The Viking Progress

At Rye Bar in Athens on Wednesday, The Viking Progress played their first official show. Night Driving in Small Towns opened for them.

I’ve written about The Viking Progress as a heads-up to the show a few weeks back. I think I centered more on the solo talent of Patrick Morales. Wednesday night was a three-piece affair.

The group is comprised of acoustic guitar as a rhythm lead, electric as a back-up ambience accompaniement and a snare+crash percussion (with shakers of sorts of course). A banjo will often replace the accoustic, and a trumpet made a surprise appearence to intro one of the songs.

The Viking Progress is folk. Calm and quite, but full all the same. It is not a singer-songwriter solo act; though, Patrick opened the set with a few songs just he and his guirat. The rhythmic accoustic and the back up electric and the soft steady running of the percussion create a warm sound where the lyrcis are lead. Each word is as important as the notes in a guitarists solo.

And to top it all off, they actually have enough songs to play a [real] full set. Not 25-30-35 minutes. But you get at least 50 minutes out of them. 50 minutes of music you want to pay for.

posted 3 months ago on July 24th, 2009 at 21:22 / ∞
tags: Folk georgia Music

On the road with Death

Georgia Music Magazine (aka the intern) is going on a mini-tour with Death on Two Wheels starting tomorrow at Noon. Tennessee, North and South Carolina. Three shows, three nights, three states. and now that I got this new fangled iPhone thingy I can keep everyone updated and such.

So, check in on the Twitter page: GeorgiaMusicMag for updates along the road! and the facebook page as well cause well, shit why not. in about 20 days it will be facebook.com/georgiamusicmag, until then you’ll have to search for it.

posted 4 months ago on July 9th, 2009 at 00:13 / ∞
tags: Georgia Music Magazine Death on two wheels indie rock

United Breaks Guitars (via sonsofmaxwell)

United Airlines was witness tossing his guitar around, would pay for it when it was found broken. took a year of talking, final world: NO. writes three songs about it.

posted 4 months ago on July 7th, 2009 at 19:11 / ∞

The Viking Progress →

Some INDIE/FOLK for you:

Patrick Morales (and a rotating group of friends) playing out of Athens, Ga calls himself The Viking Progress.

“I lived on two boats The Viking and The Progress and I wrote a collection of songs written from the point of view of 8 or 9 different people all experiencing the end of the world. The songs and this project are about them coping with that situation.”

The stories follows these people as the live out the end of days. Patrick’s approach to the theme was not one of dismay and terror, but almost understanding and an ironically “life goes on motiff”. The songs are moving and eerie and comforting all at the same time. Morales’ take on the situation is that some people would just go on with their lives knowing tomorrow doesn’t exist. The songs are titled after the people they are about, The Captain, The Couple, etc.

“We could sit here and wish for more time,

But that would be a waste, so I guess we’ll just try,

Staring at each other, while flames begin to smother,

And together we could ride it out.”

“All i have to say is that I’m glad It’s you who gets to say good-bye”

-From The Couple

Check out The Viking Progress they’ll be up in Athens at Caledonia on th 9th and Rye Bar on the 22nd.


posted 4 months ago on July 6th, 2009 at 20:30 / ∞
tags: Athens music indie folk Georgia Music
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BAND: O’ Brother (Atlanta)

SONG: Providence.

Deeply toned and slightly droned (I was kind of going for the rhyme there). But O’Brother really has an effinity for drawing out notes and making them stick and stay on you. Providence starts off heavy and full then folds into a slow soft-singing vocal stringed piece with bells and sustain. The transition begins with a very sour, slow and disonant 8 note guitar fill. Heavy slow drums seem to come and go. Very ‘flight like’ and melodious. At home, the EP is a great listener. Live? They kill. When you watch O’ Brother you aren’t watching weeked rockstars. You’re watching 5 guys on stage being transformed into what they are playing. They become their instruments and vis-a-versa. It is not uncommon for eyes to be closed the majority of a set, bassist and cab become one. Guitar and floor become one. Its a moving experience.

They are on tour now, next Atlanta show the 15th at Drunken Unicorn. Highly recommended.


Listen to more on the website link up top, or right here!.

posted 4 months ago on July 5th, 2009 at 16:17 / ∞

Dave Grohl + John Paul Jones + Josh Homme=Album being recorded →

This is too good not to spread. When this hits the racks you can bet its going to be a little bit of everything you’ve already heard… combined.

posted 4 months ago on July 5th, 2009 at 12:28 / ∞

fire at masquerade claims the life of ~20 portapotties... a real shame →

There was a small brush fire behind Masquerade set off by something unrelated to the Punk show tonight. Though i’m going to go out on a limb and say all the heat created by all those leather jackets couldn’t have helped…

all i can say is that this really stinks for Masquerade…

posted 4 months ago on July 5th, 2009 at 01:44 / ∞

How yelling "Freebird" got started. →

An article about the birth of yelling “Freebird!” at shows and who started the whole thing.

posted 4 months ago on July 4th, 2009 at 13:00 / ∞
tags: Freebird Lynyrd Skynyrd

Athens Soundies →

“SOUNDIES are two things. They are one of the first forms of music videos-popular in the early 1940s. They were three minute musical films usually found on “video jukebox projectors” in bars and clubs. It’s also the name we’ve affectionately titled a series of one take, low-fi, live sound music videos inspired by the “Take Away Shows” series from LaBlogotheque (takeawayshows.com)”

neato!

posted 4 months ago on July 3rd, 2009 at 14:55 / ∞
tags: Athens Music Video indie Dr. Dog modern skirts allison weiss
So this is tomorrow at Star Bar. If your local fireworks show got canceled for budget reasons (like mine) then this is where you should go. tvtrae: Poster I designed for the Pop Death Squad guys for July 4th event in Little 5 Points.  Death On Two Wheels plays at 8PM on the outdoor stage as the sun sets, wooooo!!!

So this is tomorrow at Star Bar. If your local fireworks show got canceled for budget reasons (like mine) then this is where you should go.

tvtrae:

Poster I designed for the Pop Death Squad guys for July 4th event in Little 5 Points.  Death On Two Wheels plays at 8PM on the outdoor stage as the sun sets, wooooo!!!

posted 4 months ago on July 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 via tvtrae / ∞