It's the weekend, well almost. What y'all doing?

First off, let's get this straight. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to give you an IDEA of what's goings on in our fair city. A whole lotta mess is going down this month, and this weekend is no exception (I'm hitting the highlights as FIREBRAND sees them)...


Friday, June 8th:
Allow me to quickly Plug Kai Alce spinning at Apache on Friday night. The man is a premier House DJ and deserves his props also J. Sevens - the man handling Apache promotions is good people, and NorthernArc always got love for Apache. I should also mention that Kai Alce has a new record coming on realsoon records called "Broken Headlights". Support our talent, people. This man is DOING it.

Saturday, June 9th is going to be CRAZY:

Okay...we'll start with the obvious. Creative Loafing's annual Beer Fest at Woodruff park. This is going down from 2pm-7pm. Only 21 and up are allowed, but you can sample some nice wines, and cold beer. There will also be live music and FOOD, son. Shit aint free, tho. It's 20 bucks. So have some cash on hand.

If the drinking festivities are a little low brow or expensive for you and yourn, Head over to mid-town and check out the Louvre in Atlanta at the High Museum instead for the "Kings as Collectors" jumpoff.


After the beer fest you can stumble just down the street to the Castleberry Hill District to check out "24 REASONS TO LIVE". The City of Ink artshow features 12 artists from 7pm-11pm with live DJing from DJ Mafioso and DJ Wildlife for FREE. The artshow is based on the style of Tatoos and if you've seen artists like Corey's work? You know not to be disappointed. Motivation:


Over at The Masquerade you can anticipate some Punk Rock stylings as The Bitter End is playing. Doors open at 7 p.m.


The good fellas over at Dumpster Dive are having one of their summer cook outs. If you are into the underground hip hop scene here in Atlanta you really shouldn't be missing these.
1. They are free (save for a friendly donation)
2. All the movers and shakers show their face for at least a minute or too.
3. It's just a family kind of atmosphere Really laid back, plus you can watch live graf artists do their thing. What's fucking with that?


Another ATL Band making some noise is The Futurists They'll be playing The Loft at 8pm. Never heard of them? Well, you should have. Tell you what, I'll share a song with you. How does that sound?

The Futurists "One of us"


Y'all know I'm in love with Jaspects. These Brothas will be redefining all aspects of Jazz over at Churchill Grounds 9pm Saturday night.




Saturday is a motherfucker, y'all. For real. Because if you thought you had some hard decisions already? Think about this...Aloe Blacc, Dillon, Buff1, and Eugene IV are ALL going to play Apache Cafe Saturday Night. This is where I'll be, btw. I simply can't miss this. If you've seen or heard Aloe Blacc you know that him alone is worth the price of admission. Then when you add ATL star Dillon, The man with one of the hottest albums of the summer in Buff1, and THEN Eugene IV? Come on, man.
Get your priorities correct.




...Sloppy Seconds. Y'all know the deal. It's kind of a big deal. Second Saturday of Every month the F'in Socialites get down at dirty at the Royal. Shit is bananas. It's really one of the only spots that has a nice ethnic mix in the city. I love it for that. This week they are featuring DJ Low B of Hollertonix (Bmore club) & DJ Klever. Y'all know how THEY do. Shit will be off the chain- plus they giving away free Braves fitteds from Anarchy. Go get you one.
Sunday, June 10th:


Of course, Sunday is poetry night in ATL- unless you talking about the Clubs mixing it up Down at Underground Atlanta, etc. But for FIREBRAND, it's Poetry night. Hit up FFX (Free Forum Exchange) @ Apache or Javamonkey Speaks over at the Javamonkey in Decatur for some open mic love.


We'll talk on Saturday about other performances like Daryl Reeves over at the High, Feist, Battles, etc. Until Then, I hope this Battles mp3 hold you over this is "Bad Trails" of their new album "Mirrored". It's late- or rather it's early. Bedtime.

Peace.

It's Monday. That means more Moral Chicanery!

This is Episode #4. Bison and I talk about Wolfowitz, Immigration, and jumpoffs/freaks/bustdowns and their function. Why? Because we are pigs.

For some reason my podcast service is not uploading, so a zshare file is a temporary fix...





We also talked about Liddell Getting his ass whipped last night, and on other sports topics as well as Ceelo's new Record label BUT my dumbass somehow deleted those parts of the conversation. I'm a tool. I did however provide y'all a link to the Liddell fight in my attempt to make nice. Forgive me.

I'm in love with this Battles Album.

When I saw the video for "Atlas" I was floored. That shit is fucking amazing. The way they work that equipment. I fell in love with their entire flava. I really liked that song. If you haven't seen it, here it is:



I waited patiently for this album.

It's everything I hoped for. It reminds me of the first time I heard Dave Matthews Band ( I know, I know, y'all gonna hate on me for brining up DMB- save all of that). The music is just rich with textures and sounds.

It made me think of avante garde local groups doing their thing in Electronic, Rock and post rock music like Deerhunter, and Snowden- both of which frequently play at Underground LEGEND Bar "Lenny's" in Downtown Atlanta. Another group noone is talking about probrably because they know nothing about them is comprised of former Rawkus label artist Novel, Spree Wilson, and Shoden.

The name of their group is Knives Out.



Check for them.


Another ATL artist doing some thangs Is Le Castle Vania. Folk wanna pidgeon hole the ATL music scene. We bigger than crunk and snap, tho. Get over it. We do it all, and we doin it well (c) LL.


You don't need to look much farther than a group like Proton or an act like Dreamer to see that.





Btw, belated congrats to Cee-Lo on his new label. I can't lie. I'd die to work for that label- for free. I can just tell that they have special things in store for the music scene in the near future.

How can I tell? Guess...

You know what's wild tho? Nevermind. I'll holla at y'all later. It's time to cook dinner before the wife gets home. I'll post with some more random musings later.