Sound Menu December 19 2001 Wed week out

CRYBABY, 1945, CASIONOVA — See Casionova and Crybaby in Earshot, p. 91. Crybaby continues its December residency tonight with some songs from its seemingly endless supply of EPs released this year. At once careening and halting, Crybaby mix torchy twang with swampy lo-fi grinders. Daemon popsters 1945, now trimmed to a trio, play what must be their 1,000th Atlanta show of the year. Star Bar (Smith)

EPICENTER — See listing Wed., Dec. 19. Trinity (Ware)

FRANCINE REED — The always-spirited blues diva struts and sasses on the tiny roadhouse stage. Chip’s (Smith)

ZODIAC V 5.1 — Celebrate five years of Pleazure with some of Atlanta’s favorite imports. Aphrodite, Blame, Isis and Bombazi, Purple Haze, Jygawatt and DJ Octal get the crowd jumping to the sounds of the most pumping party-friendly drum ‘n’ bass. The Riviera (Ware)

Bayou Room Eric Austin Band

Blind Willie’s Houserocker Johnson & The Shadows

The Brandyhouse Flat, Broke & Busted with Skydog Gypsy

Cafe 290 The Mike Kelly Quartet

Checkered Parrot Lou Vendoro

Chip’s Francine Reed

Churchill Grounds Jazz Cafe Pursuance w/Lee Hogan & Dan Furman, Joe Gransden Quartet

Club Geno’s The Brethern

Cowboys Darrin Robbins, Kickback

Dark Horse Tavern Lounge Night w/ Brian Ashley Jones Band

Darwin’s Open blues jam with Joel Williams

Dixie Tavern Ian Schumacher

Eclipse di Luna Bonventure Quartet w/ Amy Pike

Eddie’s Attic Jim McCaffrey, Clay Cook, Spencer Rush

Fuel The Soul Lounge

The Grape at Vinings Piano Rob

Gravity Pub Kodac’s Blue Plate Special

Kaya Wind Down Wednesday: live jazz, spoken word, poetry

The Living Room R&B, Funk, Acid Jazz, House

Luby’s Stuart Sullivan

Metropolitan Pizza Bar Metropolitan Wednesdays

Nomenclature Museum The Belfry

Northside Tavern Daniel “Mudcat” Dudeck

The Poetry Planet Bare Soul Wednesday

Popper’s Karaoke

The Riviera Zodiac V 5.1

Smith’s Olde Bar Ludowici, Tishamingo

Somber Reptile Winterhaven, Viagara Falls

Star Community Bar Crybaby, Casionova, 1945

The Tabernacle DJ Icey

Trinity Epicenter w/ Eve & Motomasa

Violette Jus Jazz w/ Dave Wallis, Eddie Taylor, Dan Coy, Shack Lewis, Rita Graham

Whisker’s Tavern-Dunwoody Dennie McCormick, Ricky FargoContributors to this week’s Menu are Keely Brown, Hal Horowitz, Matt Hutchinson, Omar Khalid, Gregory Nicoll, Hobart Rowland, Roni Sarig, Lee Smith and Tony Ware.