By Shane Harrison
Live Music Picks
Atlantans Yung Joc, Cartel at Civic Center
Thursday, September 11, 2008
THURSDAY, SEPT. 11
Scottish band Mogwai reissued its classic ‘Mogwai Young Team’ this year but also has a new album coming Sept. 23.
STRIKING THE RIGHT CHORD: The two-time Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year makes catchy, unapologetically country music that appeals to a pop audience. It’s a tough balancing act, but Keith has managed well. He has plenty of talent, and he gives people what they want. Montgomery Gentry shares the bill.
• THE 411: 7:30 p.m. $59.75; $29.75 lawn. Lakewood Amphitheatre, 2002 Lakewood Way, Atlanta. 404-443-5090, 404-249-6400, www.livenation.com.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 12
OKLAHOMA’S GEORGIAN: The belle of Monticello may live in Oklahoma with husband Garth Brooks, but she’ll always be a Georgian to us. Her rich, velvety voice is one of our finest exports, and it sounds as vibrant as ever on her most recent album, 2007’s “Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love.”
• THE 411: 8 p.m. Sept. 12-13. $32-$112.50; $32 lawn. Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater, 201 McIntosh Trail, Peachtree City. 770-631-0630, www.amphitheater.org.
DUO TONES: The Benevento-Russo Duo creates music that could be the soundtrack to an art film riddled with jarring tonal shifts. The sounds Marco Benevento and Joe Russo make on organ and drums could underpin scenes of transcendent beauty or unspeakable horror. It’s a stormy and fascinating hybrid of rock, jazz and experimental music unlike anything else around.
• THE 411: 9 p.m. $17.50; $15 advance. Five Spot, 1123 Euclid Ave. N.E., Little Five Points. 404-223-1100, www.fivespot-atl.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13
TWO MUSICAL SIDES OF ATLANTA: The makers of that colorful, chunky footwear bring together modern rock (Cartel) and rap (Yung Joc) for this national tour, and both of the artists they’ve tapped are locals around these parts. Cartel is from Conyers and Yung Joc from College Park.
• THE 411: 6 p.m. $15; $5 students. Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-523-6275, 404-249-6400, www.atlantaciviccenter.com.
MONDAY, SEPT. 15
GREAT SCOTS: It’s been just a few weeks shy of 11 years since this Scottish outfit released “Mogwai Young Team,” one of those albums that inspires rabid devotion among the faithful while remaining largely unknown in the mainstream. It’s an instrumental tour de force that roars like a beast one moment and coos with soft melodicism the next. That album was reissued this year in a remastered and expanded version, but Mogwai also has an album of all-new material coming Sept. 23 called “The Hawk Is Howling.”
• THE 411: 8 p.m. $20; $18 advance. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. N.E., Little Five Points. 404-521-1786, www.variety-playhouse.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17
THE HONEYMOON: Wreckless Eric (aka Eric Goulden) gave us one of the greatest songs to come out of late ’70s Britain, the determinedly lovesick “Whole Wide World.” Rigby was part of various bands in the late ’80s and early ’90s before going solo in 1996 with the critically adored “Diary of a Mod Housewife.” Goulden and Rigby, who live in France, were married this year and will release their first album together just two days before this Atlanta gig. With Gentleman Jesse and His Men, N.E.C.
• THE 411: 9 p.m. $8. Star Bar, 437 Moreland Ave. N.E., Little Five Points. 404-681-9018, www.starbaratl.com.
