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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Well, this is the first week of school over at
I the ol' University of Georgia, and there's a
: bettei-than average chance that this is the
first time some of you will have picked up a
i copy of Flagpole. Please allow me to welcome
1 you to Athens and encourage you to get
involved in our music scene. There's a lot of
I stuff happening here, and it's happening all
the time. Throw a rock in any direction (well, I
mean, don't) and you'll hit a musician, some*
one from a musical theater troupe, a perfor
mance artist, etc. This is the place to be, and
now you're here. Enjoy it.
That's the Way I Like It: I totally didn't see
this coming, but a band that earned a well
deserved place in Athens punk history, Zumm
Zumm will reunite for the first time in over
two years to play a show at Orange Twin on
i Monday, Aug. 29. The band was a key element
! of the creative house-show scene in the early
; part of the last decade and released two great
albums (Crusp Srextling and Gerald Bronson).
Personally, I couldn't sing their praises highly
enough, especially circa 2002-2003. They'll
be joined by longtime friend and former tour
ing partner Madeline as well as New Orleans'
acoustic/gypsy punk/sham
bling Why Are We Building
Such a Big Ship?, the latter
being occasionally better than
j its mouthful of a name. The
I show begins at 8 p.m., and •
! the cost is a mere donation.
But, for real, take some actual
money. People can't buy gas
with a 16 oz. Miller in the
can. For directions, please see
www.orangetwin.com.
An Honest Tune with
Awesome Canapes Has Taken
Us This Far: When you think
about it, the best way to
really break in the newly
rebuilt Georgia Theatre is
to have Widespread Panic play there. And
so they shall. The group will host its 2011
Tunes for Tots benefit concert at the Theatre
on Sunday, Oct. 9. Tickets go on sale this
Saturday, Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. at www.geor-
giatheatre.com. Your choices are the S501 VIP
tickets (including a cocktail party with the
band, premium cocktails at said cocktail party,
hors d'oeuvres by renowned Athens chef Hugh
Acheson, an autographed poster and early
entry for the show) or the $151 totally nor
mal general admission tickets. In any case,
there's a two-ticket limit and some rules
involving ticket pickup that you might not
be used to. They're not difficult, but they are
detailed. For information on ticket purchasing,
Tunes for Tots and all other things Widespread
Panic, please see www.widespreadpanic.com.
Aloha, Mr. Hand: After racking my brain and
j searching my own archives, I can't for the life
i of me remember a musician named Wilhelm
Hand (Wild Gumbo, The Monarchs of Lust) liv
ing here in Athens. But, some of you out there
might, so I'm passing this news along. Hand
has been living in Tokyo, Japan since 2005
but will move back to Athens next spring.
During that time he has put together a new
group called As Dusk Fades, which plays
basically two types of music: hard-edged alt
rock and acoustic alt rock, each of the 1990s
alt-radio variety. The thing is, though, all the
songs posted over at www.soundcloud.com/
asduskfades sound like they could be from
multiple bands. A better-sequenced selec
tion (and better sounding, too) is over at
www.reverbnation.com/asduskfades. Hand
dismissed my assertion that they all sounded
like different bands by saying, “Do the songs
sound so far apart? It is the same people, just
sometimes I played percussion. Same studio,
same engineer. We write many compositions.
At first, it was only heavy rockers, but since
I played classical guitar and there are always
'acoustic nights,' we decided to change the
style. I was never impressed to see a rock
band play unplugged, and it sounded the
same, just without distortion... To me, there
are just two sounds: the electric songs and the
acoustic songs." Fair enough, I guess. Judge
for yourself.
Return the Gift: Remember a couple of weeks
ago when we had that big feature story on
Gift Horse and its month-long residency at
the 40 Watt Club? Well, we've got more details
for you. The band will play an acoustic set on
Wednesday, Aug. 17, and the bill will feature
Philip Brantley (Modern Skirts), White Violet
and Joel Atwill. For the Aug. 24 show. Gift
Horse will be joined by David Barbe and the
Quick Hooks, Eddie the Wheel and Ansley
Rushing. The final night, Aug. 31, will feature
Gift Horse doing its My Bloody Valentine set
and sharing the bill with The Interns, Hardy
Morris & Walker Howie of Dead Confederate.
Ruby Kendrick and DJ Z-Dog.
A Into the Streaming Light of Love: After
literally months of speculation as to whether
this would really happen, Chunklet magazine
finally was able to announce that it will be
reissuing the two classic albums by Olivia
Tremor Control this October. The titles, 1996's
Dusk at Cubist Castle and 1999's Black Foliage,
were literal game changers at the time of their
release and spawned many imitators but zero
equals. The albums have each been remastered
by the legendary John Golden (yeah, look him
up) and are packaged in gorgeous Stoughton
tip-on gatefold sleeves (whereby the image
is printed separately and then crafted around
the cardboard; look at old Beatles records for
a reference). Each double-LP package comes
with over three hours of bonus material acces
sible via a download card, and each is in a
limited edition of 1,000. These will sell out.
These will wind up on eBay. You can save
yourself some serious teeth-gnashing if you
just go ahead and order them now via www.
chunklet.com.
Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
18 FLAGPOLE.COM AUGUST 17.2011
