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MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
Last Call: As you should already know, the
headliners for this year's AthFest (June
20-24), have been announced as Reptar,
The Glands, Atlas Sound and Yacht Rock
Revue. But did you know that you still have
until Apr. 1 to submit your application to
play? You can do it the digital way via www.
sonicbids,com/athfest or the anatogue way
by dropping your materials off at the AthFest
office. If you apply online there is a fee for
both in-state and out-of-state acts, but if
you're a Georgia artist who goes the analogue
route, you'll encounter no fee. There is still a
fee for out-of-state artists using this method
of submission. The details on submitting are
not complicated, but they are specific, and
interested artists should head over to www.
athfest.com/music-festi-
val/booking and be sure
to do the right thing.
> Drive Carefully: By
the time you read this
Casper & the Cookies
will be winding down a
tightly booked string of
Southeast dates, perform
ing the final ones this
week in Chattanooga,
Asheville and Atlanta.
The band is also working
on new material for an
upcoming album and will
release a free compila
tion of tracks recorded
from 1999-2009 that will
undoubtedly not be titled
Decade of Decadence.
Although I wouldn't put
it past them to name it something clever
like Decade of Decca-Dance. Just ideas, folks.
I'm no expert. Keep up with all the Cookies'
goings on over at www.casperfandango.com.
Talkin' Blues: OK, this is sorta music related,
so I'm gonna include it here. The next live
installment of the New Town Revue will hap
pen at Avid Bookshop on Thursday, Apr. 12
at 7 p.m? This event occasionally has live .
music, but is really based around Athens' writ
ing community, and on this particular date
former honorary Athenian, and now actual
Athenian, David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van
Beethoven) will read selections from his blog,
300 Songs (located at www.davidlowerymusic.
com/300songsblog.cfm). I didn't even know
this blog existed until this very minute, which
just shows you can always leam something.
Flagpole contributing writer Deirdre Sugiuchi
will also read, and her material will be drawn
from her "teenage reform school captivity
narrative" titled UnReformed. For more infor
mation, please see www.newtownrevue.word-
press.com.
High Density: The sonic reducers in Gripe will
head back to the studio with engineers Joel
Hatstat and Hike Albanese to record tracks
for two upcoming split releases, one with
grindcore movers Diseksa from Singapore,
titled Indefinite Detention, and one with
Columbia's power-violence purveyors Chulo.
Now here's the head-scratching part: the split
with Diseksa is to come out as a 350-copy,
limited edition cassette—albeit on profes
sional grade tape—and the split with Chulo
is a limited edition (50 copies) release of
floppy discs. As much as I really like Gripe
and pretty much all its endeavors, stuff like
this, while novel, always seems to scream,
"Here is our record! Nobody listen!" To
be entirely fair, though, both these ideas
were likely the notion of the labels involved.
Knowing Gripe, too, all these tracks will likely
end up on Bandcamp.com at some point, so
everyone take two steps back and relax. In
fact, the Diseksa split is already up! Go to
www.gripe.bandcamp.com and dig it. In other
news, the band will head out on its first East
Coast tour this summer with Macon, GA band *
Grinchfinger. As always, keep up with Gripe via
www.facebook.com/gripecore.
Two for Five: The Clarke County Mentor
Program is holding a raffle as we speak for
a custom-built guitar by Robbie Smith of
Blacksmith Guitars. Smith is probably best
known locally as the builder of the Georgia
Theatre guitar that was raffled earlier this
year. This new one is autographed by Alice
in Chains, which has a specific Georgia con
nection in member William "Kip" DuVall
(Neon Christ, Madfly, Comes with the Fall and
No Walls). The guitar is on display now at
Wuxtry Records downtown, and raffle tickets
can be purchased there for S3 each or two for
$5. The Clarke County Mentor Program trains
adult mentors to assist students in the Clarke
County School District to attain goals of per
sonal and academic success and who perhaps
are in specific need of a "role model, listener
and friend." For more information, please see
www.clarkecountymentorprogram.org.
Briefly Now: The Spinoffs have recorded and
posted two new songs over at www.thes-
pinoffs.bandcamp.com. Member Chris McKay
(Critical Darlings) reports that these first two
songs are compositions by member Kathy
Kirbo (vocals, guitars, keyboards) and that
he and member Bryan Howard (The HEAP)
will add their own tunes next. No word yet on
whether or not drummer Tim Payne is getting
in on the composition game. The tracks were
recorded by Kyle Spence (Harvey Milk) and
neither really does anything for me as they're
both, I dunno, kind of blah-ly just there. In
some ways it sounds like the band didn't have
very much confidence while recording because
the performances seem pulled back and
conservative—which is strange considering
the literal decades of combined experience the
group has. But go check it out. Maybe this is
exactly what you've been waiting for.
Gordon Lamb threatsandpromtsesOflagpole.com
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