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The Strokes, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Pixies to Play Shaky Knees 2015
The lineup for this year's installment of Atlanta's Shaky Knees Festival has been announced, and it's a doozy. Along with festival faves The Strokes, the list features reunited indie titans Pixies, alt-folk godfathers Wilco and our own Neutral Milk Hotel.
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Flagpole Premieres: Cult Fluorescent, 'Fiel'd' Video
Songwriter Brad DeMatteo, who writes and records lovely minimalist pop tunes as Cult Fluorescent, is in the midst of a move from Massachusetts to the Classic City. "I'm basically moving to Athens for a change of scenery," he tells Flagpole. "It might sound too simple, but that's the truth. I want to put myself and my music in a new environment."
To help welcome DeMatteo to town, we're pleased to premiere a brand new video for "Fiel'd," the airy last track from Cult Fluorescent's recent full-length, I Had No Patience: No Patience.
Stream the video, directed by Michael Bucuzzo of experimental film collective SurreaLux, below:
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Live Review: Family and Friends at Georgia Theatre
A beanie-clad audience braved the cold to see the coziest welcome-home party of the new year Friday, featuring one of the best lineups of folk-rock Athens has to offer.
Semicircle was the first to take stage, setting the mood with minimalist instrumentals and an organically cool vibe. The group, which features two members of Reptar, announced that their newest album, Blown Breeze, Grown Grass and We Are Part of the Earth, (Flagpole review) was available on vinyl for the first time.
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Tonight in Athens: Ona, Semicircle, Waste Layer
Several recommended shows to keep you warm tonight in the Classic Cold-Ass City:
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Watch Mothers' Kristine Leschper Get Her Hair Chopped Off at Athens AMP
The spookiest salon ever.
As we reported last month, the second installment of Athens AMP, a collaborative series involving artists, musicians and performers, took place at Flicker Theatre & Bar Wednesday evening. The show featured a special set from local folk outfit Mothers titled IN THE EVENING I AM FORGOTTEN.
Mothers' Kristine Leschper was joined by musicians and performers Matt Anderegg, Drew Kirby, William Kennedy, Taber Lathrop, Jack Blauvelt, Remember Watts and Tyler Leslie. For the grand finale, a masked figure approached and began cutting Leschper's hair while she sang.
Check video of the performance below:
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Chris Forsyth's Five Favorite Guitar Solos
Chris Forsyth plays Normaltown Hall Thursday, Jan. 8 as part of a tour supporting his excellent recent album, Intensity Ghost, a nuanced and explosive record that highlights the Philadelphia guitarist's technical and compositional prowess, as well as his singular, spaced-out sense of melody and texture. Below, Forsyth waxes poetic about a few of his favorite recorded guitar jams.
Upon being invited to reflect on my top 5 guitar solos of all time for Flagpole, I must confess that my first reaction was a slight shudder. How can you talk about guitar solos without being pushed into some corner as Defender of the Decomposing Corpse of Rock? This is not a position I'm particularly interested in assuming. I think we should've let the banks fail, and I'm fine with the failure of R-O-C-K, too.
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Blake Reviews Gabe's Top 10: Stephen Steinbrink, Arranged Waves
In one corner: Flagpole Music Editor Gabe Vodicka, itching to unleash his list of Top 10 non-local albums of the year onto a probably-suspecting public. In the other corner: News Editor Blake Aued, a new father whose awareness of 2014 music is limited to "Shake It Off" and Pharrell's giant hat. From Dec. 22–31, Gabe will count down his list, and Blake will review each album in response.
1. Stephen Steinbrink: Arranged Waves
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