Crib Notes

Ex Humans

Gentleman Jesse, Ex Humans, and Customers play a warehouse show at the Footclan Headquarters located at 205 Holtzclaw St., Unit G, this Sunday afternoon.

The music will start at 3 p.m. (supposedly) and Gentleman Jesse is playing first.

It should also be said that this will be the last warehouse show/party at the Footclan Warehouse as all of the people who live there are moving out soon.

Josh Martin left Atlanta for New York in October 2007. The former guitar player for local punk staples Beat Beat Beat and Carbonas was passing through the Big Apple while on tour when he fell in love with the city. So much so that he decided, on a whim, to stay there for good. “I needed a change of scenery,” he offers dryly from his basement apartment in Brooklyn. Continue reading …

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Paul Collins

The third installment of the annual Fringe Binge summertime music festival returns to the Star Bar on Fri., July 17 and Sat., July 18 with an armada of local and international punk and power pop acts taking over for an entire weekend of debauchery and depravity. Fifteen+ bands including Paul Collins Beat, Poison Arrows, Predator, GG King, Abby Go Go, Giant Tigers, Electric Cycles, Peter Stubb and more play the main room and the downstairs lounge. The cause: Nothing more than a mission to have a good time on a couple of sweltering summer nights in Atlanta.

You don’t always need a reason or philanthropist’s motivation to throw a big summer party. Ask Paul Tilghmon (aka Parking Lot Paul) why he chose to put together the second annual two-day Fringe Binge at the Star Bar with Bryan Malone in August, and he sheepishly ponders the question before answering, “It’s for the kids — the kids who are over 21.” Continue reading CL’s coverage of Fringe Binge II from last summer.

$10 Fri., July 17 $12  Sat., July 18. $20 for both. The Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

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Customers’ debut 7-inch is a three-song single that finds former Beat Beat Beat guitarist Stephen Hutton moving beyond the sneer of bullet-belt punk songs into a more personalized sound. The group gathers refugees from defunct Atlanta punk bands Carbonas and Heart Attacks to craft razor-sharp, though thoroughly damaged, pop melodies greater than the sum of their parts. “Howling at the Moon” and “Monster on the Loose” move quickly and smoothly by design, and “She’s Heroin” cuts with sneering, Johnny Thunders-style solos that remain tastefully restrained. Each song leans toward the loud/fast rock and roll of the Replacements, circa Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, but it’s hardly a dominant trait. These songs are infectious, cathartic and absolutely hell-bound. 4 out of 5 stars

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For today’s Roll Call we call out Candice Jones and Stephanie Luke of the Coathangers.

Who are you?
Candice and Stephanie.

Describe yourself in three words.
Manic, Creative, Eggs.

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Honest Abe, Kurt Cobain, Conan O’Brien, Charles Bukowski, Rainbow Bright, Kathleen Hanna, Emma Goldman, Cleopatra and Albert Einstein.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
Zsa Zsa Gabor, so she gets a dose of her own medicine.

What song do you wish you had written?
“Wang Chung”

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Toughie… Costello

LP, CD or MP3?
LP, duh

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
To have fun at shows again.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Ug(g) Boots…. ugggggly.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
James Franco.

The Coathangers kick off their month-long residency at The Star Bar tonight (Wed., Feb. 4th) w/ Baby Dinosaurs Vs. Extinction and Customers. $5. 9 p.m. 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

The Coathangers – “Tanya Harding” from ataricharm on Vimeo.

(Photo by Bob Levett)

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