How to avoid the Memo Day Weekend hangover

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Do, Die or Dead Confederate and Such

So, before you go off and barbeque with those new neighbors, old neighbors or get some new stakes to skewer some old snotty neighbors to put on the barbeque, get your plans straight to avoid the post-holiday weekend hangover. As with most situations, music is the good word to fix those morose feelings after Memo Day weekend. Go put your sweetest smelling scratch ’n’ sniff sticker on Wednesday, May 27th — just another in a long line of good days to be in Atlanta.

PC: Stomp and Stammer

Dead Heads: The BEST Georgia band going right now, Dead Confederate, keeps riding the wave of buzz that has new folks getting on board every new dawn to their dark and gloomy/sweet and solitary nouveaux grunge sounds with a free (!) show at The Earl (488 Flat Shoals Ave SE, East Atlanta, 30316, 404-522-3950). The show, which is only free if you sign up and local music rag site Stomp and Stammer and show up early, will be recorded for the band’s first live EP and follow up to 2008’s breath of ‘90s rock (in a good way, we promise) air that was Wrecking Ball. The guys from Athens build a stoned wall of reverby sound only to pull the curtain down with beefy guitar riffs and gritty, dense choruses. This live show will be like a religious experience at the alter of this town’s famous PBR bar.

PC: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In a Dream

National Pride: While you remember the folks that make us proud to hang the flag this weekend, Wednesday brings us a band that makes us proud to grab a beer and a cig in the dimly lit bar in our hearts (or, probably, neighborhoods) — bleak booze-rockers The National. The band’s 2007 effort Boxer still rings true as a late-night symposium on relationships of all kinds: you and your pals, you and your girl, you and your feelings for a cold pitcher on night hotter and sweatier than the guitar-drum gristle that oozes from The National’s music. For $25, the equally eerie Tabernacle (152 Luckie St, Downtown-Atlanta, 30303, 404-659-9022) hosts what is certain to be the best way to wash away the memories of the friend you punched at that pool party and the dame you saddled up to in your condo’s stairwell. Hey, why not meet ‘em both to the show?

PC: Villanova

Not Good for ‘Nova: Boy, is this not the night to book a show in Atlanta if you’re not one of those two aforementioned bands. A bad-luck-booking act called Villanova plays at Smith’s Olde Bar (1578 Piedmont Ave NE Midtown-Atlanta, 30324, 404-875-1522) and we wish him good luck. Maybe the band’s friends will come, because this show might have less people at it than a Mormon bookstore on Chanukah in Israel. Unless … is this is the Villanova basketball team’s traveling music group? Someone email us if this is the case — that might be worth a peak. Can you say 2010 March Madness promo?

By: Nm4 & The East Coast Americas media (Nm4 is an AFOMFT contributor)