Langerado 2008 Day 1: Thursday

We stayed in St. Pete Beach Wednesday night to make our Thursday traveling a bit shorter. After getting to the exit around 1pm, We heard a rumour that it was taking over 4 hours waiting in line to enter the festival grounds at the last stop gas station that was bustling with activity. It turned out to be more like 2 hours, which wasn't too bad considering everyone had to go down a one-lane road.











We hurried to set up camp fast as there were very dark thunder clouds closing in. We just barely had enough time to get everything up before a torrential downpour soaked everyone and everything. As we navigated around the grounds, we discovered there were many obstacles to watch for like barbed wire fences and cow dung everywhere, so that certainly makes things interesting.





I showed up to Dead Confederate just in time, and they really rocked out. This was my first chance to catch the Georgian band, and it was everything I had hoped for. I highly recommend checking out these guys.







After that I joined pretty much every person at the fest for Les Claypool. While I think he is an awesome bassist and Primus is pretty cool, I think I've grown tired of his solo act after seeing it too many times. After a little while of not really enjoying the set, I opted to head back to camp and pound some brews. I came back to catch Dark Star Orchestra and as always, I enjoyed what I heard, before I passed out in the field.

Now it's time to stop blogging and catch some more music.

Torrrents Of The Day: Echo Project

Download some great shows from the fest:

Disco Biscuits 2007-10-12 Echo Project

MMW - 10/12/07 - Echo Project

Umphrey's McGee 2007-10-14 - Echo Project

Thievery Corporation 2007-10-13 Echo Project

Les Claypool's Fancy Trio 2007-10-12 - The Echo Project

Bonnaroo Weekend In The ATL

If you aren't going to the 'roo this weekend, it is still a really great week for shows in Atlanta. Tonight you can see Rush at Hi-Fi Buys, The National at The Earl, or Les Claypool at Variety Playhouse. Thursday night there's a great show at The Earl I highly recommend with Maserati, The Liverhearts, and Good Friday Experiment. Friday night there is a ridiculous amount of great shows. First, Battles, who I've fallen in love with recently, will be at The Drunken Unicorn. That's my pick of the week. But there are three other great shows. Lenny's is hosting The Stills and Go Motion, who we saw and was amazed by earlier this year. The Earl is boasting my new ATL faves Snowden, plus All The Saints and The N.E.C. Then Feist and Grizzly Bear, who we heart, are at The Variety Playhouse. Seriously, if you are not going to Bonnaroo you are required to go to one of those four shows friday night or you will lose mega cool points.

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: