Nakota (ex Comanche) started in Athens, GA in 2007. Stone relocated to Brooklyn, New York in 2008 and has been crafting his project since that time. Recently in late 2012, naKota relocated back down south to Atlanta, GA. The music is inter-genre-pop. The sounds range all over the music spectrum but are held together with powerful, soulful vocals.
The Stone Shakers here at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
When a world of Contradictions, uprooted Histories blown to dust, and Yesterday's and Tomorrow's Sorrow begin to Collapse like aged Stone etched in the Collective Conscience of every being Alive or Dead, You will Find us. We are You, The Shakers of Stone. Shattered and Bare Boned as Fragile Skinshellled Minds Redefine Perspective Again and Again Listening for the Sounds that Will Bring the Dead to Life one More Time!
Country Mice will be performing before The Stone Shakers.
"Country Mice are a Brooklyn-based rock band whose music fuses the twang-infused melodies of Neil Young and Jeff Tweedy with the guitar firepower of vintage indie rockers such as Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth." - Cameo
“Rock” and “Indie” are two of the most ambiguous terms in music classification; however, until you take a listen to Radio the Captain’s music or check out one of their shows to draw your own conclusions, then “Rock” and “Indie” will have to do.
Mount Moriah here at the Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, March 9th, 2013.
Fiercely contemporary yet rich with classic influences, Mount Moriah's Miracle Temple sports bigger arrangements, louder guitars, bolder vocals, and more soulful rhythms than their acclaimed self-titled debut. Through their artful personal storytelling, the band develops a piercing portrait of a "New South" where progressive traditions are still fitfully breaking free from conservative ones. Mount Moriah's cathartic vision for their home and themselves is writ large in their lovingly critical negotiation with romantic, political, and gender identities; geographical perspective; confrontation and forgiveness. The drive for change, resolute but tinged with regret, is arrestingly captured in the cover image of a burning barn.
"I met William Tyler on the Exeter line out of London, and never such an autodidact had I met. He’ll tell you about James Kunstler, about Rudy Wurlitzer, about how Michael Cimino got a raw deal with Heaven’s Gate. We were both far hungover and lugging plenty gear, guitars and records and books, more than we could carry.
William Tyler comes from good Southern stock, a Nashville lifer who’s played with Lambchop, the Silver Jews, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Charlie Louvin, Candi Staton. People love this man, rightfully so. When you meet him, you’ll feel that compulsion. William’s father Dan came from Mississippi; he wrote songs and lawyered around Music Row in the 1970s and later worked with Eddie Rabbitt, who toted a monkey on his shoulder and smoked grips of weed. Dan was once accosted by David Allen Coe, who chased him with a knife." - MC Taylor, Durham, NC
The Ruby Velle Trio are appearing here at The Drunken Unicorn on Friday, March 8th, 2013.
The Ruby Velle Trio is part of Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics.
DISCLAIMER: The Ruby Velle Trio is who is performing, the music below is of Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics which is the full band. The full band is NOT performing here on Friday, March 8th.
Their current sound is influenced by all degrees of music, but now they take a mature focus in blending a progressive structure with darker psychedelic rhythm.
Painted Palms is the music project of cousins Reese Donohue and Chris Prudhomme. Their collaboration began as song ideas passed back and forth via email.
"With no fewer than six members, the band utilizes upright bass, violin, cello, trumpet, clarinet, accordion and drums. Their first album titled "Magnalia Christi" draws from influences ranging gypsy, vaudeville, folk, and jazz. The band remains beautifully ramshackle" - Performer Magazine
Body Language here at The Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013.
Fresh off the success of last year’s Social Studies LP—which earned the approval of everyone from NPR to The New York Times to The Guardian, who compared the breakout release to early Madonna, the indie disco of Prelude Records and “CSS doing an impression of Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band”—Body Language have returned with a new EP (Grammar, due out through OM’s Lavish Habits imprint on September 18th) and a full-length disc that’s set to drop in early 2013. Both of which streamline the Brooklyn quartet’s restless pop experiments with a future-shocked blend of soul and R&B.
Vacationer will be performing before Body Language.
Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of childlike exploratory freedom, which we seem to experience less and less frequently as we age. We can have fun without worrying about the familiar consequences presented to us regularly in life. Taking a good amount of time away from our daily stresses allows us to return to our lives refreshed and better equipped to handle whatever comes next.
Antbrain plays their brand of rock music with a crooked smile. Audiences can't help but smile back as their ears get gently tickled by the fuzzy guitars, driving basslines and pummeling rhythms. Starting out as a sporadic recording project for guitarist Jiyoung Lee and bassist Dave Bonawits in 2008, the band discovered their true self when they added drummer Josh Hall in mid-2010. Since then they've been winning audiences over with their self described "slop-pop."
Sonen will be headlining The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013.
SONEN, the Atlanta, GA electro-pop duo made up of Keith Evans and Holly Mullinax, make music you wouldn’t expect to come from a city known for Hip Hop and Garage Rock.
Its a long story, but here is the short of it. Awesome happened a while back, then disrepair and guilt. Soon hope came around, along with some dollar bills and life is now how it should be, minus some more dollar bills.
Lightnin' Ray & The Mystics are coming to The Drunken Unicorn on Thursday, February 28th, 2013.
Lightnin' Ray & The Mystics are a blues and soul inspired rock n' roll band based out of Atlanta, GA. The Mystics are Kyle Gordon on drums and Nick Furgiuele on bass guitar.
James Richard Pierce JR of Hawkeye Pierce will be performing before The Stacktone Slims
Hawkeye Pierce is a gang of loners, a pack of lone wolves. Have you heard of "Three Wolves"? Well fuck that, they're FIVE wolves. They play “heartwrenching indie rock,” twangy and soulful.
Ian Campbell & The Recruits are releasing their new EP here at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013.
Ian Campbell & The Recruits is an Americana band from Atlanta, GA. Led by former Waving At Strangers guitarist, Ian Campbell, The Recruits have already started making a name for themselves with their brand of twangy, rock and roll.
John French & The Bastilles will be the second performer.
John independently released his first solo full-length album in May of 2010 with extremely positive reception. Shortly thereafter John combined the musical talents of Josh DeRamus (drums), Kevin Justmann (bass), Wes Kent (electric guitar), and Rebecca Cash (backup vocals/banjo) to give the same power live that is present on the record. John French and the Bastilles were born.
Roadkill Ghost Choir here at The Drunken Unicorn on Friday, February 22nd, 2013.
Roadkill Ghost Choir is an indie folk-rock band from DeLand, Florida.
Brothers Andrew (vocals, guitar), Maxx (drums) and Zach (bass) Shepard make up half the band while Kiffy Meyers (pedal steel, banjo, guitar), Joey Davoli (keys, trumpet) and Stephen Garza (lead guitar) complete the band’s sound.
The member’s major influences include Wilco, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and Fleetwood Mac, there are also undercurrents of Radiohead and Nirvana.
Tedo Stone will be performing before Roadkill Ghost Choir.
“Tedo Stone’s music lies somewhere between The Jayhawks and Gram Parsons, and then heavily dosed with psychedelic fuzziness. With a perfect blend of old and new Happy is a fresh listen and a treat to the ears. Stone’s music is worth checking out, and is another great example of a thriving music scene here in Atlanta.” – Chris Martin, Atlanta Music Examiner
Capillaries is an instrumental band of four from Atlanta, GA. The music of Capillaries captures a dark history and remains willing to stay behind and investigate it. There are hints of ambience with a sense of immediacy driving it along. Noise and melody become unintended bedfellows. Bass-driven leads and non-traditional rhythms become the substratum for soaring guitars that take listeners to new heights just before pummeling them back into the earth.
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