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> V jiappu wou* spccmif m-T 12-7 q m«i ON TOP iumfnM (0(«Tflm W«HLV PPIHO SPECIALS qPtOT PATIO monday: $1 PBR draft. $3.50 jafier shots. tuesday: $1 PBR draft. . $3.50 iameson j shots, u/ednesday: $2.50 off all pitchers. 50C off aii drafts. thursday: Happy Hour i all night! I ■■ 50C , 'Z&gM most beers. 1 MB! 75C off call , liquor shots. 1 $3.50 well b3 bkizs liquor drinks. 243 w. Washington st. monday-saturday 4pm-2am. Happy Hour daily until 9Ptn 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
