top o’ the morning! this weekend in atlanta, there are a couple of very cool shows going on at the earl. they are as follows..

ex-swervedriver, adam franklin tonight @ 9ish. he is also doing an instore at criminal @ 7 pm. site / myspace

seize the day from bolts of melody

syd’s eyes

great lake swimmers are tomorrow, saturday, @ 9ish. site / myspace

your rocky spine from ongiara

i am part of a large family

song for the angels from bodies and minds

when it flows

i gotta hand it to stereogum. if you haven’t heard, he/they have put together a pretty damn impressive list of artists covering songs from rem’s classic automatic for the people in honor of its 15th anniversary. rogue wave covering “sidewinder sleeps tonite,” meat puppets doin “everybody hurts,” catfish haven and “monty got a raw deal,” the wrens takin on “nightswimming,” just to name a few. also, matthew from fluxblog adds a pretty cool essay about automatic that is defiitely worth reading. for more info clicky here

its pretty damn rare when a press release likens the band they are pushing to a bunch of bands i have never bothered listening to. such is the case with detroit’s child bite. the release goes on about how they recall the likes of brianiac - heard of but never listened to, early deerhoof - listened to like three tracks, and pere ubu - the name always turned me off. so, i figured i’d bite. its always good diversify ones palette. like i said i dont know about any of the above, but they bring to mind cap n’ jazz crossed with early modest mouse. which on paper sounds like a great thing, two of my faves battling it out for ultimate supremacy, and in child bites hands its not awesome but cool enough. i can foresee a relationship blooming in the near future…

their new record, gold thriller, is out now me thinks on joyful noise

dont do what your body tells you to do

ape long

child bite site / myspace

i am very psyched to see that tim midgett and andy cohen’s bottomless pit record, hammer of the gods, has finally seen the light of day. on board with tim and andy is chris manfran from the late, great, seam, and brian orchard of .22. if you were unaware, tim and andy made up 2/3 of the iconic, at least in my book, chicago band, silkworm.

the cardinal movements

dogtag

bottomless pit site / myspace

one thing i really dig about denton, texas’ midlake, and this is going to be a contradiction, is that they sound like a lot of bands but sound like nobody else. you can pinpoint their influences to the lazy fm radio days of the mid to late 70’s but also have their feet firmly planted in the here and now. midlake is an interesting dichotomy.

here they are playing at the crocodile cafe in seattle on 9.27.07. much thanks to oasisdouglas for making this possible. he is not a dick.

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