The Arcs @ Caledonia 6/20/08

The Arcs rock out for Athfest:

Track 1 - Stay In The Light
Track 2 - Plutonium
Track 3 - Livin' The Dream
Track 4 - Homemade Knife
Track 5 - Eddie
Track 6 - I Wear A Watch
Track 7 - I Can't Stand The Opening Band
Track 8 - Why Giana Why
Track 9 - Emerald
Track 10 - Jennaviv

Out-Of-Towners: Centro-Matic @ 40 Watt 6/21/08

Centro-Matic (Denton, TX) hit town in support of their new Dual Hawks split double-LP; it's split with South San Gabriel, which features all of Centro-Matic and Athens' own Matt Stoessel as its members.

Track 1 - Love You Just The Same
Track 2 - Fountains Of Fire
Track 3 - Call The Legion In Tonight
Track 4 - Flashes And Cables
Track 5 - Triggers And Trash Heaps
Track 6 - Mighty Midshipman
Track 7 - Rat Patrols And DJs
Track 8 - All Your Farewells
Track 9 - Strychnine, Breathless Ways
Track 10 - Guillotines Hung Together
Track 11 - Quality Strange
Track 12 - Calling Thermatico
Track 13 - Strahan Has Corralled The Freaks
Track 14 - The Blisters May Come

Southern Shelter Record(s): Creston Spiers 7"( + 5/1/08)

I'm excited to announce Southern Shelter Record(s) and our first (and only?) release, a 7" vinyl single by Harvey Milk frontman Creston Spiers! I brought the Southern Shelter Mobile Recording Unit to Creston's home in Athens recently and recorded two of his unreleased original songs. Side A is "Yesterday's Parade", written for the band A (who never made a release); it's backed with "The Time Has Come", written during Creston's time drumming for Producto. These songs are drastically different from Creston's Harvey Milk work. Both tracks have him backed only by acoustic 12-string (sitting on his couch!)

Chunklet will be handling internet orders exclusively for this very limited run (200 copies pressed on heavyweight clear vinyl, packaged in a durable "picture disc" sleeve). A limited number will be available at yet-to-be-announced Harvey Milk shows to take place following their European tour. A very small number will be placed with local record stores, but by far your best chance to get one is with the Chunklet pre-order. Records will ship mid-/late-July. I'll post more details on the record store copies around that time.

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER THE CRESTON SPIERS 7" FROM CHUNKLET





Of course I have some free music to post in celebration. Creston played a happy hour Nuci's Space benefit at Caledonia (during which I realized he'd be perfect for the record I wanted to do). Leonard Cohen is his favorite artist, so we got all Cohen tunes, save for the last number.

Creston Spiers @ Caledonia 5/1/08

Track 1 - Bird On A Wire
Track 2 - Master Song
Track 3 - Winter Lady
Track 4 - The Stranger Song
Track 5 - The Old Revolution
Track 6 - Suzanne
Track 7 - Stories Of The Street
Track 8 - Lady Midnight
Track 9 - Nancy
Track 10 - So Long Marianne
Track 11 - Tonight Will Be Fine
Track 12 - Three Is A Magic Number

A. Armada @ 40 Watt 6/21/08

A. Armada's excellent debut EP Anam Cara is almost out, and is available at shows now. They played to a packed Athfest crowd this weekend. European dates are scheduled for the fall.

Track 1 - The Dam Was Split But The City Was Saved
Track 2 - The Moon Shifts The Sea The Sea Shapes The Shore The Shore Shakes The Sand The Sand Sinks The Ship
Track 3 - Fall-Triumph
Track 4 - If You Only Knew What The Lost Soldiers Did To Me
Track 5 - Never Come Down From The Mountain

Harvey Milk @ The EARL 6/17/08

Here's a bonus Harvey Milk post for the faithful, since I'm on vacation and headed to Athfest today.

Track 1 - Death Goes To The Winner
Track 2 - Plastic Eggs
Track 3 - War
Track 4 - Shame
Track 5 - A Maelstrom Of Bad Decisions
Track 6 - Crush Them All
Track 7 - Lay My Head Down
Track 8 - What I Want
Track 9 - Good Bye Blues
Track 10 - Decades
Track 11 - I've Got A Love

Jet By Day @ 40 Watt 9/26/03

Jet By Day play a CD release for their Cascadia album.

Track 1 - Stare At The Sun
Track 2 - Helicopter To The Hospital
Track 3 - Bite The Bullet
Track 4 - This Quiet Hell
Track 5 - Dying In The Spotlight
Track 6 - Last Call
Track 7 - Worldwide
Track 8 - Let You Down
Track 9 - Cascadia
Track 10 - End Of The Line
Track 11 - Jailbreak

Harvey Milk @ Caledonia 7/30/05

Lars over at Thor's Rubber Hammer Productions has been waiting years for me to post this one (sorry dude!). Tour starts tomorrow!

Track 1 - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Track 2 - Come And Spit
Track 3 - Plastic Eggs
Track 4 - I Don't Know How To Live My Life
Track 5 - Love Swing
Track 6 - Jimmy Page's
Track 7 - Merlin Is Magic
Track 8 - Instrumental
Track 9 - Crush Them All
Track 10 - I've Got A Love
Track 11 - F.S.T.P.
Track 12 - Smile [the long pause after this tune was spent trying to find a guitar for Creston to play, he'd just smashed his]
Track 13 - E:) Jaws Jack
Track 14 -

Adam Musick @ Caledonia 10/18/04

Today's vault pick is from rocker-turned-farmer Adam Musick. He's backed by Southern Bitch bandmates Chuck Bradburn and Chris Ellenberg, but a batch of lower-key tunes and even some piano from Adam make this a different entity.

Track 1 - Vagabond
Track 2 - Carry On
Track 3 - On And On
Track 4 - Just A Little
Track 5 - Sand Mountain
Track 6 - Anything You Want
Track 7 - I Can't Keep Waiting
Track 8 - Dandelion
Track 9 - Things Are Getting Easier
Track 10 - On A Roll
Track 11 - Do What's Right

Jay Gonzalez @ 40 Watt 5/28/08

Jay Gonzalez (The Possibilities, Nutria) has kept busy with regular gigs at Kingpins and most recently touring as Drive-By Truckers' keyboardist. This solo set is a mix of songs from his bands and new originals he's been working up.

Track 1 - Under The Clay
Track 2 - Keep In Touch
Track 3 - Hold You
Track 4 - Baby Tusk
Track 5 - Turning Me On
Track 6 - The Will
Track 7 - This Isn't Fun Anymore
Track 8 - It Ain't You Babe
Track 9 - The Strong One
Track 10 - Anita
Track 11 - For You

Out-Of-Towners: Earth @ Caledonia 5/1/08

90's drone pioneers Earth (Seattle) made their first-ever trip to the South recently, in support of the new The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull.

Track 1 - Omens And Portents II: Carrion Crow
Track 2 - Engine Of Ruin
Track 3 - Hung From The Moon
Track 4 - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Track 5 - Omens And Portents I: The Driver
Track 6 - Junkyard Priest
Track 7 - Ouroboros Is Broken
Track 8 - Rise To Glory

Harvey Milk @ 40 Watt 7/28/05

Harvey Milk release their new album Life . . . The Best Game In Town this week on Hydra Head. To help get you pumped here's a show from the first Reunion Tour a few years back.

Track 1 - Jimmy Page's
Track 2 - I Don't Know How To Live My Life
Track 3 - Probolkoc
Track 4 - Merlin Is Magic
Track 5 - Plastic Eggs
Track 6 - My Father's Life's Work
Track 7 - Crush Them All
Track 8 - Love Swing
Track 9 - Instrumental
Track 10 - Smile
Track 11 - I've Got A Love
Track 12 - F.S.T.P.
Track 13 - Mothers Day
Track 14 - Rocket Ride