CL’s Chanté LaGon and Chad Radford chat about upcoming shows around Atlanta including Adron and Madeline at the Star Bar (Thurs., Jan. 29), and Fringe Factory’s one-year anniversary party at the Highland Inn Ballroom (Sat., Jan. 31).
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Over at the Star Bar wayward and whimsical songstress Adron returns from Brooklyn to play a show with Athens songwriter Madeline and locals Zano and Trapper’s Cabin. Show starts at 9 p.m. Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.
The debut performance from a new three-piece featuring Soulphonics’ members Spencer Garn (organ), Scott Clayton (guitar), and Mark R. (drums) takes place at 529. DJ’s Suzy Q & Vikki V of Fringe Factory will be spinning a mix of surf, psych, garage rock, soul and otherwise vintage rock records. Free. 10 p.m. 529 Flat Shoals Rd. 404-228-6769.
And of course there is the weekly Kirkwood Ballers Club experimental open mic night going on at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge. Come here to mingle with folks and check a wide array of outsider music. From pretty and melodic to fractured and skittish to the outlimits of jazz, noise and punk rock, the KBC is an incubator for a lot of music. 9 p.m. The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge. 644 North Highland Ave. 404-874-5756.
Who are you? Adron and Adrienne McCann. My broham calls me Binky.
Describe yourself in three words.
Paradeluvian, teleotropic, onaneiric.
Who — dead or alive — would you most like to meet?
David Foster Wallace.
Who would you most like to slap in the face?
People who smoke cigarettes and tell me that Veganism and psychedelics are unhealthy.
What song do you wish you had written?
“Ave Maria” by Franz Peter Schubert.
Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley? Emphatically Presley… “In the Ghetto” is the most bitchingly god blesseddive bar jukebox song ever…Also probably my #1 choice for any karaoke performance… I also tend to refuse dates from people who are more than a little Costello-inclined.
LP, CD or MP3?
LP for at home. MP3s for cinematic dusky walks with headphones.
If you could start one trend, what would it be?
Institute “time off” one day per week at least, for 3 hrs. where everyone turns off lights and appliances and hangs out in the dark and tells ghost stories or something.
If you could end one trend what would it be?
Flashy, impeccably clean and expensive new pan-Asian bistros with their names in Papyrus font.
With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
Gary Oldman and Tim Roth as they appeared in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
Adron plays the Star Bar tonight (Thurs., Jan. 29th) w/ Trapper’s Cabin, Zano and Madeline. Free. 9 p.m. The Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.
CL’s Chanté LaGon and Chad Radford chat about upcoming shows around Atlanta including Adron and Madeline at the Star Bar (Thurs., Jan. 29), and Fringe Factory’s one-year anniversary party at the Highland Inn Ballroom (Sat., Jan. 31).
