Corndogorama Videos: Tenth To The Moon

I missed this show on Thursday, but luckily a ATL Superstar got some videos:

Corndogorama - A Look Ahead

Alright, kiddies! Bands, beers, and battered, deep fried meat on a stick means it’s time for everyone’s favorite ADD-friendly fest. Corndogorama is near. We’ll be keeping a close eye on everything and reporting here throughout the weekend. We're excited about moving through the flurry of fest season. With over 100 artists and bands at The 'Rama, it's mandatory to bend your head around a few things. So, here's some things:

Thursday

Don’t F@#k This Up: If your job sucks, Thursday feels like it should be Friday. If your job really sucks, Tuesday felt like Friday. Either way, grab a beer and have a good laugh with the aggressive punk comedy of Attractive Eighties Women. It will make the real Friday better.

The Heartbreak: Music doesn't start until 8pm.

The Tease: Tenth to the Moon


This experimental group sound dark and manic like a Far East version of a Joy Division cover band – and that’s a good thing. The line-up includes veterans from every corner and I’m looking forward to catching their set. Their full-length debut drops early August and promises to be what your grandmother would tactfully call “different.” I’ll see you at the side stage around 10:30.

Tenth to the Moon : House on Stilts

Tenth to the Moon Myspace

Friday

Don’t F$%k This Up: The zany dance party that is Dan Deacon will blow your ass right into Saturday. You’ve been notified.

The Heartbreak: Double D is the silver lining to a so-so cloud your ears will have to endure in order to get to Wham City.

The Tease: Twin Tigers


In the most straightforward manner, you need to catch these guys. This Athens outfit will trek west into the city with their acousmatic ways. If they were playing later, it might be fun to watch some drunks try to figure out where all of the sounds are coming from. As it stands, they’re penciled-in for 6:00. So, if you can’t tell the man to shove it in time to get there early – Fantaj goes on at 2:00 – make sure you make it in time to catch some solid tunes.

Twin Tigers : Curious Faces Violet Future : Watershed

Twin Tigers Myspace

Saturday

Don’t F&*k this Up: With all the respect due to the 50+ acts gracing us on Saturday, Snowden will be closing the outdoor stage for the evening. They go on at 9:45 – be on time.

The Heartbreak: Saturday is so packed that you’ll have to pull double-duty here. First, you’ll have to decide whether to catch Untied States or watch the sillies choking at the corndog eating contest. Later, my vote for worst synchronized schedule of the weekend pits The Orphins against Gringo Star.

The Tease: Make the Fur Fly


East meets West as Decatur and Athens team up for some rock roots with the occasional synth sprinkle. I’ve only heard a little from them, but I’m definitely looking forward to more and you should too. Go ahead and catch them now because they’ve got the potential to make it tougher to get a good seat in the future. Side stage at 6:30. Pass me a beer.

Make the Fur Fly : No Surprise Demo

Make the Fur Fly Myspace

Sunday

Don’t F!^k This Up: Pussing out and going home early is not acceptable to the Mustard King. Cinemechanica and Maserati are going to light this mofo up.

The Heartbreak: Night will fall on another Corndogorama and you’ll have to go back to your sucky job, or your really sucky job.

The Tease: Summer Birds in the Cellar

Florida represents. I’m a shoegaze sucker and these guys put out some lazy afternoon ethereal soundscapes. One of the few out-o-state bands promises to give your ears a much-needed OTP gift at 7:30 on the side stage.

Summer Birds in the Cellar : Druid : Wooden Lion

Summer Birds in the Cellar Myspace

By now, I expect that you've got a pass. If not, go get one. I'll see you there.

Ohmpark's Guide To Nophest 4&20

The weekend is almost here and I am very excited. Nophest announced a third stage of bands for Sunday April 20th at The Doogallery. For details on that and the full schedule, go to the Nophest website. I'm going to break down the acts that stand out to me and help you discover some new bands from the massive line-up. Click on the band name to listen to some tracks on their myspace or website:

Friday:

7:45pm Lovesick Scientist: A project of Justin Sias (Elevado) that is produced by Brian Slusher (Slushco). With those two top tier ATL musicians involved, it has to be good.



8:30pm R_Garcia: I've just sort of been introduced to Randy Garcia through Nophest, but everything I sees points to him being a pretty badass musician and dude, so I'm ready to catch this one.



9:15pm Missile Command: A band featuring members of Elevado. We got a sneak preview performance of these guys at our one year anniversary party and they rocked out hard so I've been excited to catch the Missile Command again. Here's some tracks to jam:

Level Up


Dark Matter


10:00pm Push Button Action Man: This is an electronic music side project of Zachary Hollback, who has been a part of great Atlanta bands such as I Almost Saw God In The Metro, The Brodie Stove, and Tenth To The Moon. Here's a sweet electro-jam:

Gray Tile


10:45pm Blue Screen Love Scene: Electronic dance pop that sounds really nice.


BSLS

11:30pm Tenth To The Moon: Experimental music that incorporates dance and industrial sounds with lots of insanity. I caught them last year at ISP Space and thought they were extremely entertaining. They are on Stickfigure and it appears that Sean Moore of Lid Emba (who's new release I just listened to and is awesome, more on that soon) is now involved with the project:

Deadbeat Bath




11:30pm A Fight To The Death: If you're looking for some low-key Americana that is really good, checkout this ATLien band.


Saturday:

1:30pm Wonder Root Non-Profit Workshop: Wonder Root is a really cool organization supporting artists in the Atlanta area. I will be going more in depth about them next week, but just realize they kick ass and Ohmpark will be working with them to accomplish some neato things.

3:15pm Capibara: Never heard of this band before, but they have cool influences, and the two songs on their myspace feel like they may have some potential to rock out hard.

5:30pm Mooseknuckle Sandwich: Song names like "I Hate You We Should Fuck" and "Skull Fuck Of Death" are enough to spark my interest in this OTP band from Pensacola, FL. They seem brash and experimental, and I'm always looking for acts like that.



6:15pm Ship To Shore: Atlanta post-rocking trio I was unfamiliar with until now, but they sound really good.

6:15pm Citizen Green: Interesting sounding IDM.

7:00pm Devoradora: Nu-'60s Psych-rock power trio that sound damn good. This is high on my list of bands to catch at Nophest that I've never heard of before.



7:00pm The Subliminator: Atlanta's avant-garde demi-god armed with spoken word and theremins is a required show for anyone who reads this blog and hasn't seen him before. He's a badass and someone who has a special place in this city.



8:30pm Envie: I recently caught Envie for the first time this year at a Stickfigure Distribution show and they were awesome. You can check out a video and pics here. This is one of the best acts at the fest, so don't miss it.



Glass


9:15pm Swank Sinatra: These guys just seem to do unabashed rock 'n' roll that rocks hard.

9:15pm Harmaline: Cool sounding experimental electronic stuff.

10:00pm Nerd Parade: I've been hearing noise about these guys lately and am excited to finally catch them and see what it's all about. Cool sounding indie-pop.

10:45pm Cassavettes: I caught these guys late last year for the first time and became a fan. This one is definitely a can't miss show.




Sunday:

1:45pm Mice In Cars: This is another band high on my list to check out that i haven't before. They do a tasty blend of post-rock and post-punk. This is completely worth getting an early start for.

Our Focus Was So Strange


The Sky Is Drowning


4:00pm The Ohmpark Official Party featuring DJ Douschebag: Sunday night Ohmpark will be partying hard at the 166 Stovall Stage featuring acts such as Flexor81, S.K.I.P.(Orlando, FL), Gift Horse (Athens, GA), Chicken And Pigs, and DJ June Eleven. The show gets started with me spinning a 420 set as DJ Douschebag at 4pm sharp so be there by then for the a-party-calypse.

6:15pm Miles From Pangea: We just did a piece on Miles From Pangea and the other Hijacking Music bands so I am pretty stoked to catch them at Nophest.



7:00pm 13 Day Mission: Another Hijacking Music band I'm excited to catch, you'll notice their EP from last year is currently in my heavy rotation, and you can download the album for free by clicking on it.



8:30pm Sorry No Ferrari: ATL post-rockers that I have really enjoyed both times i caught them live this year. I have some videos here.



10:15pm Batata Doce: Atlanta super group fronted by a Brazillian singer. Seems rather interesting

11:00pm This Piano Plays Itself: They just finished their self-titled debut release and it is simply amazing. This is one of Atlanta's hottest up-and-coming bands and if there is one Nophest act you can't afford to miss, it is these guys. Behold:

Day Of Symmetry

Nophest Four & Twenty

Nophest is fast becoming one of Atlanta's most interesting and enjoyable festivals. The bi-yearly event taking place April 18th-20th is going to be hitting two venues, ParkGrounds and The Lang Carson Center, for what promises to be the biggest and best Nophest so far. Pine Magazine did an interview with the Nophest crew last year you should check out. I hit last year's 4-20 event and had a great time. Here is the line-up and schedule so far:

Friday 4/18/2008 - Main Stage

7:00pm - 7:30pm Gemini Cricket
7:45pm - 8:15pm Elliot Rubin
8:30pm - 9:00 Vertigo Jones
9:15pm - 9:45pm Extraordinary Contraptions
10:00pm - 10:30pm Hitchcocks
10:45pm - 11:15pm Wighat
11:30pm - 12:00pm A Fight to the Death

Friday 4/18/2008 - 166 Stovall Stage

7:00pm - 7:30pm TBA
7:45pm - 8:15pm TBA
8:30pm - 9:00pm R_Garcia (solo electronic)
9:15pm - 9:45pm Missle Command
10:00pm - 10:30pm Push Button Action Man
10:45pm - 11:15pm Blue Screen Love Scene
11:30pm - 12:00pm 10th to the Moon
12:00pm - 1:00am Tobi Love feat Nisha Bordeaux

Friday 4/18/2008 - Movie Screen

Bruce Lee Double-Feature!

8:00pm Chinese Connection
10:00pm Enter The Dragon

Saturday 4/19/2008 - Main Stage

12:30pm - 1:30pm We Tap the Keg & Say Hello
1:45pm - 2:15pm Eudora June
2:30pm - 3:00pm Intrepid Souls
3:15pm - 3:45pm Capibara
4:00pm - 4:30pm Lovespark
4:45pm -5:15pm Single Channel System
5:30pm - 6:00pm Witt Wisebram
6:15pm - 6:45pm Ship to Shore
7:00pm - 7:30pm Devoradora
7:45pm - 8:15pm The Issues
8:30pm - 9:00pm Envie
9:15pm - 9:45pm Swank Sinatra
10:00pm - 10:30pm Nerd Parade
10:45pm - 11:15pm Cassavetes
11:30pm - 12:00pm Trial by Fire

Saturday 4/19/2008 - 166 Stovall Stage

12:30pm - 1:30pm We Tap the Keg & Say Hello
1:30pm - 2:45pm Wonder Root Non-Profit Workshop
3:00pm - 5:00pm DJ Press Play
5:30pm - 6:00pm Mooseknuckle Sandwich
6:15pm - 6:45pm Citizen Green
7:00pm - 7:30pm Subliminator
7:45pm - 8:15pm The Beatless
8:30pm - 9:00pm S.K.I.P
9:15pm - 9:45pm Logickal
10:00pm - 10:30pm Larvae
10:45pm - 11:15pm Dr. Electroboink
11:30pm - 12:00pm Can Can

Satuday 4/19/2008 - Movie Screen

8:00pm Guitar Hero Battle on the Big Screen!


Sunday 4/20/2008 - Main Stage

12:30pm - 1:30pm We Tap the Keg & Say Hello
1:45pm - 2:15pm Mice in Cars
2:30pm - 3:00pm Hot Grits A Flyin'
3:15pm - 3:45pm Trophy Wives
4:00pm - 4:30pm Redroja
4:45pm -5:15pm Asylum 66
5:30pm - 6:00pm Blanca Noche
6:15pm - 6:45pm Miles From Pangea
7:00pm - 7:30pm 13 Day Mission
7:45pm - 8:15pm Future Funk Collective
8:30pm - 9:00pm Sorry No Ferrari
9:15pm - 10:00pm Judi Chicago
10:15pm - 10:45pm Batada Doce
11:00pm - 11:30pm This Piano Plays Itself

Sunday 4/20/2008 - 166 Stovall Stage

12:30pm - 1:30pm We Tap the Keg and say hello!
1:30pm - 3:45pm Wonder Root Art Workshop
4:00pm - 4:30pm Flexor81
4:45pm -5:15pm TBA
5:30pm - 6:00pm TBA
6:15pm - 6:45pm TBA
7:00pm - 7:30pm TBA
7:45pm - 8:15pm TBA
8:30pm - 9:00pm TBA
9:15pm - 9:45pm TBA
10:00pm - 10:30pm TBA
10:45pm - 11:15pm TBA
11:30pm - 12:00am TBA

Sunday 4/20/2008 - Movie Screen

420 Double Feature!

8:00pm Up in Smoke
10:00pm Still Smokin'


For more info, check out the Nophest website. We'll be there all weekend, so come party with us!

What Up In The ATL?

There are some hott new local releases out this week. First, The Selmanaires's second LP, The Air Salesman, is now available:



Also, Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause's The Rustic Contemporary Sounds of comes out today:



You can stream both albums here. They are are also both doing an in-store performance at Criminal Records at 7pm tonight.

I think this has been available for a while, but I just found out out about it. The newest Slushco EP:



Info and tunes on the Slushco Myspace. Buy it here.

The Black Lips are playing a free show at GSU today at noon:



After kicking ass last Saturday night at our One Year Anniversary Party, This Piano Plays Itself will be on WREK 91.1 FM at 10pm tonight. Don't miss it!

Tonight, there's a show:



Tomorrow night, the Stickfigure 2008 Showcase begins with 4 nights in row at the Drunken Unicorn featuring some of Atlanta's greatest up and coming artists:

Tomorrow night: Music For People, Sorry No Ferrari, Bigpenguin, Zandosis
Thursday night: Entertainment, The Feeding Fingers, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba
Friday night: Retconned Cover Band, Fur Elise, Tree Creature, Sailor Winters
Saturday Night: One Hand Loves The Other, Envie, The Subliminator, Killick!, Nerdkween

It's $5 for each night of the showcase, and if you like good music and are not familiar with many of those names, do yourself a favour and hit up atleast one of those, because every night is a killer line-up.

Thursday night at Lenny's is a stellar show with Perestroika, Chopper (ex-Blame Game, Deerhunter), Fag Static, and maybe even The Orphins (90% sure according to the Lenny's site)

Friday night at Lenny's there is this:




Friday night The Whigs are at The Earl and there's also this band called Manchester Orchestra that is rumoured to be from Atlanta at The Loft.

For the hippies, Friday night Perpetual Groove is at The Variety Playhouse, and Saturday night Col. Bruce Hampton is at The Loft and The Machine (Pink Floyd cover band) is at the Variety Playhouse.

For the hipsters, Saturday night Anna Kramer And The Lost Cause and The Selmanaires are having their dual CD release show at The Earl.

What a great week for music in Atlanta!

The Other Sound Festival

Check this out:

Atlanta, GA, August 1, 2007 – The third-annual Other Sound Music
Festival expands this year to include four nights of live music at
Atlanta's leading independent music venues. Festival organizers
announced the lineup for the festival featuring over 20 bands from six
Atlanta-based labels. The festival takes place September 6-9, 2007.

Headlining acts include All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, at the Earl;
Moresight, at the Drunken Unicorn; Luigi, at Lenny's and Untied States
at the 11:11 Teahouse.

"We feel like the festival will be highlighted by live acts," said
ISP-Music's Eric Holder, "Club Awesome's rock and roll pool parties
are becoming legendary as well as Moresight's shows which end up
feeling more like a revival than a concert."

Once again organizers opted not to include any bands that played the
previous year, hoping to focus on exposing attendees to music they may
not have heard before. "We just thought including the same bands from
last year would defeat our purpose, plus it keeps our Other Sound
sampler CDs more relevant," noted Kim Ware, festival founder and
owner/operator of Eskimo Kiss Records and Conundrum Booking.

While only three years young, The Other Sound Festival already has a
history of exposing audiences to some of the best music in the area.
Past acts include Deerhunter and Snowden, who have catapulted into the
national scene through performances at SXSW and features on MTV.
Ultrababyfat, who garnered national success in the nineties, played
last year to promote their first release in five years (on local indie
Two Sheds Music).

Participating labels include Eskimo Kiss Records, Two Sheds Music,
ISP-Music, Goodnight Records, Passive Aggressive Network and
Containment Theory Records, along with local booking agency Conundrum
Booking. For more information visit http://theothersound.net.

The 2007 Other Sound Schedule (subject to change):


Thursday, Sept. 6 @ Drunken Unicorn
9:30 PM – Envie
10:15 – Mary O. Harrison
11:00 – Pistolero
12:00 - Moresight

Friday, Sept. 7 @ The EARL
8:45 PM – Fernandina
9:40 – Citified
10:20 – The Yum Yum Tree (side stage)
11:00 – The Press
11:40 – Lay Down Mains (side stage)
12:20 – All Night Drug Prowling Wolves

Saturday, Sept. 8 @ Lenny's
8 PM – No Disassemble (side stage)
8:35 – Silent Kids (main stage)
9:10 – Novelift (side stage)
9:45 – The Jupiter Watts (main stage)
10:20 – The Orphins (side stage)
11:00 – One Hand Loves the Other (main stage)
11:45 – Club Awesome (side stage)
12:30 – Luigi (main stage)

Sunday, Sept. 9 @ 11:11 Teahouse
7 PM – Jeff Evans
7:45 – Batata Doce
8:30 – Tenth to the Moon
9:30 – Untied States

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!

Space Rock Con 2007

Saturday and Sunday Lenny's will be doing this fest and it looks interesting so I figured i'd highlight it:



We've covered The Subliminator and Tenth To The Moon before, but if you want to know what some of those other artists are all about, check them out:

Dharma Son Collective

Tree Creature

Romannis Motte

Earl Modern Witch Trials

EEther

Phazers On High

Alien Spyz

A Weekend In The A (featuring Sebadoh, Snowden, From Exile, Tenth To The Moon, Lid Emba)

Last weekend I tried to hit up as many different shows as possible. First, i went and checked out the Snowden and Selmanaires show at Rob's House (Records). Rob's House was just some dude's house in East Atlanta. They had a keg for people to drink and a tiny basement where the bands played to a tightly packed crowd of 30-50. The show time said 3pm, but i got there at 5pm and was still able to catch the end of The Selmanaires set. Snowden played next and rocked the basement out. I really like the idea of taking a typical keg party, adding some great bands and doing it early in the afternoon. Good stuff.


Snowden in Rob's Basement

After hitting some bars up and taking a smoke break at my house to listen to an album or two, i headed to the Earl to catch the Jupiter Watts show. i stayed for an hour and pretty sure i didn't see the Jupiter Watts but was way too drunk at this point to concentrate on doing a good review, so I'll have to come and see them again. I made it back to my neighborhood and hung out with the boys in From Exile late night as they did a mini-acoustic set:





In May, From Exile is going on tour on the east coast and Ohmpark will be taking it on the road with them chronicling this journey. We will have more details on that as soon as the tour is completely booked, but it is going to be a fiasco and I hope our non-ATL readers will come check them out. They just purchased an old prisoner transport van for the trip:



On Sunday i finally got a chance to check out the ISP Space. I have to say that i like it. It is very small, but the concept and the vibe are great. I had no idea who any of the bands playing were before i went, but i was very impressed with two of them. Lid Emba is Sean Moore playing on drum machines, a drum set, and a synth. Really cool ambient, noise, experimental electronic stuff. He closed with a really interesting mash-up/reinterpretation of Black Sabbath's War Pigs, and despite being one of the most over-covered songs of all time, it was still stunning. I got a copy of his debut album, Reason Isn't Radar, and after an initial listen, I really like it.



Next up was Tenth To The Moon. This three piece consisted of two older gentleman on bass and keys, and some crazy kid fronting the band switching around from vocals, to drums, to drum machines. I guess on a broad scale I would call it experimental noise-dance. At one point the vocalist pulls out a huge metal shield that is plugged into the sound system that he beats to death with his drum sticks. Really good music and a very entertaining live show that you should check out.





I finally made my way over to Sebadoh at the Variety Playhouse just in time for Lou and the boys to come on. I'm not very familiar with Sebadoh, but they were really good. An enjoyable relic of the '90s. I have to say I enjoyed seeing Lou Barlow solo or Dinosaur Jr much more, but it was cool to see another manifestation.