The ATL Cunts Orchestra here at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 (Thanksgiving EVE)
In the beginning there was two, then another and another. Then there were three, and now there are four. The ATL Cunts are your new favorite everything.
The Grayces will be the second performer of the evening.
"Bands can be a dime a dozen in Music City, and album release parties are more like a nickel. So when an exceptional band puts out a good album, the occasion calls for something extra — like maybe a costume party. That's what The Grayces are throwing tonight at East Nashville's The 5 Spot, kicking off the national tour in support of their new album Social Shock.
The record marks an advance for the band, and not just because it's their first full-length. Guitarist/ vocalist Iz Stone, bassist Patrick Ward and drummer Gaelen Mitchell still deliver plenty of garage-y guitar riffs, fuzzed-up bass, minimalist solos and sing-along choruses. But Stone makes up in swagger what her alto lacks in range, whether using a cabaret singer's world-weary croon in “No Sense In Crying” and “Like The Way” or squeaking like a squeeze toy on “Ricky” and “Eleanor.”" - Jo-Jo Jackson / Nashville Scene
The Worsties will be performing here at The Drunken Unicorn on Saturday, November 19th
The Worsties are a high energy, female-fronted rock band from Nashville that mixes influences from 70’s era punk, 80’s pop and glam, with new wave dance beats thrown in for good measure.
With 4 EP's under their belts and another on the way, the band has toured consistently since 2008, and have generated quite a stir in the local and regional touring circuit sharing the stage with such acts as Bon Jovi, Kid Rock, Big Boi, Cage the Elephant, American Bang, Saving Abel, Candlebox, Marcy Playground, Theory of a Deadman, Pop Evil,and a slew of others.
Tricksy seeks to embody the sights, sounds and attitude of the modern roller derby. If ever a sport screamed for its own soundtrack, roller derby is that sport and Tricksy aims to provide the music.
Lace up your skates and get ready for some hard hitting sounds!
Flat Cat started as a side project of Atlanta musician Chuck Brittain (guitarist with "The Cogburns" & "The Cherry Bomb" and formerly of "The Sexual Side Effects") as an avenue for his original songs. Since its inception in 2007, the band has mutated to the super talented current line-up with Chuck sharing singing and writing credits with Bucky Motter (Bass), a gender queer performing songwriter and rocker. Bucky is a veteran of the Atlanta music scene with two critically acclaimed CD's and has opened for such artists as BB King, Indigo Girls, and the Manhattan Transfer. Amy "Catfish" Rollinson (from the rollerderby-themed band "Tricksy" and the Joan Jett cover band "The Cherry Bomb") has stepped up her musical chops and now helps front Flat Cat with her amazing scream, crunchy guitar sound, and lyric creativity. Rounding out the talented new line-up is Clay McClure (drummer from "The Sexual Side Effects") who has taken the band from the straight forward 4/4 to a new rhythmic high and a new direction.
Little Horn will be headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Friday, November 18th, 2011
Little Horn began when Atlanta musician Keith Forrester wrote some songs about, as per usual, hard stuff he was going through. Being shy and reclusive about singing it wasn’t until a group picking session in Alabama where he was asked to sing a folk song that everyone else had forgotten the words to that his friend Daniel Bellury noticed his potential. After that fateful day Daniel stepped in to encourage and produce the aforementioned songs into recorded existence. The very minimal gothic-folk style album Such Pretty Houses was born and released very quietly on the then infant New York label Whaleheart Records which Daniel had founded to put out his and his friend’s recordings.
Since Such Pretty Houses the style and sound has evolved and gotten much bigger. With a dark, southeastern, soul-searching lyrical style accompanied by a not-so-typical low end voice, their lack of shame in wailing their instruments, and having been called any number of combinations of indie, folk, gothic, psychedelic, progressive and rock, Little Horn’s approach is fairly simple: they love what they do, they write what they like, and they hope to be doing it for a long time.
Correatown are performing second as a DUO for this show.
Correatown was a name someone called her once. Imagine the lights that slowly haze by when you're driving home late at night bleary eyed, or the night sky heavy with clouds just after a thunderstorm. It's Angela Correa's band daydream fully realized in a dark club filled with the reverberating layers of washy guitars, beautiful harmonies, growling fuzzed out analog synths and that voice. Based in the Eastside of Los Angeles, the band is a mainstay in the tightly knit local music community.
In previous incarnations, Correatown was a more spare amalgam of early folk and lo-fi buzzing indie rock; however, over the past few years the sound has evolved into a lush and textured experience of melodic soundscapes. "When I began writing songs for our latest recordings I kept imagining the sounds and instruments that would shape the direction of our new songs. The most appealing were really freaked out thick and pulsing bass sounds or odd twitchy static noises tucked into shimmering and ethereal melodies. I wasn't sure how it could end up being beautiful but the more the band explored different arrangements and instruments, the more I felt the possibility of having a less organic sound that felt more evocative of the music we wanted to create was our compass."
For this performance Correatown will be Angela Correa and Rob Poynter.
Currently living in Decatur, Georgia. Frequently visiting Los Angeles, California and playing at Tangier and the Silverlake Lounge. Periodically traveling to random parts of the world to dive in the ocean with the sea creatures. Systematically encouraging my friends to move to places that I love to visit regularly but don't want to live in.
“Imagine Southern hip-hop rhythms, heavy bass, punk guitars, electro-synthesizers, butterflies, a couple of thirty 8′s and three terrible 20-somethings sarcastically telling stories of fear and loathing in urban culture from a punk rock perspective all while making you dance??? That’s The FountNHead."
Six musicians, all from different genres, backgrounds, and cultures, handpicked by the brotherhood to disrupt and disorient the music scene. Rock lives again through FYN. An experiment gone terribly right.
The Young Maths will be headlining the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
We want to play the game at the highest level. We want to become THE currency by which youth culture is bought and sold. We want to SAVE ROCK AND ROLL so that our t-shirts will be worn in the next summer action blockbuster by millionaire placeholders. We want to scare old white people and enthrall their children, so that we may in turn become soft and rich and fearful of the next wave of youth culture marketing. We have our first reunion tour planned. We will kill on t-shirt sales alone. We realize that we are not selling music; we are selling product, and our product is progress. We want to antagonize established artists and then patch things up at awards ceremonies, creating ratings bonanzas for everybody involved. We want to donate all of our blood money to fashionable causes. We want to preach about the evils of capitalism from expensive microphones in million-dollar studios. We want it all.
"Siamese Twins are a fairly new band to Atlanta, composed of members of some underground heroes… We just got the chance to interview them about their music and other stuff, take a read below to find out more about the thrash/punk all stars we know as Siamese Twins…
Who are the members of Siamese Twins and what do you play?
Joey Hoffman is our vocalist, Ben Ziskind is our guitarist, and Elliot Fullerton is our bassist. Ryan DiDio plays drums, does backup vocals, and does some recording for the band.
What does the name Siamese Twins mean?
We threw around a lot of band names before settling on Siamese Skin, which is what we went by for one or two shows. I have no idea why we thought that was a good name … it’s pretty dumb. We were kind of rushed because we had our first show coming up but didn’t have a name, so I think we just synthesized one out fragments of other names we’d been throwing around. But yeah, eventually we decided to change it to Siamese Twin, the name we’ve played most of our shows under so far. And then recently we pluralized it to make it Siamese Twins. We promise we won’t change it again. As for any significance in the name, I wish I could say there was some, but it’s just to be taken at face value.
What kind of music would you describe Siamese Twins as playing?
I think a lot of bands will tell you that they’re not necessarily aiming for a specific genre when they write their music, which is also the case for us. We know we want to play music that’s generally fast, loud, jarring, cathartic, and at least somewhat relatable to the listener. I’d also say there’s a component of sloppiness in our music — especially during our lives shows – and while I wouldn’t say we’re necessarily proud of playing sloppily, I think the underlying idea is to put expression before perfection.
Although I think the foundation of our music is punk, I’m sure if we tried to say we’re a punk band, punk purists would have aneurysms. That would probably be an inaccurate description anyway. I hate to sound like the “we play music that defies labels and categorization” guy, so I’ll say that there are definitely elements of surf, punk and post-punk, hardcore and post-hardcore, noise, and the occasional tinge of jazz and pop." Be Atlanta
