Swing Set and The Floating Coats photos

Just the other day (Saturday, December 22nd to be precise), we got a little crazy and opened our doors from 10am-12am. As is the appropriate measure to coincide with such a marathon of indie retail, we asked some folks to play music. Alex Brenner of Soda Jerk performed under his new solo moniker, Swing Set, to open the night. Following Mr. Brenner, The Floating Coats made their triumphant to Decatur CD. Let it be said that if you ever need a band to play for close to three hours, The Floating Coats are that band. Whoa ho ho. Quite a fun night. Thanks to all who were involved. We had a blast.

What a weekend...

We had one crazy weekend with the Art Walk, the in-store performances and everything else. Instead of trying to sum it up in (too many) words, enjoy some photos:
The human head weighs 32 pounds. And costs $2000. Just ask Jigsaw James, our artist-in-residence on Friday.
Not to be outdone, David Stephens busily put together his latest artistic creation, Dinky Rabbits. He sold a few of the charmingly bugged-eyed little creatures, too.
Meanwhile, while I, the ever-vigilant Security Chicken, hung watch from above and made sure there was no funny business going on, a fairly insane amount of customers perused the racks and sipped on delicious (and free) high-gravity beer. Mmm...
...and while they perused, The Drunken Coats played a lengthy, high-energy set, covering the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, The Kinks and some old-timey goodness along the way. Oh, wait, the name of the band is The Floating Coats. But hey, if you had seen the way these guys put away the drinks (and spilt them on the floor), you'd understand our slip of the tongue.

On Saturday, David Mead graced the store with his presence, playing several numbers from his latest album, Tangerine, and cracking us up with between-song banter.
Just a couple hours after he finished serenading the very flowers in the photo above (just kidding), Mead played Eddie's Attic.

Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed the weekend with us!

Art Walk party tomorrow night

Looks like we've taken care of your Friday (May 25) night plans for you. You can thank us later for taking your crazy, unorganized life, running it through a blender and creating a nice, tall, refreshing smoothie of clarity. Um, wHaT?!? Better get to the details before this post gets too carried away. Tomorrow night is the annual Decatur Art Walk, and we're one of the many businesses showing love for local creativity. Here's how it goes:

Where: Decatur CD
When: All night, really, but starting at around 7:30pm, The Floating Coats will perform live music.
What: The Floating Coats! Sheesh, you should really read more carefully. Also, a selection of Atlanta Brewing Company's fine adult beverages. Free, of course. Take a look at ABC's beer and tour pages. Good stuff.
Who: You and all your friends.

That's the haps. If you're not going out of town for the holiday weekend, we strongly suggest you join us for a relaxing evening of local business, music and art. Get out there and support the greatness happening in your community before it gets taken away from you. Hope to see you all tomorrow night...

Floating Coats in-store and CD release this Saturday!

This Saturday, April 23, our pals in the Floating Coats will hold their CD-release party right here at Decatur CD. For the unfamiliar, the Coats have played in this store more times than we can remember at this point, certainly as much if not more than any other act in the entire universe, stretching as far back as That Foul Year Of Our Lord Twenty Ought Six, according to our blog. Well, these old-school DCD gangstas are releasing their debut CD, Old Overcoat, and dang it if we're not gonna celebrate. They'll perform at 7 p.m. and have told us they'll be bringing "plenty of beverages" to boot. Sounds like fun to us. Sign up at their Facebook event page, come by and see us Saturday night, and be sure to request that one song about the Atlanta Hawks.

Decatur CD's chronologically ordered in-store performances of 2007

All things considered, we're still a baby indie retail store. That being said, we had a ton of in-store performances this year...more than any year in our existence. It's something we truly love to do, and something you can expect much more of in 2008. Enjoy this chronologically ordered list, and feel free to click on the links to view photos from each respective show:

1. Rising Appalachia - January 21, 2007
2. Papa Mali - January 26, 2007
3. Jim Threlkeld - February, 20, 2007
4. Blake Guthrie - February, 27, 2007
5. Tommy Womack - March 3, 2007
6. Modern Skirts - April 7, 2007
7. The Floating Coats - May 25, 2007
8. The Back Yardbirds - July 6, 2007
9. Peter Case - September 2, 2007
10. Kodac Harrison and Kristin Markiton - September 7, 2007
11. Techung - October 17, 2007
12. Richard Parsons - November 8, 2007
13. Georgia Fireflies - November 9, 2007
14. Romantica - November 10, 2007
15. Silver Lakes - November 11, 2007
16. Jeffrey Foucault and Caroline Herring - November 17, 2007
17. Art Rosenbaum - December 20, 2007
18. David Stephens - December 20, 2007
19. Swing Set - December 22, 2007
20. The Floating Coats - December 22, 2007

Art Walk photos

Last night, we had our Art Walk party in conjunction with the annual Decatur Arts Festival. For the third year in a row, that meant live music from the Floating Coats and free beer. This year in the brew category, we picked up a few Atlanta Brewing Company varieties. Tasty stuff. As usual, the Coats rocked it, sounding especially tight if we do say so ourselves (and we do, and just did, actually). In fact, we had at least a couple requests for recorded material from the band. Get on it, Coats! For now, though, enjoy these photos...

Floating Coats Photos

If you weren't here on Saturday, you missed one heck of a performance from the one and only Floating Coats. The boys brought a torpedo keg of Sweet Water 420, which was promptly drained, and played for upwards of an hour and a half, selling a fat stack of their debut CD in the process. As always, it was a joy to have them on the DCD stage. Oh, and we took a few photos...

Jim Threlkeld in-store performance TONIGHT

Above: He's the one on the far left.

Not much to do on a Tuesday night, you say? Well, we beg to differ. Tonight, our good friend and member of The Floating Coats, Jim Threlkeld, will be entertaining us with a free, live, acoustic, insert your own adjective here, in-store performance. When he was here with his band last time, in addition to playing several original compositions, they covered the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads and The Kinks, amongst others. It was a great time, and we expect nothing less tonight. He'll start playing right around 7pm. Oh, and did we mention there will be free beer for those 21 and over? Because there certainly will be. Mmm hmm.

While you're here, sign up for the two pairs of tickets we have to folk legend Tom Rush's show at Eddie Attic on Thursday. This guy is a pretty big deal, and we expect these will go fast, so do not delay.

More in-stores, news and, as usual, great new music, on the way soon!

Art Walk - tonight!

Come join us tonight for the Art Walk. We'll have works from Jigsaw James, a performance by The Floating Coats (at 7pm) and the fine banjo-picking and stuffed-bunny-making by David Stephens. Of course, there will also be more free beer than you can imagine. See you tonight.