Crib Notes

The world of indie music is fraught with a serious and ongoing identity crisis: micro-trends come and go, sometimes in the span of months. Truthfully, it’s a bit of a bummer. Who can keep up? Really, who wants to? And is it any wonder, then, that in the face of this interminable whirlwind more and more groups are embracing nostalgia as a musical reference point in itself?

Vancouver, BC’s Brian King and David Prowse, who make up Japandroids, play a totally 2000s sort of lo-fi garage punk imbued with the frenetic spirit of 1990s indie rock. Their debut full-length Post-Nothing traffics in the same kind of unabashedly youthful, fuzzed-out exuberance as a band like, say, No Age, but with a decidedly more personable air about it. Like that group, Japandroids is a two-piece drums ‘n’ guitar operation, with both members tackling vocal duties. But unlike so many trend-hopping up-and-comers, dudes just wanna have fun.

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Jeffrey Butzer and Midwives
With a solid following that continues to build in Europe, Asia and the US, Jeffrey Butzer is easily one of Atlanta’s new prized musicians with music that is reminiscent of Gainsbourg’s darker days in France, of the thematic explorations of Galt McDermont, and of songs that create the setting of late nights that are experienced but experimentative, the sort of nights we all wished we had more often. Read more about his new CD here. For our July show, Butzer is joined for a special reunion with his original band The Midwives, but will play a short set of songs off his new album. We’re very excited to hear both sets.

Tous Les Jours
Tous Les Jours is the psychedelic hypno-drone guitar rock project of Ronney Douglas, who has become a fixture in the rapidly growing Atlanta scene. Originally a guitarist in Ocha La Rocha, he now heads Tous Les Jours, and is also in the improvisational Gringo Star side project Pink Police. Tous les Jours’ original recordings are lovely in their minimalist experimentation, with songs that feature little more than a voice and a stripped down guitar to the more expansive tracks complete with an accordion. His full band however, with two guitarists, bassist and drummer, promises to be a much higher energy version of the Ronney’s original concept. You’ll want to see it.

Free. 9 p.m. Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018. More about the rest of the line-up following the jump.

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