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Thursday
January 17
EVENTS
Georgia Museum of Art
GUIDED TOUR Overview of
Redefining the Modern Landscape
m Europe and America, circa
1920-1940"
• 706-542-GMOA FREE' 2 p m
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
BACKTALK Wesley Fntts and Nick
Givins (botn formerly of Bird
Fiu} and Ai Dag I is (Dark Meal.
iSubversivo 1 ) make up this new
tr r ashy punK trie. Debut ciufc shew
tonight
HOT NEW MEXICANS Vocalist-
cuJanst Patrick Jennings and dr.-r-
mer Joe Dakin moved tc Athens ana
recruited Carrie Nations Ian McCord
to play bass, creating catchy, punk-
influenced boozy power pep The
band's new vinyl 7" is called Wah....
SHERMAN’S MARCH Shermans
March is a new local improv rock
trio featuring Craig Lieske on guitar,
backed by the We Versus the Shark
rhythm section of Jett Tobias on
bass and Scott Smith on drums
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 s'and around nodding your
head to,” says Martin.
• www.40watt.com. FREE' 10 pm
Caledonia Lounge
A DECENT ANIMAL Starting out as
the duo of singer-guitarisfs Richard
Weld and Jonathan Nicholson, but
later adding George Baerreis on
drums and Rhodes, Charleston,
SC's A Decent Animal plays circular,
atmospheric rock music that swirls
around itself in inleresting layers.
The debul EP is called The Rabbit
Hole.
HARRISON HUDSON Harrison
Hudson (vocals, guitar) and his
backing band—David Dees (bass).
Lewis Hudson (drums) and Tony
Pasqualone (guitar)—head south
from their New York base, playing
upbeat pop rock in the same vein as
Fountains of Wayne, Goo Goo Dolls
and Jump, Little Children.
MORNING STATE The debut EP from
former Athenian act Morning State is
called Retreat!!!, a disc that's intri
cate and energetic, and lives easily
in both indie-rock and mainstream
camps.
• www.caledonialounge.com. $6
(21+). $7(18+). 10 p.m.
Chapel
JAZZ ENIGMA Melvin Mathurin (alio
sax) plays jazz heavily inspired by
John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard,
Joshua Redman and Kenny Garrett.
His quartet includes Craig Griffen
(guitar), Robby Handley (bass) and
Darren Stanley (drums).
• www.myspace.com/athenschapel.
FREE! 9 p.m.
Flicker Theatre & Bar
JAY GONZALEZ In his weekly gig at
Kingpins, keyboardist-vocalist Jay
Gonzalez plays the lounge singer
and piano player role, covering
standards and pop favorites. He's
also a swell performer in his own
right, as proven by the now defunct
Athens pop bands Nutria and The
Possibilities.
WOULD-BE FARMERS African-
influenced blues and eclectic
psychedelic backwoods jazz from
the local group playing loose
'iierpretalions of Gieex and Turkish
melodics as well as dues from
Memphis to Mesopotamia Former
Vvol .-Be Farmer Jav Gcozaiez (aiso
perfe'm ng tonigh*; may sit m on a
few numbers
• www.myspace com/lknerbar 9pm
Georgia Theatre
BUNG THE CHILDREN BACK
HOME Local hip-hop with a strong
love of fur and tongue firmly planted
m cheek (sometimes)- the rap styl
ings aim fo' humor, although the
music is strongly grooving and
Cased in funk
LORD T & ELOISE Tennessee* rap
duo Lord T & Eioise have developed
a style they caii anstocrunk a
WASPy approach to an urban genre
(it's also the name of their debut
a'bumi It's a little g ; mmtky and a
'et Beast e Boys-intluenced
• www gecrgiatheatre.com SIC 9
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The Melting Point
TREY WRIGHT TRIO Guitarist T'~.
Wright bungs his Atlanta trio—
which "dudes Marlon Patton on
drums and Marc Miller on upright
bass—to Athens to play originals,
jazz standards and unexpected in
terpretations ot pop tunes The band
starts recording a new album soon
Part o f the Melting Points weekly
Thursday jazz series
• www.meltingpointalhens com S3
7-10 p.m.
No Where Bar
DR. LOUIS SULLIVAN Funky jam
rock band wilh members from
Atlanta and Albany, currently in
town record,r.q an album with John
Keane
• '06-546-4 7 42 $3 10 pm
Tasty World
DR. SQUID No ^formationavailable
FASHION KNEE HIGH Jangty local
garage rock with some more play
fully indulgent guitar sounds and
an emphasis on chance-taking, all
topped ott by disaffected vocals.
MATIAS Local singer Nicole Matias
plays pretty, delicate and dreamy
music with acoustic and electric gui
tar and airy vocals, a little reminis
cent ol the Azure Ray ladies Lately.
Matias has been recruiting friends to
act as a backing band
ALEX RAFFRAY The two songs
costed on his MySpace page reveal
a penchant tor hushed vocals and
s ibtly picked acoustic guitar
• www.tastywcrldnet $5 10pm.
DEEJAYS
The Loft Dance Lounge
DJ RIX Champ oning dance favor tes
Atlanta's DJ Rix ravers breakbeat
and hip-hop mixes He recently col
laborated with Lcuisianas Trace on a
new mix called TR-IXX.
• www theloftalhens com FREE' 10
pm
Mercury Lounge
IMMUZIKATION Alfredo Lapuz
handles electronics and backing
vocals for the local party funk band
Velveteen Pink, but he also deejays
as Immuzikation. featuring his own
grooving remixes.
• www.mercuryathet.s com FREE!
11 p.m.
KARAOKE, ETC.
Go Bar
-DR. FRED S KARAOKE” Hosted
by John Dr F r ed Bowers
• www my^pace com/gobar FREE'
10 p m
Walker’s Coffee & Pub
“KARAOKE" In the cate/ bar s down
stairs room.
• 706-543-1433 FREE! 10 pm.
Wild Wing Cafe
"KARAOKE” Every Thursday night at
the downtown wing chain's upstairs
space
• www wildwmgcafe com FREE' 10
pm
Friday
January 18
EVENTS
Madison-Morgan Cultural
Center
KEITH RASMUSSEN Opening recep
tion for a retrospective exhibit of
works by Georgia painter and pnnt-
makei Keith Rasmussen.
• 706-342-4743. www.madisonmof-
gancuttural.org. 5-7 pm.
PERFORMANCE
Canopy Studio
“DEL CIELO" Advanced students of
Canopy Studio present an aerial per-
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Wednesday, January 16
Natasha Trethewey
UGA Student Learning Center
Pulitzer Prize winner, UGA grad,
college cheerleader—Natasha
Trethewey returns to Athens to
read her acclaimed poems this
week. Her third collection, Native
Guard, won the 2007 Pulitzer, mak
ing her the first UGA alum outside
of journalism to gamer the prize
and only the fifth to do so in the
University's history. Her days as
head cheerleader at Georgia are
a quirky footnote for a meteoric
rise to the top of the poetry trade
since publishing her first book in
2000. Trethewey has already been
honored with the Cave Canem
prize (chosen by former U.S. Poet
Laureate Rita Dove for the best
book by an African-American poet),
the Lillian Smith Award, a selec
tion as a 2003 Notable Book by the
American Library Association, the
Grolier Poetry Prize, the Mississippi
'institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Arts, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Trethewey's poetry often addresses what she has termed "cultural memory and histori
cal erasure," and her latest book draws on the complicated history of a black regiment
guarding Confederate soldiers on the Gulf Coast, as well as the story of her own mixed-
race parentage, itself an historical rarity in Civil Rights-era Gulfport, MS, where she
was bom. Says David Ingle, Assistant Editor at the Georgia Review, which is sponsoring
Trethewey's reading, Trethewey's work "looks inward and outward, forwards and back
wards, all at the same time. Her poems are simultaneously personal and historical, grace
ful and powerful They're accessible yet complex, featuring troubling content poured into
beautiful molds. This reading is one not to be missed."
After stints at Duke, the University of North Carolina, and Auburn, Trethewey is cur
rently an associate professor of creative writing at, Emory University Her reading in
Athens takes place in room of 171 of UGA's Student teaming Center on Wednesday, Jan.
16 at 4 p.m. Trie reading is free and open to the public. [Donn Cooper]
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