Crib Notes

Each summer, music festivals seem to try to outdo each other with line-ups, film series, logos, locations and ticket prices but few are as big and crazed as Bonnaroo. Held in Manchester, Tenn. every year since 2002 on a 700-acre farm called the Great Stage Park, this year’s 4-day festival featured Nine Inch Nails, TV On the Radio, Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Erykah Badu and dozens of others.

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(Photos by James Camp)

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Dr. Dre, AC/DC, the Bee Gees, and the big, purple annoyance known as Barney are just some of the acts whose music is used by the Feds to torture terrorism suspects, according to a story in yesterday’s AJC.

Other acts include Drowning Pool, Eminem, Queen, Metallica, and Nine Inch Nails. Perhaps Metallica co-founder James Hetfield sums it up best:

“We’ve been punishing our parents, our wives, our loved ones with this music forever. Why should the Iraqis be any different?

Read “Music used as torture device.”

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The nearly hour-long drive from in-town Atlanta to The Arena at Gwinnett in the thick of rush hour was probably the biggest obstacle facing Deerhunter as the group took the stage opening for Nine Inch Nails Wednesday night.

When Deerhunter started most folks were still navigating the parking lot and barking back at the God squad who guarded the driveway, screaming warnings about hellfire and eternal damnation to everyone making their way to the show.

But their cries for repentance fell on deaf ears. Even since the early ‘90s NIN has attracted an ironically meat head clientele, and hordes of rural Georgia rednecks guzzled Miller Lites from the backs of their trucks while they hooted, holler’d and gawked at herds of sour faced goth chics in spiked heels and short skirts.

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Word on the street has it that Deerhunter will play a free show at Vacation Gallery & Boutique this Friday at 7 p.m. So if you’re regretting your decision to balk at catching their opening set at the Nine Inch Nails show in Gwinnett last night, here’s a chance to catch them in a much more intimate venue. More details to come.

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When Deerhunter opens for Nine Inch Nails next Wednesday at The Arena at Gwinnett, it will be the group’s first show in Atlanta (or at least near Atlanta) with their new guitar player, Whitney Petty.

This will also be Atlanta’s first opportunity to get a substantial listen to the songs from the group’s forthcoming third release, Microcastle, which is set to hit the streets on CD and LP via Kranky in North America and 4AD for the rest of the world on October 28th.

The record release party for Microcastle will be held at The Variety Playhouse on Halloween night. Jay Reatard, Pylon and Times New Viking will open the show.

But if you can’t wait until Halloween and you don’t mind spending $30 on gas to get all the way out to Gwinett, and then spending another $39.50-$59.50 for a ticket, the Nine Inch Nails show on Wednesday looks to be pretty amazing.

By all reports the Lights in the Sky tour is one of Trent’s most insane stage shows yet; one that’s packed with visuals that surpass his 1993-’94 tour behind The Downward Spiral, which sounds too good to be true.

For a glimpse of what’s in store, take look…

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