THE RUMTONES @ STARLAND YARD
SAT MAR 9 | 6 PM
There’s a special place in Las Vegas everyone should visit once. At Frankie’s Tiki Room, time stands still, night and day don’t take each other seriously, and things once unsaid will inevitably be revealed. The Rumtones are the Savannah-sourced soundtrack to that experience. They vibrate airwaves to create soaring surf rock sounds the same way a demonic Nakalele Knockout imbibed too quickly will, in fact, knock you out. Flooring the reverb pedal since 2021, The Rumtones deliver what fans of authentic surf rock demand. While Donna Savage may be a bit more well-known, we really have it good in Savannah when a small city like this has not one, but two killer surf rock bands. Here’s hoping the Starland Yard bar is concocting its own version of a 5-rum Hostess City Painkiller. To paraphrase Sinatra, welcome to Numbsville.
SAT MAR 9 | 3 PM
These two acts shared an evening bill at El Rocko not too long ago, and now the affair moves to daytime and yet another excellent matinee at Over Yonder. McCoy plays solo acoustic folk and country that supply the pages his stories are written on. His voice emotes hard, with a scratchy soul that haunts you in a good way. Plus, that big Crimson Ghost tattoo on his strumming arm is an easter egg indicator of good taste. S’villes rock humiditycore, their own stripped down country rock. It’s got the minimalism of Dead Moon, the sharpness of The Cramps, and the perfect vibe for a Lone Star-soaked Saturday afternoon in the best Texas bar in the world’s greatest drinking town.
BIKINI TRILL @ EL ROCKO
TUES MAR 12 | 8 PM
Any band that gets asked to play the Cali Vibes festival with Ice Cube, The Roots and Too $hort gets all the respect TC5 can offer at first glance. The LA trio makes a mélange of electronic pop, surf pop, some hip hop feelz, whatever “skank island guitars” are, and indie rock. It’s definitely feel-good music, not too mellow but never really hard. Comparisons to Santigold and Sublime are accurate, but they cover a bit more ground. Their animated video for “F*cked Up” relays what they’re up to in 150 seconds. Sure, it has the same color palette as Superjail, but the characters enjoy themselves rather than being reimagined as flaming gruel to feed a phalanx of three-headed subterranean beasts.
KATE WILLETT @ THE WORMHOLE
SAT MAR 9 | 8 PM
The comedian, writer, and actor thought she had finally left behind the nonsense of dating men when she married her wife. However, after being dumped and divorced, she returned to the dating pool and found herself attracted to men. Thus, her “Dirtbag Anthropology” audiobook was born, and it’s a scream. It also goes deeper than hand-wavey dismissals of toxic masculinity to a nuance often unseen in political discourse and comedy. Her stand-up touches on feminism, other topics popular on Stephen Colbert’s one-time comedy show, and general observations of the absurdity of modern life. Of course there’s a podcast cohosting gig with Reply Guys, and her set on Comedy Central’s “This is Not Happening” was praised as a “best of” by Sidesplitters.
THE 83s @ BARRELHOUSE SOUTH
FRI MAR 8 | 9 PM
You had to be there to truly understand the 80s. And even if you were, it may not make sense. Male sex symbols using more hairspray than entire sections of their screaming admirers in the stupid sports arenas where they were performing their unlistenable cocaine “metal” was just the beginning. Still, no one can deny some of those songs are undeniably amazing, even if you hated yourself for loving them. Now, a cover trio that bores deeply into 80s rock may not solve this and other 40-year-old societal phenomena, but you might better understand what was heard when that brand of weirdness was new. The 83s solidified their bona fides, opening for Journey, Toto and The Doobie Brothers, a legit 80s trifecta. You want 80s hits, and you want them now? The 83s deliver like Amazon. Oh, the irony.
