Robocromp – Rad/ATL

Mike Baggetta (left) & Peter DiStefano. Photo by Dan Jones

Mike Baggetta of MSSV teams up with Porno For Pyros’ Peter DiStefano for a duo performance blending together improvisation, some new compositions, and a few cover tunes in a set of dueling guitars and voices.

They’ve been on the road together for the “Punk Jazz 2024 Tour” since the beginning of August, working out material for a new album they’re recording at PULP Arts in Gainesville, FL the night before making their way to Atlanta.

For this second leg of the tour, Baggetta and DiStefano will show off some of the new material they’ve worked up while out on the road. They’ll roll out a Porno For Pyros song or two, and they’ll even play some newer MSSV songs that are coming together for an upcoming third album due out in the Spring of 2025.

Bill Taft’s Guitarguments and Robocromp (feat. Jeff Crompton and Rob Rushing) also perform. $10. 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 24. Railroad Earth is located at 1467 Oxford Rd. NE near the Emory University campus.

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Shane Parish photo by Jim Hensley.

Shane Parish returns, this time performing a solo set of acoustic numbers from his most recently released albums, 2022’s Liverpool (Tzadik) and 2024’s Repertoire (Palilalia Records).

The Athens-based guitarist is the driving force behind the math-punk mania of Ahleuchatistas, and is a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet. Armed only with an acoustic guitar, Parish leads an emotional, contemplative journey, where each song becomes a new canvas for his introspective artistry.

“Parish possess a seamless ability to rise above his highly evolved technical skill level as an improviser, arranger, and composer, always allowing the true beauty of the music he’s playing to shine above all else.”

Continue reading Flagpole Magazine’s May 2024 cover story about Parish and the album titled Repertoire.

Robocromp is a duo featuring Atlanta saxophonist Jeff Crompton (also of Anagrams) and Chattanooga-based guitarist Rob Rushin. Together, they channel an eclectic blend of avant-garde jazz and experimental rock into mostly original numbers and occasional covers by Ornette Coleman, Abdullah Ibrahim, and the likes.

$15. 8 p.m. Sat., Sept. 28. First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta, 470 Candler Park Dr NE.

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Mike Baggetta & Peter DiStefano’s ‘Punk Jazz Tour 2024’ comes to Railroad Earth Sat., Sept. 21

Shane Parish and Robocromp play the First Existentialist Congregation Sat., Sept. 28