Friday, June 15th on The Rooftop

FREE || 21+

Las Rosas

Doors - 10
Show - 11pm

Las Rosas are three shed November leaves, floating and bobbing on the surface of a languid stream, drifting closer to the muddy banks, then climbing out of the water, walking along the road on their little brown stems, piling into their sea-foam-green van, driving away, and releasing two EP's, plus a full length album in the mild spring of 2017. They're the little leafs you see driving around the USA, Europe, and the beach, playing rock shows, with their little guitars and drums. No autumn leaf, if you bothered to check, is ever truly still.



Christopher (the birch leaf) plays the drums, even with a broken hand, when he needs to. Jose A is the red leaf of a Japanese maple and not a picky eater, except during dessert. He plays bass and shares a first name with singer Jose B, who incorporates lead guitar-playing with mixed results-- he is the needle of a long-leaf pine.

Friday, June 15th on The Rooftop

FREE || 18+

Chuck Westmoreland

Doors - 6
Show - 7pm

Eight years ago you would?ve seen Chuck Westmoreland onstage, a busted sprinkler head of awkward and endearing gyrations, gesticulations, and sweat who came, as he put it then, to ?rock [your] balls off.?

Eight years ago he would?ve been preaching psycho-sexual pop songs with his band, The Kingdom. Singing conceptually interconnected, insanely catchy nuggets about cars, gender metamorphosis, Dog Day Afternoon, and?somehow?Johnny Unitas in a warbling falsetto caught somewhere between the pearly gates and a truck stop.

Eight years ago. Before he walked away from it all. Before marriage. Before his wife?s cancer fight brought him to his knees. Before the birth of his first child chiseled away whatever remained of that almost-famous man that used to bounce around under the spotlight.

Nearly a decade later, Westmoreland returns with his self-titled solo debut, a powerful album that takes his gift for character sketches and deconstructions and turns the focus squarely, and unblinkingly, on himself.

Chuck Westmoreland is not only a history of his eight-year rock ?n? roll sabbatical, but a departure from rock ?n? roll entirely. Westmoreland?s work with The Kingdom?hailed by everyone from Spin and The Onion?s A.V. Club to Portland?s dueling alt-weeklies?existed in an ephemeral flight of pop fancy. Chuck Westmoreland has four appendages firmly planted in the unforgiving muck and mire of real life.

John Berry's 25th Anniversary Homecoming Celebration: From O'Malley's to Nashville.

2018 has John celebrating his 25th anniversary since signing his major label deal, releasing Season 2 of Songs and Stories with John Berry in April, touring the country in all performance sectors, releasing several new projects and a few surprises.

Book the John Berry Package:
One room night at Graduate Athens hotel + two tickets to John Berry concert at the Foundry
$179 + taxes/fees
Purchase online at http://bit.ly/JohnBerryAthens or by phone at (706) 549.7020 and use the code word ?Berry?

- All Ages Show -

Maps & Atlases with Prism Tats at Georgia Theatre
June 16th, 2018
8pm Doors | 9pm Show
18+


Zero Mile Presents:
Maps & Atlases
Maps & Atlases' unique style melds the technicality of progressive music and the idiosyncrasies of art rock into a fascinating and oddly accessible sound all their own. They are known for their virtuosic musical ability, writing pop songs with a magnificent aptitude for texture and a distinctive blend of both the intricate and organic. Their debut full-length, perch patchwork was produced by Jason Cupp.

Free concert on the lawn of the Front Porch Book Store!

Doors 6pm
Show 7:30pm

The Wailin? Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound.

Starting as a happy accident of solo singer/songwriters getting together for a one-time-only performance at a tiny guitar shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Wailin? Jennys have grown over the years into one of today?s most beloved international folk acts. Founding members Moody and Mehta along with New York-based Masse continue to create some of the most exciting music on the folk-roots scene, stepping up their musical game with each critically lauded recording and thrilling audiences with their renowned live performances.

In 2004, The Wailin? Jennys released their first full-length album 40 Days to great critical acclaim, netting a 2005 Juno Award (Canadian Grammy) for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. Bolstered by their frequent appearances on Garrison Keillor?s public radio show A Prairie Home Companion, The Jennys exploded onto the roots music scene, performing at packed venues across the Canada, the U.S. and throughout the world.

The Jennys? sophomore album, 2006?s Firecracker, served as a powerful follow-up to their career-making debut. Artistically, the record found The Jennys stepping out of the folk realm and into the world of alt-country, pop and rock. Garnering much attention, it was nominated for a Juno Award and won a 2007 Folk Alliance Award for Contemporary Release of the Year. Firecracker had legs, spending over 56 weeks on the Billboard charts.

The trio?s 2009 release, Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House, also spent over a year on the Billboard bluegrass charts. That landmark live album bottled the lightning of The Jennys? live performances with show-stopping harmonies, impressive instrumental prowess, breathtaking songs and, of course, witty stage banter.

For their latest album, 2011?s Juno-winning Bright Morning Stars, The Wailin? Jennys joined the ranks of Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris and recorded with award-winning producer Mark Howard. Co-produced by frequent Jennys collaborator and Juno Award-nominated David Travers-Smith, the album combines fresh and innovative sounds with the band?s signature harmonies ? a perfect mix of Americana, pop and traditional folk that is destined to be a modern classic.

Although known primarily as an acoustic outfit, The Wailin? Jennys have a diverse musical background that has shaped their musical sensibilities. Soprano Ruth Moody (vocals, guitar, accordion, banjo, bodhrán) is a classically trained vocalist and pianist with a burgeoning solo career. She made a splash in 2010 with the Juno-nominated The Garden which was followed up with 2013?s gorgeous These Wilder Things. She?s an accomplished, versatile singer of traditional and Celtic music and as the former lead singer of Juno-nominated roots band Scruj MacDuhk. Mezzo Nicky Mehta (vocals, guitar, harmonica, drums, ukulele), a classically trained dancer raised on ?70s a.m. radio and heavily influenced by alternative pop, was nominated for a Canadian Indie Music Award for her striking debut solo album, 2002?s Weather Vane. In July 2009 she became the proud mother to twin boys, Beck and Finn. Alto Heather Masse (vocals, upright bass) is a Jazz Voice graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, who has performed in Mark O?Connor?s Hot Swing, Darol Anger?s Republic of Strings and is a regular guest on A Prairie Home Companion. She has also toured with her own band, supporting her 2009 Red House release Bird Song. Her latest, 2013?s Lock My Heart, is is an inspired album of jazz standards and originals with legendary pianist Dick Hyman.

With their varying backgrounds, each of the Jennys is unique in their individual expression. Together they forge a unified folk-pop sound ? all delivered with the irresistible vocal power of three.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks w/ Lithics at Georgia Theatre
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Doors 7:30pm || Show 8:30pm || 18+
Tickets on sale Friday 2/9 @ 10am
Presented by Zero Mile Presents


the title.
new album called Wig Out at Jagbags. Jagbag is a great word. A smeared aspersion, not profanity, but derived from one..... watered down for the airwaves, or the assembly line. To Wig out?we've all been there. We ARE there, at least i Am.

And the "I" on a record is speaking for/as/to you, so If you're not wigging out, go no further, dear reader...

(and then there is Dag Nasty, which I wont bother justifying , just a first flourish of the unstoppable need to name drop).

the album.
produced by the band and Remko Schouten, the Dutch soundman of Pavement fame, and owner of IJland studio in east Amsterdam.

I don't know where to start... again. This record is inspired by Cologne Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas. Imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers, Sic Alps, UVA in the late 80's, NYRB, Aroma Charlottenburg, inactivity, Jamming, Indie guys trying to sound Memphis, Flipper, Pete Townshend, Pavement, the Joggers, The NBA, home life in the 2010's...

We (Remko) found a studio over in the Ardennes with a" farmhouse vibe". It was isolated, rural Belgium... near Luxembourg, the cradle of morbid Tax relief. It went very well cuz the band is quite good....We were (are?) pretty psyched with results.

I've spent the last couple years in Berlin. Berlin, while very hip and in some ways the "center" of Europe, is still isolated. At least if you are an American Dad. Pretty amazing place as you probably already know, and so easy to disappear into. Perhaps any " big" city has this quality? but a New one (to me), where they speak German(mostly)....well, you can almost cease to exist. Which is of course a liberating fantasy.

But after two years there, we were Starting to Exist. It was like an average birth, without pain. I worked the lyrics/chords out on a computer on someone else's table in someone else's apartment. And This is what you get: Projected Imaginings of ROck and ROll from the freezing north, rendered by West Coast stalwarts and a Dutch Uncle.

And we feel compelled to share it with you.

? SM (& Jicks)

(Stephen Malkmus, Joanna Bolme, Jake Morris, Mike Clark)

Blunt Bangs at Rooftop @ Georgia Theatre

Wednesday, June 20th on The Rooftop

FREE || 18+

Kindercore Vinyl Night

Doors - 5:30
Music - 6:30

The DJs from Kindercore hitting the town and playing songs to get you jumping around. They pull from Indie rock, Brit-pop, Garage, New wave, and Soul. A dance night like no other in Athens, Ga! Bring a pal and square off on the dance floor.

http://www.kindercore.com/

Free concert on the Lawn of the Front Porch Book Store

Doors 6pm
Show 8:30pm

A formidable eight-piece lineup using authentic vintage equipment, Tribute recreates the sound that the Allman Brothers produced over their inspired first five years, channeling the band's dual-lead guitar fury with an instinctive appreciation for how this music was originally written, recorded and interpreted on stage. Behind vocalist Oliver Nichols, a powerhouse who began singing as a youth in the Gospel Church of Charleston (S.C.), Tribute interprets the Allman catalog in such a way that these songs written over 40 years ago come alive again.

- 18+ Show -

Friday, June 29th on The Rooftop

FREE || 18+

Pope Paul & The Illegals

Doors - 6pm
Show - 7pm

Pope Paul & The Illegals started up in 2014 in their hometown of Santa Ana, CA. Their style combines most elements of Americana music including rockabilly, psychobilly, swing, country, honky-tonk, blues, and rock n roll. They bring a fun, high-energy show guaranteed to get crowds dancing, drinking, and having a great time.

Touring frequently, Pope Paul & The Illegals have entertained crowds in 27 different states with a mix of their original material and classic cover tunes. They have opened up for high-profile Americana acts such as Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, Supersuckers, Shooter Jennings, The Blasters, The Cherry Poppin? Daddies, Slim Jim Phantom (of the Stray Cats), Hillbilly Casino, The Bellfuries, Gamblers Mark, The Delta Bombers, Deke Dickerson, and Wanda Jackson. They have performed at several festivals throughout the USA including the So-Cal Hoedown (Santa Ana, CA), the Rockabilly Extravaganza (Riverside, CA), the Nashville Boogie (Nashville, TN), the Great American Rockabilly Riot (El Paso, TX), and the ApalachOktoberfest (Apalachicola, FL) which they headlined.

They have released two full-length albums, White Smoke Rises (recorded at Orange Blossom Studios, Placentia, CA) and Dial Back Boogie (recorded at Dial Back Sound, Water Valley, MS). Their 3rd release is currently being mixed at Dial Back Sound, all live and straight to tape.

Honky-tonk, rockabilly, punk rock, blues, and swing, Pope Paul & the Illegals know how to keep the given crowd happy!

Paul Bouyear - vocals/guitar
John Kveen - upright bass
Sal Sandoval - drums

The Secret City at 40 Watt Club

American Aquarium w/ Travis Meadows at Georgia Theatre
June 30th, 2018
7:30pm Doors || 8:30pm Show
18+
Tickets- $15

American Aquarium - Things Change

In the lush tobacco fields of North Carolina where BJ Barham was raised, people work hard. Families stay nearby, toiling and growing together. BJ loves those farms and his tiny Reidsville hometown, but he had to run off and start American Aquarium, a band now beloved by thousands.

BJ couldn?t stay. But he couldn?t really leave, either: he?s still singing about the lessons, stories, and lives that define rural America??and him.

?I moved to the big city to go to college and fell in love with music,? BJ says. ?But half the songs on our record are about small towns??little pieces of my childhood. I?ve had moments where it turns out a piece of broken English my father repeated twice a week is the most accurate way to say something. So I put it in a song.?

American Aquarium?s seventh studio album Things Change offers the band?s finest collection of folk-infused Southern rock-and-roll to date. Stacked with BJ?s signature storytelling??always deeply personal but also instantly relatable??the record questions and curses current events, shares one man?s intimate evolution, and leaves listeners with a priceless gift: hope.

?In my early 20s, I was not as hopeful,? BJ says. ?Now, as I?m getting ready to become a father, I think I have to be hopeful??especially with the situation our country is in now. For her sake, I have to be positive.? He pauses. ?Her? is his daughter, due in the spring of 2018. BJ adds, ?Being self-aware has always been a blessing and a curse. But that?s what?s always made my songwriting relatable to people. I don?t hold back. I?m almost too honest.?

BJ?s candor has fueled American Aquarium?s runaway appeal, visible most clearly in consistently sold-out shows across the country and throughout Europe - between 200 and 250 dates a year. Much has changed for the band and BJ since their acclaimed last effort, Wolves. In 2017, every American Aquarium member save BJ quit the group. American Aquarium has featured about 30 players since BJ founded the outfit in 2006, and while each member has left indelible marks, the band has always been anchored by the literary songs and sometimes roaring, sometimes whispering, drawl of BJ Barham. BJ?s personal life also underwent seismic shifts: He got sober. He got married. Soon, he?ll be a dad.

Featuring a new band lineup that includes Shane Boeker on lead guitar, drummer Joey Bybee, bassist Ben Hussey, and Adam Kurtz on pedal steel and electric guitar, as well as a reinvigorated frontman in BJ, Things Change is American Aquarium?s first release on a label after selling thousands of records on their own. ?As an artist, your goal is for the newest thing you do to be better than the last. You?re slowly whittling away the bullshit to try and get to the truth,? BJ says. ?With this album, I learned how to cut some of that fat so that it?s just truth. It?s our best record.?

Recorded at 3CG Records in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Things Change was produced by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter John Fulbright and features cameos from Americana standouts including John Moreland and Jamie Lin Wilson. Brazen album opener ?The World is on Fire? is a richly layered rock-and-roll anthem that documents BJ and his wife?s stunned reaction to the last presidential election. Emotional and conversational, the song taps into widespread feelings of confusion and fear: ?She said, ?What are we going to do? What?s this world coming to?? / For the first time in my whole life, I stood there speechless.? But what begins as despair builds into defiant faith, as BJ growls a call to action to cap off one of his favorite songs he?s ever written. ?I?m complaining about the state of things, and then the third verse almost serves as a challenge to myself: hey, you?re in charge of another human being. You can create change,? he says.

Driving rock-and-roller ?Crooked + Straight? explores the small-town consequences of questioning religion, and the tightness of family in the face of one member?s rejection. His father?s advice anchors the song. ?I come from a blue-collar family. I?m the only one who didn?t go into farming. I learned if you want something, you have to go out and take it. You can?t expect anything from anybody,? BJ says. ?You can only go out there and work harder. My dad always said you can outwork anybody else.? Love for hard work and the people who carry it out appears repeatedly throughout Things Change. Guitar-heavy ?Tough Folks? is a snarling ode to those with dirt under their fingernails, while bass- and pedal-steel-infused ?Work Conquers All? spins a tale in praise and pursuit of Oklahoma?s state motto.

The album?s love songs are the kind of achingly beautiful that only comes with maturity and a willingness to expose one?s own flaws. Haunting ?Shadows of You? recalls a lover?s flight as the protagonist longs for what he let get away. Gorgeous ?Till the Final Curtain Falls? celebrates loyalty and pledges endless devotion. The moving title track takes an often doleful topic??people?s tendency to change??and turns it on its head, tracing BJ?s personal growth and recognizing his now-wife?s steadfast love.

BJ?s other two favorite tracks are album standouts. Moving ?When We Were Younger Men? addresses the break-up of American Aquarium head on. As BJ professes love for his former bandmates over stripped down acoustic guitar, his voice is honeyed and deep. ?It?s an open letter to five guys who I spent eight years of my life with seeing the entire world,? BJ says. ?I think anyone who has ever had to walk away from a friendship or has had somebody walk away from them will relate to the song.? Stunner ?One Day at a Time? is self-perceptive and vulnerable, detailing BJ?s battles with himself. Even within his career full of well-written gems, the song is a towering accomplishment.

?At the end of the day, if you?re not writing songs to affect other people?s lives, you?re in it for the wrong reasons,? BJ says, reflecting on the new album, where he?s been, and where American Aquarium is headed. ?Money may come and go. You may never get fame. But if you sit down and write songs to affect people, you can do it your whole life and be happy.?

Free concert on the lawn of the Front Porch Book Store!

Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/ special guest Shamir
Monday, July 9, 2018
Doors 7:30pm | Show 8:30pm | 18+
Tickets on sale 1/26 @ 10am!
Presented by Zero Mile Presents

Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The threads of our past never unravel, they hover like invisible webs, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on II, Multi-Love takes on the complications of being together.

Multi-Love adds dimensions to the band's already kaleidoscopic approach, with Nielson exploring a newfound appreciation for synthesizers. The new songs channel with the spirit of psych innovators without ignoring the last 40 years of music, forming a flowing, cohesive whole that reflects restless creativity. Cosmic escapes and disco rhythms speak to developing new vocabulary, while Nielson's vocals reach powerful new heights. "It felt good to be rebelling against the typical view of what an artists is today, a curator," he says. "It's more about being someone who makes things happen in concrete ways. Building old synthesizers and bringing them back to life, creating sounds that aren't quite like anyone else's. I think that's much more subversive."

While legions of artists show fidelity to the roots of psychedelia, Unknown Mortal Orchestra shares the rare quality that makes the genre's touchstones so vital, constant exploration.