UPDATE: Photographer Kim Glenn submitted another photo from the Black Moth Super Rainbow show at the Drunken Unicorn. Click the jump bellow to see her rather haunting image from last night.
Black Moth Super Rainbow headlined a show at the Drunken Unicorn last night (Wed, July 29).
We’ll have a gallery of more photos from the show posted here soon.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Atlanta music photographers Perry Julien (whose images often grace the virtual and printed pages of Creative Loafing) and Annette Brown host the opening reception for ROCK SHOW2 tonight at Composition Gallery in Candler Park.
While both photographers focus on respective crops of home grown music, Julien’s images often represent a “from the pit” perspective while Brown’s work is based largely around studio compositions. However, neither Julien or Brown limit their work to one perspective or the other, and the photos represented in this show cover broad, intertwining swathes of musical images.
The reception goes from 7-10 p.m. and the show runs through Sun., Aug. 23. Composition Gallery is located at 1388 McLendon Ave. 678-982-9764.
Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips
Creative Loafing contributing photographer Perry Julien has a show featuring several of his works, covering music and fashion up at West Egg Cafe. The show is made up of approximately 60 images. The music photography begins with shots from a Led Zeppelin show at Madison Square Garden in 1977 and ends with shots from a Devo show at SXSW in 2009.
The alternative fashion portion of the show features shots that were taken everywhere from the Clermont Hotel right here in Atlanta to the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. A large portion of the fashion photos feature Atlanta-based fashion designer/model Julia Badovinac.
The show opened on Wed., April 27 and will run through Mon., June 29.
See more photos from the show.
West Egg Cafe is located at 1168 Howell Mill Rd. 404-872-3973.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
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See our photo gallery of photographer Perry Julien’s SXSW 2009 pics. And read CL’s Best of SXSW 2009 wrap-up, with more photos.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Cee-Lo and DangerMouse certainly proved to be The Odd Couple last night on Gnarls Barkley’s return home to Atlanta for a performance at the Variety Playhouse.
For most of the show, Cee-Lo resembled a fired-up storefront preacher mixed with a little bit of a Hell’s Angel as he quickly peeled out of his shiny turquoise tuxedo jacket and black shirt to reveal a black wife-beater, tattooed arms and chest, and a thick gold chain with a cross that dangled down to his pot belly — to which I overheard Jodine of Jodine’s Corner respond, “Big Sexy’s in the building!”
Though he didn’t dance (”This floor is slippery — I was going to show y’all some of my moves.”), he’d half do a little herky jerky thing with his arms every once in awhile then throw them up in the air in a way that reminded me of the little church lady who used to catch the Holy Ghost on the front pew every Sunday.
Meanwhile, Danger Mouse looked like some crazed but concentrated concert pianist as he hunched his back over the keyboard and played ever so slightly. The only thing missing was a candelabra and a black cat.
For the encore, Cee-Lo returned to the stage wearing black shades and smoking a cigarette. Paired with his bald head and gold chain, it immediately conjured up the image of Isaac Hayes, circa his Hot Buttered Soul era. And when DangerMouse sat down at the synthesizer, he began to play two notes in a fashion that almost mimicked Hayes’ classic eight-minute monologue on his remake of “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.”
Instead, Gnarls Barkley launched into “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” — a song Cee-Lo told CL in last week’s feature that he originally wrote to mourn James Brown’s death. The lyrics were a perfect ode to the recently deceased Isaac Hayes last night.
COLD SWEAT AND A WARM PBR: Judi Chicago gets loose at Criminal Records’ National Record Day celebration. See more photos below.
