This year I had much greater difficulty putting together a list of my favorite local albums than I did a non-local list. And that makes me proud. Not proud for myself, of course, but of this city and the wealth of musical talent it produces. There were more genuinely great local albums produced in 2011 than I can ever remember in my eight years living here, and narrowing them all down to a reasonable number proved to be a much more arduous task than I ever could have thought. And yet, here we are. The caveats and criteria [...]
2011 was the year I dove headlong into local music. I listened to just about everything I could get a hold of, scouring through Facebook, Bandcamp and Soundcloud in my attempts to discover as many local artists and as much local music as I possibly could. But even now I feel as if there's so much out there that I'm missing out on. New bands and artists seem to to be sprouting up every day and the landscape of Atlanta music is constantly in flux, morphing and shifting into something unique and different. And so while the list [...]
m'kay maybe this is a bit too fancy to be dismissed with a wave of fuzzbox, three chords and 4/4 beat, as mere garage. but the core is thatkindofthing. s'pose it's coming from the same place as the amen dunes record sacred bones put out this year: spacemen 3, phil spector, 13th floor elevators, etpetercetera. but there's more oomph, more spunk, less paisley. lashings of fractured psych and muzzy blooms of tunes. hollered swoons of words and melody, smothered, covered, inward looking, buried, hidden/hiding. everything shrouded, dense, gauzey. then they lock into some bastard noisegroove , pirouetting between the [...]
The N.E.C. Pineapple [Pretty Ambitious Records, 2011] 4 out of 5 stars Purchase This Album: Pretty Ambitious Way back in January I posted a review for Mood Rings' excellent debut EP, Sweater Weather Forever , one that — among other things — established the EP's second track, "Indian Hills," as the benchmark for local music singles in 2011. To be clear, I was speaking purely in pop terms; [...]
Image Copyright: Jason Maris One of my all time favorite Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes is #65 simply titled Bart Oates . Music [...]
I'm not sure exactly what universe that Atlanta's The Natural Extension Concept , or for short The N.E.C. , are coming out of - but I've been loving on their sonic experiments long time . Creatures Flaming , off their brand new LP Pineapple , which will drop on November 5th, explores outer regions like none I've heard for quite some time. I'm fascinated with the adept hand in which they create songs that are at once part bouncy space oddities, part flowering in the sky above [...]
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Aveces no se necesita de ua gran producion, grandes productors o equipos de sonido de alta calidad para crear musica excelente, digo... Cuando se tiene la pasion y el entusiasmo por crear algo dan como resultado cosas grandiosas dentro de toda la distorcion que pueda colarse dentro de las grabaciones o simplemente estos son pequeños pero grandes detalles con los que las bandas muchas veces suelen jugar un poco para mantener vivo el espiritu de las grabaciones clasicas y por que no?, para darle unos toques mas enfocados al garage a su sonido. The Natural Extension Concept es una de [...]
Enlightened Atlanta-based power trio The Natural Extension Concept, usually denoted simply as The N.E.C. , dropped a propulsive, damn-near masterpiece in 2010 titled Is - a body of work that flawlessly explored the strata between Nuggets and Psychocandy at gulf stream velocity. Ready for another go this year, The N.E.C. reaches even further past the edge of the observable universe with the forthcoming cosmic punk manifesto Pineapple , a seven-song collection that packs an expanded sonic palette and some befuddling, Dark Side of the Spoon -evocative artwork. The [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Pretty Ambitious First Anniversary Party w/ Abby Gogo, Lucy Dreams, Ehn EE Sea, Predator, The Husseins, more... Saturday, August 20 Star Bar - 437 Moreland Avenue in Atlanta 30307 Admission $10 In just their first year of existence, local upstarts Pretty Ambitious have amassed an impressive roster of bands with Mermaids , Abby Gogo , Lucy Dreams and the N.E.C. all calling the label home. The imprint leans heavily towards psych-pop and shoegaze, which [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Fucked Up w/ JEFF the Brotherhood, HAWKS Wednesday, June 29 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $12 / Purchase Tickets Even if you're not into Fucked Up's artful brand of punk and hardcore, the experience alone should be enough to drag you out to the Earl on Wednesday night. Unfettered chaos. All hell breaking loose. The sights and sounds of bodies hurling themselves violently at one another, all set to [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Danzig w/ 2Cents, DevilDriver Tuesday, May 10 Center Stage - 1374 West Peachtree Street in Atlanta 30309 Admission $25 ADV / $27 DOS / Purchase Tickets Explaining why you should go to a Danzig show is fucking inane. The logo tells you everything you need to know. Look at it closely. Shit is black, evil and stupendously fantastic. If the logo doesn't speak to you, if it doesn't move you on some deep emotional and [...]
THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Titus Andronicus w/ Carnivores Sunday, April 24 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $10 / Purchase Tickets I just want to take a minute to appreciate the fact that Atlanta has become a regular stop for New Jersey rockers and committed road warriors, Titus Andronicus . And with all the critical success behind last year's magnificent sophomore effort, the Monitor , I keep expecting the group to take their raucous live show [...]
I love doing year end roundup coverage and I'm still waiting to put up the bands to watch list, so I thought we'd highlight some of the great bands we discovered over the past year. Some of them made our 2011 bands to watch list, some of them didn't, some of them aren't even NEW [...]
ARTIST: The SWAG Report 019 with freebie downloads for songs by Corin Tucker, Dandy Warhols, Dax Riggs, Marnie Stern, The Posies, Tortoise, Wintergloves and more! So much more! DATE: 08-05-10 WRITER: Don Loder Good evening alla you workin' men and girls, Y'know, there are moments when I feel bad for alla you folks? It's gotta be rough; there you are goin' ta work every day, slavin' for some boss who prolly doesn't appreciate anything other than the fact [view [...]
The N.E.C. - Those (Guilty Pleasures) mp3The Atlanta psych outfit's recent LPIson Double Phantom Records.As you know (or maybe don't, it pstill holds), we're quite willing psuckers for the kind of psuccor this excellent pstuff affords our needy psyches. Many thanks to Jessi at Banter Media for psending it our way. And pspeaking of "way," BTW, we were once planning to write a psong called "(Too
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School of Seven Bells ~ "Windstorm" ( mp3 ) ***Check out the new video for "Windstorm" here . Invisible Elephant ~ " You Can Have It All " Invisible Elephant ~ "Wind Up Bird" ( mp3 download ) An Horse ~ " Postcards " www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ50HF c0-6Y Seabear ~ " [...]
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The N.E.C. 's newest record, Is , dropped back in January, but it just recently saw a vinyl release as well. I finally got myself a copy, and I have to say I'm hooked. They manage to pack quite a range of psychedelic grooves into barely twenty minutes of music. Even when they lean toward their garagey side more than I typically prefer, they still pull it off better than just about everyone else. But Is is a bit of tease, as I find myself wishing each song was about twice as long in duration. They are [...]
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