Coathangers Do That All-Gal Group Thang

Best band outta Atlanta all year, we say.

By Blurt Staff

Atlanta's Coathangers have a handful of live dates lined up prior to the April 7^th release of new album Scramble on Suicide Squeeze.  Dates include a February residency at Star Bar in Atlanta and several shows opening for These Arms Are Snakes before making a stop at SXSW.  

In less than three years, The Coathangers, Julia Kugel (guitar/vocals), Stephanie Luke (drums/vocals), Candice Jones (keyboard/vocals), and Meredith Franco (bass/vocals) have grown from a band of girlfriends buying the cheapest instruments an Atlanta pawn shop could offer, to a group of formidable, adaptable performers. The quartet has shared the stage or toured with bands such as Deerhunter, Atlas Sound, Jay Reatard, The Strange Boys , The Black Lips and The Vivian Girls among others.

As their label puts it, "You could look at them and think they're this way or that, but they will not conform.  These are four really different people who have bonded beyond the point of just being friends. You might think you can pin them down, but they don't care.  Their fashion isn't contrived, their music feels like music for music's sake because that's exactly what it is natural, voluntary, spontaneous, impulsive, intuitive and entirely better for it."

Meanwhile, as BLURT puts it in our forthcoming review of the album, "Raw but self-assured, its finger-in-the-socket electricity channeled through rambunctious melodies... full of dizzy yelps and fritzed-out cheerleader chants and, just to prove they can do it, a couple of sweet, girl-group ballads. Fun stuff."

THE COATHANGERS TOUR DATES:

WED FEB 18 - Atlanta GA, Star Bar

WED FEB 25 - Atlanta GA, Star Bar

WED MAR 11 - Washington DC, Rock & Roll Hotel #*

THU MAR 12 - Charlotte NC, The Milestone #*

FRI MAR 13 - Atlanta GA, Drunken Unicorn #^

SAT MAR 14 - Gainesville FL, Common Grounds #^

SUN MAR 15 - Orlando FL, The Social #*^

TUE MAR 17 - Houston TX, The Mink

WED MAR 18 - Austin TX, SXSW, (Red Eyed Fly, Suicide Squeeze Showcase)

THU MAR 19-21 Austin TX, SXSW

SUN MAR 22 - Dallas TX, The Lounge w/ Wavves, Abe Vigoda

SAT APR 4 - Atlanta GA, The Earl, Record Release!

MON MAY 11 - Atlanta GA, The Eyedrum w/ Calvin Johnson

# with These Arms Are Snakes

* with All The Saints

^ with Young Widows