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UPDATED with Serial Numbers: Vincas, The Powder Room Have Gear Stolen on Tour
Shit news from Chicago, where locals Vincas and The Powder Room played last night as part of their current tour. The Powder Room posts on Facebook that the van the two groups are traveling in was broken into sometime after the show and "half of our gear was stolen."
After the jump, the list of missing equipment. If you live in or know somebody in the Chicago area, please share this info and keep a look out.
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Flagpole Premieres! WereWyatt: Fuck Depression
Local songwriter Wyatt Strother is best known for fronting the poppy folk-punk band Werewolves, but while that group was on a yearlong hiatus, he hunkered down and wrote himself a solo record as WereWyatt. Flagpole is pleased to premiere the result, Fuck Depression, available today for the low price of $4 via Strother's Athens Horse Party label. (There's the cover art above.)
Though album is officially a "solo" effort, it eschews the familiar trappings of that term in favor of a lush and layered sound featuring banjo, piano, horns, drums and much more. It also explodes with positive energy; like the title suggests, the record is a rejection of loneliness, an ode to stepping into the light.
Stream it after the jump.
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Tonight in Athens: Television, Tera Melos
To say that tonight's Television show at the Georgia Theatre is a big deal is an understatement. It's one of three U.S. appearances the legendary NYC rockers will make this year, the other two being a stop Tuesday in San Francisco—view the setlist from that show here—and another at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest.
This will be a special gig. Though they're absent one key cog in founding guitarist Richard Lloyd, as you can see from the video below, these dudes are still quite capable of bringing the fire.
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The New Cars Can Be Blue Video is Spooky, Scary
Photo Credit: Jim Hix
Halloween was last week, but you can keep the bad vibez flowing by watching the new video from local noise-pop outfit Cars Can Be Blue. "Monster" is a tune from the band's third LP, Trace the Tension (just out on HHBTM; look for a Flagpole review next week).
Like much of the band's output, "Monster" is kitschy and caked in grime, a tough and tawdry tale of nightmarish childhood memories. The black-and-white video, directed by Jordan Reyes, is a fun if slightly unsettling watch:
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Nashville Folkie Todd Snider Plays Georgia Theatre Tonight
Photo Credit: Senor McGuire
It would be a mistake to take Todd Snider too seriously. The folkster from East Nashville has made a career out of striking a balance between being reverent to the folk and country traditions where he apprenticed (with legends like Jerry Jeff Walker and John Prine, no less) and having a playful, "enjoy it while it lasts" attitude.
Snider says there are too many people in the music business that take themselves too seriously. "There are a ton of people in this line of work... that are not ready to be perceived as foolish. They're not ready to be embarrassed. They aren't ready to take their dick out," he says.
After the jump: "My job is to live as hard as I can and to risk early death."
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Tonight in Athens: Jel, Cold War Kids, RVIVR
Jel
Wowee, folks: there are some really righteous live-music options tonight, on the eve of All Hallow's Eve. Let's start at the Georgia Theatre—or, on its rooftop, to be exact—where Anticon co-founder/mainstay Jel, the man responsible for introducing the lo-fi/anti-fi/cloud-rap sound to the hip hop world, will headline. The openers are pretty great, too: Chicago MC Serengeti and Atlanta psych-rap crew The Difference Machine will perform.
Music and more after the jump.
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Mountain Oasis in Photos
Photo Credit: Usman Khan
Flagpole attended the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit last weekend. After the jump, check out a photo gallery of the action. Read our written review here.
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Mountain Oasis in Review: Nine Inch Nails, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mount Kimbie and More
Flagpole attended the inaugural Mountain Oasis Electronic Music summit last weekend. Here are some highlights.
Friday, October 25
Neutral Milk Hotel
Topping off a week that included a three-night stand at the 40 Watt, Neutral Milk Hotel gave an awe-inspiring performance at Asheville's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Frontman Jeff Mangum sounded sublime, clear and confident and showed none of his purported agoraphobia during his hour-and-a-half set. He opened by playing “Two Headed Boy” alone before transitioning to “The Fool” with his full band.
More after the jump.
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