August 11-16

'Round here the calendar week starts Monday, the way it's supposed to be...

Monday, August 11:
Subrig Destroyer, Irreversible, North, Hell Comes to Town. Masquerade. (ATL)
7 p.m. $8. www.masq.com/. (They're in Hell).

Tuesday, August 12:
Gnarls Barkley, Elf Power. 40 Watt. 8 p.m. $25 (adv.). http://www.40watt.com/.

Blind Melon, Gringo Starr. Masquerade. (ATL) 7 p.m. $17. www.masq.com/. (Heard the new dude sounds just like the old dude. They're in Heaven).

Wednesday, August 13:
ATHENS POPFEST 2008
Little Kings. http://www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub.
The Coathangers. (10:20 p.m.)
The Selmanaires. (12:35 a.m.)
We Versus the Shark. (1:15 a.m.)

Nine Inch Nails, Deerhunter. The Arena at Gwinnett Center. (ATL) 7 p.m. $39.50-$56.50. gwinnettciviccenter.com.

Beach Boys. Chastain Park Amphitheatre. (ATL) 8 p.m. $36-$59. The Beach Boys perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and possibly John Stamos on drums (finger's crossed!) as part of the Delta Classic Chastain Concert Series. http://www.classicchastain.com/.

Thursday, August 14:
ATHENS POPFEST 2008
Caledonia. http://www.caledonialounge.com/.
Twin Tigers. (10:30 p.m.)
Dead Confederate. (11:30 p.m.)

then on to

40 Watt. http://www.40watt.com/.
Dark Meat. (11:45 p.m.)
Roky Erikson and The Explosives. (12:30 a.m.)

and also

Blue Flashing Light, Ponderosa. Georgia Theatre. 10 p.m. $5. http://www.georgiatheatre.com/.

Friday, August 15:
ATHENS POPFEST 2008
Caledonia. http://caledonialounge.com/.
A.Armada. (11:30 p.m.)

Saturday, August 16:
The N.E.C., The Hiss, Apache, Electric Shadows. The Earl. (ATL) 9:30 p.m. $8.
http://www.badearl.com/.

Sunday, August 17:
Melvins, Big Business. The Drunken Unicorn. (ATL) $15-$17. (We got this show comin up at The 40 Watt the day after this Drunken Unicorn show, but If you're in Atlanta on this Sunday afternoon you'd better go if you know what's best for yous). www.thedrunkenunicorn.net/.

Ok, it's HHBTM's Popfest again. Standard disclaimer: I'm only putting up information about shows that I know are going to be good, but chances are the rest of the bands on the Popfest bills are going to be great, or at least interesting. I've seen some really great bands at the last Popfests that I had never heard of before, so if you are interested you should go check out their site. Plus there are quite a few different ticket packages available so peep the language.