Informer:Atlanta 8/26/08

Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the best in upcoming music, film and culture events in and around Atlanta. Think we missed something? Wanna tip us off to something cool over the horizon? Let us know! Italics indicate an especially recommended event, (L) indicates local artists.

Music:


Tuesday 8/26

• James Jackson Toth (of Wooden Wand), The Dutchess and the Duke, The Good Graces (L) @ The Earl -- 9 p.m., $8
  
• Lazer/Wulf, The Notion, Fact & Fiction @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 7 p.m., $5
• Clay Cook (L), Emily Kate Boyd (L) @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $10
• The Skylarks (L), Right As Rain @ Blind Willie's -- $5
  

• Spindrift, Pink Police (L), Ocha La Rocha (L) @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., $8
• Paul Collins' Beat, Gentleman Jesse & His Men (L), Beat Beat Beat (L), DJ Sars @ The Earl -- 9 p.m., $10 adv./$12 door
• Spoonfed Tribe, ToyTV @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m.,  $8
• Keaton Simons, Curtis Peoples, Todd Carey @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $8 adv./$10 door
• "Slow Southern Steele" documentary filming (about the heavy underground scene in the south): Withered (L), Doomsayer (L), Music Hates You, Royal Thunder (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8
  

• All Night Drug Prowling Wolves (L), Sex Tapes (L), The Coathangers (L) @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., FREE
• Georgia Music Hall of Fame's Live at Five: Three5Human (L), Caroline Aiken (L), JP Blues @ Hard Rock Cafe -- 5 p.m., $5
• Elf Power, Silent Kids (L), The Meeks Family (L) @ The Earl, 9 p.m., $8 adv./$10 door
• Scrapomatic [CD release], Geoff Achison (L) @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $12
• Drew Holcomb, Kate Herzig @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $10 adv./$13 door
• Scareb @ Lenny's Bar -- 9 p.m., $5
• Silent and Listen (L), Nigredo (L), Mice In Cars (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $7
  

• Redneck Greece Deluxe, Cletis & His City Cousins (L), El Cobra Negro (L) @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., $5
• Howlies [single release] (L), Giant Tigers, How I Became the Bomb, Triple Ds DJs @ The Earl -- 9:30 p.m., $8
• The Storm Orphans, The Hitchcocks (L), The Original Grounders @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $10
• Sun Sets East (L), Wild Honey @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $10 adv./$13 door
• Fiona Simone (L), Muffy (L), Futureshock, Vonnegutt (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8
• Defiance, Ohio, Revolutionary Youth (L), The Wild, Indyana Jonez @ WonderRoot -- 8:30 p.m.
  

• Pardner @ Star Bar -- 9 p.m., $5
• The Features, The Long Shadows (L), The Redcoats (L) @ The Earl -- 9:30 p.m., $8 adv./$10 door
• Entropy (L), AZ-IZ: Adrian Zelski - Infinite Zero @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $10
• The Planet Riders [CD release] (L) @ Smith's Olde Bar (Atlanta Room) -- 8 p.m., $5
• Brad Jones (L), Jerry Burns, Jay Manley, JL McGee (L) @ Kavarna -- 8 p.m.
• Decatur Book Festival: Buddy Edwards, Bill Morrissey, Diane Durrett @ Eddie's Attic, 12 p.m., FREE
  
• Decatur Book Festival: Buddy Edwards, Bill Morrissey @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $15 adv./$18 door
• Tromapalooza: The Coathangers (L), Knife and the 4th Ward Daggers (L), Omelette @ Lenny's Bar -- 9 p.m., $7
• EP3 (L), Part Bear, System.Obsolete (L) @ Drunken Unicorn -- $8

• Batata Doce (L) @ The Earl (dunch) -- 1 p.m. FREE
• The Orphins (L), Club Awesome (L), Hollow Stars (L) @ The Earl -- 8:00 p.m., $7
• The Afromotive, Turtle Folk @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $10
• Sean Moran's Family Affair @ Smith's Olde Bar (Atlanta Room) -- 7 p.m., $5
  
• Decatur Book Festival: Tommy Womack, Marshall Chapman @ Eddie's Attic -- 3:45 p.m., FREE
• Decatur Book Festival: Good Ol' Girls - Marshall Chapman, Matraca Berg, Jill McCorkle, Lee Smith; Tommy Womack @ Eddie's Attic -- 8 p.m., $20 adv./$25 door
  

• Welcome Home Hip Hop - A Benefit for Chris Marshall: The Fountnhead (L), Life The Great (L), Joey Billz (L), DJ Wreckineyez (L), Tommy Valentine, 1800 Holmez, Hollyweerd (L) @ Smith's Olde Bar -- 8 p.m., $10 donation
• Monday Night Band Camp: Born Empty, Cactus's Pretty & Nice @ Lenny's Bar -- 9 p.m., FREE
  

• Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival: Mamma Mia! @ The Fox Theatre -- 7:30 p.m., $10
  

• Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival: Wall-E @ -- 2:00 p.m., $7
• Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival: Indiana Jones - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull @ The Fox Theatre -- 7:30 p.m. $7
  

• Third Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival with keynote address by Billy Collins, 250 world class authors, children's stage and activities, live music and poetry, cooking demonstrations, fine and collectible book fair and book market street fair.

• Dragon*Con - The United States' biggest multimedia pop culture convention, with an emphasis on sci-fi/fantasy, comics and gaming, storms downtown Atlanta once again.
  

• Local writer-actors Anna Simonton and Joey Boren present fundraiser art auction to support Chicago Playwright's Festival @ WonderRoot -- 7 p.m.

• 6th Annual Grant Park Summer Shade Festival - Offering art, food and wine, and 5k run, musical performances include Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause, The Preakness and Warm In The Wake.