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Jazz up the holidays with festive music

Do you ever get tired of the same old Bing Crosby, Perry Como and Mormon Tabernacle Choir albums that get overplayed every Christmas? I admit I dig Dean Martin’s “Marshmallow World” and Tony Bennett’s jazzy rendition of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” How can I not? Bennett’s Big Band swings so hard it could [...]

Diamond Dogs release next season’s schedule

As fall semester comes to a close, Georgia baseball is winding up for another season under coach David Perno. Before Thanksgiving break, the team announced its schedule for the 2003 season. The new schedule pits the Diamond Dogs against 10 teams that advanced to the NCAA Regionals last year. Match-ups include SEC rivals LSU, Auburn, [...]

Muppet cover band takes Athens by musical storm

I don’t think it would be too presumptuous to say that, after 15 or more years of waiting, all of your childhood dreams are about to come true. Saturday night, the Muppets will take Athens by storm at the Flicker Theatre & Bar at 9. Well, not the real Muppets, but a Muppet-crazed University teaching [...]

A jazz-lovers dream come true at One Love

This weekend will likely be one to remember for jazz enthusiasts all over Athens. University music professor and local jazz legend Steve Dancz, Athens jazz-fusion heavyweights Squat, and the UGA Big Band will grace the stage of the One Love Music and Dance Hall Saturday night. The three act bill is a veritable who’s who [...]

Tin Foil Stars are ‘Always Almost’ here

A local songwriter and his band are back home in Athens, ready to release a new album after a stint of touring that brought them all around the Southeast. Dodd Ferrelle & The Tin Foil Stars have been strengthening their fan base and honing their blend of rock, folk and Americana in cities like Nashville, [...]

Music Project For Project Safe

Local musician resource center and community service haven, Nu�i’s Space, will host a benefit for the non-profit organization, Project Safe, Saturday. Project Safe works with victims of domestic violence, offering a 24-hour crisis hotline and a confidentially located facility where victims can seek help. “Last year, we received 1,700 crisis calls,” said Joan Prittie, who [...]

Hippies, Greeks, indies — oh, my!

There is an unholy triumvirate in Athens that proves the face of lameness wears many masks. All three groups have strange initiation rituals, exclude people for empty reasons and think they rule this town. Let’s begin with the hippie-crits, with their patchwork pants, tie-dyes and patchouli stank. They think not shaving makes them tuned in, [...]

Derek Trucks Band keeps it kicking

For many people, being married and having children means settling down. This is far from the truth for guitarist and Atlanta native Derek Trucks. The 23-year-old Trucks and his wife, blues singer Susan Ted-eschi, recently had a child, but both continue on with their musical careers, often collaborating live and in the studio. “When you’re [...]

Post-beat poet reads his rebellious works

I walked up the creaking, lopsided stairs of Phi Kappa Hall just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, hoping to catch an early glimpse of post-beat poet Ed Sanders, who also co-founded ’60s satire-rock group, The Fugs. The room where the poetry reading was to be held was almost empty, aside from a few professors and some [...]

Park Bench Trio’s latest CD must make momma so proud

It’s every mother’s dream for her son to grow up, play in a rock group and put out an album called “Bitch Road.” Maybe so, maybe not, but that is exactly what Athens roots-rockers Park Bench Trio have succeeded in doing. “My mother thought the name of the album was implying that we were traveling [...]

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