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ZAC TAYLOR & THE DRUGS Zac
Taylor (ex-Ruse) and his band
get it back together one time for a
show full of beery pop songs and
singalongs.
• 706-559-9600 FREE! 10 p.m.
Tasty World
LULLWATER John Strickland. Nick
Thomas, Will Manelos and Rob
Smith play classic and recent rock
covers, peppering their set with
original songs. New album soon.
THE PLANET RIDERS This Monroe.
GA. group was originally just the
duo of dobro/ pedal steel player
Mark Van Allen and singer-song
writer Joe Kirkpatrick, but recently
added Jere Kirk on drums and Joe
Petree on bass. The guys play easy
going American rock, with a hint of
bluegrass influences.
• wwwtastyworld.net. $5.10 p.m.
UGA Ramsey Concert
Hall
EMMANUEL CEYSSON As part of
the Ramsey Concert Hall Series,
Emmanuel Ceysson performs a pro
gram of French music on hafp.
• 706-542-4400. $18. $9 (students).
8 p.m.
Wild Wing Cafe
QUARTERFLY Sincere pop-rock band
out of Spartanburg. SC, with a deliv- *
ery that could appeal to those keen
on the post-Vedder vocal sound
(Live. Creed, etc.).
SOL DRIVEN TRAIN from South
Carolina comes Sol Driven Train, a
six-piece act jamming out on soul,
reggae, jazz and folk tones, weaving
strands pulled from Stevie Wonder,
the Wailers and the Band into a
swampy, smooth Southern stew.
• www.wildwingcafe com. FREE 1 10
p.m.
DEEJAYS
Little Kings
DJ MAHOGANY Freaky funk, deep
disco, solid soul—it’s a cornu
copia of classic ass-shakery from
the ’60s. 70s and '80s that DJ
Mahogany spins as he drops great
obscure gems between the hits.
Tonight Mahogany takes on the
challenge of playing songs only off
of original motion picture sound
tracks: Footloose, Across 110th St.,
Flashdance. Grease, The Breakfast
Club, Weird Science and more!
• www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuf-
fleclub. FREE! Midnight.
The Loft Dance Lounge
DJ JOHNNY D One of The Loft
Lounge's rotating crew of house
beejays, Johnny D—whom you may
recognize from Atlanta's 95.5 The
Beat—lays down the new dance
sounds, heavy on the hip-hop.
• www.theloftathens.com. 10 p.m.
Rumor
DJ RX Deejay/ remixer Brian Gonzalez
delivers original mixes of current
pop with accents ranging from old-
school to country.
• www.rumorathens.com. FREE! 11
p.m.
Saturday
January 12
EVENTS
Rubber Soul Yoga
Revolution Studio
GOTTADANCE! No instruction, just
the freedom to dance to great mu
sic. A barefoot, smoke-, alcohol-,
When reading about
Sigur Ros' music, one
always encounters
a rumination on the
band's native Iceland.
While anyone's music
will inexorably be influ
enced by geography,
in Sigur Ros' case, it's
become a cliche, some
thing as inescapable Sigur R6s
as the group's music
is haunting. So when the band traveled across its little island, performing sets in some
strange locales and contexts for the sake of Heima's posterity, it surely was done with the
knowledge that the debt to Iceland would be deepened. From fisheries to the great out
doors (which does lend itself to Sigur Ros' cavernous angelicism), the half-tour documen
tary, half-visually breathtaking landscape collage looks to be essential for all Sigur Ros
fans. And a new track, "Gitardjamm," makes an appearance in the film. A few acoustic
sets sneak in as well, snuggling up warmly with the recent Hvarf and Heim EPs. Since the
band is currently at work on the follow-up to 2005's album Takk..., the movie should be
a nice warm-up, especially in this recent chilly weather. And although the film is already
available on DVD, no one can deny the appeal of seeing huge music on a huge screen.
So yes, Sigur Ros is intrinsically linked to its environment in a way an Athens band
never could be. Blame it on the drifting glaciers, vast tundra or jagged mountains, but
the band's sweeping post-rock and classically gorgeous bombast lend themselves to the
cold beauty and Nordic isolation of the group's home. Even a cursory glimpse on YouTube
makes it obvious that the film's visuals match the albums' sounds.
A friend recently saw a screening of Heima in Cambridge, England, and after the film,
he encountered an extremely elderly woman in a wheelchair who asked him if he'd just
seen the movie. She barely had the strength to move the chair, but had attended alone.
He said yes, and asked if she was a fan of Sigur Ros and if she enjoyed the film. She
replied along the lines of "Yes, this movie and music are so different than all the cruelty
and vulgarity in the world." And isn't that, much more than environment, what makes
Sigur Ros' music valuable in the first place?
Heima screens at Cine on Thursday, Jan. 10, at 4 p..n„ 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. for a
reduced ticket price cf only $5. Proceeds benefit the Athens Relay for Life Association.
[Michael Wehunt]
Thursday, January 10
Heima: A Film
by Sigur Ros
Cin6
drug-free, friendly dancing space
for everyone who loves to dance!
Everything from world music to
R&B.
• rae@simplyenough.com,
705-850-1937. Donation: $3-$5.
8-11 p.m.
Tyche’s Games
STARS WARS MINIATURES
TOURNAMENT 200-point armies.
Prizes for all entrants. Everyone is
welcome.
• 706-354-4500, www.tychesgames.
com. $1 entrance fee. 12 p.m.
UGA Memorial Hall
CONTRA DANCE Old-time contra
dance presented by the Athens Folk
Music & Dance Society with live
music and calling. No experience
necessary and no partner needed!
FREE! lesson at 7:30 p.m.
• www.athensfolk.org. $6; under age
18. FREE! 8-11 p.m.
THEATRE
Oconee County Civic
Center
BUGSY MALONE Oconee Youth
Playhouse presents a musical spoof
of Prohibition-era gangster movies.
See Jan. 11 Theatre.
• 706-769-2677. Jan. 11.12.18 and
19.7 p.m.; Jan. 13 and 20,2 p.m.
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
THE DEXATEENS This frenetic,
urgent three-piece rock band out of
Tuscaloosa. AL. blends Southern
guitar rock twang with a garagey,
punk-inspired stomp. Hardwire
Healing is the follow-up to the
Dexateens' 2005 release Red Dust
Rising. See Box.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS The Truckers'
three-night stand at the 40 Watt
continues. Expect a dip into the back
catalog tonight. See p. 28.
• www.40watt.com. $20.9 p.m.
Allen’s Bar & Grill
RACHEL O’NEAL Solo singer-
songwriter.
• www allensbarandgrill.com. FREE!
8 p.m.
Caledonia Lounge
NIGHT MOVES Adrian Finch (ex-
Masters of the Hemisphere. Elf
Power) heads up this new Atlanta-
based five-piece, bringing his atmo
spheric, head-trip rock to a mellower
place, taking a soulful cue from Hall
& Oates and the Doobie Brothers.
SM0KED0G Local guys Thom
Strickland (vocals, guitar) and Jason
Jones (drums) play a noisy motorik
pulse with treated guitar Says
Jones, “noisy lo-fi boogie smeared
over mechanical back-pocket beats."
Full-length album coming soon.
THE TRANSFORMERS Based out
of Athens and Knoxville, this new
three-piece band favors a New Wave
combined with classic 70s guitar
rock sort of vibe. A few originals
mixed in with diverse covers.
• www.caledonialounge.com. $5
(21+). $6(18+). 10 p.m.
Farm 255
PART BEAR Local songwriter Gray
Griggs fronts this classic-rock
leaning band.
• www.farm255.com. FREE! 11:30
p.m.
Flicker Theatre & Bar
A TALE OF TWO CALEYS Local
guys Caley Smith and Caley Ross
“sound like a science-fiction folk
musical." The quirky lyrics address
meta- and astrophysical concerns,
and feature a heavy amount of
French and Greek wordplay.
CHRISTOPHER’S LIVER Guitarist-
vocalist Christopher Ingham (ex-
Heroic Livers, Colostomv Bag) and
drummer-vocalist Laura Swindall
play enthusiastic, bigheaded acous
tic pop music with a lo-fi aesthetic.
DAWN SOIR Clear-voiced Athens
singer Laura Slade Wiggins (ex-
EARrational) moved to California
earlier this year, but she’s back in
town with this new band featuring
Jonathan Spencer.
EVERYONE EXCEPT ME
Philadelphia's Michelle Adler turns
out passionate acoustic tunes
packed with vitriol, politics and
pleas for a better tomorrow. Also at
Farm 255 on Wednesday, Jan 9.
• www.myspace.com/flickerbar. 9:30
p.m.
Georgia Theatre
CRAZY ANGLOS Fusing mid- 90s
metal riffage with late-’90s angst-
rap. suburban Atlanta's Crazy Anglos
can barely contain their aggression.
The five-piece band also works reg
gae and funk into the sound, coming
across like a hard-edged Sublime.
The debut EP is called Get Up or
Get Out.
DEMUN JONES Macon rapper
Demun Jones, a member of tonight's
headliner Rehab, also spotlights
some of his solo work. In 2005,
he released the solo album 10on
Athens label Attica Sound.
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