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Monday, March 17
The Cribs,
Ra Ra Riot,
Jeffrey Lewis
40 Watt Club
Although he's operated
steadily via the "anti-folk"
underground for over 10
years, New York's Jeffrey
Lewis has seen his profile
increase exponentially
since his most recent Jeffrey Lewis
release. Hitting shelves
last October was Lewis' new album 12 Crass Songs, his fourth for legendary U.K. label
Rough Trade, and 18th overall, on which he covers a dozen songs written and recorded
by the band that still serves as the blueprint for anarcho-punks worldwide: Crass. It's
very much the case of the profile lifting via association. It is, however, an association
that comes naturally through a shared value system.
12 Crass Songs, for all its faults, is a surprisingly strong album. For a project that ini
tially seemed as if it would merely be simplistic, acoustic covers of revered favorites, it's
completely sincere. Surprising, also, is how well so much of the Crass catalog was able to
translate into touching acoustic numbers. The best example of this is Lewis' take on "End
Result," which opens the album. Whereas Crass barked the song out as a clear negation
of consumer and government culture. Lewis' bell-like guitar and nearly whispered vocals
turn it into a brooding, existential crisis.
That Lewis would undertake a project of covers while his own compositions were
finally getting quite a bit of attention, which was the case with his 2005 album, City &
Eastern Songs, is certainly no small curiosity. As Lewis explained, though, to interactive
zine Drowned in Sound, it was both a challenge and a joy. Indeed, Lewis saw the songs
more as humanistic poems than political diatribes, Committed only ever to his own per
sonal challenge of keeping things interesting, he invokes Lou Reed: "He said that if you
tell your audience early on that you're into doing different stuff, then you're free for the
rest of your life to do whatever you wanna do," Lewis says, "and you've built an audience
that appreciates you for that." [Gordon Lamb]
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Rumor
DJ RX Rumor's house deejay delivers
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pm.
Tasty World Upstairs
DJ DIAMOND Spinning the tunes
for the weekly Latin dancing night
upstairs at Tasty World
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11 p.m.
KARAOKE, ETC.
Alibi
“STAN’S ALMOST FAMOUS
KARAOKE" Karaoke ladies Lynn
and Vickie are your energetic hosts
• 706-549-1010 FREE' Every
Thursday and Saturday. 9 p m -1
am
Sunday
March 16
EVENTS
ACC Library
ANNE FRANK EXHIBIT ni‘d
reception for Anne Frank A History
'or Today The Quest speaker
is Leon Bass an educator from
Pennsylvania who served in a
segregated African-American umi of
the US Army m WWII and assisted
with the liberation of the Buchenwald
concentration camp
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Ramsey Student Center
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8 am
PERFORMANCE
Athens First United
Methodist Church
“MASS OF THE CHILDREN" The
Sanctuary Choir presents John
Rutter's Mass ot the Children"
Open to the public
• 706-543-1442 FREE' 7 p.m
THEATRE
Morton Theatre
PETER PAN Athens Creative Theatre
presenls the family musical Peter
Pan
• 706 613-3771, www accleisure-
servtcescom $15. $12/children.
Seney-Stovall Chapel
SARAH. PLAIN AND TALL
Presented by Athens Little
Playhouse See Mar i4Tt>.-atre
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playhouse ore $10 SB/sfutiints
servers and memoers. $5/childrens
tickets on Sunday Mar 14-15.7:30
o m Mar 15-16. 2pm
LIVE MUSIC
The Melting Point
CONNELLY CROWE BAND Get a
peek a! the future of Athens' music
scene, and bring your kids along
for the show 1 Connelly Crowe Band
features Clark Central High students
Connelly Crowe, age 16 (rhythm
guitar, vocals). Lewis Jones, age
16 (lead guitar, drums, harmonica,
vocals) and Gus Boyd, age 17 (bass
guitar). Their folk-rock sound is
likely influenced by Lewis' dad who
is a member ol Pam Blanchard and
the Sunny-Side Up Band.
STEREOGUN Teen band kicking oil
the Popcorn Music Series The
drummer has been known to sit
in with Pam Blanchard and the
Sunny-Side Up Band on occasion
Stereogun plays high energy, full-
throttle original music
• www rneltingpointathens com $7-50
(kids) $5 (adults) 4 p m -6 p m
Monday
March 17
EVENTS
UGA Hodgson Hall
UGAVS. OXFORD UNION DEBATE
III Topic is “Resolved The United
Stales' Federal Government Should
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Su 3 16 Downtown Community Fellowship 7pm
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T 3/18 The Bloody Mary Bash with:
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