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Daily Beast: UGA an 'Overlooked College,' Athens Apparently Has Some Sort of Music Scene
Earlier this week content farm legitimate news site The Daily Beast posted a list called "Amazing But Overlooked: 25 Colleges You Haven't Considered But Should" that succeeded in suckering me into linking to it (and yeah, I realize that makes me a weak person unfit for Internet). Among the schools listed was the University of Georgia, whose "overlooked merit" was Athens' "music scene." Reads the blurb:
The intense music curriculums of Berklee, Juilliard, and Curtis Institute may have merit, but Athens should be a beacon for students interested in a thriving live music scene outside the classroom. Home to the 40 Watt Club, the Melting Point, and the Georgia Theatre, Athens is known as one of the best places to catch live music in the country. The list of big-name bands that started on its stages is long, including REM, Drive-by Truckers, Indigo Girls, and Of Montreal. “What’s cool about the music scene here it that it’s so varied,” said Hilary Butschek, arts editor for the university’s paper, The Red & Black. “A lot of local band members say they came here because of the music scene.”
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Hear a New Song from k i d s
Below, stream "The Sound," a new tune from k i d s, the local pop/noise/nightmare/R&B project of K. Jared Collins. Collins reports that he will follow up last year's These Days album with an EP called are US, set to be recorded live during an upcoming performance, Saturday, Mar. 30 at Caledonia Lounge. Aside from his usual backing band, Velocirapture, Collins promises some special guests for that show, including Pretty Bird, Josh Evans of Muuy Biien and Javier Morales of The Dream Scene/Grass Giraffes.
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Win Tickets to The Big Bird Bash in Macon This Saturday
This Saturday, Mar. 2, the Big Bird Bash takes over Luther Williams Field down in Macon for a day of music. Our own Drive-By Truckers will headline the daylong festival, which also features Drivin' N' Cryin', Moon Taxi, Modern Skirts and more.
Wanna win a pair of tickets? Head over to our Facebook page for details on how to enter. We'll choose a winner this Thursday at 3 p.m. Godspeed.
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Twilight Americana Music Festival Performers Announced
Performers for the newly re-christened Twilight Americana Music Festival, which, we recently reported, takes place Apr. 25-28 at a variety of downtown venues, have been announced. The list includes some heavy-hitters, including Leon Russell, Leftover Salmon and Deer Tick, as well as a slew of notable locals: Mike Cooley, Lera Lynn, The Corduroy Road, The Darnell Boys, Jim White, Little Country Giants, Dave Marr, Don Chambers, The Kenney-Blackmon String Band, Caroline Herring, Claire Campbell, The Whiskey Gentry, Bain Mattox, Rusty Belle, W.B. Givens and Adam Klein and The Wild Fires.
More artist announcements are said to be forthcoming. For now, watch this video of Leon Russell performing "A Song For You" in 1971 and just sigh, 'cause that's all you can really do.
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Live Review: The World Famous Grand Opening
"Everything in here had a former life," co-owner David Eduardo told me last night while surveying the music (and, during daytime hours starting Monday, dining) room of The World Famous. The decor dotting the Hull Street venue does impart a certain warmth that tends to be missing from newly remodeled spaces; repurposed benches, chandeliers and curtains give it the feel of a much older place.
And it is, of course, having housed Wilson's Soul Food for 30 years—the iconic Wilson's sign hangs inside The World Famous—and Eduardo and partner Bain Mattox have taken care to let the history of the place shine through. Subtle remnants from the former tenant remain, and though there is a separate and more complex conversation to be had regarding the gentrification of downtown's west end, Mattox and Eduardo at least seem to comprehend the significance of it all.
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PoleCast: Reptar's Jace Bartet
Jace Bartet
In anticipation of his band's headlining appearance at the Songs for Kids benefit at the 40 Watt this Friday, Reptar's touring guitarist Jace Bartet rehashed the goriest moment in his musical career, which happened last summer on the AthFest main stage (and is visually depicted above):
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of Montreal's Kevin Barnes Performs Two Acoustic Tunes, Sings in a Weird David Byrne Voice
Above: a clip of Kevin Barnes of local psych-pop outfit of Montreal performing "
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