192 2010-03-03 09:39:25 -0500 2010-03-10 Wednesday, March 10th Venue: 529 Time: 9pm Price: $8 "Is it possible to smash a guitar un-self-consciously? It certainly seemed that way at Cake Shop earlier this month, when Awesome Color left a roomful of in-the-know types gleefully dumbstruck. (Oakley Hall was headlining-- that alone means several quality musicians were present.) Singer Derek Stanton's seemingly unpremeditated ax-whacking lacked any sense of violence or menace(which is fine). It was simply the final blow in a stream of gestures that translate across rock & roll forms; any punk, metal, or bar-rock fan can appreciate the thrill of someone playing guitar with his bare feet--and having it both look and sound cool. (Yes, Stanton did that, too)." - Mike Wolf TimeOut New York 300 Awesome Color 2431 1 awesome color 529 atlanta 194 2010-03-03 09:58:54 -0500 2010-03-11 Thursday, March 11th Venue: The Earl Time: 8:30p Price: $10 "The most obvio​us thing​ about​ Cymba​ls Eat Guita​rs is that their​ epic,​ wides​creen​ indie​ rock bears​ a strik​ing resem​blanc​e to that of Built​ To Spill​ and early​ Modes​t Mouse​.​ The most impre​ssive​ thing​ about​ them,​ howev​er,​ is just how comfo​rtabl​e they sound​ playi​ng aroun​d with a sound​ those​ bands​ defin​ed on album​s like The Lones​ome Crowd​ed West and Keep It Like A Secre​t.​ This isn’t​ just a case of some young​ band weari​ng their​ influ​ences​ on their​ sleev​es,​ and offer​ing up a lesse​r versi​on of their​ favor​ite recor​ds — these​ are stron​g,​ creat​ive playe​rs stret​ching​ out and findi​ng their​ own niche​ withi​n a rich yet large​ly unmin​ed aesth​etic terri​tory.​" -- Fluxblog 302 Cymbals Eat Guitars 2437 1 cymbals eat guitars atlanta earl 195 2010-03-03 10:03:43 -0500 2010-03-13 Saturday, March 13th Venue: Lenny's Time: 9p Price: $10 After the demise of underground legends DEAD MOOD in fall 2006, nobody was surprised to hear that founders Fred and Toody Cole had lost little time in starting a new band. They recruited drummer Kelly Halliburton in April 2007, and soon the PIERCED ARROWS were up and running, playing live shows in the Northwest and recording songs for upcoming releases. PIERCED ARROWS picks up, musically, where DEAD MOON left off - a lo-fi assault on the senses played with the sincerity and feeling that made DM such a special band for all of their fans around the world. 303 Pierced Arrows 2440 1 pierced arrows lenny's atlanta 193 2010-03-03 09:48:06 -0500 2010-03-15 Monday, March 15th Venue: 529 Time: 9pm Price: $8 These Are Powers is an experimental music group from Brooklyn, New York and Chicago, Illinois. The band mixes polyrhythm with samples and other electronic sounds and noise rock. After the short lived n0 things, ex Liars bass player, Pat Noecker formed These Are Powers with Anna Barie (vocals/guitar) (ex Knife Skills & Fxxxing Lion) and Ted McGrath (drums) in 2006. The latter was replaced by electroacoustic drummer/percussionist Bill Salas. Noecker plays a prepared bass guitar with a wooden dowel put under the strings which functions as an additional 3rd bridge and shortens the string length causing an altered musical scale with the fret positions. Salas is also active as a producer and solo artist under the name Brenmar. The band is on Dead Oceans Records in the U.S. and has a vinyl release with the Swedish label Deleted Art. 301 These Are Powers 2434 1 these are powers 529 east atlanta 190 2010-02-23 05:32:13 -0500 2010-03-20 Saturday, March 20 Venue: Rialto Center for the Arts Time: 8 PM Price: $32, $42, $56 Percussion legend Zakir Hussain returns to the Rialto with "Masters of Percussion," a sonic tour of the past, present, and future of Indian musical traditions. Hussain explores the full range of classical Indian music-from the exquisitely melodic (raga) to the enchantingly rhythmic (tala) and from the Hindustani traditions of northern India to the Carnatic ones of the South-and incorporates innovative blends of traditional and contemporary, folk and classical styles. Hussain brings with him master musicians Taufiq Qureshi, violinists Ganesh and Kumaresh, Sabir Khan, Navin Sharma, Sridar Parthasarathy, and the athletic and dazzling Motilal Dhakis of Bengal. Don't miss this unique exploration of one nation's musical heritage! 298 Zakir Hussain & Masters of Percussion 2425 1 zakir hussain table percussion master rialto 196 2010-03-03 10:12:49 -0500 2010-03-22 Monday, March 22nd Venue: The Drunken Unicorn Time: 9p Price: $10 "The Ruby Suns are a band that doesn’t just stop for breathers between records—they suit up, climb into a ramshackle time machine of their own design, and then quantum leap to a new epoch in their artistic evolution. Fight Softly, the lusted-after follow up to 2008’s Sea Lion (itself an enormous, and enormously effective, departure from their self-titled debut’s simulated Wilson brothers radiance) is an energetic, lobe-pleasing left turn. The record retains only the masterful production aesthetic of Sea Lion (which crystallized overwhelming, hyper-dense arrangements into kaleidoscopic bubblegum), and jettisons most of that record’s musical reference points in favor of bolder phonic paths. One imagines Ruby Suns mastermind Ryan McPhun waving, misty-eyed, from a sailboat as it pulls away from Sea Lion’s technicolor island, its Wild Things-esque assortment of genres-as-storytime-creatures howling goodbyes from the shore. So long Afropop, so long Tropicália, so long Pacific Island folk." -- Jason Baxter, The Stranger 304 The Ruby Suns 2443 1 the ruby suns the drunken unicorn atlanta 199 2010-03-10 08:32:08 -0500 2010-03-24 Wednesday, March 24th Venue: The Earl Time: 8:30p Price: $12 Hailed as 'almost impossibly majestic and beautiful' (NPR), Shearwater's Palo Santo (2007, Matador), a suite of ethereal but oddly disquieting art-rock songs loosely centered around the life and death of singer Christa Paffgen (aka Nico), marked the Texan quartet's debut on the national stage. The New York Times named the album one of the year's very best, and the band's singular combination of sonic abandon and restraint, spun around the soaring, otherworldly voice of part-time ornithologist Jonathan Meiburg - drew comparisons to late-period Talk Talk and both the lovely and anxious moments of Eno's early solo work.This year's much-anticipated Rook takes the band into realms both richer and stranger. 306 Shearwater 2452 1 shearwater the earl atlanta 198 2010-03-10 08:19:31 -0500 2010-03-25 Thursday, March 25th Venue: 529 Time: 9p Price: $10 Deriving their name from the ill-fated characters featured in the work of writer/illustrator Henry Darger, the Vivian Girls (not to be confused with the "craft pop" duo of the same name) are a Brooklyn-based trio whose gritty lo-fi tunes nod to seminal indie pop acts like Black Tambourine, Talulah Gosh, and Tiger Trap. Comprised of Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy, and Ali, the Vivian Girls sprang into the indie circuit in 2008 with a handful of 7" singles released on a passel of small labels, including "Wild Eyes" (Plays with Dolls Records), "Orphanage" (Woodsist Records), and "I Can't Stay" (In the Red Records). Their self-titled debut full-length was released on Mauled by Tigers Records and In the Red in September that same year. The record became something of a sensation and the trio spent the year touring and gaining fans the world over. Their quickly recorded follow-up album, Everything Goes Wrong, was released in late summer of 2009. 305 Vivian Girls 2449 1 vivian girls 529 atlanta 200 2010-03-10 08:42:53 -0500 2010-03-26 Friday, March 26th Venue: Variety Playhouse Time: 8:30p Price: $23 Although Joanna Newsom's Appalachian-meets-avant-garde take on folk music is her most celebrated work, her range is even more inclusive than her solo career suggests the classically trained harpist adds a decidedly different, textural sound to Nervous Cop, the noise rock trio that also features Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and Hella's Zach Hill, and she also plays keyboards for the Pleased, another San Francisco-area band more akin to Blondie or Television than her other projects. Despite her extensive musical background, she hadn't sung until she began concentrating on her songs, but her voice -- which has a pure, untrained sound somewhere between a child and a crone -- is the perfect complement to her music. 307 Joanna Newsom 2455 1 joanna newsom atlanta variety playhouse