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Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Creative Loafing Atlanta. online@creativeloafing.com webmaster@creativeloafing.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 MST Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:08:39 MST Dispatch Gyrobase http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/promoter_bob_patton_kept_james_brown_on_the_good_foot/Content?oid=1182147 Music/Show Preview Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/skinny_puppy_bites_back/Content?oid=1188258 Music/Show Preview Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/noise_innovators_times_new_viking_raise_the_roof/Content?oid=1159661 Music/Show Preview Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/the_sunglasses_get_bad_happy/Content?oid=1168165 Music/Show Preview Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/alela_diane_makes_herself_at_home/Content?oid=1145222 Music/Show Preview Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/a_river_runs_through_coyote_bones/Content?oid=1148905 Niobrara... By Chad Radford David Matysiak jokes that if Bruce Springsteen’s brooding Midwestern odysseys Nebraska and The River were meant to be part of a trilogy, the third installment is Coyote Bones’ Niobrara. Along with Jordan Noel (drums) and Heather Kemp (percussion), the former Jet By Day singer/guitarist has crafted an album that flows with unnerving tales about death, stifling religion, lost love and change. “It’s a really personal record for me; one that I had to make,” Matysiak says. “I was going through ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/kurt_vile_is_no_joke/Content?oid=1134800 Childish Prodigy... By Chad Radford Strange semantics surround the Philadelphia-born guitarist, vocalist and home-recording devotee Kurt Vile. His name isn't an attempt to create a Johnny Rotten-like persona for his dreamy folk, pop and minimalist rock songs. Nor is it a play on 20th-century German composer Kurt Weill. It's his family's name, and there isn't a hint of irony in his voice when he explains it away. "Some people are shocked that it's real. Others just can't believe it," Vile says. "It never fails."But irony ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/why_ask_why_it_s_a_loaded_question/Content?oid=1137989 Eskimo Snow, the indie hip-hop band continues to put on indie-pop airs... By Gabe Vodicka “I’ve been mostly listening to stuff that will put me to sleep,” says Why? frontman Yoni Wolf the morning after a tour stop in Los Angeles, where the band plans to use an off-date to shoot a music video for a track from Eskimo Snow, its latest release on the Oakland, Calif.-based Anticon label. The statement is somehow unsurprising. Besides the elusive nature of quality shut-eye on tour, a quick study of Why?’s lyrical output reveals a man in possession ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/r_kelly_recruits_atlantans_for_new_album_untitled/Content?oid=1120781 Music/Show Preview Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/untied_states_goes_pop_without_going_soft/Content?oid=1125706 Instant Everything, Constant Nothing finds the Atlanta band in a rare, refined space... By Chad Radford Three years have passed since Untied States checked in with 2006's Retail Detail. Since then, a lot has changed for the unhinged art-rock ensemble centered around Colin Arnstein and Skip Engelbrecht. Their third full-length, Instant Everything, Constant Nothing drops this month on the Paris-based Distile Records, and it's a concerted stab at making a pop record — albeit one filtered through the schizoid, post-industrial psychedelia that's been their calling card all along. "Blues, punk, rock and roll ... all of ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/black_keys_drummer_enlists_four_other_drummers_to_form_drummer/Content?oid=1106723 Feel Good Together... By Ben Westhoff "Living in Akron, believe it or not, can be incredibly boring if you don't have anything to do." That's Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney on the impetus for his new outfit, Drummer.Not too long ago, the Keys' vocalist and guitar man Dan Auerbach departed their Ohio hamlet on a solo tour, leaving Carney at loose ends. And so to stave off boredom he recruited four other drummers from groups that were on hiatus or disbanded, including Teeth of the Hydra, ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/living_rooms_sounds_like_animal_collective_almost/Content?oid=1106800 Music/Show Preview Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/thievery_corporation_emerges_as_a_strong_independent_voice_of_dissent/Content?oid=1095191 Radio Retaliation pushed the boundaries of electronic music... By Alejandro A. Leal The current global economic climate serves as the perfect backdrop to Thievery Corporation's evolution from a DJ/production outfit into a world-music collective with a loud voice of dissent, capped by the release of last year’s Radio Retaliation. “Vampires,” the group's collaboration with Afrobeat singer and band leader Femi Kuti, is a metaphorical indictment of the bête noire of international activists, the International Monetary Fund. “You live on the blood of my people/Everyone knows you’ve come to steal/You come like the ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/playaz_circle_returns_with_flight_360_the_takeoff/Content?oid=1080992 Music/Show Preview Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/the_intelligence_gets_lost_in_space/Content?oid=1044980 Fake Surfers stargazes from a nostalgic point of view... By Chad Radford Fake Surfers, the fourth album from Seattle's junk-punk, noise-pop foursome the Intelligence, begins like the opening scene from The Godfather. The opening track slowly pans across hazy tones while a haunted, sci-fi traipse carries as much of the album's punch as the songs themselves. There's no telling if the same languid pace will dominate the record, or if it will suddenly burst into a cacophony of crunching, art-rock kerang. But the tension soon breaks as a wall of ecstatic guitars ]]> Music/Show Preview Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST Creative Loafing Atlanta