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singer/songwriter Hary Lou Lord behind the
Boneshakers courtyard (FKA "Pebble Beach"), and
the Fiery Jack/Je Suis Fiance juggernaut at the
Caledonia Loutige. (Atlanta's Silent Kids open the
latter show.) What's more, Woodstock vet Richie
Havens plays an early gig at the Morton Theatre
that same night. Freedom! Freedom! Freedom to
choose. That's what we're all about here in B-
Town. (Atlanta is A-Town. Yeah, we got screwed
there.)
When Lori heard the loud, authoritative knock on
her front door, she peeked under the bedroom cur
tain. Yep, the cops. Lori promptly flushed all her
drugs down tne toilet and put on some coffee for
the officers. Upon entering, the policemen
informed Lori that her husband was dead. She
sighed. It was going to be a long day.
Athens' favorite spooky, illbient-fusion wingding
Pelican City has a new full-length in the can enti-
Hed Rhode Island. It's scheduled to pop up in
October, and one track is slated to appear on an
upcoming CMJ New Music Monthly comp alongside
Radiohead, Outkast and other folks even your
youngest cousins are probably familiar with.
Onward and upward!
Junior Brown brings his act to the 40 Watt Club
on Friday, September 15. We're not shitting you
this time. He'll be in competition with Boston
Looks like National Public Radio might have a
little crush on the Athens music scene. Local radio
journalist Rob Hilton put together a piece on
Five-Eight recently, due to air on either "Morning
Edition" or "All Things Considered" in the next
week or so. This puts "The Fraction," as I like to
call them, in the esteemed company of The Drive-
By Truckers and The Glands among Athens bands
my Mom's learned about via NPR. And they said
dressing like fisherman would hold us back.
Karaoke wunderkind The 8-Track Gorilla received
some investigative ink in the Augusta Chronicle
preceding his appearance at Augusta's Soul Bar
last Saturday with The Lures. The article (pretty
.veil written by Steven Uhles) is a useful introduc
tion to 8TG's enterprise for the nrophyte, and
includes 8-Track's thoughts on evolution, popular
culture and his plans for a recording career: "It
would be nice to be able to record one song that
really got me out there.
Even if I was just a
one-hit wonder, it
would make me happy.
I'd love to have my
own 'Whip It.'" Now
that we've ruined that
much of it for you, dig
into the rest of the
article at augusta
chronicle.com/sto-
ries/082300/app_220-
6369.000.shtml.
Spaceball Entertain
ment reports that it's
rescheduled this year's
AssFest event and
renamed it Whammo.
Peruse spacebalLcom if
you'd like to sign your
band up for a gig at
Whammo. (Based on
what I remember from
AssFest '99, conven
tional "talent" is hardly a prerequisite, if any pre
requisite exists at alL Oh yeah, it should also be
more fun than a bag of M-80's and rows upon
rows of barn-shaped mailboxes.) In other
Spaceball .lews, the collective has bled over into
the world of net radio. Click on live365.com and
search for "spaceball" to hep yourself to its
streaming "mp3casts."
In other entertainment news, locally based
Paperhorn Entertainment seeks to beef up its
roster of managed acts. If you consider yourself
and/or a few friends "entertaining" but could
use a little guidance on the business end, con
tact Faperhorn at P.0. Box 8042, Athens, GA
30603.
^ Local jazz enthusiast Julie Powell (of The Julie
Powell Trio) is busting her ass to raise some cab
bage and book The Jack DeJonette Quartet in
town. She'd like the band to play a concert and
supervise a master class workshop, but just a
plain old show runs into four digits. Like Mark
Sandman said, "You get what you pay for and
that's what I say/ And now I'm payin' and payin'
and payin'," and word has it that DeJonette is
one of the world's sharpest drummers. If you can
spare a fin, contact Powell atjpowell@negia.net.
Japancakes plans to tour the Old World from late
November through early December. Lucky bas
tards. I wanna go to Europe.
Word 'round the campfire is that local
hip-hop wheel wizard Danger Mouse is
dropping Danger Mouse: The Mixed Tape
Vol 4 quite soon. If he throws a CD
release party, you'll be the first to know.
(Well, that depends on when you pick
up this rag and various other mitigating
factors, but fuck it—it's just a figure of
speech, all right?)
Master Of The Hemisphere Adrian Finch,
once rumored to be the new guy in Elf
Power, is now rumored to no longer be
the new guy in Elf Power.
Toenut has risen from our collective subconscious
memory, renamed itself < Tyro, and plans to play
Atlanta's Echo Lounge on Friday, September 22
behind its new platter.
Atlanta's industrious dance music collective The
Codename Kids is pleased to announce Dabble,
a free party on Wednesday, September 13,
hosting a cast of local DJs spinning outside their
typecast styles. The event cranks up at 10 p.m.
and doesn't stop 't«i the last person goes home or
the sun comes out and makes a few of us feel
really goddamn old. DJ Faust, Shortee, Eve,
Motomasa, Bobble, Graham, Ulises, Kevin 0,
Echolalia and Ken Harper are all scheduled to
appear. For directions and a complete itinerary, e-
m3il kidswitiicodes@hotmail.com.
Drums & Tuba A return to finish kicking this
town's scrawny ass at the Caledonia on Thursday,
September 21, in support of their "Water Damage
re-issue" series on My Pal God Records. If you
missed them when they opened for Daniel
Johnston last summer, there's no excuse this
time.
Wretched-cool Internet timewaster of the week:
That would have to be Athens-based -riter Mark
Drugger's Grey Room-based webzine Egg Static,
if for no other reason than its links page
("Whacked-Out Websites"), which packs enough
web-based word games to, well, bring the sun
through my window way before that sort of thing
was supposed to haopen. (Damn, and it's a
weekday.) You get links to the ever-popular
"Dialecticizer," "Noir Alley Slang," "The Message
Reverser," " T he Cliche Finder" and my personal
favorite "Anagram Fun." Let's just say I'll be glad
to know my full name anagrams into Omen
Penned Ransomer, Sermon Opener Manned,
Demon Manner Reopens or Moron Deepen
Manners when the time comes to craft a new
identity and crash on your fold-out sofa while the
heat dies down. You can hook up to Egg Static
through Cardinal Four Productions (which in
turn is a Runaway Prosthesis, Inc. production)
through runawaypi.com/c4p. This is also the HQ
for ES's four sibling webzines, but, like I said, I
was seriously preoccupied.
Oscar-winning rock composer Jack Nitzsche died
of cardiac arrest in Hollywood on Friday, August
25. His work included soundtracks for An Officer
And A Gentleman, Performance, Tne Exorcist, One
Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Starman.
Performance wasn't his only collaboration with
Mick Jagger: he also played keyboards on "Play
With Fire" and "Let's Spend The Night Together."
And he was a member of The Stray Gators, Neil
Young's backup band for Harvest. Nitzsche was 63
at the time of his death.
Send bloated communiques, masturbatory self
promotion and battle raps you wrote for Canibus
to omnivore@starplace.com, voice-mail: 549-
2630, fax: 549-8981, or stuff it in a bottle, wait
for a Hash flood, and hope it floats to P.O. Box
1027, Athens, GA 30603 Attn: Fmerson Dameron.
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