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Live Review: The Jesters' Farewell Show at Georgia Theatre
Photo Credit: Richard Piotrowski
The Jesters filled the stage at The Georgia Theatre Friday night without Harold Williams but with his son, Ben, and other friends.
The Jesters sold out the the Georgia Theatre Friday night, May 30, and they filled up the stage in their farewell performance after 50 years of bringing musical delight to their fans, many of whom have been with them since high school. The show raised a phenomenal $41,000, according to Jester Donny Whitehead, who spearheaded the effort. Proceeds go to fellow Jester Harold Williams, the popular musician/CPA debilitated by a paralyzing fall in November.
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New Louie Larceny LP On the Way; Watch the Album Trailer
Since the demise of Wu-obsessed local hip hop collective Mad Axes, its members have mostly lain low (the notable exception is Austin Darnell, who continues to ply his traditionalist trade with The Darnell Boys). But that doesn't mean they haven't been busy. Recently, chief MC Louie Larceny let it slip to Flagpole that he has a debut solo full-length in the works.
The new stuff is "the dopest material I have ever touched," he says, adding:
This will be a full length album. I am recording it all with Joel Hatstat. Joel is also dropping sonic working-man's-gems all over the record. The album will have many special guests. Along with Jordan, and Joel, guests will include: Ruby the Rabbitfoot, long time Deaf Judge yoga veteran Cubenza, the artist formerly known as "So-Hi", San Francisco based multi-media-artist Mr. Fish and many more… I have been talking with a few former members of Dark Meat (Athens) and Lee Harvey Oswald (Atlanta) to capture some pagan energy on the tape too.
Check out the album trailer below. The clip features a snippet of a tune reportedly titled "White Money," with a beat provided by Jordan Scott of defunct grindcore outfit (and NPR faves) Gripe.
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Win Tickets: King Khan & the Shrines Play 40 Watt Monday
Garage-rocking neo-legends King Khan and the Shrines play the 40 Watt Club tonight, Monday, June 2, and we've got a pair of tickets to give away. To enter, tell us in the comments below why YOU deserve to go for free. We'll choose a winner at 4:30 p.m.
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Stream the New Camper Van Beethoven Album
Photo Credit: Sanna Olsson
Camper Van Beethoven, the long-running, David Lowery-fronted indie outfit, will release its third LP since reuniting a decade ago on June 3 via 429 Records. El Camino Real is described by the band as a counterpart to last year's La Costa Perdida, and features 11 tracks of Cali-inflected pop-rock.
Link to stream after the jump.
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Jay Gonzalez Launches Kickstarter to Fund 'Five-Song Rock Medley,' The Bitter Suite
Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher
Jay Gonzalez is one of the Athens music community's most underheralded treasures, an unfairly talented songsmith who has delighted audiences around town and beyond for years—first as a member of beloved pop-rock groups like Nutria and The Possibilities and more recently as the Drive-By Truckers' secret weapon.
Then came the strange and wonderful LP Mess of Happiness and, shortly after, the nerdy glory that is the acoustic keytar, and Athens suddenly got the picture that Gonzalez was not just an indispensible asset to the scene but some kind of mad, misunderstood genius, a younger Doc Brown, obsessed with time travel but not in the physical sense, determined through his wild-eyed experimentations to return us to the salad days of saccharine soft-rock.
Now comes the news that Gonzalez has completed a 13-minute, five-song power-pop medley called The Bitter Suite, and he wants to release it on limited-edition 180-gram vinyl with a custom etching on the B-side, because of course he does. Thing is, he needs your help to press the damn thing, because pressing records is expensive. And that's where Kickstarter comes in.
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Stream Another Track from k i d s' New Album
Last month, we gave you the first taste of Take Forever, the new album from psych-pop group k i d s (album art above). "were Next Door /III/" hinted at a grimier new direction for the band, and the album's second single, "The Cat," confirms that development.
Stream "The Cat" below:
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On the Rise: Hear a New Recording from Pinecones
Got a sec? Let's talk about Pinecones. The mysterious Athens/Atlanta-split four-piece snuck up on the scene in February with Plays Cosmic Hits, a riff-heavy (and uncharacteristically clean) recording pulled from a WUOG "Live in the Lobby" set and released on local imprint Southern Vision via cassette. (That's the album art above.)
I'm not sure how to describe the group's raspy, repetitious rock and roll other than to say it is no goddamn joke. It's also tremendously exciting. The songs on Play Cosmic Hits cull from bands like Lungfish, Wire and The Ex but feel exhilaratingly fresh—maybe because those sorts of no-nonsense, guitar-centric acts haven't been culled from in a while around these parts. (A certain wife of mine thinks the singer's voice kinda sounds like the dude from Silverchair, which I don't wholly disagree with but also don't wholly dislike.)
Pinecones is currently in the studio working on a proper debut, but you can hear a brand new, rock-solid recording of "Cosmosis," a version of which showed up on Plays Cosmic Hits, below:
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Behind the Scene: Colm O'Reilly & Roger Levine
Welcome to Behind the Scene, a biweekly series where Flagpole and DTproductions profile the people who work offstage to make Athens music matter.
WHO THEY ARE: Colm O’Reilly & Roger Levine
WHAT THEY DO: Sound engineers at the Georgia Theatre
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