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nine years, this week's PopFest offers music
fans an opportunity to see one of our city's
more prominent purveyors of jubilantly tuneful
melodies... possibly for the last time.
Masters of the Hemisphere, whose members
have been scattered across the country since
the early 2000s, reunited last year at the
behest of drummer (and beloved local come
dian/bartender) Jeff Griggs to record a brand-
new album. The resulting release, the group's
first in 10 years, is the delightfully lush and
cohesive Maybe These Are the Breaks.
fundraising website Kickstarter, is "temporar
ily stalled due to life, but just around the
corner—a few clicks away from being mixed."
As to the fate of The Masters of *
Hemisphere, that future is less certain. The
band is, in Rawls' words, "a very unknown
beast... Not sure if we will make another
album. Not sure if we will ever play another
show beyond this upcoming tour. Whatever
Jeff calls us up and asks us to do, I guess."
Thematically, Maybe These Are the
Breaks reflects that uncertainly. "[Multi
instrumentalist] Adrian [Finch] is convinced
that the entire album is a break-up album,"
says Rawls. "Breaking up of a relationship, or
"[Griggs] thought we should secretly make
a new album, just for kicks—maybe not even
officially release it necessarily," singer Sean
Rawls explains. "Several years later, we finally
got around to recording it, and we shocked
ourselves with how much we liked it."
That opinion has been echoed elsewhere,
with fans and press hailing the record,
released by storied local label Kindercore
Records, as a "return to form." In celebration
of the quartet's return, the tape label Modern
Country will also be issuing a cassette box
set of Masters of the Hemisphere's three prior
albums, along with unreleased bonus tracks.
"It's basically every single thing we ever
recorded," says Rawls. "We've dug up a few
things over the years that never had a proper
release, and now people will hear just how
bad we could be. Nothing too embarrassing, I
guess."
Though Rawls describes his band's vault
clearing release modestly, his ambitions and
those of his bandmates have remained high
even during the Masters' hiatus. Along with
fellow singer/songwriter Bren Mead, Rawls has
been working dutifully in Still Flyin', a dance-
rock band based in San Francisco that just
wrapped up a national tour and has plans to
release a new record early next year. Mead also
plans on releasing a record from his solo proj
ect, Vetran. The album, financed by Internet
the end of a life in a certain place and start
ing one new somewhere else. You could read
into it that it's about me and Bren moving
across the country; now I'm the only one that
doesn't live in Georgia."
All things considered, this week's PopFest
appearance potentially could be Athens' final
chance to catch Masters of the Hemisphere
live in concert... but a future collaboration is
never totally out of the question, especially
considering how much fun the band had put
ting together this last album.
"It was great recording [Maybe These Are
the Breaks]. Personally, it was the first time
since I moved away in 2003 that I'd spent a
significant amount of time in Athens," says
Rawls. "It was very nostalgic and felt perfect
for the Masters vibe: hanging out with old
friends too late at night and then getting up
and walking to the studio in blazing humid
ity." [Brian Veysey]
"We went to a shopping mall and laughed
at all the shoppers/ Security guards trailed us
to a record shop/ We asked for Mojo Nixon/
They said 'He don't work here'/ We said, 'If you
don't got Mojo Nixon, then your store could
use some fixin?"
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