October 13-19

Tuesday, October 14:
Olympus Mans. Georgia Theatre. 9:30 p.m. $5. http://www.georgiatheatre.com/.

Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band. Variety Playhouse. (ATL) 8 p.m. $22.50-$25. http://www.variety-playhouse.com/.

Wednesday, October 15:
Enoch, Brown Chicken Brown Cow, Distaster. Flicker. 8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/flickerbar.
Enoch Bledsoe of Twin Tigers, Ryan Hetrick, and some punk band, respectively.

Dead Confederate, Heartless Bastards. The Five Spot. (ATL) 8:30 p.m. $12.50-$15. http://www.fivespot-atl.com/.

Thursday, October 16:
Gift Horse, Beatrix Kiddo, Johnny Buffalo and the Mutinous Noise. Drunken Unicorn. (ATL) 9 p.m. $8. www.thedrunkenunicorn.net/.

Friday, October 17:
Cinemechanica, A.Armada, Bambara, Building the State. 40 Watt. Doors @ 9:00 p.m. $6 over 21. $8 under 21. http://www.40watt.com/.

Cinemechanica celebrates the release of their new jam Rivals with A.Armada, Building the State and Bambara. Those are some pretty cool laid back type of fellas in that Bambara. I like those guys.

Widespread Panic. Lakewood Amphitheatre. (ATL) 5:30 p.m. $25 - $75. Lakewood Amphitheatre.

The Magnetic Fields. Woodruff Arts Center. (ATL) 8 p.m. $26-$30. http://www.woodruffcenter.org/.

Saturday, October 18:

Widespread Panic. Lakewood Amphitheatre. (ATL) 5:30 p.m. $25 - $75. Lakewood Amphitheatre.

Sunday, October 19:

Widespread Panic. Tabernacle. (ATL) 7 p.m. $125. www.myspace.com/tabernacleatlanta.

Tunes for Tots benefit.

September 8-14

Monday, September 8:
Music Hates You, Weedeater, Armazilla. Tasty World. 10 p.m. $5. http://www.tastyworld.net/.
Metal time! Armazilla (from ATL) is supposedly formed by an ex-ZZ Top roadie, Weedeater is from Wilmington, NC, and Music Hates You hates you. All of the bands at Tasty World now play the upstairs bar in what is potentially a shoe-in for "the worst idea of 2008" Flagpole music awards category. But this show should rock your ass anyway. Go.

Tuesday, September 9:
Chrissakes, Nationale, Worn in Red. Little Kings. 10 p.m. www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuffleclub.

Wednesday, September 10:
The Whigs, Tokyo Police Club, The Coast. 40 Watt. 9 p.m. $15 (advance). http://www.40watt.com/.

J. Roddy Walston and The Business, Holy Liars, The Dictatortots. Tasty World. 10 p.m. $5. http://www.tastyworld.net/.

Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Death Pill, Math Candy. The Earl (ATL) 9 p.m. $7. http://www.badearl.com/.

The N.E.C., All the Saints, Adventure. Star Bar (ATL) 9 p.m. $3. http://www.starbar.net/.

Thursday, September 11:
The Winter Sounds, Waves on Waves, Wedge. 40 Watt. 9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.40watt.com/.

Enoch (of Twin Tigers), Mr. Gnome, Strezo. Caledonia. 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.caledonialounge.com/.

Friday, September 12:
Dead Confederate, Turf War. Sky City. (AUGUSTA, GA). Doors 8 p.m. Music 10 p.m. Advance $7. Day of Show $10. http://www.skycityaugusta.com/.
Concert release of Dead Confederate's new album Wrecking Ball. Sky City is where The Mission used to be. It changed hands when Coco Rubio (owner of the Soul Bar) bought the venue and is finally going to run it correctly. This is the night of the "Border Bash" party that is celebrated in Augusta in honor of the UGA vs. USC football game on Saturday. So if you are there for that reason, check out the show. Try not to get stabbed.

Venice is Sinking. Kavarna (ATL) 9 p.m. FREE. Kavarna.

Saturday, September 13:
George W. Bush Cover Band. Georgia Theatre. 10 p.m. $10. http://www.georgiatheatre.com/.
The kids from Olympus Mans and some other dude play in this band that sets words from W.'s speeches to music. So I guess the president is also a member of this band. (He should get writing credits at least). Anyhow, I know this sounds like a dumbass idea but when you read the lyrics to the songs it is fucking scary that our president actually said this shit.

Monotonix, Silver Jews. Variety Playhouse (ATL). 8:30 p.m. $15. http://www.variety-playhouse.com/.

September 1-7

Tuesday, September 2:
Pride Parade, Soft Targets, Jacob Church. Smith's Olde Bar. (ATL) smithsoldebar.com.

Thursday, September 4:
Face/Off #4 featuring members of Dead Confederate, Cinemechanica, Producto, Macha, Elf Power, Garbage Island and more... 40 Watt. 9 p.m. $5 (+21), $7 (-21). http://www.40watt.com/. This is a benefit for the Athens Area Homeless Shelter. They throw the names of a few members from each band into a hat and pair them up at random. They have a limited amount of time to come up with a short set. What you see (and hear) is what you get. I think this is the 4th and final one.

Olympus Mans. Caledonia. 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.caledonialounge.com/.

Pylon, The Buddy System. The Melting Point. (Athens 441 Radio Show). 8:30 p.m. $12. http://www.meltingpoinathens.com/.

Friday, September 5:
A.Armada. 40 Watt. 9:30 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.40watt.com/. Concert release of new album, Anam Cara.

Saturday, September 6:
Gift Horse, The Sammies, Goodbye Donovan. The Hummingbird. (MACON, GA) 9 p.m. $6. www.myspace.com/thebirdstage.

Dr. Dog, Delta Spirit, Seth Kauffman. The Earl. (ATL) 9:30 p.m. $12. http://www.badearl.com/.

Sunday, September 7:
Common, N.E.R.D. Tabernacle. (ATL) 8 p.m. $36.50. www.myspace.com/tabernacleatlanta.

Monday, July 14-Sunday, July 20

If I may humbly opine, there's not a lot going on in the lil' A this week. Might have to drive yourself over to the big A. Or if you live there in the larger of the two A towns you don't have to worry about coming down to the lil' A (except to see the metal show Friday at Caledonia which is going to be very, very good). Either way, you're an A-hole. Just kidding.

Wednesday, July 16:
Al Green. Michael McDonald (yeah, he's there too...) and Al Green perform as part of the Delta Classic Chastain Concert Series. 8 p.m. $25-$90.
Chastain Park Amphitheatre (ATL).

Ocha la Rocha, The Rosewood Thieves. Star Bar (ATL) 9 p.m. $7.

Thursday, July 17:
Kuroma, The Films, The Hiss, The Redcoats. Pop Death Squad presents One Year Anniversary of Big Trouble in Little Five Points. Star Bar. (ATL) 8 p.m. FREE. (I admit I've never heard of 3 of these bands but Kuroma has my full support...wish they had a web address of any kind that I could link to so you could hear them).


Friday, July 18:
The Dumps, Black Tusk, Gaylord. Caledonia. 10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). http://www.caledonialounge.com/.

Saturday, July 19:
Olympus Mans, Weirdbeard. Rye Bar (used to be D.T.'s Down Under). 10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/ryebarathens.

Yeah I'll keep digging for things for you to do and see and hear...