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The 2021 Athens Music Gift Guide

Friends, it is indeed that time of year when you've inevitably found someone on your list that is tough to buy for. In our house, it's the incredibly picky guitarist.…

Please Go Vote Dammit

Yes, tis the season where even these irrelevant local music blogs hassle you about going to vote. Did you early vote? Great! Feel free to go on with your day!…

A Short Break

The students have officially fled town and we're now in that weird period where shows are fewer and the heat is cranking into overdrive. Despite being a lifelong Southerner, I…

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Listen to Sloan Brothers “System Update”

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Sloan Simpson as photographed by Sean Dunn Our dearest Sloan Simpson, master of recorded sound, historian of local live shows, and good buddy to all, has created a full fledged…

Forward Forecast: May 2022 Edition

Once again we're here in May and the town is starting to clear out little by little. Soon we may be able to park downtown once more but then again…

Odds N Ends

Someone reminded me that this here blog turns 15 next year so I'm looking into some new platforms, styles, and revamps ahead of that. Just a heads up. GO VOTE.…

Athens Music ’78-’83

I've been delving into some of the oldies for a project I'm working on and the Universe saw fit to show me this through my pal Zeke's facebook page. I…

Athfest Announces (Some of) This Year’s Lineup!

Ok folks. Let's try this again. We've been too long without a proper Athfest, what with the first one disappearing entirely and the second one ending up having to be…

Forward Forecast: Spring Ish Edition

Let's just HOP right into it, shall we? Get it? HOP? Like a bunny? Eh..... Thursday April 14 - Legion Field WUOG's Spring Thing featuring Exit Row, Garden Variety, Reed…

Spring Breaking

I don't have kids and I'm not at UGA anymore so the fact that it is Spring Break for ACC completely passed me by until a parent friend mentioned it.…

The Joy of Music

(Much better photos available via Mike White's site HERE) I knew very little about the band Sparks before watching the Edgar Wright documentary "The Sparks Brothers" on Netflix. I'd heard…