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Saturday, February 10
Tiger! Tiger!, Dan Melchior
und Das Menace, 8-Track
Gorilla & the Love Handles
Little Kings
The prolific and richly charismatic
Buffi Aguero brings Tiger* Tiger! to
Little Kings on Saturday, Feb. 10.
Known for a long time mainly as that
deadly cool Atlanta drummer chick
from the Subsonics, over the years she
has driven various projects, including
the White Lights and the Vendettas, fifed Tiger!
all of which were heavily influenced by
'60s girl groups and rock-and-rollers. These bands have always been interesting, if sometimes
more fun to watch than listen to. However, with Tiger! Tiger!, Aguero hits her stride.
With a refreshing dollop of confident restraint, Tiger! Tiger! hurls a cohesive sonic menace
that equals Aguero's tough-girl image (one that looks as if this chica could cut ya just as
easily as flash ya that infectious ruby-red smile). Joined onstage by Shane Pringle on lead
guitar, sax and vocals, Susanne Gibboney on bass and vocals, Sam Leyja on organ and Mario
Colangelo on drums and vocals, Aguero snarls her vocals and phrases her lyrics in a sparse
manner reminiscent of both Lou ReecTs Velvet days and the style of modem U.K. garage-punk
doyenne Holly Golightty. With one album on the shelves—2005's Collisions—and another in
the can for release later this year (both courtesy of Texas-based Chicken Ranch Records),
Tiger! Tiger! rocks hard in a darkly bouncy way.
Raising the difficult question of just who should headline, Dan Melchior und Das Menace
also joins the fray. A U.K. transplant residing in Durham, NC, he emerges from the loins of the
Medway scene made most recently famous by Jack White's fandom. Melchior has played with
both Gob’ghtly and Billy Childish, and he infuses his own sound with hypnotic, primal blues;
his appearance is a rare treat and well worth a Saturday night [Gretdjgn Wood]
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Light takes its name from a pretty
swell hidden track on an album from
the band Travis, and the guys aim for
the same Brit-styled emotional rock,
though results are decidedly more
mainstream-American.
“THE HOOT” (Little Kings) Nestled
into its wintertime location at Little
Kings, the long-running monthly show
case features the prime of the local folk
scene, focusing on—but not limited
to—the traditional. Tonight the new
vocal quartet Bluewing, featuring Jean
Spencer, Amber Fetner, Jenny DeRevere
and Diana Torell, harmonies through a
number of tunes; William Tonks. ac
companied by a friend or two. performs
his originals on dobro and guitar; Frank
Williams performs as Mad Whiskey
Grin, playing bluesy slide guitar;
recently relocated from Kentucky, The
Corduroy Road delivers original folk
on banjo, harmonica and guitar. Susan
Staley hosts the evening. 8 p.m.
"KARAOKE” (Repent) Every Monday.
NEVER INNOCENT (Tasty World) No
information available.
“OPEN MIC NIGHT" (Eastwood Pub)
Every Monday.
JENA PARADIES (Go Bar) Jena
Paradies delivers mixes of the freshest
in Berliner techno, electro-house and
subsonic soul. 10:30 p.m.. Mondays.
SECONDS TO SAFETY (Tasty World)
Semi-local punk/ screamo trio. Last
year’s four-song EP is called Search
the Stars
WAYWORD SONS (Georgia Theatre)
Greg Andrulis (piano, keyboards).
Anders Beck (dobro. drop steels),
Pete Kartsounes (guitars) and the
Yonder Mountain String Band's Benny
‘Burle’ Galloway (bass) are Colorado's
Wayword Sons, playing both rousing
and mellow acoustic bluegrass.
Tuesday, Feb. 13
AIRIEL DOWN (Tasty World)
Continuing the curious trend of adult-
contemporary rock, North Carolina's
Airiel Down combines the melodic
vocals of bands like Goo Goo Dolls
and Collective Soul with crunchier,
Staind-style guitar.
AUDITION WITH MAX REINHARDT
(Georgia Theatre) Vocalist-accordion
ist-songwriter Sanni Baumgartner leads
this local ensemble through a theatri
cal. sultry and brassy set of authentic
German cabaret music from the 1920s
and '30s, with some original tunes
thrown in as well. This is only the third
Athens show since Baumgartner moved
back home to Germany in 2005, and
tonight new bassist Chuck Bradburn
(Southern Bitch) joins the team.
BLUELINE (Tasty World) This Athens/
Albany blues-rock four-piece released
a demo album titled My Own Backyard
in August of 2004; a proper full-length
has been in the works for a while.
DAN NETTLES TRIO (Farm 255)
Guitarist Dan Nettles, the heart and
brain of local jazz expeditioners
Kenosha Kid. tonight heads up a trio to
present his sounds.
8-TRACK GORILLA & THE LOVE
HANDLES (Georgia Theatre) The
schtick is this: local scenester and
music dude dresses up in a gorilla
costume and ‘sings' along to '70s-era
8-track tapes. More of a thing around
the turn of the millennium and just
prior, the Ape's back tonight with his
backing vocalists and dancers The
Love Handles to... entertain?
THE EARLY NOVEMBER (UGA,
Georgia Hall) The Mother, the Mechanic,
and the Path is the ambitious new
sophomore full-length from Jersey's The
Early November. The album is a three-
disc album out on Drive Thru Records,
and it's as full as can be of the five-piece
band’s anthemic. melodic, singalong-
ready emo-rock. The kids dig it. y’know?
This appearance at the University's Tate
Student Center is the first of two col
lege stops before the band begins its
headlining national tour with The Rocket
Summer and Mel6e 8 p.m.
“KARAOKE” (Eastwood Pub) Every
Tuesday. 9 p.m.
“KARAOKE" (Walker's Pub) Every
Tuesday. 10 p.m.
“KARAOKE" (Wild Wing Caf6) Every
Tuesday. 10 p.m.
KIMBERLY MORGAN & THE
EVERLOVIN’ BAND (Georgia
Theatre) Local lady Kimberly Morgan
sings sweet country songs, calling to
mind Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline.
She should have the debut album
Found Yourself a Lady, recorded with
her Everlovin' Band, ready in the next
several months.
“LIVE FAST RULES" (WU0G. 90 5
FM) Live and loud performance on the
radio every Tuesday at 10 p.m. This
week: GroundiXero
MAD WHISKEY GRIN (Mercury
Lounge) Alternating between 12-string
guitar and banjo, local musician Frank
Williams slides and fingerpicks his
way through bluesy and decidedly
American sounds.
MANDY JANE & THE JAWS OF
LIFE (Georgia Theatre) The original
uranium miner’s daughter Amanda
Crouse heads up this tongue-in-whis-
key-soaked-cheek country'n'western-
inspired act. Ken Manring works the
guitar as the duo swings through
original tunes and perhaps a choice
cover or two
MILLIGAN (Melting Point) Performing
a set of cover songs, reworking both
classic rockers and more recent
numbers.
“OPEN MIC NIGHT" (DTs) Every
Tuesday.
RECYCLED SHOTGUNS (Tasty
World) Local country-rock four-piece.
“TASTY TUESDAY" (Tasty World)
Rap and spoken word performances
over relaxed beats and the sounds of
jazz, R&B and hip nop. Upstairs.
"TUESDAY NIGHT jAZZ" (Farm
255) Every Tuesday. 7-10 p.m.. the
downtown restaurant features jazz from
a revolving cast of regulars
Wednesday, Feb. 14
BITCH SWITCH (Chapel) Mandy
Jane, AKA DJ Repramanda, and
Sandice Adina, AKA DJ Sandelous.
spin thick dance grooves at
tonight's party sponsored by Michael
Lachowski's new art mag Young. Foxy
& Free, the debut issue features a fash
ion spread of the deejay duo
KEVIN DEVINE (40 ’Watt) Bringing
to mind a variety of indie songsters.
Art BUMt Saturday, February 3 through Friday, February 9 at Frameworks/Clayton Street Gallery.
Art will also be displayed on our website, fightthestigma.com
Art AactiM: Saturday, February 10. 6:00 p.m.at the Mezzanine in the Michael Brothers building,
320 E. Clayton St.
SpMttrs it UM 17tt Ansel Mesial Rmitu leseftt: R.E.M. • Candy Creative • Flagpole Magazine •
40 Watt Club • Frameworks • Nelson Properties • Advantage Behavioral Health Systems •
Shiraz Fine Wines and Gourmet • Forest Lithographers • JCC Supply, Inc. •
Jeanette Rankin Foundation • Bank of America • Shiftworks, Inc. Screen Printers
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