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Future, Travis Porter, Curren$y to Play 'Back 2 School Jam' at Stegeman
Future
Several national hip hop heavyweights will play UGA's Stegeman Coliseum on Saturday. Aug. 23 as part of what is being billed as a "Back 2 School Jam."
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The Weekly Three: Joyce Manor, Stephen Steinbrink, Twin Peaks
Stephen Steinbrink
This week's new discoveries from the great beyond:
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Watch Vice's 'Made in Athens' Video
Patterson Hood
Filmmaker (and former Athens resident) Lance Bangs is working with Vice music blog Noisey on a Budweiser-sponsored video series titled "Made in America." Each episode spotlights a different U.S. city, with a particular focus on said city's music scene.
Last month, Bangs and crew journeyed to Athens to shoot footage for a Classic City episode. Today, Noisey premiered the end result.
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How R.E.M. Registered Millions of Voters
R.E.M.'s seminal 1991 album Out of Time led to an explosion in young people registering to vote, as Slate writers Whitney Jones and Roman Mars explained Friday.
"[N]o album has had as large an effect on politics in the United States as R.E.M.'s Out of Time," they wrote.
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EZFM No Longer Available on Local Airwaves
Fans of easy listening station EZFM ("Music To Your Years"), which has been broadcasting locally at WNEE 88.1 and 89.9 FM since summer 2012, got the sad news earlier today that the station will no longer occupy space on the Athens-area radio dial.
From a post on the EZFM Facebook page:
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Flagpole Premieres! Don Chambers: 'Grow Back Into the Ground' Video
After releasing a quiet and meditative solo album, 2013's A Sudden Loss of Elevation, local songwriter Don Chambers assembled a crack backing group and got weird. Disquietude, out earlier this year, was an unwieldy collection of textured folk tunes, industrial noise pieces and other back-room experimentations.
As a whole, it sounded a bit like a mind slowly unraveling, and the video for "Grow Back Into the Ground," which you can stream below, doesn't do much to restore confidence in Chambers' psychic fortitude. The stark, creepy clip matches up nicely with the song's haunted folk vibe.
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Behind the Scene: Jason Thrasher
Welcome to Behind the Scene, a monthly series where Flagpole and DTproductions profile the people who work offstage to make Athens music matter.
WHO HE IS: Jason Thrasher
WHAT HE DOES: Owner, Thrasher Photo
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Fuze and BuzzFeed Want You to Visit the 'Athens Theatre'
From a recent sponsored post on content farm BuzzzzzFeeeeeeed. Something is off.
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