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AthFest ’98 kicks off tonight

  Double your flavor, double your fun. AthFest ’98 is twice the show it was last year and its organizers only see it getting better. The statistics speak for themselves. This year’s festival increases from two nights to four, from 75 bands to over 150 and from 15 venues to 24. Organizer Jared Bailey said [...]

Local record labels set to host music extravaganza

  For the next three nights, the 40 Watt will shed some light on the indie-rock community. Kindercore and Hey Buddy Records, two Athens-based independent record labels, will present 25 bands during the three-day Athens Summer Music Extravaganza. "It’s kind of a celebration of our second anniversary," said Ryan Lewis, the drummer for Kincaid who [...]

Gongs replace songs at High Hat

  A loud clanging noise is expected to wake up downtown Athens on Monday night. With a new attempt at an old standard, The High Hat Music Club is looking to jazz up the first of the week with variety acts in The Gong Show. "Traditionally, Mondays are hard to get people out," said Drew [...]

Skwzbxx to fill in for absent Tautara at the Theatre tonight

  Late last week Kyle Pilgrim, co-owner of the Georgia Theatre, thought Tuatara, a band featuring R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, would headline the Georgia Theatre tonight. Then things fell through. Tuatara canceled its tour and left a gaping hole in the Theatre’s schedule. "I just had to make a marathon of phone calls (to find a [...]

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“You hate your boss at your job/But in your dreams you can blow his head off/In your dreams, show no mercy” – The Flaming Lips, “Bad Days”   40 WATT CLUB (549-7871) · Friday: The Delrays/The Stoutbeats. With the recent rise in the popularity of Ska music, you would think someone just invented the trumpet. [...]

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“There was a guy/In a seat next to mine/Watching the girls/When the cops made us stand in line.” – The Flaming Lips, “Chewing The Apple Of Your Eye”   40 WATT CLUB (549-7871)   · Friday: Mary Lou Lord/Raging Teens/Glory Fountain. Mary Lou Lord is a girl with a guitar. She is from Salem, Mass. [...]

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“I’m gonna get me a shotgun and shoot all the whities I see.” – Garrett Morris, “Saturday Night Live.” Don’t forget to celebrate Black History Month.   40 WATT CLUB (549-7871)   · Friday: Soul Miner’s Daughter/ Spike The Dog. You should know the story by now. Friends since meeting in a grade-school performance troupe. [...]

Beatles tunes Sprouting up at Theatre

Let it be.   Tonight, The Fuzzy Sprouts will come together at the Georgia Theatre and perform its interpre- tation of The Beatles "Abbey Road."   The band performed "Abbey Road," this sum- mer at the Atomic Music Hall to a sold-out and enthusiastic crowd.   "There were hundreds of people that were all singing [...]

Picks of the People

“‘Behold the Pale Horse,’ by Milton William Cooper. It’s pretty deep. It talks about UFOs and con- spiracy theories. It talks a lot about New World Order and stuff that’s coming out in the year 2000. It kind of interests me. It’s about things that you don’t hear about that often. – Hogan Bryan, a [...]

Gritty Kitty debut is the cat’s meow, without the claws

It’s atnip for the ears. Gritty Kitty’s debut CD, "Mistaking Airplanes For Stars," contains 18 addic- tive and unmistakably indie-rock songs that are fresher than any well-maintained litter box. Macho rockers steer clear. This album is more akin to head-bobbing than fist- shaking or boot-stomping. Its 18 songs are full of crisp and clear jangly [...]

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