Drive A Faster Car

Check out these new Deerhunter videos from Adam Bruneau (ex-Deerhunter-er) for two songs from Microcastle: “Cover Me (Slowly)” and the title track.

Deerhunter - Cover Me Slowly from Adam Bruneau on Vimeo.

Deerhunter - Microcastle from Adam Bruneau on Vimeo.

This weekend, Enterwoven is throwing the third annual Atlanta Downhill Challenge, presented by Metromix at the Starlight Drive-In (2000 Moreland Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316). For a mere $5, you can check out 70 carts race and 5 local bands! No excuses. Cars must all be checked in by 10AM.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit local non-profits: PALS Atlanta, Our Pals Place & WonderRoot. Pick up some nom’s from vendors such as Park Grounds Coffee, Jakes Icecream, Lottafrutta, Aces and DulceVegan. It’s BYOB so be sure to fill that cooler up before heading down. Lawn chairs are also suggested!

Band Line-Up:
1:00PM - 1:45PM : The Hollywood Kills
2:00PM - 2:45PM : All Get Out
3:00PM - 3:45PM : Ponderosa
4:00PM - 4:45PM : Here Come The Mummies
5:00PM - 6:00PM : Snowden

Drive A Faster Car is an official sponsor
of the Atlanta Downhill Challenge this year!

Be sure to drop by our tent and step on our DaFC Soapbox! Let us know what you think of the bands, the carts, the rain that isn’t going to fall, the vendors, your lack of beer, etc. We’re going to film everyone and give you guys who can’t make it, a recap of the event next week. We are also giving away samplers from StickFigure and winners of the Atlanta Downhill Challenge will win concert tickets, courtesy of Drive A Faster Car, in addition to many more prizes!

The Fleet Foxes is already contending for my favorite record of the year. Now they have to go and break my heart all over again. In the best kind of way possible.

Fleet Foxes - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

The Spinto Band are playing at the Masquerade tomorrow night in support of their new album “Moonwink” and Drive A Faster Car has some tickets to giveaway for the show!

“Utilizing an indie-pop sensibility that brings to mind the Flaming Lips and Pavement, their songs can send you careening into the heights of lethargic bliss or provide the catchiest vibes to shake your tail feather to.”

The Spinto Band
w/Media Colors, Joal (from the Working Title)
Wednesday, November 12
7pm | $10 | All Ages
The Masquerade - Hell

To win a pair of tickets to see The Spinto Band at The Masquerade tomorrow night, reply to this post with your full name (first & last) and real email address in the comment form and why you should win them in the message body. Two winners will be chosen at random from the rule abiding contestants and notified via email by 6pm day of show. Each winner will receive two tickets.

The Spinto Band are also playing at Criminal Records before their Masquerade gig. The free in-store show starts at 7pm.

[mp3] The Spinto Band - Later On
[mp3] The Spinto Band - Pumpkins & Paisley

I can’t even pretend that I use or visit Citysearch since the advent of Yelp but they are having a shindig this Sunday which sounds pretty neat.

Eat. Drink. Listen.
Sunday afternoon with Citysearch Atlanta, Danneman’s Coffee, Corner Tavern & Missy Gossip and the Secret Keepers

Sunday, November 16
3pm - 6pm
Danneman’s Coffee
Edgewood & Boulevard

RSVP: rsvp@carenwestpr.com

Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is currently showing an exhibit that hits me in my girly bits my heart - “Big Shots: Andy Warhol’s Polaroid Portraits”.

Actors, athletes, socialites, and the mother of a U.S. President are among the subjects of the exhibition “Big Shots: Andy Warhol’s Polaroid Portraits”, on view in the John Howett Works on Paper Study Room from August 30 through December 14. Thirty-two photographs from the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) are on display. In addition, a screenprint portrait of “Miss Lillian” Carter, lent by the Carter Center, will also be included in the exhibition.

Drive A Faster Car’s quick glance at concerts worth hitting up in Atlanta this week. Check out DaFC Pick for our featured recommendations.

Monday, November 10
DaFC Pick: Brightblack Morning Light @ Eyedrum
Butch Walker & Jesse Malin @ The Loft
Diplo @ Masquerade
DaFC Pick: Magnetic Morning @ The Earl
Orphan @ Drunken Unicorn
Sleeping in the Aviary @ Lenny’s
Usher @ Tabernacle

[mp3] Butch Walker - The Weight Of Her
[mp3] Jesse Malin - Hotel Columbia
[mp3] Diplo - Must Be A Devil
[mp3] Diplo - Blow Your Head (DJ Eli Remix)
[mp3] Diplo and Rye Rye - Wassup Wassup (ddpesh Remix)
[mp3] Magnetic Morning - Cold War Kids

Tuesday, November 11
Blitzkid @ Drunken Unicorn
Coldplay @ Philips Arena
Legendary Shack Shackers @ Masquerade
DaFC Pick: M83 w/ School Of Seven Bells @ The Earl
Sisters of Mercy @ Variety Playhouse
The Flobots @ The Loft
Tim Reynolds & TR3 @ Smith’s Olde Bar

[mp3] Coldplay - Bigger, Stronger
[mp3] M83 - Kim & Jessie
[mp3] School of Seven Bells - Wired For Light

Wednesday, November 12
The Alternate Routes @ Smith’s Olde Bar
DaFC Pick: The Spinto Band @ Masquerade

[mp3] The Spinto Band - Later On
[mp3] The Spinto Band - Pumpkins & Paisley

Thursday, November 13
Young Antiques, Liverhearts @ Star Bar

Friday, November 14
Cobra Starship @ Masquerade
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band @ Variety Playhouse
Modern Society @ Vinyl
DaFC Pick: The Atlanta Mess-Around @ The Earl
The Grails @ Drunken Unicorn
The Phreakness @ Lenny’s
The Selmanaires w/ Parts & Labor @ Star Bar

[mp3] The Selmanaires - Images

Saturday, November 15
Electric Six, Local H and The Golden Dogs @ Lenny’s
The Beggars’ Guild w/ Jon Black @ Vinyl
DaFC Pick: The Atlanta Mess-Around @ The Earl
DaFC Pick: The Sword @ Masquerade

[mp3] Electric Six - Don’t Be Afraid Of The Robot

Hurray for Atlanta local music festivals!

The Earl is hosting the Atlanta Mess-Around featuring the best local DIY music on November 14 & 15 presented by Triple D’s, Rob’s House Records, Douchemaster Records and Die Slaughterhaus Records.

Friday, November 14
The Spits, Carbonas, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Cheap Time, Wax Museums and Gaye Blades

Saturday, November 15
Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Nobunny, Hex Dispensers, Baby Shakes, Black & Whites and Lover!

A steal at twelve bucks.

PROCESS x Sopobikes.org
Limited Edition Graphic Tee Release
Thursday November 13th
El Bar, Atlanta
10pm | 21+ | No Cover
Tee - $15 (portion of proceeds donated to Sopo)

One of my favorite independent Atlanta galleries, MINT Gallery, is in a time of mild crisis and is throwing a fundraiser concert this Saturday to catch up the gap. Here is the info:

MINT Gallery Fundraiser
Saturday November 15th, 9pm, $5

The Coathangers
Baby Dinosaurs vs Extinction
Sealions

“Every once in a while, we need some help with expenses that keep MINT Gallery open and healthy.” They are also accepting donations of any kind of art to put on the walls to sell since we are in between shows. If you are interested in donating art, please contact MINT’s intern Emily.

MINT Gallery
684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave. Unit B
Atlanta, GA 30312

Reminder!
Your opportunity to win tickets to
Magnetic Morning (featuring members of Interpol and Swervedriver)
and Butch Walker concerts tomorrow night are still open!

Enter to win: Magnetic Morning @ The Earl

Enter to win: Butch Walker @ The Loft

Diplo’s hitting Atlanta again. This time it’s at the Masquerade on Monday, November 10 with Abe Vigoda, Boy 8-bit, Telepathe and special guests.

[mp3] Diplo - Must Be A Devil
[mp3] Diplo - Blow Your Head (DJ Eli Remix)
[mp3] Diplo and Rye Rye - Wassup Wassup (ddpesh Remix)
[mp3] Abe Vigoda - Bear Face
[mp3] Abe Vigoda - The Garden

Stomp and Stammer is celebrating the release of the new Flaming Lips DVD “Christmas on Mars” at their November Rock ‘n’ Roll Movie Night at the Five Spot tomorrow.

They will be showing “Christmas On Mars” in its entirety on the big screen, along with the Flaming Lips concert film “UFOs at the Zoo.” Stomp and Stammer will also be giving away Flaming Lips posters to everyone that comes, while they last as well as coupons good at Decatur CD for a discount off the cost of “Christmas on Mars” when it’s released to stores on Tuesday, November 11.

There will be special prices on the great local beers from the Atlanta Brewing Company and there will be free popcorn for you to munch on.

Flaming Lips “Christmas On Mars” Release Party
hosted by Stomp and Stammer
Five Spot
1123 Euclid Ave
(Little Five Points)
Sunday, November 9
8pm | FREE

For the second year in a row, a group of musicians and home-brewers are coming together to celebrate folk music and the growing art of home-brewing. This celebration has been called the Homebrew
Hootenanny.

It is a folk music show, dinner, workshops, and home-brew showcase all in one. The Homebrew Hootenanny not only celebrates creating your own brew and music, but also positive community growth!
Each year volunteers organize the event and all bands and brewers donate their time to a great cause.

This year all proceeds will go to a fund for the use of publishing a local’s book. His name is George Sossenko and he is 89 years old. At sixteen he ran away from home to fight in the Spanish Civil War
against fascism in the Durruti Column. His family caught up to him and moved to Argentina to avoid WW2, but he fled, once again, to fight fascism in North Africa. All of these stories and more are in his book “The Idealistic Adventurer” and with your help he’ll be able to get underway with publishing it so the world can know his wonderful story.

Homebrew Hootenanny
WonderRoot Community Arts Center
Saturday, November 8
Doors 4pm | Music 8pm | $5
Food and drinks will be set at suggested donation levels.

No one will be turned away from the door and all proceeds will go to George Sossenko to help publish his book. The Homebrew Hootenanny is a community-oriented event and promotes the positive artistic crafts of music and brewing.

Tonight is the Atlanta Indie Music Festival on the Westside. It’s only $5 and the shows start at 4pm. Includes artists such as: Mach 5, Brittney Bosco, Mums FP, Jaspects, Gripplyaz, Yelawolf, Kaos, Reggie Bishop, Sean Faylon, etc.

There will also be an afterparty at 11pm so stick around after the music.

Sloppy Seconds is celebrating MJQ’s 11 year anniversary this Saturday.

Polish those shoes and pick up your dry cleaning. Saturday night is prom night at the Highland Inn. Adults only. Enchantment Under The Inn is a night devoted to treating and enjoying oneself to all the music and glory of the 50’s,60’s,70’s, and 80’s.

DJ’s Ching Dong (Joy) and Heart Disease #1 Killer in America (Farzad) will be serving up four decades of classic tunes. Slow dancing will be plentiful and highly encouraged. The Preakness will be serving as house band, playing your favorite prom covers. They will have a photo area and corsages for sale and a King and Queen announced. The couple will win gift baskets valued at over $200.

Enchantment Under The Inn
Highland Inn Ballroom
644 N Highland Ave NE
(Btwn North Ave & Ponce De Leon)
Doors 9pm | 21+

The Atlanta Rollergirls are hosting the Scattered, Smothered & Southern Scrimmage-A-Thon tomorrow at the Yaarab Shrine Center on Ponce De Leon. They have invited flat-track rollergirls and leagues from all over the Southeast to come participate for the largest roller derby event Atlanta has ever seen.

Tickets include admission to the flat-track roller derby open scrimmage event as well as the end of day WFTDA (Womens Flat Track Derby Association) bout, as Atlanta’s all-star team (Dirty South Derby Girls) battles Nashville! A limited number of tickets are available on Etix.

Atlanta Rollergirls present
Scattered, Smothered & Southern Scrimmage-A-Thon

Saturday, November 8
ALL DAY: First scrimmage begins at 10am

Yaarab Shrine Center
400 Ponce De Leon Ave
(Midtown Atlanta)