Crib Notes

Word on the street has it that the king Khan & BBQ show are playing a free in-store performance at Vacation Gallery and Boutique today around 7 p.m.

There will be an actual BBQ with shrimp, hot dogs, hamburgers and beer before hand, so come hungry and leave happy.

Vacation is located at 74A N. Highland Ave. next door to San Francisco Coffee. If you have any other questions, give them a call at (404) 875-4413.

(Photo by Chad Radford)

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Last week Rolling Stone’s “Rock and Roll Daily” blog posted an interview with Mastodon’s guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds. In the interview Hinds explains how the head injuries he incurred as the result of being attacked at the VMA’s in Las Vegas last year pushed Mastodon to pursue a more melodic direction with their forthcoming album.

According to the story:

“I was dizzy for eight months… During those months, I just sat with my acoustic and a little marijuana, and wrote all the music. I wanted a more melodic, easy-listening situation, and that definitely came from having head trauma.”

From there the group sought out producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, AC/DC) to help flesh out the reportedly melodic but heavy as hell sound of Mastodon’s next record.

Read the full story here.

Hinds’ recent run-in with King Khan at the Highland Inn Ballroom in Atlanta (and ensuing witch hunt) hasn’t churned out any musical epiphanies or led to any fortuitous pairings with producers just yet, but give it time…

(Photo by Jimmy Hubbard)

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I recently flew to New York City to catch the Black Lips, Deerhunter, and King Khan & the Shrines play a free show August 3, at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn.

It was worth the trip. The bands played to an insanely packed crowd of thousands of kids, young and old. It was so surreal standing onstage looking out at the wave of people covering the pool so thick you could barely see the cement floor.

The show was sweaty, loud, unpredictable, and a little bit chaotic — sounds like an Atlanta show to me.

I spent ten days in the city. This is what I saw:

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If you’re not stuck in gridlock or already far far away from Atlanta for the 4th of July weekend there are plenty of things going on around town to keep you entertained. In addition to the various back yard BBQ’s, block parties and shows taking place all over the city on the 4^th CL’s gives a hearty, American thumbs to the following weekend happenings.

First and foremost, there is the King Khan and the Shrines show happening over at Lenny’s. On Sat., July 5th.

Criminal Records in L5P is hosting an in-store performance with the Dutches & the Duke at 5 p.m. The show is free and there will most likely be will be beer provided.

Later that night the D&D head over to The Drunken Unicorn to play a show with Seattle’s Fleet Foxes. The show is $10 and it starts at 10 p.m.

The Star Bar in L5P is has the whole weekend covered with a spate of free and fantastic shows from local bands.

Friday, July 4th
Pink Police
the Booze
the Hiss
El Capitan & the Scallywags
the N.E.C.
Club Awesome

Saturday July 5th
Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause
Gringo Star
Ocha La Rocha
Brass Castle
All the Saints

Music at The Star Bar begins at 8 p.m. on both nights and, once again, it’s free all weekend.

And if these things aren’t your bag, than you can head over to Turner Field on Friday to catch Arrested Development’s lead female vocalist, Tasha LaRae perform the national anthem before the game starts.

Then on Saturday night Arrested Development will play a show in Fan Plaza beginning at 5:30 p.m. There will be a second show in Fan Plaza after the game as well.

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