Crib Notes

The final Pine Magazine free Thurs. night show at the Star Bar tonight doubles as the kick-off party for the 2009 Other Sound Fest. Tealights, Night Moves Gold, This Piano Plays Itself, and the Wild are all scheduled to perform. Admission is free and the music starts at 9 p.m.

Download the2009 Other Sound compilation CD, An introduction to the ethos of the Atlanta music scene.

Follow the jump for a complete schedule and info. about the artists performing this year’s Other Sound Fest. which reaches full swing on Sat., Sept. 19 at The Star Bar. Cover is $10 and the music begins at 7 p.m.

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Pine Magazine is hosting their final free Thursday night show this week at the Star Bar. Since January ‘08, Pine has brought more than 100 bands to play these shows.

For this last hurrah the lineup features an eclectic roster of acts that includes performances of folk-punk story telling from the Wild, mathy and electronic post-rock via This Piano Plays Itself, brittle and etheral strings/electronic pop tones from Tealights, and the neo-soul/new wave sounds of Night Moves Gold.

There will also be DJ sets from Justin Hughes (Glen Iris, ex-Batata Doce, ex- Lady’s Night, ex-rock*A*Teens) and DJ Press Play.

According to a post that went up on Pine this morning:

Our Star Bar series started with Soundlab 84, ISP and Pine back in January 2008 and, since then, more than 100 bands have played our free First Thursday shows, including: T Model Ford, Missile Command, Club Awesome, Hollow Stars, Hawks, Lay Down Mains, Deleted Scenes, Surfer Blood, Gold Standard, Thy Mighty Contract and many, many, many others. Many. It’s been a lot of fun.

The show is free and the music starts promptly at 10 p.m. The Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

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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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Who are you?
Johnny la Rocha of Ocha la Rocha, proprietor of New Street Studios, and whiskey slinger at the Star Community Bar.

Describe yourself in three words.
Cash, Grass, or Ass (no one rides for free).

Who — dead or alive — would you most like to meet?
Nikola Tesla,  AC rules DC drools.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
N/A, I’m not a gay man.

What song do you wish you had written?
The Law and Order theme song. Royalties for days…

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Elvis has left my record collection.

LP, CD or MP3?
Long Plays.

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
Hot girls driving old pickups.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
The Braves’ current ERA.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
I’m more of a “seven minutes in heaven” man.

“Asleep at the Wheel” mp3

Ocha la Rocha plays the Earl on Wed., June 10. 8:30 p.m. with MTM (featuring Trapper’s Cabin) and Victor Victroovious.

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Bryan G. Malone:  Local musician, club promoter, twister of words, champion of the underdog… I book the Star Community Bar

My mixape

1. “Hold On, I’m Coming” – Sam & Dave
2. “Hey Bulldog” – the Beatles
3. “I Wanna Be Your Driver” – Chuck Berry
4. “Ninety-Nine & a Half (Won’t Do)” – Wilson Pickett
5. “Spoonful” – Howlin’ Wolf
6. “Blame It On Cain” – Elvis Costello
7. “Unsatisfied” – the Replacements
8. “Had Me a Real Good Time” – the Faces
9. “Do The Boob” – the Real Kids
10. “Feel Too Good” – the Move

This list changes every few minutes…

My Favorite Atlanta Band at the moment is Gentleman Jesse & His Men. Great melodies backed by good ole Rock & Roll riffs. What’s better really?

(Photo by Tungsten Ferberger)

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Tonight Pine Magazine hosts its free, first Thursday of the month “recession-friendly” free show at the Star Bar.
The line-up for tonight includes:

Thy Mighty Contract
Club Awesome
Hawks
Glen Iris (new band featuring members of Batata Doce, Brass Castle, Grand Prize Winners and ex-Rock*A*Teens)
Mourdella

Free. 9 p.m. the Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

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For today’s Roll Call we call out Candice Jones and Stephanie Luke of the Coathangers.

Who are you?
Candice and Stephanie.

Describe yourself in three words.
Manic, Creative, Eggs.

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Honest Abe, Kurt Cobain, Conan O’Brien, Charles Bukowski, Rainbow Bright, Kathleen Hanna, Emma Goldman, Cleopatra and Albert Einstein.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
Zsa Zsa Gabor, so she gets a dose of her own medicine.

What song do you wish you had written?
“Wang Chung”

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Toughie… Costello

LP, CD or MP3?
LP, duh

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
To have fun at shows again.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Ug(g) Boots…. ugggggly.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
James Franco.

The Coathangers kick off their month-long residency at The Star Bar tonight (Wed., Feb. 4th) w/ Baby Dinosaurs Vs. Extinction and Customers. $5. 9 p.m. 437 Moreland Ave. 404-681-9018.

The Coathangers – “Tanya Harding” from ataricharm on Vimeo.

(Photo by Bob Levett)

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For Today’s Roll Call we call out Adron.

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 blessed dive 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.

(Photo by Victor B. Bicycle. Video courtesy of Digital Arts Entertainmentl Laboratory)

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Big Trouble in Little 5 Points returns to the Star Bar for another free show. Tonight the bill is filled out by Jeffrey Butzer, Mike Lesage, the Stumbling Troubadours and the Matt Kurz 1. Show starts at 9 p.m.

If that’s not your bag, over at 529 the Fringe Factory DJS Suzy Q and Vikki V spin a grip of ’60s soul, R&B, psych, garage, and rock and roll sounds at 529 (formerly the Village across the street from the Flatiron). 529 Flat Shoals Rd.

And last but not least, the Kirkwood Ballers Club brings it’s regular crop of experimental musicians to the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge, running through shades of everything from sing/songwriter fare, jazz, noise and electronic music.

(Courtesy Jeffrey Butzer)

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For today’s installment of Roll Call we call out Derek Lyn Plastic, the self-proclaimed “monk of Atlanta punk.”

Who are you?
Derek Lyn Plastic “The Mother-Fuckin Monk of Atlanta Punk.”

Describe yourself in three words.
Gozer the Destructor.

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Nikola Tesla — I like them both.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
Everybody just wants a little slap and tickle right?

What song do you wish you had written?
“Wooly Bully”

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
I’ve listened to the Charles Manson White Album 5 times today.

LP, CD or MP3?
7″

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
The Witch Doctor look.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
Mall Metal.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
The Coathangers — you couldn’t lose… C’mon someone had to say it!

Derek Lyn Plastic heads up a month-long residency at The Star Bar every Wednesday night in November.

Wed., Nov. 12th, he will be joined by the N.E.C. and Abby Go Go.
Wed., Nov. 19th Hollow Stars and the Sunglasses open the show.
Wed., Nov. 26th DLP plays the middle slot between Das Manics and opening act Vera Fang.

All shows are $3, 21+ and start at 9 p.m. for more information look online at www.starbar.net

“Let’s Get High”
”Run With Me”
“She’s Got A UTI”
“Swim”

Photo courtesy of Derek Lyn Plastic.

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ALL NIGHT DRUG PROWLING WOLVES, THE WEIGHT, MOCKING BIRDS Atlanta pub rock/punk bastion All Night Drug Prowling Wolves celebrate the release of their brand new, self-titled full-length debut on the Brooklyn-based indie outlet Colonel Records. Labelmates and Brooklyn-based Atlanta transplant Joseph Plunket’s band the Weight makes happy homecoming in support of its latest, greatest country rock album, Are Men. Mocking Birds are also on the bill. $10. 9 p.m. Star Bar. 404-681-9018. www.starbaratlanta.com. — CR

ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND You can say what you want about the ABB these days, just don’t say anything bad around me. Gregg Allman is a survivor, and even though he is surrounded by mostly second- and third-generation members, he is still the central force of the band. They were Georgia’s greatest band ever, IMHO, and this incarnation is keeping it alive. Repeat show Saturday. $38.50-$93. 7:30 p.m. Chastain Park Amphitheater. 404-233-2227. www.livenation.com. — JK

(Photo Credit: Brandon Arnold)

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For this week’s Thursday Night Freakout at The Star Bar Ominous Castle, Baby Dinosaurs, the Hat Company and Lesbian Afternoon converge for an evening of fringe rock and pop experimentation.

Lesbian Afternoon main man Mike Koenig recently dropped off a copy of his latest self-released 7-inch and I have to say that it is one of the more remarkable, and unclassifiable, records to land on my desk in quite some time.

Though his website makes the claim that LA is meant for fans of For fans of My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Ween, Polvo, Beck & quiet walks on the beach, there is a certain sense of Southern charm / Faulknerian weirdness going with his songs that takes precedence over everything else.

I would say go to his myspace page and give it a listen, but there aren’t any songs there right now. So better yet, check out this video for “Shoegaze Bridge.”

And if you want some more, here is a video for a song, called “Boy That’s Not Your Girlfriend, It’s Just an Ice Cream Truck.”

The show is free and the music starts at 9 p.m.

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Tonight The Star Bar in L5P hosts the Barberries 7-inch release party.

Other bands on the bill include Atlanta bands Predator and Coffin Bound, along with Montgomery, Alabama’s noisy, spazzy punk foursome, the Love Acts.

Fringe Factory DJ’s Vikki V and Suzy Q, along with a few others will be on the turntables.

The show is free and starts at 9 p.m.

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MAN IN BLACK: Robin Dean Salmon (photo courtesy of Paul Street)

Day 2 of Bubbapalooza kicks off at The Star Bar tonight. Robin Dean Salmon headlines with a set of songs from his latest release, Gasoline. Cletis & His City Cousins, the Blacktop Rockets, the Downer Brothers, Ghostrider Car Club, J.J. & the Hustlers and Rat Rod & the Rusty Rebels also perform.

It’s $15 at the door and the music starts at 8 p.m. For more information click here.

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