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Q&A With Little Tybee, Playing Melting Point Tonight
Flagpole: You've been billed before with Adron. How did you start playing with her, and what makes her a good fit for y'all?
Little Tybee: We have known Adron for a few years now. She was a guest vocalist on our second album, Humorous to Bees, and will sing harmonies live from time to time with Little Tybee. She is an amazingly talented songwriter. I think her sound and Little Tybee's sound complement each other well because both bands share some really great musicians who pay a lot of attention to the details. I also think that both bands don’t follow trends and popular peer pressure when crafting their sound. We are both trying to create something new and unique.
FP: Your new album, For Distant Viewing, comes out Apr. 9. Can you talk about the evolution since Humorous to Bees?
LT: For Distant Viewing represents a more realized version of Little Tybee. We have been playing together for a long time now, and we know exactly how each member writes parts and what they will bring to the writing process for the songs. At a certain point in playing with other musicians, you start to develop a language of your own, and I guess we have just become more and more fluent over the years together. With this album, all of the band members were more directly involved in writing the songs. Josh Martin wrote two of the instrumental tracks, "Fantastic Planet" and "Left Right." That is a new feature that hasn't happened in our previous albums. We were inspired to write together, as a cohesive unit, and I think that it marks a huge improvement and a fuller sound.
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Q&A With Lantern, Playing Farm 255 Tonight
Give a listen to Lantern’s latest release, Dream Mine, and you might wonder what planet the band is from. From the ambient-dance sounds of "Untitled" to "Out of Our Heads," which drips of garage rock goo, it’s clear that the band’s musical palate runs the gamut. Flagpole recently caught up with Lantern guitarist Zachary Fairbrother to discuss the relationship between gritty cities and rock and roll, the risks of defining punk, and what it’s like to be a lo-fi rocker with a background in music composition.
Flagpole: You mention on your Bandcamp page that Dream Mine is a “loose concept album” that is a “a tribute to '80s dystopic cyber punk.” Can you say something of the concepts running throughout the album?
Zachary Fairbrother: I wouldn't say there is an obvious narrative throughout the EP, because there isn't. The concept more came about while I was putting the tracks together for the release. When we were finished assembling it we were like, "Wow, this really sounds scary." It comes off very cold and bleak. The idea of it being a tribute to '80s dystopic-cyber punk came from the track, “Untitled,” which I composed as a project separate from Lantern all together. It was the theme for an imaginary cyber punk movie. I really love the look of those movies, the gritty noir, the '80s technology. The '80s definitely seemed to have a fear of technology unlike today. We, however, might want to ask ourselves some of these questions again, but that's another discussion.
Also, there are lots of industrial themes running through the EP as well, such as “Fool's Gold,” “Train Song,” “You Can't Deny Me (Revisited).” I sort imagined it as a future primitive. To compare it to a movie, it might be like Escape from New York or The Warriors. We are playing rock and roll—it's an old genre, but we want to present it in a new a fresh way, or it might be thought of how punks in the future [will] try to play punk from the past.
FP: Although you’re originally from Canada, you’re now based out of Philadelphia. Despite being the City of Brotherly Love, your new home has a reputation of being a pretty rough place. How does the environment of Philly influence your music?
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Hendershot's, Transmet Reach Impasse Over Lease
Seth Hendershot. Photo via Athens Food and Culture
Representatives for Hendershot's Coffee Bar and local pizza restaurant Transmetropolitan have been unable to agree on the terms of a lease renewal for the Hendershot's space, and the coffee bar/music venue plans to vacate its current location before a temporary six-month lease is up June 30.
The adjacent properties, on Oglethorpe Ave. near the Forest Heights neighborhood, are both owned by the local Tweedell & Van Buren Oil Company, but Transmet controls the Hendershot's sublease, which is at the end of its term.
According to Transmet owner Brian Colantuno, the dispute over a new lease stems from two issues: which business will control the lot's parking spaces, and an imminent increase in rent price.
"The rent was the biggest issue," Colantuno says, alleging that Transmet's insistance that Hendershot's pay what the former considered an appropriate share of the property owner's overall increase was met with resistance. Colantuno says Transmet even offered to pay half the coffee shop's increase for the remainder of a yearlong agreement, a proposal to which lawyers representing Hendershot's initially agreed, but then rejected.
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Flagpole Premieres: Chris Ezelle, "The Loveless Cafe" Video
Welcome to Flagpole Premieres, where we debut exclusive material from local artists.
Local blues explorer Chris Ezelle continues to tease his upcoming album Monticello with a slow, steady IV drip. Track by track, Ezelle's weather-damaged folk songs roll in like one summer storm after another, hinting at what should be a terrific final product. Don't sleep on this dude.
Below, watch the exclusive Flagpole premiere of the video for "The Loveless Cafe," a vaguely narrative-driven and weirdly eerie tune featuring muted, major-chord guitar and Ezelle's raspy, halting lyrical delivery. The clip, a painfully slow-mo shot of Bourbon Street revelry, ingeniously reflects the song's good-times-gone-bad vibe.
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Don't Be a Dummy! This Weekend's Shows to See
FRIDAY, MAR. 1
of Montreal, Yip Deceiver, Linear Downfall @ 40 Watt Club: The requisite quarterly hometown performance from the oM camp comes with a special bonus:appearances from Yip Deceiver and Linear Downfall, who explore psych and dance with varying degrees of seriousness.
Spring Experimentaler Night One @ Go Bar: Featuring Motion Sickness of Time Travel, Cult of Riggonia, Throne Room, Hand Sand Hands, Basshunter64 All-Stars and Mitch Turner.
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Stream New Dead Confederate: "Vacations"
Here's the first single from Dead Confederate's upcoming third LP, In the Marrow, out Apr. 16 via Spiderbomb Records/Redeye. "Vacations" finds the local rockers exploring a familiar form: lethargic, Southern-tinged bombast anchored by the persuasive wail of singer Hardy Morris.
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Modern Skirts to Call it Quits
Rumors have been swirling for weeks, and now it's confirmed. Local pop group Modern Skirts (whose website mysteriously features a non-functional an embed of the Empire State South site) have announced they will call it quits after a final string of shows. The band has been performing together in some form for almost 10 years.
Guitarist JoJo Glidewell writes:
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Watch pacificUV's "Funny Girl" Video
Here's a newly released video for "Funny Girl," a standout tune from pacificUVs last album, WEEKENDS. It's a well-made clip courtesy of local director Brett Vaughn; make sure to watch all the way through, 'cause there's a shicking TWIST in the middle and then it gets all WEIRD at the end. CINEMA!
That's not all: The band tells Flagpole it will unveil a new single next week. "24 Frames" will be the first taste we get from the upcoming pacificUV album, After the Dream You are Awake, due in May.
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