Atlas Sound is the name of a musical solo project of Bradford James Cox, the lead singer of Atlanta four-piece Deerhunter. Cox was born in Athens, Georgia in 1982 and suffers from Marfan Syndrome.[1] The singer has released an album entitled Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel on indie-label Kranky to favorable reviews. In explaining his reasoning for a solo project, Cox has stated, “It’s just that I have ideas that I can’t make work with a five piece rock band…there’s kind of this palette of sounds that I use that I don’t necessarily get to use with Deerhunter”.[2] Cox has noted his heroes to be Ricky Wilson from The B-52′s and Laura Carter from Athens punk band the Bar-B-Q Killers.

Logos is the upcoming second studio album from ambient experimental project Atlas Sound. It is scheduled for release on October 19, 2009 in Europe by 4AD, and on October 20 in the US by Kranky Records, both of which released Atlas Sound’s previous effort, Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel. The album features guest contributions from Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear of Animal Collective) and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier.

An unmastered and unfinshed version of Logos was accidentally leaked in 2008 by frontman Bradford Cox via his own mediafire account. The incident caused an outrage from Cox, who posted on his blog that he felt what was leaked was simply a “sketch” of what he intended to be the final product; and was not meant to be released publicly. He almost abandoned the project, but continued to work on the album shortly after the incident. A leak of the finalized version of the album surfaced on September 1, 2009.

The album’s first single “Walkabout” (a duet with Panda Bear) was made available for streaming and download on 4AD’s website.

The Twang are an indie rock band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2001. The band garnered national acclaim when the influential NME magazine produced an article on music acts (which also featured fellow Midlanders Ripchord and The Enemy) in the West Midlands, and has led to band coming second in the BBC News website’s Sound of 2007 poll. The Twang’s second album, Jewellery Quarter, was released 3 August 2009 and reached #20 on the UK album chart. Lead singer Phil Etheridge is an Aston Villa supporter, Saunders is a Birmingham City supporter whilst the rest are West Bromwich Albion supporters as stated in a Live Lounge session on BBC Radio 1 presented by Jo Whiley.

This song title reminds me of one thing:

We’re In Barney sound bite

The Twilight Sad is an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland, comprised of James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar, accordion), Craig Orzel (bass, glockenspiel) and Mark Devine (drums). The band’s debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, was released on FatCat Records in 2007, drawing widespread critical acclaim. The band’s second studio album, entitled Forget the Night Ahead will be released on September 21, 2009.

I would have never guessed they were from Scotland

I set off for the Boston House of Blues on Tuesday September 15th to see the long awaited It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia live show of “The Nightman Cometh”. I guess you would have to be a fan of the to remotely understand this video, but the season 4 finale included a musical written by Charlie, the depressed character from the Show. The wonderful cast of Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson decided to set out on a 5 city tour in which the cast of the show would perform the season finale live. From Charlie’s yellow tuxedo to Dennis’ cod piece to the Troll toll, this was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Thanks to whoever posted this video to YouTube.

I had the pleasure of seeing Matt & Kim at the Boston House of Blues back in June. Although the song has gone “mainstream” in the past few weeks thanks to Bacardi, I think back to that concert in June and the song is just as catchy now as it was then. Enjoy.