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8 Unique Fruit Casks
Reserve Series Beers
Local Vendors & Food Trucks
Pedal Driven . Mag-niSicent. Umano. Double Dutch
Bohemian Guitars . filaxican. Underground Baking
King o£ Pops. Key’s Cuban Ca£e
For tickets and more info go to TerrapinBeer.com/AnniversaryFest
The Oconee River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
cordially invites you to its annual
SPRING BANQUET
Saturday,
April 9
5:30 Social Hour
6:30 Dinner
Dinner provided
by Locos
Flinchum’s
Phoenix
Live & Silent Auctions,
Bucket Raffles, Door Prizes
Purchase raffle ticket for two-night exclusive stay ( $ 1600 value)
at Little St. Simon’s Island!
Advance Tickets are: STUDENTS $ 15 • SINGLES $ 25 • COUPLES $ 40
To reserve a table for 8 for $160.00 and get 100 free raffle tickets
email sghilliard@gmail.com
Flinchum’s Phoenix is located at the intersection of Whitehall Road and Milledge
Avenue in Athens. Enter Whitehall Forest and drive south 1.5 miles to the lodge.
SLINGSHOT
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Crystal Castles
Saturday, 11 p.m., Georgia Theatre
Toronto’s Crystal Castles has existed in
some form for over a decade with producer
Ethan Kath at the helm. After the project’s
inception, Kath released several singles
online before recruiting Alice Glass to add
vocals to his dark, lo-fi creations. An EP, a
collaboration with The Cure’s Robert Smith
and a string of three critically-acclaimed
full-lengths followed, positioning the duo
as one of the most talented electronic
groups around, with a gripping live show
to boot.
Since then, the unit has had its fair share
of turmoil and negative headlines, as Glass
left the band in 2014 due to professional
and personal reasons. The aftermath was
earlier while touring Europe. In advance
of his first trip home, Dennis chatted with
Flagpole about his time in Europe and
Maserati’s long-distance dynamics.
Flagpole: How has the transition gone
from Athens to Switzerland?
Coley Dennis: I got married back in
July and couldn’t be happier. I’m cooking
in two restaurants that I really love and
slowly learning French. My wife and I want
to open a restaurant here, as well, so we’re
starting to get busy working out everything
for that.
FP: What’s the musical layout there? Is
some of the post-rock support that’s kept
Maserati relevant for years now present in
your backyard?
CD: In Montreux it’s all about the jazz
festival. I didn’t get to go last year, but they
are always getting great bands. It’s like a
dirty; Kath claimed Glass had little to no
role in creating Crystal Castles’ most popu
lar songs, while Glass accused Kath of being
manipulative.
Wherever the truth lies, both parties
have forged on, and Crystal Castles has
already released two singles with a new
singer, Edith Frances, ahead of a forthcom
ing album. “Frail” and “Deicide” exhibit the
project’s signature push-and-pull, where
lengths of propulsive grandiosity make way
for brief moments of ambience, indicating
that Crystal Castles is back on track and in
top form. [Andy Barton]
Maserati
Saturday, 12:30 a.m., 40 Watt Club
It’s been nearly a year since guitarist and
co-founder Coley Dennis made post-rockers
Maserati a multi-hemispherical band.
Dennis moved from Athens to Lausanne,
Switzerland last May to be with his future
wife, Lina, whom he’d met several years
small SXSW on Lake Geneva where the
whole city is taken over for 10 days. For
Lausanne, there are a couple of awesome
venues, like Le Romandie and Les Docks,
that are always having great local and inter
national bands. As far as styles, it’s pretty
diverse, so not really one in particular
stands out. Definitely nothing influenced
by us.
FP: Maserati has been a long-distance band
for a while. Did working around that help pre
pare you all for current circumstances?
CD: Yeah, we’ve always been able to
somehow work with members living far
away. When Jerry [Fuchs] was with us, we
would send him little guitar or synth ideas,
and he would think about them for a couple
months. Then he would come down for
a long weekend to work on the ideas. We
haven’t worked on anything new since I’ve
moved because of the European tour, but
hopefully we all can get back together to do
some writing in the near future. [BM] ©
LOCALS AT SLINGSHOT
While Slingshot’s lineup of nationally and internationally touring musicians
is impressive, its list of Athens bands is also top-notch. Check out DJ duo
Electrophoria (Thursday, 12 a.m., 40 Watt Club), featuring Slingshot honcho Kai
Riedl, for a dance-inducing smattering of world and electro sounds. At the 40
Watt Friday, Brothers (7 p.m.), Deep State (8 p.m.) and Crunchy (9 p.m.) will play
back-to-back-to-back sets of lush indie-pop, barely controlled pop-punk and stoned-
out groove-rock, respectively. Peep relative newcomers WANDA (Friday, 11 p.m.,
Georgia Theatre Rooftop), as well as perpetual local experimenter Killick (Friday, 10
p.m., Flicker Theatre & Bar) for a taste of something different. Saturday’s daytime
show at Creature Comforts features a who’s who of local indie rock, including Art
Contest (1 p.m.), The Hernies (2 p.m.), Juan de Fuca (4 p.m.), T. Hardy Morris (6
p.m.) and New Madrid (7 p.m.). [Gabe Vodicka]
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