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Deer Tick to Play Free Show at 40 Watt on Sept. 17
The 40 Watt Club has announced a big addition to its September calendar: On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Rhode Island alt-country act Deer Tick will perform a free show, with support from local troubadour T. Hardy Morris.
All that's required for entry to the show, which is sponsored by cable conglomerate Charter—and by the way, Charter, why the hell has my Internet been so spotty lately, like, it totally goes out for 10–15 minutes at a time, I mean, what is even going on with that—is an RSVP.
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Watch a Mind-Melting New Future Ape Tapes Video
The music of local experimental crew Future Ape Tapes is difficult to categorize but easy to lose your mind to: on the group's new album, Pyramirrormid (from which you can hear some samples here), noise-blasted hip hop beats sit comfortably alongside psychedelic sound collage and damaged electronica.
On Friday, Tiny Mix Tapes premiered the video for "Man With the Eagle Eye," a typically mind-melting track from the new tape, which you can nab at the band's show on the UGA campus Wednesday evening or via Hooker Vision starting Sept. 4.
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Kenny Chesney to Play Georgia Theatre Friday
In a surprise announcement this morning, the Georgia Theatre revealed that country superstar Kenny Chesney—he of "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" renown—will perform a show at the downtown venue Friday at 8 p.m. Posters for the appearance include a logo that reads "CMT Instant Jam," leading to speculation that the concert will be taped for an upcoming television show.
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Flagpole Premieres: Old Smokey, 'Vacant Lot' Video
Avant-folk group Old Smokey released a stunning sleeper of a record, Wester Easter, in April via Cloud. (Read our feature on the band here.) Now, we're happy to premiere the music video for "Vacant Lot," a taut and textural tune from the album.
Says frontman Jim Willingham of the clip, directed by former Flagpole scribe John Britt:
We shot it up in a quarry somewhere between Carlton and Elberton about 45 minutes north of Athens. We also used a location of an amazing vintage/antique/junk market run by our friend in Carlton. Most of the latter half of the video takes place in the owner Jimmy's fantastical sculpture garden.
Watch below:
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Flagpole Premieres: Juna Announces New Album, Releases 'On Patience' Video
Local band Juna will release a new album, the follow-up to last year'sHeteroglossia (Flagpole review), on Sept. 27 via Cohosh Records. Titled On Courage, the new album contains six tracks of sprawling, churning gloom-rock.
Drummer Sasha Schilbrack-Cole tells Flagpole the new record was recorded by engineer Ben Wills (Family and Friends, Of the Vine) and mastered by Joel Hatstat. That's the cover art above.
In addition to the band's established influences, the album introduces some exciting new flavors to its already complex post-rock mix. Shades of Laughing Stock-era Talk Talk, for instance, show up in the album's contemplative opener, "On Patience."
Below, watch the video for "On Patience":
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Win Tickets to PARKLIFE, feat. Jake Bugg, The Lone Bellow and More
Jake Bugg
Over in Atlanta, the one-day music festival PARKLIFE takes over Atlantic Station's Central Park on Sunday, Sept. 7, featuring performances by popular British singer-songwriter Jake Bugg, Brooklyn-based folk-country outfit The Lone Bellow, classic rockers The Wild Feathers, California pop singer LP, indie rockers The Weeks and Atlanta group The Shadowboxers.
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On the Rise: Hear the New EP from Waitress
If there's a general trend to speak of happening now in Athens music, it's a move towards the raucous, propulsive, atonal guitar music of mid-'90s Dischord, Touch and Go and their ilk. Bands like Pinecones and The Powder Room have done their part to remind us that rock's not dead, man, and now comes yet another no-nonsense local group eager to get your lazy ass back in the pit.
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Coyotes in Boxes On Their YOWLER EP, Track By Track
Nashville/West Virginia folk-rock outfit Coyotes in Boxes celebrate the release of their YOWLER EP with a free show Friday at The World Famous, where attendees will also receive a free download of the new release. We asked the band to explain the inspiration behind each song on the EP. Plus, check out an exclusive stream of "Astrid," the record's second track.
We’re proud of the work on our first album, and Curtis and Fox, but for our new, six-song EP, we wanted to capture a more eccentric side of the band. YOWLER represents our move to East Nashville from Huntington, WV nicely—the production is slicker and weirder. The songs were inspired as much by cultural archetypes and our own invented mythology than any particular artists that we’ve been listening to lately. Here’s our track-by-track run down on what gave life to YOWLER.
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