GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
If you ever wondered what I do with my time when not slaving away at the cube village by day or wasting my nights hunting for my next favorite band and ex-girlfriend, check this out.
http://www.pangenre.com/Currently we’ve got one product for sale, a role playing game system that was several years in the making, but there more are on the way, including Personality Crisis, the card game you might have played at various degenerate gatherings.
EAR PLUGS
Oxford Cotton, Ghost Riders Car Club, Blacktop Rockets:
http://www.degeneratepress.com/vault/2010/btr_3_2010/index.html PROPHESY
March 24, Wednesday
Shearwater at The Earl.
March 25, Thursday
Rebirth Brass Band at The Loft, with Ivan Neville’s Dumpstafunk.
March 27, Saturday
Silver Scream Spookshow at The Plaza features HG Wells’ First Men in the Moon with Ray Harryhausen special effects. Free for kids at 1PM, kid-free at 10PM.
King Khan and the Shrines at The Earl, with The Fresh & the Onlys.
Tongo Hiti, Dames Aflame, and MonkeyZuma all at Trader Vic’s for Jungleland Exotica, 8-midnight. Raffles, costume contest and more.
Tiger! Tiger! The Brian Olive Band (of the Greenhornes & Soledad Brothers) & Thee Crucials at The Star Bar.
April 1-4
Frolicon. www.frolicon.com
April 1, Thursday
Attractive Eighties Women, The Vaginas, Drunk and Furious at Clermont Lounge. Yes, those are band names and not (just) descriptions of what you’ll see at The Clermont!
The Forty Fives, Young Antiques, All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, The Pinx at The Star Bar, all as a benefit for music schools in Atlanta, and to celebrate Tom Cheshire and Eric Lee’s birthdays.
Lenny’s has Thee Crucials, The Electric Cycles, Shathouse Rats, along with Agent 45 spinning records.
April 2, Friday
Gargantua, Little Women at The Star Bar.
Judi Chicago album release show at Lenny’s.
The Dexateens play a benefit at The Earl for Rock Your Heart Out.
April 4, Sunday
The Peachtree Soul Club is proud to present the second installment of its gospel dunch series at The EARL, and this time it's on Easter! Come join us in your Easter best suits and dresses and enjoy great food at The EARL while Tim Lawrence and Brian Poust provide some of the best gospel music ever committed to vinyl.
April 6, Tuesday
King Sunny Ade date has changed to May 23.
April 8, Wednesday
Walk the Plank, The Mystery Men?, Daikaiju at The Star Bar, free.
April 9, Friday
Junior Brown at Variety Playhouse.
April 10, Saturday
Tom Cheshire's yearly tiki party kicks off with grilled foods and booze at 3 at Picaflor Studio with music around 7, including The Great Crowd (an instrumental band is gonna play), followed by Los Buenos, and lastly an awesome band from Murpheesboro called The Only Sons will go on at about 9pm. www.picaflorstudio.com
The Earl’s 10th anniversary features Cadillac Jones.
April 13, Tuesday
This month’s Splatter Cinema features Rosemary’s Baby. Not so much about splatter as creepy mood, but a good flick. 9:30.
Allen Toussant, Caroline Aiken at Variety Playhouse.
April 17, Saturday
Record Store Day at Criminal features Those Darlin’s at 2PM.
Unknown Henson at The Earl.
April 22, Thursday
Tiger! Tiger! at The Earl.
April 23-24
Atlanta Mess-Around - more bands than I can possibly list performing over 2 days at 529 and The Earl.
http://badearl.com/content/additional_info?event_id=1064&full=true April 23, Friday
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at the Howling Wolf in New Orleans.
April 24, Saturday
Charlie Louvin at The Star Bar, with Pine Hill Haints, Izzy Cox.
April 30 - May 2
AnachroCon 2010 at the Wellesley Inn Atlanta Airport Hotel. Y'know, Steampunks and Victorian dandies and other people who still have closets full of top hats but don’t play Vampire any more.
http://www.anachrocon.com/ May 5, Wednesday
The Coathangers, Jacuzzi Boys at The Earl.
May 8, Saturday
Th’ Legendary Shack*Shakers at The Earl.
May 13-16
XPT, Xperimental Puppetry Theater, at the Center for Puppetry Arts. www.puppet.org.
May 11, Tuesday
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC.
May 12, Wednesday
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at Orange Peel in Asheville, NC.
May 13, Thursday
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings at Center Stage.
May 22, Saturday
East Atlanta Beer Fest in Brownwood Park.
May 23, Sunday
King Sunny Ade and his African Beats at Variety Playhouse.
June 3-6
The Atlanta Tattoo Arts Festival, Crown Plaza Hotel, 6345 Powers Ferry Road.
http://www.myspace.com/atlantatattooarts June 10-13
The 9th annual Hukilau tiki fest in Ft. Lauderdale:
http://www.thehukilau.com/2010/ June 12
U.S. vs. England in World Cup Soccer.
June 18
U.S. vs. Slovenia in World Cup Soccer.
June 23
U.S. vs. Algeria in World Cup Soccer.
July 7-11
Plan On Con, a gaming gathering in Birmingham. www.playoncon.com
2014
World Cup Soccer in Brazil.
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