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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Q+A / Tonight / New Music Free from Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty finds his wild, fearless self
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Having released seven albums under the established name of "J. Tillman," Josh Tillman threw his hands up to the flailing project in 2010. Last year he subsequently made the daring (and what looked then to be dumb) choice to quit drumming for an itty bitty band from Seattle called Fleet Foxes. He went on a now-legendary trek in his beloved van, filled his body with drugs, wrote a novel as bearded traveling men tend to do, and finally came out of the midst of a debilitating depression with a newfound realization that he had never really said anything honest about himself in all seven of those albums.
So he did what few people in this world are able to do: He changed. He took his fear, turned it on its' head, and had some fun with it. These losses and events seem to have served as fuel to the fire in the resulting masterpiece Fear Fun. Given his penchant for playing with words (courtesy his appetite for multiple and conflicting lyric meanings) and toying with people (his drunken middle-of-the-night Twitter rants to Pitchfork are not to be missed), Father John Misty could be the next Bob Dylan or Jack White, no question. We hit Josh up and talked about his girlfriend turned dominatrix actress, why fear is not so important after all, and why everything that he says in this interview may one day be the foolish vanity of his past — and why he's not afraid of that, or really anything at all, anymore.
Father John Misty. With Har Mar Superstar, Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters. $12. 8p.m. Tues., May 22. Masquerade, 695 North Avenue NE. 404-577-8178. http://www.masqueradeatlanta.com/
Nancy From Now On is a video in which you deal with a dominatrix in a hotel room, with her eventually cutting your hair and ending up together. How was the filming?
Father John Misty: That was a really intense one for me because I've recently kind of found this real love and companionship and empathy and mutual respect with this woman, Emma, who's in the video. The video is essentially her and I trying to explore issues of intimacy through the lens of what you might call a radical honesty, or something. It's actually a very innocent video. For me, if I want to make something about love, I don't want to fall back on the tropes or cliches of discussing love and intimacy in an artistic context because it's fucking just not me. That first scene, that really was just me and Emma getting a room at the chateau and saying "let's just fucking get weird". We're both into getting weird, and I wanted a hair cut, and I wanted her to do it. What you see on screen is shockingly this meta whirl wind.
And it really was paradoxically an innocent video. Considering the concept it could've been way less tasteful.
The music press is so goliath and shit. As far as press is concerned, you really don't get the benefit of the doubt that you're actually trying to do something meaningful, so what I ended up seeing was a bunch of "parties with a bunch of dominatraxes and then goes home with a different girl" and I'm like dude, it's the same girl the whole time you fucking dummie! Like, think about this for a fucking second! I like confronting people with shit like love but with all kinds of symbols that are not particularly precious. Is it possible to portray real understanding and intimacy between two people with mutilating images like domination?
How long have you and Emma been together?
Oh, I'm not going to divulge the intimacies of my life here! [Laughs]
[Laughs] What is she like?
Monday, May 21, 2012
Tonight For Edward Sharpe 'Home' is at the Tabernacle
Posted by Stephanie Butzer on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- Laure Vincent-Bouleau
There's a new album, Here, due out May 29, and If you search, you'll find these songs without much trouble *cough, cough here.*
The album touches on a lot of different things, making it difficult to assign it a specific genre. Some songs have a distinct Western twang, while others make you feel like you’re in the audience at a serious musical. This
eclectic style can be attributed to the varied characters of the band. Each one of them has his or her own sound, and it’s not hard to grow attached to a certain singer with familiar interests.
Here features only nine songs, however, its range is sure to fulfill any musical cravings you may have. Feeling blue? Try “All Wash Out.” Got an urge to dance in the street? Try “Man on Fire.”
So, if you’re headed to the Tabernacle tonight, you’re in for a helluva night, and listen up for those new songs.
$38.50. 8 p.m. The Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Tonight Lonnie Liston Smith, Ronnie Laws, more at the Wren's Nest
Posted by Carlton Hargro on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Nuff said, right?
The event is hosted by Morris Baxter and will also feature a DJ set by WCLK’s own Jamal Ahmad.
Oh, and organizers are suggesting that folks bring their lawn chairs and coolers. Hey, sounds like a funky way to spend your Friday.
$20. 8 p.m. Wren’s Nest, 1050 Ralph David Abernathy, SW. More info: www.ticketalternative.com/Events/18508.aspx.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Q+A / Tonight For Horse Feathers, depression is the new optimism
Posted by Johnnie Sanchez on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Having just released fourth album Cynic's New Year, Portland resident Horse Feathers seems to know no end to producing reliably good folk albums — almost too reliable but we'll get to that in a second. Justin Ringle, founder and sole unchanging member of the band, brought in at least a baker's dozen of his most trusted allies to help him concoct an orchestration of horns, reeds, banjos, and the swaying bows of those chilling cellos and violins. The result is one of harnessed beauty as he reclines comfortably into his fourth album. Ringle knows what he's doing. And therein, for some, lies the problem.
With his don't-fix-what-ain't-broke model intact, Ringle wields his own double-edged sword with the subsequent release of each stunning record — all of which sound and feel exactly the same as the one before it. Cynic's New Year is no different, but it does touch on a new major theme for Ringle — one that revolves around America's economic uncertainty. This record is like an upbeat Steinbeck novel, if such a thing existed.
On the eve of his Atlanta show, he talked to me about why the country seems so down and out, why he misses strip clubs in Portland, and why the changing of the seasons is so S.A.D.
Horse Feathers. With Mount Moriah and Matt Bauer. $10-12. 8:30 p.m. Thurs., May 17. The Earl, 486 Flat Shoals Avenue. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com.
Cynic's New Year is very much about the working class with lyrics like, "Every morning my grandmother worked for a wage" or "fit against the country/it's a hard country we made."
Justin Ringle: It's very much a theme to the songs. Those things were really thematic and kind of the impetus to the record. 2011 was kind of a hard year for me and a lot of close friends and family. Anyhow, I was just talking about that because I witnessed some of the boiling[-over] involved with working class stuff.
What did you witness?
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Tonight RTX's Jennifer Herrema peels back Rad Times with Black Bananas
Posted by Chad Radford on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Jennifer Herrema is a hidden persuader of sorts; a junk-culture icon that has wielded a profound influence on underground culture since the late ’80s, but in ways that are too raw for polite society to embrace. She’s no stranger to mass marketing, though: After posing for a series of Calvin Klein billboards and television commercials in the early ’90s, she literally became the face of heroin chic. But the image being portrayed in those ads was merely a caricature of Herrema’s true essence. As an early proponent of Drag City and Domino Records, and one-half of the Chicago-based noise rock duo Royal Trux, Herrema crafted what, aesthetically speaking, became some of the sleaziest, and most jarring sounds of the low-fi era with such impenetrable early Royal Trux albums as Twin Infinitives, Cats & Dogs, and the group’s true guitar skronking opus, Thank You. Royal Trux were the grotesque Ying to the ironic slackerdom of the ’90s Yang, and although her work hasn’t always been a particularly easy listen, her existence as an artist/musician still resonates throughout a body of work that’s built upon her very distinct sense of mutant swagger and hedonism.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Tonight Time Wharp, Divine Interface et. al. take over 529 for HUNGER VI
Posted by Chad Radford on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:03 PM
HUNGER returns to 529 tonight (Monday, May 14), marking the six-month anniversary of the monthly gathering of live electronics, house, and bass heads. Time Wharp is making his way back to Atlanta to crank out a DJ set tonight (he's been on the road with Teebs and Sonnymoon), and according to him, Patrick Loggins, this will probably be his only appearance around these parts all summer long. ATL by way of Madison, WI DJ Abbot, and Cc are spinning sets as well — Cc is pulling out the vinyl for an old-school house/acid/techno set, and Divine Interface will be kicking out a live set in the midst of it all.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tonight Feeling Dojo's mojo at the Sound Table
Posted by Rodney Carmichael on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Jack Preston and Dojo Collective's monthly soul food mashups are sorta reminiscent of that Wednesday night open-mic vibe Yin Yang Cafe used to put down back when India.Arie, Anthony David and the like were still in self-discovery mode.
Tonight's special guests at Space 2 in Old Fourth Ward: Micah Freeman, Kassondra Rockswell, and Starchile.
Free. 10 p.m. Thurs., May 10 (Tonight). Space 2 (The Sound Table), 485 Edgewood Ave.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
VIDEO / Tonight Money Makin Nique's 'F.A.X. Machine' video release party at Museum Bar
Posted by Rodney Carmichael on Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Atlanta-based artist Money Makin Nique is on some true crew love shit. Meaning he's seemingly part of several overlapping crews of likeminded hustler-artisans, including but not limited to bigFamOly, Money Makin Bros, and Two-9. His Two-9 affiliate, Curtis Williams, is featured on Nique's "F.A.X. Machine," a dead serious ex-to-the-next anthem with a video as tempting as the song's title is clever. Per the hook: "I'ma make em all sad/mad that they ever had/Ever left, ever stepped, ever lied, never tried/Effortless, it'll be to F a ex, F a ex, F a ex, F a ex — get it? F a ex."
The song is appropriately dedicated to one Anna Mae Bullock.
No doubt the recently released NSFW video, directed by AdreamersVisual, calls for a middle-finger celebration of some sort. Hence the video release party, happening tonight (Thurs., May 2) at Museum Bar.
Money Makin Nique's album Gas Money, released in January, is definitely worth the download.
Watch the "F.A.X. Machine" video below the jump:
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tonight Reptar celebrates 'Body Faucet' record release party at the Goat Farm
Posted by Chad Radford on Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Wed., May 2 — Tonight’s the night that Reptar brings the wide-eyed dance-pop party scene all the way down from Athens to celebrate the release of its Vagrant Records' debut album, Body Faucet.
In just a few short years, these guys have developed a reputation for putting on one of the most raucous live shows around these parts. So much so that they will forever be pegged as one of those band's that can't quite capture the buoyant energy and presence of their live shows on record. So be it — all the more reason to be at the Goat Farm tonight. Faun & A Pan Flute and Adron are performing as well.
$10. 7:30 p.m. (doors). The Goat Farm (Goodson Yard). 1200 Foster St.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Tonight Speakerfoxxx celebrates ‘Dopegirl Anthems’ release party at El Bar
Posted by Chad Radford on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:48 AM
The headline says it all. Speakerfoxxx is celebrating the release party for her latest and greatest mixtape, Dopegirl Anthems, tonight (Monday, April 16) with a listening party at El Bar (behind/beneath El Azteca on Ponce).
The flier says that music starts at 11 p.m., but she’s actually getting things fired up around 9 p.m. so all of you working class stiffs can hit it up for a bit without pulling an all-nighter.
She'll play the entire mixtape and will be joined by DJ DiBiase and the evening's hosts, Dr. Dax and the one and only Gangsta Boo of Three-6 Mafia.
... and if you don't already know, check out Speakerfoxxx gets ratchet with Dopegirl Anthems
Free. El Bar. 9 p.m. 939 Ponce de Leon Ave. 208-545-1176.
