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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Hey, was that actor Ben Affleck of such films as
Boiler Room, Chasing Amy and Forces Of Nature
wandering around Athens recently (in the com
pany of his brother Casey) and purchasing goofy
CDs at School Kids Records?
Wild Planet: The seventh annual "Party Out Of
Bounds" event—a dance party fund-raiser for
the. AIDS Coalition of Northeast Georgia honoring
late B-52's guitarist Ricky Wilson—is set for
Saturday, October 13 at Boneshakers. The fun
starts at 8 p.m. Admission is $5.
Reminder: The "Athens Music Tour de Sprawl
Fundraiser" set for Thursday, October 11 at the
40 Watt Club will benefit BikeAthens, the Upper
Oconee Watershed Network (UOWN), and the
Athens Grow Green Coalition. Co-organizer Marc
Tissenbaum wants everyone to know that the
event starts a bit early (9 p.m. sharp!) Featured
performers include Art Rosenbaum, The Squalls,
Jack Logan, David Barbe and the Circulatory
System.
Up-And-Coming: The crowded field of jam-rock
bands might seem confusing to the uninitiated.
The trick is to catch a
band before it blows up
into something too
huge to enjoy. Two tal
ented Georgia-based
"jam bands" (jam
bands hate that term, I
know)—Albany's
Ancient Harmony and
Milledgevilie's >
Moonshine Still—are
rapidly climbing the
ranks of the scene, but
neither is inaccessible or mired in hippie obnox
iousness. Catch both at the Georgia Theatre on
Saturday, October 12.
Reckon What He Thinks Of The Bottle Rockets:
Denton, Texas, twang-punk quartet Slobberbone
has received many accolades ovei the past couple
years, from critics and fans alike, for its volatile
mixture of sweaty rock energy, frontman Brent
Best's cuttingly literate lyrics and the band's high-
octane live shows. However, the band’s most
bizarre and quite possibly coolest accolade comes
not from some critical hack or a drunken fan, but
from the world of novels. Horror godfather
Stephen King gives the hairy band of gypsies a
nod in his latest tome Black House when a char
acter says "Gimmie Back My Dog," a 'Bone's tune
from the latest record Everything You Thought Was
Right Was Wrong Today (New West), was "a great
rock and roll song." Amen, brother. Slobberbone
plays Tasty World on October 11, Smith's Olde
Bar in Atlanta on October 14, and is in the
process of recording its fourth album, to be
released sometime next year. [Matt Thompson]
Humpdaddy: Dang,
y'all! Hip hop clown-
sters Digital
Underground—fea
turing the for real
phony-nose-wearin'
Humpty Hump—is
coming to the 40 Watt
Club on Wednesday,
October 17! And Slackdaddy opens!
Bam: Well, Jucifer drummer Ed Livengood finally
received that new set of "see-thru" Zickos drums
last week. The things look sturdier and shinier
than his battered old Ludwig Vistalites. Livengood
recently received an endorsement offer from the
semi-obscure drum company. The Who's Keith
Moon and Black Sabbath's Bill Ward briefly played
Zickos at one time or another. Jucifer guitarist
Amber Valentine still endorses Dean guitars. Catch
the severely dynamic duo this week in Atlanta on
Saturday, October 13 at the Echo Lounge with
Oneida, or wait 'til Halloween for the big show at
the 40 Watt.
New Slab: This
weekend, the
Athens/Atlanta band
The Tom Collins (the
lead singer/guitarist
lives in Atlanta, but the
three other dudes live
in Athens) releases its
second this weekend.
The collection was
recorded this year at
Chase Park Transduction. The Tom Collins plays
at the Echo Lounge on Friday, October 12.
More Slab: Atlanta hotties The Moto Litas—fea
turing guitarists Mary Collins and Courtney King,
bassist Erin Dangar and drummer Stacey Kerber—
celebrated the release of their crankin' new disc,
For The Greater Good (Daemon) at the Echo
Lounge last weekend. The band's performance
during the Green Lantern Music Showcase at the
40 Watt Club on Friday, October 12 is officially its
"Athens CD release show." Congrats.
Even More Slab: Speaking of Chase Park
Transduction, busy musician-engineer David Barbe
celebrates the release of his new, ten-song solo
album. Comet Of The Season, this month. Barbe
plays two "CD Release" shows—at the Soul Bar in
Augusta on Thursday, October 25 and on Friday,
October 26 over at Tasty World—with backing
from various VIPs out of Little Red Rocket, Lona
and other local acts. Coincidentally WARM
Recordings trio Y Empire State celebrates the
release of its second LP—an 11-song collection
titled Eternal Combustion that was recorded
entirely in the band's home studio—the same
week with a "CD Release" show scheduled for
Friday, October 26 at the 40 Watt Club. Core
member Tim Nackashi states, "Admittedly, there is
a dark overtone to this one... it's a bit more
serious and stripped down." The band may work in
a live drummer fr>' the show.
Seasoned Session:
Athens drummer
Carlton Owens (of
Squat, Carlton Owens
Conspiracy, and
numerous other bands)
has been out on the
road for several weeks
with popular Atlanta
singer-guitarist John Mayer. Owens joined in
alongside bassist David LaBruyere (formerly of Go
Van Gogh, Vigilantes Of Love, Shawn Mullins) to
back up the guitarist on stage. Mayer is currently
touring behind a re-released version of Room For
Squares (Aware/Columbia).
Thunderbroom: Bassist and all-around true-punk
badass Mike Watt is on the way back to Athens
with his "Jom & Terry" show (likely two average
guys who work and live in Pedro). Watt survived
last year's rigorou: global touring with J Mascis &
The Fog and has been working on new material at
home in California.
Look for my man at the
40 Watt Club on
Saturday, October 20
with opener Thalia
Zedek (ex-Come).
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► New York's Finest?:
Young rock and roll
quintet The Strokes—
that shaggy-haired,
beer-swilling. New York
band clad in crumpled
neckties, second-hand
jackets and Chucks—is a current underground
phenom over which all the youngsters are
absolutely going apeshit. Perhaps with good
reason. The band's casual-cool forthcoming
debut, Is This It (RCA) is an underproduced, slow-
burning, 11-song qem of a rock album. After
spending much of the summer touring the UK and
Europe (where the music press repeatedly
creamed over the band and the actual "hype" sur
rounding it... not bad for a bunch of guys who
sound like a stiff mix of The Only Ones, Pavement
and Velvet Underground), the Strokes are heading
this way. Look for the band performing a tight
40-minute set or so at the Cotton Club in Atlanta
on Friday, October 26 and at the 40 Watt Club on
Saturday, October 27. New York's Moldy Peaches
opens both gigs.
Hey Student: Manchester, England's grumpiest pop
star is crossing the Atlantic. Vocalist-poet Mark E.
Smith and his band The Fall (the latest version of
it, anyway) are scheduled to play a brief tour of
the Northeast and the West Coast in November.
Tentative dates include two at the Knitting
Factory in Los Angeles on November 13 and 14,
at the Great American Music Hall in San
Francisco on November 21, and at the Crocodile
Club in Seattle on November 22. The band then
hits the struggling Knitting Factory in New York
on November 23-25. Some performances will be
with a full band while others might be Smith's
"spoken word." Last year. The Fall released The
Unutterable—one of its strongest albums in years.
Reportedly, a new EP titled Present should be out
soon on the Voiceprint label.
Burned Out: Hell-raising, black shirt-wearing,
Seattle-based garage-punk band Murder City
Devils is grinding to a slow halt. According to
reports from the band's longtime label Sub Pop,
keyboardist Leslie Hardy has departed, leaving the
band "with the feeling it cannot continue playing
the songs she helped write and perform." A tour
behind the new EP Thelema will go on as sched
uled with replacement keyboardist Nick DeWitt.
After the tour, tall-standing bassist Derek Fudesco
will leave the band to concentrate on his new
band. Pretty Girls Make Graves. The Murder City
Devils' remaining members will continue under a
different name to be decided upon later.
Naughty: Flagpole had no luck trying to secure an
official interview with world-famous exotic dancer
Nikki Knockers last month during her four-day
stint at Topper's International Showbar. (I did
catch one of the titil
lating ten-minute sets,
though...), but we will
be speaking with porn
star Ron Jeremy this
week in preparation for
coverage of "Ron
Jeremy's S&M
Sideshow" scheduled
for Saturday, November
3 at Tasty World. Look
for statements from
the "hedgehog" in
pages to come...
What's Poppin' At 90.5 FM, You Ask?: By the time
you read this. WUOG's program director Chris
Boedeker and music directors U.S. Gunn and
myself will be in transit to New York City to repre
sent the station at the rescheduled CMJ Music
Marathon. It might be a relatively somber affair.
I'll let you know. While we're gone, former, now-
graduated WUOG jocks will take over the broad
cast for Alumni Weekend. And all the while,
WUOG will be glad to play the new Dymaxion
record. Whenever you want it. [Emerson Dameron]
Go grab a hearty pint of Weizen or Espresso Stout
from local brewer Matt Buley down at the
Bumtstone brew pub before it closes at the end
of this month!! And please send any music news
to us by email at music@flagpole.com; by voice
mail at 549-2630; by fax at 549-8981; or by
simple post at P.0. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603.
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