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2015 Shaky Knees Festival in Review
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones
Friday, May 8
It didn't take long to get my bearings at Atlanta’s Central Park, the location of this year’s installment of the Shaky Knees Festival. That was a huge bonus, though there were choices to be made, as acts performed simultaneously on multiple stages throughout the weekend.
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Photo Gallery: 2015 Shaky Knees Festival
The Shaky Knees Festival took over Atlanta's Central Park last weekend. Flagpole staff photographer Joshua L. Jones was there to document the action.
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Flagpole Athens Music Awards Ballot is Live; Watch the Video Nominees
The 2015 Flagpole Athens Music Awards takes place Thursday, June 25 at the historic Morton Theatre in downtown Athens. As always, the show will feature live music from a hand-selected lineup of our favorite local artists, as well as a special non-music performance to be announced. Plus: Hijinks! Surprises! #BasedHost Tom Visions! And much more!
The awards ballot—as painstakingly assembled by a panel of nine local music-scene movers and shakers plus Flagpole's music editor—is now live, and you can vote right over here.
Check out the list of last year's winners, as well as photos and video of the 2014 awards show, here.
Below, watch the six nominees in this year's Music Video category:
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Stream Two Songs From T. Hardy Morris' Upcoming Album
Photo Credit: Anna Webber
Athens music fixture and Dead Confederate leader T. Hardy Morris is gearing up to releaseDrownin On a Mountaintop, the full-length follow-up to our favorite record of 2013, Audition Tapes (Flagpole review).
Thus far, the label has made two songs from Drownin available to stream: Last October, we first heard the country-punk single "Painted On Attitude," and this week, Noisey premiered another new tune, the twangy grinder "My Me."
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AthFest Announces Complete Outdoor Lineup
AthFest, the Classic City's flagship summer event, has revealed the entirety of its outdoor lineup.
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Q&A With Dweezil Zappa, Playing Georgia Theatre Wednesday
For the last decade, Dweezil Zappa has toured with his Zappa Plays Zappa project, which celebrates the music of his late father Frank. The group hits Athens this Wednesday, May 6, for a show at the Georgia Theatre. Flagpole caught up with Dweezil for a phone chat.
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Watch a Short Documentary on Athens Rapper Ishues
Photo Credit: Randy Schafer
This week's cover story focuses on Athens rapper and community activist Ishmael Cuthbertson, who performed and recorded under the moniker Ishues in the mid-2000s before leaving the music industry to focus on faith and family.
In preparation for the article, Flagpole writer and photographer Randy Schafer spent time with Cuthbertson and his family over the course of several weeks this spring. To supplement his words and photos, Schafer also put together a 12-minute video documentary, which you can watch below:
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Flagpole Premieres: Dark Meat, 'Thems That Die (Will Be The Lucky Ones)'
Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher
Vibrant and volatile Athens-based psych-rock supergroup Dark Meat burned brightly and toured hard for several years in the late aughts before its players scattered and the band called it quits. But recently, a majority of members found themselves back in Athens for the wedding of two of their own, and decided to lay down one last jam.
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