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JAN <
UPCOMING EVENTS;
John Straw's Wednesday Blues Kickoff featuring
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Live local. Regional & National Blues Acts Jp
Every Wednesday • Only $5 at the door 4 ■
Doors at 6pm • Music 8-11 prfi ;
SONS OF SAILORS
JAN 11 A T ri B uT E TO JIMMY BUFFETT
(featuring members of the TONY PRICHETT BAND)
Parrothead costume contest • Come dressed in your
Parrotheod attire. Best costume wins a 50 minute
massage & dinner for two ot the Melting Point!
Tickets $10 adv. • $13 at the door
SAT Bulldog 103.7 presents an evening with the
HEIDI HENSLEY BAND
h' Tickets $6 adv. • $8 at the door
MON The Freewheeling
mnm yolatengo
w/ KURT WAGNER (of iambchop)
Tickets $17.50 adv. • $20 at the door
WED
JAN 16
John Straw's Wednesday Blues featuring
THE HEALERS
live local. Regional & National Blues Acts
Every Wednesday • Only $5 at the door
Doors at 6pm • Singing the Blues from 8-11 pm
FR| Join Us For A New Orleans Music Weekend ot The Melting Point
JAN 18 An Evening with the ,um W_-Tti'~
PRESERVATION HALL F*T* i
JAZZ BAND .
from New Orleans, Louisiana.
The heart of New Orleans jazz music for over 40 years!
Special Cajun Menu & Drink Specials
Ticket* $30 adv. • $35 at the door
SAT Join Us For A New Orleans Music Weekend of The Melting Point
JAN 19 Evening with r "ry—
COWBOY MOUTH C
Special Cajun Menu & Drink Specials 1
Tickets $15 adv. H
SUN
JAN 20
WED
JAN 23
FRI
JAN 25
Popcorn Music Children s Series with
ERIC LITWIN »?
Tickets $7.50 for kids * $5 for adults
Special Kid Friendly Menu ^
Perfect for Kindergarten to 5th graders
Doors at 3pm * Music 4-6:30pm
John Straw's Wednesday Blues with
THE MIKE
WATSON BAND
$5 at the door
Doors at 6pm • Music 8-1 lpm
The 6th Annual Robert Burns Night Celebration featuring
BOB HAY & THE C
JOLLY BEGGARS ’Vj-
Tickets $5 adv. • $7 at the door 0
JOIN US WEEKLY ON THURSDAYS FOR OUR NEW
‘ ° o,. JAZZ SERIES
FEATURING GREAT LOCAL, REGIONAL
A NATIONAL JAZZ ARTISTS
DOORS OPEN AT 6PM FOR DINNER A DRINKS
MUSIC 7-10PM • ONLY $3 AT THE DOOR
1/10 - BABY'S BLUE SWINGSET
1/17 - TREY WRIGHT TRIO
FOR TICKETS & SH0WTIMES
W W W.MELTINGP0 I NTATH ENS.COM
OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE 706.254.6909
Terrapin Tuesday fgRRflPTTT
Winter Bluegrass Series >
Ever/ Tuesday • 7-10pm • $3
. $1 OFF TERRAPIN
Toes, Jan 8 - NORTH GEORGIA BLUEGRASS BAND
Tues, Jan 15 - MAYHEM STRING BAND
Toes, Jan 22 - THE CORDUROY ROAD >
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295 E. DOUGHERTY ST • ATHENS, GA
706.549.7051
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Friday
January 11
EVENTS
THE CALENDAR!
of Beethoven's “Octet for Winds,’
Glazunov's “Saxophone Quartet,’
and “Spohr's Nonet.’
• 706-542-4400. $15, $7 (students).
8 p.m.
DEEJAYS
The Loft Dance Lounge
DJ RIX Championing dance favorites.
Atlanta’s DJ Rix favors breakbeat and
hip-hop mixes.
• www.theloftathens.com. FREE! 10
p.m.
Mercury Lounge
IMMUZIKATI0N Alfredo Lapuz
(Velveteen Pink) deejays as
Immuzikation, featuring his own
grooving remixes.
• www.mercuryathens.com. FREE!
11 p.m.
KARAOKE, ETC.
Alibi
“KARAOKE WITH LYNN & VICKIE"
The two karaoke ladies are your
energetic hosts for the night.
• 706-549-1010. FREE! 9 p.m -1 a.m.
Go Bar
“DR. FRED’S KARAOKE" Hosted
by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred"
Bowers, every Thursday night.
• www.myspace.com/gobar. FREE!
10 p.m.
Walker’s Coffee & Pub
“KARAOKE" In the caf6/ bar’s down
stairs room, every Tuesday and
Thursday night.
• 706-543-1433 FREE! 10 p.m.
Wild Wing Cafe
"KARAOKE" Every Thursday night at
the wing chain's upstairs space.
• www.wildwingcale.com. FREE! 10
p.m.
Clayton Street Gallery
TIFFANY WHITFIELD & REBECCA
BRANTLEY Reception for ex
hibit featuring recent work by Tiffany
Whitfield and Rebecca Brantley.
• 706-549-9299. FREE! 6-8 p.m.
Monroe Art Guild
ANNUAL WINTER JURIED ART
SHOW Opening reception for the
MAG Annual Winter Juried Art
Show. Featuring more than 130
works by a variety of local artists.
Live music. Refreshments.
• www monroeartguild.org. 6:30 p.m.
Oconee Cultural Arts
Foundation
ANNUAL MEMBERS'SHOW
Closing reception for OCAF's Annual
Members' Show. Featuring more
than 125 works from a variety of area
artists All works are for sale and in
clude sculpture, paintings, drawings,
textiles, jewelry, pottery and photos.
• 706-769-4565, www ocaf.com 6-8
p.m.
UGA Observatory
OBSERVATORY OPEN HOUSE The
UGA Observatory hosts its monthly
open house viewing at the UGA
Physics Building.
• 706-542-STAR. FREE! 7 p.m.
THEATRE
Oconee County Civic
Center
BUGSY MALONE Oconee Youth
Playhouse presents Bugsy Malone.
a musical spool ot Prohibiticn-era
gangster movies. Featuring a cast of
more than 130 first- through 10th-
graders from local schools. Tickets
avail, at Oconee Youth School of
Performance (Watkinsville), or at
Civic Center before performance.
• 706-769-2677. Jan. 11,12,18 and
19,7 p.m.; Jan. 13 and 20,2 p.m.
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS The Truckers'
three-night stand at the 40 Watt
continues. See p. 28.
GLOSSARY This Murfreesboro. TN,
band rocks out the down-home
jams, poppy Southern rock tunes
accented by jaunty piano lines and
easy-going vocals.
• www 40watt.com. $20.9 p.m.
Allen’s Bar & Grill
JASON BECKHAM Beckham moved
to Athens in 2005 to see what could
be cultivated in this fertile scene,
and he sends out blues-influenced
acoustic stuff that should appeal
to Ians of Van Morrison and Kevn
Kinney. On The Surface is his debut
solo EP.
• www.allensbarandgrill.com. FREE'
9 p.m.
Boar’s Head
VELVET RUNWAY Local five-piece
band playing '80s rock covers Ben
Jovi, Journey, Motley Crue, etc.
• 706-369-3040. FREE! 10 p.m
Caledonia Lounge
CUT BUFFER Magic Missiles Jake
Mosely covers yacht rock tunes: Air
Supply. Christopher Cross. Michael
McDonald, etc.
THE FOLK Y0US Julie Dyles (Murder
Beach, Big Gray) and Courtnie
Wolfgang (Big Gray) play around as
an acoustic guitar/ ukulele combo,
providing folk-styled covers of the
best in hair-metat power balladry .
MAGIC MISSILE Jake Mosely.
Meghann Jordan. Wyatt Nicholson,
Wednesday. January 9
The Howlies,
Entertainment,
Ghost Train
Flicker Theatre & Bar
The guys in Atlanta
band The Howlies like to
make threats and prom
ises. Since I've not had
the occasion to see them
live yet (they've only
played in Athens once), I
can't say for sure if they
back up their claims, but
I can say that I've been
digging the band's blurry blend of psychedelic indie garage since first hearing it on CD
several weeks ago. The group promises a smokin' live show.(but what band doesn't?) and
sends messages describing itself as "the greatest band in the world" (what band doesn't
feel that way? All should, y'know, or else why be in a band?).
"If you have any doubt of our endless conviction and ruthless aggressiveness towards
total world domination than you better well call your new kraut pope to bat, 'cuz you's
gonna need the big guns to exorcise this mad parade of drunken lycanthropy," say the
bandmembers via email. Sure, the "world domination" thing is as tired as, urn, some
thing really tired, but the tunes the band cranks out are just totally solid. So either The
Howlies are a real deal, rock-and-roll trash machine ready to do business with the devil
in order to carve out their piece of the world or, on the other hand, The Howlies are
sheep in wolves' clothing with a keen eye toward what the kids are digging these days.
I tried to ask them about all this, too, and took them at their word to "call anytime." I
did—no answer and I think the number was wrong, too.
No matter. Rock and roll, if it's about anything, is about taking chances and, dam
mit, I'm gonna take a chance on The Howlies and see if these guys will ignite Flicker
like they've promised. You probably have no good excuse to not take a chance, either.
[Gordon Lamb]
Creston Spiers and Jrian Smith
make up the curre r (incarnation of
Magic Missile, Mosely’s main song
writing vehicle for pop songs about
the periodic table of elements.
JEREMY WHEATLEY For years
and years, Jeremy Wheatley's been
contributing his percussion talents
to a diverse pool of local bands,
currently working with Tin Cup
Prophette, Je Suis France and The
Low Lows. He’s also quietly been
writing songs of his own on guitar
over the years.
• www.caledonialounge.com. $5
(21+). $6 (18+). 10 p.m.
Flicker Theatre &. Bar
ALLISON WEISS & THE BANDITS
Allison Weiss set up shop in Athens
in 2005 and dove into the open-mic
scene, delivering catchy, emotion-
driven acoustic guitar songs. Her
debut release An Eight Song Tribute
to Feeling Bad & Feeling Better is
out now, and The Bandits are her
backing band.
PATRICK CANADAY Boston-based
solo performer.
LITTLE FRANCIS Steven Grubbs
(also of local band Dream Girls)
plays songs usually backed by
Jordan Noel and Brian Connell,
sounding like rowdy, anthemic, folk
music mixed with early 50s rock
and roll.
PAINTED SKY AJ Weiss (brother
to local songwriter Allison Weiss'
and backing musician in her band
The Bandits) debuts his own tunes
tonight.
• www.myspace.com/flickerbar. 8:30
p.m.
Georgia Theatre
THE BUDDY SYSTEM Kindercore
guy Ryan Lewis heads up a new
band that debuted last month with
projected animation to go along with
the gently grooving indie-pop tunes.
CONTRABAND Recreating the hyper
successful video-game rock event
it's becoming known for. local math-
rock band Cinemechanica performs
a live soundtrack to the classic
Nintendo Entertainment System
game Contra as two players defeat
the game in one play-through.
WE VERSUS THE SHARK Local fan-
fave four-piece We Versus The Shark
has been infusing everything with
the punkish yet technical abrasion
of math rock, but injects a healthy
and uncharacteristic amount ot
hip-shakin' funk into the act. There's
a new DVD/ EP double release out
now. and the Sharks spent several
weeks late in 07 on the road.
• Aww.georgiathe3tre.com. $7.9 p.m.
Go Bar
AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER
Athens lour-piece American
Cheeseburger boasts former mem
bers of No!. Divorce and Carrie
Nations, delivering rapid-fire, loud
and aggressive thrash rock in an
old-schoOl manner, winning fast fans
around town
BRAINW0RMS Punk live-piece from
Virginia
SUBRIG DESTROYER The local
fuzzed-out. distorted duo of Chris
Holcombe on drums and Joel Martin
on bass plays “loud and heavy mu
sic you'll stand around nodding your
head to," says Martin.
• www myspace.com/gobar. 10 p.m.
The Melting Foint
SONS OF SAILORS The Tony
Pritchett Band has been performing
country rock on and off in Athens
since the late 1970s. and tonight
delivers a set of Jimmy Buffet songs,
as well as other like-minded covers,
under the name Sons of Sailors.
• www meltingpoinlathens.com. $13.
8:30 p.m.
12 FLAGP0LE.C0M • JANUARY 9, 2008
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