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OK, folks, wash off all that goofball adult
Halloween makeup and start pulling yourself
together. If you thought Halloween on a
Monday was hard to pull off, just think about
how it's not going to be on a weekend again
until 2014! So, with that in mind, look below
for this week's pile of bits and bobs, news
and ephemera. That should take your mind off
things for a while. Take your mind off in 1, 2,
3...
Ease on Down the Road: New-to-Athens record
store and label Vinyl Rites closed its location
inside Southern Vision on West Broad Street
last week. The store moved downtown to 297
1/2 E. Broad St., which is better known as the
location underneath Jittery Joe's (the for
mer Espresso Royale Caffe). The shop will be
closed while reorganization in the new loca
tion takes place and will reopen Nov. 5 with "a
crazy amount of new stock!" So, take that to
heart. Keep up with
Vinyl Rites online
via www.vinylrites.
tumblr.com.
> Ten Years After:
Dodd Ferrelle and
his band (composed
of Tim Adams, Noel
Blackmon, David
Blackmon and
friends) will play
the Melting Point
on Wednesday, Nov.
2 to herald the
release of Ferrelle's
latest album. Hide
the World, released
last month on
Atlanta’s*Two Sheds Music. Advance tickets
are $5 (it's $7 at the door) and doors open at
6:30 p.m. Opening band Josh Daniels and The
Dangerous will play at 7 p.m., and Ferrelle and
his full band go on at 8 p.m. This is the ninth
release overall by Ferrelle since 1991 and sig
nals the 10th anniversary of his solo debut.
Check him out over at www.doddferrelle.com.
Fast Forward: By the time you read this.
Masters of the Hemisphere will have com
peted its whirlwind reunion tour celebrating
the release of its new album, Maybe These Are
the Breaks. Those who just can't contain their
excitement over this and have a spare tape
player lying around might be interested in
the limited edition all-cassette boxed set
just released by Modern Country Records. It
contains six tapes featuring every MotH full-
length album (including the new one) along
with every EP, single and compilation track
the band has ever done. In short, it's every
thing together in one pretty inconvenient
package. The set is limited to 100 copies,
and the pre-sale for this item ended about
a month ago, but as of this writing it is still
available via the label's website. It'll run you
S35, and you can grab it all over at www.mod-
erncountryrecords.com.
Don’t Know Much: Nutria is promising a new
album soon that currently has the work
ing title Dissidents of the Dissonance. The
band's last album, A Permanent Reminder of a
Temporary Emotion, was released in 2010 via
Adam Klein's Cowboy Angel Music. This is
literally all the information available at this
point and thus constitutes a real-life threat
and/or promise situation, and for that this
column thanks Nutria. If you head over to
www.nutriaworldforever.blogspot.com, you'll
find two photos of nutria, the animal, not
Nutria, the band, and a single audio clip...
and this will have to hold you over for a while.
Some Men Are an Island: Long-dormant impro-
visational rock messiahs Garbage Island will
play again Thursday, Nov. 3 at Little Kings
Shuffle Club. In existence since the late '90s,
the band was formerly quite active but took
a big hit when member Mark Kaczmarek
split town to go live in France several years
ago. Since that time, the Island has pretty
much only played when Kaczmarek occasion
ally popped up in Athens. For this show
Garbage Island will be composed of Craig
Lieske(guitar), Chris Herron (bass) Jeramy
Lamanno (drums), Kris Deason (guitar/key
boards) and Brian Head (drums). Yes, that's
two drummers. Deal with it.
The Last One Left:
The annual WUOG
Fest is happening
this week, and,
actually, we're
already knee deep
in it. Each day
of the event is
brought to its audi
ence by a particular
WUOG specialty
show. The Fest
started on Monday,
and the remaining
events and their
respective sponsor
ing programs are as
follows: Tuesday,
"Bluegrass Junction" (Farm 255); Wednesday,
"Philosophy Rock" (Caledonia Lounge);
Thursday, "A Matter of Jazz" (the Georgia
Theatre); Friday, "WUOG Bands Live" (Go Bar);
Saturday, "Halftime Hip-Hop Show" (40 Watt
Club) and Sunday, "Friendly Folk" (Cine). The
complete schedule of bands playing and door
prices are available over at www.wuogfest.
wordpress.com, 3nd you can always visit
WUOG 90.5 FM on Facebook at www.facebook.
com/wuog.org.
Something Old, Something New: Fred
Schneider's band The Superions is reportedly
"being considered for three Grammy nomina
tions," which should be read as distinct from
actually being nominated, but this year's
nominees haven't been announced yet, so I'm
sitting here with fingers crossed wishing the
band the best of luck. The selections being
considered are the band's Christmas album
Destination... Christmas! (for both comedy
album and record packaging categories) and
the video clip for the track "Fruitcake" in the
short-form video category. In other Superions
news, the band has a new video out for its
Halloween single "Bat Baby," and you can
catch that over at www.youtube.com/user/
TheSuperions. In other Fred Schneider news,
his much better known outfit, The B-52s,
released its album, With the Wild Crowd: Live
in Athens, GA, last week. The album was
recorded at The Classic Center earlier this year
when the band played to a packed house and
pumped out a string of classic songs. The
final album features 18 tracks with nary a dud
among them.
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