Blog Topic: Upcoming in Athens

Culture Briefs: Athens Slingshot Accepting Submissions for 2014

By Gabe Vodicka | September 11, 2013 3:15pm

Athens Slingshot, "the new festival of music, electronic arts and tech in Athens, GA," plans to return for a second year in 2014, with hopes that a state economic development grant will help it expand from last year's impressively envisioned but under-attended event.

On March 21–22 of next year (that's the weekend after UGA's spring break and SXSW), the fest will again take over downtown Athens, spotlighting local, national and international musicians, artists and innovators.

Today, festival organizers announced they are taking submissions in the music and art categories. The deadline for art submissions is Nov. 1; no deadline has yet been posted for music.

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Homedrone: Echo Starts Live Music This Weekend

By Gabe Vodicka | September 6, 2013 11:03am

On Tuesday, Echo, the vegan restaurant that took over the Washington Street space recently vacated by Farm 255, opened for business. Among the questions surrounding the transition was whether the new restaurant would continue Farm's tradition of hosting late-night live music and, more specifically, whether the new owners would keep Mercer West, who has been responsible for assembling some of the most interesting bills in Athens over the past near-decade, on as talent buyer.

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Homedrone: Wanna Swim, Drink Free Beer and Be in a Lera Lynn Video? Of Course You Do. Here's How

By Gabe Vodicka | August 30, 2013 11:29am

Hey, slick. Wanna have a pool party? With free beer? And, oh yeah, be in a Lera Lynn music video, too? YES. YES YOU DO. On Wednesday, Film Athens tweeted the following image:

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Homedrone: ACC Library Seeking Live at the Library Performers for 2014

By Gabe Vodicka | August 30, 2013 10:52am

The first Sunday of each month, the Athens-Clarke County Library hosts a concert in its Appleton Auditorium. The shows are a cool way for local bands to share their tunes with folks who might not normally be out and about at the downtown clubs. Plus: books!

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Homedrone: Wiz Khalifa, Reptar to Play Rivalry Music Festival Sept. 6

By Gabe Vodicka | August 29, 2013 4:21pm

A mysterious joint venture between Committee Entertainment and AMP—two organizations also involved in the similarly college-minded Life in Color party series—the Rivalry Music Festival will take place next Friday, Sept. 6 on land owned by Spring Valley EcoFarms. (That's the weekend of the South Carolina game, in case you were wondering.) The headliner for the Athens event? Pittsburgh weed-rap phenom Wiz Khalifa.

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Homedrone: Watch the Album Trailer for Shonna Tucker's A Tell All

By Gabe Vodicka | August 28, 2013 11:22am

The debut record from Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy, A Tell All, is out Oct. 15. It's gonna be good. You can stream three tracks from it here, and pre-order that shit over here.

Below, watch the album trailer, in which Tucker talks about her writing process and the new record ("I think everyone's gonna dig it") and the band runs through some of them sweet, sweet tunes.

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In the Loop: The World Famous Helps Out Burned Mama's Boy Workers

By Blake Aued | August 27, 2013 12:03pm

One of the great things about Athens is the way the community steps up in times of need. The case of Drew Jacoby and Terrance Statiras is no different.

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Culture Briefs: Enter to Win a Pretty Awesome 'Weekend in Athens, GA'

By Gabe Vodicka | August 20, 2013 12:36pm

Neutral Milk Hotel

If you've been dreaming of a staycation, it doesn't get much better than the prize at the heart of Nuçi's Space's 2013 Rock 'N' Raffle. Along with two tickets to the very sold-out Neutral Milk Hotel show at the 40 Watt Club on Thursday, Oct. 24, the winner will receive a pair of tickets to see J. Roddy Walston and the Business at the Georgia Theatre that Friday and a pair of tix for Father John Misty at that same venue the following night.

Wowee! But that's not all.

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Homedrone: This is Not a Drill: Television to Play Athens Nov. 7

By Gabe Vodicka | August 20, 2013 10:45am

Well, ain't this a thing to beat all things. Just when we thought the 40 Watt had nailed down the best fall lineup in town, the Georgia Theatre goes and pulls a fast one. On Thursday, Nov. 7, legendary NYC post-punk outfit Television will perform in Athens as one of only three North American shows—the band's first set of U.S. dates since 2007. (Three-quarters of the band's original lineup are still intact; the group is now minus guitarist/songwriter Richard Lloyd.)

Tickets go on sale this Friday, Aug. 23 at 10 a.m. via the Georgia Theatre site. Listen to the band's landmark 1977 record Marquee Moon in its entirety below.

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Grub Notes: Catch 22 Gastropub to Open on Epps Bridge

By Hillary Brown | August 14, 2013 4:00pm

Of all the things most likely to open in the former Choo Choo space on Epps Bridge, a gastropub was probably not on your mental list, but Catch 22 is set to do exactly that in the near future.

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