Tuesday August 26 / 11pm
We have some excellent news to report that the Daedelus, Noot D' Noot and Samadha show has finally found a home! This event will be held at the Highland Ballroom Lounge on Friday September 12 with doors opening at 9pm with admission being a mere $8. Tight Bros Network would like to thank Valerie and the rest of the staff at Highland Inn for shuffling their schedules to help make this event become a reality. Randy from Tight Bros was about to lose his fucking mind, can you imagine? Tickets for this event will be on sale tomorrow at 10am and will be available at Criminal Records, Decatur CD, Ella Guru or online at www.ticketalternative.com The Highland Inn tends to pack out early so it is recommended that you purchase a ticket in advance.

Also Kirkwood Ballers Club will feature two very special guest this Thursday at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge. Firstly, Atlanta's fucked up experimental performance trio, Chinese Frankenstein will perform in a hotel room above the ballroom rented for the night. Its a set based on a dream the groups member, Nisa Asokan, had about a fictitious movie called Blood Bath about vampires that soak in blood thru the skin instead of biting for it. Allison Rentz will be giving birth to an alien while talking on the phone (rigged to a vocal processor) and chained to the bed. Stan Woodard will be playing guitar in the closet. thats the plan, but who Knows!! Their perfomance starts promptly around 9:30pm in a hotel room somewhere situated in the Highland Inn.

In addition, Hungry Bodies from Baltimore which features members of Food for Animals, Lexie Mountain Boys and Mexcellent will perform at KBC. You can expect Improvised beat deconstructions, pure sine tones, and digitally-scrubbed glossolalia. See you this Thursday!

Wednesday August 6/ 11pm
Click HERE to read an excellent Q&A by Creative Loafing and the Tight Bros Network regarding the future of Atlanta's music scene as well as its past and what lies ahead. This is a very insightful interview with some juice added to make it a hot read. We hope you enjoy it. See you tomorrow night at the KBC.

Monday August 4 / 12:00am
Tight Bros Network likes it when the city blacks out.
Did anyone lose power Saturday night? Oh boy, that sure was a wicked storm and speaking of the lights going out all of a sudden and shit going black, Tight Bros Network is as of now fully operational and ready for Summer to pass so we can get ready for an incredible Fall schedule of events. Stay tuned to TIGHTBROS.NET to see what's up in the ATL for the future.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is tonight at Eyedrum with doors opening at 9pm and is all ages. This upcoming Thursday also marks the return of Kirkwood Ballers Club at the Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge beginning at 8pm. Admission is free.

Tight Bros Network is also very happy to introduce you to Atlanta's hairtastic 8-bit wonder, Chris Calzone, aka CCIVORY. This kid rocks a Gameboy while covering Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and Michael Sembello's "Shes' a Maniac" from the iconic eighties film Flashdance during his live sets. His performances are similar to that of a Girl Talk show but he sings on occasion and we are excited to have him booked at Eyedrum with new Carpark Records recording artist Adventure on Sunday August 31 beginning at 8pm with admission only $5. This event is all ages.


Upcoming Tight Bros Events in the ATL


Thursday August 28 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.



Friday August 29 at Eyedrum

Parachutes (Iceland)
Thank You
Frode Gjerstad/ Paal Nilssen-Love duo

All Ages / $10 / 8pm

Originally Alex Somers and Scott Alario, Parachutes is now a 7 piece Icelandic pop band. Their music creates a soundscape of flowing rhythms , beautifully fashioned drum thumps, and orchestrated harmonies. The songs "Your Stories" & "Tree Roots Turn to Forts" were mixed by Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros and feature the strings of Amiina. They will be making their first U.S. appearance in Atlanta on Friday August 29 at Eyedrum gallery.

Thank You is an athletic rhythm/action unit from Baltimore, made up of Jeffrey McGrath, Michael Bouyoucas, and Elke Wardlaw. They are three free individuals, subsumed into a collective form that spits out dank, skittering tracks filled with light and dark. Their new album, Terrible Two, was engineered by Baltimore's beloved J. Robbins (Yeasayer, Mary Timony, Jets to Brazil) at his studio in Baltimore and mixed by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Celebration, TV on the Radio) at his studio in New York City.

Paal Nilssen-Love is one of Norway's most active drummers and has established himself as a powerful and dynamic musician through regular groups with Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Ken Vandermark (School Days) and Peter Brotzmann (Chicago 10tet) among others.

With over 20 recordings as a leader Frode Gjerstad has established himself as a major saxophonist on the international scene. His groups have included Johnny Dyani, Kent Carter, John Stevens, William Parker, and Hamid Drake, whom he toured the US with in 2000.



Sunday August 31 at the Eyedrum

Adventure (carpark records)
Ear Pwr

CCIVORY( 8-bit wonder rocks DJ SET with Gameboy)
Waterloo

Doors open at 8pm / All Ages / Admission $5
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com

Adventure is 24 year-old North Carolina native and recent Baltimore transplant Benny Boeldt. His ultra-melodic synth compositions pull from his earliest exposure to the 8-bit soundtracks of the Sega Genesis video game catalog. But it's not just retro video game music. Mix in the kitschy Moogy sound of Hot Butter's "Popcorn", the saturated disco-theatrics of late seventies electro-pop acts like Sparks and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and a penchant for Eastern European diminished scales and you've come pretty close to Adventure's accelerated baroque sound. Adventure is an advanced, dance-floor friendly take on the music of early video gaming. Let the epic quest for the master sword begin!

Tight Bros Network is happy to introduce you to Atlanta's hairtastic Chris Calzone, AKA CCIVORY. This kid rocks a Gameboy while covering Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and Michael Sembello's "Shes' a Maniac" from the iconic eighties film Flashdance during his live sets. His performances are similar to that of a Girl Talk show but he sings on occasion and we are excited to have him booked at Eyedrum with new Carpark Records recording artist Adventure on Sunday August 31 beginning at 8pm with admission only $5. This event is all ages.


Thursday September 4 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Sunday September 7 at Eyedrum
Hawnay Troof
Battlecat
Vera Fang
Doors at 8pm / $5 / All Ages
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com

Hawnay Troof is the electronic pop solo project of Vice Cooler. Since forming in the late nineties the band has built a long list of collaborators including Soft Pink Truth, BARR, Mika Miko, Allison Wolfe, Gravy Train!!!!, and Stereo Total. The debut full length Get Up: Resolution: Love! (Retard Disco, 2003) put the band on a successful worldwide tour including its first shows in Iceland, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 2005 Hawnay Troof released the critically acclaimed Community followed by the Double LP and photobook Dollar and Deed (Retard Disco/ Southern, June 2006). The album was followed by a twenty month world tour playing such places as Egypt, United States, China, and the festival circuit in Europe. The tour ended in November 2007 with a month's worth of dates in Europe with Stereo Total.

* He is currently finished his new lp which is set for a August/ September 2008 release* Hawnay Troof has been invited to play such countries as Iceland, Egypt, New Zealand and Australia.

* Vice Cooler was a guest speaker at the Peaches and John Waters 2005 Christmas show at UCLA.

* His 2006- 2007 Rhinestone Suit was made by the L.A. design team Boho.

* In 2007 Henry Rollins said on his radio show, Harmony In My Head, that "I have always admired people who are all the way into their work to the point where the separation between the art and the artist disappears. Most never even get close..." when talking about Vice Cooler and Hawnay Troof.


Wednesday September 10 at the Earl
Gil Manteras Party Dream
Death Pill (Negashi of Supreeme's awesome side project)
Math Candy

Deepest Desires
21 and up / 9pm / $7
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com


Gil Mantera's Party Dream is an electronic synth-pop party band hailing originally from Youngstown, Ohio. Consisting of brothers Gil Mantera and Ultimate Donny, the Party Dream is known for their over-the-top live shows and updated channeling of 1980s synth-pop à la Tears for Fears. Their music blends synth-heavy electronic dance music with heavy basslines, distorted guitar, and even a few progressive rock influences.

The Party Dream is well-known among their fans for their pseudo-performance art approach to playing live, with sets that include not only musical performance, but also improvised stage patter, dance, and at times even elements of striptease. Driven by Gil's synthesizer arrangements and Donny's wildly over-emotive vocal stylings, the Party Dream produces danceable, electronic music with recognizable hooks that are often performed by Gil, who sings exclusively through a vocoder. After originally focusing on improvised performance, the Party Dream has now matured into a dance band with recorded musical offerings that while not directly comparable with their frenetic live shows, has placed them in a position to expand on their regional success and join the indie/post-punk revival from a decidedly different angle than their peers.


Thursday September 11 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Friday September 12 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Daedelus
(ninja tune)
Noot D' Noot
Samadha
Doors open at 9pm / $8 / 21 and up
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com


While Daedelus's reputation has grown internationally, his place in the LA scene has also solidified. The musician that many of the hottest names in the city turn to for everything from bass clarinet licks to advice on obscure electronics, Daedelus has worked extensively with Taz from Sa-Ra, the pair of them opening for the likes of DJ Assault, Justice and Two Live Crew as well as appearing in Erykah Badu’s most recent video.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where the joking ends and the true deep-space funk and electro psychedelia begins, but that's the beauty of NOOT 'D NOOT. It's the ultimate Atlanta party band that channels expert musicianship into dance-floor party jams.


Thursday September 18 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Sunday September 21 at the Eyedrum
Tight Bros. & Triple D's presents
The Coathangers
These are Powers
Jana Hunter
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez (carpark records)

Doors open at 6pm / All Ages
$5 thru 7pm /Admission $8 there-after
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com

These Are Powers mesh organic sounds while seamlessly flirting with improvisation. Their songs are hymns over club beats, ragas piggybacking on noise collages, dirges married to dance. Founded by Pat Noecker (ex-Liars) and Anna Barie and joined by Bill Salas (Brenmar), These Are Powers upends traditional stylistic expectations of acts operating in the noise-punk continuum.

Most likely no other band than These Are Powers has enthusiastically been described after a live show as "baby John Coltrane in a stroller" or as having used "all of the buffalo". Pat Noecker's prepared bass creates subsonic frequencies and other worldly noises often mistaken for synthesizers. Bill Salas attacks his electro acoustic drum kit while standing, and accents beats with live loops and effects. These future primitive undercurrents create a memorable pulse to Anna Barie's spectral guitar, banshee vocals and feral performances.

Hot on the heels of their well-received debut LP Terrific Seasons, These Are Powers unleash Taro Tarot, an EP that dives even further into their self-christened genre of "ghost punk". This is their second release for HOSS Records (WZT Hearts, Food For Animals, Atlas Sound) and their first with Bill Salas. Taro Tarot will be out April 8th and the band kicks off their month and a half long U.S. tour in NYC on Valentine's Day.


Wednesday September 24 at Eyedrum
Indian Jewelry
Tenth to the Moon
9pm / all ages / $8

Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:

Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com



Crafting a dense, almost unclassifiable but often very melodic sound, Houston, TX's Indian Jewelry features the core trio of guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist Erika Thrasher, guitarist/vocalist Tex Kerschen, and drummer Rodney Rodriguez. The group was also known as Swarm of Angels, Turquoise Diamonds, Japanix, the Corpes of Waco, the Perpetual War Party Band, and NTX+Electric. The band's basic sound remained the same, however, uniting drum machines, drones, noise and other elements of experimental, psychedelic, industrial and garage rock into an intense but alluring free-form mix.


Thursday September 25 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
as part of Kirkwood Ballers Club

Eat Skull
Psychedelic Horseshit
Black Time (In the Red)
Doors at 8pm / $5 suggested donation for touring bands / 21 and up
Brought to you by Chunklet & Triple D's


Leave it to the English to embellish a term like "shit-gaze" and in doing so codify the current DIY threadbare scrape of Times New Viking, Psychedelic Horseshit, and Tyvek. No surprise that the greatest shit-gazer of all time was none other than Samuel Coleridge, an avowed Brit who, plied full of laudanum, would sit for hours and stare at his bowel movements, writing copious notes on their color, texture, etc. "Monday? Oh, stool journal, to where didst thine weekend go?" At any rate, it's hard to gauge how much mileage the Limeys can get with such a phrase, but cross your fingers it hangs around long enough for Eat Skull to share in the odorous mirth. Call their genre whatever you want; Eat Skull will be ensconced in the stately pleasure-dome at Xanadu, waiting for the checks to clear.

Considered by the Columbus cognoscenti as the "little brother band" (Stooges-style) to Times New Viking (MC5-style), Psychedelic Horseshit first came about as three buds determined to crash a hippie fest and jam retardo. When asked for their name, singer/guitarist Matt Whitehurst replied, "Just call us Psychedelic Horseshit." The band killed, the name stuck, and thus the die was ignominiously cast. Since then, they played with the Urinals, Country Teasers, Dan Melchior, Blues Control, toured with Pink Reason and Times New Viking, ruled a couple showcases at the 2007 SXSW, basically doing what they can to lay the foundation for the release of this debut LP (a previous 7-inch on the Columbus Discount label made many 2006 Best Of lists, too).


Thursday September 25 at Masquerade
The Juan Maclean (DFA)
Holy Ghost! (DFA)
Captain Crunk & DvDEATH
18 and up / $10 in advance / Doors open at 8pm
Tickets available at all Ticket Master locations

John MacLean, also known as The Juan MacLean, is an American electronic musician.
Maclean was guitarist for the indie Dance-punk band Six Finger Satellite, based in Providence, Rhode Island. The band was struck by several tragedies, and Maclean eventually moved into production duties, utilizing his home studio in Providence (nicknamed "The Parlor"). Eventually James Murphy joined the band as sound engineer (where he became known for a punishing tour PA setup, which he nicknamed "Death From Above").

Eventually the band broke up, and Maclean spent several years out of the music business, getting a degree at the University of Rhode Island and teaching English in New Hampshire. He continued a friendship with Murphy, who moved to New York City and founded influential dance-punk label DFA Records and started LCD Soundsystem. Murphy urged Maclean to get back into music, and got Maclean experimenting with modern electronic mixing equipment; DFA would include several Maclean compositions on compilation records.

His first full length album on the label, Less Than Human, was released in July 2005. Maclean toured America tour in Fall 2006 in support of The DFA Remixes Chapter 2.

On videos for "Give Me Every Little Thing" and "Tito's Way", MacLean is joined by tour drummer Jerry Fuchs. Other touring members include Eric Broucek and Nicholas Millhiser, and "Dance With Me" features vocalist Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. The video for "Give Me Every Little Thing" was directed by Ben Dickenson of Waverly Films. The video for "Tito's Way" was directed by Adam Levite as Associates in Science.


Thursday October 2 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday October 2 at the EARL
Neil Hamburger
Pleaseeasaur
(comedy central)
Attractive Eighties Women

9pm / $8 in advance / $10 at the Door / 21 and up
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com


Neil Hamburger's jokes range from variations of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" to celebrity targets, such as Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Diana, Princess of Wales, to jokes about his ex-wife. His pacing is off, and he clears his throat nonstop through his entire routine (often to keep overzealous fans from shouting out his punchlines), which has caused critics to tag him as "the world's 'worst' stand-up comedian". He has performed his brand of comedy, much of it anti-humor, in front of audiences from the New York University Thompson Center to Jimmy Kimmel Live and is often compared to Tony Clifton[1]. His posture, demeanor and tone of voice are reminiscent of TV entertainer, Ed Sullivan. One of his most famous gags is the "Zipper Lips," in which he asks an audience member a question. If the audience member doesn't respond, Hamburger produces a verbal stoush that produces his Zipper Schtick. A common phrase used by the comedian is, "But, that's my life!"


Wednesday October 8 at the EARL
Tight Bros. & Triple D's presents
Sunburned Hand of the Man
The Dead Science (Constellation records)
Magic Apron
9pm / $7 / 21 and up
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com

Sunburned Hand of the Man is a band in the loose sense of the word; it‘s better described as a banner under which a collective of musical freaks have gathered. Based in Boston, Sunburned Hand of the Man grew out of trio which called itself Shit Spangled Banner and featured John Molony and Rob Thomas who would later become anchors of the Sunburned coterie. According to Molony, Shit Spangled Banner was conceived as "a cross between the Melvins and Sonic Youth," but the group was fast picking up a host of likeminded dropouts and musical wanderers who would show at their loft, and their sound soon began to incorporate everything from early American folk music to drone, free jazz, space rock, and funk. After one release, 1996‘s No Dolby No DBX (released as part of Ecstatic Yod‘s Ass Run series), the group changed it name to Sunburned Hand of the Man. A string of self-released CD-Rs followed, including Mind of a Brother (1997) and Piff‘s Clicks (1998). With 2001‘s Jaybird Sunburned reached a new pinnacle, forging their disparate elements into a distinct (if not complete) sounding collection. By this time likeminded groups such as Jackie-O Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, and the No-Neck Blues Band (who are somewhat of a sister group to Sunburned) were also coming into their own and gaining critical applause. The term "free folk" started popping up in an attempt to describe these bands and Sunburned were seen as leaders (or at least co-leaders) in a musical movement of sorts, a movement which had its antecedents in Harry Smith‘s Anthology of American Folk Music as much as in avant jazz and noise groups. Sunburned Hand of the Man continued to refine and expand their sound on CD-R and vinyl-only releases such as 2001‘s Wild Animal, 2002‘s Headdress, and 2003‘s Trickle Down Theory of Lord Knows What. Each release was a rough, but often brilliant indicator of where the band was headed, rather than finished statements of where they had been. In August of 2003 the profile of the band raised considerably when they were featured on the cover of the respected British music magazine -Wire, appearing above the headline "New Weird America."

Thursday October 9 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday October 16 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday October 23 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday October 30 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Friday October 31 at the Variety Playhouse
Deerhunter
Pylon
Jay Reatard
Times New Viking

Doors open at 7:00 pm / Admission is $16 in Advance / $18 at the Door/ All Ages
Presented in association with Stomp and Stammer

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Deerhunter after party at the Star Bar featuring:
The Spooks(Jared, Joe & Cole from Black Lips)
Harpies in the Night
(cabonas misfits cover band)
Cola Freaks
(Denmark)
$5 / 11:30pm / 21 and up

Cole sings, Jared plays bass and Joe plays keyboards in a synth-punk band called The Spooks, along with members of Deerhunter and The Kiwis. The Spooks formed in 2002 as a band to play Halloween shows. They recorded songs for an album in 2004, but those songs were scrapped and the album was re-recorded. The delay in releasing the album has become comical, but they hope to eventually release it on the Die Slaughterhaus label.


Thursday November 6 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.



Monday November 10 Masquerade
Diplo
(mad decent)
Abe Vigoda
Boy 8-Bit
Telepathe

Doors open at 8:30pm / $12 in advance/ 18 and up

Top Ranking party magnate Diplo and tropical punk Skeleton kings Abe Vigoda will join forces for a North American tour this fall. The outing is billed as a Mad Decent tour, though Abe Vigoda and fellow tourmates Telepathe have no prior association with the label other than, we assume, mutual respect and admiration.
In addition to Diplo, Boy 8-Bit and-- on some dates yet to be determined-- Blaqstarr will represent Mad Decent on the excursion. We're not entirely sure what Count Dracula and pizza dude up there have to do with all this, but hey, there they are in Jacob Chabot's tour illustration.
-pitchfork


Thursday November 13 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Friday November 14 at the Star Bar
Parts and Labor
Tenth to the Moon
9pm / 21 and up / $7
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com


Since releasing their last full length, the critically acclaimed "Mapmaker", Parts & Labor have kept a relentlessly busy schedule. They toured Europe twice and across the U.S. three times. They have diligently worked on their own label, the ever growing Cardboard Records (recently featured in Impose Magazine, and recommended by Pitchfork). And they just released the "Escapers Two" EP, which perfectly captures the whirlwind that is Parts & Labor with 51 songs in under 30 minutes.

The past year has also seen the departure of drummer Christopher R. Weingarten to pursue a writing career. But with the addition of Joseph Wong on the drums the band barely skipped a beat (indeed the band performed its first show with Joe a mere two months after their last one with Chris). P&L also recruited guitarist and noise artist Sarah Lipstate to the fold, adding a new depth and versatility to their already expansive wall of sounds.

With the new lineup solidified, Parts & Labor recorded a new full length (due out fall 2008). The album features a unique, sonic experiment -- the band used audio samples sent by friends and fans to embellish their most adventurous full length to date. Additionally, Parts & Labor will be hitting the road again this summer, including festival appearances in Norway and the U.K., as well as performances at New York's Siren Festival and Baltimore's Whartscape.

Parts & Labor hail from Brooklyn, NY, and have been creating electronics-heavy psych/noise/punk/rock for over six years. They cite the following bands as influences and are totally cool with you name-checking them: Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Minutemen, Neutral Milk Hotel and Amps For Christ. They've performed with TV On The Radio, Mission Of Burma, Battles, Matt & Kim, Clinic, Deerhoof, Lightning Bolt, and many, many more.


Thursday November 20 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Saturday November 22 at Eyedrum
Quintron & Miss Pussycat
$10 in advance / $12 at the door
Purchase advance tickets at the following outlets:
Criminal Records
* Ella Guru * Decatur CD * www.ticketalternative.com

Mr. Quintron (born David Robert Rolston) is an American musician and leader of the eponymous one-man-band, Mr. Quintron. He is a celebrated nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions and often performs at his own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge, located on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans’ 9th Ward. He frequently performs with his wife, fellow musician and puppeteer, Panacea Pussycat (also known as Miss Pussycat), co-founder of the 9th Ward's now defunct Pussycat Caverns. Quintron’s most notable invention to date is the Drum Buddy, a mechanically-rotating, five-oscillator, light-activated drum machine.

Mr. Quintron is a multi-instrumental one-man-band. During performances, Mr. Quintron utilizes a custom-made Hammond organ/Fender Rhodes synthesizer combo which he has had custom outfitted to resemble the body of a car, complete with working headlights and a license plate which reads “Mr. Q”. [1] Mr. Quintron is often accompanied by The Drum Buddy, a rotating, light-activated analog synthesizer, one of many which he has created and manufactured himself. Mr. Quintron frequently plays multiple instruments simultaneously, the Hammond organ acting as his primary instrument, and the Fender Rhodes supplying bass lines. He can often be seen keeping time on a hi-hat with one foot while toggling between a volume and wah-wah pedal with the other. [1] Mr. Quintron is regularly accompanied by his wife Miss Pussycat, who sings backup and plays maracas.


Thursday November 27 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday December 4 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday December 11 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.


Thursday December 18 at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge
Kirkwood Ballers Club
Free / Doors open at 8pm / 21 and up
Bring a instrument, device, record, beat, turntable, laptop, prepared piece, song, voice, bag of blood, projector, boyfriend, girlfriend, Haitian voodoo, dress, agenda, youth rebellion every Thursday night at The Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge will be KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB.



Below you can view an archive of Artists that TIGHT BROS NETWORK booked or promoted at various venues in Atlanta from April 2004- July 2008 in chronological order.
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Savath & Savalas, Juana Molina, dj Nobody, Kopernik, Liars, Young People, Get Hustle, The Fall, Deerhunter, Deerhoof, Four Tet, SunBurned Hand of the Man, Leb-Laze, Peaches, The Spooks (members of Black Lips and Deerhunter!), Knamiproko, TSK, Blame Game, Ova!, Happy Mothers Day, I can't read, eX-girl, Selmanaires, Nautical Almanac, Wilson and Heath, Rat Threads (members of Deerhunter & The Flakes), Acid Mothers Temple, Funkstörung, Inceptdate, Decibaka and Pat Foley, Gravy Train!!!!, The Vanishing, David Grubbs, Cex, Make Believe, Emperor X, Japanther, Hearts of Darknesses, Girl Talk, Tracy + the Plastics, The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), Triage, Black Love, Mandarin, The Microphones/mt. eerie, Wilson + Heath, Mirah, Tara Jane O'Neil, Kiwis of The South Pacific, Mates of State, Solex, Worm is Green, Wolf Eyes, Rubber O Cement, Wilson + Heath, Eyedea & Abilities, Q and not U, Gold Chains & Sue Cie, Death Sentence: Panda!, California Lightening, Sic Alps, Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance, Chris Leo/Vague Angels, Panthers, Death From Above 1979, Vietnam, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Terror at the Opera, The Selmanaires, Rtx (Royal Trux), Deerhunter, The Flakes, Les Georges Leningrad, The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), Black Lips, Deerhunter (debut full length LP release party), Electrosleep International, The Selmanaires, The Orphins, Earl Greyhound, J. Swill is America's Child (Jared from Black Lips one man band!), Richard Devine, Five12 & Keepadding, Suit & Tie Guy, Phonepunk, Mr. Mips, Cex, Aloha, Weather, Ex-Models, Chinese Stars, Deerhunter, Leb-Laze, Dragons 1976, Phonepunk, The Marsh, Ruins (solo Tatsuya Yoshida), Untied States, The Flakes, Beep Beep, Skeleton Key, The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), Vietnam, The Comas, The Marsh, Man Man, The Marsh, The Roger Sisters, Les Georges Leningrad, The Watchers, Panthers, Turing Machine, Parts and Labor, Xiu Xiu, The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), Sage Francis, Sol. iLLaquists of Sound, Jared Paul, Atmosphere, P.O.S, GRAYSKUL, The Rolling Sixties, Viva Voce, The Break Up, Beat Beat Beat, NOTOWN SOUND FESTIVAL, No-Neck Blues Band, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Charalambides, Excepter, The Skygreen Leopards, Magik Markers, Burning Star Core, Crystal Lake, Vigin Eye Blood Brothers, Samara Lubelski, Jessica Rylan, Gown, Vastopol, Anna Kramer, Airoes, Magicicada, Zandosis, Of Montreal, St. Thomas, Licentious 5, Out Hud, Hella, KRANKY RECORDS TOUR, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Greg Davis, Bird Show ( Ben Vida from Town & Country), Magicicada, Les Angles Morts, Caribou formerly Manitoba, Junior Boys, The Russian Futurist, Sightings, The Spooks, The Selmanaires, The Flakes, Lightning Bolt, DAT politics, Airoes, Phonepunk, The Perceptionist featuring Mr. Lif. Akrobatik. DJ Fakts One., Inceptdate w/ Zano, The Black Lips, We are Wolves, The Flakes, Dirty Projectors, The Wind-Up Bird, Melt Banana, Vaz, Sids, Deerhunter, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, The Flakes, Gang Gang Dance, Bloodlines, The Evens, The Peppermints, Deerhunter, White Mice, Coughs, Ari. Ari., Le Flange du Mal, EzeeTiger, Drylungs, Afrirampo, Sids, Veronica Lipgloss And The Evil Eyes, Shock Cinema, Kid606, Knifehandchop, Eats Tapes, Airoes, Gravy Train!!!!, Kill Me Tomorrow, Dance Disaster Movement, VIP, Breather Resist, Red Sparowes, Zombi, Partyline (Allison from Bratmobile's new band), Octopus Project, Circle, Urdog, Deerhoof, The Double, Hubcap City, DJ Prefuse 73, DJ Nobody, Prefuse 73, Leb-Laze, Dj Nobody, Of Montreal, James Husband, Wolf Eyes, Khanate, Prurient, Zandosis, The Gossip, Danger Woman, Grand Buffet, Lyrics Born, Pigeon John, Samadha, Dj Leb-Laze, Black Dice, Growing, Vastopol, Six Organs of Admittance, Hush Harbors, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Nautical Almanac, Tracy + the Plastics, Adult., Genders, Retconned, Gogol Bordello, XBXRX, Airoes, Sids, CALVIN JOHNSON, TENDER FOREVER, MOUNTAINS, BLACK LIPS DJ SET, EX-MODELS, DEERHUNTER, TIGHT PHANTOMZ, A FIR-JU WELL, ANNA KRAMER, LICENTIOUS 5, CHROMATICS, WEREWOLF UNION, DRYLUNGS, USA IS A MONSTER, KITES, THE FLAKES, DEERHUNTER, BLOOD ON THE WALL, PSYCHIC ILLS, OXFORD COLLAPSE, AN ALBATROSS, SHOCK CINEMA, YIP YIP, Blowfly, The Spooks,( THE BLACK LIPS & DEERHUNTER), EASTSIDE ALLSTARS, Andy Diztler, SOME GIRLS (members of the Locust, Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower), me and him call it us, eastcoast allstars, The Selmanaires, The Flakes, The Liverhearts, Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Emenrgency Broadcast system The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), Deerhunter, Sand Cats (Cex aka Rjyan Kidwell and Roby from Milemarker), Lexie Mountain Boys, Orthrelm, Blame Game, Calabi Yau, Ariel Pink, Belong, Hearts of Darknesses, Lake Serious, Peelander-Z (from Japan), The Black Lips, Beat Beat Beat, The Letters Organize, Barbez, Sadaharu, Marissa Nadler, Dirty Projectors, James Sumner (films), Genghis Tron, Akimbo, Shock Cinema, Measles Mumps Rubella, No Things (ex Liars), Knife Skills, Post Office Gals, Circle (from Finland), Cul De Sac, The Beach (members of the Alphabets, Deerhunter and Flakes), The Black Lips, Kig Khan & BBQ, Thunderbirds are Now!, Shock Cinema, Rahim, Tony Conrad, Jonathan Kane, San Agustin, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Gossip, Panther, Lesbians on Ecstacy, My Siamese Self, Eliot Lipp, Samadha, Kudu, Chris Devoe, Voxtrot, The Ponys, The Carbonas, Wolfmother, Die! Die! Die, The Selmanaires, Snowden, Shock Cinema, Subtle (anticon), Fog, Jel, Spank Rock, Kebbi Williams & Kinah Botah, Islands (formerly the Unicorns), Why? (Anticon), Cadence Weapon, Art Brut, The Robocop Kraus, Think About Life, Blood on the Wall, Psychic Ills, Deerhunter, God's America, Josephine Foster, Grace Braun, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Sovus Radio, Seventh Ring of Saturn, Dj A-trak (kanye west's dj and 5-time world champion,) The Rub Dj's Cosmo Baker and Ayers, Soul Position (featuring RJD2 & Blueprint), One Be Lo, Chris Devoe, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Tenth to the Moon, Cex (tigerbeat6), Love of Everything, Psychic Hearts, Cinemechanica (CD release show), Bring Back the Guns, Textbook, The Spinto Band, Dr. Dog, Lovely Feathers, Sonic Youth after party with Deerhunter, Howlin Rain (members of Comets on Fire and Sunburned Hand of the Man), Warmer Milks, Awesome Color, Guapo, Zombi, The Seventh Ring of Saturn, Diplo, CSS (sub pop records), Bonde do Role (baile funk-hop from brazil), Battlecat (first show) This Song is a Mess but So am I, Emperor X, Drylungs (last show), Sids, Mika Miko, Lenny's, Boot Camp Clik, Buckshot, Smif N Wessun, Sean Price, Heltah Skeltah, Snowden, The Selmanaires, Deerhunter, Gil Manteras Party Dream, An Albatross, TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS FESTIVAL NO. 4 "BOHRIUM", John Fahey Tribute/Record Release Concert, Loren Connors (New York), San Agustin (New York/Atlanta), John Fahey/Elizabeth Cotten video, Keenan Lawler (Lexington), An Evening in the 1960s Underground, Hosted by Tony Conrad (New York), World Premiere, a film by Ira Cohen, "Brain Damage", World Premiere, a film by Ira Cohen, "Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda" Also featuring films by Jack Smith, Tony Conrad and Piero Heliczer, Hubcap City (Atlanta), Rhys Chatham's Guitar Army (Paris), Deerhunter (Atlanta), One Umbrella (Austin), Film and video featuring Charlemagne Palestine, World Premiere, Rhys Chatham's Essentialist (Paris), Tony Conrad (New York), Leif Inge (Oslo) 24-hour concert "9 Beet Stretch", Fourth Annual Esplanade Memorial Goat Roast/Low Country Boil, ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE SWR(tsuyama/yoshida/kawabata), RUINS ALONE(yoshida), AKATEN(tsuyama/yoshida), ZOFFY(tsuyama/kawabata), ZUBI ZUVA X(tsuyama/yoshida/kawabata), SEIKAZOKU(tsuyama/yoshida/kawabata), SHRINP WARK(yoshida/kawabata), Neptune, Untied States, Enon, The Gossip, Mika Miko, Swan Island, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Blowfly, Cheveu (france), Serena Maneesh, Evangelicals, Wovenhand, EX MODELS, Battlecat, Subtle (anticon), Samadha, Dj Gnosis, Alias and Tarsier, Electric President, Astronautalis, One Self (Dj Vadim), Psyche Origami, Mr. Invisible, Wolf Eyes, John Wiese, Roger Stella, Zoroaster, Jason Forrest Band (formerly Donna Summer), Zandosis, Dust Galaxy (Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation), Flosstradamus, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Rescue, Psycic Hearts, Awesome Color (ecstatic peace!), Witchcraft (sweden), Danava, Zoroaster, The Slits, The Apes, Sids, Make Believe (Joan of Arc), The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower, Irreversible, Ecstatic Sunshine, Atlas Sound (Bradford from Deerhunter soloe), (Kranky Records), Charalambides (Kranky Records), Les Georges Leningrad, Duchess Says, Sids, Club of Rome, Pleaseeasaur (Comedy Central records), Attractive Eighties Women, Islands (formerly The Unicorns), Subtitle, Blueprint, The Evangelicals, Beach House Music (carpark records), Over the Atlantic, Dat Politics, Kevin Blechdom, Matt and Kim, Deerhunter, Snowden,, Gringo Star, Oxford Collapse (Sub Pop records),Thunderbirds are Now! (French Kiss Records), Sovus Radio, Matt Valentine & Erika Elder with the Bummer Road, The Rub DJ Ayres, Eleven and Cosmo Baker, Jean-Louis Costes, Barr (Kill Rock Stars), Marnie Stern, Sleep Therapy, Red Sparowes (members of Isis and Neurosis), Kylesa, Irreversible, Grizzly Bear (warp records), The Papercuts, Hubcap City, The Selmanaires,The Carbonas, The Coat Hangers, Peelander-z, Samadha, Herb Harris (the selmanaires), The Thermals (Sub Pop Records), The Big Sleep, Sleep Therapy, Untied States, The Apes, Child Abuse, The Club of Rome, Neil Michael Hagerty and the Howling Hex, Hubcap City, Magik Markers, Ecstatic Sunshine, WZT Hearts, Lexie Mountain Boys, Aaron Lacrate (milkcrate Records), Rob Wonder,Asobi Seksu, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Oppenheimer, Chris Bathgate, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Gown, Hubcap City, Magicicada, Lo-Fi-Fnk (sweden), Mint Chicks (New Zealand), The Prayers (members of the Plot to Blow up The Eiffel Tower), Le Castle Vania, Appleseed Cast, The Life and Times, Sleep Therapy, Bunny Rabbit, Tha Pumpsta, Bruno and the Dreamies, Bonde Do Role, Flosstradamus, Dj Rob Wonder, Battles (Warp records), Loney, Dear (Sub Pop Records), Kebbi Williams & Kinah Botah, Kid Koala, Samadha, Coach Fingers (members of No-Neck Blues Band), Yximalloo, R. Mexico, Menomena, Jeffrey Butzer/MIDWIVES, Jack Rose, Long Knives, One Thousand Holy Shards, Arbouretum (thrill jockey), David Karsten Daniels, Leslie & the Ly's, Noxagt, Panthers (vice), Deerhunter, Jay Reatard, Silver Daggers (mems. of Mika Miko), Club of Rome, MC Frontalot, Attractive Eighties Woman, Lady Sovereign, Matt and Kim, King Kong (Ethan Buckler from Slint), BROTHER ALI, PSALM ONE, BK ONE, REEF THE LOST CAUZE, TOKI WRIGHT, Priestbird (formerly Tarantula A.D.), Pit er Pat (thrill jockey), All the Saints, Frog Eyes, Alex Delivery, Awol One, Josh Martinez, Mine+Us, Dj Hoppa, Ladytron DJ set featuring: Reuben Wu & Mira Aroyo, The Selmanaires, Tussle, Noot d' Noot, Lifesavas (quannam projects), Strange Fruit Project, Dj Marc Sence, Dan Deacon, Video Hippos, From A-Z, Sightings (load records), The Seventh Ring of Saturn, Chinese Stars, Battlecat, Brass Castle, Chris Gareau (absolutely kosher records), Strezo, Battles, Battlecat, Judi Chicago, Neil Hamburger, Dr El Suavo, Great Northern, Deerhunter, Gang Gang Dance, Ocrilim, Voxtrot, Palomar, Magic Apron, The Liverhearts,Death Set, Scars (formerly Estrada), The Selmanaires, Dark Meat, The Ettes, Abe Vigoda, John Thill, Gold Painted Nails, Rump Posse, Je Suis France, Brass Castle, Big Business, Zoroaster, Mouth of the Architect, Christine, Gravy Train!!!!, Judi Chicago, XBXRX, We Versus the Shark, The Valley Arena, Marnie Stern, Celephais, Lid Emba, Flosstradamus, Portugal the Man,PlayRadioPlay! (island records),The Photo Atlas, The Only Children, Pterodactyl, Early Modern Witch Trials, Au Revoir Simone, Oh No Oh My, Numbers, Circle (Finland), Endless Boogie, Big Bear, Diplo, Girl Talk, Dan Deacon, White Williams, The Dirty Projectors, Ecstatic Sunshine, Deerhunter, No Age, FagStatic, Cut Teeth, Yo Majesty,The Coat Hangers, Rob Wonder, Untied States, These Are Powers, Gold Painted Nails, Je Suis France, Still Flyin', Matthew Dear's Big Hands, Mobius Band, Chris Devoe, Octopus Project, Morning State, Midwives, Damo Suzuki (former Vocalist for Can), San Agustin (Table of the Elements), Magik Markers, Suitcases, The Seventh Ring of Saturn, Georgie James (members of Q and not U), Le Loup, Look Mexico, Witchcraft, Saviours, Devlin and Darko (Spank Rock dj's), Busdriver, Daedelus, Chris Devoe, DJ Gnosis, Enon, Love of Diagrams, Untied States, Jens Lekman, Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic with DJ Wiz, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dj Signify & Blockhead, MF DOOM?, Black Lips, Har Mar Superstar, DJ Klever, Dan Deacon, Ultimate Reality, Toy Party Attack, White Williams, Club of Rome, Rings, Atlas Sound (Bradford from Deerhunter), White Rainbow, Valet, Leslie and the Ly's, Muffy, Chinese Frankenstein, The Chinese Stars, Brass Castle, Untied States, Why?, Cryptacize, Panther, Sian Alice Group (Social Registry), Mike Bones (Social Registry), Simian Mobile Disco (DJ Set), Le Castle Vania, Municipal Waste, The Carbonas (members of Quadilliacha), Iron Lung, Enon, Howlin Rain, Nomen Novum, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Vera Fang, Battlecat, Bonde Do Role, The Death Set, Muffy, Rob Wonder, Judi Chicago, Efterkland, Slaraffenland, sleep Therapy, Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, Vic Chesnutt, Subtle (anticon), Supreeme, Future Ape Tapes, Howlin Rain, Royal Thunder, U.S. Royalty, Underskatement Film Festival Vol. 4, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Infinite Body, Bows and Arrows, Diplo, Dark Meat, Noot D' Noot, Chairlift, Rajio, Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti, Titus Andronicus, Pink Police, Club of Rome, Cryptacize, Ruby Isle, Unicornicopia, Ami Dang, Oneida, Dark Meat, Dirty Faces, Jah Division Sound System,

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