Music News & Gossip
Apr 9, 2003
Threats & Promises
Music News And Gossip
Another week has passed and the big wheel keeps on turnin'. Somebody cue up Outkast's "Bombs Over Baghdad" and let's get this show on the road...
The Fix is In: After not hearing too much from the group for a while, I finally caught up with The Sunshine Fix. Lead gangsta Bill Doss let it be known that the band is finishing up its newest, as-of-yet unnamed album and will be turning it to the label, Kindercore/Telegraph Co., in the coming weeks. Doss said this new album will be much more of a band-oriented record than the debut, A Future History Of The Sunshine Fix, which was more of a solo record featuring Doss and a huge ensemble of characters. The platter should drop sometime in the fall and while there are no solid tour plans yet, we can all hope, can't we? In other news, the band has plans to work with local trapeze troupe The Canopy Flyers, formerly known as The Trapeze Tarts, in a to-be-announced-later collaboration.
Hopefully, Our Guys Won: Local band Annaray kicked booty at a show at Atlanta's Cotton Club recently with acts The Black Lips, Treeport, Grayson Manor, Skerv and Pageant. The purpose of the gig was to get people to vote one of the bands onto the Miller Lite/99X main-stage at Atlanta's Music Midtown festival. Hopefully, our guys will get to play, but this really reminds me of that scene in Hedwig And The Angry Inch where Hedwig gets to play the festival but on the 612th stage. Either way, we're pulling for them and you can see the results for yourself at www.musicmidtown.com.
Digital Moneymaking, It's The Newest Thing: Local singer/songwriter Nathan Sheppard has released a new song, "Carried Away," which is available for download at a price of 99 cents. Not quite a dollar, but close enough. Sheppard, who has gained a pretty huge following over the years in Athens, made headlines this past year via the UGA booster song "Damn Good Dawg." While some could argue convincingly that a dollar would be better spent by inserting it in a stripper's garter or buying a lottery ticket, I understand that Sheppard needs to make dat cheeze and that's okay by me. If you wanna catch Nathan Sheppard live in the near future, head on out to Eddie's Attic in Decatur on April 11 or Chip's Roadhouse in Winder on April 17 and tell 'em I sent ya. For more info, visit www.nathansheppard.com.
How Low Can A Punk Get?: After emerging through a haze of smoke and pizza delivery boxes, Atlanta activist Paul Cornwell gave us the heads-(get it?)-up on the upcoming Great Atlanta Pot Festival. The festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year and will take place in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, where on Sunday, April 20, it will enjoy a real stage for the first time in almost a decade. City and park officials have been loathe to grant organizers any facilities in the past, but seem to have conceded this time around. Entertainment will be provided The Peter Tosh Legacy, featuring Tosh's son Andrew. Also on the bill are Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz, who've been turning heads lately. Notable among the many speakers who will attend is former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Nannette Garrett who isn't really a compelling speaker, but is a spectacle nonetheless. Organizer Cornwell, who previously owned Atlanta's wonderful, legendary - and now sadly defunct - punk mecca The Metroplex created the festival and has been extremely active in the marijuana-legalization push for a long time. For more information, call 404-522-2267 or visit www.worldcamp.org/local.htm.
England Backs US-Led Rock And Roll Coalition: British music rag New Musical Express have chimed in with praise for one of Athens' most popular bands. In the most recent issue, NME kicked down the good word for The Agenda by saying, "The world would be a much better place if more bands made records like this." Pretty big words there, bub. The review is in reference to the bands new English single released by the Must Destroy Music label. Congrats, guys, and if they turn on you later just remember one thing: They turned on Steely Dan and Rod Stewart also, but never on Queen. Hmm...
Waxes Of Evil: London-via-Athens DJ/producer extraordinaire Brian Burton AKA Danger Mouse has teamed up with rap group Jemini to produce the track "Bush Boys." While the music on the track is undeniably solid, as all Danger Mouse productions have been, the lyrics aren't quite as Bush-bashing as campus radicals might have hoped for. Not at all anti-American, the song is really a series of questions expressing wonderment about the current state of word affairs the world is in today. The full track is available free for download at www.geocities.com/eldorado10977/lpversion.mp3. Even with a cruddy dial-up system it's worth the wait.
It's All About the Junk in the Trunk: While some rappers confront world events, Atlanta rapper Freak Nasty is gonna be turnin' heads this summer when his TV program "The Freak Nasty Show" hits the airwaves. Currently he is busy filming episodes all around the Southeast. The program is intended to be something akin to "Mad TV" and "The Howard Stern Show." Producers hope to have the show air "nationwide on different TV broadcasting networks." While this shows a marked ignorance of how broadcast licenses work, it's also kind of cute in its enthusiasm. Anyone even remotely familiar with Freak Nasty's, erm, art, will know to expect lots of rump-shakin' honeys in the mix, too.
O, Eddie Vedder: It seems that polite, well-groomed rock and rollers Third Eye Blind are trying to stick it to the ticketing juggernaut that is Ticketmaster. The band, who will perform at the 40 Watt Club on Wednesday, April 16, are only selling tickets to shows via eBay. You can bid on tickets or buy them outright on the web site, but they will not be available any other way, not even, according to 40 Watt owner Velena Vego, at the door the night of the show. The exact address of the ticket sale is members.ebay.com/aboutme/3eb-etix. [Chris Hassiotis]
And I'm out. Keep it pouring in and remember that I need all your info at least 10 days before the issue you wish to see your news featured in hits the street. (Simply: Flagpole comes out on Tuesday, so get your news to me by two Fridays earlier.) Stroke it to the east and stroke it to the west via email to music@flagpole.com, voicemail at 549-2360; via fax at 548-8981; or by post at P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603.
Gordon Lamb
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Hopefully, Our Guys Won: Local band Annaray kicked booty at a show at Atlanta's Cotton Club recently with acts The Black Lips, Treeport, Grayson Manor, Skerv and Pageant. The purpose of the gig was to get people to vote one of the bands onto the Miller Lite/99X main-stage at Atlanta's Music Midtown festival. Hopefully, our guys will get to play, but this really reminds me of that scene in Hedwig And The Angry Inch where Hedwig gets to play the festival but on the 612th stage. Either way, we're pulling for them and you can see the results for yourself at www.musicmidtown.com.
Digital Moneymaking, It's The Newest Thing: Local singer/songwriter Nathan Sheppard has released a new song, "Carried Away," which is available for download at a price of 99 cents. Not quite a dollar, but close enough. Sheppard, who has gained a pretty huge following over the years in Athens, made headlines this past year via the UGA booster song "Damn Good Dawg." While some could argue convincingly that a dollar would be better spent by inserting it in a stripper's garter or buying a lottery ticket, I understand that Sheppard needs to make dat cheeze and that's okay by me. If you wanna catch Nathan Sheppard live in the near future, head on out to Eddie's Attic in Decatur on April 11 or Chip's Roadhouse in Winder on April 17 and tell 'em I sent ya. For more info, visit www.nathansheppard.com.
How Low Can A Punk Get?: After emerging through a haze of smoke and pizza delivery boxes, Atlanta activist Paul Cornwell gave us the heads-(get it?)-up on the upcoming Great Atlanta Pot Festival. The festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year and will take place in Atlanta's Piedmont Park, where on Sunday, April 20, it will enjoy a real stage for the first time in almost a decade. City and park officials have been loathe to grant organizers any facilities in the past, but seem to have conceded this time around. Entertainment will be provided The Peter Tosh Legacy, featuring Tosh's son Andrew. Also on the bill are Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz, who've been turning heads lately. Notable among the many speakers who will attend is former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Nannette Garrett who isn't really a compelling speaker, but is a spectacle nonetheless. Organizer Cornwell, who previously owned Atlanta's wonderful, legendary - and now sadly defunct - punk mecca The Metroplex created the festival and has been extremely active in the marijuana-legalization push for a long time. For more information, call 404-522-2267 or visit www.worldcamp.org/local.htm.
England Backs US-Led Rock And Roll Coalition: British music rag New Musical Express have chimed in with praise for one of Athens' most popular bands. In the most recent issue, NME kicked down the good word for The Agenda by saying, "The world would be a much better place if more bands made records like this." Pretty big words there, bub. The review is in reference to the bands new English single released by the Must Destroy Music label. Congrats, guys, and if they turn on you later just remember one thing: They turned on Steely Dan and Rod Stewart also, but never on Queen. Hmm...
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It's All About the Junk in the Trunk: While some rappers confront world events, Atlanta rapper Freak Nasty is gonna be turnin' heads this summer when his TV program "The Freak Nasty Show" hits the airwaves. Currently he is busy filming episodes all around the Southeast. The program is intended to be something akin to "Mad TV" and "The Howard Stern Show." Producers hope to have the show air "nationwide on different TV broadcasting networks." While this shows a marked ignorance of how broadcast licenses work, it's also kind of cute in its enthusiasm. Anyone even remotely familiar with Freak Nasty's, erm, art, will know to expect lots of rump-shakin' honeys in the mix, too.
O, Eddie Vedder: It seems that polite, well-groomed rock and rollers Third Eye Blind are trying to stick it to the ticketing juggernaut that is Ticketmaster. The band, who will perform at the 40 Watt Club on Wednesday, April 16, are only selling tickets to shows via eBay. You can bid on tickets or buy them outright on the web site, but they will not be available any other way, not even, according to 40 Watt owner Velena Vego, at the door the night of the show. The exact address of the ticket sale is members.ebay.com/aboutme/3eb-etix. [Chris Hassiotis]
And I'm out. Keep it pouring in and remember that I need all your info at least 10 days before the issue you wish to see your news featured in hits the street. (Simply: Flagpole comes out on Tuesday, so get your news to me by two Fridays earlier.) Stroke it to the east and stroke it to the west via email to music@flagpole.com, voicemail at 549-2360; via fax at 548-8981; or by post at P.O. Box 1027, Athens, GA 30603.
Gordon Lamb
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