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bv EMERSON DAMERON
That's right; I'm on to your little game. You
thought you were being 5000 slick, with your little
underground meetings and secret handshakes, but
I slipped by your doorman in a ski mask and no
one even noticed me. Don't think I don't know
where this goddamn mono came from. You're all in
on this. All of you. Wait, get the hell away from
me! I don't want to get stuck with a...
AHHHhhhhh! That's better. Just hook up the
Gatorade I.V., you extra-special Chinese checker,
you.
Syzygy Dameron-Kraft, my illegitimate "love child"
and Bidness' official Elephant 6 correspondent,
reports that Julian Koster of The Music Tapes and
Neutral Milk Hotel has signed with Athens-based
Kindeicore Records to release his "singing saw
symphony" album. This will not be a Music Tapes
record as such, but rather a collaboration between
Koster and his father (a well-respected flamenco
guitarist) and uncle (a noted Klezmer accor
dionist). The usual crew of E6 denizens shoulo be
tagging along as well. Also, the recent vinyl
release of The Apples In Stereo's fine new The
Discovery Of A World Inside The Moon album comes
packed with a bonus flexi featuring a new song
and some blathering from lead Apple Robert
Schneider. None of this changes the fact that
you're a blooming idiot if you buy the same record
twice. Finally, Pete Erchick of The Olivia Tremor
Control has inked a contract with J8.H
Productions governing all management functions
for something called Pipes You See, Pipes You
Don't. According to Erchick, "I needed good man
agement, and I liked their vision." Syzygy gets a
gold star today.
The Atlantis Music Conference 2000 takes place
in Atlanta from Wednesday, August 9 through
Saturday, August 12. More than 200 performances
by local, regional and national live music acts will
play a variety of venues in Little Five Points,
Virginia Highlands, downtown, Midtown and East
Atlanta. The burgeoning event also features a golf
tournament, three days of informational panels,
networking opportunities, and for the first
time ever, a collaborative presentation of the
8th Annual Atlanta Local Music Awards.
For access to all Atlantis Music Conference
performances, purchase a three-day confer
ence wristband for $25 by calling Atlantis at
(770) 499-8600. Go on-line to atlantis
music.com for the full band lineup, panel
topics, a schedule of events and more infor
mation.
Athens' indie-rock dark horses The Glands ►
are apparently breaking out of the pack; the
band's new 14-song, self-titled album on
Capricorn received a 9 out of 10 rating from
that tract of musical lowest-common-denom-
ination Spin. Meanwhile, Andy Baker,
accomplished audio engineer and veteran of
such local acts as Servotron and Vaudeville,
has signed on as bassist, replacing Craig
McQuistcn. McQuiston (seen raiding the
fridge in photo) reportedly vants to focus on
his decidedly heavier Athens/Atlanta project
The Tom Collins, which has consistently
been a much bigger draw in the Slint/Albini-
happy ATL rock scene than in these parts. The
Glands s h ow off for us at the Caledonia Lounge on
Friday, August 11.
On a disconcerting note: Former Athenian and
Low Yo-Yo Stuff clerk David Anderson, whose
musical resume included a jam session with
Ween, drowned last weekend in a canal near
Philadelphia. Anderson recently relocated to his
hometown of New Hope. He was approaching his
fourth decade at the time of his death.
New York Press gushed positive ink on Jem Cohen
and Peter Sillen's documentary Benjamin Smoke,
a tribute to deceased Atlanta musician Benjamin
(born Robert Dickerson), in its Wednesday, July 19
"Baseball Issue." According to NYP film critic
Godfrey Cheshire (we here at Business doubt that
David Sedaris himself could come up with a better
film critic handle than Godfrey Cheshire), "This
mix of drag, punk, cornpone, methedrine and lit
erary consciousness is a peculiar Southern (and
indeed specifically Georgian) cocktail. One might
suggest that if Flannery O'Connor had been reborn
a gay speedfreak—and wouldn't that be just like
her?—Benjamin would've been the result." We
can only hope that Cheshire gets assigned the
inevitable O.G.B. Criginol Gangstabilly: The
Patterson Hood Story when it comes out.
Squat swingman Tommy Somerville has a solo
country album slated for a fall release. One won
ders how fans of Squat's jazz/funk/rock/
reggae/and pretty much everything else except
country grooves will feel about Somerville's new
endeavor, but I doubt he cares. Sometimes you
end up stuck in an invisible phone booth, padre,
and common sense tells you that country music is
the only way out.
Thanks to the unshakable salesmanship of Athens'
JOMO Entertainment, Willie Nelson's Saturday,
October 21 gig at the Classic Center is offi
cially sold out. If you missed out and want
to console yourself (i.e. you're just not the
scalper-patronizing type). JOMO is pre
senting the reggae legend Burning Spear on
Thursday, August 24, Original P (AKA
Parliament) on Friday, August 25, The
Grandmothers (featuring former members of
Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention)
m Wednesday, August 30 and The Funky
Meters on Thursday, October 19. All shows
at the Georgia Theatre. Click on jomoenter-
^ tainment.com for ticket information post
haste.
Wretched-cool Internet time-waster of the
week: the Exquisite Corpse web site. Wade
to fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~-hefter/cgiclass/
exquisite.shtml and contribute a sentence,
fragment, or quatrain to an ongoing story,
keeping in mind that the next contributor
will have only your addition to go on. When
the story reaches completion ("The story
knows when to wrap itself up," according to
the site's administrator), you'll receive a full
copy via e-mail. The outcomes of these nonsense
stories tend to be very Burroughsian and some
times damn near poetic.
I have mononucleosis and it's all your fault. Send
local music news, ultimatums, droning screeds and
adorable "e-greetings" to omnivore@star
place.com, voice mail: 549-2630, fax: 549-8981,
or by paper airplane to P. 0. Box 1027, Athens, GA
30603 Attn.: Emerson.
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