Born in Seattle in 1998 at the tender age of intent, Unwed Sailor is helmed by Oklahoma-born songwriter Johnathon Ford. The basis for the instrumental project came into being while Ford was still writing with Seattle luminaries Roadside Monument. Pulling towards a bass guitar-oriented sound, the songs he had begun to craft did not fully feel right for Roadside Monument, thus the unbeknownst predestined forming of Unwed Sailor. Not aiming for Unwed Sailor to fall into the regular confines of a typical band, Ford’s ever evolving cast and crew has been tirelessly composed over the years of good friends and company. With numerous tours in the U.S. and Europe, the band has traveled almost as much as it has evolved.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $8; Doors at 8pm.

Don't miss this screening of the world's newest and most
rapidly-spreading cult classic.

At its core, The Room tells a story about a successful and selfless
man who is betrayed by his unfaithful wife and by his best friend.
That's unimportant. What is important is that The Room succeeds in
failing in practically every way imaginable. The driving force behind
this camp masterpiece is its star and creator, Tommy Wiseau. Sort of a
Christopher Walken-meets-Jean Claude Van Damme-meets-the Russian
mafia, Wiseau shows no restraint portraying the main character with a
strong, sexy, and even Christ-like persona. He's shameless,
too--putting himself into multiple sex-scenes and placing his work
alongside Tennessee Williams.

KGTD CELEBRATES ONE YEAR OF ROCKIN' THIS TOWN! IT'S GONNA BE HUGE!!

with
NASTIQUE
DJ CHARLES III
and
SPECIAL GUEST: DJ MR. BIGGS from SAN DIEGO!!

$5 / 9PM / 18+

STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS...

The Locust Fork Band will play a charity concert for Black Warrior Riverkeeper at Bottletree Café from 3-6pm on Saturday, April 4th. Named after the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, this legendary Alabama rock and country band hopes the event will raise funds and awareness for watershed protection.

This event offers an added bonus in that it will take place during the day, and therefore children are welcome. The optional admission fee -- a suggested $10 donation Black Warrior Riverkeeper at the door -- will be waived for anyone under age 18!

Visit their website at www.blackwarriorriver.org. For more information contact Charles Scribner, Director of Development: (205) 458-0095, info@blackwarriorriver.org.

3-6pm
$10 suggested donation
All ages welcome!

Hey Ho! Let's Go. We're doing a tribute night to America's finest punk rock institution since leather jackets and jeans with holes in the knees. Please come pay your 3 chord homage to America's most quintessential band.

To signup to have your band play, email brian@secrethistoryproductions.com. Each band will perform 3-4 songs (only Ramones, duh--you'd be amazed with questions I get) and need to email their song choices ahead of time to minimize repeat selections. That's it. Thanks again. Should be a fun one. Gabba Gabba Hey!

Birmingham native Maria Taylor returns to Bottletree in support of her new album, "LadyLuck".

Though much of the deliciously diverse LadyLuck is inspired by the end of a relationship, it’s not dripping with sadness and grief, nor is it in-your-face empowering. Rather, Taylor strikes a stunning balance between melancholy (aching strings, hushed vocals) and uplifting (rolling rhythms, shimmering keys), highlighted by sharp lyrics that draw optimism out of sadness. This is not a woman down on her luck.

The Whispertown 2000 is such a fitting name for a whole bunch of reasons. Morgan Nagler, (lead vocals, guitar) has been whispering for years before making this record. For the longest time, her songs were only heard in the most casual settings; passing the guitar in a circle in someone’s living room, barely singing above the crackle of firewood or clinking bottles.

This show is for ages 18+; Doors at 8pm.
Tickets for this show are $10 ADV; $12 DOS.

Dan Deacon has garnered a reputation in the underground as an intense performer and classic showman. The table top full of pedals, sine wave generator, vocoder and casio blasting through the PA, joined by a makeshift light board with various bulbs and green skull strobe light, make his all out dance-til-you-drop performance a complete experience.

This show is for ages 18+; tickets are $10.

BHAM.FM PRESENTS: VULTURE WHALE / THE DIRTY LUNGS / THE SECRET DANGERS

This show is for ages 18 and up; Doors at 8pm.
Tickets for this show are $6.

After a seven-year hiatus, Themselves return on a rampage of heady rap wrung from hardworking hands. Of course, the duo of Jeffrey “Jel” Logan and Adam “Doseone” Drucker are never too far from the frontlines of good art and honest music.

Last year, their Subtle sextet released its third album, the critically acclaimed and wildly adventurous ExitingARM, and a 2005 collaboration with Germany’s the Notwist yielded the cult gem 13 & God. Now, hungrier than ever, Themselves are here to scrawl a bold new chapter across rap’s too-stale tome. Furthermore, they set out to accomplish this feat unadorned, returning to hip-hop’s most cardinal and carnal form, the number two: the DJ and the MC—neck-snapping beats and precision prose—accompanied by a little righteous indignation, of course.

This show is for ages 18+; Doors at 8pm.
Tickets for this show are $8 Advanced, $10 Day of.

Since August of 2005, The Life and Times has played over 200 shows in support of their debut full-length release Suburban Hymns (DeSoto) on US tours with bands like the Appleseed Cast, Murder By Death, Pelican, Mono, Sparta, Pinback, Engine Down, and William Elliot Whitmore.

The Magician EP, their fourth overall release, is a fad-free snapshot of a band that’s constantly morphing from a dragon, to a butterfly, to blinding white light, to a bird, to Godzilla, and back again, often within the space of just one song. RIYLs don't do the band justice from a recorded or live standpoint, but suffice it to say that the sound on the Magician EP puts them in company with artists like Pink Floyd, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, Built to Spill and just a pinch of early U2. Domo.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Doors at 8pm; $8/10.

SHOUT G+L FILM FEST PRESENTS: WERE THE WORLD MINE If High School Musical indulged in flights of homoerotic fancy it might look something like Were the World Mine. In this musical comedy of errors director Tom Gustafson draws inspiration from an ever more timeless source: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Limited seating available. All seating is
unreserved. Food and Drink Specials from 5-7pm.

Doors open at 5 p.m / Film starts at 7 p.m
$10 advance / $12 day of event
Students and SHOUT members are always $7

ADV. TICKETS ONLY AVAILABLE @ www.bhamshout.com

Come test your rock knowledge with Kim and Brooks for Scrollworks, a very worthwhile musical charity. Don't be intimidated, there are a wide variety of questions and most people do better than they think. And even if you come out alone, we'll set you up with a team--or feel free to go it solo. We promise you'll have a great time and hear even better tunes. Please come out--again, it's for very worthwhile local cause.

8pm / $2 suggested donation

8pm
18 and up
Free

Raised in Sweden and based in New Orleans, Theresa Andersson got her start recording sweet harmonies in her own kitchen. Equally influenced by folk music and Motown, her music quickly attracted the support of her city's icons, Dr. John and Allen Toussaint among them.

Sampling Smokey Johnson's "I Can't Help It" while channeling the bluesy strength of Dusty Springfield, Andersson crafts a bit of a '60s revival in "Birds Fly Away." Handclaps, soda bottles and dulcimers join an arsenal of guitar, violin, drums and tambourine. In concert, she performs without a backing band; instead, she re-creates her lush sound using a two-tiered panel of foot pedals, sampling herself and looping her sounds.

The result is a choreographed dance accompanying each song; unique and spontaneous. By layering one effect atop another, Andersson heightens the anticipation, literally building songs from scratch as she did in her kitchen.

This show is for ages 18+; $8; Doors at 8pm.

The documentary RELIGULOUS follows policical humorist and author Bill Mayer ("Real Time With Bill Mayer," "Politically Incorrect") as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute anayltical skills, irrerevent wit and his commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey.

Directed by Larry Charles ("BORAT," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"), RELIGULOUS will mark Charles' first feature project since the critically acclaimed, wildly successful BORAT.

This film is free and will begin at 8pm.

First off a note of warning: Matt and Kim aren’t a typical band and this isn’t going to read like your average biography. For example, although Matt and Kim know they met while taking classes at Pratt Institute in New York, Kim’s not sure what year she graduated, let alone when they decided to start playing music as a two-piece. What they do know is that when Matt and Kim started out approximately four years ago, they had no idea how to play their respective instruments—a fact that makes the band’s success story almost as unique as their distinctive brand of synth-and-drums dance punk.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $10.

Tapes 'n Tapes gained popularity very rapidly after a series of write-ups on music blogs, first on EAR FARM and then on sites such as Music For Robots and Gorilla vs. Bear, leading many to cite them as one of the most recognizable examples of the "blog band" phenomenon. However, it wasn't until The Loon received a favorable review from Pitchfork Media, including a "best new music" commendation, that the band truly started to find success. Tapes 'n Tapes have received favorable reviews from other critics, and have been compared to such alternative bands as Pixies and Pavement, or the recent alt-pop phenomenon Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

Doors at 8pm
18 and up
Tickets are $12

HEY KIDS!!! KGTD IS BACK AT BOTTLETREE AND IS 18+!!! JANUARY KGTD WAS HUGE!! AND THERE AIN'T NO STOPPING US NOW!!

Nastique and Dj Charles III are gonna party like it's 2009! and of course the ATF Dance Squad will be there to get the party started!! KGTD is the CRAZIEST dance party in town so don't miss out!!

you know the drill...

doors at 9pm
18 and up (I.D. required)
$5 at the door

Blitzen Trapper is a group of native Northwesterners, most of whom grew up in Salem, Oregon. They have lived and played together in Portland since 2000. Critics and fans have compared their music to just about everything; there have been calls to coin a new genre. After self-releasing Wild Mountain Nation in June of 2007, the group ventured beyond the West Coast for the first time to tour extensively in Europe and North America. Furr their first Sub Pop release.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $10 ADV, $12 DOS.

What do you think is in the box? What do you want it to be?

Come and play the box game!

The Box Game is the traveling stage of a larger artwork called 'What's in the Box'. In the month of March a black box will be taken to various locations throughout the United States and Canada by Lukas Geronimas and David Horvitz. At each location they will set up a game that asks people what they think is in the box.

All ballots will be collected, analyzed and statistically interpreted to determine what is in the box. With these results what has been collectively imagined to be in the box will be constructed. All players who provide contact information will receive a gift during the final stage. The final stage of The Box Game will be an exhibition.

Your guess will be part of it. Your vote counts.

'What's in the Box' is the inaugural exhibition for Black Hole Space, a traveling art venue conceived by Joshua Kit Clayton and Curated by Terri C. Smith.

Come test your rock knowledge with Kim and Brooks for Scrollworks, a very worthwhile musical charity. Don't be intimidated, there are a wide variety of questions and most people do better than they think. And even if you come out alone, we'll set you up with a team--or feel free to go it solo. We promise you'll have a great time and hear even better tunes. Please come out--again, it's for very worthwhile local cause.

8pm / $2 suggested donation

Hymns uses a type of rich and evocative story telling that could only come from the South. The songs have a rollicking, classic sound, rich with instrumentation and full of reflective lyrical vignettes. Originally from North Carolina and Texas, Hymns is now based in New York City.

Death On Two Wheels makes rock ’n’ roll dangerous again, with slurry-blurry lyrics, half-cocked dreamspeak of portents and regret, and a formidable guitar attack that recalls the nasty duels Allen Collins waged with Gary Rossington before Skynyrd’s final plane ride.

From Oxford, Alabama, the new, old sound is full of the issues of youthful life with a strange and compelling appeal to those who have gone this way before. This masterful mix of pop, folk and indie rock leaves you confident and expectant. Get ready to enjoy these fresh songs that carry the listener through a wonderful range of sound and emotion introducing- The Bridges.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $8. Doors at 8pm.

Like a welcome draught from a bottomless well, David Eugene Edwards (also
frontman of acclaimed band 16 Horsepower), sings untamed and mercy-drenched songs for thirsty listeners. The grandson of a Nazarene preacher, Edwards dropped out of a Colorado high school to play music. He is known for an immense personal humility—a contrast to his stark lyrics about the wretched state of humanity, although he is the first to tell you that he is singing to himself. This paradoxical nature inspires such formidable listeners as Flemish choreographer and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus, who based the score of the dance production “Blush” on the 2003 Wovenhand album Blush Music (Sounds Familyre).

Nashville's Across Tundras and Birmingham's Den of Lions will open.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $8.

Come out to Bottletree to support The Broken Letters as they set out for their spring tour.

Model Citizen and The Dirty Lungs will be there too.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $8.

Doors at 8pm; show at 9pm.

Vetiver’s Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar, writing music and recording as a member of The Raymond Brake, which is where he first met future Vetiver members Trippe and Dunn. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic helped form the rock band Tussle, and at the same time began recruiting other local musicians, friends and confederates, including Colm O'Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Devendra Banhart, and Joanna Newsom, among others, to record the 2004 debut Vetiver.

Vetiver's songs have been described as "dreamy, gentle songs that George Harrison would have written in some sunny country garden."

Vetiver is currently on Sub Pop Records.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $10.

Doors at 8pm.

You may...correction...you WILL remember The Death Set and Team Robespierre if you were at Bottletree this Summer for the F*** Yeah Fest! Australia to Baltimore transplants THE DEATH SET are Devo for 21st attention spans and TEAM ROBESPIERRE is one of the best dance-punk bands out there!

Also playing this show is Ninjasonik, Totally Michael and Cerebral Ballzy.

Please, please DON'T COME TO THIS SHOW if you're not into dancing, having fun. It would be a waste of your time and money and you would DEFINITELY have fun.

doors at 8pm. 18 and up.

Incepted by a mutual admiration for each others musical guile, Islands member and lyrical artisan Nick Thorburn and the resourceful folk craftsman Jim Guthrie, have spliced their creative juices together for their musical endeavor Human Highway. While tepidly joyous, Human Highway resembles the audible components of both artist's musical day jobs as it pushes itself into a sonic sphere of lush harmonics that are reminiscent of 50's/60's doo wop i.e the Everly Brothers.

Cotton Jones' Michael Nau (formerly of Page France) and Whitney McGraw have hearts - huge, questioning hearts - full of music that mixes elements of soul, rock and gospel into a gauzy cocoon of small-town sound.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $10.

The DC/Chicago/Louisville connection has been long-standing triangle of similar ideas, ethics and sounds, and Louisville, Kentucky’s Young Widows keep that spirit alive. Of course, the inventive guitar work, a signature of guitarist/vocalist Evan Patterson’s bands throughout his years in Breather Resist, Black Cross and The National Acrobat, is still intact and at its peak here. It’s basically solid, grooving, hypnotic, heavy noise-rock… The comparisons are for reference only. This is a different band, a different sound, a different idea: Young Widows.

MY DISCO, a reductive art-rock trio, is a Melbourne based collaboration between Liam Andrews, Rohan Rebeiro and Ben Andrews that formed in Australia in 2003. Their music is both a mirror of discipline and its inversion, with unsettling one or two note drills.


Tickets for this show are $8.
This show is for ages 18 and up.

Musicians often head to New York, it‘s a familiar story. But something magical happened when Matthew Houck picked up stakes halfway and moved to Brooklyn from Athens, Georgia.

Raised in Alabama, Houck has always made music steeped in the Southern-gothic tradition, a sweet American folk soaked in atmosphere like a pound cake in rum. Our weary-voiced bandleader cemented his reputation for making masterpiece albums filled with hallelujahs for both grace and tragedy with songs that swung from ramshackle and joyous to broken and pleading in the space of a prayer. The live show swung along this arc ñ with Houck sometimes backed by up to 14 or 15 members ñ creating a full-blown, shambling, marching-brass-band-revival-tent celebration.

Phosphorescent will be on tour in support of the new album To Willie due out on February 3rd.

Brooklyn's Deer Tick and Durham's Megafaun are set to open.

This show is for ages 18 and up.
Tickets for this show are $10.
Doors at 8pm.

Paul F. Tompkins is very funny. A Comedy Central featured comedian, he is a regular on VH1's "Best Week Ever" and has been on Mr. Show, Tenacious D, The Late Show with Conan O'Brian, and The Daily Show as well as several movies to include "Magnolia", "Anchorman: The Legend of Rob Burgandy", "Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny" and "There Will Be Blood".

Musical guests SWORN ENEMIES will open.

Doors at 9:00pm.

This show is for ages 18 and up.

Tickets for this show are $15 ADV and $17DOS. Save a few bucks and purchase your tickets at Bottletree.

Come test your rock knowledge with Kim and Brooks for Scrollworks, a very worthwhile musical charity. Don't be intimidated, there are a wide variety of questions and most people do better than they think. And even if you come out alone, we'll set you up with a team--or feel free to go it solo. We promise you'll have a great time and hear even better tunes. Please come out--again, it's for very worthwhile local cause.

8pm / $2 suggested donation