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[Bootleg] Grouper at ATP

img-grouper_183203818619 [Bootleg] Grouper at ATP

While I’ve always enjoyed Grouper’s recorded work, she’s a whole other beast live. The first 15 minutes of her performance at last month’s ATP festival *slamming head on desk for not going* is nothing but the most epic nature music ever. Flying over mountains, exploring oceanic trenches – her live shit is stratospheric and aquatic. I can’t stop listening to this excerpt. Thanks WFMU for winning at everything.

You can grip the entire bootleg here.

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Grouper – Live @ ATP [excerpt]

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[Bootleg] Atlas Sound @ All Tomorrows Parties

atlassound [Bootleg] Atlas Sound @ All Tomorrows Parties

Told ya the bootlegs would come fast. Yesterday’s Atlas Sound ATP set is provided below. Lots of new stuff, lots of jammage, lots of Bradford gabbin’ and trying to fix his shit on stage. Enjoy.

Also, my boi Nathaniel from IGIF is at All Tomorrows Parties NY right now (bastard) and he’s reporting that B Cox told the crowd later that night during the Deerhunter set that yesterday’s show will be the last for the group “in quite a while.” This might be disconcerting if you don’t consider the fact that “quite a while” in Deerhunter years probably means “a couple of months.” I’m sure attention will turn to Atlas Sound, Lotus Plaza, and whatever other side projects the dudes are instituting in the interim. Fear not (hopefully).

Logos is still set to come out on October 20, which will be a super Tuesday (new Tickley Feather and Do Make Say Think also drop that day), courtesy of muhfuckin’ Kranky. Considering how much free shit Bradford gives you, buy it when it’s out. Seriously, guys.

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Atlas Sound – All Tomorrows Parties, Kutscher’s, Monticello, NY, 9.12.09

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WFMU Broadcasts ATP Festival This Weekend

wfmu_logos1 WFMU Broadcasts ATP Festival This Weekend

From what I’ve heard, All Tomorrows Parties is hands-down the best organized music festival in the country (with certainly the best lineup). And good ol’ ATP will be broadcast again, for the most part, all weekend long on the mighty WFMU. This means, of course, that you can expect the webcasts to be recorded and archived for all your bootlegging needs, which I will happily be sharing here when they become available. Here’s the scoop:

This year’s lineup is co-curated by the Flaming Lips, and WFMU’s simulcasts will happen Saturday Sept. 12 from 6PM-Midnight, Sunday the 13th from 5PM to Midnight, and some other sets Monday the 14th from Noon to 5PM after the fest. We’re still working out assorted artist permissions, but Saturday evening we’ll be airing Panda Bear, Grouper, Black Dice, Antipop Consortium, Atlas Sound, and Akron/Family. Sunday will include Deerhunter, the Melvins, Animal Collective, Boss Hog, Deerhoof, and the Caribou Vibration Ensemble.

I was unable to go this year due to lack of funding (which sucks since I had a fraggin’ photo pass), but I definitely plan on being there next year! Those of you guys that are going, tell me about your experience on Twitaaar.

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WFMU dot org

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[Bootleg] Oneida Live at Primavera Sound Festival

 [Bootleg] Oneida Live at Primavera Sound Festival

The mighty WFMU brings the goods once again, archiving a soundboard quality recording of Oneida’s insane performance at last month’s Primavera Sound Festival (known for its beautiful ambience along the Spanish Mediterranean and the location where Wavves lost his shit but I totally don’t blame him for it). The recording includes an Acid Mothers Temple-esque, undeniably evil, kaleidoscopic, 43-minute brain busting rendition of “Each One Teach One.” It’s fucking ridiculous and delightfully unnecessary. I feel stoned listening to this right now. Love this band.

Unfortunately, the kraut punk collective opted to not play any new material from the forthcoming Rated O. But who gives a shit – it’s Oneida, and it’ll be good. Nevertheless, the group will be celebrating its July 7th release with a couple of stateside dates, and a couple of European ones, too. The domestic rockshows will feature some big ballaz – Amps For Christ, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wooden Shjips, and more:

07.10.09 – Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s
07.11.09 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill #
07.12.09 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex &
07.24.09 – Brooklyn, NY – Todd P Event – TBA %
07.25.09 – Medford, MA – Outside the Lines Studio %
07.26.09 – New Haven, CT – BAR
08.07.09 – Kutna Hora, CZ-  Art Festival
08.08.09 – Berlin, GER – Berlin Festival
08.09.09 – Scheer, GER – Klangbad Festival
08.14.09 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
08.15.09 – Tilburg, NL – TBC

# – Wooden Shjips, Jonas Reinhardt
& – Amps for Christ, Clipd Beaks
% – Sunburned Hand of the Man

Possibly Related :::
A Quick, Odd, Fun Email Exchange With Oneida

MP3 :::
Oneida – Spanish Jam / Each One Teach One (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)
Oneida – All Arounder (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)
Oneida – Sheets of Easter (Primavera Fest, Barcelona – 5.30.09)

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WFMU is Broadcasting Primavera Fest Right Now

wfmu_logos1 WFMU is Broadcasting Primavera Fest Right Now

WFMU, the freeform radio station that is the manifestation of everything good in the world, is currently broad/webcasting the most excellent acts from the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona. Quite jealous, of course, that I cannot even fathom buying a plane ticket to Spain right now. However, I’m totally thankful WFMU has a high bandwidth stream to enjoy the likes of: Sunn o))), Magik Markers, Wooden Shjips, th’ Faith Healers, Yo La Tengo, Lightning Bolt, the Vaselines, Fucked Up, the Vivian Girls, the Jesus Lizard, Spectrum, Oneida, and more. Spectrum is playing right now.

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WFMU @ Primavera

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WFMU’s People Like Us and Their Futuristic View of the Atomic Age

01 WFMUs People Like Us and Their Futuristic View of the Atomic Age

I don’t toss around the word “brilliant” too often. I recently rediscovered visual and sound collage demon People Like Us, and it’s absolutely brilliant. I find old film reels, archaic educational videos, public domain images, technology that was supposed to change our lives but didn’t, and general oddities of American industry terrifically intriguing. People Like Us, the A/V project of Viki Bennett, combines all these images with a Raymond Scott-esque audio pastiche.

People Like Us do tour and perform installations occasionally, and I had the pleasure of seeing them back in, I think, 2004 when they came to my school. Their live show is, in essence, a live VJing of these images and sounds. I saw it sober, but I wish I was stoned. And of course, People Like Us is associated with the mighty, avant-retard WFMU. Unfortunately, Viki’s show Do or DIY is not on the current schedule (though she fills in every now and again).

Below are some of my favorite videos. The first is 2003’s The Remote Controller, which features “found footage sourced from educational films to explore the way human body and machine interface in the 20th century.” The second film, “Resemblage,” features a lot of the images I saw at the live show. The last is 2005’s Story Without End, extracted from “a public domain film of the same name made in 1950 about the development of microwave radio transmission and the transistor.”

UbuWeb hosts these videos, and I encourage you to visit them. The site compiles a variety of audio and video from “outsider” artists, and it’s incredibly awesome.


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Growing at ATP

growing-live-wfmu Growing at ATP

Good gawd, ya’ll. The bootlegs keep coming in, but this time from the official source. WFMU just posted their archive of Growing’s performance at the absolutely immaculate All Tomorrow’s Parties. The attractive photo above is also from your menacing friends at Beware of Blog. Continue reading ‘Growing at ATP’

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