
Photo by Heidi Geldhauser THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Sorry No Ferrari (CD Release) w/ From Exile, Hello Ocho Saturday, October 23 The Drunken Unicorn - 736 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE in Atlanta 30306 Admission is $8 It's been a banner year for Atlanta music. For the past 10 months we've been barraged by an onslaught of terrific records in a wide variety of genres. And although technically From Exile's mind-blowing prog-metal opus, Monolith , was [...]

Esoteric circles have long recognized that certain Adepts may transcend Death. Those who's mastery of the teachings enable them to break free of this mortal coil and ascend to something more. These circles know that there exists on other planes a collection, an organization if you will, of these Ascended Masters who watch over us and guide us. The Great White Brotherhood are those who who have risen from the Earth into immortality, but still maintain an active watch over the world. The Great White Brotherhood's will is carried out in our solar system by the Ashtar [...]

For my apologies / frame of mind when making the list - check the mentions post : Some notes : Hate to sound like a white suburban teenager, but the hazy lo-fi sounds of Matt Mondanile & friends has been the soundtrack to this year. Beware! too much of this will make you think that you live in a two storey prefab with American siding, have a bunch of lazy teenagers in trucker caps as friends and make love to sleazy girls at the beach. Which is quite the contrary to what [...]
Jesper Norda arriva da Goteborg, non mette in circolazione molte immagini di sè, e scrive canzoni per piano e voce. Come i precedenti lavori anche il nuovo EP, We Have The Guts, è scaricabile gratuitamente. Siamo lontani dalle sospensioni pianistiche di Chauveau e dal classicismo di Richter, semmai ci si avvicina, soprattutto nel timbro, al maestro [...]

Politically-charged math-rockers' second album gets a John Zorn-approved reissue; for better or worse, time hasn't softened the music one bit.

The news I was dreading finally broke today, and The Mars Volta concert scheduled to be at the Tabernacle next week got canceled because of the tornado damage. I guess I am going on another road trip. Also, Ticketmaster, thanks for not refunding our processing fees. As always, you suck. The Explosions In The Sky show at The Variety Playhouse on April 13th has Sold Out. If you did not heed our warnings , you are still in luck. They have added another EITS show that same day at [...]
Cuneiform never fails to impress us with a steady supply of brilliant albums. Here's a new album, by the band that I still haven't been able to pronounce correctly : Ahleuchatistas . The North Carolina power trio belongs to the increasing number of brilliant progressive math rock albums that I've been listening to this year, full of odd times, shifting rhythms, janglnig guitars and other extremities. Alongside Marnie Stern & Upsilon Acrux , Ahleuchatistas seal the deal with the "must get extreme guitar music" this year. Some good keywords that I stole [...]