Record Stop Play are headlining on Wednesday, March 16th

Record Stop Play are performing at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011.



Record Stop Play is not just the name of this band but it is also the process we use to bring you some of the most original ways
of mixing electronic and live instrumentation. These songs are for you, so keep listening!!

Record Stop Play

Grasshopper Retrograde is the second act of the evening.



The re-accumulation and gradual increase in the rate of fusion and gravitational self-compression, as un-helium is denser than re-hydrogen, higher yet cooler temperatures must be unobtainable to resist. This increase in gravitational compression and to maintain a steady state of metamorphosis, both hemimetabolism and holometabolism.

Grasshopper Retrograde on Facebook

Graham Yoder of Jungol is performing first.



"Since dropping one of the better records to come out of Atlanta this year, Jungol‘s Graham Yoder has kept busy, churning out an impressive output of solo material posted on his Soundcloud page." - Ohm Parl

Graham Yoder Soundcloud site

$5, 21+
Doors @ 9 pm

The Dollyrots land at the Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, March 15th

The Dollyrots are headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011



The Dollyrots are one girl and two boys. They're a punk rock band but their CDs are very pop. Rah rah rah. Kelly is sugar sweet but mischevious and might sucker punch you if you're dumb enough to try her patience. Which she has a lot of, if she hasn't been visiting her friends Jack, Jim or Jameson (please look HERE if that reference confuses you). She likes to do girl things like grow plants and sew up her t-shirts and crochet and make strawberry cakes. But, she also likes to play her basses til they are sprinkled with blood and drives soo fast she's not allowed behind the wheel but can often be found playing Mario Kart on her DS instead. She likes to get carsick reading and send postcards from the road so send her your address or favorite book (really!). Please don't send it if you don't want The Dollyrots knocking on your door next tour looking for a floor and a shower. Otherwise, they will stay in one of many swanky hotels across the nation they frequently trash with burrito wrappers. Get Kelly's personal advice on Buzznet's Rock & Roll Therapy, and read Kelly's blog on Gibson.com. Oh and click HERE to see Kelly on Blender.com's Hottest Women of Rock!

Then there is Luis... Luis is mysterious. And very smart. He is one of those guys who you meet and think maybe you'd join his cult. I hear he has his own religion, based on the Sun God so it's not really a stretch. Get with it. Ask him about it sometime; he'll tell you about freaking that room full of people out while rambling about western religion while on some weird head trip. He is also known to get feisty when he's hungry or afraid he's getting sick. Which he seems to get all the time due to a combo weak immune system/paranoid disposition. He would like a dog when there's room for one on tour. A medium sized one like Snoopy, or maybe just a giant South American Sewage Rat and/or rabid monkey. It's really easy to get Luis to flinch, he's not crazy about people touching him. Maybe it's because he was abducted when he lived in Ecuador as a child. He likes good brit punk, music of the early 90's because it's honest and don't forget Chuck Berry and Patsy Cline. On the road he likes to read parts of books he never finishes and stare out the window. He's good to talk to.

Chris Black grew up in the Midwest and moved to Los Angeles from Michigan. His first band was not The Dollyrots but we were tour pals since 2004 and have shared a van, barf bags, and near death experiences across the US a couple of times. He's an all around awesome dude. One way to his heart is food; he eats nacho cheeze at least once a day even if he's in Wisconsin and it's covering tater tots. He loves New Yawk girls, a good truck stop, talk radio, and ninjas. Grew up on East Bay stuff like Fifteen, MTX, & ye olde Green Day. He met Phyllis Diller once and she said he looked like a young Elvis Presley. Talk to Chris, you’ll like him.

The Dollyrots have a keen album BECAUSE I'M AWESOME out on BLACKHEART RECORDS and a previous record on LOOKOUT RECORDS. "Because I'm Awesome" was voted COOLEST SONG IN THE WORLD 2007 by the listeners of the Underground Garage on Sirius Channel 25 and voted best release by the rad punx of Punk Rock Night. The band is currently in the studio working on their next studio album, to be released later this year.

The Dollyrots on Facebook

Charges are performing second.



"Charges sounds like I want my ATL punk to sound. No new wave grooves mixed in to dilute its effectiveness. No swampy lyrics to weaken its momentum. Joel and Mick used to tour the U.K. and Ireland in a hard core punk band called Black Cougar Shock Unit; its definitely easy to pick up on the Irish, English punk influence…the kind I like. Formed upon a common admiration for farfisa organ punk, Charges carries on with true punk roots, igniting venue floors with sparks of organ blurred punk bliss. Fast paced, riff heavy guitars, exploding drums and vocals bellowed out in half melodies…uuuh...fuck yes." - Be Atlanta

Charges on Facebook

Superpill are the opening act.



Superpill was born on 11/4/10.

In our short life we have done some writing and practicing. Our hopes and dreams include recording some songs, playing some shows in Atlanta and traveling to exotic locales such as Boston and Montgomery, AL.

Some people say we sound like something off the Clueless soundtrack. We've also been called "that punk band that shares our practice space". We've told people we're a garage band. Hope that helps until we get some music recorded! ♥

Superpill on Facebook

$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.

Saturday, March 12th is a SOLD OUT performance by Toro Y Moi

Tight Bros and Ok Productions presents:

Toro Y Moi at the Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, March 12th, 2011



"Toro Y Moi is 23 year old Columbia, South Carolina native and resident Chaz Bundick. After earning a BFA in Graphic Design at The University of South Carolina, Chaz decided to push his music further now that he has more time on his hands. His mom came from the Phillipines to the United States, where she met her future husband (who’s African American) in college. They lived in New York City taking in all the wonderful cultural influences the city’s rising underground scene had to offer at the time (late 70s/early 80s). Deciding to slow down and be closer to family, they moved to Columbia, South Carolina where they had their first child…

Bundick’s methods are constantly changing and evolving. Heavily influenced by his parent’s vinyl and tape collection, he also possesses great admiration for contemporary influences like Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, J Dilla, and Daft Punk. Like most prepubescent teens, he had his punk band and once that died out, the “side project” soon became the main focus.

Toro y Moi started in 2001 as a bedroom project but quickly grew into the live performance realm. The songs are born from a plethora of different genres, from freak-folk to R&B to French House. This is the sound the world has been waiting for. This multi-cultural juggernaut gathers up the best musical elements from around the globe— R&B, Indie Rock, Electronic Dance and Psychedelica —and creates something-freaking-else! Over the course of his first groundbreaking full length “Causers Of This”, Toro Y Moi turns the aforementioned musics upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative approach. The incendiary power of Toro Y Moi’s funky synth and guitar play, pumping digital rhythms and gorgeously bright vocal harmonies makes for a formidable combination. A soon to be masterpiece of a currently unnamed genre."

Toro Y Moi on Facebook

Cloud Nothings are performing second.



"The sunny, raw sounds of Cloud Nothings come from an enigmatic Clevelander named Dylan, who formerly made music under the name of Cat Killer. Like many lo-fi artists of the late 2000s (particularly Wavves, Women, and Neon Tongues), Dylan took interest in reviving cassette culture, releasing his singles on tape and embracing a maxed-out recording technique in his blissful music. Cloud Nothings’ eight-song debut, Turn It On, was released in a limited run of 50 CDs and 100 cassettes in 2009. Those songs and those from 2010 EP were collected on Cloud Nothings' Carpark debut Turning On in October 2010. Cloud Nothings' self-titled album followed in January 2011." - Jason Lymangrover / All Music

Cloud Nothings on Facebook

Janka Nabay is the opener.



"There was also an African apparition: Janka Nabay from Sierra Leone, wearing a straw skirt and singing and dancing to recorded tracks of what he said was a 500-year-old tradition called bubu music. The tracks were modern, and the beat, fast and skeletal and driven by bell taps, was unstoppable, demanding wider dissemination." Jon Pareles, NYTIMES

Janka Nabay on Myspace

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.

If you want to win a FREE PAIR of tickets for this show, just be the first person to comment stating that you WANT the tickets and you will be the winner for a free pair of tickets.

BollyHOOD is happening at the Drunken Unicorn on Thursday, March the 3rd

BAMF! and Sorry Darlin presents

BollyHOOD



with performances by:

Daxclamation

ShaMona Jackson

And

DJ's Swivel and Sharaab

Free, 21+
Doors @ 10 pm

Cults will be here on Friday, March 11th, 2011

Tight Bros and OK Productions presents

Cults at the Drunken Unicorn on Friday, March 11th, 2011



"Google, "Cults" and you can probably guess what types of results you'll find (weird ones). Even trying "Cults band" leads to almost nothing. Believe it or not, this mystery isn't a marketing ploy to generate more hype- instead, it just shows how quickly this NYC band has risen to fame Guitarist Brian Oblivion and lead singer Madeline Follin only posted a couple of songs on the internet a few months ago for their friends. The tracks caught on and lead to a record deal, gigs with Best Coast and Sleigh Bells, and a huge internet following. The duo might only be in their early twenties and lead double lives as college film students, but their 60's-tinged pop tracks are anything but innocent. It's probably because songs like "Go Outside" and "Most Wanted," are shrouded in haunting undertones, which keep the melodies from becoming too sugary sweet. One reason why their buzz is spreading at lightspeed? They've posted three of their singles on their website, where you can download the complete 7" free." - Nylon

Cults website

Small Black will be the second performer of the evening.



"Noisy yet wistful electro-indie pop group Small Black started with a name and worked backward: a housemate of singer/multi-instrumentalist Josh Kolenik came up with the moniker on a cold Portland, OR night. The name stuck when he returned to Long Island, NY and began collaborating with Ryan Heyner, an area musician who had mutual friends with Kolenik. The pair holed up in Kolenik’s uncle’s attic to record songs with vintage keyboards and samplers, spending the winter of 2008-2009 recording as Uncle Matt made surfboards underneath them. Small Black released their self-titled five-song EP on the duo's own CassClub label in October 2009, and released the U.K. single "Despicable Dogs," as well as a video for that song featuring Uncle Matt, soon after. The band played several dates at that year’s CMJ Music Marathon, adding Juan Pieczanski and Jeff Curtin from Kolenik’s previous band, Slowlands, to fill out its live lineup. Small Black signed to Jagjaguwar Records, who reissued the band’s debut EP with two bonus tracks in 2010. That year, the band also released a split single with the likeminded Washed Out, with whom Small Black also went on tour. New Chain, the band's first full-length, boasted a slightly more polished sound and arrived in October 2010." - Heather Phares / All Music

Small Black on Facebook

Sun Airway are the opener.



"The Philadelphia-based duo Sun Airway is Jon Barthmus and Patrick Marceill, formerly of the A-Sides. The band's sound melds smooth, glistening electronics, ethereal sonic textures, and indie pop/rock dynamics and melodies. Sun Airway's first EP, Oh, Naoko, was issued as a giveaway in mid-2010, and the pair subsequently did remixes for Delorean, Here We Go Magic, the Hundred in the Hands, and Caribou. Their debut full-length, Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier, was released by Dead Oceans in the fall of the same year." - Thom Jurek / All Music

Sun Airway on Facebook

$8, 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.

If you want to win a FREE PAIR of tickets to this show, just be the first person to comment stating that you WANT the tickets!