SUNDAY JAN 19, 2020
Radfest 2020
Sunday January 19th -Radfest returns to 529!
In the year of our Lord 2020, Atlanta music scribe, and former Creative Loafing Music Editor Chad Radford brings his annual birthday bash back to the hallowed venue in which it was christened. This year’s festivities take shape as a Sunday evening matinee, kicking off with an afternoon record swap at 4 p.m. Live performances from Loony, W8ing4UFOs, and The Purkinje Shift follow. Again, it’s an early show, so you’ll get plenty of music and still make it home at a respectable hour.
Kelly's Death Pickles will be on-hand peddling his finest hand-cut, hand-packed jars of pickles named after various Atlanta-based musicians. Stay tuned for more info coming soon.
Sunday January 19th -Radfest returns to 529!
In the year of our Lord 2020, Atlanta music scribe, and former Creative Loafing Music Editor Chad Radford brings his annual birthday bash back to the hallowed venue in which it was christened. This year’s festivities take shape as a Sunday evening matinee, kicking off with an afternoon record swap at 4 p.m. Live performances from Loony, W8ing4UFOs, and The Purkinje Shift follow. Again, it’s an early show, so you’ll get plenty of music and still make it home at a respectable hour.
Kelly's Death Pickles will be on-hand peddling his finest hand-cut, hand-packed jars of pickles named after various Atlanta-based musicians. Stay tuned for more info coming soon.
The Purkinje Shift
W8ing4UFOs
We are the Bees of The Invisible
Getting Lost in the Music
Coded deeply within W8ing4UFOs’ DNA is a dense and secret history of Atlanta music. Singer and guitarist Bill Taft, cellist Brian Halloran, and percussionist Will Fratesi’s time together reaches all the back to Cabbagetown in the early ‘90s, sharing stages with Southern firebrand Benjamin in the band Smoke. Producer, songwriter, and keyboard player Billy Fields is like the angel Virgil of Atlanta music, leading the way out of darkness into the light. His resume boasts a lifetime spent playing music with a variety of acts such as Follow For Now, Seek, Upstream, Lust, Arrested Development, Dionne Farris, and H.R. of Bad Brains’ Human Rights outfit. Alongside percussionist Sean Dunn of Athens’ indie rock outfit Five-Eight and viola player and Radon Recordings co-owner Katie Butler, the group creates a mighty sound steeped in the kind of steel-stringed anti-gospel defiance that can only be forged in the forgotten underbelly of the Southern Piedmont.
We are the Bees of The Invisible
Getting Lost in the Music
Coded deeply within W8ing4UFOs’ DNA is a dense and secret history of Atlanta music. Singer and guitarist Bill Taft, cellist Brian Halloran, and percussionist Will Fratesi’s time together reaches all the back to Cabbagetown in the early ‘90s, sharing stages with Southern firebrand Benjamin in the band Smoke. Producer, songwriter, and keyboard player Billy Fields is like the angel Virgil of Atlanta music, leading the way out of darkness into the light. His resume boasts a lifetime spent playing music with a variety of acts such as Follow For Now, Seek, Upstream, Lust, Arrested Development, Dionne Farris, and H.R. of Bad Brains’ Human Rights outfit. Alongside percussionist Sean Dunn of Athens’ indie rock outfit Five-Eight and viola player and Radon Recordings co-owner Katie Butler, the group creates a mighty sound steeped in the kind of steel-stringed anti-gospel defiance that can only be forged in the forgotten underbelly of the Southern Piedmont.
Loony
Loony was born in the summer of 2019, featuring Anela Go-Go on lead vocals, Silas Fiction on bass, Scott Price on guitar, and Isaac Makin on drums. In less than a year’s time, the group has crafted songs with titles such as “Same Old Story,” “Coffins,” and “Skate Song.” Each number embraces the full-on So. Cal nardcore/hardcore Thrasher Magazine skate rock aesthetic of the ’80s. For fans of TSOL, RKL, Agent Orange, Agression, JFA, McRad, Doggy Style, Vision Street Wear, pulling off slappies and smith grinds, and getting awesome
Loony was born in the summer of 2019, featuring Anela Go-Go on lead vocals, Silas Fiction on bass, Scott Price on guitar, and Isaac Makin on drums. In less than a year’s time, the group has crafted songs with titles such as “Same Old Story,” “Coffins,” and “Skate Song.” Each number embraces the full-on So. Cal nardcore/hardcore Thrasher Magazine skate rock aesthetic of the ’80s. For fans of TSOL, RKL, Agent Orange, Agression, JFA, McRad, Doggy Style, Vision Street Wear, pulling off slappies and smith grinds, and getting awesome