upcoming events.
Markmaker Mike Mauldin Art Show
Opening : Sat May 9, 6-11PM
Artist Talk : Tues May 12, 8-10PM
Closing : Sat May 30, 6-9PM
Grocery Bag, Moon Owl's Mages, Shock Tea and Possums
$10 adv tix available HERE
Austinβs garage psych scene is currently a fertile, reverb drenched breeding ground for some of the most kinetic rock music in the country, and Grocery Bag is its latest prize export. The quartet, comprised of Bella Martinez, Jimmy Mercado, Dillon Aitala, and Logan Kerman, has spent the last two years mutating from a last-minute house show experiment into a formidable unit of face-melting "garage psych brashness." Itβs a recipe that has already earned them support slots for heavyweights like Osees, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets.
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Luke Schneider & Chris Childs
Set 1: Luke Schneider
ambient pedal steel soundscapes that are calming in the New Age tradition, and dynamic with innovative techniques. RIYL Fripp/Eno, Steve Roach, Laraaji, Julianna Barwick, William Tyler
Set 2: Chris Childs & Ipek Eginli
Spontaneous music created through keen and empathetic listening
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Markmaker Mike Mauldin Closing
Opening : Sat May 9, 6-11PM
Artist Talk : Tues May 12, 8-10PM
Closing : Sat May 30, 6-9PM
Summer Sound Bath
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of the summer season. Although the actual summer solstice is weeks away, Ervin Lockett and Rob Sabaria Invite you all to this sound bath and meditation event to acknowledge this time of renewal, illumination, and spiritual connection to the energy of the golden sun as it enters its full spectrum.
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Almost Music plus Williams/Albert/Pritchard/Murray
Set 1: Almost Music (Jack Wright - Evan Lipson - Jonah Gelbart)
Set 2: Kebbi Williams, Jeff Albert, Bill Pritchard, & Kenito Murray
Musicians & Movers: Workshop Session III
This is the final workshop session of the Musicians & Movers series before our live performance. This master class provides a space for artists to work together to explore and refine the relationships between movement and sound. We invite both musicians and dancers to join this community-based platform for a final evening of improvisational exercises and collaborative study.
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Jeff Crompton
Set 1: Jeff Crompton and Ben Shirley
Set 2: Jeff Crompton, Ben Shirley, John Arthur Brown, and Majid Araim
Musicians & Movers: Live Performance
Join us for the final Musicians & Movers performance, a showcase that incorporates program participants as well as a curated ensemble. This performance highlights the results of our workshop series, focusing on the real-time exploration of sound and movement.
An Evening of Shorts: Silent films of the early 20th century with live experimental scores by The Nebulous Orchestra
eyedrum and The Nebulous Orchestra present An Evening of Shorts. Silent films of the early 20th century with live experimental scores.
Asian Glow (Seoul, South Korea), Porcelain Stars, Postcard Nowhere, Boycat
ADVANCE TICKETS HERE
A leading voice in the "fifth-wave emo" and noise pop movement, Shin Gyeongwon (Asian Glow) crafts a sound that is both claustrophobically lo-fi and explosively cathartic, blending shoegaze textures with raw emotional urgency. Fans of the burgeoning Korean indie scene and fuzzy, melodic experimentation won't want to miss this rare Atlanta appearance.
septemberistheonlytimeidonthinkaboutyou, departmefrombearisland, salvinorin-a, Anna Karina, 9atthelatest, and a secret set
BUY ADVANCE TICKETS HERE
Join us for a massive holiday showcase featuring a heavy-hitting lineup of touring acts from the California DIY scene. Headlining the night is septemberistheonlytimeidonthinkaboutyou, a SoCal outfit known for their frantic and emotive blend of skramz and metalcore that pushes the boundaries of the genre. Joining them are tour mates departmefrombearisland, who deliver high-intensity post-hardcore riffs, and salvinorin-a, a screamo project revered for their deeply personal and raw vocal delivery. This is a rare chance to catch some of the most exciting names in the underground heavy scene all on one stage.
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Chamber Cartel plus Jordan Benator
Chamber Cartel is proud to present the world premieres of three newly commissioned works! Listen by Nick Demos is a multi-movement quasi-jazz quartet (Saxophone, Upright Bass, Marimba, and Percussion) that serves as a bit of a warning. Throughout recorded history, humanity has watched helplessly as the darker nature of our souls unravel the nobility of our civilization. One by one, great empires have arisen and flourished over the many centuries only to ultimately succumb to the worst versions of ourselves. Larvae by Jordan Benator is an open instrumentation, variable length work that explores the gestation of an idea over the course of the piece. Machine City Z by Christopher Adler is scored for Alto Flute, Viola, Piano (with preparations), and Percussion. This three movement work is filled with rhythmic activity, hocketing, interlocking rhythms, and engaging textures.
Musicians & Movers: Workshop Session II
The series continues at Eyedrum with our second workshop session. This program is meant to facilitate, explore, and refine live performance collaborations between musicians and dancers. Participants will practice deep listening and explore interdisciplinary exchange in real time. This workshop is cumulative, but participants are welcome to drop in for this individual session.
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Klimchak & JD Walsh Quartet
Set 1: Klimchak solo & duo with Ada Mirza
Set 2: JD Walsh Quartet
JD Walsh (Anagrams, Shy Layers, Natural Palace) is a multimedia artist and musician based in Atlanta, GA. He will perform new compositions on the pedal steel guitar with a quartet featuring Colin Bragg on bass and guitar, John Arthur Brown on percussion and drums, and Blake Helton on electronics and drums.
Markmaker Mike Mauldin Artist Talk
Opening : Sat May 9, 6-11PM
Artist Talk : Tues May 12, 8-10PM
Closing : Sat May 30, 6-9PM
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Shane Parish
Shane Parish is a guitarist, composer, improviser, and interpreter whose work focuses on the translation of music across traditions, canons, and technologies. Known for his precise and expressive fingerstyle technique and his nuanced approach to transcription, Parish treats interpretation as a compositional practice, using existing works as material for structural and sonic transformation.
His recent solo recordings center on recontextualizing music not originally written for guitar. Autechre Guitar (2026, Palilalia Records) presents acoustic fingerstyle arrangements of music by the English electronic duo Autechre. REPERTOIRE (2024) applies the same methodology to works by composers and artists including Alice Coltrane, John Cage, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Ornette Coleman, and Charles Mingus. Solo at CafΓ© OTO (2025, Red Eft Records) documents a live electric guitar performance of English and American folk ballads.
Musicians & Movers: Workshop Session I
Musicians & Movers is a community-based performance platform that brings together musicians and dancers for collaborative, live performances. This first workshop session is held in a master class setting that integrates music theory concepts, butoh poem imagery, somatic practices, and improvisational exercises. Guided by movement artist Luciana Arias, we will examine the intersections of improvisation and composition between sound and movement. Both trained and untrained musicians and movers are welcome.
A.M.P.S. / ATLANTA MONTHLY PLAYERS SESSION
Bring your instrument and make some sweet improvised music with us!
HOUSE BAND 8:30ish followed by IMPROVISERS SESSION until 11:30p.m.
EVERY 1ST WEDNESDAY.
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Matt Booth plus Vice & Ripper
Set 1: Vice and Ripper
Set 2: Matt Booth with Isaac Bishop, Jeff Albert, & Cameron Wilson
Life, Monterey, Flowers for Emily, Expiration Date, Tunnels
Stacked lineup of DIY heavy hitters coming to us from the raw intensity of the DC straight-edge scene to the atmospheric noise of Atlanta's own streets, this show covers the full spectrum of modern screamo and metalcore.
Twisted Teens w/ Small and Sir&Sol
$10 tickets are sold out, $15 tickets are available
Buy advance tickets HERE
Hailing from New Orleans, Twisted Teens bring their self-described "dusty punk" to Atlanta for an essential night at eyedrum art & music gallery.
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Kris Gruda & Cook/Shirley/Rouss
Kris Gruda & Kenito Murray w/ Emily Hay
Kris Gruda and Kenito Murray will play duo whilst utilizing electric guitar, drumset, and other things. KG and KM have collaborated, but this is a 1st time duet! Emily Hay (flutes, vocals, effects) will join them as amidst the set. Therefore, the duo will morph into a trio midstream. Ahoy there!
Chris Cook, Ben Shirley, Taylor Rouss
Hambear (final show), Closeface (FL), Trust (FL), Campaign, Driver
Hambear (final show), Closeface (FL), Trust (FL), Campaign, Driver
7pm
$15
Feardorian, Motha Mayi?, Nitsirt, 3rthzded, Tokidokihoe
New Orleans UG and ATL UG collide for For Dummies
Hosted by New Orleans artist 3rthzded, this showcase brings a raw cross-city energy to the heart of Atlanta. Experience live sets from ATL natives Feardorian and Nitsirt, delivering the high-octane, experimental sounds that define the cityβs concrete underground.
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Austin Englehardt & be not afraid plus Andrew Loveless and Kyle Smith (Blotten)
be not afraid
Be Not Afraid is the moniker of Corey A. Curtisβ decentralizing folk art practice. Relying heavily on handmade βnoise boxesβ built of salvaged materials and open source circuits designed by artist such as Peter Blasser, Ida HirΕ‘enfelder, Martin Freeman, Travis Johns, etc., Be Not Afraid utilizes simple transistor oscillators and CMOS logic chips to explore βthe letting go of control, anxiety, and perfection.β Dabbling in spatial sound and crowd participation he also likes to blur the lines between audience and performer. But really, it is just about having fun and being surprised because as he admits, βI really donβt know what I am doing.β And that is okay.
Andrew Loveless
Kyle Smith (Blotten)
Austin Englehardt
HIRS, Commitment, Cheerleader, B.I.M.B.O.S
Philadelphiaβs finest are descending on Atlanta for a night of unrelenting sound and queer resistance. Join us at eyedrum art & music gallery for a high-intensity double header with special guest tba
Melissa Harshman βA Delicate Balanceβ Closing Artist Talk
Melissa Harshmanβs, Lifetime Teaching Award Exhibition, A Delicate Balance, presented by EYEDRUM Gallery will be on view March 22- April 19. A Delicate Balance will Open with a reception on Sunday March 22, 3-6 PM and close with an Artist Talk on Sunday April 19, 3-6 PM.
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: BASrelief plus Cameron Wilson & Friends
BASrelief
BASrelief is a creative music group featuring mandolinist Majid Araim and cellist Benjamin Shirley, with Julian Scott Bryan on percussion. The group seeks to fashion a space for the traditions of jazz, mountain music, and experimental improvisation to interact, with a focus on deep listening, dynamic energy, and collaborative composition.
Cameron Wilson & Friends
Cameronβs music functions as a living ecosystem, organically weaving ambient textures with propulsive beats. His compositions draw from the intricate rhythms of the natural worldβfrom the microscopic pulse of a cell to the grand cycles of the seasons.
Straddling the intersection of spiritual jazz, electronic music, and contemporary-classical, this performance features a preview of Cameronβs upcoming album 'Walking in Place in Circles'.
Come forth and be immersed!
Dysmorphia, Decedent, Selfish Act, Drill, and Glimpse of Life
Dysmorphia, Decedent, Selfish Act, Drill, and Glimpse of Life
7PM
$10-12
High Contrast Drawing Group
Every week, our drawing night turns into a low-key creative magnetβfive bucks at the door or toss something into the potluck pile (snacks and drinks always welcomed like royalty). For two years straight, this meet-up has pulled in everyone from heavy-hitter artists to folks just picking up a pencil for the first time. No pressure, no assignments, no egoβjust a chance to draw, hang out, swap ideas, and be around people who actually get why youβre obsessed with making things. Happens every week on, exclusively at EYEDRUM. Good vibes only!
Monday Night Creative Music Series: Music and Movers
An evening of improvised music and movement.
SOLD OUT - Dead Butterflies, Porcelain Stars, Open Carry State, Hambear, Current Vision
NO TICKETS AVAILABLE>>THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT
Wrektacular Pre-Show w/ Caughy, Big Yellow, Evil Beezus, Secret Set
Wrektacular Pre-Show w/ Caughy, Big Yellow, Evil Beezus, Secret Set
7pm
$10
Discontent, Fragmentation, Seasons End, Arkestra, Drawn To Blood
Hailing from the heart of the New York hardcore scene, Discontent has quickly built a reputation for delivering a visceral, "hardcore to the bone" experience that bridges the gap between classic heavy hardcore and the dark intensity of death metal. Often associated with the Streets of Hate roster, the band is known for a sonic profile defined by filthy, muddled guitar tones and pummeling, 90s-inspired production that hits, as fans describe it, "like a truck."
A.M.P.S. / ATLANTA MONTHLY PLAYERS SESSION
Bring your instrument and make some sweet improvised music with us!
HOUSE BAND 8:30ish followed by IMPROVISERS SESSION until 11:30p.m.
EVERY 1ST WEDNESDAY. APRIL HOSTED BY JARRED PEPPER


