Crib Notes

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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Mitchell Powers who directed I’m Like This Every Day, the documentary film about the Dalton, GA-based schizophrenic folk/punk singer/songwriter Peter Stubb, caught these photos at Stubb’s performance at Reactionary Records on Sat., April 18. Click below to see more.

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Savannah director Mitchell Powers’ film I’m Like This Every Day focus on the life and songs of the mentally disturbed but lovable folk-punk crooner Peter Stubb. Despite his past flirtations with Nazism, cutting himself to release his inner demons, a Santa Claus obsession, and grappling with the possibility that he may or may not be a werewolf, Stubb is an endearing character.

Through lo-fi recordings, home videos and testimonials from Stubb’s friends and family, many of whom look like a cast of extras from the set of Gummo, I’m Like This Every Day paints a portrait of the Dalton, Ga., artist as a paranoid schizophrenic. But his sometimes filthy folk tales, weighed against the balance of melodic, acoustic punk strumming, are bound by the timeless tussle between warped, automatic self-destruction and redemption.

As a singer, his voice conveys a sense of innocence and honesty that belies his tattooed exterior. The film’s fast, matter-of-fact pacing feels like a shotgun blast into Stubb’s world. “He never lost that kind of childhood enthusiasm for an erotic tune,” says Powers. “He still writes sex songs, and he really does have that sense of innocence, like a lonely 13-year-old kid locked in his bedroom singing into a tape recorder.”

Stubbs plays a free in-store at Reactionary Records in East Atlanta at 9 p.m. on Sat. April 18 after the 7 p.m. screening of I’m Like This Everyday at the Midtown Art Cinema.

(Photo by Mitchell Powers)

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