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Monday, May 5 continued from p 19
LAZER/WULF This local ari-metal
live-piece mixes in prog and more
eclectic influences, and las! year re
leased its demo album Derro-Lition.
Washington Street
Tavern
7-10 p m FREE'706-613-7817
OPEN JAZZ JAM Head down lo
Washington Street Tavern every
Monday for an open mic jam featur
ing local ia/z group ii-V7-l.
OPEN MIC
Blind Pig Tavern
7-10 p m FREE' 706-548-3442
“OPEN MIC NIGHT" Every Monday
focal guitar dudes Dusty and Ryan
host an open-mic night
Rye Bar
www myspace com/ryebarathens
FREE' 9 pm.
"OPEN MIC NIGHT" Hosted
by Bearfoot Hookers singer Ty
Manning, this open mic night comes
around every Monday Show up
early to sign up
EVENTS
Various Locations
8 p m -2 a m FREE 1 www athenscine
com, www myspace com/httlek-
ingsshuflleciub
“LET’S POW WOW: 2" A two-part
event hosted by the Digital Media
Departmeni/Essefar Collective
at UGA Featuring video screen
ings. visual art installations and
performance works The festival
begins at Cine (8-11 p m). then
ventures down to Little Kings tor
the reminder of the evening with
an inflatable moonwalk and VJ per
formances
Walker’s Coffee & Pub
7 30pm 706-227-2124
DAVID MACK Opening reception
for 'Mrs Coielasure's Third Grade
Class' by David Mack, featuring
portraits illustrated from a 1962
class i/f.oto
LECTURES & LIT.
ACC Library
1215 pm FREE' 706-613-3650
“BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: 13
VIRTUES FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY" Examine Franklins 13
virtues during four upcoming lunch
time programs Up next a Clarke
Community Federal Credit Union
representative will look at frugality
and order with a budgeting discus
sion Feel free to bring a lunch to
this 45-minute pregram
Oconee County Library
7-8 p m FREE' 706-769-3950
“DEPRESSION IN TEENS’* Katie
McFarland speaks on Depression in
Teens* for parents and other caregiv
ers educators and community lead
ers Part of Mental Health Month
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
9 30pm $61 hand-made advance
tickets') www 40wa?t com
AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER
Athens four-piece American
Cheeseburger boasts former mem
bers of No' Divorce and Carrie
Nations, delivering rapid-tire, loud
and aggressive thrash rock in an
old-school manner winning tans
around to wn
BLACK TUSK Self-described "swamp
metal" from Savannah The record
Passage Through Purgatory is avail
able through Hyperrealist Records
THE DUMPS With four veterans of the
local punk scene al the helm. The
Dumps deliver angular metal licks
with lots of dual screaming over
Slow heavy grooves making for one
intense rock performance
TORCHE S’ . 0
and juan Montoya (guitar) were
graduates of cult favorite Floor, and
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Smith (ex-Tyranny of Shaw) and
bassist Jon Nunez The Miami band
challenges your ear drums with
heavy, boundless Stoner pop-metal
Caledonia Lounge
10 pm $6(21+) $7 (18+). www.cale-
domatcunge com
JUKEBOX THE GHOST Lively pop-
rock band Jukebox the Ghost has
a melodic new self-titled album
that s a little reminiscent ot the
Dismemberment Plan's quirkier
moments
MORNING STATE Melodic Athens/
Atlanta rock band celebrates the
release ol its debut lull length
You Know People. I Know People
recorded with Asa Letter at DARC
studios See p. 34
THE XYZ AFFAIR $hmy power pop
from Brooklyn with a tun sense of
humor and big hooks
Flicker Theatre &. Bar
8 30pm $5 www myspace com/
'lickerbar
BLASTOIDS Gertie w rnng bleeps
and assorted electrons create a bed
under this Murfreesboro. TN bands
more jarring mdie rock vocals
KEBERT XELA indDoug
Saylor are dwarfed by the/ moun
tain of equipment, utilizing looped
somes. shimmering atmospnencs.
guitar, piano, electronic and acoustic
drums, cello, vocoders, occasional
vocals and plenty of keyboards to
create sometimes slight sometimes
noisy electro/ experiment stud a-m-
ingtor the epic
OLYMPUS MANS Two dudes, one
on drums, one on keys and vocals
They've used samples and heavy
percussion to create repetitive spacy
melodies, but will at times lean a
little more to the traditional side
Tuesday, May 6
Jukebox the Ghost,
The XYZ Affair,
Morning State
Caledonia Lounge
Having already swung
through Athens earlier
this year (opening for
Modern Skirts at the
40 Watt Club), Jukebox
the Ghost, a young
three-piece group from
Washington, D.C., has
been touring aggres- Jukebox the Ghost
sively behind its debut
album, Live and Let Ghost. The comparisons to Ben Fold Five fly fast and furious, but just
because a band has a keyboard/piano front and center doesn't mean it's in the same vein
of mope-pop. Jukebox the Ghost is generally considerably zippier, poppier, and above
all, happier than most anything off Whatever and Ever Amen. Even when Jukebox the
Ghost slows down (e.g., "My Heart's the Same") it resembles mid-period Joe Jackson in
its delicacy and grasp of how to use aural space. Lead singer/songwriter Ben Thornwell
can almost wail like Rufus Wainwright, although he loses it a little on some of the higher
notes. The seeming simplicity of instrumentation (the group consists of keyboard, guitar
and drums) doesn't hurt the drive behind the tunes, which have strong enough rhythms
to withstand verbal hyperactivity. "Good Day" in particular is perky and catchy enough
to soundtrack a Target commercial quite easily-—picture The Click Five mated with the
twitches of dance punk and the rococo flourishes 88-Keys encourage one to make. Indeed
the track was recently selected for NPR's "All Songs Considered." So much indie rock tends
to encourage doziness, whether it's from an excess of concern with slow beauty or the
circular structure that often dominates its dance music, but Jukebox the Ghost is caffein-
ated without being overly so. They're not Mountain Dew, but they may be Dr. Pepper—
quirkier, made up of many flavors, a choice for the pale, but not the lazy. (Hillary Brown]
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