March 10-13, 2022

All Night Drug Prowling Wolves are a rock and roll band from Atlanta, GA featuring Tom Cheshire and Marlow Sanchez from the band Rent Boys. The band also features Ben Thrower on bass, Kelsey Wilson on drums, and Blake Rainey from The Young Antiques on second guitar. The band formed in 2006 and has put out two full-length albums. The Wolves initially got together and started writing original songs based on their love of reggae, late 70s punk and soul music. With all of the members busy with other projects and living in different cities, they only get together to do special reunion shows. This KMH Festival will surely be one of those special events. 

ALL NIGHT DRUG PROWLING WOLVES PLAY KMH ATL 2022:

Sun March 13

A new and ultraviolet feather in LA’s cap, Adron is making waves with her timeless yet wholly unusual musical oeuvre. Raised in and recently transplanted from Atlanta, she’s a singer/songwriter entirely too rare to stay rooted in the American South; there’s very little of conventional America at all in this music. Her kaleidoscopic guitar work carries the influence of Brazilian eminences like Luiz Bonfá and Caetano Veloso, while her voice has the classic clarity and richness of Doris Day with the adventurousness of Joni Mitchell. She aims to distill the entire history and geography of pop music into her own alchemical creation; in her songwriting there’s careful structure, safeguarding the vintage pop nostalgia of the experience, but in the lyrics there’s play, humor, and a bare-hearted frankness that feels much too personal to come from anywhere but the present. She’s also a champion whistler, incorporating not just melody but even birdcalls into her productions, layered into a sonic backdrop evoking lush climes and opiate breezes. There’s no aggression in Adron’s world, no politics, no posturing - only space, sensation and sentiment.

Since the release of Water Music in 2017, a surprise tour opening for Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, and her subsequent move to Los Angeles, Adron has teamed up with co-producer and engineer John Hendicott in recording a new full-length LP to be called The Trickster, conceptually centered around psychedelics, love, loss, and the capriciousness of life’s journeys. An ode to Adron's year in pandemic lockdown, "Song About My Computer" came out in 2021. She's also teased a new, self-produced EP called Peru, recorded almost entirely in Adron’s bedroom (with drums and percussion coming from her long-time collaborator Colin Agnew in Atlanta). Early releases are popping up in Adron’s Patreon (patreon.com/adron), including a cover of Robert Wyatt’s “Alliance,” and a glimpse into a darker, more brooding corner of her mind. The Trickster and the Peru EP are expected in 2022, with Adron performing virtual livestream concerts on her social media platforms.

Adron’s official website: www.adronmusic.com

Adron on Instagram: @adronical

Adron on Facebook: facebook.com/adronmusic

Adron on YouTube: youtube.com/adronmusic

ADRON PLAYS KMH ATL 2022: Sun March 13

Young Antiques is a rock n' roll power trio from Atlanta, GA. Spin Magazine calls them "A triumph of ramshackle hooks" and American Songwriter calls them "A deep-south cross between Tom Petty and Elvis Costello."

Blake Rainey's literate-punk songwriting carries through on each and every album, and the propulsive band with bassist Blake Parris and drummer John Speaks reunited makes their latest album Another Risk of the Heart (Southern Lovers Recording Co.) their best yet, and features Chris Lopez (Rock*A*Teens), Kelly Hogan (Neko Case, Decemberists), and Tom Cheshire (West End Motel, ANDPW). They are currently in the studio working on a new album for 2022.

THE YOUNG ANTIQUES PLAY KMH ATL 2022: Sun March 13

Atlanta’s Album 88 favs The Yum Yum Tree reformed in 2019 after a 10 year hiatus to bring you “stuck-in-your head” catchy indie rock. TYYT were college radio darlings from 1999-2008 and wrote the theme song for Georgia Music Show. They were also on Creative Loafing’s Honor Roll for “Year End Best of” and The AJC’s “Best of Album Releases” in 2002. These old friends have brought together a mixture of old favorites as well as new material.  

Andy Gish (bass/lead singer) co-founded Kimono My House in March of 2020 as a way to stay connected to her community, after having to cancel several shows due to Covid. Matt Harr (drums) and John McNicholas (guitar/vocals) round out The Yum Yum Tree.

The Yum Yum Tree

THE YUM YUM TREE PLAYS KMH ATL 2022:  Friday March 11

Drummer-turned-songwriter Kim Ware started the Good Graces on a whim in 2006, after purchasing a beat-up acoustic guitar she named “Buzzy”. The songs quickly poured out of her, melodic stories set to three chords that she often didn’t know the names of. Since then, Kim and tGG have toured the east coast; paid musical visits to Texas, over to California, through the Midwest; and showcased at such festivals as 30A, NXNE, and LEAF, where Kim was a finalist and placed in the top three at the NewSong Singer-Songwriter Competition in 2019. She’s been praised as a “songwriter’s songwriter” as well as “an Atlanta treasure” by local musicians and press alike, with songs that blend the gritty realness of 90s-era alternative rock with the straightforward charm of country and folk.

Equally at home in listening rooms and dive bars, theaters and front porches, Kim and the band have shared stages with such renowned artists as Indigo Girls, Sierra Ferrell, The Love Language, Elizabeth and the Catapult, Granville Automatic, The Old Ceremony, and many others.

Kim is currently working on recording her 6th full-length album, with engineer/producer Jerry Kee (Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Dex Romweber) of Duck-Kee Studios in Mebane, NC.

THE GOOD GRACES PLAY KMH ATL 2022: Sat March 12

The Preakness is the shortest of the three races in horse racing's Triple Crown, and places a premium on brevity and economies of effort. The race itself usually clocks in at about the length of a pop song…Atlanta trio The Preakness has much in common with its racing namesake. Its trademark jangly tunes typically span the length of the fabled race, with no wasted notes.

What started as singer and guitarist Brandon Arnold’s simple song sketches – etched out over miles of audio tape – formulated into some seriously new nostalgia that made its way onto a vinyl EP and full length CD. All while honoring the original lo-fi aesthetic that makes you miss something the minute you hear it.

From dank basement tracking to semi-famed stages in the Southeast, the trio keeps the set tight, the pace dynamic, the rhythm fierce and the jokes unfunny. Bassist Tracy Clark’s affinity for space, unexpected placements and intentional behind-the-beat slack balances Drummer Tim Genius’s simultaneous tightness and thoughtful, controlled chaos. Clark and Arnold’s infectious harmonies are warm and familiar, calling to mind the work of hidden indie treasures like Versus and Eric’s Trip.

Never afraid to let arrangements careen into the noisier, more unpredictable territories, as a band the Preakness frequently draws comparisons to their like-minded forbearers – The Go Betweens, Sebadoh, and Guided by Voices – and its members wear these influences proudly. 

The Preakness

THE PREAKNESS PLAYS KMH ATL 2022: Friday March 11

Blackfoot Daisy is Don Sechelski, Wendy DuMond, and Tom Wolf. Based in Clarkston, GA, we write and play original Americana/Folk music with intelligent lyrics.  We are a little haunted by the prairie, the wind, the shifting of tall grasses, the sound of crickets, and a lonesome train whistle drifting through the night. We harmonize like triplets, and bring the truth or at least our version of it. 

BLACKFOOT DAISY PLAY KMH ATL 2022: Friday March 11

Blackfox is a ragged tale told in a burned-out brothel behind an abandoned church; folk forms wrapped in wire and soaked in bourbon. The songwriting and genre experimentation of veteran multi-instrumentalist and seer of visions Stacey Cargal rides on a carpet of sound built by a collection of longtime friends and scene-mates. The band works a mix of garage, blues, gospel and country-inflected songs and pushes them into new sonic territories with aspects of noise and space rock.

www.blackfoxmusic.net

BLACKFOX PLAYS KMH ATL 2022: Sat March 12

Kenny Howes is an acclaimed singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist specializing in power-pop. Returning to Atlanta in 2012 after a ten-year absence, he formed Kenny Howes and The Wow, who have been melting faces at live shows ever since. This show is their first in two years.

KENNY HOWES AND THE WOW PLAY KMH ATL 2022: Thurs March 10

The Soogs have played in and around Atlanta since 1991, so at this point, they’re extremely well-practiced. 

Their music has been described as The Pixies meets The Partridge Family, but it was only described that way once, and it’s hard to remember who said it. They’re currently pressing their second album, Level Terrace Apartment.

THE SOOGS PLAY KMH ATL 2022: Thurs March 10

Compartmentalizationalists are a band from America. Mitch Laue: bass, Sean Zearfoss: drums and Jeffrey Bützer plays guitar. 

Their music is inspired by jazz and noise guitarists such as Marc Ribot and Sonny Sharrock as well as spaghetti westerns and other Italian film music. But because they like reverb and don't sing, people call them a surf band. 

Jeffrey Bützer and the Compartmentalizationalists PLAY KMH ATL 2022: 

Thurs March 10

Virginia Plane is Atlanta duo Mary O. Harrison and Tracy Clark, often joined by other collaborators in their mission to create melodic, minimalist, folk pop goodness. 

Virginia Plane PLAY KMH ATL 2022: 

Sun March 13 at 529

We are Lemonmnm. We're gonna be your friend. We've got David on guitar. Beth on keys. Tom's on baritone, Gary on bass and Jeff's back there on the drum throne. Sing with zest, twist to the beat. Not too tart, not too sweet. Take the lemon pledge, let's go over the edge.  

DAVID MANPOWSKY IS ALSO THE PERSON WHO NAMED KIMONO MY HOUSE ON DAY ONE!

Lemonmnm PLAY KMH ATL 2022: 

Sat March 12 at Wallers