Liz Phair will play The Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, January 29, 2011.

rachelsuzanna:

Ricka-ta, tickets purchased. This night is going to be explosive.

Don’t forget: Tonight, Saturday, November 27, 2010, The Black Lips play The Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Gerogia. Opening acts include Those Darlins and Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs.

Don’t forget: Tonight, Friday, November 12, 2010, Wolf Parade plays the Variety Playhouse  in Atlanta, Georgia. The band is on tour in support of its latest album, Expo 86.

The Walkmen will play Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, January 13, 2011, and the Grey Eagle on Friday, January 14, 2011.

In the video above, The Richard Thompson Band performs “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, October 15, 2010. The song originally appeared on his 1974 album of the same name with Linda Thompson. The band will perform at The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina tonight, Sunday, October 17, 2010. (Video taken by the YouTube user tardis7171).

Don’t forget: Tonight, Saturday, September 25, 2010, Aimee Mann plays the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly the lead vocalist of the 1980s band ‘Til Tuesday, Mann garnered a great amount of acclaim with her contributions to the soundtrack of the 1999 film, Magnolia. Her most recent album is 2008’s @#%&*! Smilers.

Earlier this year, Mann inadvertently began a Twitter feud with the rapper Ice T.

Iron and Wine will play The Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina on Monday, November 15, 2010 and the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, November 16, 2010. For more information on the full tour, see here.

According to this report at Pitchfork, Wolf Parade will play The Music Farm in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday, November 8, 2010 and the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, November 12, 2010.

According to this post at Brooklyn Vegan, Nick Cave’s Grinderman will play the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, October 18, 2010.

Members of the Cowboy Junkies recently updated their official Tour Blog to chronicle their appearances last week in both Asheville, North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia.

Reflecting upon their July 23 concert at The Orange Peel in Asheville, the band noted:

Day 6 – Asheville, NC: It was a very bumpy and uncomfortable ride through the mountains last night. No one got much sleep. Tim and I took any early morning walk through the streets of Asheville and found an exceptional breakfast at the Early Girl Eatery. Today was day one of a three day street festival in downtown Asheville. It’s a huge affair and we are in direct competition. Margo and I did a short set at the local radio station. It was hot as a @#*he%#uc%&r. We had a pretty decent turnout tonight despite all of the free stuff going on outside. We love this place, this town, this club. We had a fun, we played loose with lots of energy. An excellent crowd despite the small gaggle of geese near the bar that Margo had to quiet down. Playing for an audience like this is what makes touring worthwhile.

The three day street festival, of course, was Bele Chere 2010. The band is correct that it was sweltering at the venue that night; the intense outside heat seeped into the club, causing discomfort for both the musicians and the assembled crowd. But the crowd appreciated the set list that night, which included covers of songs by Neil Young and the Rolling Stones. (The band permits its shows to be recorded and uploaded to the Internet Archive, and the Asheville show can be found in its entirety here.).

The band also remarked upon their experiences in Atlanta on July 24 for their show that night at the Variety Playhouse. In so doing, they wrote:

Day 7 – Atlanta, GA: We spent the morning in a hotel parking lot in downtown Atlanta. Jared and I decided to kill some time and we set off for the new-ish Georgia Aquarium. The line-up to get in was stretching out the door and winding along the treeless plaza, so we headed back to the bus. It is freakin’ hot…no metaphor or simile is needed. Throughout the week we have been watching bits and pieces of 2012 on satellite TV. This morning we filled in the few missing pieces. You all should know that it doesn’t end with a whimper, but a bang. Once we got settled in behind the venue (The Variety Playhouse), next to the stinky dumpsters, I did the obligatory stumbling around the Little Five Points area. There was a Cake Boss marathon on the satellite this afternoon, so we partook. What a bizarre premise for a show. We figure that one could create an excellent reality TV show (in the Cake Boss mode) set around a tour manager: following him or her through their day and watching them deal with all of the hic-ups that occur. You could even have different bands guest starring as the tour manager moves from tour to tour. That is now a copyrighted idea so if you want to develop it you need to contact me first. We had another very good show tonight. It started off a little bit shaky but gathered steam as it went along. Another excellent crowd helped us to focus. We needed them tonight , it was show number six in seven nights…and did I mention how hot it was…..

For the full tour entries, see the band’s official website here.