Federation X

And now a look at one of my favorite bands of all time Federation X. I'll let this band speak for themselves, copied and pasted straight from their myspace page:

"Fed X were fortunate enough to grow up in the corner of the US that birthed such punk rock acts as the Wipers, Karp, Mudhoney, Lice, Gas Huffer, Unwound, Godheadsilo, Bikini Kill, Built to Spill, The Rickets, Kicking Giant, Fitz Of Depression, Trumans Water, The Waydowns, Nirvana, Irving Klaw Trio, The Mukulteo Fairies and, perhaps most importantly, Nickleback. We started our band in a small town in the corner of this corner of the US. We thrived in a community that produced such acts as the Narrows, Candy and the Hotdice, USS Horsewhip, The Cheeps, Jayhawker, Monomen, Bar Tabac, Gus and Katie and the Mighty Ghosts of Heaven, Reeks and the Wrecks, B-18, Racetrack, Yogoman, Cicadas, BeNT, The Party Favorites, The Crying Shame, Chuckanut Drive, GNS, Sharpie, and, perhaps most notably, Korky Lenker. We left this corner often and found ourselves in no man’s land with the punk rock acts the Last of the Juanitas, Drunkhorse, 400 Blows, Fleshies, The Cherry Valence, The Whip, Stab City Slit Wrists, The Bananas, XBXRX, C Average, the Friendly Champs, Party Time, Outhud, Monotonix, Japanther, Toys That Kill, Fireballs of Freedom, Shellshag, Big Business, The Pope, Birds of Avalon, Triclops!, Comets of Fire, Juanita Family and Friends, Stars of the Dogon, Early Humans, Red Fang, Mountain High, and, who could forget, The Mooney Suzukis. We like to take this time to take this time off. Thank you. Federaton X."

Anyhow the band is great, and although I have never seen them live I have intravenously injected all three of their albums with monster truck force. Here's a video that does nothing to display their talents:


So, yep...Federation X from Bellingham, Washington (I think). Special thanks to J Scar for introducing me to these guys. Go see them when they start touring again and come through your neck.

Monday, July 14-Sunday, July 20

If I may humbly opine, there's not a lot going on in the lil' A this week. Might have to drive yourself over to the big A. Or if you live there in the larger of the two A towns you don't have to worry about coming down to the lil' A (except to see the metal show Friday at Caledonia which is going to be very, very good). Either way, you're an A-hole. Just kidding.

Wednesday, July 16:
Al Green. Michael McDonald (yeah, he's there too...) and Al Green perform as part of the Delta Classic Chastain Concert Series. 8 p.m. $25-$90.
Chastain Park Amphitheatre (ATL).

Ocha la Rocha, The Rosewood Thieves. Star Bar (ATL) 9 p.m. $7.

Thursday, July 17:
Kuroma, The Films, The Hiss, The Redcoats. Pop Death Squad presents One Year Anniversary of Big Trouble in Little Five Points. Star Bar. (ATL) 8 p.m. FREE. (I admit I've never heard of 3 of these bands but Kuroma has my full support...wish they had a web address of any kind that I could link to so you could hear them).


Friday, July 18:
The Dumps, Black Tusk, Gaylord. Caledonia. 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.caledonialounge.com/.

Saturday, July 19:
Olympus Mans, Weirdbeard. Rye Bar (used to be D.T.'s Down Under). 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ryebarathens.

Yeah I'll keep digging for things for you to do and see and hear...

Post-Tasty World Mix

Hunter inveneted a new genre this week. He calls it post-Tasty World, or post-Tasty for short. I'm not quite sure what the defining characteristics are, or how to describe bands in the genre, but I've compiled a mix of tunes that somehow make me think "hmm, that's post-T":

1. Plaster Casts of Everything--Liars
2. Girl Attorney--Health
3. Svengali What's the Caper--Russian Spy Camera
4. Overglazed--The Breeders
5. Only Shallow--My Bloody Valentine
6. Ativan--Atlas Sound
7. Gila--Beach House
8. Mykonos--Fleet Foxes
9. He Hit Me--Grizzly Bear
10. Watershed--Twin Tigers

Monday July 7-Sunday July 13

Tuesday, July 8:
The Black Angels, the Warlocks, Imaad Wasif. 8 p.m.$12. The Earl (ATL). http://www.badearl.com/.

Wednesday, July 9:
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (ATL).
7:30 p.m. $35-$125. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.

Friday, July 11:
Dark Meat, Diplo, Future Ape Tapes. 40 Watt. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.40watt.com/.

Saturday, July 12:
A.Armada, Twin Tigers, Spring Tigers, (Make the Fur Fly is not on the bill anymore due to an apparent breakup and the canceling of all future shows). Caledonia. 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.caledonialounge.com/.

Subrig Destroyer, Deaf Judges.  40 Watt.  9:30 p.m. $5  (21+), $7 (18+).   http://www.40watt.com/. 

(sorry this was late I somehow missed this...who cares...what are horse shoes?  Do they make horse socks?  Is anybody listening to me?)