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  Flagpole Premieres: Wieuca, 'Hale Bop' Video

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  Athens indie-rock band Wieuca has never been content to settle into just one groove, its sizable discography featuring instinctive forays into alt-country, psych and electropop, to name a few.

  By Gabe Vodicka | February 14, 2020

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  Earth Fare Is Closing All Its Stores

  Blog: Grub Notes

  

  Earth Fare, the Asheville, NC-based natural and organic supermarket chain with dozens of locations across the southeastern and midwestern U.S.—including one in Athens' Five Points neighborhood—has begun the process of closing all its stores, the company announced Monday.

  By Gabe Vodicka | February 3, 2020

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  AthFest Awarded $30,000 NEA Grant

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  Photo Credit: Whitley Carpenter

  Sam Burchfield performs at the 2019 AthFest Music and Arts Festival.

  AthFest Educates, which presents the AthFest Music and Arts Festival each summer, has been awarded a $30,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the local nonprofit announced Wednesday in a press release.

  By Gabe Vodicka | January 29, 2020

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  Flagpole Premieres: Georgia Dish Boys, 'Meme'

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  Photo Credit: Sloan Simpson

  Athens roots-rock band Georgia Dish Boys exude down-home charm, from their hand-stitched cover art to their unorthodox recording methods. Yet the group's music also radiates with weird North Georgia grit, as heard on 2017's cacophonous Get Gone.

  By Gabe Vodicka | January 14, 2020

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  Flagpole Premieres: Curt Castle, 'Aminoketone' Video

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  Photo Credit: Jayleigh Harkai

  Last January, former Reptar and Semicircle member Curt Castle released a stellar debut, If I'm Here at All, which found the Georgia musician putting a sure-footed electropop spin on his previous bands' exploratory indie rock.

  A year later, he's finished a super cool stop-motion video for one of the record's standout tracks, the steady, sparkling "Aminoketone."

  By Gabe Vodicka | January 7, 2020

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  Flagpole Premieres: CannonandtheBoxes, 'November 22nd' Video

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  Photo Credit: Avery Brooks

  Fronted by Rome transplant Cannon Rogers, Athens band CannonandtheBoxes makes melody-centered acoustic music designed to ignite and uplift. Centered on Rogers' velvety singing voice, the group follows in the folky footsteps of local faves Family and Friends on tracks like "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," released earlier this year.

  By Gabe Vodicka | December 10, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Elijah Johnston, 'Find Your Bliss'

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  Athens singer-songwriter Elijah Johnston jokingly refers to himself as a "recovering lo-fi addict," and his recent work has indeed found him ditching murky home recordings in favor of a clean, crisp full-band sound.

  By Gabe Vodicka | November 29, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Bill Jr. Jr., 'Renaissance Man' Video

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  Led by Vancouver, BC, singer-songwriter Russell Gendron, the music of indie-folk act Bill Jr. Jr."meander[s], dreamlike, through feelings of uncertainty and loss, physical neighborhoods and change," according to the band's bio.

  By Gabe Vodicka | November 26, 2019

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  Athens Symphony Christmas Concert Tickets Available Nov. 25

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  Photo Credit: Athens Symphony

  Complimentary tickets to the Athens Symphony's two-day Christmas Concert series will be available for pickup at the Classic Center box office on Monday, Nov. 25 at 10 a.m., the Classic Center announced today. The concerts will take place Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 8 at 3 p.m.

  By Gabe Vodicka | November 20, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Brendan Abernathy, '3 Blocks Down the Road'

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  Athens singer-songwriter Brendan Abernathy spent three years in the local rock band Light Brigade before setting out on his own as a singer-songwriter, using loop-based techniques to add live layers to his rich, melodic confessionals. For the past few months, Abernathy has been on a house show tour of the U.S., and he'll finish up the current run with a show at the 40 Watt Club on Nov. 19.

  By Gabe Vodicka | November 13, 2019

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  Ike & Jane to Close at End of November

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  Photo Credit: Ike & Jane

  Ike & Jane, the popular Normaltown restaurant known for its housemade donuts, breakfast sandwiches and lunch offerings, will close at the end of the month, according to a post made Saturday on Instagram.

  By Gabe Vodicka | November 2, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Sarah Zúñiga, 'I Like Knowing You're Around' Video

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  Photo Credit: Logan Potter

  Athens singer-songwriter Sarah Zúñiga specializes in the sort of earnest, heart-tugging folk-pop that's made for mid-afternoon drives and sunny poolside hangs. Last year, she released a debut EP, Someday Soon, and now she's back with a lighthearted new single and accompanying video, which we're happy to premiere today.

  By Gabe Vodicka | October 25, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Hunger Anthem, 'Remedy' Video

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  Athens power-pop-punk trio Hunger Anthem has been quiet on the release front since dropping 2015's Cut the Chord EP, a five-song slice of hook-laden rock that "bursts with urgency and is packed with jaw-droppingly great tunefulness," per Flagpole scribe Gordon Lamb.

  By Gabe Vodicka | October 22, 2019

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  Go Bar to End Late-Night Music, Transition to Restaurant

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  Go Bar in 1999.

  After 20 years of drag shows, dance parties and noise-rock freakouts, Prince Avenue institution Go Bar has announced plans to transition from a music and entertainment venue to a restaurant, installing a kitchen, covering the outdoor patio and adding daytime hours.

  By Gabe Vodicka | October 10, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Je Suis France, 'Looking for Someone Like Me' Video

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  After forming at UGA in the late 1990s, Je Suis France established a reputation as Athens' go-to indie-rock party band, releasing a self-titled 2000 LP and 2003's terrific Fantastic Area—as well as a stream of exploratory CD-Rs that showcased the group's mischievous side—before its members scattered to various corners of the continent.

  By Gabe Vodicka | October 9, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Magnapop, 'Leo'

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  Co-led by former Oh-OK member Linda Hopper and featuring the estimable songwriting and guitar stylings of Ruthie Morris, Atlanta band Magnapop saw minor U.S. success in the mid-'90s thanks to alt-rock earworms like "Open the Door." But the band has carved out a steady career since, thanks largely to its popularity among European listeners, and on Sept. 27 it will release a sixth full-length—the group's first album in a decade—titled The Circle Is Round.

  By Gabe Vodicka | September 20, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Annie Leeth, 'Sherbet Sky'

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  With her canny pop-classical hybrid, violinist Annie Leeth has established herself as an Athens-music chameleon, able to slide seamlessly onto experimental and indie-pop bills alike. Since releasing her debut LP, Recurrence, last year, Leeth has continued to fine-tune her expressive, loop-based approach.

  By Gabe Vodicka | September 17, 2019

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  Flagpole Premieres: Future Lives, 'Huckabee' Video

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  Led by former King of Prussia frontman Brandon Hanick, Athens "spirit-folk" recording project/supergroup Future Lives also features members of Drive-By Truckers and Velveteen Pink, as well as violinist Annie Leeth and pop songsmith Nicholas Mallis, among others.

  By Gabe Vodicka | September 4, 2019

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  RIP Guitarist Mark 'Mojo' Wilmot

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  Mark "Mojo" Wilmot, an Athens-area musician known for fronting the Americana band Redstone Ramblers, has died, according to posts on social media.

  By Gabe Vodicka | August 28, 2019

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  Bobcat Goldthwait, Dana Gould Show Canceled After Atlanta Car Wreck

  Blog: Culture Briefs

  Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould have canceled tonight's 40 Watt show after the two comedians were injured in a car wreck in Atlanta Thursday evening.

  By Gabe Vodicka | August 16, 2019

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