Atlanta Album Preview: Fag Static

Awesome Ficcanaso album cover art

Fag Static is one of the multitude of projects that have popped up since the at-least-temporary-demise of the Blame Game. If you are unfamiliar with BG, you would do yourself a disservice to not go and look deep into their catalogue because they were a serious force to be reckoned with in the ATL. Fag Static has their first LP about to drop called Ficcanaso and it will be available August 26th. Both this release and the Thy Mighty Contract album are coming out with support of the Room 10 Collective and Ficcanaso will be out on Vagina Flambe later this year. While we all eagerly anticipate getting our grubby hands on it, here are a couple of tracks to keep us pacified for now:

Fag Static : Ficcanaso : Off But On

Fag Static : Ficcanaso : Growing Now

Serious intensity! You can catch them live this Saturday night at The I Can Fly House.

Fag Static Myspace

What Up In The ATL?

There are some hott new local releases out this week. First, The Selmanaires's second LP, The Air Salesman, is now available:



Also, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause's The Rustic Contemporary Sounds of comes out today:



You can stream both albums here. They are are also both doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records at 7pm tonight.

I think this has been available for a while, but I just found out out about it. The newest Slushco EP:



Info and tunes on the Slushco Myspace. Buy it here.

The Black Lips are playing a free show at GSU today at noon:



After kicking ass last Saturday night at our One Year Anniversary Party, This Piano Plays Itself will be on WREK 91.1 FM at 10pm tonight. Don't miss it!

Tonight, there's a show:



Tomorrow night, the Stickfigure 2008 Showcase begins with 4 nights in row at the Drunken Unicorn featuring some of Atlanta's greatest up and coming artists:

Tomorrow night: Music For People, Sorry No Ferrari, Bigpenguin, Zandosis
Thursday night: Entertainment, The Feeding Fingers, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba
Friday night: Retconned Cover Band, Fur Elise, Tree Creature, Sailor Winters
Saturday Night: One Hand Loves The Other, Envie, The Subliminator, Killick!, Nerdkween

It's $5 for each night of the showcase, and if you like good music and are not familiar with many of those names, do yourself a favour and hit up atleast one of those, because every night is a killer line-up.

Thursday night at Lenny's is a stellar show with Perestroika, Chopper (ex-Blame Game, Deerhunter), Fag Static, and maybe even The Orphins (90% sure according to the Lenny's site)

Friday night at Lenny's there is this:




Friday night The Whigs are at The Earl and there's also this band called Manchester Orchestra that is rumoured to be from Atlanta at The Loft.

For the hippies, Friday night Perpetual Groove is at The Variety Playhouse, and Saturday night Col. Bruce Hampton is at The Loft and The Machine (Pink Floyd cover band) is at the Variety Playhouse.

For the hipsters, Saturday night Anna Kramer And The Lost Cause and The Selmanaires are having their dual CD release show at The Earl.

What a great week for music in Atlanta!

What Up in The ATL?

Another year of shows begin! This Friday night i highly suggest going to Lenny's and checking out Graboids and Sleep Therapy.

The Graboids : Infinite Delay : Tremolo


Monday night I'm going to this:



Dan Deacon : Spiderman Of The Rings : Okie Dokie


Wednesday night there is a great show right here in my neighborhood:

I CAN FLY HOUSE: fag static,benard,sorry no ferrari,worn in red all ages 9pm/Donation

Next Friday night Club Awesome and Envie are at The Earl:



Next Saturday night is all about Yo La Tengo!

Yo La Tengo : I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass : Pass The Hatchet, I think I'm Goodkind


Also, there is another Whirlyball 7"/concert where if you buy the record at Criminal Records, it is your ticket to see the bands on it play at this interesting OTP venue:



Other great January Shows:

1/18/08 Yeasayer, MGMT at The Earl
1/19/08 The Jupiter Watts, Luigi at The Earl
1/21/08 Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow at The Loft
1/24/08 Feeding Fingers, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba at The Drunken Unicorn
1/24/08 Chopper, Fag Static at The Drunken Unicorn
1/26/08 The Selmanaires, Anna Kramer at The Earl (Dual CD release show)
1/29/08 Ween at The Tabernacle
1/30/08 High On Fire, A Life Once Lost at the Earl
1/30/08 Super Furry Animals, The Fiery Furnaces, Holy Fuck at The Variety Playhouse

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!

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.