What Up In The ATL?

There are a ton of good shows this weekend, so we will list them:

Tonight:

The Drunken Unicorn: Slow Motion Crash, Ringo Deathstar, Siberia My Sweet
I Can Fly House: The Gunshy, Mustangs And Madras, Thy Mighty Contract, Hawks
The Earl: The Preakness, Dylan Kight And The Nigtbirds, Long Knives
The Star Bar: The Carbonas, The NEC (Free show)

Friday:

The Drunken Unicorn: Morning State, De Novo Dahl, Sleep Therapy
Star Bar: Dead Confederate, Ski Club, Ocha La Rocha, Twin Tigers
The Tabernacle: Regina Spektor
141 Moreland Ave: Young Livers, Benard, 40 Hells
Lenny's: Sonen, Judi Chicago, The Modern Society
Decatur Social Club: The Rare Form DJ Crew

Saturday:

The Earl: Beach House, Papercuts, The Meeks Family
Variety Playhouse: Dark Star Orchestra
Drunken Unicorn: Joe Lally (Fugazi), Edie Sedgwick, Martyr & Pistol
Under The Couch: The Ataris

Sunday:

Variety Playhouse: Jose Gonzalez
141 Moreland Ave: Ghost Mice, Wrister, The Riot Before, Witt Wisebram
The Five Spot: Rev Rebel, The Ropes (featuring former drummer of The Mars Volta Blake Fleming), Hawkeye Pierce

Videos Of The Day: Lollapalooza 2007

I opted for Pitchfork Fest instead of Lollapalooza this summer for my now atleast yearly fest trip to Chicago, but Lolla was really awesome last year when I went and here's a little video in case you didn't get a taste either this year:

Pearl Jam:



Interpol:



Regina Spektor:



Beatle Bob introducing Yo La Tengo:



Peter Bjorn And John with chick from Silversun Pickups and dude from Apostle Of Hustle:

Videos Of The Day: Bonnaroo 2007

Check 'em out:

Wilco:



White Stripes:



Regina Spektor:



More White Stripes:



The Police:



Ben Harper w/ John Paul Jones:



Superjam:



Ratdog:

Friday Free-Style

There's a whole bunch of stuff going on in Atlanta this weekend. The Inman Park Festival is always a good time. I'll definitely be checking out the Space Rock Con 2007. Silent Kids, The Preakness, and Mary O. Harrison at Lenny's will be a great Friday night show. No matter what you do this weekend, make sure to record the Henry Rollins Show on IFC tonight because The Mars Volta will be performing some kick ass stuff you can check out here. In fact, you should watch this amazing performance in its 47 minute entirety, Live At the Lowlands (aka one of the best DVD Bootlegs I Own):



Seriously, if you didn't watch that TMV video, you are missing out.

Pitchfork Fest, aka the Best American Festival of the Year, just added Califone, The Sea And Cake, Yoko Ono, and some bands i don't recognize. Chicago gets some killer fests.

The awesome Coachella Festival kicks off today. I wish I could have gone because the two I went to before were amazing. The hotel in the desert that I paid to stay in before tickets sold out keeps calling me and it's annoying. I'll be checking out the webcast as you should. I've watched several fests on webcast and they are pretty cool. Remember when you're wasted late night, go to your computer and watch Sonic Youth and Bjork. You won't be disappointed.

If you want to know the latest in American festival news, Live Music Blog has you covered.

The Raconteurs are making another album.

Here's a teaser for the Marc Benevento (of the Benevento-Russo Duo) album of his month long run at New York City's Tonic featuring a plethora of other great artists. Check it:



May 8th is Grateful Dead Day.

Creative Loafing talks about "Art Mondays" at Apache Cafe.

You can stream the new Dntel album at here.

Here's a really cool top 25 all-time hip-hop records list. Outkast's ATLiens is number one on it. No surprise. Watch why:





Spinal Tap is getting in on the reunion craze.

Dave Grohl talks about the new Foo Fighters album.

Snoop Dogg has been banned from Australia.

Willie Nelson avoided jailtime from his marijuana charge.

Ween is finishing up a new album.

VBS has a some great videos documenting Norgwegian Black Metal.

Here's Amy Winehouse on the Tonight Show this week:



Here's Regina Spektor on the Late Show last Friday:



I'll leave you today with this portion of the movie Coffee & Cigarettes featuring RZA, GZA, and Bill Murray. I love this:



Beware Of That Serious Delirium

Bonnaroo Preview: Cold War Kids, Regina Spektor

Leading up to America's greatest music festival of this decade, we will highlight some of the lesser known acts on the bill to help you decide who to see. If you haven't bought a ticket to Bonnaroo yet, get on it.


Cold War Kids


Cold War Kids are a California band that do the indie-rock blues thing. Here's some songs from a live show in Paris last month:

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• Track 4
• Track 5
• Track 6

To download this torrent: Cold War Kids_ La Cigale_ 02-12-2007 FM

For more info on Cold War Kids click here.


Regina Spektor


Regina Spektor is a Soviet-born American singer-songwriter and pianist who is part of the New York "anti-folk" scene. Here's some songs she did at a festival in Sweden last year:

• Track 1
• Track 2
• Track 3
• Track 4
• Track 5

To download this torrent: Regina Spektor - 2006-07-06 Stockholm FM

For more info on Regina Spektor click here.