Queens Of The Stone Age Cancel Atlanta Date

The Soco Music Experience going down in Centennial Olympic Park next month just got way lamer. Queens Of The Stone Age, who was tapped to headline, have cancelled "Due to circumstances beyong our control". They have been replaced by Against Me!. I will not be attending now. For all of you QOTSA fans that are feeling a little depressed, I'll try to cheer you up with a secret acoustic show they did in 2002. Enjoy:

Band: Queens Of The Stone Age
Venue: Dachstock Reithalle
City: Bern
Country: Switzerland
Date: 18th Of November 2002

Recording: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > ? > Cassette > .Wav > .Shn > .Flac > Dime
Quality: A

Setlist:
01. Mosquito Song

02. Six Shooter

03. Bloody Hammer [Rocky Erickson]

04. Go With The Flow

05. Hangin' Tree

06. Detroit [Mondo Generator]

07. I'm Dead [Desert Sessions 5&6]

08. Gonna Leave You [Spanish Version]

09. Four Corners [Mondo Generator]

10. I Want You To Die [Mondo Generator]

11. First It Giveth

12. All That I Got? [Lanegan?]

13. Like A Drug [Desert Sessions 5&6]

14. No One Knows

15. On Jesus` Program [Lanegan]

16. Auto Pilot

17. You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory [Johnny Thunders]

18. Another Love Song

19. Better Living Through Chemistry

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:

I Heart The A

Not much blogging over the long weekend while I was out enjoying the beautiful weather and sweet events. I spent alot of time in East Atlanta including the East Atlanta Strut and the Go Funk Yourself uber-house party. The really fun weekend is mostly a blur to me and I don't have much objective journalism for you, so here's some tunes from some of the artists I might have seen:

Parade : Answer Me : Lunch Lady


Anna Kramer : Anna Kramer : I Can't Take It


Elevado : This World Is On Fire : Postcard From Four Walls Down


Howlies : Howlies : Angeline




This week is fairly enormous for great shows. Tonight I'm going to see Bjork and Klaxons at the Fox. Diplo is going to be at MJQ tonight too. Wednesday night at Lenny's is Zoroaster's CD release party featuring Daath. Wednesday night is also the beginning of Atlantis Music Conference, Atlanta's answer to South By Southwest. Thursday night John Vanderslice and Bishop Allen will be at The Earl. Pretty much every venue in town has an interesting show Friday night but i like the Eyedrum show with Vietnam, Random Violets, Subliminator, and Tree Creature. Saturday night is just ridiculous. Do Make Say Think and Atlanta's Moorish Idols are going to be at The Earl. Queens Of The Stone Age are at The Tabernacle. Girl Talk and Dan Deacon are at MJQ. Then Sunday night The Apples In Stereo will be playing for free at Piedmont Park(Park Tavern).

Bjork : Volta : Wanderlust


Queens Of The Stone Age : Era Vulgaris : I'm Designer


Zoroaster : Dog Magic : Brazen Bull


Do Make Say Think : You, You're A History In Rust : In Mind


Girl Talk : Night Ripper : Give And Go


Moorish Idols : Moorish Idols : Fer-De-Lance

Friday Free-Style

Grizzly Bear, one of my favourite bands these days, is releasing an EP called Friend on November 6th. The ten track EP features a collaboration with Beirut's Zach Condon and Grizzly Bear covers by Band Of Horses, CSS, and Atlanta's own Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter). Here's a The Crystals cover on the EP:

Grizzly Bear : Friends : He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)


Menomena have a new video out:



Led Zeppelin reunion rumours are growing traction.

Creative Loafing reviews the new Black Lips album out on Tuesday. Remember you can still preorder it from Criminal Records and go to the release show that night at MJQ.

A couple of Home Park bands, From Exile and The Lasch, are playing the Faster Moustache's 24 hour urban bicycle race this weekend. Some live FE:



The Pipettes will be at Vinyl on October 16th.

So i just finished the first season of Showtime's Weeds and I like it alot. Here is The Shins' James Mercer covering the Weeds theme song.

Wanna know where hip-hop is these days? 50 cent and Kanye West are going to have a debate on BET about who has a better album with play-by-play from ESPN's Stuart Scott next Tuesday when their albums come out. I'm not making this up.

The Klaxons, after winning some prize that I don't really care about but everyone on the internet seems to, are working on a new album.

Here's Amy Winehouse performing at the Mercury Awards (that prize that the Klaxons won):



Built To Spill are awesome and here's an interview.

More interviews:

• Midlake
• Okkervil River
• The National
• Devendra Banhart
• Akron/Family
• Bloc Party
• The Go! Team

Here's some Queens Of The Stone Age vids to get your weekend rocking:

Friday Free-Style

Mastodon will rock the Tabernacle Saturday May 26th with Against Me! and Cursive. Tickets go on sale tommorrow at 10am . Here's a Cursive Video:



Damien Rice will be at the Tabernacle on May 30th.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are working on a new project according to frontwoman Caren O. I've heard rumors that Deerhunter is involved and that is why they cancelled their shows last weekend, but I have no evidence.

Beck's drummer, Matt Sherrod, has joined Crowded House.

The NAACP says that Bono cares about black people.

Some Guns 'n' Roses fan website has shut down in protest to the new album getting delayed. I can't believe there are still GNR fansites.

On the reunion tip, Michael Jackson is trying to put the Jackson 5 back togther.

The hot rumor is that Shea Stadium will be a location for Al Gore's Live Earth concert.

Ben Folds is doing a college campus tour, but is not hitting any in Georgia.

Roger Waters wants to play with the rest of the boys in the Floyd. Come on Dave! He's reaching out dammit!

Riding high on the reunion bandwagon, Genesis is touring the US, but nowhere near here.

Watch Queens Of The Stone Age in the studio working on the new album:



Lightning Bolt are touring the US, minus the south. They're doing a show in New York in two weeks with Marnie Stern. I bet that will be a helluva show.

Joanna Newsom new EP info.

Iron And Wine have a new album due out in September.

Here's a track off of Bright Eyes' new album due out April 10th: No One Would Riot
Bright Eyes will be at the Fox Theater May 18th.

Here's a track off of The Rosebuds' new album due out April 10th: Get Up Get Out
The Rosebuds will be playing with Beach House sunday night at the earl. I can't wait.

West Virginia's All Good Fest has announced their line-up. Notably Rat Dog, Les Claypool, Dark Star Orchestra, and STS9.

Lollapalooza sold some $60 secret tickets yesterday that I tried to get unsuccessfully for like 3 hours. Official tickets go on sale April 4th and the line-up gets revealed afterwards supposedly.

I'm gonna break down the Bonnaroo artist addition and schedule times rumors over the weekend so stay tuned.

Blues Traveler's John Popper got arrested for marijuana.

SXSW is so big, there's a festival in Lousiana that's theme is being a gas station and lodging stop on the way to SXSW. Really good line-up for a spring break stop.

It looks like Tool drummer Danny Carey is cool, and they've rescheduled their tour before Bonnaroo, so the Bonnaroo date looks like it's still on.

Lots 'o interviews:

• Iggy Pop
• REM
• Hold Steady
• Rosebuds
• Menomena
• Feist
• Xiu Xiu

Friday is a good day for a !!! video. From the new album: