Decoteau — The Satin Set
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The night flows with a soulful blend of disco, funk, and R&B, highlighting lush arrangements and iconic vocal performances. It’s a smooth, nostalgic journey through late '70s and early '80s elegance.
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Cheryl Lynn, Dionne Warrick, Teena Marie, Donna Summer
Atlanta Synth Club – Synth Social
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Whether you are an “old head,” or simply have a curiosity about analogue or midi-instruments, we encourage you to come out and mingle with other like-minded folks!!
This serves as a networking opportunity for Atlanta’s host of electronic musicians in a relaxed, down-to-earth environment.
ATL Synth Club’s dedication to all things synth (of the software and hardware varieties) has previously behind events such as MIDI Clock, Common Circuits, and Modular on the Spot… we are thrilled to have them here!
D2T — One Last Kiss
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One Last Kiss is a night of saying goodbye to once was and hello to new beginnings… a send off with two songs pressed up against one another. Sweet soul, breezy soft rock songs and jazz to tear you down.
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Bill Evans, Naz Jazz, Laura Allen
Listen to Your World — Chris Devoe & Karl Injex
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An immaculate set by resident DJ Chris Devoe and Karl Injex
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Erykah Badu, Medhane, Knxwledge, Billy Woods, Mulatu Astatke, Madlib, Moor Mother, Elucid
DJ RudeDawg — Together Baby
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Bridging, rather than dividing, ‘Together Baby’ grooves into sounds often made by and enjoyed together by Brown and Black folks. An array of Cumbia, Funk, Salsa, Chicano soul, and so much more.
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Sunny and the Sunliners, Kashif, XL Middleton, & Antibalas.
Live Performance — David Franklin Courtright
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David Franklin Courtright is an LA-based singer, songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and baker. Born in North Carolina and raised in Atlanta, David absorbed the eclectic range of musical influences the South had to offer, from Appalachian folk to Classic Rock Southern hip-hop.
As a child, David, who went by Davey, had a deep and mystical connection with the natural world and God. Raised in the Episcopal Church in Atlanta, David grew up knowing a version of Christianity that included queer people, and the head rector at the church (and David’s spiritual mentor) was openly gay. During this formative time in his life, he found that the queerest environment in his life was actually the church. A deeply sensitive and effeminate child, Davey, like many frilly young boys, grew up to learn to hide behind a shield of masculinity to survive. In many ways, his music is a continual dearmoring, a way of taking each layer of that scar tissue away and allowing himself to become even more vulnerable to the world. This is where he began to see how “brutal” and “tenderness” entwine.
In 2009, David began writing and recording under the moniker Suno Deko, which was the name he attached to early demos while living in New Delhi, India. For this release, David is stepping away from that project and releasing music under his given name. The reasons for this are many, but the main impetus was a desire to reach new levels of vulnerability and authenticity in his work—to be as sincere as possible. To do that he felt that a nom de plume stood in the way of that desire for connection and expression. In his striving for greater intimacy in the work, with the listeners and in the world, he felt it necessary that it come directly from him, no filter.
While making music under Suno Deko, David had the chance to tour Europe with Wye Oak and Angel Olsen, and has toured and played shows with Hundred Waters, Mitski, Moses Sumney, How to Dress Well, and Julianna Barwick. In 2014, he played the inaugural FORM: Arcosanti festival in Arizona. He has collaborated with Alex Somers, Chrome Sparks, Nicole Miglis (Hundred Waters), and more.
In addition to being a musician and singer/songwriter, David is a poet, writer, and baker, and is currently working on a historical fiction novel about his queer great uncle who was a hairdresser and served in WWII, and a book of poems written in the wake of his father’s death in December of 2024.
Pop-Up – Fried Chicken and Funky Sh*t
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A pop-up by Chef Jay of Mouth Feel Supper Club and THICC Burger
This isn’t just fried chicken.
It’s a love letter.
To street food in Thailand.
To KFC (the *Korean kind).
To lemon pepper.
To a really good gravy.
To the sauces, pickles, and sides that bring it all together.
It’s their homecoming.
Every dish on this menu is something they’ve tasted, loved, and couldn’t forget during their travels over the last decade. Some even made them shed a tear.
6 courses. (No substitutions)
This one’s for the fried chicken lovers, the flavor chasers, the REAL eaters!
Tickets are moving & seats are limited, don’t miss it! Get a ticket through Shotgun.
Drums on Fire — Chris Devoe & Krystal Visions
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Excursions into new electronica, Afro-house, UK Funky and Left-field, Amapiano, Gqom
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Scratcha DVA, Jlin, Kelela, Reuben Vaun Smith, Karen Nyame KG, Sault, Kaytranada, DDWY, Loraine James, Larry Heard, Nabihah Iqbal, Jack J
Justin Chesarek Trio
$12 Cover*
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A live jazz set by Atlanta drummer Justin Chesarek with Patrick Arthur, and Robby Handley
About—
Percussionist Justin Chesarek performs regularly with the Joe Alterman Trio, Trey Wright, Anita Aysola, and is a regular at the Atlanta Jazz Festival. Notable performances include The Iridium and The Blue Note in New York, D.C’s Kennedy Center, the Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival in Alaska, The North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland and the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Chesarek teaches Jazz Percussion at Kennesaw State University, is the Artist Affiliate of Jazz Percussion at Emory University, and is the former Professor of Percussion at Morehouse College.
Justin lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and daughters.
*Per person cover charge added to bill
Reservations are only for parties of six or more ~ email reservations@communeatl.com
Spanish Wine Dinner – Saberico and Olé & Obrigado
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Pedro Porras, a Spanish chef from Córdoba and the founder of Saberico, is teaming up with the staff at Commune to bring you an exceptional 6 course meal with wine pairings. Pedro has cooked at Michelin starred restaurants throughout Europe, and will share his modern take on classic Spanish dishes such as Gilda, Salmorejo, Escabeche and Pisto Manchego. Our wines will be from Olè & Obrigado, an importer based in NY that specializes in artisanal Spanish wines. We'll play a selection of Spanish tunes on our hi fi system and give you the stories behind the food and wine. All wines will be available for discounted retail purchase.
For more information and tickets, check out the Resy event page.
Birthday Tribute – Steve Albini
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It’s Steve Albini’s birthday and we’ll be listening to selections from the impressive catalogue of music he produced/engineered including Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Low.
‘Steve Albini. . .left his mark on music in more ways than can be counted. He made scrappy indie rock with Big Black and Shellac, he was an outspoken opponent of the artist-crushing ways of the record business, and he put those sentiments into always opinionated words in essays like 1993’s influential “The Problem With Music” and other, similar writings on the dark side of the industry.
As a producer or engineer — or “producing engineer,” his preferred title — Albini was on the ground as indie rock began coalescing in the Eighties. But as the music morphed into big-time Nineties alt-rock, with major labels realizing there were lollapaloozas of cash to be made, Albini truly stepped up. With nearly every artist or band he worked with, he ensured that the genre he championed never lost its corrosive edge and that musicians sounded as true to themselves as possible (and ignored commercial considerations as much as possible, too). Here’s just a portion of Albini’s uncompromising legacy.
– Rolling Stone
French Wine Dinner – Duette
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Join us from 6 – 10p as we share a special wine list and French inspired food menu by Duette.
Duette
is a wine bar & petit bistrot.
is a duo of jordan and jessica
is a duet of french and american inspired cuisine
is a duette of wine and friends
Rob Wonder — Treat Machine
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Explorations in samples from the golden era of hip hop, along with disco and boogie. There will be a lot of surprises. The Suprise is the Prize.
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Funk, Jazz, Hip Hop, Disco
Footprints — Chris Devoe & Nabani Banks
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International Funk, Soul, Rare Groove, Afrobeat, Highlife
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The Funkees, Fela Kuti, Djavan, Arthur Verocai
Bird — Austin “The Judge” Wheeler
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Golden Era 1950s and 60s Jazz
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Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Max Roach, Red Garland
Boogie Night — Bill Galo
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Late 70s to mid 80s, Boogie, Jazz Funk, Disco Funk, No Wave
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Chaka Khan, D Train, I-Level, Wynd Chymes, Suzy Q, Ingram
Tuesday Movie Night – Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)
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Pink Floyd At Pompeii pre-dates the release of The Dark Side Of The Moon. The film documents what Pink Floyd did before they became giants of the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic – where their music remains celebrated to this day. Set in the hauntingly beautiful ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, this unique and immersive film captures Pink Floyd performing an intimate concert without an audience. Filmed in October 1971, the performance marked the very first live concert to take place at Pompeii, and features the vital ‘Echoes,’ ‘A Saucerful of Secrets,’ and ‘One of These Days.’ The breathtaking visuals of the amphitheatre, captured both day and night, amplify the magic of the performance. Additionally, the film includes rare behind-the-scenes footage of the band beginning work on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.
Nick Mason said “Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii is a rare and unique document of the band performing live in the period prior to The Dark Side Of The Moon.”
The film has been meticulously hand restored, frame-by-frame, from the original 35mm cut negative – discovered in five dubiously labelled cans within Pink Floyd’s own archives. This momentous breakthrough unearthed the very film that rolled through the cameras during those sweltering days amidst the ruins of Pompeii over 50 years ago.
Overlord — The Dance Floor is Lava
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A night of Exotica. A mai-tai fueled colonialist fever dream with a healthy helping of vibraphone. White Lotus vibes with a side of Epcot.
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Arthur Lyman, Robert Drasnin, Moondog, John Zorn
Listen to Your World — (Algiers) Frankie Fisher & Chris Devoe
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An immaculate set by resident DJ Chris Devoe and Frankie Fisher from the band Algiers.
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Erykah Badu, Medhane, Knxwledge, Billy Woods, Mulatu Astatke, Madlib, Moor Mother, Elucid
Decatur Grooves — Ysheso
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Disco & indie, fun dance music
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Khruangbin, Kai Alce, Earth Wind and Fire, Hermanos Guitterez
Tone Glow Presents – Rotating Signals
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Tone Glow presents "Rotating Signals: The Contemporary Korean Avant-Garde," a program of 10 short films highlighting the current landscape of experimental film in Korea. The past few years have shown a renaissance in Korea’s local film scene, due in no small part to legendary filmmaker Lee Jangwook leading workshops at SPACE CELL in the early 2020s, which inspired and taught younger filmmakers to create innovative works on 16mm. This would lead to the founding of different organizations, including Lothringen, who staged the ABBFF Byeongyeong Film Festival in 2024, and Sorigrim, which has hosted numerous screenings since their founding last year. Notably, the latter is a venue for this year’s EXiS, the annual Korean experimental film festival currently spearheaded by Inhan Cho. Some of the films in this program have been shown at (or will show at) EXiS, while others represent the different strains of Korean filmmaking as it has been shaped by the different institutions and communities where directors attended and/or currently live. This event does not intend to showcase the entire breadth of the Korean experimental film scene today, but provide a snapshot during a crucial time in its history and as a celebration of the Korean avant-garde’s growth and unceasing creativity.
Please note there will be a $10 suggested donation that will go to the directors of these films.
Night Orchid II — Randy Mansour
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Showcase of Japanese pop, jazz, funk, soul and RnB. Spanning decades, with an emphasis on lesser-known artists. A night of fun, high energy, feel-good music.
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Original Love, KIRINJI, Junk Fujiyama, Paris Match
CLOSED — July 4th
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We are closed Friday, July 4th. We’ll see each other again tomorrow, xoxo.
Red Rooster — Chris Devoe
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Electric Blues, 60s Rock, American Soul
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Albert King, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Jimi Hendrix, Taj Mahal
Groove Legacy — Karina & JT Singh
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Multi-generational sounds from JT's extensive library and Karina's growing collection. Soulful groove, hip-hop, funk, classic R&B, and more. Ranging from 70s AM gold to contemporary neo-soul, jazz, and house.
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Sade, De la Soul, Experience Unlimited, Osibisa - Happy Children
Tuesday Movie Night – The Elephant 6 Recording Co. (2022)
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A loose agglomeration of overlapping bands across multiple cities, with their own record label (though its members recorded for others), Elephant 6 seemed to pride itself on being difficult to define. Schneider and Mangum formed the collective with Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart—the duo behind the another revered E6 band, the psych-pop group Olivia Tremor Control—as teenage misfits in the Deep South college town of Ruston, Louisiana, bonding over busted instruments and rented four-track recorders. When they scattered to different cities in the mid-’90s—Denver for Schneider and Athens, Georgia, for Mangum, Doss, and Hart—they brought Elephant 6 with them, eventually extending their banner to a hodgepodge of kindred spirits from San Francisco to Brooklyn. By the time the collective’s first wave of activity died down in the early 2000s, E6 could boast one of the biggest word-of-mouth breakthrough albums of the file-sharing era: Neutral Milk Hotel’s lo-fi, high-concept masterpiece, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. For listeners who dug deeper than that Merge Records release, Elephant 6 offered proof positive that a gaggle of musically inclined weirdos could do something similar in their own towns, too.
Cowpoke Soosh — Allen Suh
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Allen Suh (Gato Arigato, Gaja, 8Arm), returns to Commune for Cowpoke Soosh, his fun and delicious take on Japanese country food.
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Freshly made ramen noodles with rib eye, cold smoked Bramlett trout, sooshie rolls!
Adult Film Soundtracks — DJ Zig-Zag
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Adult film soundtracks from the 60s, 70s and 80s by international composers. Bom-chica-bom-bom.
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Piero Umiliani, Patrick Cowley, The Cyrkle, Gert Welden & Orchestra
Bent — Pasquale
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An eclectic mix pulled from across genres that inspire Pasquale’s musical practice. Songs that celebrate life and get you dancing.
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Grace Jones, MIA, Rosalia, Robyn
ECOUTÉ — DJ Applejac
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UK Soul, 70s Afrobeat, Rare Groove, Downtempo
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DJ Spinna, Shawn Escoffrey, Afronaught, Light Of The World
Peppermint Gatty — Lisa Watts Thurston
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A blend of Hip Hop and R&B from the 70s through the 2000s. Underground classics to main-stream.
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Frank Ocean, Hall and Oates, Bobby Womack, Stevie Wonder, Common, Native Tongues to DITC
Tuesday Movie Night – Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
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Along with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Thelonious Monk is credited as one of the pioneering musicians of bebop and is the second most recorded jazz composer in the world. Charlotte Zwerin's documentary tries to unravel Monk, who was known for having a thorny personality and an aggressive playing technique to match. Interviews with Monk's son and fellow musicians shed some light, and performance footage from a European tour captures his idiosyncratic style.
Cowpoke Soosh — Allen Suh
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Allen Suh (Gato Arigato, Gaja, 8Arm), returns to Commune for Cowpoke Soosh, his fun and delicious take on Japanese country food.
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Freshly made ramen noodles with rib eye, cold smoked Bramlett trout, sooshie rolls!
Boogaloo Elettrico — DJ SRCE
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A melodic cruise through the sun-drenched coastline and neon-lit discoteche of Italy, past and future. Expect heartfelt cantautori and soulful ’60s heartbreakers, sleazy ’70s funk, cosmic Napoli grooves, synth-soaked new wave, and high-voltage Italo Disco bangers.
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Rino Gaetano, Sapabo, Wandervogel, Moon Ray
Sample Clearance — Chris Devoe and Nabani Banks
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the obscure and dusty vinyl albums that, thanks to sampling, have become part of the quilt of modern music
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Dorothy Ashby, David Axelrod, Eugene McDaniels, Ramsey Lewis
Dedicated Listening – DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing
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‘Ask the NoCal turntable nerds, the trip-hoppers, the frat boys, the hippies or the ravers stoned on the beach at sunrise: Endtroducing... is deeply spiritual. Not in the conventional sense, but in the spirituality of the soul that lives in your chest and got there from the ether and returns to the collective unconscious-- the one you feel when you feel things. That's the spirit that saves us from being fleeting and disposable: If I necked with that one girl that one sunset, with Endtroducing on the car stereo, then no matter who else did the same thing, I'm me and that moment's still mine. Dig?
Endtroducing taps that inner-whatever better than most of the albums of its day, and it swims so easily that it established an entire genre of instrumental hip-hop-- count how many records come out every month and are dubbed "Shadowesque." Building the album from samples of lost funk classics and bad horror soundtracks, Shadow crossed the real with the ethereal, laying heavy, sure-handed beats under drifting, staticky textures, friendly ghost voices, and chords whose sustain evokes the vast hereafter. Even the "look at me" cuts like "The Number Song" didn't break the mood; the album was so perfect and the technique, so awesome that it's still definitive today, and Shadow has yet to top it.’