What Up In The ATL?

Sunday I went to The Earl for Dunch and caught The Jupiter Watts doing a really nice, chill performance:





Check out this video of Mastodon in the studio working on their follow up album to 2006's Blood Mountain:



Deerhunter are doing a show in New York this weekend where they will play the new album they are currently recording, Microcastle, in its entirety. I really hope they do the same thing here in the A soon.

The Lasch will be at Lenny's tonight.

Tomorrow night the place to be is The Drunken Unicorn for HEALTH, Club Of Rome, and One Hand Loves The Other.



HEALTH : Triceratops


Club of Rome : Let's Go USA


Thursday night you can catch Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) at The Variety Playhouse or go local and check out The Howlies, The Orphins, and The Hotpipes at The Earl.



The Orphins : Camp Cryotop


Colin Meloy : We Both Go Down Together


Friday night I highly recommend going to the This Piano Plays Itself CD release party at Under The Couch. I can't wait to hear their album.



This Piano Plays Itself : There Are Segments Of Revolving


And Sunday night is the Explosions In The Sky show at The Variety Playhouse. The originally scheduled show is sold out, but they added an afternoon show that same day, so go get your tickets before it sells out too.

There are some cool DIY shows going this week too if you like house parties:

141 Moreland Ave is hosting Pool Party, P. S. Elliot, Bandolier!, it's Elephant's, Wrister Tuesday night.

I Can Fly House is hosting Capsule, Furnace, Fag Static, The Sunglasses Wednesday night.

What Up In The ATL?

This is an incredible week for live shows in the A. Get it started with the trailer to the upcoming documentary on the Atlanta music scene We Fun (this looks awesome!):

Official WE FUN Trailer


The Gaye Blades (featuring Jared Swiley from the Black Lips) will be at The Drunken Unicorn tonight with Coffin Bound and Mammals.

Wednesday night RJD2 is at the Variety Playhouse. I caught him last year at about this time and I didn't really dig it. So if you're smart, you'll go local and check out The Good Moods, The Hotels and Goodnight Mush. at The Drunken Unicorn:



The Good Moods : Jericho


The Good Moods : Old Jersey Trees



Thursday night the Free ISP/Pine Magazine showcase at The Star Bar is the place to be:



Lovesick Scientist is Justin Sias (Elevado) produced by Brian Slusher (Slushco). Go Listen!

A Fight To The Death : Old Black Chains


Cassavettes : My Heart Your Beat



Friday night I'm going to the 11:11 Teahouse to catch 13 Day Mission, Beatrix Kiddo, and Miles From Pangea. I'm working on a piece about these great bands that will be out in the next couple days and I highly recommend checking this one out:




Saturday night is an ATL superstar supernight:

Enon, Howlin Rain, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Nomen Novem (featuring members of Moorish Idols) are at The Drunken Unicorn.

The Mourdella (Jessica Juggz's band) CD Release show with Chopper (featuring Colin Mee of Deerhunter), The Coathangers and West End Motel (featuring Brett Hinds of Mastodon and Tom Cheshire of All Night Drug Prowling Wolves) is at The Earl. Looks like Tom Cheshire is gonna have a busy night.

Mourdella : Brink Of Catastrophie


Mourdella : 'Til You Bleed


You can cap off your week with Dunch (the Sunday brunch/dinner) at The Earl featuring The Jupiter Watts doing a low-key set.

Jupiter Watts : Felix (1/4/2008 version)



Damn, the ATL is just too fun!

What Up In The ATL?

This show is close to selling out and will be awesome, so go buy tickets now:



Other cool things going on:









Yeasayer : No Need to Worry


MGMT : Time to Pretend


The Lord Is My Shotgun : Get Some


Drug Rug : Winter Time



And don't forget our One Year Anniversary party going on Saturday night!

Home Park Festival 2007

November 3rd, 2007 we will have some of our favourite Atlanta artists for you to see in a beautiful outdoor setting for free. We've worked hard to put together a line-up were very proud of. This year, Home Park Fest will have two stages to maximize the rock. The Jupiter Watts and Slow Motion Crash have each dropped an amazing album this year. This Piano Plays Itself is an upcoming band with Home Park roots. Ohmpark favs Parade returns for their second Home Park Fest appearance. Critically-acclaimed Jamie Radford will bring his special brew of electronic music and hip-hop to the fest. Pool Partiers Club Awesome will bring the awesomeness. Home Park's most badass band, From Exile, will be performing a special acoustic, instrumental set unlike any they have done before. Finally, one of my personal favs, Moorish Idols, will close out the fun filled day. We hope to see you down in our 'hood for this absolutely free fest and tell your friends!

ATLien Bulletins

Jordan Jefferes of Atlanta's Snowden is moving up to Chicago to write their next album. He's looking for some support via their myspace:

t's crazy what some people will do to break writer's block. Kidding. Well, it's partially true. The second record needs to be ace and I need to rustle my feathers. After years of trying to break the seal and try another city I'm finally going to do it, or at least try to. I have a place lined up in Logan Square. What I need from you is the following.
- a job, part time, bartending preferred but boy would I love to get out of the service industry(resume and writing samples upon request)
- someplace to park my tiny trailer (got a driveway in the burbs?)
- junk furniture, your trash is my trea....well, it will keep my clothes off the floor
- advice - what are your favorite spots? bars, coffee, diners, scenic spots, museums, massage parlors...
- drummers, if I could take Chandler with me I would. He could saute you with his skillz. However, I may need some work done here and there and I can't afford first class plane tix every time I need a disco high hat line.

Hit me back with your contact info and I will shower you with praise and pats on the head when I arrive.

Snowden Myspace

Snowden : Anti Anti : Between The Rent And Me


Here's my pick for local show of the week:



Lenny's is brewing up a festival in November:



Shows worth looking into this week:

Animal Collective at Variety Playhouse Wednesday

Auditioning Alice at Vinyl Thursday

Rilo Kiley at Variety Playhouse Saturday


Animal Collective : Strawberry Jam : Peacebone


Rilo Kiley : Under The Blacklight : The Moneymaker


Auditioning Alice:

This Weekend I'll See You In The A

In addition to our free beer and great music Saturday night, there is a lot of cool stuff going on in the city. Thursday night The Other Sound Festival begins at the Drunken Unicorn with Moresight, Pistolero, Mary O. Harrison, and Envie. Friday night it continues at The Earl with Allnightdrugprowlingwolves, Lay Down Mains, The Press, The Yum yum Tree, Citified, and Fernadina. The Coathangers CD release party is at The Star Bar Friday night. If you're more hippy than hipster, Dark Star Orchestra are at the Variety Playhouse Friday night. If none of those strike your fancy there is The Pendletons, Auditioning Alice, Sonen, and The Sea Lions at Lenny's.

Saturday night The National, The Rosebuds, and Doveman are at The Variety Playhouse. The Other Sound Festival continues at Lenny's with Luigi, Club Awesome, One Hand Loves The Other, The Orphins, The Jupiter Watts, Novelift, Silent Kids, and Disassemble. Another big show Saturday night is The Close's final show at the Earl with The Liverhearts and Teen Wheat. Remember, even if you go catch one of the other great shows of the night, our party will be going late so come over for the afterparty.

Sunday The Jupiter Watts are playing the dunch at The Earl and The other Sound Festival ends at 11:11 Teahouse with Untied States, Tenth To The Moon, Jeff Evans, and Batata Doce.

The Press : Noxious Saucy Beast : Trade Blows


One Hand Loves The Other : One Hand Loves The Other : Tortoise


Untied States : Retail Detail : Immaculate


Luigi : Found On The Forest Floor : Mariposa


The Rosebuds : The Night Of The Furies : I Better Run


The Jupiter Watts : Jupiter Watts : Hello

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

ATLiens for today:

Antic Clay



Antic Clay, aka Michael Bradley, is the former front man of Atlanta Gothic Country band MYSSOURI. I've been jamming this incredible double disc constantly since getting a copy. Hilarious Death Blues is a really stand out album of 2007 to me mostly because it takes a genre I have little interest in and enthralls me. Almost every song on this hour and a half plus piece of work is gold:

• Look Down The Dark Barrel
  
• Thousand Star Hotel
  
• Filthy Lucre King
  

Antic Clay Myspace

Buy Hilarious Death Blues here


Jupiter Watts



The Jupiter Watts' newest release, their self-titled LP, is a big step up for these guys. The more I listen to this album, the more I love it. You can tell how much attention to detail they put into every song. Check it out:

• Travel Without Sound
• Bikini Attol
  

Jupiter Watts Myspace

Buy Jupiter Watts here


Parade



The newest release from one of my favourite Atlanta bands, The Answer Me EP, sees this bands continuing to realize its amazing potential. Beautiful songwriting plus brilliant execution. If you've yet to look into this 4-piece, now is the time.

• That's Hott
  

Parade Myspace

Buy Answer Me here


Go see these artists in the ATL:

Parade will be at ISP Space August 24th
Jupiter Watts will be at Lenny's September 8th
Antic Clay will be at The Earl September 28th

The Other Sound Festival

Check this out:

Atlanta, GA, August 1, 2007 – The third-annual Other Sound Music
Festival expands this year to include four nights of live music at
Atlanta's leading independent music venues. Festival organizers
announced the lineup for the festival featuring over 20 bands from six
Atlanta-based labels. The festival takes place September 6-9, 2007.

Headlining acts include All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, at the Earl;
Moresight, at the Drunken Unicorn; Luigi, at Lenny's and Untied States
at the 11:11 Teahouse.

"We feel like the festival will be highlighted by live acts," said
ISP-Music's Eric Holder, "Club Awesome's rock and roll pool parties
are becoming legendary as well as Moresight's shows which end up
feeling more like a revival than a concert."

Once again organizers opted not to include any bands that played the
previous year, hoping to focus on exposing attendees to music they may
not have heard before. "We just thought including the same bands from
last year would defeat our purpose, plus it keeps our Other Sound
sampler CDs more relevant," noted Kim Ware, festival founder and
owner/operator of Eskimo Kiss Records and Conundrum Booking.

While only three years young, The Other Sound Festival already has a
history of exposing audiences to some of the best music in the area.
Past acts include Deerhunter and Snowden, who have catapulted into the
national scene through performances at SXSW and features on MTV.
Ultrababyfat, who garnered national success in the nineties, played
last year to promote their first release in five years (on local indie
Two Sheds Music).

Participating labels include Eskimo Kiss Records, Two Sheds Music,
ISP-Music, Goodnight Records, Passive Aggressive Network and
Containment Theory Records, along with local booking agency Conundrum
Booking. For more information visit http://theothersound.net.

The 2007 Other Sound Schedule (subject to change):


Thursday, Sept. 6 @ Drunken Unicorn
9:30 PM – Envie
10:15 – Mary O. Harrison
11:00 – Pistolero
12:00 - Moresight

Friday, Sept. 7 @ The EARL
8:45 PM – Fernandina
9:40 – Citified
10:20 – The Yum Yum Tree (side stage)
11:00 – The Press
11:40 – Lay Down Mains (side stage)
12:20 – All Night Drug Prowling Wolves

Saturday, Sept. 8 @ Lenny's
8 PM – No Disassemble (side stage)
8:35 – Silent Kids (main stage)
9:10 – Novelift (side stage)
9:45 – The Jupiter Watts (main stage)
10:20 – The Orphins (side stage)
11:00 – One Hand Loves the Other (main stage)
11:45 – Club Awesome (side stage)
12:30 – Luigi (main stage)

Sunday, Sept. 9 @ 11:11 Teahouse
7 PM – Jeff Evans
7:45 – Batata Doce
8:30 – Tenth to the Moon
9:30 – Untied States

Corndogorama = Hells Yeah

This is probably Atlanta's best music festival and I really wish they would not have scheduled it the same weekend as Pitchfork Fest, but oh well, I'll at least go tonight. I'm interested to see what it will be like for the first time at the new Lenny's. For those of you going to this, here's what i suggest you don't miss:

I'm not very familiar with most of Thursday's line-up but Friday, make sure you go see Parade at 6pm or The Coathangers at 10pm. Saturday is an incredible line-up. Be sure to get there 12:30 pm to catch DJ Klever. 2pm go see Slow Motion Crash and at 2:30pm don't miss The Orphins. At 6:15pm check out Zoroaster and 7pm brings the biggest conflict of the fest between Untied States and The Preakness. One Hand Loves The Other hits the stage at 10:30pm and at 11:30pm be sure to see The Selmanaires and Snowden back-to-back. On Sunday, be sure to get there by 3pm to see Moorish Idols. You should check out Tenth To The Moon at 4pm and the Jupiter Watts at 5pm. And of course Atlanta's biggest band right now, Mastodon, closes out the corn dogs at 9:30pm.

Get more info at the Corndogorama site.

Here's some videos to get you in the mood: See you tonight!

A Weekend In The A (featuring Sebadoh, Snowden, From Exile, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba)

Last weekend I tried to hit up as many different shows as possible. First, i went and checked out the Snowden and Selmanaires show at Rob's House (Records). Rob's House was just some dude's house in East Atlanta. They had a keg for people to drink and a tiny basement where the bands played to a tightly packed crowd of 30-50. The show time said 3pm, but i got there at 5pm and was still able to catch the end of The Selmanaires set. Snowden played next and rocked the basement out. I really like the idea of taking a typical keg party, adding some great bands and doing it early in the afternoon. Good stuff.


Snowden in Rob's Basement

After hitting some bars up and taking a smoke break at my house to listen to an album or two, i headed to the Earl to catch the Jupiter Watts show. i stayed for an hour and pretty sure i didn't see the Jupiter Watts but was way too drunk at this point to concentrate on doing a good review, so I'll have to come and see them again. I made it back to my neighborhood and hung out with the boys in From Exile late night as they did a mini-acoustic set:





In May, From Exile is going on tour on the east coast and Ohmpark will be taking it on the road with them chronicling this journey. We will have more details on that as soon as the tour is completely booked, but it is going to be a fiasco and I hope our non-ATL readers will come check them out. They just purchased an old prisoner transport van for the trip:



On Sunday i finally got a chance to check out the ISP Space. I have to say that i like it. It is very small, but the concept and the vibe are great. I had no idea who any of the bands playing were before i went, but i was very impressed with two of them. Lid Emba is Sean Moore playing on drum machines, a drum set, and a synth. Really cool ambient, noise, experimental electronic stuff. He closed with a really interesting mash-up/reinterpretation of Black Sabbath's War Pigs, and despite being one of the most over-covered songs of all time, it was still stunning. I got a copy of his debut album, Reason Isn't Radar, and after an initial listen, I really like it.



Next up was Tenth To The Moon. This three piece consisted of two older gentleman on bass and keys, and some crazy kid fronting the band switching around from vocals, to drums, to drum machines. I guess on a broad scale I would call it experimental noise-dance. At one point the vocalist pulls out a huge metal shield that is plugged into the sound system that he beats to death with his drum sticks. Really good music and a very entertaining live show that you should check out.





I finally made my way over to Sebadoh at the Variety Playhouse just in time for Lou and the boys to come on. I'm not very familiar with Sebadoh, but they were really good. An enjoyable relic of the '90s. I have to say I enjoyed seeing Lou Barlow solo or Dinosaur Jr much more, but it was cool to see another manifestation.

Friday Free-Style

Late edition because I got uber-drunk last night dancing like a fool at East Side Lounge. I highly recommend you go there on a Thursday night and check out the Rare Form DJ Crew. Saturday night I'll be checking out the Jupiter Watts CD Release show at the Earl. Cable And Tweed has a good article on them complete with mp3s.

The Police are talking about maybe doing an album. This video should make you laugh:



Sebadoh is at the Variety Playhouse Sunday night. Read up.

Seattle's September festival Bumbershoot has announced a partial line-up including The Shins and The Wu-tang Clan. I have to say compared to the ba-jillion other festival line-ups this year its pretty weak.

Wilco will be in Atlanta at Chastain Amphitheatre on June 19th right after playing Bonnaroo. The new album, Sky Blue Sky, comes out May 14th and is all over the Internet right now. Low will be opening for them.

Keith Richards snorted his father.

Pearl Jam have officially confirmed they will be headlining Lollapalooza. Here's some videos:







REM talk about the new album they are about to make.

Super Furry Animals have new album out in August.

TV On The Radio's Daivd Sitek is producing the new Massive Attack album.

Queens Of The Stonage new album is due out by July.

Perpetual Groove, The Whigs, and The Drive-By Truckers are headlining Athfest is Athens, Ga June 20th-24th. They will announce full line-up soon.

Man Man is touring with Modest Mouse and they will both be here on May 5 at the Masquerade.

How about a GWAR video:



Check out this new website for the new Porcupine Tree album.

James Iha is officially ruled out of the Smashing Pumpkins reunion stuff.

Mattias Gustavsson of Dungen is releasing a solo album on April 17th.

CocoRosie will be at the Masquerade on May 10th.

Andrew Bird is touring but the closest to Atlanta he will get is Nashville, TN.

Interviews:

• Bright Eyes
• The Decemberists
• Thermals
• Dean And Britta
• Peter Bjorn And John
• Shearwater
  

The Decemberists are at the Tabernacle tonight so i will leave you with some Decemberists videos: