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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Correction: In the column that ran Sept. 28,
Widespread Panic's Tunes for Tots charity
was erroneously identified as "Toys for Tots."
This was my mistake entirely, and I apolo
gize for any confusion the error may have
caused. For information on Tunes for Tots,
which has raised over $650,000 for school
music programs, please see www.widespread
panic.com/goodpeople/tunes-for-tots.
People Here Are Colorful and Bright: Jason
Thrasher has spent the better part of two
decades documenting people, places and
things with his photography. Although he's
worked with high-profile clients nationwide,
he has a special heart for documenting Athens
musicians (and skateboarders, too!). Thrasher
has a new show opening this week at the
Georgia Theatre Gallery that will feature 23
images of Athens musicians. The show will
hang until the end of November, and the
opening reception is Wednesday, Oct. 12, from
7-10 p.m. For more information, please see
www.thrasherphoto.com.
Ending Soon: Multi-instrumentalist, and new
Flagpole contributor to boot, Brad Olsen is
currently promoting a particularly ambitious
Kkkstarter campaign for his one-man metal
band known as Artists of War. To this end,
he has been playing a series of open mic
nights at Hendershot's Coffee Bar, showcas
ing acoustic interpretations of his music.
Steeped in science fiction and humanism, the
album is a deeply personal project for Olsen,
moreso I suspect than many other Athens art
ists' projects. This is explained more fully on
his Kickstarter page, which you can access
through www.artistsofwar.net. His final show
in the Hendershot's series will happen Monday,
Oct. 17. That night he'll play a piece titled
"The Grand Pillars of Magnus," with half the
set performed on acoustic six-string guitar
and half on acoustic 12-string guitar. Olsen's
album is called Peace, or God as Machine, and
his goal is to release it on vinyl with extensive
artwork and most likely in a very limited run
of only 100 copies.
Mixing Up the Medicine: The District
Attorneys released a new EP this week titled
Waiting on the Calm Down: The Basement
Sessions. The free recording features five origi
nal tracks and a cover of Gillian Welch's 2003
song "Wrecking Ball." All the songs are demo
versions of tunes to be recorded with Drew
Vandenberg over at Chase Park Transduction.
Check out the EP now at www.thedistrict
attorneys.bandcamp.com.
V The Fabulous Band with the Awful Name:
Dead Dog is taking off on a 32-day tour start
ing Oct. 20, after which the members say
they'll no longer really be an "Athens band"
as drummer Lexie Gay is moving back to
Mississippi. "We will visit such landmarks as
Yellowstone National Park, Crater Lake, Joshua
Tree and our favorite, Carlsbad Caverns,"
says the band in regard to the tour. "Oh,
yeah, and play shows along the way." Dead
Dog currently has four new songs available
that were tracked at
Bloomington, IN studio
Russian Recording, and
you can grab them for
nothing over at www.
deaddogtheband.band-
camp.com. If you want
to catch Dead Dog
before they become a
rock and roll correspon
dence course, they'll be
playing this Saturday,
Oct. 15 at the 40 Watt
Club as part of the
Athens PopFest (full
disclosure: I am heav
ily involved with this
event) along with Four
Eyes (Boston, MA),
Cars Can Be Blue,
Fishboy, Kleenex Girl
Wonder, The Dead
Milkmen and Man or Astroman? For all your
other Dead Dog needs, please see www.face
book.com/deaddogtheband.
Dealing with It: Have you been introduced
to Graveyard Records? The shop, run by five
record dealers, has been selling rare vinyl, 45
rpm records, 8-tracks, music DVDs and more
for the past three years out at the J&J Flea
Market (11661 Commerce Rd.). They know
your experience buying records at a flea mar
ket has been nearly universally bad because
you've had to dig through moldy piles of
Hooked On Classics and scratched up copies of
ubiquitous titles like Whipped Cream & Other
Delights, etc. They specialize in sourcing rare
vinyl on request, plus they carry their own
stock of clean rarities from the usual suspects
(The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys,
Coltrane, etc.) and more, as well as just good
condition used records. Now this is kind of
embarrassing, but I've been out to their store
before and purchased records—admittedly,
though, it's been a while—but never knew
the store name. But, now I do and so do you.
Visit them at Building 3, Booths 8-10 every
Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
The Holiday Spirit: Music Kates You will
celebrate its new album with a party at New
Earth Music Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
Although the album. Where Did All This Dirt
Come From, was released back in August on
Los Angeles-based Crowded Head Records, this
is the first local release celebration. Music
Hates You distinguished itself in the early part
of the 2000s in Athens by being one of the
only bands in town at that time to play a bru
tally heavy hybrid of punk and metal. For more
information, please see www.facebook.com/
MusicHatesYou.
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