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Thursday, November n. aoio | The Red a Black
MUSIC NOTES
The Red & Black’s event guide to music in and around Athens from Nov. 11- Nov. 17.
Since the 70s, college
radio stations across the
country have been the
heralds of original, new and
occasionally even good inde
pendent bands.
But the University's own
WUOG 90.5 FM isn’t just send
ing these bands out over the
airwaves anymore.
Tonight will mark the first
WUOG Fest: three nights at
three different venues filled
with bills that will exhibit the full
range of WUOG’s wildly
diverse playlists.
"At the radio station we
have a wide palette of choices
to choose from and I kinda
wanted to showcase that,” said
junior William Kennedy, local
music director at WUOG and
lead organizer of the Fest.
The show will provide a
stage (multiple stages, in fact)
for more than a dozen of the
station’s regularly-aired bands,
as well as illustrating to con
certgoers, students especially,
that the station doesn't want to
exclude anyone.
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is playing something for every
one," Kennedy said.
The three bills include
(nusic from the far corners of
Athens music, from the obvious
indie rock frontliners to irrever
ent metal to experimental
dance pop to heavy-hitting DJ
mixes.
"It’s a mix of bands I like,
bands the radio station likes,
bands that other people on the
staff at the radio station have
told me they like and like to
see play," Kennedy said.
Big names include indie folk
troupe Yo Soybean (Friday, Go
Bar), the spacey, melodic rock
of Venice is Sinking (Saturday,
40 Watt), and have-a-drink
and-jump-around dance pop
from Reptar, for which
Kennedy is the keyboardist.
Wyatt Pless, DJ of local
band program “Sound of the
City" at WUOG and guitarist/
lead hollerer for Bigfoot, play
ing Saturday, said there is one
thing all of the cross-genre
groups had in common.
‘[They’re] bands that are
really sincere in what they do
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and are really trying to make
something that is creative and
their own, rather than trying to
make music to get a record
contract or something," he
said.
The philosophy of the sta
tion, Pless said, is to give a
voice to those artists who don!
have nationwide distribution
and aren’t all over MTV.
“I think all of these people
are making music because
they love to make music and
are not necessarily worried if
their gonna make a lot of
money," Pless said. They’re
making music to contribute to
the larger artistic society or
Athens and America in general,
I suppose."
But this is not only a show
about supporting local music,
but supporting WUOG as a
provider Of local music.
Although the station is funded
and operated within the
University system, organizers
want these shows to raise
awareness around Athens of
the station's existence and
variety.
So for those of you who hit
every campus fair and Tate
folding table looking for swag,
you should stop by a show if
for nothing else than goodies.
Kennedy said promotional
items such as visors, glasses,
hacky sacks and more will all
be available for free, and
they’ve even coordinated a
screen print made special for
the Fest, so bring a T-shirt,
poster, or pair of underwear to
be stamped as the ultimate
personalized souvenir.
And if you're in the less
materialistic camp, remember
it’s all for the cause of spread
ing new music.
"I feel like sometimes peo
ple think-that WUOG only has
pretentious indie rock or some
thing," Kennedy said. "I wanted
to kind of show that, no, we
don't just have that, we have a
lot of shit, and if you just give it
a chance, you might just like
what you hear."
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A Venice is Sinking (top) will put its beautiful
harmonics on display Saturday at WUOG Fest
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Compiled by Chris Mifen
Designed by Ana Kabakova
Contact: music@randb.com
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Lineup
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10 p.m., free
Marshmaßow Coast
Neeey Gallons
Steeping Friends ,
Witches
Frioav
Go Bar
9 p.m., free (21+), $3 (18+)
Abandon the Earth Mission
Arturo In Letto
Immuzikatton
Marriage
Yo Soybean
Saturday
40 Watt Club
8 pm, ss(2l+), $7 (18+)
Reptar 9
Venice Is Sinking
Oryx and Crake
Bigfoot
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