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Now-Friday, April 10
“Green” Challenge
Registration Form &
Activity Guide available at
the ACC Recycling Division
Thursday, March 19 * 2-lipm
Sustainability
Concert
Legion Field
I See
GREEN
IN ATHENE
A Community
Wide Cetebmtm
Saturday, March 21 • 8am
Oconee Rivers
Audubon Society
Spring Bird Hike
State Botanical Garden
Upper Parking Lot
Saturday, March 28 • 8:30pm
Earth Hour
at Your Home
providing citizens with
the opportunity to increase
their awareness of and
interest in improving the
environment of their home,
yard, business, and
community.
For more info, visit us at
www.athensgreenfest.org
April 1-30
Green Starts Here
Great American Clean-up
Challenge
Thursday, April 2 • 7-8pm
Family Night Hike
State Botanical Garden,
Meet in front of Visitor Center
THE CALENDAR!
SING IDOG Local act that's Iqud.
distorted and psychedelic.
Harry Bissett’s Bayou
Grill
6 p.m. FREE! 706-552-1193
JAY MEMORY Singei and guitarist
for rootsy Atlanta pop-rock band
Memory Dean.
Kingpins Bowl & Brew
8 p.m.—Midnight, www.kingpinsbow-
landbrew.com
N0RMALT0WN KARAOKE Every
Wednesday night in the Terrapin
Grill and Tap Room.
The Melting Point
8 p.m. $5. www.meltingpointathens.
com
BLUES CROSSING This traditional
blues band from Tucker, GA has
some swing in its step and a lot of
soul in its lonesome harp wailings.
Tasty World
10 p.m. $5. wwv.tastyworld.net
EDDIE AND THE PUBLIC
SPEAKERS Local blues-funk trio
led by frontman Eddie Speaker.
QUARTERLIFE CRISIS Powerpop-
punk band from Boston who claim
to be influenced by the "TRL gen
eration" of artists which includes
Matchbox 20. Third Eye Blind and
Sugar Ray.
WACKO MAZ0E Elberton-based
four-piece Wacko Mazoe plays
around with acoustic and electric
styles, drawing on radio rock, blues
and even pop-punk to create sincere
sounds.
Tasty Bar 10:30 p.m. FREE 1 www.
tastyworld.net
DJ PHILIP RICH House music every
Wednesday!
Thursday 19
40 Watt Club
9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.
com
BACKYARD TIRE FIRE Illinois trio
plays clean, indie-roots rock with a
Heartland swagger.
BL00DKIN The long-running Athens
rock and roll quartet plays a bluesy
style of roots-rock music with big
guitars and sharply written lyrics
for darkly countrified barroom rock.
Celebrating the release of Baby. They
Told Us We Would Rise Again. See
feature on p. 17.
Alibi
9 p.m.-1 a m. FREE! 706-549-1010
“STAN S ALMOST FAMOUS
KARAOKE" Karaoke lady Lynn is
your energetic host for the night
Every Thursday
Borders Books & Music
7 p.m. FREE! 706-583-8647
KATE MORRISSEY Morrissey’s
warm, soulful voice and rhythmic
piano spice her original songs,
which have been described as "ur
ban fables and fairy tales."
Caledonia Lounge
10 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.cale-
donialounge.com
THE CLASSIC BASTAROS Members
of the Primus Cover Band offer
original songs with a similar cheeky,
funk-metal, bassophilic swagger.
And if they sneak in a few covers...
is it luck?
DAFFODIL Trio Daffodil—Derek
Wiggs, Zack Kennedy and Max
Talkovich—plays fuzzed-out. early-
'90s sounding heavy rock and roll.
LAMINATED CAT Local psychedelic
pop band fluent in the absurd and
eccentric.
Wednesday, Mar. 18 continued from p. 23
Farm 255
10 p.m. www farm255.com
JACOB MORRIS Local musician
Morris was nominated for a Flagpole
Music Award in 2008 for best solo
performer. You can also catch him
playing cello and keys for Ham1.
Fat Daddy’s
9 p.m. 706-353-0241
DANCE PARTY With live muSic. Call
for details.
Flicker Theatre & Bar ■
8:30 p.m. $5. www.myspace.com/
flickerbar
A TALE OF TWO CALEYS Dusty
Lightswitch collaborators Caley
Smith and Caley Ross sound “like
a science-fiction folk musical." The
quirky lyrics address meta- and
astrophysical concerns, and feature
a heavy amount of French and Greek
wordplay.
YE 0LDE SUB SHOPPE New band
headed by Christopher Ingham
(Christopher's Liver).
Georgia Theatre
8 p.m. SOLD OUT! www.georgiatheatre.
com
SEA DUB Spinning and mixing
dubstep.
STS9 An ambient mix of trance, dub
and samples paired with live instru
ments in a jam £>and from the future.
The band's fourth LP. Peaceblaster.
will be available later this year.
Go Bar
10 p.m. FREE! www.myspace.com/
gobar
“DR. FRED’S KARAOKE" Hosted
by karaoke fanatic John “Dr. Fred"
Bowers, every Thursday, following
the live music.
9:30 p.m. www.myspace.com/gobar
NANA GRIZOL Punk band from here
in town that plays songs about
shooting stars, fancy cars and red
guitars. Expect more new jams
tonight!
PRESCHOOL Dirty, dancy “fun-punk"
(funk?) from Brattleboro, Vermont.
Featuring members of Michael
Jordan's Touchdown Pass. Also
playing a late show at Flicker Friday
night’
WITCHES Local rock band featuring
Cara Beth Satalino on lead vocals
backed by a drummer and bassist.
Influences include The Breeders and
Neil Young.
Legion Field
2 p.m-11 p.m. FREE!
SUSTAINAPALOOZA Featuring per
formances by The Sustainability
String Band Allison Weiss,
Jazzchronic. S2 Five Eight. The
Wydelles and Chris McKay and
the Critical Darlings plus 50
organizations tabling about sustain
ability related issues and events.
Door prizes and giveaways will be
available!
Little Kings Shuffle Club
10 p.m www.myspace.com/littlek-
ingsshuffleclub
ARMY OF KASHYYYK This merry
band, on tour from Baltimore, plays
loud and ambient post-punk and
hardcore.
NATIONALE Female-fronted hardcore
promising discord and an energetic
live show.
SUIS LA LUHE Melodic indie hard-.
core from Sweden.
The Melting Point
7 p.m. $5 (adv), $7 (door), www.melt-
ingpointathens.com*
SQUAT Tonight this popular, Latin-
influenced jazz outfit will feature
former Squat drummer Darren
Stanley (currently of Delta Moon)
. back behind the kit along with Trey
Wright. Cari Lindberg and Tommy
Somerville.
No Where Bar
11 p.m. $2. 706-546-4742
JAZZCHRONIC Five-piece band
JazzChronic explores freaky, funky,
psychedelic fusion jazz while incor
porating rock. R&B, heavy beats and
more into the stew. CD release party'
DJ TRIZ Spinning classic hip-hop,
dance and funk.
The Tailgate Station
Chili Cook-off to Benefit Athens
Homeless Shelter. 6 p.m. $15
(adults), $5 (12 and under). 706-
206-5282.
PACKWAY HANDLE BAND
Packway's "gather around the mic’
approach to bluegrass provides sly.
hearty original songs and renditions
of classic tunes. The band’s close
four-part harmonies are backed by
high energy, and the contemporary
lyrics are delivered with an engaging
sense of humor.
Tasty World
10 p.m. $5. www.tastywortd net
FIRE ZUAVE The lead singer of this
Athens-by-way-of-West-Palm-Beach
trio is the cousin of Of Montreal's
Kevin Barnes, but he sings a
scratchier pop that veers toward
Americana. His voice can channel
Conor Oberst and Jeff Tweedy, and
the bassist and drummer buoy his
melodies with clean backing vocals.
MR. FALCON High energy, indie ga
rage rock influenced equally by The
Kinks and The Pixies.
NATE NELSON Young local singer-
songwriter whose songs offer both
mainstream accessibility and more
indie-oriented idiosyncrasy.
STONEFOX Dirty rock and roll revival
from Florida that pays tribute to the
bluesy origins of the genre with
reckless abandon.
Terrapin Beer Co.
5:30 p.m. www.terrapinbeer.com
THE FLY BROTHERS Funky reggae-
rock jam band from Atlanta with a
jazz perspective.
Wild Wing Cafe
10 pm. FREE! www.wildwingcafe.com
NAPOLEON SOLO Multitasking one-
man rock band who handles it all.
Friday 20
40 Watt Club
9 p.m. $5 (21+), $7 (18+). www.40watt.
com
CHRIS MCKAY AND THE CRITICAL
DARLINGS Drawing equally on
‘80spower-pop like The Cars and
earlier stuff like The Kinks, frontman
Chris McKay has a sharp lyrical turn
for every melodic offering of his
bandmates.
THE RATTLERS This four-piece
Southern rock band continues
to build an impressive local fol
lowing as its sound has evolved
from straight blues to edgier rock.
Blazing guitar solos call to mind acts
like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joe
Bonamassa.
Alibi
9 p.m. $5. 706-549-1010
ALBATROSS Local band playing clas
sic rock and alternative rock covers. *
Allen’s Bar & Grill
9:30 p.m. FREE! www allensbarandgrill.
com
NORMALTOWN FLYERS Long-
running Athens roots-rock institu
tion plays a set of comfortable,
good-time rock and roll with a
Southern leaning.
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