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":

Monday Mash-Up

Here's a snippet of that new, new Outkast:

Da Art of Storytellin' Part 4


Cool shows I recommend checking out this week:

Tuesday:

MJQ CONCOURSE: aesop rock, black moth super rainbow, dj signify 21+ (http://www.tightbros.net - get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)

Variety Playhouse: of montreal, grand buffet

Wednesday:

DRUNKEN UNICORN: prefuse 73, voice of the seven woods, blank blue 18+ 9:00PM (http://www.thedrunkenunicorn.net - get tickets at http://www.ticketalternative.com or at Criminal Records)


The Fiery Furnaces are awesome and here's a new vid:



It looks like My Bloody Valentine is really going to do this reunion thing.

Acid Mother Temple will be at the Earl on March 20th.

New Orleans' Jazz Fest has announced a few headliners (The Neville Brothers, Tim McGraw, and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly) and some dates(April 25th-June 4th). Full line-up announcement will come next year.

The White Stripes and Beck are working together on some stuff.

I just got hipped to Next To Last Festival in Athens, Ga in a few weeks and it looks interesting.

Sigur Ros are working on another album.

See what Animal Collective are cooking up for 2008.

Some more vids:

Grizzly Bear:



Division Day:



Phosphorescent (Live at The Earl):



Castanets:



Iron And Wine covering Radiohead at Pitchfork Fest:



Soulsavers:



Akron Family:

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Today's theme: From Old-school folk to Nu-school dope

Iron And Wine



Iron And Wine's 2005 EP Woman King was one of those rare EPs that are so good you forget it is not a full-length album. He hit a stride in his songwriting that produced purely beautiful, perfect songs and the question was whether this was a peak moment or whether Sam Beam could continue on in this fuller, more engaging type of stuff as opposed to his earlier, quieter folk songs. With his third LP, The Shepherd's Dog, he has proved that Woman King was no fluke and that he is wholly capable of producing top-notch tunes in bulk. Check it out yourself:

Carousel


Lovesong Of The Buzzard


Iron And Wine's Myspace

Buy The Shepherd's Dog Here


Soulsavers



The British production and remixing team of Rich Machin and Ian Glover's second album, It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land, has been in my heavy rotation lately and it should be in yours as well. Featuring Screaming Trees' Mark Lanegan on vocals all over it, it's a great album that sort of feels like a more folksy and bluesy version of The Cinematic Orchestra. The opening track "Revival" is such an epic and gorgeous song:

Revival


Paper Money


Soulsavers' Myspace

Buy It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land Here


Phosphorescent



I just listened to Pride last night for the first time and was blown away by how awesome this album is. Typically I let a new album marinate in my brain for a little while before I talk about it here, but I felt the short release sort of reminded me a lot of Iron And Wine in a more indie-rock way and when I experience a rare amazing first listen I have to pass it on. Phosphorescent is Athens, Ga native Matthew Houck and is someone that I did not know about until now but will be looking into deeply. Check it:

Wolves


A Picture Of Our Torn up Praise



Phosphorescent Myspace

Buy Pride Here


Castanets



Another great band i've just recently got turned on to is Castanets, aka Raymond Raposa plus revolving cast. The psychedelic folk action on their latest release, In The Vines, is a challenging but vastly rewarding listen that I like more and more every time I jam it. There's something so cool about taking such a conservative sound such as folk and pushing the limits of experimental with it.

Rain Will Come


Three Months Paid


Castanets Myspace

Buy In The Vines Here

Friday Free-Style

Listen up, I got a bunch of time sensitive info for you. If it currently before 10am as you read this, it is your last chance to buy Bjork tickets. The Klaxons are even opening.



Queens Of The Stone Age are going to be at The Tabernacle September 22nd. Tickets go presale today at 10am and officially go on sale tommorrow at 10am.

More tickets that go on sale today at 10am:

• The New Pornographers at the Variety Playhouse October 30th
• Rilo Kiley at the Variety Playhouse September 29th
• Stars at the Variety Playhouse October 27th
  

If you got tickets to the Smashing Pumpkins shows at the Fox, You are twice as lucky because Explosions In The Sky are opening.

If you didn't get tickets for that, there's Of Montreal doing a halloween show in their hometown of Athens, Ga at the 40 Watt. I can't find tickets online yet, but you'll want to jump on them quick because this will definetly sellout.

The Coathangers are releasing their debut album September 4th.

Behold, the album cover to the new The Mars Volta record due out this year!



Les Savy Fav have an new album hitting stores September 18th.

Aesop Rock will be at the Masquerade on November 20th.

Deerhoof will be opening for Bloc Party in Nasheville, TN September 25th. Aw yeah, a Deerhoof video:



Weird new Blonde Redhead video:



Spoon on the Late Show:



Rilo Kiley video:



Iron And Wine covers Radiohead at Pitchfork Fest:



The White Stripes played a "one-note gig" in Canada. Yeah, check it out.

Interviews:

• My Brightest Diamond
• Spoon
• Stars
• St. Vincent
• Sonic Youth
• The Decemberists

I leave you today with a The Besnard Lakes video:

Friday Free-Style

We start today with a video of The Smashing Pumpkins comeback show:



I never covered the Pitchfork Fest additions of Mastodon, Junior Boys, Voxtrot, Cadence Weapon, Brightblack Morning Light, The Field, Cool Kids, and William Parker Quartet. Now with the combination of a night with legendary artists performing some of the best albums ever written and two days of the people making the very best albums of the last 2 years, I think musically this is by far the best festival of the year. On top of that, it is only 50 bucks for three days so it is also the greatest bargain of the year. I often have my quips with Pitchfork's opinions but they sure nailed this line-up. Here it is in case you forgot:

Friday, July 13:

Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation
GZA/Genius performs Liquid Swords
Slint perform Spiderland

Saturday, July 14:

Yoko Ono
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/ members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72, and Blues Explosion)
Clipse
Mastodon
Iron and Wine
Battles
Grizzly Bear
Voxtrot
Califone
The Twilight Sad
Girl Talk
Dan Deacon
Oxford Collapse
Professor Murder
Fujiya & Miyagi
Beach House
William Parker Quartet
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15:

De La Soul
The New Pornographers
Of Montreal
Stephen Malkmus
Jamie Lidell
The Sea and Cake
Junior Boys
Menomena
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Klaxons
The Field
Cadence Weapon
The Cool Kids
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic
Nomo
Brightblack Morning Light
Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra

Anybody you don't recognize on that list, you should look into immediately. More info on Pitchfork Fest here. We will be there and you should too.

The hometown fest that is still the most fun of the decade, Bonnaroo, has announced its cinema tent schedule.

The New Pornographers have a new track floating around the internets: My Rights Versus Yours

Ween releases a new EP, The Friends EP, on June 8th.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are looking for a drummer to sub-in for their European tour.

Creative Loafing did a cover story on Atlanta blogs this week and profiled our friends over at Cable And Tweed. Props for repping the B's in da A.

It's been a busy week for me and I don't have that much news for you, so I'll hit you with a bunch of vids:

Here's a Cat Power on Jolls Holland:



Here's a Califone video:



Here's an Iron And Wine video:



Ween live:



Here's the new Voxtrot video:



Here's Arcade Fire covering a Clinic song:



And I leave you with a De La Soul video that will get you through your day:

Live Show: Iron & Wine (2-8-2007)

He does some new songs:

Iron & Wine
2007-02-08
The Pabst Theater; Milwaukee, WI, US

Taped By: Matt Krueger and Kevin Kohl

Tracked and Edited By: Matt Krueger

Source: Soundboard > FM > Sony CFS-200 > 1/8th inch stereo analog cable > M-Audio Revolution Soundcard > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 > CD Wave 1.94.5 > FLAC Level 8 (Trader's Little Helper 1.1.1)

Tracklist:
01 - (DJ Intro)
02 - Die
03 - He Lays In The Reins
04 - Sodom, South Georgia
05 - (Talking)
06 - Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car
07 - Lovesong Of The Buzzard
08 - Free Until They Cut Me Down
09 - (DJ Break/Talking)
10 - House By The Sea
11 - Naked As We Came
12 - Peace Beneath The City
13 - Muddy Hymnal
14 - Boy With A Coin
15 - Jezebel
16 - Carousel
17 - (DJ Break/Talking)
18 - Resurrection Fern
19 - The Trapeze Swinger
20 - (Crowd Noise/Talking)
21 - Upward Over The Moutain
22 - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
23 - (DJ Outro)

Download Lossless Torrent Here