With their third full-length album, “Mirror Reaper,” Seattle’s doom metal duo BELL WITCH have created a truly enormous work – one continuous 83-minute piece unfolding as a single track. The album will be released on October 20th by Profound Lore Records. Engineered and mixed by veteran producer Billy Anderson (Swans, Sleep, Neurosis), the duo of […]

Shilpa Ray is a wailing, fire-breathing Cyclops. She tornadoes everything in her path: small towns, big cities, and children’s dreams. One of her fans commented on a YouTube video, “If there’s a heaven, I want God to hire Shilpa Ray to sing the list of my sins.” Within a few hours, she had a day […]

New York City's Unsane assisted in pioneering a more aggressive, less studied version of noise rock, one that blended the scum/art industrial sturm und drang of Foetus, the Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Sonic Youth with a decidedly more straightforward hardcore idiom. While developing the blueprint for noise bands to follow, Unsane cut a remarkable swath […]

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ometimes the new EP from Pinkest sounds like it is at odds with itself. This is not a criticism; it’s merely an observation. There are times when it basks in the lazy glaze of soporific slacker rock and then there are others — opening gambit “The Spine” and “Superhero Song” specifically — when the band’s […]

John 5, was born John William Lowery, on July 31 1971, in Grosse Pointe Michigan, in a safe, affluent neighbourhood “it was safe, and I had my own maid“. His love of guitar came at the age of seven, from the Hee Haw series he would watch with his father, as well as The Monkees; […]

Formed in 2006 in Austin, TX, and consisting of current and former members of Power Trip, Iron Reagan, and Darkest Hour, MAMMOTH GRINDER play a primitive brand of punk-inflected death metal. MAMMOTH GRINDER return after five long years with their fourth full-length Cosmic Crypt, a non-stop, meteoric force of aggression and mayhem.

John Maus plays the EARL in East Atlanta Village on 2/08. Tickets on sale Friday, October 27 at 10am via freshtix.com John Maus is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humor over the […]

Surprise LP release party for rapid rising Atlanta psych-pop band Trash Panda who are playing Drunken Unicorn to celebrate its release with their friends Antarcticats. Tickets to the show $10 or you can upgrade and get the VIP package for $25, which includes entry to the show, a signed Starclimber CD, plus a t-shirt!

Saturday, March 10 at Drunken Unicorn. Tickets on sale now! Dead Meadow Formed in 1998 with Jason Simon on vocals and guitar, Steve Kille on bass, and Mark Laughlin on drums. They began to combine 70s hard rock and 60s psychedelic rock with far out and sometimes mystically minded lyrical themes occasionally even hinting at […]

Saturday March 31 at Drunken Unicorn 9pm | $13-15 | All Ages Stick around after the show! In the next room is HeartBeeps, a long-running dance party spanning 5 years at the legendary Atlanta nightclub MJQ featuring DJ Taradactyl who keeps the dance floor lit mixing anthemic cuts from the 80's-90's, indie faves, r&b classics past and present, […]

Wednesday, April 04 $12 | All Ages | 9pm

Pabst APA Official Launch Party @ Drunken Unicorn & MJQ Thursday, April 12. Midtown, Atlanta. Pabst American Pale Ale launch party for Atlanta is Thursday, April 12 at Drunken Unicorn & MJQ Concourse. To celebrate, Tight Bros Network and Speakeasy Promotions put together a distinguished lineup of artists featuring performances in the DU by Tommy […]

Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of […]

Formed in 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, the trio has established themselves as one of the most successful and motivated bands in the genre today. Elements of Helmet, Melvins, and the Amphetamine Reptile roster can be heard throughout their catalog, but Whores are no regurgitated throwback act. Through intense, cathartic live performances and the perfected aggressive […]

WHAM CITY COMEDY at Drunken Unicorn on Friday May 04. Tickets on sale now! Wham City is a comedy & video collective known for their bizarre viral videos and absurdist presentational performances. They have created a series of infomercials for Adult Swim including Unedited Footage of a Bear, Live Forever As You Are Now W/ […]

M.C. Chris M.C. Chris is a rapper from Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He was one of the first rappers to focus solely on nerd life, rapping about Star Wars, Harry Potter, ninjas and unrequited love, instead of the usual hip-hop fare. M.C. got his start as an animator on many of the shows […]

Kebbi Williams & The Wolf Pack and 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra bring free jazz to Ponce De Leaon when they take over Drunken Unicorn this Saturday, May 19. Affordable tickets available online for $5 in advance. Tickets $8 at the door. Doors open at 10pm.

GYMSHORTS w/ Lunar Vacation and Dinner Time on Tuesday, May 29. Tickets on sale now