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

What Up In The ATL?

This show is close to selling out and will be awesome, so go buy tickets now:



Other cool things going on:









Yeasayer : No Need to Worry


MGMT : Time to Pretend


The Lord Is My Shotgun : Get Some


Drug Rug : Winter Time



And don't forget our One Year Anniversary party going on Saturday night!

Humpnight Randomnimity

Three interesting shows this week i didn't mention earlier are:







I can't decide which Saturday night show to hit up after Joanna Newsom, so I'll probably coin flip or something. With the Thursday night show, I guess I'm going to offer the dissenting opinion relative to all the other blogs in town that I would recommend going to Smashing Pumpkins and Explosions in The Sky over the free Star Bar thing. I know Black Kids are somewhat local and blowing up thanks to the 'fork, but I've listened to that EP a few times and it just doesn't stand out to me that much. It's not bad or anything, but it sounds like a dancier ripoff of the whole Swan Lake spectrum of indie-rock and its just not exciting me that much relative to all the other stuff I've been listening to lately. Also, I caught Judi Chicago last month, and as much as I hate ripping on locals, I have to call it like it is, and I think they just pretty much suck. Just because you perform crappy music in your underwear doesn't make up for the crappy music you are performing. I mean, the show is free so it's probably worth going if you don't have the cash for the other show, but I just wanted to get my opinion out there.

Now I'll cool off the haterade and give you a nice PJ Harvey vid:



Back to the haterade, Band of Horses are doing 3 New Years shows at the Earl and tickets go on sale Friday. BOH, or "Fisher Price, My First My Morning Jacket" as I like to call them, are another band that I think receive a little too much praise relative to what every other band on Earth is doing right now. Cease To Begin isn't a bad album or anything, but it's not a great one either.

Someone who is worthy of the hype is coming to Eyedrum in January:



The onslaught of My Bloody Valentine reunion rumors continue.

Want to see what Dethklok look and sound like live? Here you go:



Here's a The Octopus Project vid:



In case you had forgotten how awesome Marnie Stern is or you are a new ohmpark reader, here's a vid:



Between The Buried And Me are an awesome metal band that i've recently been jamming alot:



In case you don't know, Radiohead did some crazy webcast stuff last week. I've got a huge-ass article planned as i haven't really talked about the new album much and i'm still listening to it like crazy. Until i get a chance to go on an In Rainbows lovefest, here's my favourite song from it done live on the webcast:

Home Park Festival 2007

November 3rd, 2007 we will have some of our favourite Atlanta artists for you to see in a beautiful outdoor setting for free. We've worked hard to put together a line-up were very proud of. This year, Home Park Fest will have two stages to maximize the rock. The Jupiter Watts and Slow Motion Crash have each dropped an amazing album this year. This Piano Plays Itself is an upcoming band with Home Park roots. Ohmpark favs Parade returns for their second Home Park Fest appearance. Critically-acclaimed Jamie Radford will bring his special brew of electronic music and hip-hop to the fest. Pool Partiers Club Awesome will bring the awesomeness. Home Park's most badass band, From Exile, will be performing a special acoustic, instrumental set unlike any they have done before. Finally, one of my personal favs, Moorish Idols, will close out the fun filled day. We hope to see you down in our 'hood for this absolutely free fest and tell your friends!

Corndogorama = Hells Yeah

This is probably Atlanta's best music festival and I really wish they would not have scheduled it the same weekend as Pitchfork Fest, but oh well, I'll at least go tonight. I'm interested to see what it will be like for the first time at the new Lenny's. For those of you going to this, here's what i suggest you don't miss:

I'm not very familiar with most of Thursday's line-up but Friday, make sure you go see Parade at 6pm or The Coathangers at 10pm. Saturday is an incredible line-up. Be sure to get there 12:30 pm to catch DJ Klever. 2pm go see Slow Motion Crash and at 2:30pm don't miss The Orphins. At 6:15pm check out Zoroaster and 7pm brings the biggest conflict of the fest between Untied States and The Preakness. One Hand Loves The Other hits the stage at 10:30pm and at 11:30pm be sure to see The Selmanaires and Snowden back-to-back. On Sunday, be sure to get there by 3pm to see Moorish Idols. You should check out Tenth To The Moon at 4pm and the Jupiter Watts at 5pm. And of course Atlanta's biggest band right now, Mastodon, closes out the corn dogs at 9:30pm.

Get more info at the Corndogorama site.

Here's some videos to get you in the mood: See you tonight!

Pride Weekend In Atlanta

In case you don't know, Midtown is going to be packed full of people for the Atlanta Pride Festival this weekend. If that doesn't tickle your fancy, there's some good shows you can check out. Tonight I'm going to the Black Keys/Dinosaur Jr show at the Tabernacle. Also tonight at Smthi's Old Bar is The Nightwatchman aka Tom Morello doing acoustic protest rock. For you hippies out there, Railroad Earth will be at the Variety Playhouse Friday night. For you hipsters out there, Tentonic, The Dark Romantics, and Slow Motion Crash will be at the Drunken Unicorn Friday night. It appears stoner-metalists Zoroaster are playing at both the Ten High and Lenny's tommorrow night too. Saturday night i'm hoping to check out The Rosebuds at The Earl. Then Sunday night Deerhunter will be at the Drunken Unicorn.

What The Hell Am I Listening To?!?

Atlanta music:

Slow Motion Crash : Slow Motion Crash


photo by Justin Sonfield

This is my pick for release of the week. Slow Motion Crash took an epistemology of dance-rock and wrote a dissertation. On their debut, self-titled album they combined old songs I've loved with some great new material. Some may think this too derivative, but even in a genre that is becoming increasingly overcrowded, there is something special and unique here that has given me much enjoyment.

• The Last Mistake
• Mirrors And Conflict

Buy Slow Motion Crash Here

Slow Motion Crash Myspace


Lid Emba : Reason Isn't Radar



This is such a fun album for me to listen to because there's something new and crazy every other second. For those who don't remember, Lid Emba does experimental/ ambient/ electronic/ glitch/ noise/ avant-garde/ whatever you call it/ etc music and he does it well. I think there is something about the more organic approach he takes to a style usually embodied by synthetics that makes this album so interesting.

• Resin Rain
• Rib Cage
  

Buy Reason Isn't Radar Here

Lid Emba Myspace


Snowden : Anti-Anti



As you already know, I've jumped on the Snowden bandwagon. I finally purchased Anti-Anti about a month ago and I've been listening to it non-stop. I've jammed this album so hard my truck CD-player literally broke, and now my copy is stuck inside of it. I can't put up anything off of the album until I buy another copy, but i searched around the Internet and I found a couple gems for your listening pleasure:

• Time Of The Season (Zombies cover)
• Anti-Anti (Treasure Fingers remix)
• Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania remix)
  

Buy Anti-Anti Here

Snowden Myspace

Shows of The Week

There are many great shows happening this memorial day weekend, but there are two local shows that I fully endorse:

Friday:



Saturday:



Seriously, go check out these shows.

Tuesday Tomfoolery

Last night I went to Smith's Old Bar to catch Slow Motion Crash. I hadn't seen these guys since the Creve Coeur days and enjoyed the show. I have to say I really liked bassist Melissa Giorgio and I think she's perfect with these guys. The rest of the new line-up is pretty good too. I highly recommend checking them out. I beat BiggieC so bad playing basketball before the show that he didn't come out, so here's some amatuer photos from me:









The Arcade Fire announced tour dates today and will be coming to the Civic Center in Atlanta on May 1st. I'm gonna put up part of live show from this year by the end of the week. Until then, watch this:



The Flaming Lips are touring around the southeast and will be in Athens, Ga at the Classic Center on March 11th.

Some interviews:

• The Apples In Stereo
• Deerhunter
• Bloc Party
• Josh Ritter