This Saturday at the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta, The Carbonas will be making an appearance with fellow hometown crooners, The Selmanaires. The Carbonas are by now an Atlanta staple. Their blend of powerpop-tinged scorchers and dumbed-down bangers lend a flavor just retarded enough to equate a guaranteed good time. Like The Selmanaires, they seem at times, to elude any specific musical restraint, especially in their more recent catalog.
Too much attention is put on context in music, genres are worn like armbands and waved like flags. Calculated posturing is often done so to conceal it's preconception and the idea of pure gut feeling is flushed as soon as it's expressed. When a band is able to pull past the concept of delivering music from the schema of a specific genre and treat definition as a jungle gym and context as piece of toilette paper, the result is magical. Devo did it, Ray Davies based his career on it, and paradigm destroying is not only the ultimate rebellion, but one of the only ingredients that matters in all great forms of expression. The Selmanaires seem to be hip to this concept and pull it off with ease with their brilliant patchwork of tunes. The Atlanta based threesome formed in 2002 by twin brothers, Herb and Jason Harris, and friend Tommy Chung. Their debut full length, Here Come The Selmanaires, on International Hits Records, which is still available here, offers up a range of aria that pulls in all directions. Their live sets are known for their weave of styles ranging form blues based romps to euphonious excursions and tabbed covers that pull from their obvious wide range of influence. You can also still get their single on Rob's House Records here. The Coat Hangers open the show.
