This Is What You Should Be Doing On Halloween

Go see Deerhoof on Halloween night at the 40 Watt with Flying and Experimental Dental School. I'm not going to fluff this post up with a bunch of flowery descriptive language or praise, but I will tell you that I was lucky enough to catch them the last time they played the 40 Watt as the Popfest headliner and I instantly bought 4 of their albums. I am unfortuantely unfamiliar with their latest effort Offend Maggie, but it seems you can hear it in it's entirety on their myspace page. Click their name up there to hear it. Also take a look at their official website which allows you to ask the band random questions. Some of the Q & A's are pretty funny. They are really an indescribable band, but here's the video for a song called The Perfect Me to help things along:



The music video is funny and shows off how quirky they are, but live their music is going to absolutely twist you into knots. I couldn't find any live videos that had decent sound quality though. But a truly incredible group. Plus everybody will be dressed like weirdos on Halloween so thats cool too. You can buy tickets from the club's link below. See you there.

Friday, October 31:
Deerhoof, Experimental Dental School, Flying. 40 Watt. 9 p.m. $10 (advance). http://www.40watt.com/.

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.