Friday Free-Style

I've mentioned it already, but since I love this band so much, I'll bring it up again. Beach House will be at The Earl with Papercuts on March 1st. Here is a song from the forthcoming Devotion available in February (or now bootlegged):

Beach House : Devotion : Gila


This Wednesday (12/19) you can watch the new Sigur Ros movie Heima at the Midtown Art Cinema with me.

I've been listening to Marnie Stern again a bunch lately, so here's a funny mash-up I had missed:

The Hood Internet - Absorb the Lip Gloss


The Smashing Pumpkins have new material to release at the beginning of next year.

Hot Chip have a new album, Made In The Dark, coming out February 4th.

Remixes of Thom Yorke's Eraser are coming soon.

Creative Loafing did a piece on Fag Static this week. When I caught them opening for Deerhunter, they were really awesome.

Pimp C RIP

Tori Amos lays the smack down:



Flight of The Conchords will be releasing a full-length album in April.

Ok, a little personal note: After 8 and a half years as an undergrad at Georgia Tech, I graduate tomorrow morning. The ensuing bender may limit my posting for the next few days, but we have all sorts of goodies for you next week including our Top 50 Albums of 2007, plus tons of other best of nonsense.

This Week In The A

Here's the shows in Atlanta that we recommend checking out this week:

Tonight: Parade (who if you read this blog you already know is awesome) and Exit Clov (A band from DC that you need to know is also awesome) at Lenny's

Exit Clov : MK Ultra

Tomorrow Night: Enon (A cool northeastern band), Love Of Diagrams (Rockers from down-under that we caught earlier this year), and Untied States (Another local band we love) at The Drunken Unicorn

Enon : Mirror On You


Wednesday Night: Tori Amos (Always a great show) at The Fox theater

Tori Amos : Space Dog (Live from 6-11-1998)


Thursday Night: Smashing Pumpkins and Explosions In The Sky at the Fox Theater (I bet you can score some tix to the rescheduled shows if you're crafty)

Explosions In The Sky : Remember Me As A Time Of Day


Friday Night: Jens Lekman (Dude from Sweden who has the internets all buzzed up) at The Drunken Unicorn

Jens Lekman : And I Remember Every Kiss


Saturday Night: Joanna Newsom (OMFG!!!!!!!!!!) with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at The Woodruff Arts Center

Joanna Newsom : Monkey & Bear

Monday Mash-Up

Kid Rock got arrested Saturday night after his show here in Atlanta at a Dekalb Waffle House for beating up a customer.

Japanese metal experimentalists Boris will be doing a free in-store performance at Criminal Records at 4pm today, and then playing at The Earl tonight. I highly recommend checking them out.

Boris : Pink : Farewell


Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter's solo project) has released a tracklist of the new album due out next year.

Mike Patton will be the voice of Bionic Commando in a video game.

Dinosaur Jr will be in Athens, Ga at The 40 Watt on December 3rd.

Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Walla got jacked by US Homeland Security. They confiscated a hard drive he had been using to work on his upcoming solo album.

Band Of Horses had a line-up change.

The Selmanaires and Anna Kramer each have a new album coming out early next year.

Watch the Panda Bear unreleased DVD People Party:

Part 1:



Part 2:



Interview:



Queens Of The Stone Age on Letterman:



Klaxons on Conan:



Here's Tori Amos on Craig Ferguson:



Arsis has finished up their new album due out next year. They will be playing with Enslaved and Atlanta's From Exile on November 2nd at the Masquerade:



You can download an mp3 of Diplo remixing Black Lips "Veni Vidi Vici" here.

While I was at Echo Project, I saw a bunch of flyers for a 99x show with Modest Mouse, Silverchair, and Silversun Pickups on December 16th, but I can find no existence of this on the internets.

Mute Math on Conan:

Monday Mash-UP

MTV is all on Atlanta's nuts and the Drizzle showed me this video featuring Deerhunter, Snowden, and Black Lips.

Marnie Stern will be at The Drunken Unicorn on July 26th.

Built To Spill is doing a bunch of touring but nowhere near here.

Austin City Limits Festival has announced a partial line-up including:

White Stripes
Bjork
Peter, Bjorn and John
Joss Stone
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Decemberists
Rose Hill Drive
Andrew Bird
Augustana
Robert Earl Keen
Beau Soleil
Gotan Project
Indigo Girls
Heartless Bastards
Andy Palacio

The ACLFest rumors blog is reporting these bands are confirmed:

• Blonde Redhead
• Decemberists
• White Stripes
• Bjork
• Joss Stone
• Heartless Bastards
• Peter, Bjorn and John
• Rodrigo Y Gabriela
• Rose Hill Drive
• Augustana
• Beau Soleil
• Gotan Project
• Indigo Girls
• Andy Palacio
• Stephen Marley
• The Little Ones
• Raul Malo
• Jones Family Singers
• Eli Young Band
• Kevin Gordon
• Ben Kweller
• Jake Owen
• The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
• Charlie Musselwhite
• Andrew Bird
• Sara Hickman
• The Jellydots
• Kings of Leon
• Ryan Bueter
• Christina Bell
• Robert Earl Keen
• Rev. Horton Heat
• Asleep at the Wheel
• Blue Mother Tupelo

ACLFest happens September 14th-16th in Austin, TX and the full line-up is supposed to be announced this Thursday. Tickets are already on sale and they go pretty fast.

The Disco Biscuits' own music festival, Camp Bisco, has announced its line-up and it includes Infected Mushroom, Amon Tobin, Girl Talk, Holy Fuck, STS9, and of course Bisco themselves. This fest takes place in New York on August 16th-18th.

There is a Smashing Pumpkins tribute album coming out featuring The Deftones and Ben Kweller.

!!! want to get to work on a new album.

You can download some Grizzly Bear tracks from their Daytrotter session here. Don't miss that link! Here's one of the tracks: He Hit Me

Here's a douche bag of music videos:

Bjork : Army Of Me (At Coachella 2007) :



Bjork : WanderLust (At Coachella 2007) :



Fiona Apple : Across The Universe



Liars : Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack



Serena-Maneesh : Sapphire Eyes



Nirvana : Smells Like Teen Spirit



Tori Amos : Smells Like Teen Spirit

Monday Mash-Up

It's a big week for shows in Atlanta. First, tonight Sunset Rubdown will be at the Drunken Unicorn. You can listen to some recent live tracks from them here. Arcade Fire and The National will be at the Atlanta Civic Center tommorrow night. Thursday night From Exile will be at the Masquerade. Friday night Blonde Redhead and Annuals will be at the Variety Playhouse. Modest Mouse and Man Man will be at the Masquerade Music Park Saturday night. Here's some tracks to get you in the mood:

The National : Brainy

From Exile : Cataclysm

Blonde Redhead : Spring And By Summer Fall

Annuals : Carry Around

Modest Mouse : Spitting Venom

Modest Mouse : Parting Of The Sensory

Man Man : Banana Ghost


Last weekend was the first time I've ever been to Inman Park Festival and it was pretty awesome. Here's some photos:








There's a couple new releases I'm excited about this week both from artists I've loved since I was a kid. I hope they don't suck:






Here's some interviews to read:

• My Brightest Diamond
• Jarvis Cocker
• CocoRosie
• Explosions In The Sky
• Animal Collective
• Ted Leo
• Bjork
• Peter Bjorn And John

Here's The Mars Volta on the Henry Rollins Show:

Day Of The Baphomets (part 1):



Day Of The Baphomets (part2):



Interview:



Tetragrammaton (part 1):



Tetragrammaton (part 2):

Post-Spring Break Randomness

The last week was a blur of drinking and more drinking. In between the war campaign I waged against my liver, I caught 2 shows. I saw RJD2 and Busdriver at the Variety Playhouse last Tuesday night. In the context of all the awesome shows i've been catching lately it was a little dissapointing. Busdriver is very talented, but the show was not anywhere near amazing. His lyrics were hard to understand most of the time because he was mumbling too much and him and his DJ (who was more using drum machines than turntables) basically whined about the audience reaction (or lack thereof) the entire performance. I know hip-hop artists like to yell at the crowd and try and get them to go crazy, but dissing your crowd between every song is not going to entice the reaction you want. If you're not recieving the ideal reaction from your audience, perhaps you should be more entertaining. RoadKillOvercoat is a good hip-hop album, but this guy is not the Notorious BIG. Go earn a crowd reaction, don't act like it's due to you.





RJD2 came out with a band and was playing guitar and bass and singing and didn't even touch a turntable until the 5 th song. This first portion was interesting as this 4-piece version of RJD2 did their best impression of Ratatat. Then RJD2 himself got behind his turntables and drum machines and turned in a mediocre mixing set. The coolest thing about it was the use of projector. In addition to having random trippy stuff going on, he had a video camera that would show what his hands were doing on certain parts, like playing the drum machine. As his bandmates retuned to stage and they continued to do rock-ish music, the show got seriously boring. I don't mind the concept of a DJ pretending he is a rockstar but the delivery here was lacking to say the least.





The other show I caught last week was Of Montreal at the Grey Eagle in Asheville, NC. A great show in a venue that I didn't really like that much. The band did mostly stuff off of Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? and was maybe a little shorter show than most of the set lists I've seen. My friend taped the show and I'll have that torrent highlighted as soon as it is up.



Largehearted Boy has a collection of torrents, files, and streams from SXSW. You should check it out.

Spoon have released details on their new album coming out in July called Gimme Fiction.

The White Stripes have released a tracklisting of their new album Icky Thump.

As part of the Pitchfork Fest/ATP/Awesomeness, Slint will be performing their album Spiderland the same night Sonic Youth performs Daydream Nation. It just gets better and better.

Blonde Redhead talk about their new album, 23.

Lamb Of God, Hatebreed, and Lordi are headlining this year's Ozzfest.

The Chemical Brothers have a new album out in June. Here's a vid:



Tori Amos has a new album coming out in May. Here's a video:



Paul McCartney has a new album comnig out this year on a Starbucks label.

Jurassic 5 is breaking up.

Roger Waters has a new song for a soundtrack of The Last Mimzy.

Here's an article on the 404 Noise Fest Biggie C checked out.

Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker is getting busy. Here's a SK video:



Scott Weiland allegedly trahsed a hotel with his wife.

Shellac have an new album due out in June.

The Darkness realized they suck and broke up.

A bundle of interviews for you:

• Bloc Party
• New Pornographers
• Panda Bear
• Whigs
• Ted Leo
• The Decemberists
• Dr Dog
• Serena-Maneesh
• Reverend Horton Heat

A Serena-Maneesh video:



Dr. Dog at Criminal Records doing an in-store performance last month: