Live Concert Photography: The Coathangers with Patio and Tijuana Panthers at Baby’s All Right 3/29/16

Live Concert Photography: The Coathangers with Patio and Tijuana Panthers

Baby’s All Right

March 29, 2016

Since their formation over a decade ago, Atlanta, GA-based trio and JOVM mainstay The Coathangers have released four full-length albums and have gone on a number of North American and European tours, all of which have cemented their reputation for incredibly gritty and catchy songs — and for unruly live shows. Now, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past few months, you’d know that during the recording sessions for Suck My Shirt, the band went through a lineup change as Candice Jones left the band, making the band a trio comprised of Julia Kugel (vocals and guitar), Meredith Franco (bass), and Stephanie Luke (drums). And as a result, Suck My Shirt revealed a refined a songwriting approach in which the material was more streamlined and direct while retaining the raw, fury and (seeming) spontaneity that won them national and international attention. The Atlanta-based trio’s recently released fifth full-length effort, Nosebleed Weekend continues in the same lines of Suck My Shirt as album singles like “Make It Right,” and  “Nosebleed Weekend” possess a similar primal simplicity as those singles nod at garage punk and surfer rock — but with the sort of anthemic hooks that you can imagine a room full of sweaty, moshing concertgoers could yell along with lustily.