Crib Notes

Mon., March 15 — These are Powers rip through a bombastic set of post-industrial noise, melody and elation wrapped in mutant beats and so-called “ghost punk” atmospheres in support of their latest, World Class Peoples/Candyman EP. Lemonade, MNDR and Knaves Grave open, and a DJ set from the Roman Photos kids keeps the night moving. $8. 9 p.m. 529. 404-228-6769.

Mon., March 15 — Here We Go Magic, the Love Language and April Smith and the Great Picture Show. $10. 8:30 p.m. The Earl. 404-522-3950.

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Gentleman Jesse Smith (who dropped the ‘and His Men’ part of the group’s moniker a while back) will be recording songs for his sophomore LP over the next few weeks. The title of the album is Leaving Atlanta, and is subtitled, Feel Good Songs for Bad Times.

Leaving Atlanta is the follow-up to Smith and Co.’s 2007 self-titled debut (Douchemaster). This one is going to be another home-recorded affair produced by drummer Dave Rahn, who produced the group’s first album was well of the recordings by the Carbonas and Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions.

Crib Notes is particularly excited to report that CL editor Mara Shalhoup is celebrating the release of her first book, BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family at Eyedrum with a reading/signing on Tues., March 2 at 7 p.m.

There will be DJ sets from Scott Morris (aka Dookie Platters of Noot d’ Noot), and an art show featuring works from photographer David Stuart and multimedia artist Fahamu Pecou. Free. Eyedrum is located at 290 MLK Jr. Drive SE. 404-522-0655.

In other Eyedrum news, the monthly Kirkwood Ballers Club is happening tonight (Mon., Feb. 22) at Eyedrum. The free-form open mic night for experimental music gets started promptly at 9 p.m. For this month’s installment there will be an emphasis on improvisation. Half of the night will consist of typical sign ups, the other half will consist of sign ups for group improv. Names will be randomly selected for trios, duets and quartets … in an effort to further explore the communal aspects of making music.

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Nomen Novum’s Paradises unravels its gorgeous document of electronic and acoustic textures over a shimmering backdrop of hypnotic loneliness. It’s not quite appropriate to label such songs as “The Color of Water” and “Miracles Come True” minimalist, but each one builds upon looping and layered cycles of drone and bliss. The title track unfolds with glacial elegance through a series of fugue-like movements. “(Your Heart is Like a) Lovewave” booms with the album’s first major chops on an electric guitar that arcs and fades into lyrical meanderings. Taking in the album through headphones reveals scattered bits of wailing sirens, chirping birds and disembodied voices hiding throughout the record. The resulting mashup of sparkling primitivism and dream-pop billows into an aural cloud of majesty and melancholy that’s ethereal, experimental and refreshingly ornate. (Operation Get Jacked!) 4 stars out of 5

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While experimental indie rock duo Nomen Novum patiently await the arrival of the physical copies of their forthcoming LP, Paradises, they’re offering a free stream of the album at NomenNovum.net.

This album is the follow up to their Room for Rent EP and the “Mantis Man” 7-inch.

Track list:
The Color of Water
Strength in Weakness
The Garden / Paradises 2
Paradises
(Your Heart Is Like) A Lovewave
Man-Man-Lade
Miracles  Come True
Paradises 3

Nomen Novum plays NoPhest at WonderRoot on Fri., Aug. 28, and at the Earl on Sun., Oct. 11 with Bear in Heaven.

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B.B. KING As living legends go, King’s still vital on stage, his new album is his finest in decades — it’s worth the inflated ticket price to see him somewhere other than Chastain. $65.50-$86.50. 7:30 p.m. The Tabernacle. 404-659-9022. www.livenation.com. — HH

GANG GANG DANCE, RAINBOW ARABIA, NOMEN NOVUM Gang Gang Dance stands tall at the forefront of New York’s indie avant-garde by crafting a jumbled mass of dance-art-punk-electro skronks. Likeminded acts Rainbow Arabia from Los Angeles, and local freak rock duo Nomen Novum open. $10-$12. 9 p.m. The Earl. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com. — CR

(Photo Credit: www.bbkingclubs.com)

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Each week the folks at HaveyouHeard.net set the stage for a band to play a free show at Cabbagetown hipster spot, 97 Estoria. After these show the band sticks around to spin records and keep the party going as long as the law will allow. This week local freak rock duo Nomen Novum holds it down, with an opening set from Baltimore’s Future Islands.

Music starts at 9 p.m.

For those who are unfamiliar, Nomen Novum is one of the more recent weirdo psych/art rock acts to come together in Atlanta. Their debut “Mantis Man,” “Aunt Urn” b/w “Vinyl” 7-inch was released a few months back on Operation Get Jacked! The green-vinyl offering features three of the coolest and catchiest, rounds of acid-drenched acoustic minimalism and strummed punk anthems I’ve heard in a while. The record didn’t come with any kind of formal press materials, but it did come with a post-it note that says, “not garage punk,” which says an awful lot about their spirit.

“Aunt Urn” MP3

Have You Heard Session: Nomen Novum from HaveYouHeard on Vimeo.

(Photo by Joseph Velazquez)

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