FOA is soon to return. Hold tight.
Postcard courtesy of PostSecret.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Friday, December 5, 2008
Win Free Tickets to the Can Can CD Release this Saturday
Hey Atlanta folk! We've posted a ticket giveaway on Paste:Local Atlanta for this Saturday's Can Can CD release at the Drunken Unicorn with Trial By Fire, The Swear and Tenth to the Moon, and no one has jumped at it yet. That mean's a pair of FREE tickets is still floating around out there, waiting to be snatched up.
Someone snatch please? Go here to enter. I mean, I'll be there...
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Marnie Stern, Okkervil River and Pontiak...gasping for air
So it certainly has been a struggle keeping everything straight this past couple of months. Can barely keep my head above water. Lemme tell you, Paste:Local Atlanta has me running in circles most of the time. (SO YOU SHOULD PROBABLY READ IT EVERY DAY AND LEAVE COMMENTS.) I don't even get much time to listen and digest new music.
A couple of new things I've stumbled upon, despite the fact that I basically live in a cave (and by "a cave," I mean "stressed out alone in my living room"...pity the lonely freelancer):
1. Marnie Stern, who rocks. I mean really rocks. I don't have the album, but I will most certainly be buying it or stealing it from Geoff soon. Have a listen to the song that converted me.
2. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
I got a record player! And this was my third vinyl purchase! I just got into their previous record, The Stage Names, a couple of months back, and while their specific sound aesthetic doesn't speak to me automatically, Will Sheff's lyricism is truly second-to-none. He paints poetic pictures-- I love it. The new album hasn't totally sunken in for me, but I'm spinning it on the turntable over and over...maybe I'll wear out my first record!
3. Pontiak played at one of Have You Heard's Monday night shows at 97 Estoria about a month back, and their set was so compelling that I bought their CD. Have a listen!
Enjoy, and reciprocate. Needs the new musics! (And all these press release emails are starting to hurt my head.)
A couple of new things I've stumbled upon, despite the fact that I basically live in a cave (and by "a cave," I mean "stressed out alone in my living room"...pity the lonely freelancer):
1. Marnie Stern, who rocks. I mean really rocks. I don't have the album, but I will most certainly be buying it or stealing it from Geoff soon. Have a listen to the song that converted me.
2. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
I got a record player! And this was my third vinyl purchase! I just got into their previous record, The Stage Names, a couple of months back, and while their specific sound aesthetic doesn't speak to me automatically, Will Sheff's lyricism is truly second-to-none. He paints poetic pictures-- I love it. The new album hasn't totally sunken in for me, but I'm spinning it on the turntable over and over...maybe I'll wear out my first record!
3. Pontiak played at one of Have You Heard's Monday night shows at 97 Estoria about a month back, and their set was so compelling that I bought their CD. Have a listen!
Enjoy, and reciprocate. Needs the new musics! (And all these press release emails are starting to hurt my head.)
Monday, October 13, 2008
The Great Schlep
Got Jewish grandparents in Florida? Join The Great Schlep! It's your patriotic duty!
The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.
The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
FOAVOD: Dan Deacon/TMTS
Two videos courtesy of Stephen and the Paste A/V crew:
Throw Me The Statue - "Conquering Kids" warmup in the Paste stairwell (by itself, this time)
Dan Deacon warming up the crowd at Corndogorama. I was there, and it really was this awesome.
Throw Me The Statue - "Conquering Kids" warmup in the Paste stairwell (by itself, this time)
Dan Deacon warming up the crowd at Corndogorama. I was there, and it really was this awesome.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Paste:Local Atlanta is giving away tickets to see The Bridges
Hey y'all, anyone really like The Bridges? Go to Paste:Local Atlanta and email in to win the contest, then! Winner gets to see them this Saturday at The Loft. (They'll also get a free copy of the band's latest album, and a free, signed Paste with their singer on the cover.) Woot.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
FOAVOD: Throw Me The Statue - "Conquering Kids" live in the Paste studio
So I've been waiting months for this video to show up.
TMTS played live at Paste when I was an intern, and it definitely turned me on to the band, who have become one of my recent favorites. (Pick up Moonbeams if you haven't yet.) The newest edition of Paste Vision (the mag's occasional video podcast) finally includes part of that live performance....months and months later. Strangely enough, the actual studio performance isn't what you see here. What we get instead is the band warming up in the stairwell at the back of the building. I think the footage from the studio didn't turn out because there were simply too many people in that small room, and because it was the a/v crew's first experience with a new box of wireless mics...don't think it was much of a success. Certainly was entertaining to witness, though.
After they played for us, we went and saw them at the Unicorn. You know, with audible vocals.
If the studio bit isn't worth watching, though, this certainly is! Check out Paste Vision 5; the Throw Me The Statue bit's right in the middle. You can't miss it.
(Cough, read Paste:Local, cough.)
TMTS played live at Paste when I was an intern, and it definitely turned me on to the band, who have become one of my recent favorites. (Pick up Moonbeams if you haven't yet.) The newest edition of Paste Vision (the mag's occasional video podcast) finally includes part of that live performance....months and months later. Strangely enough, the actual studio performance isn't what you see here. What we get instead is the band warming up in the stairwell at the back of the building. I think the footage from the studio didn't turn out because there were simply too many people in that small room, and because it was the a/v crew's first experience with a new box of wireless mics...don't think it was much of a success. Certainly was entertaining to witness, though.
After they played for us, we went and saw them at the Unicorn. You know, with audible vocals.
If the studio bit isn't worth watching, though, this certainly is! Check out Paste Vision 5; the Throw Me The Statue bit's right in the middle. You can't miss it.
(Cough, read Paste:Local, cough.)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Dangerous hair swoops, Constellations and Christians (of a sort): August's Southeast Performer arrived weeks ago!
The distribution problems made it a couple of weeks late, sure, but I'm even later, here telling you about August's SEP in the first week of September. Bear with me though, because it's a lovely issue, and you can probably still pick it up all over town.
I got to interview and write about indie electro DJ Dylan Eiland, a.k.a Le Castle Vania. Check it out! (It's my second cover story! Yay!)
The Two-sided Mind of a Single-minded DJ
The semi-circular stairs descending to the doorway of Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn should be groaning, they bear the weight of so many. People squish through the open portal and past the bouncers, a bottleneck of 18-and-up partygoers all bright-eyed and just a little bit manic, eager to be inside where the mob ebbs and flows like waves and the air thickens with body heat...[Read more]
The rest of the issue is a little Atlanta-centric (which of course I love), featuring Noot d' Noot and spotlighting Connor Christian and The Constellations (as well as non-Atlanta artist Todd Simpson). How can you blame us? The city has just too much going on...Enjoy!
Friday, August 29, 2008
More excuses...
So Paste:Local Atlanta's looking pretty sweet, y'all. I don't seem to have much creative juice left for anything else though, and every time I approach this here FOA to write something, I seem to be without words.
This week P:L A has a live review of that Gnarls Barkley/Janelle Monae show at the Variety a little while back, a preview of the Decatur Book Festival this weekend, a review of the reMIXT opening at Mint Gallery from last weekend, a review of Y O U and the Modern Skirts at Star Bar from last Thursday, the weekly Informer:Atlanta of course (full Atlanta event listings every Tuesday - send tips and calendars to atlanta@pastemagazine.com !) and finally, a writeup of the local shorts program at last weekends Atlanta Underground Film Festival.
And that was just this week! Seriously, I can't believe how good it's all looking (regardless of how stressed-out I get), so please please go read every day and tell all your friends!
Coming up:
Catching Up With... Noot d' Noot
Live Review: The Features, The Redcoats @ The Earl 8/30/08
Reviews of the Decatur Book Festival, The Grant Park Summer Shade Festival and Dragon*Con
(yeah!)
...stay tuned!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Informer:Atlanta
Yo, check out the new weekly music and events calendar at Paste:Local Atlanta! Look for it every Tuesday!
Informer:Atlanta 8/19/08
Think of it as a replacement for our old FOA show docket feature...
Informer:Atlanta 8/19/08
Think of it as a replacement for our old FOA show docket feature...
Lackthereof - "Fake Empire" (The National cover)
My head just a-splode.
I bought this record today (Your Anchor by Lackthereof), and I really like it. I didn't look at the track listing before I popped it in, though, so when this song (the album's final track) came on, I nearly wet myself.
The original, for anyone who's forgotten:
You'll remember my adoration for both the original album and the song itself.
Lackthereof is Danny Seim from excellent NW band Menomena. This is suddenly a lovely afternoon.
I bought this record today (Your Anchor by Lackthereof), and I really like it. I didn't look at the track listing before I popped it in, though, so when this song (the album's final track) came on, I nearly wet myself.The original, for anyone who's forgotten:
You'll remember my adoration for both the original album and the song itself.
Lackthereof is Danny Seim from excellent NW band Menomena. This is suddenly a lovely afternoon.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Paste:Local Atlanta!!
Apologies for the long silence, y'all. I've been...well..."busy" is an understatement.
Here's why:
Paste:Local Atlanta.
If I haven't gushed at you already about this, Paste:Local is PasteMagazine.com's new blog initiative, applying the mag's eye for "signs of life in music, film and culture" to the ATL's local scene. I've got the privilege of editing our city's pilot edition of P:L, and as of Monday, it's launched! It's got a LOT of kinks that need workin' out, so don't hike up your expectations too high, but it's already looking meaty and awesome, if not yet gorgeous. (Picture above is from intro post. It's Ben from Judi Chicago. Taken by the ever-talented Jason Reed.)
Have a look!!!!!: PasteMagazine.com/Atlanta
And then let me know what you think. Bloggers, spread the word! I'm looking for contributors...and some of you have already received some sidebar lovin' (this department will also look better soon).
If FOA gets kind of sad and lonely in the future, it's because P:L's growing and thriving! No tears!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
I reviewed the brand-spankin'-new Black Kids record for PasteMagazine.com. Yessir!
Blog band delivers with danceable first LP
Childlike call-and-response vocals, ecstatic, shiny dance-floor sensibilities and enough hooks to reel in an entire sea of club-going teenagers buoy this debut full-length release from Jacksonville, Fla. quintet Black Kids. The band hits hard with the follow up to its 2007 demo EP Wizard of Ahhhs, which previously released four of the tracks on this new LP. Black Kids first experienced a massive hype wave last year in the U.K., then eventually in the States, despite having no proper record and being largely unable to afford any real promotion. Having finally nailed down solid support and with settling levels of backlash, Partie Traumatic makes good on the band's early promise with dance-pop anthems like "I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)" and the standout "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance." [Read more...]
The LP releases today on Columbia, and can be found here. I wouldn't be talking about it if it wasn't a ton of fun.
Call it a silly love, but here's a video of my favorite track, "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You":
Lest we forget.
Blog band delivers with danceable first LP
Childlike call-and-response vocals, ecstatic, shiny dance-floor sensibilities and enough hooks to reel in an entire sea of club-going teenagers buoy this debut full-length release from Jacksonville, Fla. quintet Black Kids. The band hits hard with the follow up to its 2007 demo EP Wizard of Ahhhs, which previously released four of the tracks on this new LP. Black Kids first experienced a massive hype wave last year in the U.K., then eventually in the States, despite having no proper record and being largely unable to afford any real promotion. Having finally nailed down solid support and with settling levels of backlash, Partie Traumatic makes good on the band's early promise with dance-pop anthems like "I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)" and the standout "I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance." [Read more...]
The LP releases today on Columbia, and can be found here. I wouldn't be talking about it if it wasn't a ton of fun.
Call it a silly love, but here's a video of my favorite track, "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You":
Lest we forget.
Friday, July 18, 2008
HearYa's Top 25 Mullets in Rock History
"Duran Duran is 80% mullet. What’s the other 20%? I’ll leave that to you."
PLEASE look at the rest of it. Seriously.
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