Das Racist is headlining a SOLD OUT performance at the Drunken Unicorn on Thursday, March 10th, 2011

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Das Racist on Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at the Drunken Unicorn



Das Racist is a weed edge/hare krishna hard core/art rap/freak folk music trio based in brooklyn, new york, comprised of queens-born himanshu kumar suri, san francisco-born victor vazquez, and queens-born ashok kondabolu. Suri and vazquez met at sarah lawrence bard pomona wesleyan art college in massachusetts, where victor was himanshu's resident advisor in a "students of color for social justice" themed freshman year dormitory. The duo later added kondabolu as a hype man and spiritual advisor.

After a couple of years of occasional drunken freestyles with each other, Himanshu and Victor decided to record a couple of raps together.

The first of which was called "We Made It" and immediately became a hit amongst stupid assholes who like rap from the 1990s and really want that shit to keep happening. The second track was called "Fever" and it was fucking terrible - really bad. Then they made some other songs and then they made "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" which is the one that everyone likes and then they made some other songs.

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Dillon is the third performer.



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ContraVerse are performing second.



Forged out of the fading underground hip hop movement, The ContraVerse is a project rooted in the independent era. These wordsmiths employ a focus on rhyme-schemes and lyrical content while drawing influences from golden age pioneers such as, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde and The Roots.

The ContraVerse full length debut, 'Inoculate' will be released through Substance Theory Recordings in January; featuring guest appearances from Public Enemy's own, DJ Lord, as well as Gift of Gab, voice of Bay Area hip hop legends Blackalicious. Production duties on 'Inoculate' were split between in-house cuts from Kid A, a Berlin based crate-digger named Batsauce and Atlanta's beat battle king, The Conspiracy.

On the verge of their first official release, the crew is already moving on act two. The mutual apocalyptic visions of a land gone mad led to a collaborative art endeavor that includes a collection of graphic shorts coinciding with the songs of ContraVerse's second album, 'Relic'. The Conspiracy returns to provide an entire album of cinematic soundscapes allowing Obeah & Kontent to elaborate on different scenarios of a world torn into cannibalistic ruins. Artistic supplements are provided by Atlanta mixed-medium artist, Diving2Lie; creating a visual compliment to the story lines of the record.

With deep imagination and signature intensity, the music from ContraVerse is an honest and genuine exploration into the possibilities of song and story. Somewhere, between an affinity for creativity in hip hop and a relentless hunger for expression, exists a balance of consciousness and execution referred to as The ContraVerse.

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The Seedy Seeds are the opener.



The Seedy Seeds don’t know you, but they already like you. With a completely original sound and presentation, including banjo, accordion and toy keyboard beats, The Seedy Seeds create positive, melodic, danceable Indie music that is equally at home alongside pop-punk, alt-country, and lo-fi.

The concept for the band was born of a casual conversation in late 2005, in which the founding members hypothesized performing as a group with the instruments they owned but hadn’t yet learned to play. The Seedy Seeds began writing, performing, and recording music shortly thereafter.

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SOLD OUT, 18+
Doors @ 9 pm

Advance tickets available @ Ticket Alternative, Criminal Records,
Decatur CD, Fantasyland Records and the following CD Warehouse locations: Buford, Duluth, Kennesaw, Lawrenceville and Roswell.

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Wild Nothing, Abe Vigoda and Roman Photos from Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Hey everyone,

Thanks to Ryan James here are photos of Wild Nothing, Abe Vigoda and Roman Photos when they performed at the Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, February 8th, 2011.

Wild Nothing:











Abe Vigoda:





Roman Photos:

Imagination Head is performing at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, March 9th

Imagination Head are performing at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, March 9th, 2011.



Formed in Memphis, TN in 2004, J.R. and Erin Wicker moved to Atlanta, GA in 2007 and gathered up four more fine musicians (Vince, Puma, Kara, and Nick). Imagination Head LOVES to perform. Their second album On/Off will be released January 29th, 2011.

Their fist album, The Stale and Sparkly Air, was released in August of 2006.

"Imagination Head live performances consist of a wealth of entertainment: impromptu product placement commercials, TV heads, cakewalks, even a funhouse (complete with dream research, curtain mazes, creepy clowns, a stenographer, glass eaters, and crude oil drinking). Needless to say, the band lives to entertain their audience." -Adam Herrington, Mule Magazine, Chicago

"the group's debut disc puts the focus squarely on Wicker's songs-rambling, hilarious, acerbic gems that owe debts to everyone from Dylan to Conor Oberst but that mark Wicker as one of the most original writing voices in town"
Mark Jordan-Commercial Appeal--------

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The Lisps will be performing second.



The Lisps are a New York-based co-ed assemblage of 21st century theater prone indie rockers. Their songs border the literary and borrow liberally from vaudeville, Anti-Folk, science fiction, and Americana. Their hyper-active performances typically involve bloody tambourines, wrestling, lipstick smeared melodicas, old filing cabinets, and film reels suspended by rusty chains. The Lisps are set for a 2011 release of their 3rd album "Are We at the Movies?" and their Civil War sci-fi musical FUTURITY, which has had 15 workshop performances, will have its World Premiere in February of 2012.

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The Lisps have formed, deformed and reformed over the last 3 years. They are an ever changing body of genius behaviour. Like the mythic phoenix rising from the ashes of oblivion The Lisps are endlessly entertaining to themselves and their friends. Sometimes they argue with each other but they almost always agree to disagree and/or validate each other's point of view. The lisps have been on 2 humungous national tours and wowed thousands of Pro-American and Anti-American Americans with their outrageous live performances. They released their debut full-length album, "Country Doctor Museum" in January of 2008 and celebrated with a sold-out album release party at the beautiful Joe's Pub. The Lisps are currently working on their musical "FUTURITY." Which is the classic American tale of a Civil War soldier who trying to invent a steam-powered artificial intelligence.

Sammy is 5' 4"
Cesar is 6' 3/4"
Eric is about 5' 10"
Lorenzo is probably 5'9" but might be growing still.

1 member is not a small boy, but actually a woman of average height with a slamming bod. 2 members are lefties and 1 member was temporarily living with his parents but now has a great apartment with his wife, and all the Lisps are very happy for him. 5/8 of The Lisps are now Jewish! 2 members are obsessed with regional Macaroni and Cheese recipes and 2 members love talking about electricity and geeky acoustical concepts. 1 member is finishing college, 1 member has a BA, 1 member has a master's degree, and 1 member said "Fuck college, I'm going pro." 1 member was born in the 90's and 1 member was born in the 70's, (leaving 2 members to be born in the 80's) 3 members sometimes feel like they aren't living up to their full potential but then usually 1 other member says something encouraging. Lorenzo, however, always feels good.

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Lobster Mobster Poetry Collective will be opening the show.



The Lobster Mobster Poetry Collective is an Atlanta based aggregate of poets who work together to make poetry, short fiction, and plays public.

Lobster Mobster Poetry Collective

$5, 21+
Doors @ 9 pm

Adam Arcuragi headlines the Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, March the 8th

Adam Arcuragi will be performing at the Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, March the 8th, 2011



"Adam Arcuragi makes music like some folks host parties. Equal parts revival tent and corner pub, his sophomore LP I Am Become Joy (out now) sounds like get-together where everyone feels at home—in the room and in their own skin—and seamlessly connected. Rife with rowdy choruses, banjos, horns and handclaps, the record invites anyone listening to the party, too, calling us in to have a beer and sing along with a collective of folks called humankind, spanning time and distance." - Paste Magazine

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Cheyenne Marie Mize is the second performer of the everning.



"It’s a challenge not to fall in love with Cheyenne Marie Mize. Whimsical, haunting, dreamlike folk that’s dynamic and eschews the traditional folk formulae, her debut, Before Lately, is an amalgamation of contradictions – rugged and gentle, innocent and forlorn, spacious and intimate, desolate and uplifting. Guitar, piano, bells, occasional percussion, and honey-tinged vocals make up this simple, immaculate collection of vintage torch ballads, engrossed in twinkling bucolic imagery that showcases a soul twice her age.

Mize’s talent certainly did not go unnoticed. While Mize is no stranger to her hometown of Louisville by way of her other bands, Arnett Hollow and the Carter Family-channeling Maiden Radio, she introduced herself internationally on the 10″ release Among the Gold with Bonnie “Prince” Billy – a collection of late 19th century American parlor music handpicked by Mize and Oldham. Mize continued her alliance with Ben Sollee as a major player in the Dear Companion tour supporting Ben and Daniel Martin Moore’s collaborative Sub Pop release in early 2010.

More importantly, 2010 is the year in which Mize takes the front of the stage supporting her amazing solo debut. The challenge is on, but Mize will be hard to avoid in the near future."

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Nerdkween is the opener.



Nerdkween (pronounced "nerd queen") is the stage name for the American singer/songwriter and composer Monica Arrington (born November 2, in Anderson, Indiana) who is known for lo-fi recordings and minimalist style of electric guitar playing with added electronic noises. She is also known for a wide range in vocal ability, from haunting and airy tones to gritty and country-like twangs. Her music is a part of the genre slowcore or dream pop. She is also one of the few African-American performers in experimental pop/rock music.

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$5 in adv, $8 DOS, 21+
Doors @ 9 pm

Advance tickets available @ Ticket Alternative, Criminal Records,
Decatur CD, Fantasyland Records and the following CD Warehouse locations: Buford, Duluth, Kennesaw, Lawrenceville and Roswell.

Rocky Votolato will be performing on Monday, March 7th, 2011

Rocky Votolato will be headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Monday, March 7th, 2011



Rocky Votolato is an Italian-American musician. He was born in a rural hospital near Carrolton, Texas in 1978, though was raised in the Pacific Northwest. When his former band Lying on Loot disbanded in 1996, Rocky Votolato, along with friends Rudy Gajadhar (drums) and Andrew Hartley (bass), started playing under the name Waxwing. Rocky's younger brother Cody (The Blood Brothers) soon joined the band on second guitar, and the band recorded their debut 7" for Henry's Finest Recordings. In 1999, Second Nature Recordings released their first full-length, entitled 'For Madmen Only'. Blending straight-up rock with elements of post-hardcore, and Cody's metal reminiscent guitaring, Waxwing soon established a strong local following. It was a feat built upon with their two succeeding albums 'One For the Ride' (2000) and 'Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns' (2002).

In 1999, Rocky Votolato branched out from his work with Waxwing, having written a handful of songs which did not really fit in with their more aggressive, fast tempo syle. Along the way he has toured with the likes of Damien Jurado, Small Brown Bike, The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Owen and The Casket Lottery, members of the latter having provided assistance as backing musicians on occasion. His studio albums have also been littered with appearances from some of Seattle's finest musicians (including players in the bands Red Stars Theory, Sharks Keep Moving, The Blood Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion and Sub Pop solo artist Rosie Thomas). On the production side, Votolato has worked with Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam, Botch, Murder City Devils, Hayden), along with Chris Walla (of Death Cab for Cutie). It is a creative input which has helped see Rocky progress stylistically with every release, from his low key self-titled album released in 1999 - all pretty much recorded live, right through to his recent, alt-country, folk-esque offering, 'Makers'. A video was shot for the first track of Makers, "White Daisy Passing", a song which also appears on the soundtrack of the forthcoming Seattle indie feature film Cthulu.

Rocky also starred in the film 'The Edge of Quarrel', which he worked on with Dave Larson from Excursion Records. It also includes members of the Murder City Devils and Botch, and is about a gang war between straightedgers and punk rockers.

He is married with two children, and lives in Seattle.

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Matt Pond PA is the opener.



From a cabin in the woods outside of Bearsville, NY--where there's nothing much to do but watch the grass grow up with the coyotes, deer, turkeys, and yes, bears--Matt Pond let go of all those studio entanglements and hacked off a piece of his own fate. Trusting in the flicker at the end of the tunnel, he gives us The Dark Leaves, due April 13th 2010.

In this era of technological advancements, it's remarkable that something can be repaired the old-fashioned way -- dismantling the gears to put it all back together again. After almost giving up on the world outside the woods, Matt Pond, with the invaluable aid of Chris Hansen (engineer, co-producer), returns with The Dark Leaves. It's a record about surrendering and not, about being done with darkness and having something to sing about it.

Also available from these cabin sessions are the digital, nine-song EP Auri Sacra Fames (currently available exclusively online) and coming soon is "The Threeep," a set of three 7", three-song singles with as many songs each (three A-Sides, three Instrumentals, three B-Sides), which conveniently clip together into a cube. Contributing to these sessions are Eve Miller on cello, Christian Frederickson on viola and Dan Crowell on drums. The first installment of the limited-edition vinyl series is available for purchase HERE and on iTunes, with the final two being released in early 2010.

"Starting," the first single from the "The Threeep," features the following tracks:

Side A: "Starting" (from The Dark Leaves)
Side B: "Stopping" (non-album track)
Side B: "The Colour Out Of Space" (non-album track)

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$12, ALL AGES
Doors @ 8 pm
THIS SHOW WILL BE OVER BY 12 AM. ROCKY PERFORMS AT 10 PM.

Advance tickets available @ Ticket Alternative, Criminal Records,
Decatur CD, Fantasyland Records and the following CD Warehouse locations: Buford, Duluth, Kennesaw, Lawrenceville and Roswell.

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