Friday Free-Style

Bonnaroo's "Big Announcement" this week was that Widespread Panic is replacing The Allman Brothers and doing their 43rd headlining spot at the 'roo. They also added Les Claypool, Charli 2na, Super Drag, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Adele, Grand Ole Party, and The Postelles. Other than WSP, those are some decent additions, but I'm way more excited about the acts they added to the Cafe/nightclub, including Dead Confederate, Colour Revolt, De Novo Dahl, Phonograph, Bear In Heaven, Howlin Rain, and Royal Bangs, all of which are acts that I am interested in checking out. I'll be doing a piece on all the lesser know 'roo acts very soon.

Pecanne Log had the extened trailer to We Fun up, so check it:



Pitchfork Fest added Spoon, The Dodos, and Les Savy Fav. That is turning out to rather sweet line-up.

You can download a reversed version of the new Gnarls Barkley album for free here.

The RIAA spent $2.8 million dollars lobbying the government in 2007. Honestly, I would have expected that to be much higher.

The Clermont Lounge is up for sale.

Nick Thorburn of Islands talks some smack about Vampire Weekend.

Indian Jewelry has a new album coming out called Free Gold! and will be at Eyedrum on May 18th. I can't wait to catch them again.

Atlanta's Sean Costello died this week.

Outkast says the new new album will be out in 2009.

There is a Tori Amos comic book coming soon.

RZA just launched Wuchess.com.

Hella's Zach Hill has a solo album coming out featuring a ton of really cool guest musicians such as Marnie Stern, No Age, Les Calypool, and Marco Benevento.

Laura Veirs will be at The Earl on May 18th.

Earfarm points out that livepumpkins.net is really great for Smashing Pumpkins live shows.

The Fiery Furnaces are featuring String Cheese Incident's keyboardist on some of their tour dates this week.

Bill Cosby is going to drop a hip-hop album.

Some vids to take you through the weekend:

New Dan Deacon:



Animal Collective:

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE , BROTHER SPORT
by GrrrndZero

Wu-Tang:



Yeasayer:

Humpday Randomnimity

MF Doom will be at MJQ December 13th. Check it out:

This will be an event to remember; including video filming for upcoming release. FIRE eaters in the parking lot. A large ICE sculpture of the MF DOOM mask for fan photo ops. The upgraded sound system for this event is going to ensure the maximum METAL FACE EXPERIENCE! It is also rumored that there will be models painted to resemble METAL to facilitate fan appreciation giveaways.

Also performing will be MOBONIX and MR. K members of MF DOOM s METAL FACE AKADEMY crew. MOBONIX is gearing up for the release of his long -awaited full length record, THIRD WORLD AMERICA featuring production by Bean One, Danspeak, and MF DOOM.

Also performing will be Budah Tye ( Universal Vibe Squad) Local support acts to be announced. Deejays will be Atlanta's own Apple Jac and underground-wizard Steve Deniro. This event will be hosted by Dres the Beatnik.

Advance tickets are $25. Tickets will be $30.00 day of show.
The price of tickets at the door will be discounted by $5 with the donation of a canned good.

A bit pricey, but when I caught him a few years back at Coachella, he was really great live. Here's a vid:



The new Wu-Tang Clan album comes out December 11th and they are touring. They aren't coming to Atlanta so far, but they are playing 3 dates in Florida that I hope to catch at least one of:

01-24 Orlando, FL - Club Firestone
01-25 Miami Beach, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater
01-26 St. Petersburg, FL - Jannus Landing

Wu-Tang Clan : 8 Diagrams : As My Heart Gently Weeps (featuring Erykah Badu, Dhani Harrison, John Frusciante)


Bat For Lashes has an itunes Ep available.

Check out some Mastodon tour video diary:



Creative Loafing did a look back piece on the old Echo Lounge that used to have shows in East Atlanta. I got to catch a handful there and it was a really cool venue.

This looks interesting:



My favourite radio station, Album 88, is doing WRASfest on December 14th at Eyedrum. Here is the initial "teaser" line-up:

Cadillac Jones
Chopper
Clandestined
kids with codenames

And Finally, I saw over at It Covers The Hillsides these sweet fan-made music videos for an Arcade Fire song and a new Radiohead song using footage from some old films and I had to post them here because they are super sweet. Watch them:

Humpday Randomnimity

Tonight:



This new Radiohead album is awesome. Go get that right now if you don't have it. Here's a fun little track of Radiohead and Sparklehorse covering Pink Floyd:

Wish You Were Here


If you're smart you'll pre-order the new Grizzly Bear EP Friend and get a free lithograph:



A track from Friend:

Alligator (Choir Version) [Featuring Beirut and Dirty Projectors]


The new Beach House album, Devotion, comes out in February.

Listen to the new Bloc Party single:



Watch Joanna Newsom perform a new, untitled song from last weekend:



Animal Collective on Conan:



RZA talking about The Beatles:

Shows You Needs To Know

We reported it first here Friday, but now that more details have been released, we are again going to tell you about the Joanna Newsom show coming to Atlanta on November 11th. In addition to being one of only a handful of shows right now, it is also going to feature a full orchestra. As we've mentioned before, we are big Joanna Newsom fans and if you haven't checked out what the hype is all about, its time to:







Ok, another huge concert announcement for Atlanta is The Echo Project. Wondering what that is? Well, it is a Bonnaroo-style music fest being held October 12th-14th on a 350 acre private farm right outside Atlanta along the Chattahoochee River to raise money for some environmental causes. Here's the initial line-up:

The Killers
Phil Lesh And Friends
The Roots
Moe
Cypress Hill
Umphrey's McGee
Micheal Franti And Spearhead
Stephen Marley
The Disco Biscuits
Cat Power And The Dirty Delta Blues
Rodreigo And Gabriella
The Polyphonic Spree
Brazillian Girls
Perpetual Groove
The Avett Brothers
Lyrics Born
RJD2
Toubab Krewe
Spam Allstars
ALO
Greenskeepers
The Afromotive

Early bird tickets go on sale today at 10am for $120. Looks like the hippy version of Music Midtown. Check the website out.

Tonight Pelican is at the Drunken Unicorn. I'll see you there.

Tommorrow My Brightest Diamond will be doing a free acoustic show at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur before playing at Vinyl that night with Rasputina.

Thursday is the Rock The Bells festival at the Amphitheatre-formerly-known-as-Lakewood. hip-hop will be well represented by The Wu-Tang Clan, Talib Kwali, Supernatural, Rahzel, Nas, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, Erykah Badu, David Banner, and Pharoahe Monch.

If that's not your thing, you can see Tokyo Police Club at Vinyl Thursday instead.

Albums I Love: Liquid Swords

Yesterday Pitchfork announced that in addition to Sonic Youth perfroming Daydream Nation at Pitchfork Fest, Slint will be doing their Spiderland and the GZA will be doing Liquid Swords. I'm a Big Wu-tang Clan fan and this is an amazing hip-hop album. The entire clan shows up for this, like most of the '90s solo Wu-Tang stuff, and I'm curious as to how many of the clan will be backing "The Genius" for this special show. If you're not familiar with this record, it is a must have so check it out:

• Living In The World Today
• 4th Chamber
  

Cold World:



I Gotcha Back:



You need to get to Chicago in July:

Friday, July 13:

Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation
GZA/Genius performs Liquid Swords
Slint perform Spiderland

Saturday, July 14:

Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues (w/members of Dirty Three, the Delta 72 & JSBX)
Clipse
Iron and Wine
Girl Talk
Grizzly Bear
Battles
Fujiya & Miyagi
Oxford Collapse
Dan Deacon
Beach House
Professor Murder
Ken Vandermark's Powerhouse Sound

Sunday, July 15:

New Pornographers
Stephen Malkmus
De La Soul
Of Montreal
Jamie Lidell
Menomena
Klaxons
The Ponys
Deerhunter
Craig Taborn's Junk Magic

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketweb. Three-day passes cost $50, Friday night costs $15, Saturday and Sunday individual passes cost $25, and a Saturday/Sunday pass costs $35.

Rock The Bells: Rage Against The Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, more...

Tickets Go On Sale this Saturday at 10am. That's a helluva hip-hip line-up

Video Of The Day: Ghostface Killah

Rage Against The Machine Adds Tourdates, Play With Wu-tang!

Just read this:

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE & THE WU-TANG CLAN
SET TO “ROCK THE BELLS”

First it was the reunion of the Wu-Tang Clan in 2004. Then it was A Tribe Called Quest later that year. Now, ROCK THE BELLS will make history againas Rage Against The Machine announces their plans to perform three exclusive engagements with the critically acclaimed world-class hip-hop festival this summer. The epic line-up will see Rage Against The Machine join Wu-Tang Clan for two dates on the west coast (August 11--NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA, August 18--venue TBA, San Francisco) and for Rock The Bells’ inaugural venture into New York City (July 28-- Randall’s Island) for their only scheduled appearance on the eastern seaboard this year. The Wu-Tang Clan will support the release of their forthcoming album 8 Diagrams.

Rock The Bells, presented by Guerilla Union since 2003, has established itself as a world-class hip-hop platform by hosting legendary performances by NAS, A Tribe Called Quest, Lauryn Hill, Blackstarr (Talib Kweli and Mos Def), Cuban Linx, De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Cypress Hill and Jurassic 5 as well as reuniting Wu-Tang for their last performance with ODB in 2004. This year, the festival will keep in its tradition and showcase the very best the genre has to offer.

“It’s definitely our fans’ dream billing. It’s a tremendous honor to have Rage Against The Machine and Wu-Tang Clan perform together,” states event organizer Chang Weisberg of Guerilla Union. “I can’t wait to announce the rest of the line-up for Rock the Bells. It’s incredibly important to put some shine on quality Hip Hop. The opportunity to galvanize the social and political consciousness of these groups is undeniable.”

The complete line-up will be announced March 26th and tickets will go on-sale March 31st at 10:00am. For complete details and updates, log onto www.guerillaunion.com,

Tical!!!