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Prog-rockers Wishgift flirt with order and chaos By CHRIS MILLER The Red & Black The line between in and out of control is delicate, especially when it comes to hard rock. Wishgift, a prog rock band from Chicago coming through Athens tonight, isn’t just on that line it is that line. “I really like that sound of sudden shifts coming out of the middle of a riff where you’re expecting it to resolve a certain way and then one beat gets dropped out, or just little things like doing something three times instead of four,” said Wishgift drummer Marc Riordan. There is no shortage of sud den shifts in the band’s barrage of songs. The heavily distorted, holler heavy songs lean more toward a metal FUgazi than other prog rock bands that can get so focused on riffs that they forget about rock ’n’ roll. “I think that it’s always been important to all of us, that it remains sort of down-to-earth and driven by instinct and fun rather than getting too technical WINTER BREAK CONCERT SAMPLER Dec. 10: 40 Watt Club; $5,10 p.m. Future Birds, Ninja Gun, Song Swap Caledonia; $6 (21+),6p.m. Cinemechanica, Coco Rico, So Many Dynamos Dec. 11: Athens Farmers’ Market; free, 10 a.m. to noon. Kyshona Armstrong Caledonia; $5 (21+), 10 p.m. Dierz Eve, Kill the School, Manger, Sygian Apothegm Dec. 17: Farm 255; free, 11 p.m. The Woodgrains Thank von to those who have already - made their Senior S iff nature c\ i ft! .v\V CIVs V r M 2011 * Ik iipijiim ( i.mYlxth.mli> C,n Jmins \l.mn Hr.ii IK-' M Vu i S(. iii \t S.uii.nilli.i 1 vm, A.li.n M ' v,i,H 1 M„ !,. I | ( M. C atkiiu / ' ( f•! . . \||(l. !M)I, ( Ikllt.lW A. 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M \ Jr\ \i 1 1 , m If you arc graduating am time in 201 1, the deadline for your contribution is March A Ist, 201 1. \v\vw.givingtouga.C<>ni / /saa ■. ;. .. t).,iMiKuiyTiM.i,;i i ik aijn •„ 4;-A'-kk^ WISHGIFT When: Tonight at 10 Where: Go Bar Price: TBD and too challenging for the sake of having a challenge,” Riordan said. Wishgift which features Davey Hart on guitar and vocals and bassist John Paul Glover hasn’t been as prolific or tour heavy as many bands that have already had their second birth days, but this isn’t a band with a catalogue of hundreds of two minute, wrote-it-on-the-way-to work-this-moming kind of songs. The power of Wishgift comes from its ability to harness mad ness while still maintaining sani ty. The riffs crash into each other like drunk gutter punks in a mosh pit, except that the punks are actually trained dancers. The pit is a stage and the battle has been carefully choreographed. The technique and the energy are intertwined, and one can’t Dec. 17: 40 Watt Club; $5,8 p.m. The Athens Band, Five Eight, The Orkids, Victor Charlie Highwire; free, 8 p.m. Rand Lines Trio Dec. 18: Farm 255; free, 11 p.m. The Darnell Brothers, I Want Whiskey Little Kings; $5,10 p.m. Dawgs-A-Loose, Kaitlin Jones and the County Fair Dec. 24: 40 Watt Club; $15,8 p.m. Of Montreal, Yip Deceiver VARIETY live without the other. (To con tinue the metaphor, the punks are choreographed, but they are still drunk.) “We’ve always strung a lot of riffs together,” Riordan said. “It’s almost like this sense that there’s Just too much inside of you and ... it’s exploding out of you.” Wishgift has been playing a seven-song set for some time now. and Riordan said that’s purely a function of these songs being hard to write. The band utilizes recordings of its practices to get a feel for the flow (or anti-flow) of songs as the band members write them. “So I’ll listen back to a recording and that sort of expe rience of one part slamming unexpectedly into another part can shock you into this more receptive mode to the energy of the song,” Riordan said. A two-song vinyl release is available now, and Riordan said they made efforts to keep the feeling of lack of control via over dubbing. Sometimes something as simple as bassist Glover’s voice hollering over the track Finals Edition Photo Courtesy Wishgift ▲ Hailing from Chicago, prog-rockers Wishgift stress technique and energy in its ‘holier-heavy’ hard rock. sounding like a man who just took a punch to the crotch is all it takes. It’s a dangerous game for a band, living its life on the verge of everything falling apart. Sometimes it’s bad. 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