Crib Notes

CUT AND PASTE: Glen Iris

Glen Iris with Lions and Thy Mighty Contract. $7. 9 p.m. Fri., July 17. Drunken Unicorn, 736 Ponce de Leon Place. www.thedrunkenunicorn.net.

Former Rock*A*Teens guitarist Justin Hughes doesn’t have much to say about the two songs on Glen Iris’ debut 7-inch slated for release on July 17 via the group’s recently invented Dirty Slacks imprint. “I don’t really like talking about myself,” he offers humbly. “That’s the music journalist’s job. Songs just kind of come to me when I’m playing around with a guitar and whatever they mean to you is whatever they mean.”

That sort of open-to-interpretation attitude behooves the two-guitar and drums trio rounded out by Brass Castle guitarist and vocalist Chris Strawn, and drummer Jonathan Luecke. Both Strawn and Hughes bring songs to the band and the resulting tug-of-war between their distinct voices culminates in an eclectic mix of divergent numbers. Strawn’s low guitar sounds fill in for the bass while Luecke’s percussive sway works double-time to keep the rhythms moving.

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(Photo courtesy Glen Iris)

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Who are you?
Chris Strawn.

Describe yourself in three words.
A gentle spirit.

Who — dead or alive — would you most like to meet?
Phil Lynott. A friend of mine once said that he smelled fantastic.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
I’d like to go back into the Book of Genesis and slap the snake in the face.

What song do you wish you had written?
“Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten.

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Uh… “Lipstick Vogue”, “Kentucky Rain”… It’s probably a dead heat.

LP, CD or MP3?
LPs. Also, MP3s recorded to cassette tape in real time, that’s what I end up mostly listening to while I drive.

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
We need more outlandish recreational watercrafts this Summer.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Here are two: hair-punk and tapas.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
The Ajax Lady from Up In Smoke.

“Horseless” mp3

Glen Iris plays 529 with GPWFLY and Can Can. Mon., June 15. Free. 9 p.m.

(Photo courtesy Chris Strawn)

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Tonight Pine Magazine hosts its free, first Thursday of the month “recession-friendly” free show at the Star Bar.
The line-up for tonight includes:

Thy Mighty Contract
Club Awesome
Hawks
Glen Iris (new band featuring members of Batata Doce, Brass Castle, Grand Prize Winners and ex-Rock*A*Teens)
Mourdella

Free. 9 p.m. the Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

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