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DJ Rix favors breakbeat and hip-hop
mixes. He recently collaborated with
Louisiana’s Trace on a mix called The
Decade: Trace & Rix.
DRAKKAR SAUNA (40 Watt) The
Kansas duo of J. 'Wallace" Cochran
(guitar, vocals) and Jeff Stolz (drums,
guitar, harmophone. mandolin, vocals)
plays old-time country along the lines
of Hank Williams, but in a much grim
ier. contemporary way Released an
album last year on Marriage Records.
THE DUMPS (Georgia Theatre) Local
heavy rock act the Dumps deliver
angular metal licks with lots of dual
screaming over slow heavy grooves
Performing before the Effie's Club
Follies local burlesque troupe takes
over at midnight.
NIC GOODSON (Mercury Lounge)
Sleepy Horses frontman Nic Goodson,
who also plays in Last Picture Show,
performs a solo set of his dusty, shoe-
gazey country rock numbers. This is
Goodson’s first show back in Athens
after a lengthy health-related hiatus;
more on that over on p. 37.
HOPE FORAGOLDENSUMMER
(40 Watt) It's been months since a
full-blown Hope show, and for good
reason, the band has been undergoing
some lineup shifting lately. The core
Campbell sisters Claire and Page re
main. as does guitarist-songwriter Deb
Davis, and on a recent tour members
or Dark Meat have provided percus
sion. Expect the jangly folk-inspired
junkyard gospel of the 2004 debut
album / Bought a Heart Made ot Art in
the Deep, Deep South as well as newer
tunes from the forthcoming follow-up
“INDIE ROCK KARAOKE" (Go Bar)
Every Thursday
“KARAOKE” (Eastwood Pub) Every
Thursday
KYOCO (Flicker) Japanese exchange
student Kyoco is in Athens for a while,
and seems to be playing with the band
Red World Green World Back home
she sings with a J-pop band called
Sunflower, but tonight she ll perform
solo in Japanese opening for The
Ones. 830 p.m.
LIONZ (Roadhouse) This local band
of positive groovers embarks on a new
batch of jam-flavored adventures, from
classic rock, blues, soul and bluegrass
to reggae, augmented by two full drum
kits. The debut album is Stranger
Things Have Happened, and a new
album’s in the works.
CHIP McKENZIE (Mercury Lounge)
Chip McKenzie, frontman for Still.
Small Voice & the Joyful Noise, plays
a solo set tonight of his garagey rock
spirituals. The band’s swell debut EP.
released last year, is called With Love
for Our Enemies.
MUSIC HATES YOU (Georgia
Theatre) High energy and higher vol
ume from brutal loudmongers Noah
Ray (guitar, vocals), Zaxx Hembree
(guitar). Forest Hetland (bass) and
Patrick Ferguson (drums). Performing
before the Effie’s Club Follies local bur
lesque troupe takes over at midnight.
NIGHTINGALE NEWS (Mercury
Lounge) Nightingale News is Seattle
import Coy King’s songwriting vehicle,
and there’s a bit of the early folk/
beatnik Tom Waits in King's hangdog
performance, and his harmonica-guitar
combo at times bridges very early and
very recent Nick Cave in troubadour
mode.
THE OLD CEREMONY (Tasty World)
Chapel Hill's The Old Ceremony is a
seven-piece band making what it calls
“pop-noir.* The sound bridges the
exotic and the American in much the
same way that Waits and Gamsbourg
could, and the new album Our One
Mistake comes across as both nos
talgic and anachronistic in charming
ways.
THE ONES (Flicker) The folk-influ
enced dream-rockers in The Ones cen
ter around the duo of Sera-J Ursrey and
Michael tinhardt. Tonight the new full-
band incarnation of The Ones takes the
stage, with Alliene Bouchard, Andrea
Ivy Waterstone and Kie Cochran, and
the addition of percussion sometimes
takes things into moody tropicalia.
830 p.m.
SIR PRIZE FIGHTER (Repent) Wide-
ranging Gainesville, FL. four-piece
combines influences from !he mem
bers’ other bands—punk, hardcore,
bluegrass—to try to work towards
something unique
31 XNOTS (Caledoma)’The
West Coast trio of Joe Haege, Jay
Winebrenner and Jay Pellicci recently
released their fourth full-length The
Days and Nights of Everything
Anywhere on Polyvinyl Records; the
band plays punk- and hardcore-influ
ence prog-pop, utilizing intriguing
arrangements to come across like a
weirdo poppy Fugazi.
TIMBER (Little Kings) Last year’s full-
length album from the local alt-country
band is called Dark Heart... Lucky
Hand. There ve been some lineup shifts
in the group recently; should be a rawer
presentation of lead singer Daniel
Aaron's wistful, fiery country pop
TWO TON BOA (Caledonia)
Sophomore disc Parasiticide was
released on Kill Rock Stars last month;
the albums reinforces the notion that
heavy music can be pretty as well,
as Sherry Fraser’s dark lyrics and the
band’s double bass guitars gloomify
the low end somewhere between the
Dresden Dolls and Sleater-Kinney
Friday, Mar. 23
THE AVETT BROS. (Georgia Theatre)
The three-piece revivalist act mixes
of old-time country, bluegrass. pop
melodies, folk, rock, honky-tonk and
ragtime, but pulls in a modern take
on performance energy. The newest of
several releases is called The Gleam.
BOYS LIKE GIRLS (40 Watt) The
young Boston-based bano Boys Like
Girls—Martin Johnson (vocals,
guitar), Bryan Donahue (bass). John
Keefe (drums) and Paul DiGiovanni
(guitar)—comes across like neo-emo
popsters Simple Plan and Panic! a* the
Disco, but mostly the All-American
Rejects.
CARLA LeFEVER & THE RAYS
(Farm 255) Local rocker Carla
LeFever’s got herself a band together
with songwriting partner Josiah Baker
(Ultra Delux. XXX Hardrive). Marv
Cobb and Kenny Brawner (Common
People Band). She promises some
covers of AC/DC, Dio and some of
her more "hard-grooving" and dancey
originals in the same vein
CARTEL (40 Watt) Hotshot ATL act
Cartel, the sort of fall-out boys who
jump from guilty pop pleasure to
shouty teen rock, came out of the sub
urban pop-punx crowd, wooing emo
audiences with the re-released debut
album Chroma last year.
CHARLIE GARRETT BANO (Wild
Wing Caf6) Local guys Ctiarlie Garrett
(vocals, guitar), Jay Rodgers (bass),
Andrew Hammer (drums) and Matt
“Pistol’ Stoessel (pedal steel) play
countryish Southern rock.
COBRA STARSHIP (40 Watt)
Gabe Saporta, frontman for the band
Midtown, shoots spare energy into
Cobra Starship. See p. 28.
DISRAELI GEARS (Eastwood Pub)
Members of The '60s and the Michael
Guthrie Band look to resurrect the sum
mer of ‘69, aiming for a resurrection of
the bluesy British guitar-rock sound of
the Yardbirds and their followers, also
conjuring the ghosts of Peter Green,
Rory Gallagher and Steve Marriott.
DJ BLAZE (The Library) DJ Blaze, who
has held down the wheels of steel at
The Annex and last summer's ‘Classic
City Hip-Hop,’ hosts tonight* dance
party, mixing contemporary hip-hop
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