Friday Free-Style

Bjork Monday night at The Fox was really great, but compared to the other time I saw her at Radio City Music Hall in New York back in 2001, I thought it was a little lacking. Monday night was a little too short, the song selection i thought could have been a little better, and the stage show didn't seem quite as epic, but it is kinda like going to see Micheal Jordan play a basketball game and complaining he only got 30 points. Pitchfork got some really great pics of the show. Here's a little sample if you missed it:



While looking for that, I found this (Yeah Yeah Yeahs covering Bjork's "Hyberballad" at Criminal Records):



Moorish Idols have two hot new tracks, "Saint EOM" and "That's A Moray", on their myspace.

The Echo Project has announced a pre-party Wednesday night October 10th at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga featuring Infected Mushroom.

Jens Lekman will be at the Drunken Unicorn on November 16th.

VHS Or Beta will be at the Earl September 24th.

NPR, in typical awesome NPR fashion, has some concerts you can listen to now:

• The Apples In Stereo
• Andrew Bird
• Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)
• The National
• The Polyphonic Spree

Rage Against The Machine's Zach De La Rocha just finished a solo album that features former The Mars Volta drummer/badass Jon Theodore.

British Sea Power are releasing a new EP called Krankenhaus? in October.

Radiohead are finally releasing their material digitally, but are requiring you to purchase the entire album.

Creative Loafing has a review of the East Atlanta Strut.

Here is the rumored Gutar Hero 3 tracklist.

Check out this video of Thurston Moore previewing his new solo album.

And here's some vids to take you into the weekend:

Battles


Interpol


Les Savy Fav

Humpday Random Tracks

Listen to the track, click the pic for 411:

I finally listened to The Trials Of Van Occupanther thanks to Lern. You can file it in the large stack of great 2006 albums I missed. Luckily they will be at The Earl September 4th.



Midlake : The Trials Of Van Occupanther : Roscoe


This is the hottness all over the internets rights now:



Okkervil River : The Stage Names : Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe


Just listened to this EP for the first time this week:



Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Is Is (EP) : Isis


A little local flavor I hadn't put up yet:



Black Lips : Good Bad Not Evil : Cold Hands


Finally, an early leak:



Maritime : Heresy And The Hotel Choir : Guns Of Navaroe

Friday Free-Style

Black Lips will be at the Clairmont Lounge Augsut 16th:



The hot show to go to tonight is:



Peter Bjorn And John are going to do a show as Kanye West's backing band.

So the indie version of those terrible Now That's What i Call Music compilations has been revealed and here's the track list:

This Is NEXT Volume 1 (due out August 21st):

01 Bloc Party - "The Prayer"
02 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Cheated Hearts"
03 Sonic Youth - "Do You Believe in Rapture?"
04 The Shins - "Phantom Limb"
05 Spoon - "The Underdog"
06 Bright Eyes - "Four Winds"
07 Cat Power - "Lived in Bars"
08 Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"
09 Of Montreal - "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
10 Deerhoof - "The Perfect Me"
11 The Hold Steady - "Chips Ahoy!"
12 Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up to Dry"
13 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Colleen"
14 M. Ward - "Chinese Translation"
15 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Satan Said Dance"

Neil Young's Greendale is going to be a graphic novel.

Atlanta's own Black Lips and Deerhunter are playing All Tommorrow's Parties Halloween fest in London with Liars and Deerhoof.

Speaking of Deerhunter, Bradford Cox had a little more to say on his robbery:

I just wanted to post something to let you guys know that Lenny's is not a dangerous place. Everyone there was extremely helpful and nice that night. They are like family to us and I didn't mean for this event to put them in a negative light. They have armed security and are now hiring police as well. It's a rad venue and I still plan on playing there whenever we have the chance. Please help spread the word that Lenny's is not sketch town. And be safe. The reason we got in trouble was because I was wasted and we parked on a shady street a few blocks away. Stick with friends. And hope your friends are as good as Lockett. :)

bradford

An Arctic Monkeys side project is in the works.

Get a limited edition Thurston Moore tape here.

Here's the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the Late Show:



New Black Keys video:



New White Stripes video:

Monday Mash-Up

St. Vincent will be at The Earl Wednesday night, her new album Mary Me Comes out tomorrow and there's an album release party for it that night at Wordsmiths Books in Decatur. Here's a video:



The other two albums that come out tomorrow of interest to me are Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Smashing Pumpkin's Zeitgeist.

Here's the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs' video:



There's a new DVD telling the story of Syd Barrett.

Hot Chip is working on the new album.

There is a free Panda Bear DVD in the works.

Here's the new New Pornographers track: Myriad Harbour

Creative Loafing has an article on One Hand Loves The Other. I've been listening to the album, and it is really interesting. Check out an obnoxious youtube live recording:



Slash from Gun "N" Roses will be a playable character on Guitar Hero 3.

Ohmpark Recommended Shows this week:

• Sonen, Ruby Isle, Spectralux at The Drunken Unicorn Wednesday night.
• The Decemberists featuring the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Chastain Park Amphitheatre Friday night.

Corndogarama is this weekend and we will break down the line-up for you later this week. Also, The Ohmpark crew will be in Chicago this weekend covering the Pitchfork Music Festival so check us out in between seeing amazing music here in the A.

Friday Free-Style

The 2nd Beirut album is due out October 9th and most notably will include string arrangements and guest vocals from Ohnpark favourite Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy. Here is Beirut's Zach Condon covering Grizzly Bear's "Knife" in an almost satirical scene:



Ok, here's some dates to put down in your calendar:

06/27/2007: Voxtrot (The Drunken Unicorn)
06/30/2007: Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee (Masquerade Music Park)
07/05/2007: People Noise (ISP)
07/07/2007: Fiery Furnaces, Deerhunter (The Earl)
07/07/2007: Bob Weir and Ratdog, Keller Williams (Chastain Park)
07/11/2007: St. Vincent (The Earl)
07/11/2007: Ruby Isle, Spectralux (The Drunken Unicorn)
07/13/2007: The Decemberists with The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Chastain Park)
07/14/2007: Graboids (Lenny's)
07/19/2007: 311, Matisyahu (Hi Fi Buys)
07/20/2007: Morrisey (Chastain Park)
07/23/2007: Silverchair (The Roxy)
07/25/2007: Untied States 7" inch release show (The Earl)
07/26/2007: Marnie Stern, Lid Emba (The Drunken Unicorn)
07/28/2007: Marilyn Manson, Slayer (Hi Fi Buys)
07/31/2007: Pelican (The Drunken Unicorn)
08/02/2007: "Rock The Bells" Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, Talib Kwali, many more... (Hi Fi Buys)
08/07/2007: Portugal. The Man (The Drunken Unicorn)
08/07/2007: Ben Kweller (Variety Playhouse)
08/08/2007: Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Birds Of Avalon (Whirly Ball)
08/09/2007: One Hand Loves The Other (The Earl)
08/13/2007: Neko Case (Tabernacle)
08/20/2007: Willie Nelson (Chastain Park)
09/04/2007: Midlake (The Earl)
09/07/2007: Dark Star Orchestra (Variety Playhouse)
09/12/2007: Peter Bjorn And John (The Variety Playhouse)
09/12/2007: The Meat Puppets (The Earl)
09/13/2007: Andrew Bird (Variety Playhouse)
09/22/2007: Girl Talk (MJQ)
09/26/2007: Animal Collective (Variety Playhouse)
09/27/2007: Deerhunter (The Drunken Unicorn)
10/13/2007: Sunset Rubdown (The Drunken Unicorn)
10/22/2007: Boris (The Earl)
10/26/2007: Low (The Earl)

Deerhunter is opening for two of the Smashing Pumpkins shows in Asheville, NC.

The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing 4 different versions of their new album.

The Go! Team are dropping their new album on September 11th. Here's a new video:



Austin City Limits Festival has posted its schedule. After looking at it, I decided not to go to this as i was planning, not so much that they did a bad job on the schedule, but the line-up just didn't seem as good as it initally seemed to me.

The Mars Volta are currently recording their fourth full length that should get released in the fall. Hells Yeah.

Radiohead's new album is also due out this fall.

Listen to tracks off of the new Animal Collective album here.

Despite some confusion earlier, it turns out Mastodon is headling Corndogarama. Here's a vid:



Largeheartedboy is keeping a list of all the Bonnaroo 2007 downloadables.

Speaking of Bonnaroo downloadables, you can get a DVD of The Flaming Lips' 2003 Bonnaroo appearance here.

Here's the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs video:



You can watch Queens Of The Stone Age on The Henry Rollins show here.

You can watch Menomena's MTV debut video here.

I'll leave you with a Snowden video: