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THE HUSHPUPPIES (Melting Point)
The regional Hushpuppies—bassist
Mitch Barefield, drummer Cary Cooper,
guitarist-lead vocalist Todd “Tex’
Cowart and lead guitarist Matt Thomas
play good ol’ ‘wild country,’ drawing
on the Bottle Rockets, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
Charlie Robison and NRBQ. The band's
2001 debut album is called Songs from
the Big House.
“KARAOKE” (Meliks) Every Friday.
KING COTTON (Tasty World)
Guitarist-vocalist-mandolinist Fester
Hc?ood (ex-Ray Ray & the Hog
Mountain Boys), guitarist-vocalist
Johnny Walker (The Jack Crevelle),
bassist Jared Forester and drummer
Scott Tracy play up-tempo Americana,
country rock and Southern rock, and
are about to start work on an album
NERO & THE BURNING VIOLINS
(Flicker) Athens trio Nero & The
Burning Violins plays its debut club
show, some rough tunes online sound a
little like a rough-edged, watery Guided
By Voices or really early Eli Power.
PARADE (Little Kings) Atlanta's Carrie
Hodge (vocals, bass, keyboard), Scott
Trinh (guitar), Emily Martin (bass, key
board) and Jason Chamison (drums)
play unrestrained but elegantly deli
cious pop. The 2005 debut album is
A Red Button, the followup EP Answer
We expands on that disc's promise.
WYNNE PARIS (Healing Arts Centre)
New York musicians Wynne Paris and
clarinetist Perry Robinson perlorm as
Groovananda. an audience-participatory
act that fuses world beat, jazz and kirtan
(a type of yogic call-and-response de
votional chanting) and includes songs
and stories about yoga, jazz and musi
cal meditations Tonight Paris performs
a solo kirtan set at 8 p.m.
PERPETUAL GROOVE (Georgia
Theatre) This former Savannah group
has been stirring crowds into a frenzy
around the Southeast with its high-
energy jams and spirited cover tunes
But they liked Athens so mjjch they
picked up and moved here last year,
and packed the AthFest mainstage
back in June All This Everything anti
Sweel Oblivious Antidote are the most
recent albums, but the new one is
LIVELOVEDIE Tonight’s the second of
a two-mght stand at the Theatre
RANDOM ACTS (Eastwood Pub)
Country-rock covers and originals
RED LETTER AGENT (40 Watt)
Croony. melodic and really sincere.
Red Letter Agent's smoothly burnished
rock sheen glistens all the way from
Atlanta. Benefit show for St Jude’s
Children's Research Hospital.
JOAL RUSH (Tasty World) Claiming
inspiration from the music of Jeff
Buckley and fellow South Carolina act
Jump, Little Children, Joal Rush lays
down six tracks-of melody-heavy, pas
sionately delivered pop Rush is backed
by Athenian Zac Taylor on guitar, Mark
Cobb on drums and Clay Cook on
keys Tonight, he celebrates the release
of his new album Imagination, recorded
here in Athens last summer
RUSSIAN SPY CAMERA (Little
Kings) Ryan White (guitar, vocals) and
Andy Turner (drums, vocals) last year
recruited musician McGregor Button,
drawing in influences from rock, hip-
hop and electronic music. The bands
quirky debut album You Are A Vulture
is a jittery, electrified bundle of pop
kineticism
SAVE GRAND (ANYON (40 Watt)
Emotional and dynamic, this new lo
cal band plays what it calls ‘organic
all-rock ‘ Benefit show tor St Jude's
Children's Research Hospital.
SIDEMEN DUO (Borders) Two mem
bers of local Americana/ bluegrass
act Jimmy Driftwood & His Legendary
Sidemen take a break from the tag-
band show to toss out a more intimate
performance 6 p m.
SOUTHFIRE BAND (Alibi) Country
and Southern rock from Winder main
stays Southfire Band.
SWEET-TOOTH SIMPLETON &
THE SIMPLETONES (Caledonia)
Local four-piece band Sweet-Tooth
Simpleton & the Simpletones plays
country with a quirky take on things.
Working in banjo, mandolin, stand-
up bass and lap steel, among other
instruments; the debut disc is called
Santana's Greatest Hits
TIMBER (Caledonia) 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 ot lead singer
Daniel Aaronls wistful, fiery country
pop The brand-new album is For
Never & Always.
WRONGLY ACCUSED (Allens) Rock,
blues and country tunes. Covers and
originals.
Saturday, Sept. 8
ADMIRAL BROWNING (Repent)
Maryland's Admiral Browning is an
instrumental trio playing bluesy, adren-
alized heavy rock on its new release
Dead Pets, kind of like Motbrhead
being updated tor the current doom-
metal set
BEARFOOT HOOKERS (DTs) The
rowdy band performs funky, good-
humored country on the entertaining
sophomore album Life at the Bar.
and is the power behind last year's
Welcome to Athens: A Drinkin' Town
With A Music Problem country drink
ing-song compilation
JUSTIN BROGDON (Melting Point)
Tallahassee, FL, native and current
Athens dude Justin Brogdon (ex-Blues-
tring, Full Black Out) plays acoustic
covers and Tom Pettyish originals in
his solo sets aiming for thoughtful
lyrics and emotional sounds 1-5 p m.
on the patio.
CULTURE PROPHET (Go Bar)
Dance band Culture Prophet—despite
exhortations to the contrary on the tune
“FaceMelter - —fuses sweaty, gritty,
bass-heavy electroclash sounds with
heavily distorted funk and blippy New
Wave influences
DAMNESIA (Repent) Punk four-piece
from Loganviile, GA
DJ APPLEPAUL (Flicker) Local
deejay Paul Wilson puts together a
‘retro video dance party' at Flicker,
following a 10 p.m. screening ot the
film Footloose, applePaul turns on the
dance lights, projects some videos and
puts on the surround-sound tunes.
DJ DIAMOND (Tasty World Upstairs)
Spinning the tunes for the weekly Latin
dancing hosted by local promoters
Chamo Events Every Saturday. 10 p.m.
DJ ISAAC (Detour) Longtime
Boneshakers / Kultur Lounge deejay
Isaac McCalla mixes tonight's electro
dance tunes.
DJ JOHNNY D (Lott) One of The
Lott Lounge's rotating crew ot house
deejays, Johnny D—whom you may
recognize from Atlanta's 95 5 The
Beat—plays a mix of '80s, ‘90s, Top
40, mash-ups and current dance stuff
DJ MARK BELL (8es) Starting at 11
p.m every Friday and Saturday, local
deejay Mark Bell focuses on the dan
der sounds of 20 years ago.
DJRX (Rumor) The local deejay plays
party tracks, mainly current pop with
old-school and country accents, many
ot which are his own remixes Every
Friday and Saturday
GARBAGE ISLAND (Caledonia)
The challenging, interesting Athens
improvisational group soldiers on
despite lineup shifts. Loud, metallic
and edgy, the band dips into krautrock
and progressive, earning it the ‘experi
ments tag.
HOLMAN AUTRY BAND (40 Watt)
These six guys Irom Danielsville play
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