CL recommended shows for tonight (Mon., Sept. 8)
Monday nights are always a hard sell, but there are a couple of noteworthy shows going on around tonight.
First and foremost Derek Lyn Plastic is playing a 7-inch release party for his brand new She's Go A U.T.I. 4-song 7-inch EP tonight at 97 Estoria in Cabbagetown.
Who would have thunk a 7-inch EP with a title like She's Got a U.T.I. would show off major artistic growth for Derek Lyn Plastic? Believe it.
The four songs that make up the latest release from Atlanta's burgeoning icon of discomfort are cut from the same vampy and paranoid cloth of synth-driven punk jams that made his previous singles so addictive. But there's an added level of precision and intensity in his delivery that makes it clear Mr. Plastic isn't just working out his social demons for the sake of it.
To read the rest of the story click here and to stream mp3s from Derek Lyn Plastic's "She's Got A U.T.I.".
... and if if the avant-garde thing is more your speed, CONNCET 9, JERKAGRAM and QUR'ANOSAURUS HEX are playing over at Eyedrum. The droning and mysterious ensemble Conncet 9 revels in the dark resonance of real-world sounds and textures but manipulates them to take on a much more cluttered and haunting hue than their naturally occurring order. Jerkagram is a noisy and reactionary improv/psych-rock outfit from Connecticut that bashes out aggressive and ramshackle art-rock clusters of rhythm and dirge. Qur'anosaurus Hex opens the show and there's a distinct possibility that Atlanta's very own Duet For Theremin and Lapsteel will perform as well. $5. 9 p.m. Eyedrum. 404-522-0655. www.eyedrum.org.
(Photo courtesy of Derek Lyn Plastic).