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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
As promised, here's another week's worth of Athens music
news and related ephemera. Feel free to separate wheat from '
chaff as you see fit. I know I do. With that, let's go...
Driving on a Winter Wonder Tour: Allison Weiss will hit the
road again in the next couple of weeks for what will be, to
my knowledge, her second annual quickie tour during a UGA
winter break. Her brother A. J. Weiss will accompany her again
on lead guitar as Allison handles rhythm guitar and vocal
duties. She'll hit Atlanta's
Wonder Root on Dec. 16, fol
lowed by gigs in Hiawassee,
GA, Greenville, SC, Charlotte,
Chapel Hill and Hickory, NC.
Weiss' newest album is Allison
Weiss & the Way She Likes It,
which was released earlier
this year. In related news, it
was erroneously reported
by me a couple of weeks ago
that there were videos avail
able at YouTube.com of Weiss
playing with Athens musi
cian Spencer Rich. This was
incorrect. Please adjust your
lives accordingly. For all other
information, please see www.
allisonw.com.
► Rip It Up and Start Again:
Pegasuses-XL was within a
hair's breadth of finishing its
newest full-length recording Pegasuses-XL
when members Jeff Tobias,
Mark Dale, Jeff Rosenstock and Joel Hatstat decided to scrap
the whole thing and re-record it with engineer Andy Baker.
Word is that the recording will feature appearances from
members of Dark Meat, Cinemechanica, We Versus the Shark,
Deaf Judges and Creepy, among others. The new album, to be
titled either Fuck You or Sphere of Fortune, is to be released
eventually via The Ernest
Jenning Record Company fjl
which released the band's s
first fancy, non-homemade CD ^
The Antiphon. Recently, the «•
label has released a collec- S=
tion of three early EPs by the 3
band titled Electro Agitators. 3
Hatstat's own label, Human 1
Interest Group, is handling
the vinyl release of this col
lection. For other stuff, please
head to www.myspace.com/
pegasuses.
> Two in a Row: Athens has a
rare treat in store this week as
Madeline will play two local
shows. She'll appear at the 40
Watt on Friday, Dec. 12 with
Hope for Agoldensummer
and then on Saturday, Dec.
13 at Nuq's Space for an
"underage" show. In the spring
Madeline will hit the roa^i
Europe, and on Mar. 10, 2u09
Orange Twin Records plans
to release her newest album
White Flag. Please see www.
madelinesongs.com for other
information.
Just in Time for a Game cf Madeline
Yankee Swap: Pylon will travel
to New York this week to perform at the Knitting Factory in
celebration of the 35th anniversary of New York University
student-run radio station WNYU. The show takes place Monday,
Dec. 15 and will be among the last of any shows held at the
Knitting Factory's long-occupied TriBeCa location, but the
club is merely moving to the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of
Williamsburg. Ironically, WNYU makes a big hoo-ha in its
press release about how vital the Knitting Factory has been to
underground music in general, but never once bothers to men
tion NYU's significant contribution to the cultural destruction
of lower Manhattan. Even so, there's no denying WNYU's con
tinuing effort to reach into the deep underground and expose
folks to new stuff. And so long as the station doesn't occupy
space the university needs for dorm rooms, I guess it's safe.
This is not to say that the club's moving is related to NYU, but
it still seems oddly coincidental. In any case, please see www.
wearepylon.com or www.wnyu.com for more information.
New Tunes and Old: Dodd Ferrelle has re-released his album
from 2000, A Carriage on a Hill and given the track "Strung
Out Like the Lights (at
Christmastime)" over to Paste
magazine to include on a holi
day Podcast. The album was
remastered by Jeff Capurso
and is available digitally. In
other news, Ferrrelle's new
est album, Lonely Parades,
is ready to be released via
Atlanta label Two Sheds Music
in February 2009. Recorded
by David Barbe and mastered
by Capurso at Chase Park
Transduction, the album fea
tures appearances by Claire
Campbell, Jon Mills, John
Neff, William Tonks, David
Van Wyk, Noel Blackmon,
Mamie Fike Simonds, Knox
Summerour and Kyle Spence.
It's been a while since Ferrelle
has made a whole lot of noise
around here, so let's welcome
him back. Please see the newly
revamped www.dod^errell^,
com for anything else you
need to know.
As always, be sure to keep
your news coming in, and
always mention either Threats
& Promises or my name in the
subject line of all emails. It's
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mail at 706-549-9523, ext. 203, or by post to P.O. Box 1027,
Athens, GA, 30603.
Gordon Lamb
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