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Win Tickets: Washed Out Plays Georgia Theatre Tuesday

Local dude Ernest Greene brings his Washed Out project to the Georgia Theatre stage tomorrow night (Tuesday, Sept. 24), and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away.

To win, leave a comment below with why you deserve to go for free. We’ll choose a winner Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

UPDATE: A winner has been chosen. See comments below. Thanks to all for entering!

From this week’s paper:

At his house just outside Athens, Ernest Greene is straight-up lounging. After showing off his basement studio, with the dew-dappled picture window that looks out on an idyllic patch of woods (two deer soon arrive; paging Thomas Kinkade), he sits on a comfy couch in his gorgeous living room with its vaulted ceilings, soft-rock titans America barely blaring from the stereo. A swimming pool beckons just outside the back door. This is exactly where one might expect to find Ernest Greene.

Greene’s bedroom-pop project Washed Out began garnering breathless, hyperbolic buzz back in 2009 on the strength of Life of Leisure, an EP of homemade synth-pop recordings, and one track in particular, the druggy, ethereal “Feel It All Around.” The sound, and that of Greene’s compatriots, like Neon Indian and Toro Y Moi, was jokingly dubbed “chillwave” by a music blogger; perhaps unfairly, the term stuck. While many of its contemporaries have slowly faded from the collective consciousness (remember Memory Tapes?) Washed Out has managed to endure.

Read the rest of our cover story on Washed Out.

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