Picks of the Week

Monday, May 4

David Cook with Ryan Star

Georgia Theatre, 9 p.m., $15

(He won American Idol a couple of seasons back. Hey, at least it’s not Clay Aiken)

Tuesday, May 5

Terrapin Tuesday: North Georgia Bluegrass Band

The Melting Point, 7p.m., $3

It’s the cheapest concert in town, and while it is technically Terrapin Tuesday, their margaritas are quite nice.

Wednesday, May 6

Hightide Blues with Radiolucent and Bird + Wire

Georgia Theatre, 9:30p.m., $5

Hightide Blues from Alabama have built a solid grassroots following of fans who love their laid back, southern-style rock. This has study break written all over it. Just don’t overdo it on those 32 oz. beers if you have a final in the A.M.

Thursday, May 7

Supernaut and Pastor of Muppets

Caledonia Lounge, 10 p.m., $5

Pastor of Muppets has got to be the best Metallica cover band name ever.

Shpongle with Dr. Fameus vs. DJ DRIZNO and DJ Triz

Georgia Theatre, 9 p.m., $20

Umm…this is what it said on Theatre’s website. (Direct quote):

“Dongle and Mongle are the only two other words rhyming with Shpongle...a strange hybrid of electronic manipulation and shamanic midgets with frozen digits squeezing the envelope and crawling through the doors of perception, find a new pair of dice...extra numbers and colours an infinite expanding bubble, filled with a bizzare, strange world of dripping halucinatory wallpaper, a garden of earthly delights...........Shpongleland.....a place of well being, and reflective surfaces, morphing like an Anacondas skin and shimmering like a million colour changing squid, at fifty fathoms.. truly unfathomable like seperating water from it's wetness, the Ineffable Mysteries unweave .....”

I’m curious and also a little scared. Apparently they hit the festival circuit regularly (Probably some crazy late night shows. Bassnectar fans will probably dig this).

-Julie McCollum

Listening to: "Pool Shark" by Sublime