KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB will have special guest DJ?s
Heavy Cream (Rob Parham) and Tim Genius spinning
records early tonight at 9:00pm sharp at Lenny?s Bar.
Who knows what they?ll play, but between the both of
them, they?ve thousands of obscure vinyl gem rockers
to choose from for you to enjoy. As usual, Ben Lawless
will hold it down through the late night between and
after KBC performances.
IMPORTANT!!
You do not want to miss Nautical Almanac tomorrow
night at the Drunken Unicorn, Tuesday, June 8th.
You?ll surely be entertained while feeling a little
bit uneasy when this enigmatic noise duo from
Baltimore breaks into action on stage. More detailed
info on Nautical Almanac below.
Please view
http://www.tightbros.net for more info on
all the events listed.
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JUNE 2004
Tuesday, June 8- Drunken Unicorn (mjq)
Nautical Almanac
Wilson and Heath
Rat Threads
all ages
9:00pm
$6
Nautical Almanac
Formed in 1994 by Nate Young (currently of Wolf Eyes)
and James Twig Harper in Michigan. Nautical Almanac
started as a rogue 'crash and smash' terror band,
playing anywhere possible (mostly public) using
confrontational social musical tactics. Nautical
Almanac create instruments made from garbage: Springs,
clings, gutted electronics, metal, etc.
In 1997 Twig Harper was forced to leave Michigan and
go underground avoiding the police and FBI for an
anti-police action (all charges were dropped) Harper
ended up in Chicago with Carly Ptak, instead of
tossing in the N/A gloves Ptak+Harper decided to
hijack the Almanac and ride it to its deserved glory.
Refocusing in even further on the electronics tip they
worked endless hours rewiring and building gear,
playing the sporadic shows here and there in Chicago.
In 1997 they opened up the Mystery Spot, an infamous
junk store to finance their life. Everything went fine
until they became disgusted with the gentrification of
the neighborhood and had the urges to dedicate more of
their life to immaterial objects. Packing up they left
Chicago in 2001 and ended up in Baltimore to buy a
cheap abandoned styled building. Through the
renovations Ptak + Harper have started hosting live
shows in their attic dubbed Tarantula Hill, and
started a record label HERESEE and are in the process
of building out Diamond Eyes recording studio.
Nautical Almanac now has the time to tour and play as
many shows as possible. Their latest release, "Rooting
for the microbes? is out now on Load records.
http://www.loadrecords.com/
Wilson and Heath
W&H explore harsh and formless sonic clutter which
oozes like an acidic gel. The knob-twiddling,
body-jarring duo's constrictive aural assault
culminates in an outpouring of manipulated feedback
and squelching chunks of sound that are best known for
clearing rooms and cleansing the mental palette.
Rat Threads
Is a duo featuring Randy Castello (flakes, the beach)
and Bradford Cox (deer hunter, wet dreams, the beach).
Together they mix shimmering whitewash guitar noises
with beats and the occasional vocal whenever they feel
it. Rat Threads blew the f*ck up after opening a show
for the venerable Jackie-O Motherfucker at Eyedrum art
and music gallery a few months ago. Did you see it?
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Saturday, June 12- Lenny's
The Magic Hospital
The Beach
The Wolf and Malemute
Vivavox
21 and up
9:00pm
$5
This show will basically be an extension of the
KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB which takes place every Monday
at Lenny's, as all the above performers have made
appearances on this night in one way or another since
KBC's inception back in March. Resident ballers Ben
Lawless and James "Mr Mips" Parker will DJ during the
performance portion of the evening.
Coby C. and Mali Azima make up what are The Magic
Hospital and The Wolf and Malemute. While there's
naturally some similarity between the two projects,
both are equally compelling in there own right. Expect
to hear droned out synths, distorto guitar sounds and
fat beats for sure.
http://www.themagichospital.com
The Beach includes members of several past and present
notable Atlanta bands. Christy Montero(subsonics),
Bradford Cox (deer hunter), Kristin Klein (alphabets)
Randy Castello (flakes) and Jane Malicki (alphabets).
Uhh, they kinda sound like uhh..... Hey, don't miss
this.
Every Vivavox show is different, so who knows what to
expect, but certainly Billy Santana the one man avant
electro dance antagonizer will come correct as he's
been on hiatus for a while. I wonder what he's gonna
wear.
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Tuesday, June 15- Echo Lounge
Acid Mothers Temple
18 and up
9:00pm
$12
Collective led by Kawabata Makoto. There are currently
around 30 members, famous and unknown, musicians,
artist, dancers, farmers etc. In order to follow and
document their multifarious activities, in 1998 the
Acid Mothers Temple family record label was set up.
The Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
group is just one part of collective's activities.
This will be AMT's second appearance in the ATL.
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Thursday, June 17- Eyedrum
Funkst?rung
Inceptdate
Decibaka and Pat Foley
all ages
8:00pm
$7
Riding a tide of essential remixes for everyone from
Bjork to the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as pioneering the
glitch-hop sound recently popularized by the likes of
Prefuse 73 and Dabrye, Funkst?rung triumphantly return
to the US with their first proper Southeast Atlanta
date ever. Neither pop nor hip-hop, blues nor soul are
safe from the duo's metallic grasp as their signature
sound evolves and new directions are explored.
"That was live, this is now: Funkst?rung on stage in
concert with two laptops, singer/songwriter Enik and
the bass player Andreas Kellner. Expect soulful
acoustics, hip-hop electronics and pop poetics.
Disconnected Concert Tour 2004 for all dissenters."
Brought to you in association with:
Sitting Duck
XLR8R
K7
plane rep
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JULY 2004
Monday, July 5- Drunken Unicorn (mjq)
Gravy Train!!!!
The Vanishing
all ages
9:00pm
$8
Gravy Train!!! is two girls giving and two men taking.
Touching and rubbing each other while slapping asses,
humping walls, spreading thighs, bloodying bare feet
on broken beer cans and glass. Stripping short-shorts
down to leotard skivvies and harnessing air dildoes,
burying them deep in both eager and sheepish boy butts
alike.
What makes The Vanishing a band worth taking seriously
is their conviction for all things "goth", right down
to singer, Jessie Eva's, Siouxsie-like pleas. Add to
this one of the tightest drummers to bare all black,
Mr. Brian Hock, and the careful notation that synth
player Sadie Shaw incorporates and you have one of
tightest groups around that sound like they've been
playing since the incarnation of the Bat Cave. It's
because of the talent these three bring to the table
that puts The Vanishing two steps higher than any of
the goth bands in their peer group.
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Wednesday, July 21- Eyedrum
David Grubbs
Rat Threads
all ages
9:00pm
$8
David Grubbs was a founding member of the group Gastr
del Sol. He has participated in the Red Krayola since
1993. With Jim O'Rourke, Grubbs co-directed Dexter's
Cigar, an acclaimed label that reissued out-of-print
recordings by Arnold Dreyblatt, Henry Kaiser, Merzbow,
and others. Grubbs currently directs the Blue
Chopsticks record label, which has released both new
and archival recordings from Luc Ferrari, Derek Bailey
and No?l Akchot?, Workshop, Van Oehlen, and Mats
Gustafsson.
In previous lives, David was guitarist and primary
songwriter in the widely influential mid-'80s punk
group Squirrel Bait, whose two records have recently
been reissued; he was reincarnated into the same
position in Bastro, which released two albums and
toured Europe at the '80s/'90s cusp. He has also
appeared on records by Will Oldham, Matmos, Tony
Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Royal Trux, Richard Buckner,
The Dirty Three, and many others.
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AUGUST 2004
Thursday, August 5- Drunken Unicorn (mjq)
Cex
Make Believe
Emperor X
all ages
9:00pm
$8
Cex aka Rjyan Kidwell at 21 years old has already
eclipsed many of his heroes in creative risk-taking
and execution alone, not to mention shear
accessibility. Layering acoustic guitars, hip-hop
beats, dense bass, bells and witty, catchy-as-hell
Fresh Prince meets Eminem meets Bright Eyes lyrical
flows, Cex is just about the freshest mashing of
genres ever unleashed. As unlikely as it seems to mix
hip-hop party jams, warm IDM glitch and shades of emo
and folk, he has unearthed a lost treasure; a
heretofore undiscovered gold mine of brilliant beats,
charming stories and witty rhymes to be unleashed at
the Drunken Unicorn(MJQ) via a live band this time
around. You've been warned.
Make Believe is last year?s touring version of Joan of
Arc. After years of constant line-up changes,
continually rearranging the songs in different
stylistic guises, Joan of Arc translated their songs
last year into rock-band language. After 3 months of
touring solidified their playing together, they
returned home and decided to follow this impulse and
write new songs with a more aggressive approach. But
they all knew it had to be something different than
Joan of arc. For it to be represented as a true
collaboration and reflect it?s totally different
approach to songwriting and speak for itself it had to
shake whatever connotations the band name Joan of arc
had acquired.
Brought to you in association with the Costume Party.
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