Two fixtures of the 2000s Athens music scene, King of Prussia and Annie Merkley, will be joined by local psych/art rock band Burly Ivy for a special bill at Normal Bar this week. Formed in Athens in 2006, King of Prussia is a psych-pop band that has released four albums, toured extensively across the U.S. and Europe, worked with artists like Mike Mills and members of Elf Power, and opened on tour for acts like Deerhunter and Ezra Furman. Its first new single since 2014, “Perfect Daze,” is coming out the day of the show, when frontman Brandon Taj Hanick will play a King of Prussia solo set. Annie Merkley is a singer-songwriter whose band Annie and Her Guns performed in Athens frequently in the early 2000s. Since then, Merkley’s playing has taken her across the world, from England (where she recorded an EP with Neil Halstead from Slowdive) to Antarctica to Nepal, and now to Santiago, Chile, where she currently lives.
WHO: Annie Merkley, Burly Ivy, King of Prussia
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 10, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Ciné
HOW MUCH: $10
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