Friday, March 6, 2009
Music news CL approved shows for the weekend
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:00 AM
It's a big weekend for shows in Atlanta. Sadly Morrissey sold out the Variety Playhouse quickly (rightfully so). But if you weren't one of the lucky ones who got tickets, there are still plenty of other noteworthy things going on.
On Friday night Mi Ami is playing a show over at 529. Personally, I'm not a fan of this CD by any stretch and it has been the subject of much debate between me and about a dozen other people who wholeheartedly disagree with me. I spent about a week and a half trying to figure out what it is that makes people clamor for this group, but each listen only made the singer's absolutely unbearable vocal screeds that much more maddening. By its very nature the the heavy rhythms and deep bottom end of the music demands a physical response. Perhaps the live show will persuade me to think otherwise.
If you're looking for something more in the vein of traditional rock and roll, Howlies are playing the CD release party for Trippin With Howlies at the Star Bar.
On Saturday night the Fourth Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra plays at Eyedrum. 4WAKO is a nine piece jazz orchestra playing original compositions and arrangements that combine West African influenced rhythms with Eastern European Klezmer melodies. Daniel Clay opens the show.
Selmanaires play a show at 529 on Saturday night. According to vocalist and guitar player Tommy Chung the group will be unveiling an almost entirely new set of songs.
Also this Friday and Saturday night the Sopo Bicycle Co-op is hosting its 5th Annual Broken Hearts Alley Cat and Benefit Party.
Friday Night: Benefit Party at Lenny's Bar with Futureshock, Atlanta Sedition Orchestra, the Krewe of Grateful Gluttons, DJs Black Dominoes and Lil Ray, Skids, Tricks, and Bike Polo! FREE if you pre-register for the Alley Cat.
Saturday Night: Couples Alley Cat. Get a friend and a costume — this is about style. Prizes for couples of all kinds.
Meet at Graveyard Tavern. Register at 6 p.m. Ride at 7 p.m. Alley Cat admission includes prizes, dinner, various goodies, and admission to Friday night's party at Lenny's.
On Sunday night William Elliot Whitmore returns to the Drunken Unicorn to play a show in support of his latest album, Animals in the Dark, which is out this month on Anti-.
Whitmore is a farm boy from rural Iowa with a scratchy voice that bears the scars of a man who has experienced harder times than most folks will ever know. His death-afflicted country hymns channel a broken soul through a broken banjo and his brittle pick and stomp commune with the Grim Reaper under icy and wind-burned harmonies. But rather than dwell on the inevitable, he imbues such bleak fodder with an uplifting, existentialist embrace.
Also on Sunday the N.E.C. is playing the 10-inch release party for its latest split with Lexingotn, Kenn.'s Jovontaes at Vacation Gallery & Boutique.
(Mi Ami photo courtesy of Touch & Go/Quarterstick. William Elliot Whitmore photo by Chris Strong)
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