The Booze breaks up, again.

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Although the Booze perpetrated a breakup in 2008, then got back together within the same year, it seems that the group’s members are calling it quits again, but this time it might be for real.

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Atlanta’s mod-heavy rock ’n' roll five-piece played what was probably its final show on Halloween night as part of the Star Bar’s 20th anniversary show, but an official announcement of the group's break is yet to be made. As the Booze's vocalist, harmonica player and frontman Chaz Tolliver simply stated, the group “didn’t have any interest in drawing attention or making a thing” of the split. “From my perspective it was a matter of practicality,” Tolliver says. “We weren't able to survive off of the band and in our individual pursuits and needs we became more and more unavailable to support the band.”

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Tolliver went on to add that drummer Pietro DiGennaro lives in Baltimore and guitarist Ricky Dover resides in Knoxville which further complicated the band's affairs.

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Guitarist Randy Michael, however, implied that the decision to dissolve the band was entirely Tolliver’s. “I just came back from Amsterdam and I had a text on my phone that said, ‘Hey, I don’t want to be in a band anymore,'” Michael explained.

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That was sometime on or around Oct. 6, Michael explains, and he hasn’t heard from Tolliver since the Halloween show. While Tolliver’s financial concerns don’t offer much promise of hearing music from him in the future, Michael already has a new project in the works — a collaboration with William Beckett of Chicago band the Academy Is. “It’s Beckett's solo project with my input, if you will,” Michael adds.

Prior to breaking up, the Booze had planning to record a follow-up to At Maximum Volume later this year. It would have been its fifth LP.