. ...And You Will Know Of From The Trail Of Dead will also be going on an Adult Swim sponsored tour with Dethklok of the series Metalocalypse. There are no dates for that yet and I'm not sure really how a band on a cartoon will play live shows.



Voodoo Festival, which we will be covering in New Orleans, LA at the end of October, has released a schedule.

Cable and Tweed have a review of the Black Lips, Selmanaires, and Coathangers show in Athens, Ga last week complete with live mp3s from the night. They also have a Do Make Say Think live show up.

Confessions Of A Music Addict have a great preview of the upcoming Atlantis Music Festival in Atlanta this week.

Band Of Horses will be at The Park Tavern in Piedmont Park October 14th.

Albums coming out tommorrow that I'm going to check out:







Get some nice PJ Harvey tracks here.

John Stewart will be hosting the 2008 Oscars.

Here's some videos:

M.I.A.:


Modest Mouse:


Arcade Fire:(ACL Fest 2007):

Humpday Randomnimity

Last Tuesday night I caught Midlake at The Earl and they were really awesome. Here's a couple bad pics ( I swear I'm getting my own real camera soon):





If you are unfamiliar with these guys, think Thom Yorke meets Fleetwood Mac. They just released a digital EP called Oak And Julian. Here's a cut and a bonus:

Midlake : Oak & Julian : Roscoe (acoustic)


The Chemical Brothers : We Are The Night : The Pills Won't Help You Know (Featuring Midlake)


So, the Echo Project's 3rd round of artist auditions didn't all come out at once and I missed a few additions when I reported it last week. Here is the full Echo Project Line-Up:

The Killers Phil Lesh & Friends The Flaming Lips
Thievery Corporation moe. The Roots Spoon Cypress Hill Les Claypool Michael Franti & Spearhead Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Rodrigo Y Gabriela Umphrey's McGee The Disco Biscuits	Stephen Marley Rabbit in the Moon Gza (Genius) and Slick Rick featuring the Fyre Department The Bravery Medeski Martin & Wood MSTRKRFT Cat Power & Dirty Delta Blues Polyphonic Spree Butch Walker
JJ Grey & Mofro Secret Machines Son Volt Avett Brothers Perpetual Groove Brazilian Girls Man Man RJD2 Lyrics Born The Album Leaf The Benevento Russo Duo Tea Leaf Green ALO God Is An Astronaut Bassnectar Ryan Shaw Dirty Dozen Brass Band The Egg Toubab Krewe Wood Brothers Snowden Futureman and His Black Mozart Ensemble RAQ Dubconcious Spam Allstars Afromotive Greenskeepers Lazaro Casanova Marc Ford Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance Telepath	Little Birdy Collective Efforts Boom Box Marchforth Marching Band Scissors For Lefty Dead Confederate Benzos Barrel House Mamas Strut Something Japanese Grimace Federation Spencer Durham Band Jamie McLean 3S Hostage Sam Thacker Lord Is My Shotgun Entropy Ployd Mike Zarin Sorted Munir Random Rabbit Sonar Soundwave Mayhem Habersham/Numinous Secret Live Brandon B Treasure Fingers Truform Chris Grass Eric ZBD
and more...

The two big additions i missed were Spoon and Rabbit In The Moon. Back in my short-lived raver days, Rabbit In The Moon was my favourite electronic artist. They are like taking Flaming Lips and GWAR to a rave; their live show is an incredible spectacle. DJ Monk is no longer part of the team, but with Confucius still producing the music and weird-ass frontman Bunny doing really trip stuff on stage, I can guarantee the spun out wooks are gonna love this show. If you are going to this fest, don't miss this show(and don't be sober for it):



Bunny was riding in a ball across the audience way before Wayne:



Mastodon's Brent Hinds is in the hopsital from a head injury that occurred at the MTV Video Music Awards. Some Mastodon related vids:

Featuring Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme:



News report on Mastodon:



And here's an Eddie Vedder track featuring Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker:

Eddie Vedder : Into The Wild (movie soundtrack) : Hard Sun

Friday Free-Style

Sigur Ros are releasing a movie and accompanying album. Here's the trailer:



The Decemberists have a a remix EP coming out and are doing a tour where they day two shows each day, one with all of their short pop songs and one with all of their long, epic songs. The tour happens nowhere near the ATL, but I may travel for this one. Here's raved out version of "The Perfect Crime #2" remixed by Junior Boys:



Yo La Tengo are doing a "Freewheeling Storytelling Tour". Using their latest (amazing) album, I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass, as a starting point, they will chronicle their 23-year history with stories and music. No Atlanta date yet, but they are still booking shows, so I suggest you email them and tell them to come here. Here's some low quality videos of them at the Variety Playhouse earlier this year:





Check out the new Rilo Kiley video:

New Foo Fighters video is cool:

Eddie Vedder just did a soundtrack to a movie. Listen to a track here.

Ben Harper will be at The Fox on November 2nd.

Porcupine Tree have a new EP coming out featuring songs that didn't make Fear Of A Blank Planet. Track down a 5 minute sample here.

Creative Loafing recounts the awesome Black Lips shows I caught last week here.

Read about Tiger! Tiger! here.

Deerhoof have scored the soundtrack to a romantic comedy starring Mandy Moore and directed by Justin Theroux, who has worked with David Lynch and on HBO's Six Feet Under, called Dedication. Weird. It comes out today and if you're interested, here's the trailer:



The New Pornographers on Letterman:



Neil Young has a new album coming out this year. Here's some vids:







And Neil Young with Eddie Vedder: