Thursday Nov 3

THE GLANDS

$12 Backstage / Doors at 8:00

(On sale Fri Sept 9)

If there's a dark heart to Athens, Georgia, then the Glands, with their sly, mysterious and sardonic tunes, have found it. Athens has long been known as a disproportionately hip college town and its signature sounds have been obliquely jangly (as in REM) or radiantly goofy (as in the B-52s). The Glands are a late-night alternative to all that. While college kids slept and the bars were shuttered, the band drew in ideas and influences like a radio receiver picking up distant stations during the quiet middle of the night. Call it the sound of being sleepless in Athens.