Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are performing together at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, December 3rd, 2011.
Macklemore is an emcee from Seattle, Washington that often shows up the larger acts he opens for in the city. At his own shows he keeps the audience going, no matter how small the crowd.
On his debut album, The Language of My World, Macklemore drafts a lyrical landscape of classic proportions. This record is teeming with energy and ambition, serving as a fitting debut for one of this country’s most promising young artists. Macklemore’s gift, like that of all great songwriters, is his ability to speak on universal experiences in a uniquely personal way. Throughout The Language of My World, Macklemore consistently addresses topics that are uncomfortable or taboo, in an attempt to exorcise his own personal demons.
His music is inspirational, filled with social and racial consciousness, as well as a constructive political vision. He’s also funny as hell, making music that is at once hilarious and affecting. Born and raised in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood Macklemore has been an integral part of the Seattle hip-hop scene for the past 7 years. He developed his style and character as part of Elevated Elements, which he founded when he was just 14 years old, and quickly moved on to pursue his solo career. From these humble beginnings Macklemore has matured, both as a songwriter and performer, into an artist who is clearly beginning to realize his near limitless potential.
Champagne Champagne- Seattle’s own punk-rap-shoegazers, backroom brown hornets, vibrate higher in their magnetic blackness. Two MC’s: Pearl Dragon, lifer-a smoke-breathing hood Jim Morrison- and Sir Thomas Gray, the hyperactivated game-gifted trouble man. One producer/multi-instrumentalist DJ Gajamagic (AKA Mark Gadjahar, drummer/founding member of defunct Seattle posthardcore institution The Blood Brothers, current backbone to Past Lives and Weekend) – master of dark arts, road-trip Macgyver, and sound systems savage. Together they “outrap and outparty everyone” (via Seattle Weekly), drink greenrooms dry, and smash packed clubs and sweaty basements alike with their afrofuturist afterparty music- rejecting easy classifications, broke groupies, and bammer weed. Just picture The Cure, Cody ChesnuTT and Cannibal Ox at a Pabst-soaked jam in a haunted mansion. Now picture The ‘Pagne burning it the fuck down. Yeah, you got it.
After years of grinding in the lost land of Olywa, rapper, producer, vocalist and all-around superstar Xperience is finally coming into his own. You may have seen him crooning with the man himself Macklemore as one half of Step Cousins; or you may have heard him plumb the depths of darkness while shining blinding light with Compost and A.K.A. as part of Olympia supercrew (((SoundAsylum))). Recently he has been working with Seattle's Oldominion, dropping verses on new singles from Grayskul, and is reportedly working on a project called SIX with Smoke of Oldominion and Iamme of Portland-based Sand People.
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Dropdead are headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Friday, December 2nd, 2011.
Dropdead formed officially in January of 1991 in Providence RI. Having met in 1989, and playing together for a year before this as Hellocaust, a lineup change saw Bob and Ben switch instruments, a name change, and a great increase in speed and intensity. The idea was to play pissed off, aggressive, no bullshit HC/Punk with personally political lyrics. Musically the influences drew from bands as diverse as Confuse, Siege, Larm, Crass, Swans, Infest, SSD, Pandemonium, Icons of Filth, Gauze, Septic Death, Discharge, Anti-Cimex etc. The first show happening within a few months, April of 1991 with Born Aginst and Rorschach. From then on no looking back. The band continues to this day with a strong Do It Yourself work ethic, booking their own shows and releasing their own records. Over the years Dropdead has played hundreds of shows, recorded two LP's, some splits and EP's, toured the USA and Europe numerous times, as well as Australia and Japan.
Now in 2011 Dropdead reaches it's 20th anniversary year still moving forward with fresh energy and ongoing appreciation for the underground DIY comunity. Several projects are underway, including yet to be announced releases, and some gigs in the USA and Europe.
To the future! Cheers for 20 years of Political No Bullshit Hardcore Thrash!
Torche will be the third performer of the evening.
Torche, the four-pronged Floridian Riff Colossus that has steamrolled its way across the international underground. Led by vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks (formerly of doom dropouts Floor) and featuring the myriad talents of drummer Rick Smith, bassist Jonathan Nuñez and guitarist Juan Montoya, Torche unfurled their self-titled debut in 2005 via Richmond, Virginia’s Robotic Empire. The glorious half-hour of blissed-out power-grooves, triumphant vocal harmonies and cosmic resonance within was variously hailed as “stoner pop,” “thunder rock,” and “doom pop,” but a consensus was quickly reached within the Fourth Estate: Both the underground and mainstream press had their hands halfway down their pants just thinking about listening to Torche. The band was immediately lauded as giants among men, leaders among sheep, and powerbrokers of a deadly new sonic idiom founded upon Brooks’ signature “bomb-string” detonation-detune. As Decibel magazine so righteously pointed out in May of 2005, Torche “carries on in the dizzying Sabbathian tradition of Floor, only potentially more bottomless and epic.” Seven months later, the same publication would declare Torche as the # 7 album of the year in its annual top 40.
Double Negative are the second band of the evening.
Double Negative is a hardcore confusion punk band that began in January 2006 by singer KC, bassist Kamph Tapes, drummer Walsby, and guitarist Epic Warfare. They are signed on Sorry State Records. We've toured in and around the East US coast & the middle part too, Toronto, England, Holland, Belgium und Germany. And a huge shout out to Richmond, Athens/ATL, Chicago punk fucks and freaks!
"Welcome to Take Five, a (semi-)weekly feature where we ask five Very Important Questions of a local band set to perform that week. Today it's Bukkake Boys.
1. Sexy name! Hard to Google, though.
Thanks, we try to arouse our fans, as well as entertain.
2. As a wise man once noted, "Punk rock died when the first kid said 'Punk's not dead.'" Is punk dead?
CRASS told us punk is dead, and I believe them.
3. Who's your favorite Atlanta sports figure, past or present?
Andre Rison.
4. I just heard the new Weezer album, and it's terrible. What's the last terrible album you heard?
It's been a while since I've heard a true clunker, but the other day I got an Unruled 45 in the mail that was warped beyond belief. I tried to listen to it, and it was indeed a terrible, terrible experience.
5. Tell me a kid-friendly joke that's still kind of funny.
Pillage & Plunder are headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011.
"Fun can be an understatement when describing this EP and every musical element is completely captivating at just the perfect time. With a guitarist and bassist who not only switch instruments they both provide vocals and lyrics that are playful but also at times pleading. The guitar work is spastic and takes unpredictable turns that makes you wonder what will possibly happen next. This may sound chaotic but it all works in some indescribable and mind-blowing way." - Promising Chord
Ghostlights are from Athens and have been influenced by "Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Pixies, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Radiohead, The Doors, Led Zeppelin and Warpaint"
Concord America are headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, November 26th, 2011.
Concord America, or ConAm in the shorthand, is a band of four young men of questionable sexuality hellbent on world domination. Playing songs that often span multiple genres and emotional spectrums, Concord America guarantees full mental infiltration and inescapable pleasure. Their songs will be stuck in your head days after hearing them, and their live show promises high energy, tons of momentum, and you'll sweat your clothes right off. They promise.
Currently comprised of Cassidy Wall, Hayden Wall, Ian Mauldin and Jack Thomson, Freezerburn is an indie rock band from Alpharetta Georgia. With songs that range from fast paced shredding to mellowed out jams, and high energy performances, this band is sure to entertain you.
Sleep Dance originally started with Matt and Nick writing, recording, and playing songs they wrote as a collective. After finishing their first EP, they decided to bring in Ryan and Will to play shows and expand upon what they had written. The later addition of Brad further expanded the sound. Sleep Dance defies any set genre with stylistic qualities of acoustic rock, jazz, and indie rock. Intricate guitar work surrounded by ambient guitar sound, all driven by complex percussion is the best way to describe the sound.
