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Friday, March 30
Ying Yang Twins,
Di Mays
University of Georgia
Two years ago, my hus
band played in a regular
softball game at Bishop
Park, and the thing I re
member most about the
experience (much more
than the games) was the
fact that at least one car
a night drove by blasting
Ying Yang Twins' "Wait
(The Whisper Song)." You
couldn't hear anything be
sides the basic beat—they
were, after all whisper
ing—but it was ideally
suited to Doppler distor
tion, and, eventually, one
came to enjoy the dirtiness
of the well-melded lyrics
and squeezed melodic toms. Call it the moment in the movies when the girl dressed in white
stops being grossed out by the food fight/ mud wrestling and joins in.
Unlike many other rappers, who make at least an attempt at classiness (champagne, fancy
suits), the Atlanta duo of Eric "Kaine* Jackson and D'Angelo "D-Roc" Holmes is impressively
lowbrow. There's no attempt at real seduction. They cut straight to the chase with regard to
what you're going to see or what you should do with your ass or what kind of women they
like (although, unfortunately, their latest album seems a bit more grown up, making use of
Wyctefs talents and a heavy electric guitar sample on the single "Dangerous"). This kind of
gleeful vulgarity could explain why it's so strange that they're playing the Georgia Hall on the
bottom floor of the Tate Student Center, more often host to prestigious lecturers and blood
drives, or—and this is the explanation we're going with—it could explain why it's not.
The trashy incongruity of Kaine and D-Roc sharing the same space in which Nadine
Strossen and William F. Buckley have debated serious political issues to rap about—let's face
it—pussy is exactly the appeal of the group: a detight in stains. There is an acceptance of the
darker and grosser aspects of human nature, not an ascension but a going down in the world,
to a carpeted room in a student center that sells no alcohol, doesn't hold that many people
and is about as opposite from sexy as you can get. Odd! [Hillary Brown]
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hiatus for a while, but is back with a
new lineup.
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 Stephen King of Bart King
& the Fair Shakes performs, former
Sleepy Horses and current Diamond
Center core duo Brandi Goodson &
Kyle Harris showcase new songs ana
songwriter Dam Downs, formerly of
Atlanta/ Athens act VietNam. delivers a
rare solo set. Every Wednesday, 8 p.m.
ZOSO (Georgia Theatre) Expect typical
Led Zeppelin covers as well as a trip
into relative Zep obscurity during the
California band* traditional two-set
performance.
Thursday, Mar. 29
ALEX ORANGE (Wild Wing Cafe)
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
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE (Little
Kings) The acoustic duo of Amy
Holloway and Chris Allen are from the
Athens area, “playing some of your
favorite covers and breaking out debut
originals."
ATHENS BOYS CHOIR (Little Kings)
With the debut album Rhapsody in T
out on Daemon Records in 2004, this
local duo of Katz and Rocket focused
on gender issues and questions of
identity. Rocket moved out of town in
‘05, and Katz, who now tours solo, take
center stage. Tonight's performance
spotlights the release of the third Boys
Choir CD Jockstraps and Unicorns.
BOBBY COOL (J.R.Is Baitshack)
Sometimes solo, sometimes with a
backing band, singer-songwriter Bobby
Cool plays acoustic rock.
DEERHUNTER (40 Watt) Creative,
ambitious hypnotic and even dance-
conducive noise rock from Atlanta.
Experimental niche label Kranky
Records recently released the five-
piece’s new album Cryptograms, the
disc fuses a bit of '60s pop, layered
washes of sound, intriguing rhythms
and avant-garde drone.
DJ 43 (Detour) Mark Bell, AKA DJ 43,
spins modern trance, dance and house
music every Thursday night.
DJ KINDA GAY (Little Kings)
Christopher Ingham of the duo
Christopher’s Liver selects the tunes
after tonight’s bands, “spinning soulful
breaks with pleasant surprises."
DJ BIX (Loft) Championing dance
favorites every Thursday, Atlanta’s
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 (Flicker) The
Kansas duo of J. “Wallace’ Cochran
(guitar, vocals) and Jeff Stolz (drums,
guitar, harmophone, mandolin, vocals)
plays jump blues and old-time country
along the lines of Hank Williams,
but in a much grimier, contemporary
way. Released an album last year on
Marriage Records. 8:30 p.m. See Box
ECHO CANYON (Mercury Lounge)
Other-worldly, delicate, untraoitional
pop and rock, evolving and shifting
into instrumental metal power. After
a lengthy hiatus, the local trio of Jim
Wilson, Chuck Bradburn and Craig
Lieske play music that’s experimental
and playful, dangerous and demand
ing. 8 p.m.
FOLKLORE (Detour) The fuzzy pop
songs of Jimmy Hughes (Elf Power,
Bugs Eat Books) find backing from
Jon Croxton, Aaron Jollay, Ian Rickert.
Raoul De La Cruz and David Specht.
They’re fresh back from a national tour,
and the band’ll play songs off its debut
full-length album The Ghost ofH. W.
Beaverman, out recently.
TINO GARRIDO (Farm 255) The
frontman for Orquesta Grogus fo
cuses on classical guitar music from
Venezuela and traditional songs from
Cuba and Venezuela (for guitar and
voice). Playing a dinner set. 8-10:30
p.m.
THE GINGER ENVELOPE (Flicker)
Patrick Carey’s slow-rolling country-
ish pop is marked by breezy, melodic
sounds with chiming acoustic and
electric sounds and vocal melodies,
rounded out by Jason Rooira, Stephen
Miller, Matt Stoessel and Jason Trahan.
The band has recently wrapped work
on its full-length album Edible Orchids,
out later this year. 8:30 p.m.
“INDIE ROCK KARAOKE" (Go Bar)
Every Thursday.
JAZZ CHRONIC (NoWhere Bar)
Local guys Howard B. Stroud, Petr
Sevcik. Leon Campbell and Luke
Powell make up Jazz Chronic (formerly
Jazztronic). playing freaky, funky, psy
chedelic fusion jazz.
KANYE TWITTY (Go Bar) A wide
variety of hip-hop music.
“KARAOKE” (Eastwood Pub) Every
Thursday.
“KARAOKE" (Walker’s) Every
Thursday.
LITTLE FRANCIS (Caledonia) A sup
posedly “stripped-down" version of the
rock songs of Steve Grubbs (Dream
Girls, ex-Breakheart Beat). Backing
up Little Francis will be Scott Dansby
(Cobra Sex), Rand Lines (Freeze Tag)
and Alex Nackashi (Dream Girls).
“LIVE IN THE LOBBY” (WUOG,
90.5 FM) Thursdays at 8 p.m. Tonight's
local-band performance: 63 Crayons
LONG LEGGEO WOMAN (40 Watt)
Vaguely drony and mostly noisy,
the duo of Gabe Vodicka and Justin
Flowers plays music that's half impro
vised, half composed, and any given
performance is rarely like the bandls
last one. The duo recently put out an
EP called 1 and is featured on a new
Athens noise-music comp, and word is
a new EP called Delay 2007exists.
LOU BRAINARD PROJECT (Repent)
Metalheads Brian Neely and gang,
based out of the not-very-metal-sound-
ing-at-all Flowery Branch, GA, used
to play around town a bunch in 2003
and prior. Tonight, the band’s back as
a five-piece, kicking out somewhat
thrashy, pcst-hardcore rock
MALAMUTE (Repent) Formerly known
as An End to October, this Mississippi
band plays progressive metal punk.
MY SIAMESE SELF (Little Kings)
My Siamese Self, fronted by Deb Davis
(Hope For AGoldensummer's multi-in
strumentalist). is a three-piece garage
punk band based in Atlanta making
its second Athens appearance in as
many years Drummer Kat Riederich
and Davis used to play together in Jane
West and the Lone Star Impalas, and
bassist Stacey Singer is the former
lead singer of Atlanta’s trashgrass band
Shitty Red Drum Kit. It You Please is
the self-released EP.
NANA GRIZOL (Detour) Theo Hilton,
formerly of DIY punk band Zumm
Zumm, performs under the name Nana
Grizol backed by members of Hot New
Mexicans. Elf Power and Folklore.
THE NEVER (Detour) Chapel Hill's
five-piece The Never spent much of
2006 touring in support of its fourth re
lease Antarctica, a storybook album—a
full-length CD literally coupled with a
fully illustrated storybook by guitarist
Noah Smith. The story is centered
around a young, naive boy named Paul
and h : s journey to find the owner of
a large bomb he finds near his home
in the country. The band successfully
blends confident indie rock with more
charming chamber pop.
PACKWAY HANDLE BAND (Tailgate
Station) Packway’s one-mic bluegrass
provides sly, hearty original songs
and renditions of classic tunes. The
band performs tonight at the Women's
Council of Realtors Chili Cook-off. The
$15 tickets get you music and all-you-
can-eat chili, with proceeds benefiting
the Athens Area Homeless Shelter.
6-9 p.m.
PEOPLE NOISE (Caledonia)
Kentucky’s Zeke Buck, formerly of VHS
or Beta, and Matt Johnson are the core
of People Noise, whose live incarnation
features three more musicians playing
frenzied early-’90s-styled alternative
rock with a lot of intriguing sonic layer
ing on top.
PSYCHIC HEARTS (40 Watt)
Guitarist-vocalist Matthew Rain,
drummer Carr Chadwick and keyboard
ist Nico Cashin play voluminous,
arresting rxk that’s dark and moody
but that depends on the anthemic
energy fueling what they like tc call
“heavy New Wave.’ The band last year
released a new T, and it draws on
Gang of Four, Smashing Pumpkins and
Joy Division.
RAT BABIES (Repent) Heavy rock
from this Athens trio that got together
in early 2006. Members have previ-
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