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Kenosha Kid
Kenosha Kid: “some kind of as yet unlabeled jazz” (All About Jazz), as music “played through an Andy Warhol filter and served up Thomas Pynchon style” (Savannah Now), and as “jazz as if Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis never came along to ruin the genre’s mainstream” (Flagpole Magazine).
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $FREE
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Powerkompany CD Release
Powerkompany’s Marie Davon is a pixie engulfed by emerald waters and ancient mountains. The deep thrum of her baritone ukulele vibrates back and forth through time. She’s dreaming. She’s awake. She’s on an ivy-choked front porch in Athens, Ga., bandmate Andrew Heaton at her side. He is the missing piece to her creative jigsaw puzzle—towering, dusky, his leather boots stomping between guitar strums while cicadas and surging electricity create a hypnotic rhythm track.
The band’s debut LP, I Am More Than This (out May 7), is futuristic, nostalgic, electric—Davon’s voice cascades like a waterfall one minute and the next punctures eardrums as if Cupid’s arrow to an unsuspecting heart. It is Dolly Parton’s frail warble filtered through Warhol’s Factory, the sound of tiny incandescent angels trapped like butterflies in a moonshine mason jar. On the new record, Davon’s melodies are draped by sonic tapestries as if the band had just conjured 1960s Phil Spector, held a gun to his head and demanded he update the Wall of Sound for a new generation.I Am More Than This is propelled by loping beats, bounding through cinematic vistas of a New South. The album’s fragile, triumphant daydream pop and fanciful Catherine-wheel anthems illuminate man, woman and machine with acoustic serenity and cacophonous synths. Together Davon and Heaton, are scientists, alchemists, creative escapists. Before they formed Powerkompany, they played with other notable Athens, Ga., bands: Davon, orchestra pop outfit Venice Is Sinking; and Heaton, full-tilt bluegrass project Packway Handle Band. Bridging the divergent worlds of indie rock and Americana, the two found each others’ muses in full synch.For Heaton, his musical partnership with Davon has provided an outlet for his more serious, dramatic side. In 2011, they made a spontaneous EP calledComfort. It captures the band’s nascent, ethereal sound—the aural equivalent of Ansel Adams’ stark landscape photography. A set of daring remixes, Pulse, was released the following year. And now, I Am More Than This finds Powerkompany moving in a relatively terrestrial direction.The songs on the new album were written by Davon during a tumultuous three-month span, a period of motion and transition—moving to a different house, connecting with strange new people and processing all of the wild, perspective-shifting experiences that ensued. As a result, the record is frenetic—at times angry, blindsided and defiant, but also obsessed with freedom, hope and new beginnings.Many of the songs on the new record were written to have an anthemic optimism, Heaton says. Lead single “Not the Last” is a perfect example. The song is in E flat major, a historically triumphant key—the key of love and devotion, of intimate conversation with God. From Beethoven’s Emeperor Concerto to Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony and Strauss’ Hero’s Life, the explosive “Not the Last” and its trumpet-like fanfare are tied to an ancient tradition of bold and courageous sounds.It’s all of a piece with the record’s multi-layered, wide-open title, which—depending on the context—is a refusal to be casually filed away; aggression and anger at the world for not offering the benefit of the doubt, and at one’s self over perceived shortcomings and failures; an aching, deeply sincere plea for human connection, acceptance and understanding; a cry of hope and determination, to carry on, to be a more complete version of one’s self.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: 8 Advance/ $10 Door
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Anders & Kendall
February 2013 marked the release of “Wild Chorus,” a new record from longtime collaborators Anders Parker (Varnaline, Space Needle, New Multitudes) and Kendall Meade (Masscott, Sparklehorse, Helium). The record is what you would expect from two of the most respectful and tuneful voiced in indie-pop, and much more.
Anders’ rough-hawn voice blends perfectally with Kendall’s more delicate phrasings, recalling classic duets from Richard and Linda Thompson to Glen Hansard and Markita Irglova. Scott Miner’s spot on production, and a cast of stellar Knoxville musicians make Wild Chorus a true classic.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: 10 Advance/ $15 Door
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Kenosha Kid
Kenosha Kid: “some kind of as yet unlabeled jazz” (All About Jazz), as music “played through an Andy Warhol filter and served up Thomas Pynchon style” (Savannah Now), and as “jazz as if Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis never came along to ruin the genre’s mainstream” (Flagpole Magazine).
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $FREE
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Louis Romanos Quartet
Originally founded in New Orleans by Percussionist and Composer, Louis Romanos, the Louis Romanos Quartet (LRQ) relocated to beautiful Athens, Georgia after Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005. The music that Louis composes reinterprets both traditional and modern jazz, interweaving Latin, bebop, and New Orleans street beat rhythms with profound melodies and dysfunctional harmonies, creating a playful, rhythmically driven, and compelling sound. After studying drums with Idris Muhammad, John Vidacovich, Jim Atwood and Art Perretta, Louis went on to record and/or perform with many great musicians including Gene Bertoncini, Steve Masakowski, Keith Richards, John Mayer, Chuck Leavell, Earl Turbinton, Victor Atkins, Dave Easley, Charlie Miller, Al Hirt, Joel Frahm, John Hebert, Charles Neville, Stanton Moore, Jonathan Byrd. In Athens Louis toured with Dromedary Quartet and recorded with Chuck Leavell.
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $8
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Lefty Hathaway w/ The Welfare Liners
Since arriving in Athens, Lefty has played with many talented local musicians, establishing himself as part of the hard-working Classic City’s music community. Local journalists have coined him as a force on the keys, layering elements of funky jazz tied in with roots-y soul. Lefty and his band have been compared to artists like Little Feat, JJ Cale, Leon Russell, Allman Brothers, Dr. John, The Meters, and even Bill WIthers.
The debut full length LP “Shacks” (Plough Lane Records 2012) is a barrel house of emotion spawning from an 18 month session at The Quad & Vision Sound Lab in Nashville, TN and Full Moon Studios in Lefty’s hometown of Athens, GA. The revamped line up features Mike Strickland (Tent City,Efren), Greg Kearney (Tent City, Betsy Franck) Greg Cooler (Tent CIty, Other Brothers Band), Daniel Bell (Betsy Kingston, Connected Houses) and Lefty. Check out some free live music at www.leftyhathaway.com.
The Welfare Liners came together from the eclectic Athens, GA music scene in 2010 and combined contemporary and traditional influences to create a brand of bluegrass that has earned praise from young and old. After releasing a self-titled, six-song EP on Ghostmeat Records in 2011, the band found themselves sharing the stage with the likes of The Del McCoury Band, Dawes and Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon). As they continued to perform at bluegrass festivals and local clubs, original compositions made their way in to sets previously dominated by standards from Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and The Stanley Brothers. These new, original songs borrowed heavily from the tradition of brother harmony mastered by Jim & Jesse and The Louvin Brothers, whose songs were also mainstays of early performances by the band.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: 7 Advance/ $10 Door
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Rian Adkinson
“Something from the other side of the Atlantic, Atlanta to be precise. Multi-instrumentalist Rian specializes in acoustic guitar but likes to be compared to Sade and Radiohead. Opposite ends of the spectrum you might say but this artist has harnessed the midway point” Prog Rock Magazine, issue 31, 2012
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $10 Advance/ 15 Door
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Athfest CD Release Party
Come and Celebrate the Release of the 2013 Athfest CD!!!!
King of Prussia (Taj Hanick & Friends) @ 9pm
k i d s @ 10pm
Darnell Boys @ 11pm
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $FREE
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Shameless Comedy Presents: Reformed Whores and Special Guests
Links:Debut album Ladies Don’t Spit now available on iTunes!The musical comedy duo Reformed Whores, fronted byMarie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame, have been lassoing hearts throughout the NYC comedy scene. These southern belles sing about everything from venereal diseases to drunk dialing with sweet harmonies and old-timey wit.
Reformed Whores just returned from tour opening forLes Claypool’s Duo de Twang! Both ladies are huge Primus fans, so you can only imagine their excitement.RW have performed at notable venues across the country such as the legendary Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Georgia Theatre in Athens, TLA in Philly,Carolines on Broadway, and the Gramercy Theatre in NYC, and many more. They’ve performed at Chicago Sketchfest, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston Comedy Festival, NY Funny Songs Festival, NY Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and they were this year’s semi-finalists for the Andy Kaufman Awards in NYC.
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $10
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Hot Corner Fest, HEAP and Kyshona Armstrong
A 9 piece HEAP-ing helping of original indie-soul stew- the HEAP played its first show in May 2007. In 2008, The HEAP released their independent debut- Deluxe, co- produced by Matt Yelton (Pixies) and Bill Doss (Apples in Stereo). In 2009, the HEAP was nominated for a Flagpole Music Award in the Funk/Jam category along with Widespread Panic.
The HEAP’s sound is something new, yet not unfamiliar. Howard’s baritone vocal delivery combined with crunched out tenor bass, soulful keys, the HEAP Horns’ punctuated harmony riffing, and laid back upright bass grooves underpinned by dance friendly percussion yield a sound that distinctly recalls southern soul roots while never letting you forget that we are “in the future now!”
Kyshona Armstrong, a music therapist gone rogue, hails from the small town of Irmo, SC (home of Vanna White and the Okra Strut). She grew up listening to her grandfathers singing in the gospel choir, aunts and uncles singing old Sam Cooke tunes around the electric guitar amps, and her father practicing the guitar solo from “Hello” by Lionel Richie… on repeat.
Kyshona has mixed her love of story telling with the sound of her musical roots. Soulful, spiritual, at times guttural, Kyshona delivers an open honesty through her voice and lyrics. Her desire when she is performing is to connect with and take the audience on an emotional, soul stirring, musical journey. Her goal is to leave a crowd impressed.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $5
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Kate Morrissey
Kate Morrissey
is a wandering songstress. From her childhood on the rolling hills of rural South Dakota through Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and now among the Southern bohemia of Athens, GA, she is perfectly at home behind her piano. But Morrissey is best known throughout this corridor for her dark velvet voice whose range and control stands on its own. Morrissey’s songwriting is literate and sincere, and her conversational live shows come punctuated with an off-beat sense of humor.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $5
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Casper & The Cookies w/ Your Fuzzy Friends
For fifteen years, Casper & the Cookies have been making music that could only come from the Athens, GA tradition of destroying traditions. Swinging wildly between power pop are more experimental sounds, CATC are simply in love with music. They have just finished recording their fourth album, Dingbats, due later this year.Your Fuzzy Friends are probably the world’s only indie new wave act fronted by a homosexual, hipster unicorn puppet. Our danceable electro-pop sounds and amusing antics will having you shaking your ass and laughing it off at the same time.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $5 Advance/ $7 Door
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Matt Joiner Band w/ Rollin’ Home
With apologies to George Thorogood, not every great Blues musician is born bad to the bone. Find the nurse that worked the graveyard shift in the maternity ward at St. Mary’s Hospital on June 18, 1982 and she probably won’t have that story to tell about young Matt Joiner.
How would they know the crying babe would become the musical pride of tiny Colbert, Georgia? Joiner’s music blends slick licks and gritty narratives, informed by down-home comforts like those hot dogs from Billy Meadows filling station on Highway 72 and the solemn Sunday sermons of Brother Pike in a sanctuary his teenage hands helped create called Little Bethlehem. Seriously.
That was back when… Way back when.
His father and brother taught him a few chords. A music teacher at school named Doyle Lightfoot, a thumb-picking guitarist in the style of Chet Atkins, taught him a few more. He sneaked a few listens of Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 and introduced himself to secular music. His new musical interests quickly became the fledgling musicians primary influences: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Eric Johnson… Soon enough he was playing everyday, challenging his ear, writing licks and learning to shred.
Expanding his horizons in 2012, first adding a rock solid rhythm section (drummer Mark Turiano and bassist Clay Hinson) then talented keyboardist Natalie McClure, Joiner and his new band independently released thier solo debut album Back When, produced by John Keane (REM, Widespread Panic, Cowboy Junkies). Naturally, they started touring relentlessly, building an impressive fan-base and reaching audiences with a critically acclaimed blues-rock style.
Joiner has played to enthusiastic crowds at venues and events around the Southeast including the Georgia Theatre, Soho, The 40 Watt Club, Melting Point and AthFest. He has also shared the stage with notablle local and national artists inclusing Rollin’ Home, Clay Leverett & Friends, The Rattlers, Matt Schofield, Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ and the legendary Geoff Achison.
The Athens, Georgia-based band has one foot in the garage with their sights set on arenas coast to coast.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: 8 Advance/ $10 Door
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Awards Afterparty w/ DJ Mahogany
DJ Mahogany Spins all yer favorites after the Athfest Awards Ceremony!
SHOW TIME: 11:00 pm
COST: $FREE
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Athfest 2013- Night 1
Charlie Garrett Band 10:30 pm
Dreamboat 11:30 pm
DJ 9 Iron & DJ VG+ 12:30 am
SHOW TIME: 10:00 pm
COST: $wristbands available
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Athfest 2013- Night 2
Cicada Rhythm- 10:30pm
Hope For A Golden Summer- 11:30pm
DJ Quincy (AKA John Swint)- 12:30am
SHOW TIME: 10:00 pm
COST: $wristbands available
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Photo Ops and Foe Destroyer
Photo Ops is the stunning, contemplative dream pop project of Terry Price, whose new album,
How To Say Goodbye, draws on the tragedy and triumph of his recent past. The 30-year-old
Nashville singer-songwriter, formerly of esteemed indie act Oblio, has had a traumatizing few
years, including the death of his father and the sudden onset of a disfiguring medical condition.“I wanted to have a stylized, melodic, easy-to-understand album about sadness and pain and
strangeness, and somehow find some catharsis,” he says. Indeed the concise and beautiful work
– which draws on influences from Phil Spector, Paul Simon, Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac to
dream pop acts of The Radio Dept. and Starflyer 59– is his attempt to move forward in his life
and give comfort to others.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $5
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Gustafer Yellowgold- Family Show
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Since his creation by Morgan Taylor in 2005, Gustafer Yellowgold has become an international phenomenon, acclaimed by The New York Times, which described Gustafer as “A cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss.” Entertainment Weekly praised “…The most infectious original songs. It’s like tapping into some pleasure center in the brain- both adult and kid…absurdly appealing. Grade: A.” New York Magazine named Morgan Taylor “Best Kids’ Performer” in a recent “Best of New York” issue. “Mint Green Bee” from Gustafer Yellowgold’s Wide Wild World was a Grand Prize Winner in the Children’s Category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc93VQ87hNk
www.gustaferyellowgold.com
SHOW TIME: 4:00 pm
COST: $25 (1 Adult and 2 kids)/ $15 Individual
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Austin King Comedy Night
Comedy Night Hosted by Local Comic: Austin King
4 Local Comics from Athens and Atlanta make you laugh all night!
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $5
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Little Country Giants
The Little Country Giantshave been voted “Atlanta’s Best Folk Act” by Creative Loafing Magazine, and were awarded with the “Emerging Artists of the Year” by the Rome Area Council for the Arts in Rome, Georgia.
This past year their music was featured in two award winning films, the documentary about Georgia’s organic farmers, GROW, which uses music by the Little Country Giants as the soundtrack for the film, and the Athens, GA zombie film Pushing Up Daisies. Russell Cook had the opportunity to work with T. Bone Burnett and perform in the Stephen King, John Mellancamp, Burnett musical, the Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. Their live radio shows include several performances on Georgia Public Radio’s “Mountain Music and Medicine Show”, Knoxville, TN’s “Blue Plate Special”, NPR’s “Afternoon Music with Richard Winham” in Chattanooga, TN, and Georgia Tech’s radio station “Live at WREK” amongst many others.
“Delivering pure, simple, and timeless rustic songs touching on country, bluegrass, and even rural blues, husband-and-wife duo Cameron Federal and Russell Cook produce artful work on par with the finest of the expansive genre. Masters of the lexicon of rural music, Little Country Giants create music rich with the sounds of Georgia’s roots and the musical seeds of America grown. “
-Adam Klein, Cowboy Angel Music
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: $7 Advance/ $10 Door
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Nate Currin w/ John French & Bastilles
Nate Currin is an enigma: with each album he releases he evolves as a musician, a performer, and a storyteller. Catchy enough to be featured on MTV, Nate still posses a raw passion that is only felt after watching him perform live. Having played hundreds of shows across the US over the past 6 years, sharing the stage with everyone from Blues Traveler to Neon Trees, Nate has established a grassroots following that not only allows him to play established venues from coast to coast but plenty of house concerts along the way. Nate’s third full-length studio album, The Pilgrim is set to hit retailers this summer – a follow up to 2011’s Goodnight California, which received strong reviews nationwide. “I strongly feel that Nate Currin is the most refreshing talent I’ve heard since I left radio in 2008” says Rhubarb Jones, a 3 time national disc jockey of the year and voted one of the most influential radio personalities of the last century, “He writes and performs with brilliance!” And it is that brilliance that will draw you in to Nate’s music, captivate you throughout his performance, and then leave you wanting more… Here are a few video links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWhuvAg29o&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vXBhUZ54Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRUZROB5pbw
Website: http://www.natecurrin.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/natecurrin
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/natecurrin
Support @ 8pm - John French of “John French and the Bastilles” opening up
https://www.facebook.com/johnfrenchandthebastilles
SHOW TIME: 8:00 pm
COST: 10 Advance/ $12 Door
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Danielle Howle + Firework Show
Considered by many to be South Carolina’s best kept musical secret, Danielle Howle is a punk rock girl with the voice of a honkeytonk angel. As comfortable sharing the stage with Bob Dylan as Fugazi, she has garnered worldwide acclaim while somehow remaining under the radar of mainstream America. Now is the time for South Carolina to share it’s secret with the rest of America.Danielle Howle has now surpassed all efforts by teaming up with Charleston City Paper’s best experimental act of 2011, Firework Show, as her backing band. The results have been stunning, and the pairing recently served as the opening band for the sold out Avett Brothers show at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville, SC on New Years Eve 2011-12. Danielle Howle + Firework Show also released an album in 2012, “New Year Revolutions”, which can be heard at the Bandcamp link below.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: 8 Advance/ $10 Door
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Baghouse w/ The Odd Trio
It is happening again.
All hyperbole aside, drummer, Andy Robison (Polemic, Norma Rae, Morte Sicura) and Jeff Rieter (the
HEAP, Bain Mattox, Hey, Revolution!, Diet Rockstar) have started rehearsing and recording with former
collaborator, Moog guitar improviser, Jeff McLeod (Zepubicle, No, Bert) of Montgomery, AL.
From 1999-2001, this line up of Baghouse performed at SXSW2000 (in the jazz category) and toured
around the region making improvised rhythmic experimental music that was somewhere between jazz and
ambient post rock with hints of proto live electronica thrown in here and there. Around that period, Baghouse
supported national acts including: Galactic, Lake Trout, Drums and Tuba, Auktyon, Robert Walter and Tim
Reynolds. Baghouse recorded an ep with Jamie Uertz and Lynn Bridges (who later worked with Anthrax,
Blind Melon and Devendra Banhart) tracks from which are available digitally for the first time on Bandcamp
and Soundcloud.
Fast forward to 2013, the trio is booking shows for the first time in 12 years, having collectively absorbed the
last decade.
The Odd Trio
The word fusion was created for bands like the Odd Trio. Brian Smith, Marc Gilley and Todd Mueller are classically trained musicians who slip easily between a wide range of genres, subverting each genre’s stylistic cues and range of expression for a higher purpose. The members of the Odd Trio have honed a very close improvisatory musical language and are always looking to the future though keenly aware of tradition.
SHOW TIME: 9:00 pm
COST: $5
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