Emo Social Presents: - Fred Mascherino of Taking Back Sunday, Say Anything & The Color Fred - Dave Elkins of MAE & Sky's the Limit - Rookie of the Year - Watashi Wa - Painted Light

We are so pleased to welcome local author Aimee Hardy to the shop to chat with readers and sign copies of her debut novel, POCKET FULL OF TEETH! The perfect book to kick off spooky season, POCKET blends gothic horror, supernatural fiction, and mystery. In its starred review, Kirkus raves: "Haunting and powerful, this dark little gem of a novel is an absolute must-read."

Aimee Hardy is a writer and editor in Birmingham, Alabama. Aimee is the author of Pocket Full of Teeth (2024) and has various short stories and poems published with Running Wild Press, Stonecoast Review, and other literary collections. She is also an editor with Running Wild Press and Killer Nashville Magazine and has given various panels and workshops on the art of storytelling. Aimee is married with two kids and loves to get lost in nature or disappear into a good book with a warm cup of tea.

Iron Giant Free Association has worked with members of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance to create a group of flexible compositions that reward creative investment from performers and audiences alike. The details of each piece are changeable, so the sounds differ from performance to performance. This is the first concert of a series of programs, with the following compositions receiving their world premiere.

Iron Segments - Michael Coleman
Armature - Monroe Golden / Iron Giant
as reflected in the glimmer of the black pond - Holland Hopson
différance - Mark Lackey
Thus Spoke the Giant - Joseph Landers
Versicles for Aries - Kyle McGucken
Improvisation - LaDonna Smith / Iron Giant

This activity is supported by Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Iron Giant Free Association evolved from Iron Giant Percussion, with the quartet of founders -- Sam Herman, Brett Huffman, Seth Noble, and Justin Wallace -- remaining as core members. Established in 2011 and based in Birmingham (AL), the ensemble has performed alongside artists such as Sō Percussion, Third Coast Percussion, Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and Norman Westberg of Swans. Iron Giant has collaborated with many Alabama music & arts mainstays including the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Sanspointe Dance Company, John Scalici, and the UAB Percussion Ensemble. Their eclectic vocabulary of chamber music, ambient, noise, and post rock, combined with meditative improvisatory sensibilities makes for a listening experience both cerebral and visceral.

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is a nonprofit organization with the twofold mission of promoting music by Alabama composers and presenting concerts of recently created art music to communities in Birmingham and beyond. Members include local composers, professional performers, students, and enthusiasts who wish to preserve and maintain the long tradition of music as a living art form.

East Village Arts is a membership based co-operative of artists, musicians and patrons, who believe that diversity and collective creativity is the strength of a healthy community.

Over the moon to be launching UNDER THE HERON'S LIGHT, Randi Pink's fifth novel, a young adult fantasy with historical elements, about the real-world Great Dismal Swamp and the generations of family that drew strength from its supernatural powers.

We're so lucky that Randi lives and works here in Birmingham, and we can't wait to pack the house with her admirers. This event is free, but please let us know you're coming.

Randi Pink is the critically acclaimed author of Angel of Greenwood, praised by NPR as a story “American kids need to know”; and Girls Like Us, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2019. Pink's highly anticipated fifth novel, Under the Heron's Light, set in the Great Dismal Swamps of North Carolina and Virginia, hits shelves October 2024. Through historical fiction, Pink is introducing national and international audiences to lesser-known events and figures in American history. Her novels frequently appear throughout the nation on curricula, book awards and bestseller lists.

Born in Nashville, TN, Teddy and The Rough Riders have created a unique, genre bending version of Country Rock. Songs focus on close-harmony influences, soaring pedal steel, and grooving rhythms, modernizing the sounds of Little Feat, The Band, or Flying Burrito Bros, and always tending towards Country artists like The Louvin Bros, Buck Owens, and Billy Joe Shaver. Cutting their teeth in the hometown Honky-Tonk scene, as well as the garage/punk rock clubs throughout the South, TRR plays modern country rock that has seen them opening for such bands as Margo Price, Soccer Mommy and Orville Peck. Their self titled album produced by Margo Price came out in 2022, and they have a new album planned for Sept 2024.

Beep Beep! Join Vocabby’s World and your ArtPlay friends to learn new vocabulary words! We will explore new words through song, movement and creativity. (Children Ages: 0-5 years)

Vocabby’s World is a community vocabulary program in partnership with ArtPlay and sponsored by PNC Foundation. The adventures of Vocabby take pre-K children on travels around the world as they learn vocabulary words through science and arts concepts. Through this partnership, ArtPlay is providing hands-on activities that reach families in our communities and across the country. Free books, curriculum and art materials reinforce the new vocabulary learned.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Dylan Ferniany, dhfernia@uab.edu.

You Should Be Listening presents: Silvie is an indie-pop artist based in Nashville, TN. Although the project began more than five years ago, her sound and story have evolved as she herself has transformed in the last few years through pain and healing. With her poetic lyrics, honest story-telling, and unique pop-rock sound, it’s hard not to feel connected to the stories she’s telling as you listen. Her latest EP, Eleven Twenty-Eight, is a deeply personal journey through Silvie’s adulthood, divorce, and identity that only leaves you wanting more of her stories. Silvie - Delilah Video: https://youtu.be/7hOaeArhY0o

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Formed in 1995 by Makoto Kawabata at the same time as the Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective. The group released its debut album in 1997 on PSF Records (Japan), and it was selected as one of the year's best albums in the The Wire magazine (UK). In 1998 the group played their first tours of the US and Europe. Since then the group has released a huge number of albums on labels from many different countries. As of 2017, the group has released around 80 albums. Every year since 1998, they have toured extensively in the US and Europe, and more recently have started performing around Asia and in Japan too. The group has performed in collaboration with many musicians including psychedelic originators Gong and Guru Guru, Simeon (Silver Apples), Nik Turner (Hawkwind), and the Occitanian trad singer Rosina de Peira. Japanese collaborators have included Afrirampo, Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Jun Kuriyama (The Ox),
and many others.

To begin with the group had a floating line-up with contributions from many members of the AMT Soul Collective. But as tours became more frequent, the group began to coalesce around a core touring line-up. Other bands were created with Acid Mothers Temple as part of their name (AMT & The Cosmic Inferno, AMT SWR, AMT & The Space Paranoid, AMT & Infinity Rising Zero, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Moon Temple, etc.), but AMT & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. has continued to function as the mothership and main lineage for all our activities.

In 2016, twenty one years since the group's founding, there was a major shift in the line-up and "Next Generation" was added to the name. We now view the first twenty years as chapter one in our story, and we are now turning the page to start chapter two. The group played more than 100 shows in each year, toured in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia, also Japan. They also played many festivals (Glastonbury Festival in UK, Levitation in US and France, Rock In Opposition in France, Standon Calling in UK, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival in Malaysia, LUC fest 貴人散步音樂節 in
Taiwan, etc).

During pandemic, they launched their official Bandcamp, have released more than 60 albums (including many unreleased materials), and have toured in Japan in each year. And they played the streaming festival “Levitation Sessions”. They organized “Acid Mothers Olympic 2021” against “Tokyo Olympics 2021”, they originated and played a new style of “music sports”. Finally the group went to the first European tour in Autumn 2022 and North American tour in Spring and Autumn 2023, after pandemic. 2024, the group will tour in Europe in Spring and
North America in Autumn.

The current touring line-up is: Kawabata Makoto, Higashi Hiroshi, Satoshima Nani,
Sawano Shozo and Jyonson Tsu since 2022.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. :
Kawabata Makoto : guitar, speed guru
Higashi Hiroshi : synthesizer, fishin’god
Jyonson Tsu : vocal, guitar, bouzouki, midnight whistler
Satoshima Nani : drums, another dimension
Sawano Shozo : bass, hex man