Friday Free-Style

Let's get your weekend started with some local flavour. Atlas Sound will be remixing a Sian Alice Group song for a forthcoming EP. Here's a video for one of my favourite Atlas Sound songs, "Recent Bedroom":


Atlas Sound- Recent Bedroom from Michael E Palm on Vimeo

Atlas Sound : Virtual 7" No. 3 : No Longer


The Snowden tour is coming soon:



Check out how fun Snowden tours can be:



Mastodon and Neurosis are interviewed by Pitchfork.tv

Mastodon have a massive tour schedule between their Bonnaroo appearance and their Rockstar Mayhem Tour:

Jun 14 - Manchester, Tennessee @ Bonnaroo (2:00P)
Jul 9 - Seattle, Washington @ White River Amphitheatre
Jul 11 - Sacramento, California @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Jul 12 - San Francisco, California @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
Jul 13 - San Bernardino, California @ Glen Helen Pavilion
Jul 15 - Fresno, California @ Save Mart Center
Jul 16 - San Diego, California @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 18 - Phoenix, Arizona @ Cricket Pavilion
Jul 19 - Albuquerque, New Mexico @ Journal Pavilion
Jul 20 - Denver, Colorado @ Coors Amphitheatre
Jul 22 - Kansas City, Kansas @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 23 - St. Louis, Missouri @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 25 - Dallas, Texas @ Smirnoff Music Centre
Jul 26 - San Antonio, Texas @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Jul 27 - Houston, Texas @ Sam Houston Race Track
Jul 29 - Tampa, Florida @ Ford Amphitheatre
Jul 30 - Miami, Florida @ Sound Advice Amphitheatre
Aug 1 - Virginia Beach, Virginia @ Verizon Amphitheatre
Aug 2 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania @ Post Gazette Pavilion
Aug 3 - Scranton, Pennsylvania @ Toyota Pavilion
Aug 5 - Boston, Massachusetts @ Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
Aug 6 - Uniondale, New York @ Nassau Coliseum
Aug 8 - Toronto, Ontario @ Downsview Park
Aug 9 - Detroit, Michigan @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
Aug 10 - Chicago, Illinois @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
Aug 12 - Atlanta, Georgia @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
Aug 13 - Indianapolis, Indiana @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
Aug 15 - Camden, New Jersey @ Tweeter Center at The Waterfront
Aug 16 - Hartford, Connecticut @ New England Dodge Music Center
Aug 17 - Washington DC @ Nissan Pavilion
Aug 19 - Buffalo, New York @ Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

"Sleeping Giant":



Long time friends of Ohmpark, Parade, have announced their show tonight at Lenny's is going to be their last. They still have a new forthcoming album in June, but are not planning to do any shows in support of it apparently. This is very sad news for us, so here's some Parade tracks to jam and if you never caught them, go see them tonight while you still have a chance.

Parade : The P EP : Slow Tuesday


Parade : A Red Button : Penelope Shoes


Parade : Answer Me EP : That's Hott


You can stream the new Portishead album here.

Coachella will be webcasting performances this weekend here.

Download a new NIN song here.

Blood On The Wall will be at The Earl on May 13th.

Jambase has a really great piece on Akron/Family, who we love.

The AthFest line-up is out, and notables include Dark Meat, Cinemehanica, We Vs. The Shark, Elf Power, Twin Tigers, Venice Is Sinking, and Dubconscious. The fest is going down June 18-22 in Athens, Ga.

Rock The Bells tour is back and looking good, but the closest it is coming to us is Miami, FL:



Tegan And Sara are coming back to Atlanta for two dates at Chastain June 16 & 17.

Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst is doing a solo album.

Peter Bjorn And John's next album is going to be completely instrumental.

Southern Shelter has the Explosions in The Sky show in Atlanta a few weeks ago for you to download or listen to here.

Radiohead on Conan (The Atlanta show is getting so close!):



Portishead on Jools Holland:



Jane's Addiction's latest reunion show:



Tokyo Police Club on Letterman:

Monday Mash-Up

March is going to be a crazy month here at Ohmpark. This week, I'm heading down to South Florida to catch Langerado. As soon as i get back from that next week, I'm flying to Austin to catch SXSW. Before coming back from that, I'm heading out to Savannah for some post-St.Patrick's Day partying. Between all of that, postings here may get a bit erratic, but barring uncooperative Internet or getting arrested for public intoxication, I should have some hardcore coverage of the events as they happen. As soon as all of that is over, we are going to begin working on an entirely new and different layout for the site that is going to be really cool. Thanks for reading Ohmpark, and spread the word!

The Morning State album, You Know People I Know People, that they had to re-record after issues with their former label is finally seeing a release date on May 3rd. Here's the new single:

Morning State : You Know People I Know People : Oh Yeah


Outkast's Andre 3000 is planning on putting out a solo album this year.

New Eminem and Dr. Dre album rumours are teased. Detox is the new Chinese Democracy.

The new Meshuggah album is availabe to stream from their Myspace page.

The Beastie Boys have begun work on a new album.

The Hells Angels had tried to assassinate Mick Jagger back in the day.

Atlanta's Daath has announced a new singer.

Animal Collective have a new EP called Water Curses due out May 5th.

Annuals have a split EP with themselves coming out.

Guitarist Jeff Healey has passed away.

Grizzly Bear did a set for KCRW and played an amazing new song you can watch here. Here's the set:



Some new tracks:

Redman & Method Man : Broke Language


Tokyo Police Club : In A Cave


Santogold : LES Artistes (XXXChange remix)


Way too many videos:

Kevin Drew "Lucky Ones":



Underworld "Boy, Boy, Boy":



The Hold Steady "Stay Positive":



MGMT on Jools Holland:



Gnarls Barkley "Run":

Genghis Tron "Board Up The House":

Monday Mash-Up

So at first i didn't know what to think about the new Smashing Pumpkins album, but the more i listen to it and get comfortable with it the more I like it. Here's a track i like alot:

Smashing Pumpkins : Zeitgeist : Neverlost


Here's a little something to jam out to:

Sonic Youth : A Thousand Leaves : Hits Of Sunshine



Another classic:

Ugly Cassanova : Sharpen Your Teeth : Hotcha Girls



Here's some interesting releases out tommorrow that i'm excited about:











Here's some Tokyo Police Club:



Here's The Shins:



For the Atlanta college kids like me, Summer 2007 is over. I went to some cool fests, saw some great shows, and had a fun time so I leave you with this today:

Grandaddy : Just Like The Fambly Cat : Summer...It's Gone

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.

Monday Mash-Up

!!! (chk chk chk) and The Field will be at the 40 Watt in Athens, Ga on October 6th. Here's a !!! video:



Here's a track from The Field's From Here We Go Sublime: Good Things End

Minus The Bear will be at The Variety Playhouse on October 12th. Vid:



Liars will be opening for Interpol at The Tabernacle on September 21st.

Check out some hot torrents to download:

• Tortoise (6-30-2007)
• Blackalicious (7-14-2007)
• Ween (Bonnaroo 2007)
• Ben Folds (7-25-2007)
• Smashing Pumpkins (7-03-2007)
• Deftones (7-22-2007)
• Gogol Bordello (7-14-2007)

Broken Social Scene has presented a great video. Check it:

This song was recorded with Joules Scott Key of Metric and Bang Lime on drums and J Mascis and Kevin Drew on guitar and vocals. The video happened last minute after a Dinosaur Jr show in Toronto where J, Lou, and Murph all came to the shoot to hang out. John Caffery from 'Kids on TV' was hired to come and dance his ASS off and a spontaneous party was put into effect.
There were seven mirrors, one disco ball, four lights, one bottle of rum, three bottles of tequila, 62 beers, four crew, and 17 people. It got put together on the day of the shoot and became the party of the year. It cost three thousand dollars to make... It was priceless.

Bradford Cox of Deerhunter got robbed after their show Friday night. If you're at Lenny's late night, beware:

We got a friendly homecoming suprise last night in Atlanta when Lockett and I got robbed at gunpoint after our show at Lenny's last night. We literally had just walked off the stage and I was pretty wasted. Lockett was trying to take care of me and get me home. He grabbed my guitar and my stuff and we walked to his car which was parked about a block away from Lenny's because it was so crowded. I heard a commotion behind us but like I said I was pretty out of it. I just opened the door to the car and collapsed in the passenger seat. Then I heard all this yelling and I hear this loud metallic banging on the window and look up and there is a gun in my face and a guy yelling "get the fuck out the car man" I stumbled out and see the other guy has Lockett with his arms spread on the roof of his car and is patting him down. Lockett was begging them to leave me alone. The guy put his gun up to my temple and said "give me EVERYTHING motherfucker I aint fucking with you" I just mumbled something and he put his hands in my pants and took everything I had. My cellphone, my wallet (empty except for credit / bank cards which kristin immidietly cancelled, and about 450 dollars in cash I had for my rent.) They also got all of Lockett's money. They even took my fucking Camel Ultralights and Orange Bic. All I can say is that I'm glad we are not dead. Or more specifically, I am REALLY glad they didn't hurt Lockett. He was just trying to help me get home and would not have even been there at that time otherwise.

Bradford

Atlanta's own, Auditioning Alice, have posted a great new song on their myspace.

Creative Loafing talks about the Rock The Bells festival this thursday at Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheatre.

New Architecture In Helsinki video:



Listen to a Blitzen Trapper show at Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Interviews:

• Fiery Furnaces
• Architecture In Helsinki
• New Pornographers
• St. Vincent
• Spoon

Learn about the "Nu-Gaze" genre.

NPR has some Andrew Bird for you to listen to.

The National on Letterman:



White Rabbits on Letterman:



Tokyo Police Club on Letterman:

Humpnight Random Tracks

So I've got some really good stuff I've been saving up for you here. Listen to the track and click the picture to find out more. First, Ohmpark favourites From Exile have remixed a song off of Crushing Reality, their stellar debut album from last year. They will be at Lenny's on August 15th:



From Exile : Phantom (Illumination)


Here's a track from another great Atlanta band, Morning State, who just release their first EP, Retreat !!!. This single was mixed by Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Cee Lo, DangerDoom). I just saw these guys the other night at The Earl and they sounded great.



Morning State : Spectacular


Next up, VHS or Beta's Zeke Buck's new project, People Noise. I'm really digging what I've heard so far. From Ordinary Ghosts:



People Noise : A Million Lives


The Pizzle just hipped me to Canadians Tokyo Police Club and I've been really liking it so far. They will be at Vinyl on August 2nd. Here's a track from their 2006 debut album A Lesson In Crime.



Tokyo Police Club : Nature Of The Experiment


Last for today, Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis) and Hearts Of Darknesses (aka Frank Musarra) have formed a band for "production, beat making, and remixes". It's called Trey Told 'Em, a reference to Phish's Trey Anastasio judging from the pictures on their myspace page. So far they have only done a remix to a Tokyo Police Club song:



Tokyo Police Club : Cheer It On (Trey Told Em remix)