September’s KBC opens with spoken word, followed by a saxophone solo layered with effects, moving into violin + electronics, leading to a free improvisation set between trumpet, guitar, and drums, before unraveling into noise, breakcore, and absurdist performance art.

Featuring:
Chickens don’t fly, but this one does
Helton / Crouch / Bragg
clerical_necromancy
.document
Adam Mirza
Erich Netherton
Melodic Monster
Mark Warren
slomomachine
Scott Kelley
Valore

Thursday September 18
@ eyedrum art & music gallery
515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd SW
8PM | Free Entry

ANNOUNCEMENT: Sign-ups are now open for the October 16 installment of KBC featuring special guest B|_ank. Scan the QR code to access the submission form. Click HERE for more details!

In its various incarnations over the years, Kirkwood Ballers Club has created an environment where generations of avant-garde musical energy and talent have flourished throughout periods of existence and inactivity.

During its early years of Kirkwood Ballers Club at Lenny’s Bar, a parade of local punk, hip-hop, jazz, experimental musicians and performance artists would sign up to play, including everyone from garage punks Cole Alexander of the Black Lips and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, to Janelle Monáe and Grammy-winning saxophone player Kebbi Williams. All utilized the format to create music in the moment that expanded upon their typical repertoires.

"The Kirkwood Ballers Club was always a place of pure freedom. I learned from KBC at Lenny’s Bar and from the scene at Eyedrum how to be free. I saw some of the most original and provocative things at the KBC, and it totally affected my life as an artist.”- Kebbi Williams