Pretty Please // Waitress // Shelf Life @ Drunken Unicorn

friday february 20th at drunken unicorn 9pm $5 21+ PRETTY PLEASE (ATL) " “Leeches” is the first single to be revealed from the record and it once again finds the trio leaping into the fray with a pulverizing mix of noise-infested riffs and gut-wrenching grooves. But what really makes the track stand out is the balance between the bands’s unbridled aggression and the sort of growly melodicism that Kurt Cobain made famous. At this juncture, there’s no denying the Nirvana comparisons, so it’s good to see the group embracing their influences and playing to their strengths; namely, pace, volume and emotional heft. It also helps that the band plays with such tightly-wound ferocity that you’d be a fool to give a shit about who they’re borrowing from. Pretty Please are on a very loud, very heavy, very noisy mission. And it’s about time Atlanta took notice." -Latest Disgrace -bandcamp: https://prettyplease.bandcamp.com/ -facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prettypleasemusic WAITRESS (ATHENS) "Waitress, a new four-piece consisting of members of Antpile and Family and Friends, has just offered up their debut recording to the Internet. The Peaked in High School EP, recorded with in-demand engineer Jesse Mangum, touches on some obvious influences—At the Drive-In, Fugazi, Drive Like Jehu—but is imbued with a sense of purity that comes, perhaps, from none of the group's members being old enough to have ever seen any of those bands live." -Flagpole -bandcamp: https://waitress-athens.bandcamp.com/ -facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waitressathens SHELF LIFE (ATL) https://www.facebook.com/Shelflifeatl