1) The Black Lips perform for the Earl’s 10th Anniversary.
2) The Mano a Mano Art Show at the Five Spot features art by more than 20 artists and performances by Clan Destined and DJs Nervex and Osmose.
3) Beards of Comedy perform at Laughing Skull Lounge.
4) T-Model Ford plays Smith’s Olde Bar.
5) The Affordable Art Show opens at Alan Avery Art Company.
(Photo courtesy Black Lips)
SHORT FUSE: Black Lips
Bands to watch out for at SXSW 2009 (Yeah, we wish were there too. Luckily, our A&E Assistant Wyatt will be updating us from the trenches. Before he left, he filled us in on the bands sure to make a splash at this year’s festival.)
Crack the Skye finds Mastodon on the haunt (Chad Radford explores the inspiration for Mastodon’s latest album.)
Live Review: Estelle and Solange bring fashionable soul front and center (DeMarco Williams reviews about outside-the-box performances of Solange and Estelle.)
Paul’s Boutique revisited (Twenty years after its original release, the Beastie Boys’ classic takes Chad on a nostalgic ride.)
Black Lips play Ubangi benefit show at 529 (The Black Lips are in town to support Bobby Ubangi, a.k.a. B Jay Womack, who was diagnosed last year with stage IV small cell lung cancer.)
(Photo courtesy Vice)
CL’s Chante Lagon and Chad Radford chat about music shows going on this weekend. Tonight, the Black Lips are having their official album release party for 200 Million Thousand (with Atlas Sound and Gentleman’s Jesse) at Variety Playhouse. Over at the East Atlanta Icehouse, Scott Kelly of Neurosis plays a solo acoustic show.
On Sunday the Sean Costello Memorial Concert is taking place at the North Atlanta High Center for the arts.
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1) Art House Gallery hosts the Sketchbook Project.
2) Scott Kelly plays the East Atlanta Ice House.
3) Robin Williams performs at the Fox Theatre.
4) Ben Folds plays the Tabernacle.
5) The Black Lips play Variety Playhouse.
(Photo Kiwehowin/Flickr.com)
1) Cirque Dreams Jungle Tour begins at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
2) Col. Bruce Hampton & the Quark Alliance play Smith’s Olde Bar.
3) Lamar Dodd continues at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Midtown.
4) The Black Lips play 529.
5) Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge hosts Low End Theory Beat Lounge.
(Photo by Carol Rosegg)
Hey, I have an idea: why doesn’t Dave G-damn Matthews think of ways to give concerts more truck- and bus- and generator-free! For three days leading up to the concert, my street and the Piedmont Park Meadow were covered with trucks, buses, generator-powered streetlights, and all manner of workmen moving fences, stage construction materials, port-a-potties, trailers, and other accoutrement around in preparation for an environmental extravaganza that would surely leave our newly re-landscaped park in muddy ruins.
-Shelbinator, responding to an obnoxious, tone-deaf announcement by the Midtown Neighbors’ Association telling residents that use of cars would be “frowned upon” all weekend.
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. . . and the press has the nerve to insult her figure? Fuck you. Fuck you big time. THIS is WHY so many women (and men) have issues with their bodies, and why so many have eating disorders in this country. Statements like this are completely despicable and do so much harm to the self esteem of so many, and for what? All in the name of insult? SHAME, shame, shame.
-Duane Moody, who LOVES Britney Spears, lashes out at the author of an article mocking Spears’ physique at last night’s MTV video crapfest. Because, as we all know, Spears’ career until last night was focused on sending healthy messages to young women about body image and sexuality.
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There will be buzz aplenty in the room when Black Lips, The Selmanaires, and The Coathangers take over the 40 Watt stage. It’s the first night of the extensive Black Lips/Selmanaires tour, and the night before The Coathangers play their own CD release show over in Atlanta. We’re so damn spoiled around here.
-Rich at Cable & Tweed on this Wednesday’s Atlanta rock mega-gig at the 40 Watt. I’m a sentimental old fogey, so I’ll be at Crowded House that night.
