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Slingshot’s Founder Takes Moogfest Job
PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
GO NORTH, YOUNG MAN: Kai Riedl, creator and director of
the Slingshot Festival, recently accepted a job as execu
tive producer of Moogfest in Durham, NC. His new duties
include handling all production aspects of the electronic
and experimental music event, which was formerly held
in Asheville but moved to Durham last year. Riedl told me
that Slingshot, as an organization, is making a turn into
functioning more as an agency through which events are
organized, including the self-named event here in Athens,
as well as future events and
marketing occurrences in such gj
far-flung places as Mexico 5
City and India. In other news, S
Riedl recently took on partner M
Vivek Boray, who is helping
spearhead these other devel
opments, as well as being the
man on the ground here in
Athens for all things Slingshot.
BUT STILL: In related news,
the next Industry Night
co-presented by Creature
Comforts and Slingshot hap
pens Monday, Oct. 3. Featured
entertainment comes courtesy
of Art Contest and Dream
Culture. As always, this event
is free for bar, nightclub and off-site package sale employees
with either employee ID or other proof of employment, and
costs the normal tour price for all others. It runs from 5-8
p.m. on the brewery grounds.
A SHOW OF HANDS: The Classic City Fringe Festival, hap
pening Oct. 27-30, is in need of volunteers. This event is
the only one of its kind in the Athens area and, true to its
name, encompasses a variety of performances and artists
operating outside standard structures and limitations.
Artistic varieties include theater and dance, video and film,
performance art, poetry, comedy, puppetry, art installa
tions, live music performance, burlesque and vaudeville.
The volunteer crew, dubbed Fringe Heroes, will help with
publicity running up to the start of the festival and partici
pate in duties such as box-office help, running doors, sound
production and other areas. Additionally, the CCFF is seek
ing people to help document the event, as well as to assist
with public relations and good ol’ fashioned errand run
ning, which is no small task. Please visit classiccityfringef-
estival.com and click “How to Participate” if you’d like to be
involved.
ALL THIS JAZZ: Hendershot’s Coffee Bar will present, in
association with the UGA Jazz Studies department, a
show by the Dave Stryker Trio Friday, Sept. 23. Stryker,
an accomplished jazz guitarist, has led his band through
a jaw-dropping 26 releases, as well as an incredible
50-plus appearances as a sideman for artists like Stanley
Turrentine, Jack McDuff and others. This show is $8 for
UGA students, $10 for the general public and will run from
8-10 p.m. For information, see hendershotscoffee.com.
ACTUALLY FOR THE KIDS: The
Saturday Morning Club
series is a program created
by the UGA Performing Arts
Center specifically for kids
age 4-12 that features perfor
mances from university stu
dent groups and other younger
performers. All concerts are
free, too. You know these have
gotta be for kids, because
they happen at 10 a.m. on
Saturdays. That’s pretty much
an unthinkably early start
time for your average Athenian
music lover, but if you’ve got
kids, chances are good you’ve
been up for hours by that
time. Anyway, upcoming shows are the UGA Symphony
Orchestra (Sept. 24), UGA Wind Symphony (Oct. 22), UGA
Theatre (Nov. 5), UGA Core Concert Dance Company (Feb.
11 at 10 and 11:30 a.m. at the New Dance Theatre) and
the Georgia Children’s Chorus (Mar. 25). Unless otherwise
noted, all shows happen at Hodgson Concert Hall. Call the
PAC at 706-542-4400 for more information.
NONE MORE BLACK: The cross-continental experimental noise
duo Men’s Residence has come to an end. Alas, we hardly
knew thee. One final release came out at the beginning of
September titled I Fucked Up, and it was assembled quickly
and released fairly immediately by member Ryan Pensyl.
While the group was never in any way an easy listen, this
final document is easily its most challenging. It’s primarily
composed of electronic glitches, pattern repetition, sound
effects and dialogue samples, and everything is dialed in
so tightly it just drills right into the listener’s head. It’s
seriously emotionally charged and blacker than midnight.
Everything’s titled with Roman numerals, too, because I
guess sometimes there just aren’t any words. Say goodbye
over at mensresidence.bandcamp.com. ©
Kai Riedl
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After a decade off from recording, Athens’ post-metal mathcore pioneers
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Up the Spurs" is a steep, turbulent ascent into the stratosphere, as mad
virtuosos Bryant Williamson, Joel Hatstat and Mike Albanese are joined
by former Manray vocalist Jordan Olivera, who pushes his snarl of a voice
seemingly as far as it can go, then keeps going. The album’s first single,
“Vietnamese Pool Party,” spasms to life at full speed then plunges toward a
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It’s debatable whether Cinemechanica’s lyrics have anything to say beyond the blunt, occasionally paranoid
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