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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
In honor of the beginning of Georgia football season. I'd like to
give a big boolah-boolah and sis-boom-bah to everyone out there.
I know diddly-squat about football, but they say it's made Athens-
a pretty famous town. Even so, I'd put it head to head with our lo
cal music scene any day of the year. Head into it below...
► Will He or Won't He?: Fabulous Bird leader Peter Alvanos re
marked to me a couple of weeks ago that his goal was to play 200
local shows this year. Considering he played two shows in a single
day last week and another gig earlier this week and continues to
play his regular 7:30 a.m. (!) gigs
over at the Mama's Boy restaurant |
each Wednesday, he may well be on ^
his way. I have no idea what the j|
count is by now, but it's got to be in $.
the high tens at least. The full lineup s
of Fabulous Bird has been enhanced s
recently by the addition of the entire 1
Kindercore Records corporate team |
(i.e. Ryan Lewis and Dan Geller)
along with Mat Lewis, Ryan's brother,
and ex-Olivia Tremor Control dude
Bill Doss. Check out what other stuff
Fabulous Bird is up to over at www.
myspace.com/fabulousbird. And if you
want Peter to play your front porch,
kitchen, bathroom, whatever, just
give him a call and he'll be there in,
oh, about 15 minutes, I guess.
An Evening With The Garbage Men:
On Saturday, Sept. 8, Garbage Island
will reunite with its founder Mark
Kaczmarek, who has been living in Peter Alvanos
France for a good while now. Although
definitely regarded as a permanent member of the band, it's kinda
hard to get over here and play gigs with 'em, ya know? So catch
this one at the Caledonia Lounge. New thrash trio Hot Breath,
featuring members of Garbage Island and S.V.A., opens.
>• Baby, You Can Drive My Car: Those boys in Maserati, who have
mastered the enviable and admirable art of only being a band
when they want to be, head out on a U.S. tour during most of
September hitting the Southwest, West Coast, Midwest and Great
Plains regions. During this time,
the band will also work on its §
upcoming split 12" release with ^
Pittsburgh, PA, band Zombi. The §
band next plays semi-locally on
Saturday, Sept. 22 at Atlanta's
Drunken Unicorn. You should re
ally catch them at this one, too,
as they have no current plans
to play Athens again until early
next year.
Alternate Jamz: The organiz
ers of the annual Hip Hop
Homecoming Week are gearing
up for this year's event, which
runs during UGA's homecoming
week of Oct. 29 through Nov. 4. Maserati
There will be daytime and night
time events at Tasty World, Little Kings, The Library, at Sandy
Creek Park and on campus, among other places. This year, though,
any artists wishing to perform will need to contact the individual
promoters for the specific events. The types of artists welcome to
perform are pretty varied and include hip-hop, spoken word, R&B,
etc. If you have any questions, the organizers welcome input and
participation from all artists, potential sponsors and fans. Get in
touch with them and find contact info for the othe. promoters
over at www.myspace.com/hiphophomecoming.
No Sweat: Although they may have a deplorable record with regard
to human rights, religious freedom and labor issues, China cer
tainly has good taste in music. At least that's my impression upon
finding out that Chinese label Tag Team Records has licensed the
2006 release Sorry About the Flowers by local wonderband Venice
is Sinking. Tag Team will release the album in China in the spring
cf 2008, and a quick check of the label's website shows it to be
;j pretty cool little gig. For more information, please see www.
tagteamrecords.com or www.veniceissinking.net.
Jesus Spoke To The Devil Almost Every Day: Just when you thought
you could pigeonhole the Black Noise label as being irredeemably
experimental, head honcho Ryan Cox (AKA Sailor Winters) releases
a gorgeous collection of acoustic tunes by former Athens resident
and musician Owen Keegan. Featuring songs written between
1996 and 2006, the album is
appropriately titled 1996-2006.
This is really up-close, intimate
stuff. Listening to it makes one
feel more like a spy or a fly on
the wall than an audience mem
ber. Keegan, who now makes his
home in Los Angeles, doesn't
play much anymore. If people
start hearing his stuff, though,
they'll surely ask him to, right?
Please see www.^ailorwinters.
com or www.myspace.com/owen-
keegan.
Vomit Thrower 4 Real: So last
week, I mentioned an Aug. 10
incident in which the local band
Tacos! Tacos! Tacos! Tacos! ran
afoul of Sufi's Space, in a chaotic show that involved a bucket
of vomit being thrown on a Nug's Space employee; at press time,
however, we had been playing phone and email tag with the band.
Flagpole music editor Chris Hassiotis recently spoke with DJ (no
last name given) from the band about the incident. "I didn't han
dle myself right," said DJ, "but the guy running the show didn't
either. I thought I'd told them about how rowdy our shows can
get, but I probably should've been clearer about things. Drinking,
throwing beers into the crowd, that sort of thing. And when our
stuff got unplugged, I was mad and drunk," he said. "I'd brought
a bucket for me to throw up in, but at the time when I threw it at
the guy I didn't know that two other people had vomited in it al
ready, I thought it was just, /know, water and cigarette butts and
stuff... All I can say is I'm really sorry about it."
Be sure to keep your news coming in and always mention
either Threats & Promises or my name in the subject line of all
emails. Let's go grab a corndog via email to music@flagpole.com,
voicemail at 706-549-9523, ext. 203, or by post at P.O. Box 1027,
Athens, GA 30603.
Like A Pot Of Gold At The End Of A Rainbow: In a move that is as
unexpected as it is pleasantly surprising, R.E.M. will release a dual
package CD/ DVD on Oct. 16 containing 22 tracks recorded live in
Dublin, Ireland in early 2005. This is the first official live release
from the band, and the previews available over at www.remdublin.
com showcase how powerful a live act R.E.M. remains after 27
years. Titled simply R.E.M. Live, the package features performances
of songs pulled from the various releases, from 1984 album
Reckoning through 2004's Around the Sun.
They Might Not: You may be pleasantly surprised to note that They
Might Be Giants is coming to town on Thursday, Nov. 1. It's been
at least 10 years since the group played here, right? The show's at
the Georgia Theatre. Oppenheimer opens and tickets, which are
on sale now, cost $17.
Gordon Lamb
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