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Live Recommendations for Thursday, February 23, 2006

The Selminairs

HOT'LANTA NIGHT
THE NEW YORK OF THE SOUTH BURNS THE NEW YORK OF THE NORTH

Brother Reverend, A Fir-Ju Well, Selmanaires - Northsix $10: Tonight I’m pickin’ the party show ‘cause I’m just in that kind of mood. You usually can’t go wrong with Atlanta rock – which is always pretty cool at the very least. And tonight is all about good bands from "The City Too Busy to Hate." The headliners Brother Reverend are actually Brooklyn band trasnplanted from Atlanta fronted by the very charismatic Bug Jones. A peppy mix of soul, frat rock, and other mid-sixties AM radio gold, they wind up sounding kind of like an early Elvis Costello recording at Muscle Shoals. A Fir-Ju Well is well-conceived lightly psychedelic pop band with a Southern roughness to ‘em. Like Fir-Ju Well, the Selminaires are on International Sounds Records and are the most eclectic and art-damaged band on the bill – but again, they still got that organic Hot’lanta thing down – sort of a Southern Chairs Missing. If anything else you should just go here to watch a bunch of homesick Atlanta expats get drunk and go nuts – I guarantee it’ll happen.

Anna Kramer, Spirit Hawk, Alice Cohen, Spider, Cosmic Western Mystery Tradition --- Tommy's Tavern $5: Also, if you haven’t had enough Atlanta in Williamsburg, you should head north a view blocks to Greenpoint to check out Atlanta singer/songwriter/guitarist Anna Kramer who also rocks her ho-down peppy, raw, and twangy. She’s on a bill with local Neil Young-informed indie rockers Spirit Hawk, Alice Cohen from Castles, the Vels, the new folk of Spider, who's otherwise knows as The Burners' Jane Herships, and Cosmic Western Mystery Tradition featuring Brooke from Isle of Citadel.

New York Night Train also suggests:

Quinsin Nachoff, Jim Black & Mark Helias at 8pm Rashanim -The Stone 10 PM $10
Shelley Hirsch & Aki Onda - Tonic 10PM $10
Rashanim - The Stone 10 PM $10
Jon Madof (electric guitar) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Mathias Kunzli (drums)
Eyal Maoz's EDOM - The Stone 8 PM $10
Eyal Maoz (guitar) Brian Marsella (b-3 organ) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Yuval Lion (drums)
Tres (blackout concert #19), Stephan Moore, Anthony Ptak w/ Diana Slattery - ISSUE Project Room$10
Hamell on Trial - Knitting Factory Old Office $12
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blood on the Wall - Maxwell's. Sold Out

Go to NYNT's Live Archive here.