Friday Free-Style

Bjork Monday night at The Fox was really great, but compared to the other time I saw her at Radio City Music Hall in New York back in 2001, I thought it was a little lacking. Monday night was a little too short, the song selection i thought could have been a little better, and the stage show didn't seem quite as epic, but it is kinda like going to see Micheal Jordan play a basketball game and complaining he only got 30 points. Pitchfork got some really great pics of the show. Here's a little sample if you missed it:



While looking for that, I found this (Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering Bjork's "Hyberballad" at Criminal Records):



Moorish Idols have two hot new tracks, "Saint EOM" and "That's A Moray", on their myspace.

The Echo Project has announced a pre-party Wednesday night October 10th at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga featuring Infected Mushroom.

Jens Lekman will be at the Drunken Unicorn on November 16th.

VHS Or Beta will be at the Earl September 24th.

NPR, in typical awesome NPR fashion, has some concerts you can listen to now:

• The Apples In Stereo
• Andrew Bird
• Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)
• The National
• The Polyphonic Spree

Rage Against The Machine's Zach De La Rocha just finished a solo album that features former The Mars Volta drummer/badass Jon Theodore.

British Sea Power are releasing a new EP called Krankenhaus? in October.

Radiohead are finally releasing their material digitally, but are requiring you to purchase the entire album.

Creative Loafing has a review of the East Atlanta Strut.

Here is the rumored Gutar Hero 3 tracklist.

Check out this video of Thurston Moore previewing his new solo album.

And here's some vids to take you into the weekend:

Battles


Interpol


Les Savy Fav

Videos Of The Day: Lollapalooza 2007

I opted for Pitchfork Fest instead of Lollapalooza this summer for my now atleast yearly fest trip to Chicago, but Lolla was really awesome last year when I went and here's a little video in case you didn't get a taste either this year:

Pearl Jam:



Interpol:



Regina Spektor:



Beatle Bob introducing Yo La Tengo:



Peter Bjorn And John with chick from Silversun Pickups and dude from Apostle Of Hustle:

Friday Free-Style

Saturday night we got a great show for you featuring Passer By and From Exile's last show before going on tour. It's absolutely free, and we got some kegs of free beer for you 21+ kids. Come down and witness the spectacle:



Creative Loafing has a great article on the Atlanta scene blowing up. They also apparently just heard Darkside Of The Moon and just discovered Lenny's.

Interpol will be at Hi-Fi Buys on June 2nd for 99X's Big Day Out. They don't like Youtube. Here's a Youtube video:



Aereogramme are breaking up.

Arcade Fire don't have a beef with file sharing. That's probably because no one would know who they were without it.

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is pissed at his label.

So, I sort of liked the Lily Allen album when I heard it, but I'm really tired of hearing about her in music news and blog sites. If you don't know anything about it you can find lots of stories here, but I recommend avoiding that. In response to her attention-seeking, annoying behavior, Ohmpark will not mention her for the rest of the year (with the exception of reporting on my heckling of her at Bonnaroo).

Kanye West's new album, Graduation, comes out in September.

Word on the street is that there is no more 2Pac material left to make new albums, so we will assume he has finally died.

The new Animal Collective album, Strawberry Jam, comes out in September.

Pink Floyd played at a Syd Barrett memorial concert, but David Gilmour and Roger Waters were never together on stage.

You can stream the new Dungen album, Tio Bitar, here.

The new Nile record, Ithyphallic, is due out in July.

Smashing Pumpkins have finally announced who will be in the band. Here's the new album cover:



Here's Wilco on David Letterman:



UNEARTH have parted ways with their drummer.

Cee-lo and Danger Mouse have another Gnarls Barkley album coming out in the fall.

Girl Talk has quit his day job.

Sunset Rubdown's new album, Random Spirit Lover, comes out in October.

Snoop Dogg will be on an episode of HBO's Entourage in July.

Neurosis has new album coming out called Given To The Rising, and you can stream it and watch a short documentary on the making of it here.

Interviews for your reading pleasure:

• Modest Mouse
• Love Of Diagrams
• Wilco
• !!!
• Hold Steady
• Mew
• The National

Bright Eyes will be at The Fox Theatre tonight, so here's some videos:





Over thirty minute performance on KCRW: