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WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK
Tuesday
April 15
EVENTS
The Classic Center
www athensbgca com $250 6 30 p m
10TH ANNUAL STEAK & STEAK
DINNER This years speaker is
Monica Pearson, WSB-TV award
winning anchor Sponsored by
Locos Grill and Pub
Tasty World
www boybutante org $5/2 cards 8-10
pm.
CELL BLOCK BINGO Join Sophia
LoReni for this annual event ot live
games of bingo. Part of Boybutante.
proceeds benefit AIDS Athens
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
Common Ground benefit FREE 1 9 p.m.
BEATRIX KIDDO Athens' own Beatrix
Kiddo is a post-rock band that
will appeal to fans of Sonic Youth,
Mission of Burma. My Bloody
Valentine and the like
BISHOP DON Psychedelic indie rock
that stretches cut its heavy grooves
to incorporate some strong Southern
jamming tendencies
PARASITE SHOES With former
members of Dirty Sanchez & the
Pancho Villas, Col. Knowledge and
the Winter Sounds, among others,
this new live-piece band toys with a
dark mixture of melodies
Caledonia Lounge
www.catedonialounge com $6 (2H).
$7(18+) 10 pm
DAFFODIL Trio Daffodil—Derek
Wiggs, Zack Kennedy and Max
Talkovich—plays fuzzed-out, early-
'90s sounding heavy rock and roll.
MAPS This instrumental Nashville
group is heading down to Athens
just a week after its CD release party
The Wick and the Fire is a lush and
ecclectic post-rock record with lots
of varied time signatures.
Flicker Theatre &*. Bar
www myspace com/flickerbar. $5.
8:30 p.m.
CAPRICORN Experimental solo
Athens artist. The esoteric In a Field
came out earlier this year on Ionized
Records.
MY GREATEST HEIST Experimental
rock from here in town.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH Local
semi-acoustic folk-rock duo of Doug
Aldridge and Lon Marlin.
Georgia Theatre
'80s For The Ladies Benefit. $10.9 pm
VELVET RUNWAY Local five-piece
band playing '80s rock covers: Ben
Jovi, Journey, MOtley CrOe, etc.
ZOSO Expect typical Led Zeppelin
covers as well as a trip into relative
Zep obscurity during the California
band s traditional two-set perfor
mance
The Melting Point
wwwmeltingpointathenscom $3
7-10 p.m.
WAITIN' ON PARTS Elberton GA
band combines elements of gospel
and bluegrass
Rye Bar
www myspace com/ryebarathens
FREE' 10p m
DUB REGGAE Soulful reggae hyp
notic riddims, heavy dub selections
interspersed with toasters, guest vo
calists and instrumentalists to spice
it up Hosted every Tuesday night by
Adrian Zelski.
Tasty World
www tastyworld net. $5 10 pm
FUNGUY With only the MySpace
page to go on, it seems like this
Lawrenceville rock band is into
weird time signatures and getting
high. Really, really high
GIMME HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix
tribute band
RENEGADE SOUNDSYSTEM 311
cover band
UGA Hodgson Hall
www music.uga edu FREE! 8 p.m.
UGA SPRING CHOIR GALA This
year: A Tribute to Hall Johnson
UGA Ramsey Concert
Hall
www music uga edu FREE’
UGA RECITALS The Alessandria
Professors (3 30 p m) Bart Walters,
saxophone(6 p.m)
WUOG 90.5FM
www wuog org FREE' 8 p m
THE CUBS Think simple garage rock
along the lines of The Strokes,
underpinned with hints of Interpol or
The Rapture. Performing "live in the
lobby" ot WUOG 90 5 FM's studio.
DJ & DANCING
Buffalo’s Southwest
Cafe
706-354-6655. $3 cover. Tuesdays. 10
p.m.-12 a m Free lessons, 9 p.m.
SWING DANCING Learn, practice or
observe swing dancing. Soft drinks
included.
Level 131
www.level131.com.
SALSA NIGHT Lessons at 9 p m.
Open dance at 11 p.m.
KARAOKE, ETC.
Alibi
706-549-1010. FREE! Every Thursday
and Saturday. 9 p.m.-1 a m.
“STAN S ALMOST FAMOUS
KARAOKE" Karaoke ladies Lynn
and Vickie are your energetic hosts
for the night
Walker’s Coffee & Pub
706-543-1433 FREE'10 p m
KARAOKE !n the cate/bar s downstairs
room, every Tuesday and Thursday
night
Wild Wing Cafe
wwwwildwmgcate.com FREE' 10 p m
KARAOKE Every Tuesday night at the
downtown wing chains upstairs
space
Wednesday
April 16
PERFORMANCE
Diverse Universe
undergroundathens2@yahoo com $3
Wednesdays, 9-11 pm.
POETIC CONFESSIONZ Student
and community forum presented by
The Dreaded Mindz Family Share
through poetry, emceeing singing,
acting or any talent Or just come to
watch Last Wednesday of the month
is taped for YouTube
THEATRE
UGA Fine Arts Theatre
www drama uga edu $15 Apr 16-19,
8 p.m. Apr 20.2:30 p m
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
The University Theatre presents
Shakespeare's whimsical comedy.
A Midsummer Night's Dream ‘The
costume design seeks to convey
the enduring familiarity of the story,
while celebrating its more haunting
implications" Discounted tickets:
S12/UGA students and seniors
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
www40watt com $12 (adv). 9 pm.
PATTERSON HOOD A shining star
among the mulli-talented Drive-
By Truckers songwriter/guitarist/
vocalists. Patterson Hood has a way
with a story, blending country and
Southern rock styles with a direct
approach. He'll be accompanied
tonight by a revolving cast of local
talent including David Barbe, Jay
Gonzalez, John Net! and Brad
Morgan ’
Arbor Salon & Spa
Arts at the Arbor. FREE! 6:30 p.m.
TONGUE & GROOVE The acous
tic trio of Henry Williams, Don
Henderson and Amy Moon play
lively covers and originals. For more
info about Arts at the Arbor call
706-543-2118
The 19th annual Boybutante Ball will be at the 40 Watt Club on Saturday. Apr. 19.
Farm 255
www farm255 com FREE' 10 pm
JOSH TAYLOR BAND This Athens-
based power trio plays high-octane
rock, infusing blues, rock and soul
Flicker Theatre & Bar
www myspace com/llickerbar $5
8 30 pm.
BIG GRAY Lucas Jensen is behind the
keys singing his pop songs about
love and macroeconomics while
members of Venice Is Sinking ano
Murder Beach provide the back
ing fuzz-pop that recalls Call And
Response and Apples In Stereo
VENICE IS SINKING With boy/girl
vocals, a cinematic jangle and a
sweeping, emotional punch courtesy
of a viola. Venice Is Sinking's piano-
h ased torch songs burn bright
Performing every Wednesday at
Flicker through April.
Georgia Theatre
www georgiatheatre com $5 9 p.m.
FREE LUNCH Dynamic jazz band with
lots of funky slap bass and fun sing-
along melodies.
MAMA’S LOVE Young, funky |am
band from right here in Athens The
band's slogan says it all: ‘bringm' it
back to the roots while go in' beyond
the bounds."
Go Bar
FREE! (donations suggested) 9 p.m.
BENARD Post-punk from Atlanta with
overwhelming energy, math-rock
tempo changes and raw hardcore
aggression
CHRISSAKES Local hardcore band
with haunting, brooding guitar riffs
and explosive, screaming vocals
MISTLETOE Alternative punk-rockers
from New York that draw inspiration
from the college radio bands of the
late 80s and early '90s Think gut
tural vocals and discordant guitars
Little Kings
www myspace com/littlekingsshutfle-
club 10 pm.
MUSIC HATES YOU High energy
and higher volume. Music Hates
You plays a dirty kind of punk metal
There's red clay under the fingernails
of this fist raised against authority
The latest album is the powerful
Send More Paramedics
PARASITE SHOES With former
members of Dirty Sanchez & the
Pancho Villas. Col. Knowledge and
the Winter Sounds, among others,
this new five-piece band toys with a
dark mixture of melodies
PRIZE COUNTRY This punk band
from Portland seems to get com
pared to early Helmet and Jesus
Lizard a lot. which is pretty accu
rate-scathing. piercing guitars,
brutal percussion and frenzied lyrics
SIRHAN SIRHAN Fierce punk-metal
from San Diego. Debut full length
Blood! comes out May 27.
The Melting Point
wwwmeltingpointathenscom $5 8
p.m.
MIKE WATSON BAND When in full-
band mode, guitarist Mike Watson
plays bluesy covers and originals
backed by bassist Larry Germain and
drummer Art McNaughton
Rye Bar
www myspace com/ryebarathens
FREE'10 p.m
ALEC WOODEN Jazz trio
Tasty World
www tastyworld net $5 9pm
CRUMBLING ARCHES Theatnca
over-lhe-top melodic rock from
Atlantas four-piece Crumbling
Arches. Their best feature 7 A capable
rhytnm section makes up for predict
able "rock* vocals
FACT NOT FICTION Hailing trom
Hartwell up by the South Carolina
border. Fact Not Fiction—Zeke
Sayer. Jon Bryant, Justin Vickery
and Adam Grant—plays pleasant,
unassumingly mellow and laid-back
indie rock
MIKEY MEL & THE JDS Calling
themselves “the best law rock band
in the nation." Athens four-piece
Mikey Mel & the JDs play punk-in
fluenced power pop. and say "there
is a niche market out there of profes
sionals and lawyers and people that
like sweet rock'n'roll... they want
songs about Space Lawyers, and
lawyers having affairs with each
other ..*
PHOLKSINGER JOSH New on the
Athens scene. Josh Rosenstem just
released the album Southern Dirt,
and "it's a 'gangsta folk' explosion
with talkin' blues, poetry, political
songs, love songs and rampant har-
momca/kazoo solos." he says.
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