NaKota "Rumblings" EP release show here at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, October 12th, 2013.
"Hailing from Atlanta by way of Brooklyn, naKota is redefining the parameters of pop music. With influences ranging from Nina Simone... to Bjork to Michael Jordan and so on, naKota is quickly being recognized as one of the more unique up-and-coming artists approaching inter-genre music. His tunes have recently been featured on MTV, Oxygen and the E! Channel. His latest, electronically-laced EP "Rumblings" is being released in October 2013."
Gang Green here at the Drunken Unicorn, Friday, October 11th, 2013.
Gang Green is a hardcore punk band originally from Braintree, Massachusetts. The first incarnation of the band consisted of 15 year olds Chris Doherty, Mike Dean, and Bill Manley and contributed seven tracks to the This Is Boston, Not L.A. compilation in 1982.
Antagonizers ATL are performing before Gang Green.
Antagonizers ATL is like a shot gun to your soul of good ol dirty rock n roll. Expect plenty of guitar work and back up vocals and sing-a-longs. If you aren't having a blast and wanting to jump on the stage, then you're just not at our show.
Drink & Destroy Crew will be performing before Antagonizers ATL.
Founded in early 2011 as a four-piece with the intention of just playing the occasional show belting out hard hitting street punk, they soon grew into a five-piece playing regular shows in their hometown of Atlanta and throughout the Southeast. DDC delivers a special blend of street punk that includes elements of pop punk, Oi!, and hardcore.
After comical and baseless legal threats from the old regime, Magoo's Heros began working on new songs to punch an OI sized hole in the brick wall of oppression.
Richard Buckner here at The Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, October 9th, 2013.
In the time since Our Blood was released and after a few long tours, Richard Buckner attempted to work on writing short stories but found himself drawn back into the music room. The evidence of his time in the writer's chair is clear in the dense, lovely prose of Surrounded. The album's liner notes include text-embedded lyrics, a technique Buckner employed on his earlier albums Since and Impasse, but this marks the first time he used the songs' extended story to construct the album's overall view and track sequence.
Throwing out the "tricks and trades" of his previous efforts, Buckner hunkered down at home and chose a few unfamiliar pieces of gear—a Suzuki QChord electronic autoharp and an Electro-Harmonix POG2 pedal—to create basic tracks and open up more sonic possibilities. "The best outcomes happen sometimes when I’m unfamiliar with the tool that I'm using (imagine MacGyver wearing a dog cone)."
The now-infamous process of recording and re-recording Our Blood left him a bit gun-shy, so this time, Buckner decided to get each song out of his house as soon as it was finished to avoid the contamination of over-thinking. After hearing an interview with famed producer Tucker Martine, Buckner found a destination for his songs: "Tucker understood the urgency in me to tie the whole thing up before I fell into the same trap that I'd had finishing Our Blood and was generous enough to move other commitments around to fit Surrounded in. When I had finally finished Our Blood, I felt like I’d just survived a stroll through a mine field. With Surrounded, it was more of a sensation that I’d successfully organized a messy desk."
"As he sings his slow, simple songs, you are taken back to a dustbowl-era mentality. A time when the folk singers were few and far between; a time when the folk singers weren’t just good, they were damn near perfect."
-Daniel Anderson ninebullets.net guestpost
Jeffrey Bützer & Cassi Costoulas are performing before Ben Trickey.
Old televisions screening work from auteurs, dangling scissors, and an otherwise intricate set make up Jeffrey Bützer’s stage. Without even hearing his music, it becomes obvious that the musician is indebted to the cinema.
Born and raised New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis leads a double-life, as both a comic book writer/artist and a musician (or is that a triple-life?). His band also has a multi-faceted existence, restlessly exploring a stylistic swath from contemplative folk narratives to distortion-fueled garage rock to soundscape abstractions and more.
The Sexual Side Effects will be appearing at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, October 5th, 2013.
The Sexual Side Effects (SSE) seamlessly combine post-punk and New Wave with modern pop and indie, with a splash of space-rock psychedelia. The Sexual Side Effects will be performing with special musical guests Aileen Loy (Till Someone Loses An Eye, Matty Haze (Gurufish)and Charlie Ahanotu (PlanetRAWK)
Dirty Silver is a Hard Rock band based out of Nashville TN. Our goal is to write honest, high energy music. We love what we do and we think our live shows represent that. See you in your town soon!
The Dodos here at the Drunken Unicorn on Friday, October 4th, 2013.
When it came time for the Dodos to begin writing their fifth LP, Carrier, singer/guitarist Meric Long wanted to start over. The uncertainty of the band's trajectory as well as the passing of guitarist Chris Reimer brought about a reassessment of things within the band, and in particular Long's songwriting. In need of a different vantage point, Long began writing words before music for the first time, enveloping himself in silence rather than sound.
When Long started to set these lyrics to music, he started writing with only his electric guitar in hand — another first. The focus on this instrument was due in large part to the time Long spent with Reimer, the guitarist for Women who had joined Long and percussionist Logan Kroeber to become the third member of the Dodos throughout 2011 before unexpectedly passing away early the following year.
"Chris was a huge influence on the way I think about guitar, songwriting, and music in general," reveals Long. "Seeing how he could transform and shape sound with an electric guitar inspired me to explore more tones and use those tones to begin writing a song."
And so, when he began to formulate the tracks that would ultimately comprise Carrier, Long employed two principles he inherited from Reimer: patience to let a song develop and a judgment-free enthusiasm for sound. To this end, Long and Kroeber decided to record in their hometown of San Francisco for the first time, allowing for less time constraints and a more pressure-free experience than past out-of-state sessions had afforded. Although John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone studio was initially selected for its analog-friendly set-up, the duo were happy to find themselves working within a supportive community of like-minded musicians that included engineers Jay and Ian Pellicci, both of whom assisted in the production of Carrier, as well as the Magik Magik Orchestra, which appears on several tracks.
As a result, the album the Dodos crafted is refreshingly sincere: no computers, no gimmicks — just eleven songs that are beautiful and solid and true and honest.
Hawaiian-born Dustin Wong of indie art rock groups Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine took the idea of going solo literally. A performer of instrumental guitar pieces, Wong performed his first show (in August of 2009) by his lonesome, aided only by a pedal board that he used to build a cacophony of textures through delay effects and loop units.
Peelander-Z here at The Drunken Unicorn on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013.
PEELANDER-Z, the Japanese Action Comic Punk Band based in NYC, was originally formed in 1998 by Peelander-Yellow, Peelander-Red, and Peelander-Blue, after meeting in New York City (although they'll tell you they're all from the Z area on the planet Peelander). Peelander-Green was welcomed in July 2008 after Blue left the band.
"With a refreshing dollop of confident restraint, Tiger! Tiger! hurls a cohesive sonic menace that equals Aguero's tough-girl image (one that looks as if this chica could cut ya just as easily as flash ya that infectious ruby-red smile)." - Flagpole Magazine
We are TSL and were do what we want and play what we like. If you wanna listen or hop around while we do what we do, we're not gonna stop ya. We'll play anywhere as long as it's not gonna suck.
Concord America’s story is a classic, archetypal rock & roll story. A story of restless youth, rebellion and the deep bond that forms between bandmates when they surrender themselves completely to the music.
Porcelain Raft here at The Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, October 1st, 2013.
Porcelain Raft fans, your wait is over. The band’s sophomore album, Permanent Signal is now available! The album includes some fantastic collaborators including Yuck‘s Jonny Rogoff on drums, Antlers‘ bassist Darby Cicci (who also contributed double vocals and trumpet, and engineered the sessions in his Brooklyn studio), and cellist Gaspar Claus (frequent collaborator with Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner of The National).
Golden Suits is Fred Nicolaus of the band Department of Eagles. This is his first solo record. It features contributions from members of Grizzly Bear, Ava Luna, and Mason Jar Music. The songs are inspired by a particularly tumultuous year in Nicolaus' life, and his obsession with the writer John Cheever.
Semicircle is simply a band from Georgia. Spearheaded by the efforts of Andrew McFarland, the band was borne out of a cassette project in Jan. 2010, "Semicircle" EP.
Adharma: The Sanskrit antonym of Dharma. It means 'that which is not in accord with the law' - referring to both the human written law and the divinely given law of nature.
Originally founded in January of 2010, Collapse of the Empire is based out of Atlanta, GA and has been hitting the scene with the release of their recent EP Rise. This new release took the band in a slightly different direction from their more death metal sound into having more progressive and groove oriented songs.
Fronted by members of indie-rock band The Heavy Florist and electro-poprock band Pink Pompeii, Eureka Failure blends an irreverent sense of humor with a genuine affection for the muic of the '80s, delivering a fresh spin on the post-punk synth pop of The Cars generation.
Darwin Deez here at The Drunken Unicorn on Monday, September 23rd, 2013.
Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to Maher Baba disciples, Darwin studied and performed as a tap dancer from age 8 to 18. His first compositions were guitar pop songs that he wrote aged 11 after his father, an amateur songwriter and a professional psychologist taught him his first chords. By age 13 Darwin was listening to electronic music – Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy and jungle/drum ‘n bass and indie hip hop such as Dr. Octagon, composing mostly epic instrumental jungle throughout his teens.
After attending and promptly dropping out of Wesleyan University, Connecticut Darwin moved to NYC’s East Village. Here he worked as a waiter at a vegan restaurant whilst picking up his guitar in spare moments, this time with less strings and a less traditional approach to composition. Inspired by Animal Collective and The Strokes, he composed noise pop that no one ever heard, then got serious about music and started attending open mic nights. Having discovered the joy of lyric writing and becoming “Darwin Deez”, he created his successful eponymous debut, which featured future hit singles ‘Constellations’, ‘Radar Detector’ and ‘Up In the Clouds’.
Forming a band, member by member until there were four, they signed to UK independent label Lucky Number in late 2009 and spent the next 2 years touring the world. When time came to make album two in the fall of 2012, Darwin relocated from the chaotic hustle and flow of New York City to Asheville, North Carolina so he could work and record free of distractions. The results? 2013’s sophomore LP ‘Songs For Imaginative People’, which comes out Feb 11th 2013 and is preceded by the single ‘Free (The Editorial Me)’. Singularly a brilliant, hilarious, complex, entertaining individual, Darwin Deez writes songs that will make you want to bust out your dancing shoes while also cutting to that raw, emotional nerve.
Caged Animals will be performing before Darwin Deez.
Caged Animals is the nom-de-plume of Vincent Cacchione, a NJ-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter/producer who is joined live by a band comprised of his wife, sister, and friends.
There is a strangely life-affirming quality to Caged Animals personal brand of bedroom pop. The tracks are adorned electronically, cut-up, processed, and digitally mutated, but they carry something much more intimate on the inside, lyrically-focused on a more folk-inspired form of storytelling.
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