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The Loft Dance Lounge
10 30 p m FREE! www thelottalhens.
com
DJ SIZZLE Spinning the dance num
bers tor you every Wednesday and
Saturday.
Mercury Lounge
10 p m FREE 1 www mercuryathens
com
DJ SOPHISTADISIAC1 play seduc
tive & suggestive music from all
over the world,* says Sophistadisiac
“This includes soul, hip hop. reg-
gaeton, electronics, slow funk
down-tempo & anything else that
is conducive to luxurious wine
lounging.’
OPEN MIC
Foxz Tavern
9 p m FREE' 706-549-8209
KARAOKE The long-running karaoke
night continues every Wednesday.
Red Rooster
706-549-1668
KARAOKE Be a star for the night with
Red Rooster every Wednesday
THURSDAY 1
THEATRE
Historic Elbert Theatre
May 1-2 and 9-10,8pm May 4
& 11.2 p m S10/adv. $ 12/door
706-283-1049
OKLAHOMA Encore Productions
presents the classic musical
Oklahoma, directed by Johnny
Hallman Dinner and a Show on May
2 & 10 for $25
LECTURES & LIT.
ACC Library
7 p.m. FREE! 706-613-3650.
THE HISTORY OF THOMAS
TEXTILE COMPANY Former com
pany president Thomas J. Swartz. Jr.
will present a program on Georgia's
industrial heritage. He will include
how Swartz's family chose the
AthensAVhitehall site in the 1930s
to develop a major manufacturing
plant
The Classic Center
wwwclassiccentercom FREE'7pm
WINTLEY PHIPPS Lecturer and
two-time grammy nominee Wintley
Phipps presents "An Evening of
Inspiration and Hope * Tickets
are required Call or email to
register your school or organiza
tion early, may1evenl@aol com or
706-548-2599
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
Spotlight Blood Drive $5 9pm
.vww 40walt com
BIRDS AND WIRE This local four-
piece plays a moody kind of alterna
tive country, incorporating sweet
vocal harmonies and steel sounds
as well as a rhythm section fluent
in jazz Vocalist-guitarist Lera Lynn
is backed by bassist Rob Handley,
lap steel guitarist Neal Fountain and
drummer Marion Patton.
BLUE FLASHING LIGHT Back from a
recent trip to China. Local five-piece
Blue Flashing Light takes its name
from a track by the band Travis, and
the guys aim for the same Brit-styled
emotional rock, though results are
decidedly more mainstream-Ameri-
can along Soundgarden lines
CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL
DARLINGS Drawing equally on
'80s power-pop like The Cars and
earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman
Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn
for every melodic offering ol his
bandmates.
ICE CREAM SOCIALISTS Six eclec
tic, energetic local musicians make
kaleidoscopic sounds with nerdy
lead vocals, harmonizing backing
vox. accordions, keyboards, violins
and more
Caledonia Lounge
EARLY 6 p.m. $2(21+), $3(18+).
www caledonialounge com
CRESTON SPIERS Harvey Milks
singer-guitarist takes the stage solo
LATE 9 p.m. $8 (2H). $9 (18+) www
caledonialounge com
EARTH Chunklet presents drone metal
band Earth Although Earth has
been around for nearly two decades,
this is the band's Athens debut
Advance tickets are available at www
ticketalternative com See p 31 lor
more inlo
FUR ELISE Dreamy experimental rock
from Atlanta formed around haunting
piano tilts
MADELINE Bell-voiced local song
writer Madeline Adams released a
rustic new lull-length album called
The Slow Bang early last year on
Orange Twin She's been touring
heavily and playing endearing new
songs ol smalltown loves, hopes
and other assorted torments and
joys
Farm 255
10 pm. www Iarm255 com
BRIAN CONNELL Local guy Brian
Connell's original songs are in the
classic spirit of Leonard Cohen and
Bob Dylan
THAYER SERRANO No information
available
Flicker Theatre & Bar
8 30 p m $5 www myspace com/
liickerbar
CASPER AND THE COOKIES
Reminiscent of bands like Talking
Heads and The Beatles, local pop-
rock superpower Casper and the
Cookies plays a diverse set of songs
built around one concept fun The
band's infectious songs have made
their way onto their newest album
The Optimist's Club, a swinging and
deeply layered pop construction
HALF-HANDED CLOUD John
Ringholer and his omnichord per
form quirky, endearing ballads with
sparse yet unique instrumentation.
Lyrically, Ringholer often integrates
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Thursday, May 1
Half-Handed Cloud,
Lake City,
Casper and the Cookies
Flicker Theatre and Bar
Uniqueness noticeable sans
magnifying glass is rare. Sure,
every snowflake is different, but
it takes effort to tell them apart.
The music of John Ringhofer,
AKA Half-Handed Cloud, is like
a two-headed puppy mixed in
with a bunch of snowflakes: easy
to pick out from the masses,
odd in ways other than by mere difference from stuff that is not very interesting and
weirdly cute. Signed to Asthmatic Kitty, the label that also produced The Danielson
Famile arid SuQan Stevens, both of whom Ringhofer has ties to (he's a trombonist for
the IUinoisemakers), he also shares the inclusive Christianity of Stevens and Dan Smith,
weaving fascinating and obscure religious imagery into the lyrics of his tiny, beautiful
songs. His last full album. Halos and Lassos, which came out in 2006, blows through its
19 songs in what seems almost no time at all, each track feeding into the next and the
whole thing encouraging the repeat button, mirroring the circular structure of its titular
objects. Ringhofer makes heavy use of the omnichord, an electronic autoharp of sorts,
and its warm yet eerie tone combines angelically with the frenetic pace of the songs
so packed with words it seems obvious the lyrics have been squashed into the later-
composed melodic structure. Pushed into a world of knowledge, beauty, love and utter
strangeness, one can experience the joy of a structure present but uncomprehended by
any other than the author, which is exactly the point. Know, too, that despite the under
lying seriousness, Ringhofer's music is the purest pop, with no time to get impatient
either within or between songs, and harmonies poking out of every crevice. Maybe it's
the spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, but both sugar and medicine are
wonderful. (Hillary Brown]
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