5 things to do: David J - June 06 2017
What’s happening in Atlanta today
Uncle Sam Wants You! World War I and the American Poster
Atlanta History Center - 130 W. Paces Ferry Road N.W. Atlanta, GA 30305 $11-$16.50. 10 a.m.
In an effort to mobilize American sentiment and change public opinion on World War I, the American government tasked artists with creating “pictoral publicity” for a variety of war relief efforts such as recruiting, food, and conservation. Only a few of these posters still remain. Part of the American History Center’s World War I exhibition series, this exhibit features a look at the American poster campaigns of World War I.
West Egg’s Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest celebration
West Egg Cafe - 1100 Howell Mill Road Atlanta, GA 30318 Free. 2 p.m.
Chef Carrie Hudson’s butternut squash and goat cheese turnover recipe has been named a semifinalist in the 2017 General Mills Neighborhood to Nation Recipe Contest. Sample the turnover and wish Hudson luck before she competes for $50,000 in the final round on June 14.
David J, the Hot Place
Little Tree Art Studios - 2834 Franklin St. Avondale Estates, GA 30002 $25. 7 p.m.
David J Haskins’ name is synonymous with his former bands Bauhaus and Love and Rockets. Over the past several years, however, he has traversed the lower 48, playing grassroots, DIY solo acoustic gigs in nontraditional spaces on a seemingly endless Living Room Tour. With each stop, David J fleshes out hidden narrative threads tucked away inside his extensive body of solo and band records. This time around he comes bearing a brand-new double LP, Vagabond Songs. With this latest offering, David J dives headlong into a pastoral and psychedelic batch of songwriter fair that touches on every phase of his career while expanding into a pastoral chapter in his body of work. Nostalgic ruminations are rich in songs such as “The Day That David Bowie Died,” “2000 Light Years From Gold Street” and a barreling rendition of Love and Rockets’ “The Dog-End of a Day Gone By.” But nostalgia be damned. This is music for the here and now. David J will also participate in a surrealist word-association Q&A with Lisa King of the Hot Place at Criminal Records on June 7, moderated by yours truly.
Otep, the Convalescence, the World Over, Sickness In the System, Dead Reckoning
The Masquerade - 75 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303 $16. 7 p.m.
Post Animal
The Drunken Unicorn - 736 Ponce de Leon Place N.E. Atlanta, GA 30306 $15. 9 p.m.
Chicago-based Post Animal debuted with its album Perform the Most Curious Water Activities in 2015, which could play as another Tame Impala album if you didn’t know any better. The group’s second album, The Garden Series (2016), keeps the psychedelic aim of reeling listeners out of touch with reality, but this time brings them back in with a jolt, armed with fuzz-face, power chords and riffs likely to remind you of Ty Segall and the Fuzz. And as a fun bonus, you can see Steve from “Stranger Things” in action as guitarist Joe Keery.