Magnapop with Five Eight and Anna Kramer & Easy Now, 26 July | Event in Atlanta | AllEvents

Magnapop with Five Eight and Anna Kramer & Easy Now

The Garden Club at Wild Heaven West End

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Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1010 White Street SW, Atlanta, GA, United States, Georgia

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Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm (EDT)

1010 White Street SW, Georgia

1000 Joseph E Lowery Blvd SW, GA 30310, Georgia, Atlanta, United States

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Magnapop with Five Eight and Anna Kramer & Easy Now
MAGNAPOP

Magnapop is an American rock band based inAtlanta. Formed in 1989, the band consists of songwriting duo Linda Hopper as vocalist and Ruthie Morris on guitar with Shannon Mulvaney on bass and David McNair on drums. After success in the United States in the mid-1990s with the singles “Slowly Slowly" and “Open The Door" and a series of albums produced by Michael Stipe, Bob Mould, and Geza X, the band went on an extended hiatus due to the dissolution of their record label. They returned in 2005 on the Daemon Records release Mouthfeel. The band has continued to perform and record since this reunion and have self-released more albums. Including their most recent release The Circle Is Round. Magnapop's musical style is noted for blending the pop vocals and melodies of Hopper with the aggressive, punk-influenced guitar-playing of Morris and her back-up vocal harmonies.

FIVE EIGHT

Five Eight is a legendary rock band from Athens, Georgia. They’ve played with R.E.M. and The Ramones and Cheap Trick and all the best alt-rock and post-punk bands from the 1990s. They were perpetually the “next big thing” in the wake of Nirvana’s huge success and they did many of the right things to follow that path, but were ultimately fated to have no record labels successfully break them nationally. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise in several ways: they are all still alive 38 years later, they are all still friends and bandmates, and they are making some of the best music of their lives.

While a career in rock n’ roll was certainly a dream of theirs, these are not guys who could ever stop playing music, no matter the situation. So they kept their nose to the grindstone and kept writing emotionally gripping songs about characters on the edge of life and death, all the while keeping a sense of humor about it and growing more and more grateful to still be here and still so connected to each other.These guys are grinding it out in a club or studio or basement *today* and that is its own reward. They have stuck with it so long that they’ve redefined success and it doesn’t involve being the next big thing. And those with this secret knowledge — that Five Eight has re-contextualized almost 40 years of struggle and sweat and tears and joy and the magic of rock music — are the lucky ones.

The 2024 release of the feature documentary WEIRDO: THE STORY OF FIVE EIGHT — currently touring one city at a time with the band always doing Q&A and playing a rock show in the room afterward — has put some recent wind in their sails. Paste Magazine called it "A gripping story of one of the best live bands to come out of Athens, full of fantastic music and visuals." The band has a new record, tentatively titled Help a Sinner, in the can. The recent release of their 2025 single “Take Me to the Skate Park” — an accidental cousin to Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized” and Five Eight’s most punk rock song ever released — was a big hit at SXSW this past March, causing Rolling Stone to call them “Vibrant and exciting. The kind of rock you play when you’re committed to the game for life.” They never “made it,” but they made it.

ANNA KRAMER & EASY NOW

Led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Anna Kramer, Easy Now features a rotating cast of Atlanta musical stalwarts, including members of Nikki and The Phantom Callers, The Forty Fives, Magnapop, The Tom Collins, Ponderosa and Shantih Shantih.

She has racked up many notable performances including live duets with RIVERS CUOMO and WEEZER, Michael Geier aka PUDDLES PITY PARTY and the legendary CHARLIE LOUVIN. She has shared the stage with a wide spectrum of music icons including RONNIE SPECTOR and WANDA JACKSON plus BAND OF HORSES, LUCERO, FLEET FOXES, ANDREW BIRD, JAKOB DYLAN, MUDHONEY and Tommy Ramone of THE RAMONES and many more.

Anna Kramer & Easy Now’s third full length release “I Am So Happy You’re Here” was recorded at Chase Park Transduction with producer and engineer DAVID BARBE (REM, DRIVE BY TRUCKERS, K.D. LANG, DEERHUNTER

Featuring the original lineup with Anna Kramer, Shannon Mulvaney, and Adam Renshaw.


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Magnapop with Five Eight and Anna Kramer & Easy Now, 26 July | Event in Atlanta | AllEvents
Magnapop with Five Eight and Anna Kramer & Easy Now
Sat, 26 Jul, 2025 at 07:00 pm