Crib Notes

Saturday night, Diplo returns to Atlanta to headline one of the craziest mashups of sounds to grace the WhirlyBall court. Diplo’s penchant for infusing an ’80s pop glow with electro beats, crunk hip-hop and a dose of Miami bass is an unlikely but smooth and complimentary counterpart to Dark Meat’s primitive and improvised rock jams. Noot ‘d Noot opens.

For those who are unfamiliar, WhirlyBall is a team sport that merges basketball, hockey and Jai-Alai with bumper cars.

Tickets to the show come attached to the sleeve of a 7-inch record that can only be purchased in advance at Criminal Records in L5P.

On the a-side, Athens’ Dark Meat covers the classic Iggy Pop song, “Success. ” On the flipside, in true Diplo fashion, the song is deconstructed, chopped, screwed and molded into something entirely new, that’s dubbed “Unsuccessful Space Jam.”

Tickets/records to the show come attached to the sleeve of a 7-inch record, released by Chunklet, that can be purchased at Criminal Records. They are $10 in advance ($12 day of show). The games begin at 8 p.m. WhirlyBall Atlanta is located at 608 Holcomb Bridge Road, in historic Roswell, GA.

For more information call 770-998-6161 or click on www.whirlyballatlanta.com

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This year, CL spent a lot of print space and bandwidth on a select few Atlanta bands, namely Deerhunter and the Black Lips. I consciously stopped writing about these groups a few months ago not only because of complaints from readers, but also because I agreed that it was turning into overkill. After all, it’s not like I listen to these bands 24/7. Hell, I haven’t seen Deerhunter live since last year (when I saw them a good six or seven times), and the last time I saw the Black Lips was at their Whirlyball gig in February for their underrated live disc, Los Valientes del Mundo.

But now that critics have begun the annual tradition of handing out best-of-the-year honors, I’m taking myself off probation. As I and other CL writers catalog the 2007 highlights, you will undoubtedly see a lot of posts on the usual suspects. You’ve been warned.

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