Tonight: Atmosphere at 7th St Entry

I am so damn excited for tonight’s show at the entry – the fourth of seven shows at the 7th St Entry for Atmosphere and special guests Musab, P.O.S, DeeJayBird and Swiss Army. Slug, who’s rereleasing his “Headshots: Se7en” disc, should be as entertaining as ever, especially on the small stage, but I’m really looking forward to seeing P.O.S., who has been getting tons of press this year. He was on “The Show to be Named Later” this weekend and looked pretty sweet. I just hope he sounds better live then he did on the show. Musab is always good, but I don’t think I’ve seen him live since Stevens Square Park about 5 years ago. Hopefully I’ve been building it up too much in my head, so I hope the show lives up to it.

Chris Riemenschneider: Testing a new Atmosphere

“Everybody in this bar thinks they know my story.”

How true and twisted those words rang Tuesday, as Slug and a wholly unknown new band passing for Atmosphere kicked off a seven-night stand at 7th Street Entry.

The shows — which last through Tuesday and include an eighth, private gig Sunday — are an unprecedented run at either of the First Avenue stages. The Replacements’ five-night party when “Tim” came out in 1985 is the nearest thing. Even with all that was going on with the ‘Mats back then, though, there’s no way those performances had the same sense of reinvention that Tuesday’s gig did.