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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Epimetheus Would: of Montreal will release
its new album, Paralytic Stalks, on Feb. 7,
2012. The band's label, Polyvinyl, is accept
ing pre-orders as we speak. Initial tracking
was done at Kevin Barnes' home studio, and
the album was completed with engineer Drew
Vandenberg over at Chase Park Transduction.
Although only one track, "Wintered Debts,"
has been released for preview—and it's a
winding seven-and-a-half minute thing that
starts acoustically and builds to a melodically
noisy completion all the while with a vocal
melody that hints at Grand Funk Railroad's
"Bad Time"—other influences on the album
are reported to be "modern classical, neo
prog, pseudo-country." You can test drive it
yourself over at www.ofmontreal.net/wintered-
debts and pre-order the record via www.polyvi-
nylrecords.com.
► From Ashes Rise: Guitar builder Robbie
Smith (Black Smith Guitars) has gotten a
lot of press over the past few months for the
guitar he built from the
burned remains of the
Georgia Theatre. The
guitar will finally go up
for auction Friday, Dec.
16 at 7 p.m. on the
Theatre's terrace. Raffle
tickets are available now
for $5 each, and you do
not have to be present
to win. Originally sched
uled to be auctioned
back in October, it looks
like the guitar—made
from materials sal
vaged from the fire-
will make its way to a
winner's home before
Christmas. The fully
playable electric instru
ment is autographed
by Widespread Panic,
Davis Causey, Col. Bruce
Hampton, The Avett
Brothers, Randall Bramblett, Gillian Welch and
many more. Raffle tickets can be purchased at
the Georgia Theatre box office and vvww.geor-
giatheatre.com.
Live Transmission: A rare event will happen
Thursday, Dec. 15 at Little Kings Shuffle
Club when Athens noiseniks Radio:Tahiti will
play for the first time in, by my estimation, at
least a decade. The group—featuring found
ing and perennial members Jon Lestei and
Steve Fitzpatrick—was a regular agitation
in the Athens scene for several years in the
l°90s. Joining them are The Subliminator,
Smokedog and Octa P.A., the last two of
which also hardly ever play. So, you know, go
get some rare listening in.
Their Target Is Your Eyes: The Birdhouse, a
collective of newer Athens artists committed
to exploratory pop music and sound-making,
has a new DVD out featuring all-new tracks
from Tree Spirit, Muuy Biien, Pretty Bird,
Green Gerry, 000, Cottonmouth, Kids
and The Circle. Featuring a running time
of approximately 40 minutes and available
via download and physical discs, the entire
thing is, at least reputedly and conceptu
ally speaking, supposed to "put your head
in the clouds." What it really does, practi
cally speaking, is make you feel like you've
been staring through a kaleidoscope or at an
iTunes visualizer screen for over half an hour.
As much as I dig the actual music, I keep
thinking the whole thing Ts some sort of
hoax-y commentary on music industry hype.
If it is, then I applaud all involved. If it's not,
and it's meant as a serious event, well, urn,
sorry? Go judge for yourself via www.thebird-
house.bandcamp.com.
Come McnJay It'll Be Alright: On Dec. 17
Nugi's Space will host an event named 4th of
July in December: An American Celebration
of Holidays and Good Value. Featured per
formers are Southern Trespass (The Shit-Hot
Country Band's new covers project), Forever
Young (Second Sons performing "early-'70s-
esque folk-rock covers" like Dylan and Neil
Young) and The Pencil Thin Reefer Band
(members of Chapped Lips, The Caledonia
Nightmare Band, et al.—including me—per
forming the hits of Jimmy Buffett). According
to organizer Matt Hudgins, "It's just supposed
to be dumb, funny, and a chance to see people
who usually take music
really seriously not do
that for a change." Ch,
it's on, Hudge! The
show costs $5 and will
start at 8 p.m.
Three on Hump
Day: Folk duo The
Skipperdees will play
Go Bar on Wednesday,
Dec. 14, along with
Young Benjamin and
Bobby Be Good. The
former is a project from
The Premonitions' Matt
Whitaker and gets a tip
of the hat from me for
un-ironically citing A
Flock of Seagulls as an
influence. Bobby Be
Good is a foursome of
fresh-faced Marietta kids
now living in Athens
who seem to have taken a page from the book
of what I like to call the New Sincerity move
ment (e.g., Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver). If you miss
out on this one, The Skipperdees will play
the Athens Farmers Market on the morning
of Saturday, Dec. 17. All the aforementioned
bands are on Facebook, so look for their pro
files there.
Next Exit: Last week it was announced that
longtime Drive-By Truckers bassist Shonna
Tucker had left the band. Although no specific
reason was cited, an official statement from
dicker said, It's time for me to move on
to the next great thing, whatever that may
be.' She joined the band in 2003, performed
over 1,000 shows with the group, and has a
dedicated following of her own among DBT
fans. David Barbe will take over bass duties
for the band for the foreseeable future. We
wish Tucker well in whatever she goes on
to do, and we'll do our best to keep readers
posted concerning all new developments. Band
leader Patterson Hood released a statement
that says, in part, "Her charm and spark will
be irreplaceable, and her part in our last
decade of this band's history is indisput
able. We will share in our fans missing of
her." To read the full statement, please see
www.drivebytruckers.com.
Gordon Lamb lhreatsandpromsies@flagpole.com
Georgia Theatre Guitar
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