Jason Narducy books an April night at the Rialto Club

Bob Mould's longtime bassist and the leader of Split Single, whose last record featured R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, plays Hotel Indigo's music room on Sunday, April 4.

For a lot of rock fans, Jason Narducy is the bassist they've watched from the floor without always catching the name. In Athens, there's a good reason to learn it, and on Sunday, April 4, a small room downtown to do it in.

Jason Narducy plays The Rialto Club at Hotel Indigo on Sunday, April 4, 2027, with an 8 p.m. start. Tickets are $25–$100 through Eventbrite, and the show was announced Oct. 28.

Narducy is best known as Bob Mould's bassist, and he has also been part of Superchunk's live lineup. His own band is Split Single, the project he leads as songwriter and frontman. Split Single has three albums: *Fragmented World* in 2014, which had Spoon's Britt Daniel credited on bass; *Metal Frames* in 2016 on Inside Outside Records; and *Amplificado* in 2021, also on Inside Outside.

That last record is where the Athens connection comes in. *Amplificado* featured Superchunk's Jon Wurster on drums and former R.E.M. member Mike Mills, and it was recorded at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studios in Chicago. Narducy and Mills have talked shop on the record, too, sitting down together for an episode of the Talkhouse podcast. For a town that still measures a lot of its music history against R.E.M., a songwriter who has made a record with Mills is not exactly a stranger.

The room is a good fit for this kind of night. The Rialto Room inside the Rialto Club is a music venue by night, set up for live music, with a listed theater capacity of 200. That's a long way from the stages Narducy has played behind Mould, and that's the appeal: a player who usually anchors someone else's sound, in a space where you can hear every part. The room has hosted a range of shows, with Peter Buck and Kevn Kinney, Shawn Mullins and Perpetual Groove among the acts on its calendar.

When to get tickets: the ticket range runs from $25 to $100, which suggests tiered seating in a room with a couple hundred seats. The cheaper seats in a small room tend to go first, so if you're planning on it, look at the Eventbrite page sooner rather than later.

A Sunday at 8 p.m. is an easy night out in Athens, early enough that you're home at a reasonable hour and late enough to grab dinner first. For anyone who has watched Narducy hold down the low end for someone else, April 4 is the chance to hear what he does with the songs out front.

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