IA: Your Mid-Atlantic Indie Music Source

The Weekend is Here

Yeah, The Cure are in the area, but there is a hell of a lot going on elsewhere too. Several other huge acts are gracing us with their presence. Saturday in Atlantic City at the House of Blues is chanteuse Regina Spektor. Or if you like Kanye West and N.E.R.D., warm the Nissan Pavilion stage up Saturday before the big show Sunday. And of course, Radiohead is in Northern Virginia Sunday at Nissan. Opening is Liars.

Liars - Army of Me (Bjork Cover, thanks to Stereogum)

Is country infused Southern-rock your thing? Then check out two shows (Friday and Saturday) at the 9:30 Club in DC by the Drive-By Truckers. They are joined by another southern band, The Dexateens.

Drive-By Truckers - World of Hurt
The Dexateens - Slender Thread

Friday night in Philly at The Fire, see Come On Caboose, a four-piece from Ohio that will be out spreading their music all summer long. Down in Baltimore, Pete Francis and Matt Pond PA share the stage at Ottobar. In the District, catch The Parlor Mob at the Rock and Roll Hotel fresh off a Philly show Thurday and a new album!

Come On Caboose - Organs
Matt Pond PA - Taught to Look Away

Saturday, it's a Philly local show at Johnny Brendas featuring a CD release by Aunt Dracula and one of the best local bands to see live, Papertrigger. Baltimore band Thrushes is throwing its own CD release the same night at Metro Gallery. Also playing is Deaf Leaf Echo, and Sonadors.

Papertrigger - We Are Nations Now!
Thrushes - Heartbeats
Dead Leaf Echo - Poison Lips

And don't forget about the others playing this weekend that we have previously posted about:
The Swimmers/Jukebox the Ghost/The XYZ Affair
British Sea Power/The Rosebuds
The Teenagers/Team Robespierre
Bombadil
Flight of the Conchords
The Cure
Girlfriend In A Coma
New York Times
Justin Trawick

Labels: Come On Caboose, Drive-By Truckers, Liars, Matt Pond PA, Papertrigger, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, The Dexateens

This Week's Mix

Here is this week's mix. I hope that you enjoy the list, as I tried to switch it up a bit for this week.

DeVotchKa - Transliterator
Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
Lightspeed Champion - Dry Lips
KaiserCartel - Season Song
El Perro Del Mar - People
Sea Wolf - You're a Wolf
Vandaveer - However Many Takes It Takes
John Vanderslice - They Won't Let Me Run
The Whigs - Right Hand on My Heart
The Voom Blooms - Thoughts of Rena

Labels: DeVotchKa, Drive-By Truckers, El Perro Del Mar, John Vanderslice, KaiserCartel, Lightspeed Champion, Sea Wolf, The Whigs, Vandaveer, Voom Blooms

This Week's Releases

We have finally reached the weeks of huge release lists. This week boasts some big names and plenty of new bands ready to place themselves among some of your favorites. This week has a few EPs and a lot of full lengths, pretty much everything you could want.

My pick for this week is MGMT's Oracular Spectacular. I know many people are looking forward to Cat Power's CD full of covers, but after spending a long time with the MGMT release, I have to say that it is fantastic. Not sticking to one genre, this album features synth-pop, funk, dance and even a little folk.

Some other releases I have spent some time with and can recommend are the self-titled album from The Whitsundays and Black Mountain's In The Future. Both of these albums feature great rock songs from some very talented artists.

MGMT