I Heart The A

Not much blogging over the long weekend while I was out enjoying the beautiful weather and sweet events. I spent alot of time in East Atlanta including the East Atlanta Strut and the Go Funk Yourself uber-house party. The really fun weekend is mostly a blur to me and I don't have much objective journalism for you, so here's some tunes from some of the artists I might have seen:

Parade : Answer Me : Lunch Lady


Anna Kramer : Anna Kramer : I Can't Take It


Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Postcard From Four Walls Down


Howlies : Howlies : Angeline




This week is fairly enormous for great shows. Tonight I'm going to see Bjork and Klaxons at the Fox. Diplo is going to be at MJQ tonight too. Wednesday night at Lenny's is Zoroaster's CD release party featuring Daath. Wednesday night is also the beginning of Atlantis Music Conference, Atlanta's answer to South By Southwest. Thursday night John Vanderslice and Bishop Allen will be at The Earl. Pretty much every venue in town has an interesting show Friday night but i like the Eyedrum show with Vietnam, Random Violets, Subliminator, and Tree Creature. Saturday night is just ridiculous. Do Make Say Think and Atlanta's Moorish Idols are going to be at The Earl. Queens Of The Stone Age are at The Tabernacle. Girl Talk and Dan Deacon are at MJQ. Then Sunday night The Apples In Stereo will be playing for free at Piedmont Park(Park Tavern).

Bjork : Volta : Wanderlust


Queens Of The Stone Age : Era Vulgaris : I'm Designer


Zoroaster : Dog Magic : Brazen Bull


Do Make Say Think : You, You're A History In Rust : In Mind


Girl Talk : Night Ripper : Give And Go


Moorish Idols : Moorish Idols : Fer-De-Lance

Humpnight Random Tracks

So I've got some really good stuff I've been saving up for you here. Listen to the track and click the picture to find out more. First, Ohmpark favourites From Exile have remixed a song off of Crushing Reality, their stellar debut album from last year. They will be at Lenny's on August 15th:



From Exile : Phantom (Illumination)


Here's a track from another great Atlanta band, Morning State, who just release their first EP, Retreat !!!. This single was mixed by Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Cee Lo, DangerDoom). I just saw these guys the other night at The Earl and they sounded great.



Morning State : Spectacular


Next up, VHS or Beta's Zeke Buck's new project, People Noise. I'm really digging what I've heard so far. From Ordinary Ghosts:



People Noise : A Million Lives


The Pizzle just hipped me to Canadians Tokyo Police Club and I've been really liking it so far. They will be at Vinyl on August 2nd. Here's a track from their 2006 debut album A Lesson In Crime.



Tokyo Police Club : Nature Of The Experiment


Last for today, Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) and Hearts Of Darknesses (aka Frank Musarra) have formed a band for "production, beat making, and remixes". It's called Trey Told 'Em, a reference to Phish's Trey Anastasio judging from the pictures on their myspace page. So far they have only done a remix to a Tokyo Police Club song:



Tokyo Police Club : Cheer It On (Trey Told Em remix)

Friday Free-Style

In case you haven't noticed, our blogging has been a little brisk lately as we are enjoying the summer. But don't dismay as we have a bunch of cool stuff cooking in the lab for you.

We'll start today off by getting krunk with Kanye West:



Pitchfork Fest has sold out and released set times. While you are enjoying Corndogarama, we will be covering this in Chicago.

John Vanderslice will be at The Earl on September 20th.

Weezer is about to record another album.

In case you don't, Beach House are awesome, and they be talking.

The Cure are working on the new album still and will be at The Gwinnett Center September 15th.

Band Of Horses are just finishing up their new album.

The Led Zeppelin reunion rumour mill is on again.

Rage Against The Machine will be headlining this year's Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas. The full line-up will be announced in mid-July.

Here's Ryan Adams on Letterman:



Here's an old The Rapture video:



Here's a Battles video:



Some Cat Power for you:



A Califone video:



Some Girl Talk:



Some The Ponys:



And finally, some Of Montreal:

Pitchfork Music Festival Line-up!

The cool kids at Live Music Blog are reporting:

While we await some of the details from Whitperson's trip down to Florida for Langerado 2007, we're awarded with some details about another festival that the Chicago locals go crazy for -- Pitchfork.

Some details were posted yesterday, although yet to be made fully official by Pitchfork themselves...

2007 Pitchfork Music Festival
http://pitchforkmusicfestival.com/
July 13-15, 2007
Union Park, CHICAGO

Lineup:

Girl Talk
Powerhouse Sound
Cat Power
Clipse
Grizzly Bear
Professor Murder
Jamie Lidell
Of Montreal
...and more!

Tickets will go on sale this Monday (March 12) at 12pm CST.

(via donewaiting.com).

I'm psyched to see Of Montreal on that lineup and can't wait to see who else is headlining it.

More details to come once we get them...

Artist Spotlight: Grizzly Bear

Since first hearing Grizzly Bear's Yellow House I just can't stop listening to it. I'm starting to feel that ranking it as 9th on my top 50 albums of 2006 way underrated it. So, first, check out this video that J Pizzle tipped me off to: The best music video I've seen in years.

Ok, wanna hear more? Check out this show they did on KEXP last week:

Grizzly Bear KEXP Seattle,WA February 16, 2007

Uncompressed stream 44.1KHz PCM webcast(WMA lossless at 1411.2 kb/s)>Total Recorder>Audition>CD Wave>Flac

(Click to listen)

• Intro
• Easier
• Knife
• Interview
• He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)*
• On A Neck, On A Spit
• Interview/Outro

* Crystals cover

Grizzly Bear are:

Edward Droste
Christopher Bear
Chris Taylor
Daniel Rossen

To find more info on them, check out:

http://www.myspace.com/grizzlybear
http://www.grizzly-bear.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Bear_%28band%29

Make sure to get Yellow House:


Click here to listen and purchase

Click Here to listen to the Girl Talk remix of 'Knife'

Grizzly Bear will be at the Drunken Unicorn next friday night, March 2nd.