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The Red & Black | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | 7B
COURTESY DE NOVO DAHL
▲ De Novo Dahl will play the 40 Watt Club Friday night in
support of their new album. Local acts Tin Cup Prophette
and the Modern Skirts will share the stage as well.
De Novo Dahl
to play 40 Watt
By KELLY SKINNER DE NOVO DAHL
kskinner@randb.com
Summer Hymns celebrate new album
By ALEC WOODEN
awooden@randb.com
COURTESY SUMMER HYMNS
▲ Local band Summer Hymns will celebrate the release
of its new album, “Backward Masks,” Saturday at the 40
Watt Club. M. Coast and Telenovela will open the show.
SUMMER HYMNS
Joel’s the loner and the
rebel. Serai is the mother hen
of the band — she’s also
quite saucy. Arlo is one sly
fox — a snow fox, actually.
Keith is the ponderer and a
rocking bassist. Mixta is the
goofy guy who is full of use
less facts and horrendous
jokes.
They’re on the cusp of the
indie rock circuit (they’ve
played with such acts as
Wilco, Elf Power, and Paper
Lions in the past), they’re
fun and friendly, and their
fanbase continues to expand.
But that isn’t to say
Nashville-based group De
Novo Dahl is without its war
wounds.
“We lost three members in
a two-week period of time
around a year ago. That left
three (band members), and
then we added two,” said
vocalist Joel Dahl inane-
mail interview.
By looking at the band’s
MySpace page or Web site, it
would be impossible to sense
the struggle that the group
went through only a short
time ago. The band is edgy,
strange and seemingly
unafraid to be themselves.
The band lists its sound as
“psychadelic claymation art
core pop extravaganza.”
“It is a little bit of a joke,”
Dahl said. “We do love clay
mation and cartoons. We also
When: 9:30 p.m. Friday
Where: 40 Watt Club
Cost: $9
like art and getting to its
core. Most of us are psycho,
and our music is pop with
everything previously men
tioned tugging it in many dif
ferent directions.”
To And inspiration for De
Novo Dahl’s songs requires a
plunge into various art medi
ums.
Among Dahl’s many influ
ences are David Bowie,
Super Furry Animals,
Snowden, Gieves (a photog
rapher), John Updike, pulp
novels, westerns, good stand-
up comedy, Jason Bernard
Claxton (a writer) and M.F.
Doom.
“I could go on forever if I
were trying to speak for
everyone. We are all like-
minded in a few ways, but we
are all into lots of different
stuff,” Dahl said.
De Novo Dahl will bring
its skills and its style to the
40 Watt Club tonight. This
will be the band’s fourth or
fifth time in Athens.
According to Dahl, the
show is going to be more fun
than a person can stand, and
he promised dancing, loud
ness and costumes.
He also said the new CD,
“will blow your mind ... but
not quite yet.”
Perhaps Teddy Roosevelt
was onto something.
Sometimes it is indeed bet
ter to walk softly while car
rying a big stick.
But you don’t have to
take his word for it — we
have our own proof right
here in Athens.
“Our motto has always
been ‘kill them softly,”’ said
Philip Brown, drummer of
local band Summer Hymns.
His band began as the
pet project of singer and gui
tarist Zachary Gresham,
who has employed a rotat
ing cast of characters since
the group’s early days, with
Brown as his only constant
companion.
These lineup changes,
along with the experiences
of Gresham’s rural child
hood, all lend a hand to the
current sound of the band.
“Summer Hymns is the
sound of a bully getting his
retribution,” said Gresham.
Brown echoed this senti
ment. “It’s hard to say
By MICHELLE FLOYD
mfloyd@randb.com
A lot of bands in the
Classic City, as well as many
visiting musicians, just click
with a certain venue.
They might only like to
play at Tasty World or the 40
Watt Club or even DT’s
Down Under.
For members of the coun
try-folk band Little Country
Giants, that venue is The
Melting Point.
“It has a real stage, great
sound and great seating,”
said guitarist Joseph Evans.
“The audience is close and
really into what is going on.”
He especially loves the
crowds. “It’s a strange place
for me — the stage lights are
nice and bright, so you can’t
see very far into the audi
ence, if at all,” he said. “You
can still smell them, feel
their heat, hear the ice in
their drinks tinkle.”
Then, he said, fellow gui
tarist Russell Cook rips his
pants or says something
exactly what our sound is,”
he said. “I would say we are
influenced by anything from
Neil Young to Soft Machine
to Chamillionaire all sitting
on a porch drinking PBRs.”
Such an untraceable
sound makes for an equally
AN EVENING OF
AMERICANA MUSIC
Featuring Workhorses of the
Entertainment/Recreational
Industry, Little Country Giants
and Adam Klein
When: 8:30 p.m. Saturday
(doors at 6)
Where: The Melting Point
Price: $6.50/adv., $8/door
More Information:
meltingpointathens.com
“heart-felt.”
Ripped pants or not,
Cook said Saturday’s special
show at The Melting Point,
An Evening of Americana
Music, should be a “great
sounding” one.
“The Melting Point is a
really great listening room,”
he said. “It’s set up kind of
like a mini amphitheater,
designed for live music,
especially acoustic music.”
Cook said acoustics in a
music venue are important,
eclectic live experience.
“A Summer Hymns show
can be anything from a
mind-blowing rip-your-face-
off ride to a tender, honest
confessional, or it can be a
drunken, almost embarrass
ing sermon,” said Brown.
especially for his band.
Fellow country-folk artist
Adam Klein agrees that the
band’s Americana music is a
perfect fit for the venue.
“We’ve got sad songs of
lost love, gorgeous har
monies and guitar picking,”
Playing with M. Coast and
Telenovela
When: 10 p.m. Saturday
Where: 40 Watt Club
Price: $5
“But it’s always a sight to
see and hear.”
Saturday’s show will be
far from typical, as the trio
will celebrate the release of
their recently completed
album, “Backward Masks.”
“The album turned out
great,” said Brown. “We
went through a couple of
line-up changes, but we
wanted it to be perfect so
that’s what it took.”
With such a diverse
sound, it may be hard to
label the band’s fanbase.
“We love everyone and
believe that you don’t have
to be a specific ‘type’ of per
son to like Summer Hymns,”
said Brown. “Come to the 40
Watt Saturday night and
unite.”
he said about the groups
performing Saturday. “Think
great voices, Appalachian
sounds, upright basses,
dobros and bushes on a
snare. No pretension, just
fine country, folk and a bit of
rock music.”
Little Country Giants return to Tasty World
COURTESY ADAM KLEIN
A Local singer/songwriter Adam Klein will join Little
Country Giants and Workhorses of the Entertainment/
Recreational Industry in an evening of Americana music.
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