Entertainment are headlining The 529 on Saturday, January 7th, 2012.
Entertainment take all the best parts of early 80s LA goth and wrap them in layers of spaced-out dub, postpunk shards, tinny synths, and cavernous silence
As part of the new crop of US underground acts updating the American Deathrock + UK Post Punk aesthetic, Entertainment have performed with legendary and up and coming artists: Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, TV on the Radio, Christian Death, Glass Candy, the Prids, Faith + the Muse, IAMX, Dead Confederate, Alaric, Religious To Damn, King Dude, White Ring + Anika.
B-R-A-N-E-S will be the second performer of the evening.
"Equally influenced by the spastic experimemtations of Devo, the deviant derivations of The Birthday Party, and classic hardcore gothic ruminations, the band has developed a unique sound which they describe as "Batcave Wave / Wicked Noodle Music", which, of course, requires further explanation.
"As dark as a batcave," says B-R-A-N-E-S. "And just as upside down. We have entered the era of 'Generation Spaghettification'; BRANES is music for wicked noodles."" - The Point
New Computer is a Progressivelectrosynthrock band from Atlanta, Ga. A collaboration of digital and electric sounds designed by the likes of Nathanael Ivey (vox,progrming,sax), Ian Campbell (guitar,vox,prgrming), Jeff Lin (keyboards,prgrming), and Chris Rumple (drums,prgrming). Founding members include Jeff Dilbeck (prgrming), and Phil Ritchie (prgrming) as well. Their sound and style combines a wide variety of influences and perspectives in the pursuit of noise and body/mind movement. Studio recordings are in process and shows are imminent.
Wymyns Prysyn are performing at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, January 7th, 2012.
WYMYNS PRYSYN kicks a bunch of ass. We wear sunglasses at night. We wear leather jackets....year-round. We smoke lots and lots of cigarettes. We take our coffee black. We drink our whiskey straight. We write songs about the weather, sugar-free red bull, Henry Owings's bbq, ignorant fools who talk to you THREE INCHES FROM YOUR FACE, and our very american friend John who thinks he's actually an irish expatriate for some reason. This tape contains 12 blistering kvlt punk parties in a non-stop assault on your shitty aiwa boombox. Along the lines of early HOT SNAKES or whatever; we really don't care what you think we sound like. Yes, I just used a semicolon. We are from Atlanta and have played in bands before.
Come CELEBRATE THE END OF 2011 with Attractive Eighties Women at The Drunken Unicorn on NEW YEARS EVE 2011 - Saturday, December 31st, 2011.
"Sounds like Molly Hatchet crossed with an 8th grade talent show..."
With their wild costumes and on-stage antics, AEW have often been described as "Post-GWAR Kiss revivalists". One eyewitness at an early show claimed the band was "like a tornado of two-hundred Led Zeppelins, out-of-control and bearing down on a South Georgia trailer park... picking up all the hot women and spinning them away to some distant rock n' roll Valahalla."
The Most Ignorant Band In America - Coming to a venue near you!
"It's already been said several times, but ahhh 'guyliner' .. gotta love it Anyway, I think it depends on the guy and their style. With some guys, it just goes with their style, and it looks cute."
Like Clockwork will be having a homecoming show at The Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, December 28th, 2011.
"Something old. Something new. That's the critical musical balance behind Like Clockwork: an odyssey of sound, mind, spirit and poetic lyricism from the chaotic, yet diametrically romantic mind of Jesse Owen Astin."
Beach Party (!) began in February 2011, when writer Trace William Cowen drunkenly wrote and recorded a noisy break-up anthem which would later become "Massacre." At the time, Trace was finishing up his online film series "I Like You," itself a meditation on love & relationships. The song was left alone until, several weeks later, Trace decided to finish it. He immediately contacted his old friend Cameron Johnson and Beach Party (!) was gloriously born. Shortly after this union of minds, guitarist Matt Blaskowski and bassist Caed Turner hopped aboard the pop train and took it to radio town.
Evoli are going to be the second performer of the evening.
Evoli is a quintet alternative folk-rock band that hails from McHenry, IL. With four talented songwriters, a knack for performing, growing popularity, and a brand new album, these musicians are shooting for the stars.
Evoli is a family- a slightly insane band-family- and we specialize in entertaining. We are a bunch you can’t forget- even if you wanted to. With four songwriters contributing to our set list, we have a diverse range of sounds- all including the undeniable and unique Evoli twist. We can’t explain the ways in which we find ourselves hilarious or how our music will keep you with your music player on repeat; you’ll just have to trust us.
Pillage & Plunder are performing at The Basement on Saturday, December 17th, 2011.
"Atlanta’s Pillage & Plunder have just released their debut record, a six-song EP entitled Look Inside for the Prize full of quirky, angular pop and rock that sounds like nothing else going on in this town right now. " - Latest Disgrace
"Pillage and Plunder is a strange beast. The six songs on their debut EP find an unusual intersection between bright, clean indie-pop and math-rock complexity, resulting in a sound that’s a little jarring on first listen. Give the songs a little time, though, and it all starts to come together...There’s something unique here, and I look forward to hearing from them in the future." - Little Advances
Gospel Music, featuring Owen Holmes of Black Kids will be performing third.
"With the dive bar his sanctuary and minimalist story-songs about failed romance, long-distance running, sharks and unrequited love his psalms, Gospel Music’s debut full-length album, How To Get To Heaven From Jacksonville, FL, will be released on October 25 on Kill Rock Stars. Contrary to its moniker, there’s nothing religious about Gospel Music, that is unless you worship at the altar of clever lo-fi indie pop and your holy trinity consists of Lou Reed, Stephin Merritt and Jonathan Richman. The musical alias of Jacksonville singer/multi-instrumentalist Owen Holmes, who pulls double duty as bassist for Black Kids, Gospel Music’s first LP takes its album title and cover art from a pamphlet produced by a turn-or-burn evangelical church he attended as a Southern Baptist teenager. (A lot has changed since then.) A copy of the original pamphlet is included in the vinyl version of the album.
The forthcoming long-player sees Holmes picking up where he left off with his acclaimed 2010 EP duettes, a five-song collection of charming duets with members of Camera Obscura, Vivian Girls, The Magnetic Fields, Hefner and French singer-songwriter SoKo that Pitchfork described as “long on infectious melodies but short on arty pretension...Fans of lo-fi pop would be hard-pressed not to be won over by his lyrical specificity, melodic infectiousness, and vocal collaborators.” Using a musical arsenal of toy piano, banjo, acoustic guitar, organ, ukulele, bass and drums, Holmes casually delivers 11 stories with a conversational baritone reminiscent of David Berman, Adam Green or any of the aforementioned male vocalists. Jacksonville pal Madeline Long acts as the perfect foil to Holmes, adding a sweet, girlish counterpoint to his deep register." NK / Earbuddy
Noel Stephen & The Darlings are going to be the second act of the evening.
"Young Atlanta group Noel Stephen & the Darlings crafts the kind of un-ironic rococo pop that winks at its musical forefathers (Serge Gainsbourg, Rufus Wainwright) while concurrently, and proudly, declaring its independence. The band's first album, Ten Years Too Late, has a very appropriate first-album feel. The production is inconsistent, vocalists trade off from song to song, and the band has a stylistic tendency to veer rather wildly back and forth from barroom country to the baroque and beyond. But there's a sweetness to the Darlings' blue-eyed approach, an honesty that's missing from most new music, that saves Ten Years Too Late from itself. Likewise, certain unanticipated moments — the dramatic downshift halfway through "Your Scarf," for instance — flirt with profundity. The Darlings' best moments are certainly ahead of them, but this altogether solid debut should prove a fine jumping-off point." - Gabe Vodicka / Creative Loafing Atlanta
“Inspired by the soul of the South and the spirit of gypsies, Lily and the Tigers play what they call gothic americana music. The band's foundation rests in the words, voice and guitar of Casey Hood and the restless beats of upright bassist Adam Mincey. The two call Atlanta, Georgia home and the musicians around town family. Their debut album, Sojourner, pulls in several other tigers. From trumpets and accordions to harpsichords and harmonicas, every song tells a different story. Since the band’s 2009 conception and their first national tour, Lily and the Tigers has blossomed into a full sound including alto clarinetist Mikhail Ally, lead guitarist Jared Pepper, and fiddler Ryan Gregory.”
It's a Wowser Bowser Christmas on Saturday, December 17th at The Drunken Unicorn.
"You know how to get a crowd going? Balloons. Wowser Bowser knows that with a little hot air and some cheap pieces of plastic you can unleash the kid in everyone. As you playfully hit the balloons all over the venue that barrier comes down and once again you are a kid, dancing and singing along with the band. Over the past two years I have seen about 100 different acts take to the stage, but few come close to the enthusiasm, energy and dedication applied to their live shows. When the band wasn’t up on stage jumping off their amps, they were venturing out into the crowd, staging interpretative dance competitions between sides of the crowd, having the time of their life all while wearing their festive costumes. It was Halloween and the band came prepared, forming a congruous union of a Big Mac hamburger, a tutu clad ballerina age 7, a large, headless penguin and even a member of Wowser Bowser, as the trumpet player went as himself.
Being outrageous stage personalities is one aspect of a great show, but they came with an amazing selection of music as well, including the amazing show closer “Water Story” which recently received the coveted “WUOG Song of the Day.” Above all, what the band did best was to just showcase their unbridled enthusiasm and the fun they had during the show, excitement brimming from their eager smiles. I’m sure it is easy to lose this attitude after hundreds of shows but its an essential ingredient for live performance, a contagion that infects the crowd. How can you not be excited and want to dance when the lead singer turned hamburger runs out into the crowd, spins and hops around like a drunken karaoke-ist whilst belting out his vocals perfectly. Wowser Bowser may have been a surprise to the largely unaware Drunken Unicorn audience but I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of the audience members walked away liking Wowser Bowser’s set more than the headliner, the Drums." -Will Guerin / WUOG blog
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Qurious is the surprising collaboration between a hip-hip producer/sample collagist and a vocal texturist/muli-instumentalist. Since winter 2009, the pair has taken up casting a sonic net over the patrons of the Atlanta and Athens music scenes.
Whether from headphones or on stage, one is inevitably caught spellbound. The siren-like vocals which lay atop the depths of keyboard/sample-based aural tapestries capture intellects and sway those fleshy physical forms into dance. With compositions as various and interesting as their subject matter, Qurious challenges audiences to follow them through the melodic looking-glass, venturing into a more cerebral listening experience.
Summoning nature-inspired soundscapes in their premiere concept-album: Planet Plant, the group built an enthralling narrative of terrestrial imagery encapsulated in otherworldly vision. The piece served as a brilliant introduction to the band and landed them a Creative Loafing title: Best Ambient Composers of 2011. Keeping things inquisitive as always, the group can be expected to evolve their enigmatic and sexy brand of auditory escape.
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Every so often you'll be drinking a glass of water, and tilt it down in such a way that the water will bounce off of itself and make a little "kerplop." Take that sound and repeat it over and over, until you get a "kerplopkerplopkerplopkerplop." THEN get all your friends and bang on whatever seems fit. Add bubbles and that's pretty much it.
Black Cobra is performing at The Drunken Unicorn on Friday, December 16th, 2011.
"Southern Lord is proud to present the new opus from The Bay Area's devastating duo BLACK COBRA. Formed by drummer Rafa Martinez (ex-16, ex-Acid King) and guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian (ex-Cavity), BLACK COBRA catapulted themselves onto the scene in 2001 with their ravenous, upbeat and ultimately unique style of punk/hardcore-fueled sludge metal. They were picked up almost immediately by indie At A Loss Recordings becoming the band's label home for the release of their debut full-length, Bestial, and follow-up album, Feather And Stone. By 2009, with the band then virtually a household name to the tens of thousands of fans who've seen their flooring live performances over the years, BLACK COBRA signed with juggernaut Southern Lord Recordings for the release of Chronomega, the band's most diverse material to date."
Celebrated Atlanta, GA “psych metal” band ZOROASTER has completed work on its sophomore album. Entitled Matador, the record is set for a July 13, 2010 North American release date via E1 Music.
With Matador, ZOROASTER dares to defy genre-classification and proves that the band’s formidable reputation precedes it for a reason. Produced and engineered by Sanford Parker at Glow in the Dark Studios and The Living Room Recording in Atlanta, GA and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in Chicago, IL, Matador is a magnetic tour-de-force, blending vivid rhythms and radiance with the band’s classic use of dynamics and power. Creative, distinct, graceful and strong, Matador features the traits of a benchmark release. From the cosmic march of album opener “D.N.R.” through to the leviathan-like closing title track, it is immediately evident that ZOROASTER have joined friends – and fellow Atlanta natives – Mastodon and new label mates High on Fire as a unit determined to push modern heavy music into new and uncharted realms.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
