Monday Mash-Up

Kid Rock got arrested Saturday night after his show here in Atlanta at a Dekalb Waffle House for beating up a customer.

Japanese metal experimentalists Boris will be doing a free in-store performance at Criminal Records at 4pm today, and then playing at The Earl tonight. I highly recommend checking them out.

Boris : Pink : Farewell


Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo project) has released a tracklist of the new album due out next year.

Mike Patton will be the voice of Bionic Commando in a video game.

Dinosaur Jr will be in Athens, Ga at The 40 Watt on December 3rd.

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Walla got jacked by US Homeland Security. They confiscated a hard drive he had been using to work on his upcoming solo album.

Band Of Horses had a line-up change.

The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer each have a new album coming out early next year.

Watch the Panda Bear unreleased DVD People Party:

Part 1:



Part 2:



Interview:



Queens Of The Stone Age on Letterman:



Klaxons on Conan:



Here's Tori Amos on Craig Ferguson:



Arsis has finished up their new album due out next year. They will be playing with Enslaved and Atlanta's From Exile on November 2nd at the Masquerade:



You can download an mp3 of Diplo remixing Black Lips "Veni Vidi Vici" here.

While I was at Echo Project, I saw a bunch of flyers for a 99x show with Modest Mouse, Silverchair, and Silversun Pickups on December 16th, but I can find no existence of this on the internets.

Mute Math on Conan:

Pitchfork Music Festival: Day 3/Wrap-Up

The final day started with Deerhunter and I was interested to see what they would do on what was probably one of the biggest crowds they've played to. They brought their A game and Bradford Cox shined on stage. They even got some of Grizzly Bear to jam with them at the end. There's something special about seeing two of the best young bands today teaming up like this and gives me even more optimism about the state of music today. We watched The Ponys from far away and they sounded good with the exception of the entire PA system going down for half of it. Seriously, Pitchfork Fest's sound system seemed to get even worse as the days went on and I've never seen anything like that at a music festival. Next up we watched Menomena put on a really good show. They seemed especially loose and maybe over excited or something but that seemed to work favourably for their sound. This is another band that if you haven't got into yet, i strongly urge you to check them out. The next band I went to see was The Sea And Cake. It was hard for me to believe how bad it was considering how much I like this band. In their defense, the sound system did seem to be especially terrible for their set, but I do not like the direction this band has gone in. The show and the new album both seem like their missing the magic this band used to conjure up. I caught a little bit of Stephen Malkmus playing a solo set. It was good but it's just not exactly my thing. The best show of the day for me was Of Montreal. This band combines art with fun like no other. They did a few new songs, Kevin Barnes wore a few outfits, they even played a little football on stage. I waited a really long time to see Klaxons next. They were good but the weak sound system on the third stage made it seem more underwhelming than it should have. We ended the night watching De La Soul do a solid performance.

Overall, the fest was fairly interesting and a good experience. They must do something about the sound system because it was way too amateur for a festival of this size. I know the ticket prices were low, but if I have to pay another ten or twenty bucks to get to listen to more than the band's monitors for half the shows, it might be a good idea. The actual line-up mostly delivered on the hype, but I think Pitchfork could do a little better job scheduling. The venue was nice but if they want this event to get any bigger they're going to need to relocate. I will say that the security was extremely light and well behaved, and I am always a big fan of that. Overall, Pitchfork Fest gets a thumbs up from me but need to improve some things for next year.

Friday Free-Style

I've been listening to the new Klaxons album a lot lately, so here's their new video:



The Black Lips and The Selmanaires are going on tour together.

Animal Collective will be at the Variety Playhouse on September 26th. Watch Panda Bear live:



Flight Of The Conchords just signed to Subpop and will be releasing an EP soon.

Andrew Bird will be at the Variety Playhouse September 13th.

Super Furry Animals have a new album coming out August 27th.

St. Vincent will be at The Earl July 11th.

Rilo Kiley have a new album coming out August 21st.

Here's a new Arctic Monkeys video:



You can stream the new Queens Of The Stone Age's new album here.

The Bonnaroo superjam will feature Ben Harper, ?uestlove, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. Interesting combination.

Iggy Pop, Jeff Tweedy, Dave Grohl, Frank Black, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be lending their voices to the new comedy central show Lil' Bush.

You can listen to the Deerhunter show at the Whirlyball last week here.

Rage Against The Machine have mysterious countdown clocks on their website.

The new Chemical Brothers album release date is getting pushed back to June 18th.

If you want to hear more Smashing Pumpkins new material, go here.

Patrick Wolf is working on a new album.

Andre 3000 will be playing Sammy Davis Jr in an upcoming movie.

There is a webcast of ISIS's show on june 11th.

Here is some software to use the Guitar Hero guitars to make your own music.

Silverchair will be at The Roxy on July 23rd.

Here's some interviews:

• Feist
• Hold Steady
• Voxtrot
• Beach House
• Sea And Cake
• Tom Morello
• Son Volt
• Grizzly Bear

Here's some vids from Bonnaroo for you:

Andrew Bird:



The Mars Volta:



Radiohead:



Les Claypool:



Ben Harper: