29 July 2008

• Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog - Pagan Angel and the Borrowed Car
• The New Pornographers - Challengers - My Rights Versus Yours/All the Old Showstoppers
• Gentleman Jesse and His Men - S/T - Highland Crawler/Black Hole
• The Decemberists - The Perfect Crime #2 EP - (The Perfect Crime #2.5.1)
• Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary - Shine A Light
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha - Fiery Crash
• Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea - Holland, 1945/Communist Daughter
• Gruff Rhys - Candylion - This is Just the Beginning/Candylion/Court of King Arthur
• The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - No Cars Go/My Body is a Cage

Sight for Sore Eyes Benefit - Saturday, August 2 - The Earl

Atlanta's favorite musicians, performers, and businesses are coming together at The Earl for A Sight For Sore Eyes: A Benefit for Krystal Woods. You're probably wondering why Krystal needs this benefit. Krystal has a degenerative eye condition known as karatoconus, which means her corneas are deteriorating to such an extreme that within the year she will be completely blind. The only way she can be helped is with complete cornea replacements ringing up at $10,000 per eye. Like many of us, Krystal doesn't have health insurance so she applied for Medicaid, but was denied and told that basically she was not blind enough nor poor enough to qualify.

The Selmanaires, The Preakness, DJ Dookie Platters, DJ Chris Devoe, and other special guests have come together to put on the best show of 2008. And there'll be a bad-ass raffle with donations by all your favorite Atlanta spots. (Check out the fundraiser's Myspace page for more specifics.)

If you can't make it to this fantastic experience, you can still help! Bond Community Credit Union located in the heart of Little Five Points has an account set up for Krystal, so take a few minutes to stop in, tell them you want to donate to "A Sight For Sore Eyes" or to Krystal Woods, and it's that easy! You have helped a girl gain sight.

But if you still can't do that, stop by Aurora Coffee in Little Five Points between August 9th and the 31st, and check out the silent auction of your favorite local artists' work. All proceeds will go to Krystal Woods. If you're an artist interested in donating a piece, or if you have any questions, please contact the fundraiser's organizers at Sight4SoreEyes@gmail.com.

22 July 2008 - HANDCLAPS!

Maria's back! And we have a show full of handclaps!

• Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song
• Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
• Belle and Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap
• Anni Rossi - Wheelpusher
• Bearsuit - Itsuko Got Married
• The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover
• Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow
• Q and Not U - A Line in the Sand
• Wolf Parade - Fancy Claps
• The Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
• Ben Lee - Catch My Disease
• The Coathangers - Buckhead Betty
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - Jimmy Down the Well
• The New Pornographers - The Body Says No
• Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Timorous Me

15 July 2008

• The Everybodyfields - Nothing Is Okay - Aeroplane
• Old Springs Pike (Spring Standards) - EP - The Great Escape
• Monkey Swallows the Universe - The Casket Letters - Matterhoney
• Andrew Bird - & The Mysterious Production of Eggs - Skin Is, My
• The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema - Sing Me Spanish Techno
• The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin - A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
• Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest - Last Night I Nearly Died
• The Divine Comedy - Casanova - Songs of Love
• Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress - If You Find Yourself Caught In Love
• Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen - Fair
• Tegan & Sara - Under Feet Like Ours - This Is Everything
• The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists - Billy Liar
• The Selmanaires - The Air Salesmen - Reason and Chance
• Ted Leo - Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead - Six Months in a Leaky Boat

Giving away Wolf Parade tickets next week! Make sure to listen live!

8 July 2008

• The Coathangers - Tonya Harding
• Twin tigers - Golden Daze
• Devendra Banhart - This Is The Way
• Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D.
• Cary Brothers - The Lonliest Girl In The World
• Bloc Party - This Modern Love
• Deerhunter - Cryptograms
• Mum - Awake on a Train
• David Bowie - Prettiest Star
• Devo - Girl U Want
• The Books - Tokyo
• Wolf Parade - Fancy Claps
• Danielson - Two Sitting Ducks

1 July 2008

• Judi Chicago - 7" - Technicolor Silver Chrome and Chicken Bone
• Early Modern Witch Trials - S/T - Winter of the Bloody Splinter
• Ben Folds - Fear Of Pop: Vol. 1 - In Love
• Ben Folds Five - Live - Amelia Bright
• Hotel Lights - Good Night Good Morning - Let Me Be The One
• Snuzz - 1990 Demo - Peace At All
• Badly Drawn Boy - About A Boy - Above You, Below Me
• Smokers Die Younger - X Wants the Meat - X Wants the Meat
• The Goodnight Loving - Cemetery Trails - Dead Fish On The Banks
• Camille - Le Fil - Jolie Bruine
• Calexico - Tool Box - Above the Branch
• Cassavetes - Funny Story - Everything Has An E
• Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause - The Rustic Contemporary Sound... - All Those Pretty Things
• The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - Neon Bible
• Feist - The Reminder - My Moon My Man

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