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DJs & DANCING
Go Bar
11 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
gobai
“LATENITE DISCO” The house
deejay and occasional special
guests spin a cool mix of disco. New
Wave and modern dance tunes lor a
sweaty and energetic closing-time
crowd. Every Saturday.
Rumor
11 p.m. FREE! www.rumorathens.com
DJ RX Rumors house deejay delivers
his own original mixes of current
pop and dance with accents ranging
from old-school to country.
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TUESDAY
EVENTS
EVENTS
SUNDAY
EVENTS
ATHICA
4:30-6 p.m. $3 donation wwwathica.
org
ATHICA CLOSING EVENT Reception
for ‘Emerges It * Featuring ‘Prisma
Peak-a-Boo.' a performance with
costume, (fence and experimental
music by Rob Peterson. Jonathan
Vance and Maryn Vance using Kim
Deakins’ sculpture. ‘Prisma Peak*
(4:30-5 p.m.).
THEATRE
Georgia Center
July 3 & 5 & 10-11,8 p.m. July 6
& 13.5:30 p.m. July 12.1 p.m.
$10—$15. 706-340-9181. www.
roseofathens.org
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Presented by the Rose of Athens
Theatre. See July 3 Theatre.
LIVE MUSIC
Farm 255
8:30 p.m. FREE! www.farm255.com
ZAMAR ATHENS Instrumental jazz
quintet that plays both original tunes
and jazz/pop standards.
Jittery Joe’s Eastside
9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/jit-
teryjoeseast
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC NIGHT
Weekly music performances featur
ing a new artist every week.
State Botanical Garden
of Georgia
3-4 p.m. FREE! 706-542-6156, www.
uga.edu/botgarden.
CLASSIC CITY BAND Annual concert
in the visitor center and conservatory
for 4th of July weekend.
Georgia Theatre
9 p.m. $1. www.georgiatheatre.com
LET’S MAKE A DEAL Hosted by
"Monty Gee" and his assistant
Kinky C’ with announcer “Matty
M." Prizes! Costumes encouraged.
Every Monday in July.
LIVE MUSIC
Tasty' World
DOWNSTAIRS. 10 p.m. $5. www.
tastyworld.net
CRUMBLING ARCHES Theatrical,
over-the-top melodic rock from
Atlanta's four-piece Crumbling
Arches. Their best feature? A capable
rhythm section makes up for predict
able “rock* vocals.
HELLO SPENCER Indie pop from
Nashville with breathy vocals. The
bandmembers’ contemporaries
might include Minus the Bear or
* Mute Math
SHALLOW PALACE Balls-Out, back-
to-the-basics rock and roll fueled by
raw punk energy.
Washington Street
Tavern
7-10 p.m. FREE! 706-613-7817
OPEN JAZZ JAM Calling all jazz mu
sicians. Head down to Washington
Street Tavern every Monday for an
open mic jam featuring local jazz
group ii-V7-l.
DJs & DANCING
Go Bar
10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
gobarathens
SPACE STATION JASON Extend
your weekend one more night with
Space Station Jason's set of ‘sexy-
hot sounds from then to now.' Every
Monday.
OPEN MIC
Buffalo’s Southwest
Cafe
7-11 p.m. FREE! 706-354-6655
KARAOKE Come join the fun in the
atrium every Monday.
Rye Bar
9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
ryebarathens
“OPEN MIC NIGHT" Hosted
by Bearfoot Hookers singer Ty
Manning, this open mic night comes
around every Monday. Show up
early to sign up.
Jittery Joe’s Coffee
9 p.m. FREE! www myspac 0 com/jittery
joeseast
MUSIC MOVIE NIGHT (Eastside) A
different music movie is screened
every Tuesday. This week: Talking
Heads—Slop Making Sense.
LIVE MUSIC
Farm 1255
8 p.m. www.farm255.com
KENOSHA KID Part avant-jazz noise,
part hillbilly string band, Kenosha
Kid offers compositional-instrumen-
tal-improvisational music. *
Flicker Theatre & Bar
8:30 p.m. $5 www.myspace com/
flickerbar
ANIMAL ELECTRIC Local folk duo
featuring Tess Brunet on auto-harp,
vocals and percussion, and Kat
Roman on bass and vocals.
The Melting Point
7-10 p.m. $3. www.meltingpointethens.
com
RIVERBEND This Boulder. CO band
infuses more modern styles of
music—from disco to ska—into its
unique interpretation of traditional
bluegrass.
Rye Bar
9 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
ryebarathens
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 AZ-IZ, Dubccnscious frontman
Adrian Zelski.
Tasty World
DOWNSTAIRS. 10 p.m. $5. www.
tastyworld.net
DANCEFORMERS Atlanta dance
band that describes itself as
“electro-techno-ghetto-crunk-funk-
disco. ’ Sounds like a party any way
you look at it.
FALSE FLAG No info available.
UPSTAIRS. 10 p.m. $2 (men), FREE!
(women; www.tastyworld.net
“TASTY TUESDAY” This event on
the secono Tuesday of each month
starts out as a social mixer with
relaxed beats and the sounds of
jazz, R&B, soyl, funk and hip-hop
in the background with a house
deejay providing the mix. At around
11 p.m., the mic opens up to any
who’ve signed up beforehand, with a
dance party afterward.
Saturday, July 5
An Epic at Best,
Down with the Woo,
Gift Horse
Caledonia Lounge
After Athens got all
teary eyed saying "au
revoir" to An Epic at Best
back in September, it's
time to say "bonjour"
once again! Singer Robert
Gunn is back home from
France for the summer,
just in time to celebrate
the completion of the An Epic At Best
band's new EP The Spelling
Sounds. "We never really considered ourselves completely broken up;" says guitarist Roy
Coughlin. "It was just kind of the circumstances with Rob leaving us. He's back in town
for the summer, and I'm leaving first week of July, so we thought we had a little window
here to do a show to promote the EP we've been working on since he left."
Although the various members of An Epic at Best have kept busy with various side
projects (Natalie Roberts and Jamie McGaw in Language Arts, Coughlin in Sugar Dixx), it
was important for the foursome to regroup and give this EP the attention it deserves.
"The record was the motivation to play this last show," says Gunn. Adds Coughlin,
"We are really proud of these songs that the four of us wrote together, and to not get a
chance to play them again and promote the record would have been sad."
Even so, the show will certainly be bittersweet The EP is remarkably strong, par
ticularly the title track "Spelling Sounds." The sweeping, tender ballad could easily be a
radio success and practically begs to be included on a movie soundtrack. Nevertheless,
with Coughlin pulling a Kerouac and traversing the nation for a year, and Gunn returning
to France, promotion and distribution by Two Sheds Music will be limited.
Despite the challenges ahead, these days strong songs can survive without much label
support, and these are the strongest An Epic at Best has recorded. So, before you hear
this EP on the Internet and kick yourself for never seeing the band live, head down to
the Caledonia. [Michelle Gilzenrat]
WEDNESDAY
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LECTURES 4 LIT.
Oconee County Library
12:30 p.m. FREE! 706-769-3950
“MAKING YOUR HEIRLOOMS
SPEAK” Dana Anderson will
discuss how your family treasures
and antiques can aid in genealogical
research.
LIVE MUSIC
40 Watt Club
9:30 p.m. $5. www.40watt.com
HOT PINK MONEY SHOT Drawing
on mid-’90s “alternative' radio hits,
Hot Pink Money Shot comes from
Atlanta and simmers with a subur
ban sort of temper.
VIALKA A “turbo folk micro-orchestra'
joining us all the way from France.
Caledonia Lounge
10 p.m. $6 (21+), $7 (18+). www.cale-
donialounge.com
JASON BECKHAM Beckham moved
to Athens in 2005 to see what could
be cultivated in this fertile scene,
and he sends out blues-inffuenced
acoustic stuff that should appeal
to fans of Van Morrison and Kevn
Kinney.
SPENCER FRYE Playing Tom
Pettyish power-pop and rock,
vocalist-guitarist Spencer Frye was
part of the weekly Friday songwriters
series “Committee of Vigilance’ and
fronts his own band the Spencer
Frye Explosion.
CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON
Athens musician Chris Henderson
plays guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo,
melodica. harmonica and more. You
can find his most recent release in
delightful homemade brown paper
bag packaging around town. It's
full of intimate, heartfelt acoustic
ballads.
The Melting Point
8-11 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointa-
thens.com
BLUE RHYTHM BAND A dynamic
mixture of blues, rock and funk that’s
different every time you see it. Still,
you can always expect superb slide
guitar and powerful vocals.
Rye Bar
10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
ryebarathens
ALEC WOODEN Wooden performs
jazz with his trio at Rye Bar every
Wednesday.
Tasty World
DOWNSTAIRS. 10 p.m. $5. www.
tastyworld.net
EYES AROUND Tight, polished alter
native rock with an uplifting spirit.
HALO STEREO The Invisible Wans
the debut album from Tennessee
band Halo Stereo, an airy and some
what ambient foray into atmospheric
alternative rock.
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