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

It's Echo Project Week!

For me, this is gonna be a killer week. Wednesday I'm heading up to Asheville to catch Porcupine Tree. Thursday I come back and head a little OTP for Echo Project. Then on Monday I'm heading to Birmingham to catch Earlimart. A few Echo Project details I forgot to cover is that Common got added and that Dubconscious will be playing at the campgrounds Thursday night. As excited as I am about the festival, there happens to be a ridiculous amount of great shows in the Atlanta area this weekend, so if you can't go to Echo, there's still plenty of great tunes to be absorbed:

Tuesday night The Brunettes and The Preakness will be at The Earl.

Wednesday night Ghostface Killah will be at Georgia Tech.

Thursday night Octopus Project and Morning State will be at the Drunken Unicorn.

Friday night offers many great options: Caribou at the Earl, Minus The Bear at the Variety Playhouse, and Portugal. The Man at The Loft.

Subtle and Sunset Rubdown at the Drunken Unicorn Saturday night is pretty sweet.

Sunday is packed out too with Ryan Adams at the Fox, Band of Horses at Park Tavern, and my pick for best show of the week, Earlimart at the Earl.

Minus The Bear : Menos El Oso : Drilling


Portugal. The Man : Church Mouth : Shade


Earlimart : Mentor Tormentor : Happy Alone


The Octopus Project : Hello, Avalanche : I Saw The Bright Shinies


Caribou : Andorra : Eli


Sunset Rubdown : Random Spirit Lover : For The Pier (And Dead Shimmering)

Scorchin' Shows In Hotlanta This Weekend

This is a killer weekend for ATL shows. Tonight there's an interesting house party worth looking into (We Like House Parties):

	141 MORELAND AVE.: the booze, das manics, cancer slug (huntsville al), the trophy wives all ages 9:00 pm / Cover TBA (no more than $4) (Das Manics first house show, Cancer Slug are touring, and The Booze will make us dance! Goose's email: skorpionstomp@gmail.com, Moreland Ave's Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/morelandave)

Also, I've been meaning to check them out, but people tell me Club Awesome is indeed awesome, and they are at The Earl tonight doing some weird thing where they play in front of video of them playing at The Earl a month ago. sounds interesting:



Confessions Of A Music Addict's Pick of the Week is Friday night at The Earl with Tiger! Tiger!, Tenement Halls, and Thee Crucials.



Other good Friday night shows include Moresight (Who David was talking about earlier this week), The States, and Treasury at Lenny's. Stickfigure Distribution has a great show at Eyedrum with Envie, Jaggery, and The Ghost Projects. The Decatur Social Club even has a special guest from Australia, Riot In Belgium, for your late night happenings. And if you're looking for something even more underground:

THE CRACKHOUSE: coke party: dance your panties off with judi chicago , chapter 13 , terminus, cut teeth DONATE MORE (www.myspace.com/crackhouseatl)

ISP has one Ohmpark Favourites Parade friday night:



Saturday is just ridiculously amazing. First, I'll be going to Grant Park Summer Shade Fest. Here's the band schedule:

Saturday, August 25 – Festival Stage

11:45 Jeremy Thornton
12:45 Wampus Cat Scanners
1:45 The Eyes
2:45 Numb
3:45 Bad Magic Number
4:45 Sunday Drive Bye
5:45 Long Knives
6:45 The Preakness
7:45 Magnapop

Sunday, August 26 - Festival Stage

12:00 Chickens & Pigs
1:00 Spencer Durham Group
2:00 Mary O Harrison
3:00 Bouldercrest Singing Group
4:00 No River City
5:00 Tag Team
6:00 Cadillac Jones

Lots of cool bands to check out there, like The Preakness, Long Knives, and Bad Magic Number, which is an Atlanta supergroup comprised of members of Luigi, Magnapop, The Preakness, and The Silent Kids.

Now Saturday night I'm going to this:



But equally as awesome is this:

Does it get any more kick ass in this city?

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!

A Weekend In The City

It's a great weekend for shows in the ATL. Today is all about Bloc Party. First, you can catch them for free doing a DJ set in Criminal Records at 6pm and later that night they will be at The Tabernacle with Maccabees and The Noisettes. While you are at Criminal Records, you can pick up the Whirlyball 7", which features songs from Deerhunter, Selmanaires, Carbonas, and The Coathangers. The purchase of that record will also gain you entrance to the show Friday night featuring all of those bands at the Whirlyball place in the 'burbs. I saw Mogwai there last year and it is an interesting venue. If you have a ticket to the soldout Kings Of Leon show at The Tabernacle Friday night, you will get to see the much better bands on the bill, Snowden and The Features. Another great Friday night show you could catch is Silver Lakes, Wax Fang, and Slushco at The Earl. Late night after all of the great music, Decatur Social Club is celebrating its 3-year anniversary and it looks to be really crazy.

Saturday and Sunday you should head down to The Virginia Highlands for Summerfest. The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer will be at Lenny's Saturday night while Mitch Easter, Tim Lee 3, and The Preakness will be at The Earl. I think I'll be checking oujt the Screening of the new Flight Of The Conchords HBO show sponsored by Kissatlanta at The Doo Gallery. As you might remember, I love these guys and am excited to see them at Bonnaroo. If you're interested in attending, it is free, but you must RSVP. If you're into hip-hop, you should go to The Masquerade Saturday night for Sage Francis, Buddy Wakefield, Buck 65, and Alias.

Ok, how about some tracks to preview:

• Bloc Party : The Marshalls Are Dead
• Maccabees : Latchmere
• The Selmanaires : Selmanaire Rock
• The Coathangers : Parking Lot
• The Features : Exhibit A
• Silver Lakes : Feel My Heartbeat
• Slushco : Jenny The Barfly
• Anna Kramer : I Can't Take It
• Mitch Easter : Sudden Crown Drop
• The Preakness : What They're Saying
• Flight Of The Conchords : Business Time
• Sage Francis : Mourning Aftermath