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Flagpole Premieres: Georgia Dish Boys, 'I Can’t Act (Like I Don’t Feel Good)'
As unpredictable as they are hard-working, Athens band Georgia Dish Boys are set to follow up last year's rocking Nine Song Movie, which blended trashy Crazy Horse riffage with aching alt-folk, with a new LP, Good Country Livin, in July.
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Lydia Brambila Wins Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Award
Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher
Thursday evening at The Foundry, the 2019 Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year Award was presented to Lydia Brambila, a local singer-songwriter who was nominated for the song "Sirena," from her 2018 album Migraineur.
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Live Review: 2019 Shaky Knees Festival
Photo Credit: Charles Reagan Hackleman
Flagpole music contributors were in Atlanta last weekend for this year's Shaky Knees Festival. Here are the bands that left them all shook up:
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Flagpole Premieres: Kwazymoto, 'Death Gallop' Video
Athens band Kwazymoto has cemented itself as one of the most forward-thinking rock acts in town, thanks to its tireless search for punk's emotional and intellectual core, as displayed on recordings like last year's My American Family and 2017's Limerence Land.
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Flagpole Premieres: Partials, 'Walls Fall'
With the release of last year's Glossolalia—one of Flagpole's favorite local EPs of 2018—Athens group Partials established themselves as the thinking-person's party band, blending heady funk and Afrobeat grooves with rich, provocative lyrics exploring themes of technology and isolation.
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Friends Host Medical Benefit Sunday for Local Musician Ty Manning
Ty Manning is an established and beloved Athens songwriter and guitarist known for his work with several local bands, including the Bearfoot Hookers and, more recently, Ty Manning and the Slawdog Biscuits—a nominee for this year's Flagpole Athens Music AwardsFolk/Americana category.
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Guadalcanal Diary's Jeff Walls Hospitalized With Rare Illness
For weeks, decades-long Athens musician, Marietta native, walking encyclopedia and friend Jeff Walls (Guadalcanal Diary, Hillbilly Frankenstein, The Woggles) has been suffering from what we now know is an exceedingly rare condition.
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Of Montreal, Linqua Franqa, The Whigs, More AthFest Performers Announced
Following the recent announcement of this year's outdoor AthFest headliners, the festival has revealed more of the performers who will take the stage during the 2019 event, scheduled for June 21–23.
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