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An Evening With Shakey Graves & Buffalo Hunt

Friday December 20, 2024 08:00 PM EST
Cost: $35+
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CRITIC’S PICK: An Evening with Shakey Graves & Buffalo Hunt, Variety Playhouse—It’s difficult to slot Austin’s Shakey Graves into any genre, and that’s the way he likes it. Indie rock, pop, folk, shambling country and ragtag rustic blues all get twisted through his unique mindset. Those styles appear in 2023s Movie of the Week, a low-fi masterpiece that trips through his hard to define songs with enough woozy psychedelia to add that to his laundry list of influences. Opener Hunt, also Austin based, who borrows some of her noir influences from Nico, will surely play her new song “Anonymous Pleasure” and join Graves for ghostly harmonies in his set. They might even dig into a Christmas song or two. — Hal Horowitz

From the venue:

Across his career, Shakey Graves — a.k.a. the performance moniker of Austin, Texas-born Alejandro Rose- Garcia — has intentionally created thrilling musical adventures tailored to each fan: burning CDs and putting them in personalized decorated bags; building intricate scavenger hunts that send fans in search of unique tapes; and Bandcamp-exclusive releases.

“The fans and musicians that really resonate with me — and the inexplicable ways that I find things that I like — are usually entirely through randomness and chaos and accident,” Rose-Garcia says. “I’ve always been on this quest to make people feel like my own music is a choose your own adventure.”

As Rose-Garcia releases his new Shakey Graves album Movie of the Week — a collection of songs whittled down from epic-length recording sessions — he has devised one of his most innovative musical adventures yet. “For the album release, I’m setting up a website,” he says. “On this website, there will be a way to shuffle a collection of alternate tracks and unique songs from the sessions in seemingly infinite combinations to create new albums.” Thanks to this cutting-edge technology, fans will be able to own this alternate version and do whatever they want with it — giving them control over the destiny of the music.

“Imagination really is the tool,” Rose-Garcia says. “The point is to make and create something yourself. Any way that I can allow people to apply their imagination over my music — and allow them to sculpt it using their own prompts — will let them create something new.”

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5f994 Variety Playhouse Magnum
1099 Euclid Ave. N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 524-7354
variety-playhouse.com
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