Tenement Halls @ 40 Watt 6/27/08

Chris Lopez' Tenement Halls with some newer tunes.

Track 1 - Plenty Is Never Enough
Track 2 - Charlemagne
Track 3 - On An Ink Black Sea
Track 4 - When The Swifts Come Home
Track 5 -
Track 6 -
Track 7 -
Track 8 -
Track 9 - My Wicked Wicked Ways
Track 10 - Up & Over Thee Turnstiles
Track 11 - Silver From The Silt
Track 12 - I Can Feel It Comin' On

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Twin Tigers @ 40 Watt 10/10/08

Twin Tigers are another fresh band on the local marquees this year, made up of former Psychic Hearts and And Friends members. A debut EP, Curious Faces/Violet Future is out now.

Track 1 - Island
Track 2 - Automatic
Track 3 - Red Fox Run
Track 4 -
Track 5 -
Track 6 - Sexless Love

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Elephant 6 Orchestra @ Cine 10/7/08

The Elephant 6 Orchestra began their Holiday Surprise tour at Cine. The collective play material from many of their members' projects and the tour gives people outside Athens their best chance in years to catch this many of the players at the same time.

A note on the recording: this is only the first set of the evening. The room acoustics were so bad to my ears that I left at the setbreak; I literally couldn't hear what was going on with the music through large portions on the show. That said, my microphones were a few feet higher than my ears, and the recording was more listenable than I expected. It's still not the greatest recording (I have "mastered" it to extract the goodness from the mud as much as possible), but I thought it may be worth a listen for those who attended, as well as people who won't have a chance to see any of the tour. Song titles are followed by the name of the original artist.

Track 1 - His Mister's Pet Whistles [Major Organ And The Adding Machine]
Track 2 - Neon Globe [Circulatory System]
Track 3 - Yesterday's World [Circulatory System]
Track 4 - Love Athena [Olivia Tremor Control]
Track 5 - No Growing (Exegesis) [Olivia Tremor Control]
Track 6 - Snorkel [The Gerbils]
Track 7 - The Minister Of Longitude [The Music Tapes]
Track 8 - The Television Tells Us [The Music Tapes]
Track 9 - Spiral Stairs [Elf Power]
Track 10 - An Old Familiar Scene [Elf Power]
Track 11 - Karaoke Free [Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't]
Track 12 - I Have Been Floated [Olivia Tremor Control]

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Tin Cup Prophette @ The EARL 9/18/08

Tin Cup Prophette is led by Amanda Kapousouz, layering violin loops with guitar and glockenspiel. Drummer Jeremy Wheatley helps out with backing vocals. A two-week European tour will kick off November 3.

Track 1 - 80 Days
Track 2 - Curses On Purses
Track 3 - Liar And The Thief (w/ Liz Durrett)
Track 4 - Until The Dust
Track 5 - All Is Lost
Track 6 - Instrumental
Track 7 - Going Numb
Track 8 - Speak Or Spill Down

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Bambara @ Caledonia 10/3/08

Bambara are a new-ish band around town, though its members have worked together previously. Their first album, recorded with David Barbe and Joel Hatstat, is out soon on their own Emerald Weapon Records.

Track 1 -
Track 2 - Shake
Track 3 - Lullay
Track 4 - Clouds Around Our Feet
Track 5 - Snakes In Our Hair
Track 6 - Native Tongue

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Atlas Sound @ 40 Watt 9/27/08

Atlas Sound returns to the Watt, this time as a solo performer.

Track 1 - Intro
Track 2 - April 13
Track 3 - Cold As Ice
Track 4 - Cold And Golden
Track 5 -
Track 6 - Another Bedroom
Track 7 - Logos

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Gentleman Jesse & His Men @ Whirlyball 1/19/08

Atlanta's Gentleman Jesse (Jesse Smith, also of The Carbonas) put out his first LP recently to favorable press. This Whirlyball set gives a taste of his catchy garage-pop.

Jesse opens for Deerhunter this Friday at the 40 Watt for the Chunklet 15th Anniversary.

Track 1 - Highland Crawler/Black Hole
Track 2 -
Track 3 - Connection
Track 4 - Butterfingers
Track 5 - You Don't Have To (If You Don't Want To)
Track 6 -
Track 7 - All I Need Tonight (Is You)
Track 8 - Don't Wanna Know
Track 9 - You Got Me Where You Want Me
Track 10 - If I Can See You (You're Too Close To Me)
Track 11 - Put Your Hands Together

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Harvey Milk Re-Issue + 40 Watt 6/27/08

The bounty given Harvey Milk fans this year isn't over. Chunklet has announced a first-ever vinyl release of their debut My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be. You buy now. Not to mention there's a deluxe letterpress version of Courtesy as well (seriously, check these photos if you dig both craftsmanship and rock).

Let's celebrate. Here's their most recent 40 Watt show:

Track 1 - Crush Them All
Track 2 - Plastic Eggs
Track 3 - War
Track 4 - Shame
Track 5 - Probolkoc
Track 6 - A Maelstrom Of Bad Decisions
Track 7 - Death Goes To The Winner
Track 8 - The Anvil Will Fall
Track 9 - F.S.T.P.
Track 10 - I've Got A Love
Track 11 - Lay My Head Down
Track 12 - What I Want
Track 13 - E:) Good Bye Blues

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