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THE CALENDAR!
UGA Memorial Hal!
NATIONAL ISSUES FORUM
(Adinkra Hall) The community is
invited to participate in a town-hall
style forum titled Racial and Ethic
Tensions What Should We Do 7 '
• FREE 1 7pm '
PERFORMANCE
Flicker Theatre & Bar
STAND-UP COMEDY EXPLOSION
Comedian Pete McBrayer hosts a
night of open mic stand-up comedy
• 706-546-0039 .
THEATRE
The Classic Center
ANNIE One-night-only performance of
Broadway classic Annie Tnis 30th
anniversary tour features the adven
tures of Little Orphan Annie, and
songs like “Tomorrow" “It's the Ha’d
Knock Lite." Easy Street' and more
• 706-357-4444 www classiccenter
com S10-S65 8pm
LIVE MUSIC
Caledonia Lounge
JASON HARWELL Alive in the Fall is
2004 s album trom this singer-song
writer The wide-reaching collection
incorporates shimmer-pop piano
flourishes and alt-country washes
of steel strings, and is brimming
with sincerity and soul. The Broken
Headphones is the new disc.
JASON SMITH Singer-songwriter
• www.caledonialounge com $6
(21+). $7 (18+) 10 pm
The Melting Point
THE CORDUROY ROAD Kentucky-
bred. foot-stomping local duo play
ing non-traditional folk with a banjo
and guitar
• www meltingpointathens.com $3
7-10 p.m
Tasty World
A THOUSAND KNIVES OF FIRE
Seventies-inspired classic rock out
of New Jersey, somewhere between
Deep Purple and ZZ Top.
CONFUSED LITTLE GiRL Greasy,
rifty Southern hard rock out of
itmued from page 15
Florida that's a little Thin Lizzy, a
little Reznor and a lot of Sabbath
• www tastyworld net S5 10 pm
KARAOKE, ETC.
Walker's Coffee &. Pub
"KARAOKE” In the cafe/ bar s down
stairs room, every Tuesday and
Thursday night.
'• 706-543-1433 FREE' 10 pm
Wednesday
January 23
EVENTS
ACC Library
PICTURING SOCIAL CHANGE
UGA's Office of Institutional Diversity
offers a preview presentation of
two UGA Civr! Rights protects D’
Barbara McCaskill and Dr Toby
Graham will discuss the develop
ment of the collaborative Civil Rights
Digital Library and Freedom on Film
protects
• 706-542-5766 FREE' 7 p m
Cine Barcafe
VOX READING SERIES Student and
faculty 'rom UGA's Creative Writing
Department read from their poetry
and fiction Featuring Mark Bilbrey
Ed Pavlic, Donne Preston. Reginald
McKnight and Andrew Zawacki
• 7 p.m FREE'
Georgia Museum of Art
“LECTURE: SHAPING THE
SILHOUETTE" Dr Jose Blanco
discusses how fashions of the 20th
century reflect changes in women's
lifestyles in America Lecture is in
conjunction with the current exhibit
"Shaping the Silhouette'
• 706-542-GM0A FREE'7:30pm.
PERFORMANCE
Diverse Universe
POETIC CONFESSIONZ Student and
community forum presented by The
Dreaded Mindz Family.
• undergroundathens2@yahoo.com
FREE! 9-11 p.m
LIVE MUSIC
Caledonia Lounge
SOUTHEAST ENGINE Coming to
Terms With Gravity is the strong
debut album from this Athens. OH
band, its energetic, upbeat songs
weave together various veins of mu
sic. with strands of '60s garage pop.
psychedelia, folk and alt-country
showing up
• www.caledonialounge com S6
(21+).S7(18+) 10 pm
Georgia Theatre
NAUTILUS The band features James
Feeney on drums Andrew Haynes
on bass, and Chris Keesecker on
keyboards/ synth they play covers
and original songs inspired by hip-
hop, iazz and electronic music
THE SUEX EFFECT Psychedelicized
funk rock instrumentals relying on
spacey harmonies Faces of the Tree
is the debut full-length
• wvvw geoigiatheatre com $5 10 15
p m
Kingpins Bowl & Brew
JAY GONZALEZ Nutria keyboardist-
vocalist Jay Gonzalez has a regular
gig m town as a lounge singer' and
piano pfayer
• www kingpinsbowiandbrew com
FREE' 8pm
Little Kings
ATHENS BOYS CHOIR Focusing
on gender issues and questions of
identity. Katz delivers rhymes with
a musical underpinning The third
Boys Choir CD is called Jockstraps
and Unicorns
NICKY CLICK Producer, beat-maker
video artist, songwiiter and perfor
mance artist Nicky Click released
her sophomore album I'm On My
Cell Phone in November, full of
hook-heavy electro-pop that should
rope m fans keen on Peaches or
Miranda July
• www.myspace.com/littlekingsshuf-
fleclub. $5.9 p m
The Melting Point
THE MIKE WATSON BAND When
in full-band mode, guitarist M.xe
Watson plays bluesy covers
and originals backed by bassist
Larry Germain and drummer Art
McNaughton; his live album's called
Biscuits On My Mind, and the coun
try rock album Hot Atlanta Nights
Monday, January 21
Murder Mystery,
' Tin Cup Prophette,
Little Francis
40 Watt Club
Let me clear up the
mystery. This is the cute
new band from New York
named Murder Mystery,
not the slightly older
indie band from Detroit
of the same name, play
ing the 40 Watt. Other
than that potential
confusion, there is little
mystery here, but, rather,
straightforward sweet
Murder Mystery is Murder Mystery
touring behind the debut
album Are You Ready for the Heartache Cause Here It Comes [see review on p. 27], and
consists of a brother and sister (Jeremy and Laura Coleman;, plus two buddies (Adam
Fels and Kevin Jaszek) who craft songs that consist of equal parts '60s garage band and
The Strokes. That latter comparison trades heavily on Jeremy Coleman's voice, which
has a deep, nasal tone that could be analogized equally well to Julian Casablancas or to
Lou Reed given some singing lessons. There's a more danceable quality to these tunes,
though, than their forebears possessed, whether it's the sexy shuffle of "Honey Come
Home," the jagged but kicky "Who Doesn't Want to Give Me Love?" (the song that con
tains the album title in its lyrics), the more keyboard-heavy decent-BPM indietronica of
"Love Astronaut" or the handclaps and hips of "What My Baby Said." Not a song breaks
the four-minute mark, and that's only part of the reason they sound like a marvelous dis
covery from the past.
If you like the "rock and roll" mythologized by the Velvet Underground's Loaded; if
you want your pitches both high and low a little muddied instead of crystalline; if you
would like to be able to dance at such a pace that you can easily not spill your beer,
Murder Mystery out of New York might be just your speed. [Hillary* Brown]
was reissued back in 06 Part of the
Melting Point s weekly Wednesday
blues showcase
• www meltingpomtathens com $5
8-11 p.m
Tasty World
BYRON ADAMS Whether solo or
backed by buddies Adam Davis
and Zeke Sayer. Byron Adams leans
heavily on harmonica and Dixieland
poetics in his acoustic tunes
FACT NOT FICTION Hailing from
Hartwell. Fact Not Fiction plays
pleasant, unassumingly mellow and
laid-back indie rock. The band's de
but album Conversations with Eyes
Closed ms released last year The
frontman has a solo disc out too
PHOLKSINGER JOSH New on the
Athens scene Josh Rosenstem just
released the album Southern Dirt.
and "itsa gangstafolk'explosion
with talkin' blues poetry, political
songs, love songs and rampant har
monica/ kazoo solos,'' he says
WACKO MAZOE Elberton-based tour-
piece playing around with acoustic
and electric styles, drawing on radio
rock blues and even pop-punk to
create sincere sounds.
• www tastyworld.net $5 10 p m
UGA Ramsey Concert
Hall
UGA RAMSEY HALL FREE
CONCERTS Thsi wee. see a special
performance trom Guest Artist
James Ackley, tumpet
• 706-542-3737 3 35 p m
Wow Cafe & Wingery
NATHAN SHEPPARD The local
acoustic guitanst-harmomcist is
known for his emotive singing style
and his modern reworkmgs of clas
sic lunes. from Dylan and Young to
Van Morrison Every Wednesday
• 706-543-5510 FREE' 8pm
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DARK MEAT
12 00am
FOLKLORE
CD RELEASE PARTY • 11:30pm
MADELINE
11:00pm
QUIET HOOVES
CD RELEASE PART/ • 10 30pm
VENICE IS SINKING
10:00pm
doors at 9:00pm • all times are so totally serious
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