Yet another slow week, what with Atlanta still recovering and reopening from the bubonic plague zombie apocalypse the covids and all. Eddie's Attic, Aisle 5 and The Masquerade are doing most of the heavy lifting this week, with The Masquerade putting on the first good show of the year, one with two great bands (Japanese Breakfast and Mannequin Pussy). Unfortunately, it's sold out, so hope you got your tickets.
FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021
Slow & Low: Dalek One, Clerks, Ployd x Exit 9 (Aisle 5, 10:00 pm) - Chopped and screwed electronica, for lack of a better description. Dalek One is reportedly 6'8", so you may want to go if you're scouting for an all-producers' pickup basketball team.
Seven Year Witch, Killakoi, The Relics, & Rae and The Ragdolls (Purgatory at The Masquerade, 7:00 pm) - Post-grunge headliners Adelitas Way cancelled (they're playing tonight in Savannah, instead), but the hard-rocking openers are going on with the show anyway.
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021
✅Japanese Breakfast & Mannequin Pussy (Heaven at The Masquerade, 7:00 pm) - The first good show of the year, which is to say the best show since the covids started last year. So good a show, in fact, that it's sold out. Japanese Breakfast is singer-songwriter and author Michelle Zauner, touring in support of her new release Jubilee. Philly punks Mannequin Pussy open.
Migrant Worker & Lady Couch (Aisle 5, 8:30 pm) - In early 2012, Atlanta studio musician and producer Josh Thane began what started as simple blues arrangements with a drummer in an upstairs loft. Since then, a myriad of some of Atlanta's various musical talents have come to be a part of the collective now known as Migrant Worker. Taking their name from a tune penned by J.J. Cale, one of their biggest influences, Migrant Worker continues to pay homage to the rich history of the American musical landscape, blurring the lines between country, folk, and rock. So if you didn't get your Japanese Breakfast tickets, you can kick back instead on Lady Couch with Migrant Worker.
Initium, Mtn Isl, & Drifter (529, 9:00 pm) - If you didn't get your Japanese Breakfast tickets and you'd rather rage than kick back, here's some loud and hard music for your Saturday late-night entertainment. Initium is an Atlanta post-metal band featuring members of Irreversible and Cloak. Mtn Isl promises "ugly, discordant rage and dark unease," while Drifter plays "knuckle-dragging ethereal cave man riffs." Good times.
SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2021
Justin Wells (6:00 pm) & Sarah Potenza (8:00 pm) (Eddie's Attic) - Two shows, one venue. You'll need two tickets to see both, or pick and choose. It's up to you!
MONDAY, JULY 26, 2021
The Minks & Jon Latham (Eddie's Attic, 8:00 pm) - The Minks are a Nashville “psychedelic-bloos” band fronted by Nikki Barber, playing the "low-down, all the way, purse-lipped, eyes-shut, head-whirling kind of rock and roll" by their own description. See? Eddie's does occasionally have bona fide rock bands.
TUESDAY, JULY 27, 2021
Struggle Jennings, Brianna Harness & Caitlynne Curtis (Hell at The Masquerade, 7:00 pm) - Struggle Jennings is country rapper William Harness of Nashville. He is the grandson of country musician Jessi Colter, the step-grandson of Waylon Jennings, and the nephew of Shooter Jennings, from whom Harness adopted his stage name.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021
The Goddamn Gallows, Reconciler, & The Compartmentalizatonalists (The Earl, 8:00 pm) - The Goddamn Gallows are a punk band with not-so-subtle hints of metal and bluegrass. Building upon their original twanged-out, punk-rock gutter-billy sound, they began picking up stray musicians along the way and added washboard, accordion, mandolin and banjo, resulting in a music referred to as "hobocore", "gypsy-punk" or "Americana-punk", while never being stuck in any one sound. Atlanta's Reconciler and Jeffrey Butzer's band, The Compartmentalizationalists, open.
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021
Ben Jarrell & Connelly Crowe (Eddie's Attic, 7:00 pm) - A pair of singer-songwriters at Eddie's. Get there early and snag the best table!
And that's it for this week. The premier of new music venue The Eastern will be on August 6, but I'm not paying "$49 - $99" to see fucking Bright Eyes, and L5P's Variety Playhouse has already sold out its first show (The Mountain Goats) on August 7. Terminal West reopens on Friday the 13th of August with Maggie Rose. We're still waiting on word from the Drunken Unicorn on when (or if) they're reopening.
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