What Up In The ATL?

Deerhunter and Black Lips invade England (photo: Bradford Cox)

Atlas Sound has been in Europe with Animal Collective.

Mastodon's upcoming album is going to be produced by Brendan O'Brien (AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Velvet Revolver).

From Exile is in the studio.

Nophest 4.0 will be taking place November 28th-30th at WonderRoot and Doogallery


Tomorrow night I'm very excited about the sold out Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried And Me, and 3 show going on at The Tabernacle.

Other shows that I recommend this week:

Friday:

Center Stage: Nada Surf
Star Bar: The Preakness, Citified, Yum Yum Tree



Saturday:

Drunken Unicorn: Flowers Forever (featuring members of Tilly And the Wall), The NEC, Club Awesome
WonderRoot: Nana Grizol (featuring members of Neutral Milk Hotel)
Lenny's: Faster Mustache 3 Year Anniversary Party featuring Beachtitti, The Lasch (CD Release)



Opeth : The Lotus Eater


Citified : Weddings


Flowers Forever : Black Rosary


Nana Grizol : Circles 'Round The Moon


Download Beachtitti's summer mix here.

Friday Free-Style

November 30th, The Black Lips, Snowden, Deerhunter, and The Selmanaires will be at the Variety Playhouse together for an epic night of Atlanta music.

The Sword will be at The Earl on December 3rd. Check them:



The much-anticipated-by-me new The Mars Volta album, Bedlam In Goliath, is not going to be released until January 29th of next year. An old school vid for you:



The Langerado Music Festival in Florida, which usually kicks off the festival season, has moved to Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation(most famously known for the place Phish played new years eve 2000) for next year's event taking place March 6th-9th 2008. The line-up announcement and tickets sales are coming in November and we'll hit you with it when it happens. Phish at Big Cypress:



Battles are releasing a new EP, Tonto+, featuring live tracks and and remixes from their stellar full length of this year, Tonto.

Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance will finally be released on DVD, which means that now you have to pay for it instead of downloading it for free on the live music torrent sites.



New Eminem track might be here.

Of Montreal will be at the Variety Playhouse on November 20th. Tickets are on sale today so get them quick because this will sell out.

Opeth and Dream Theater will be touring together in the US next year. No word if their coming here yet. Opeth vid:



White Rabbits will be at The Earl November 6th.

Before playing at the Earl October 22nd, Japan's Boris will be playing at Criminal Records at 4pm in the afternoon. I highly recommend checking them out:



Morrissey will be at The Tabernacle on November 5th.

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to F@ck with, and they cleared the first ever Beatles sample.

Read about the guy who makes crazy-ass guitars for Sonic Youth, Liars, Blonde Redhead and Lightning Bolt.

Read some interviews:

• Neil Young
• The Decemberists
• Battles
• Jose Gonzalez
• Devendra Banhart
• Iron And Wine
• Okkervil River

I leave you today with this controversial SNL vid: