Thee Oh Sees perform at Bottletree tonight with Ty Segall.
VENUE: Bottletree Cafe
TIME: 9:00 pm
BAND: Thee Oh Sees / Ty Segall
COVER: $15
Thee Oh Sees
“What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, speaker-smothering, tongue-wagging John Dwyer careening across your cranium, chased by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought it meant to make 21st century rock ’n’ roll?”
— Pitchfork
Ty Segall
“Guy sings. People watch. Guy’s head explodes. It’s not hard to picture Segall’s head exploding. He sings hard and loud and with the shrill fury of a castrated animal. And he does this a lot. Since quitting his band, Epsilons, less than four years ago, Segall has become arguably the most exciting and probably the most prolific member of San Francisco’s evolving garage rock scene, which also includes Thee Oh Sees, the Fresh & Onlys, and Sic Alps (with whom Segall formerly played).”
— Pitchfork
VENUE: Workplay
TIME: 8:00 pm
BAND: Umphrey’s McGee
COVER: $30
Umphrey’s McGee
“A jam band coming out of the Midwest in the mid-’90s, Umphrey’s McGee edged toward the Frank Zappa side of the improv rock scale, as opposed to the Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers Band direction espoused by many of their contemporaries, like the Big Wu.”
— allmusic.com
VENUE: The Nick
TIME: 10:00 pm
BAND: Hunter Valentine / The Sexual Side Effects
COVER: $7
Hunter Valentine
“Apparently, the kind of ladies who make womyn-with-a-”y” music aren’t into Hunter Valentine’s version of rock atmosphere, and that’s fine with them. Anyone who’s caught the spiky all-girl three-piece live knows they’re not the types to make apologies. They play heartbreaker music, a kind of driving, relentlessly hooky pop that’s shot through with drum breaks you tap out on the back of your school notebooks, bass lines you hum at the end of a bittersweet drunken night and melodies that stick in your brain and become soundtracks to those days when you feel your life is like a movie.”
— Sarah Liss (Now Magazine)
The Sexual Side Effects
“[I]f you haven’t jumped on board the Sexual Side Effects bandwagon yet, now’s the time. This rocking Atlanta quartet won the Comcast/Xfinity video award at the Georgia Music Awards in June. The hard-touring band’s been busy gaining fans on the East Coast and on a recent jaunt to Texas, where things got so fiery that a club had to be evacuated.”
— Shane Harrison (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
VENUE: Moonlight on the Mountain
TIME: 7:30 pm
BAND: Slaid Cleaves
COVER: $15
Slaid Cleaves
“I’m glad I found Slaid Cleaves, because my life would have been poorer without him. You’ll feel the same, I think, when you listen to this beautifully crafted album. Listen, go to one of Slaid’s shows, take a friend, and pass on the news: not all good guys wear hats.”
— Stephen King
About Sam George
Sam George is editor-in-chief of You Hear This, and the former editor of r3vrb.com, BHAM.FM, and Birmingham Weekly. He is also a contributing writer at Weld for Birmingham and B-Metro magazine.
