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Beat the Devil is playing at the Flicker Theatre & Bar on Wednesday, Mar. 21. See Record Reviews on p. 30
Deadline to be listed in the next issue:
Monday by 11 a.m. Contact the
music department: (706) 549-9523,
ext. 203; lax to (706) 548-8981; email
at abc@flagpole.com; send post to P.0.
Box 1027; Athens, GA 30603.
Wednesday, Mar. 21
AMBULETTE (Caledonia) Maura
Davis, the former frontwoman of the
critically praised Denali, recruited
guitarist Matt Clark, bassist Stephen
Howard and drummer Ryan Rapsy to
create lush, dramatic and urgently im
passioned music The L otlery debuted
last year.
THE AWKWARD ROMANCE (Tasty
World) To Breathe Is To Compromise
is last year’s album from this Conyers-
based pop-punk/ emo quartet which hit
Athens last March.
BEAT THE DEVIL (Flicker) Sharing a
drummer with Athens band Martyr &
Pistol. Beat the Devil is the hauntingly
melodic vehicle for the jazz-inspired
siren songs of New York singer Snilpa
Ray. The band’s self-titled debut album
is out now. 8:30 p.m.
CRUMBLING ARCHES (Caledonia)
Theatrical, over-the-top melodic rock
from Atlanta's four-piece Crumbling
Arches Best feature? A capable rhythm
section makes up for predictable
“rock" vocals. Full-length album out
soon.
DJ SIZZLE (Loft) Spinning the dance
numbers every Wednesday.
JAY GONZALEZ (Kingpins) Nutria
keyboardist-vocalist Jay Gonzalez
has a new gig in town as a “lounge
singer" and piano player. I’ll be do
ing a bunch of ‘50s and ‘60s crooner
and rock-and-roll stuff, British inva
sion favorites. 70s AM radio hits,
bubblegum classics, some ‘yacht rock’
for the Caledonia crowd and maybe
some Sinatra or Bing Crosby.’ Every
Wednesday from 8 to 11 p.m.
THE HONOR ROLL (Tasty World)
Punk-influenced pop/rock band from
Atlanta and Athens.
“KARAOKE” (Foxz) Every Wednesday.
“KARAOKE" (Mell’s) Every
Wednesday.
“KARAOKE" (Safari) Every
Wednesday.
KILL LEBARON (Tasty World
Upstairs) First known as October Falls,
and then known as Sincerely Yours, but
now known as Kill LeBaron. this local
hardcore/ screamo five-piece should
have some CD-R copies of recently
recorded demos for sale
JOHANNA KUNIN (40 Watt) Seattle
chanteuse Johanna Kunin plays sleepy,
hazy songs ot love and confusion Her
2006 release Clouds Electric is piano-
heavy and layered like heck, airy and
ethereal.
MARTYR & PISTOL (Flicker)
Playing an eerie, almost ominous mix
ol dramatic torch-pop, noise-rock
and demenio chamber music, this
unpredictable local trio of Kera Schaley
(cello, guitar, vocals), Brent Van Daley
(guitar) and NYC drummer Mitchell
King performs to coincide with the
release of the new album Misanthrope
8:30 p.m. See Box.
KATE MORRISSEY (Farm 255)
Morrissey’s warm, soulful voice and
ihythmic piano spice her original
songs, which have been described as
"urban fables and fairy tales .’ Her new
album is called Nobody, Too and it
features strong wordplay and dextrous
vocals. Should be available tonight,
too 1 8 p.m.
NANA GRIZOL (Georgia Theatre)
Theo Hilton, formerly of DIY punk
band Zumm Zumm, performs under
the name Nana Grizol backed by Laura
Carter, Patrick Jennings from Hot New
Mexicans, Robbie Cucchiaro and some
other collaborators. The band follows a
9:30 p.m. performance by Effie's Club
Follies, the local burlesque troupe.
THE NEW TRUST (Caledonia) North
California’s The New Trust is celebrat
ing the release of its debut full-length
album, Dark Is The Path hnich Lies
Before Us. The quartet brims with effi
cient mid-’90s indie energy, kind of like
a co-ed Promise Ring or even maybe a
bit like the Pixies.
O’BROTHER (Tasty World) Atlanta's
tight and peppy O’brother plays solid,
emo-leaning teen indie rock. The new
EP is called In Comparison to Me.
“OPEN JAM" (DT's) Bring your
instrument and join in. For more infor
mation, call 706-208-1474.
PACKWAY HANDLE BAND (Georgia
Theatre) Packway's one-mic bluegrass
provides sly, hearty original songs and
renditions of classic tunes. The band
foilows a 9:30 p.m. performance by
Effie's Club Follies, the local burlesque
troupe. A late-night karaoke party fol
lows Packway.
PENSIVE (Tasty World) Recently
featured on a Drive-Thru Records com
pilation, this San Diego quartet plays
glossy pop-punk, the new EP is called
Something About the Stars
PRIME TIME JAZZ (Porterhouse)
Drummer Tony McCutchen, bass
ist Chris Enghauser and pianist Jim
McKillip perform jazz standards for
the dinner-and-a-drink set every
Wednesday.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE
VENUS 3 (40 Watt) His last Athenian
performances were in October 2003,
and tonight the Robyn Hitchcock, the
former Soft Boy and the Brit with a pro
digious songwriting talent returns with
his new band—featuring an R E M -
leaning lineup of Peter Buck, Bill
Rieflin and Scott McCaughey—and
new album Old Tarantula
NATHAN SHEPPARD (Wild Wing
Caf6) Sheppard is known for his
emotive singing style and his modern
reworkings of classic tunes, from Dylan
and Young to Van Morrison Tonight he
performs solo and acoustic.
SOFA KINGS (J.R.'s Baitshack) These
four UGA students play UOs rock cov
ers (“Bush, Foo Fighters. Weezer and
the like,’ they say) in addition to a
handful of original songs.
TWIN POWERS (Go Bar) Danceable
New Wave and Britpop tunes. 10 p.m.,
every Wednesday.
“UNCORKED & UNPLUGGED"
(Melting Point) Every week, local
singer-songwriter Ken Will Morton
opens and hosts this new series, which
aims to focus on artists proficient in
the craft of songwriting This week:
solo singer Josh Perkins performs,
Charleston singer-songwriter Cary
Ann Hearst normally fronts the rustic
rock band The Gunstreet Girls, but
tonight performs solo, and the duo
Hoots & Hellmouth plays old-time,
pre-war gospel and mountain music
in a fiery, harmonious way. Every
Wednesday. 8 p.m.
JASON “LEFTY" WILLtAMS
(Amici) One-armed Atlanta guitarist
Jason “Lefty' Williams at age six fash
ioned a pick to fit on what his website
likes to call “his nubb,' and since he's
been turning out electrified rock, delv
ing into funk, country and jazz covers
and originals, either solo or with a
backing band. Big Plans is the debut
album out now.
XZAMEN (Tasty World) Punk-influ
enced power-pop quartet from Florida
Thursday, Mar. 22
ALEX ORANGE (Wild Wing Caf6)
Native Savannahian acoustic guitarist-
harmonicist Nathan Sheppard has long
been a fixture on the regional folksy
singer-songwriter scene; Alex Orange,
named after a song on Sheppard's
2001 album Traveling On, is the new
full band
BLUE FLASHING LIGHT (Tasty
World) Local six-piece Blue Flashing
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.
BOB WEIR & RATDOG (Classic
Center) Still best known a^one of
the founding members of the Grateful
Dead, Bob Weir's been plugging away
with his current group Ratdog for years
now. See p. 29.
RICK BRANTLEY iTastyWoiid)
Young Nashville singer-songwriter Hick
Brantley performs folk-rock inspired
by Springsteen, Seger and Dylan Self-
titled debut EP out now
CACHAQA (Amici) Playing Brazilian-
styled music, this new band features
Jake Mowrer (nylon-stringed guitar)
and Jim Coley (upright bass) of Hot
Club of Athens and Kane Stanley and
Ryan Wendel of Grogus. among other
groups, on percussion. Every other
Thursday
CARRABELLE (Repent) Local ‘post
hardcore/ screamo/ experimental’
band.
WESLEY COOK (JR ’s Baitshack)
From folk-flavored theological wres
tling matches to Latin-flavored love
songs, solo guitarist Cook has an
effortless approach to his music. About
a year ago. Cook released his full-
length album We've Been Here Before
Acoustic solo tonight
DARK MEAT (40 Watt) Psychedelic
garage-rock rave-ups with both Neil
Young's sprawl and the efficient and
explosive fun sounds of the Stooges
More than a dozen members Horn sec
tion called the Vomit Lasers Backup
singing and choreographed dance
moves courtesy The Subtweeters
Costumes Face paint. More. Debut
album Universal Indians proves there
are impressive songs beneath all that
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DEAD CONFEDERATE (Caledonia)
The Atlanta rock group plays "psy
chedelic Southern grunge." Petition
to the Queen is last year's expansive
rock album reminiscent of My Morning
Jacket. Southern Bitch and even Bu'lt
to Spill.
DJ 43 (Detour) Back when he was the
Boneshakers house deejay, Mark Bell,
AKA DJ 43, would spin modern trance,
dance and house music.
DJ RIX (Lott) Championing dance
favorites every Thursday, Atlanta's
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