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Our friends over at Orange Twin will be launching their radio division : WXOT / 104.1FM – The official sign on date is not yet known but is believed to be within the next 18 months.
Via Orange Twin : “[We’re] currently assembling equipment and getting it placed on the tower near Athens, GA – Tax deductible donations can be made on behalf of WXOT to Common Ground Athens”
Stay Tooned for more exciting developments
WXOT Facebook Page
Orange Twin Site
THE RODNEY KINGS are kicking off an 11-date East-ghost Tour starting Friday night at-the-soon to be closing, FARM 255 in Athens GA. Supporting acts for the classic city date include The Cryptides, NATE and the NIGHTMARES and MansTrash. Show starts at 11pm. Catch them during the next 2 weeks in Athens, Augusta, Chapel Hill, Virginia Beach, Richmond, DC, Philly and Brooklyn. Watch and Share this video of them fuzzin-owt the Caledonia Lounge back in June :
RODNEY KINGS TOUR DATES : Official RSVP page
ATHENS fri july 12 @farm255
AUGUSTA tues july 16 @soul bar w/ kvids, koko beware
CHAPEL HILL wed july 17 @nightlight w/ priests, flesh wounds
VIRGINIA BEACH VACATION thurs july 18
RICHMOND fri july 19 @yerb w/milkstains, nervous ticks
DC sat july 20 tba
DC sun july 21 rodney kings visit our founding fathers
PHILLY mon july 22 cheesesteaks
PHILLY tues july 23 @50th and hazel w/ nick morrison
BROOKLYN wed july 24 @living gallery w/ tom blacklung
and the smokestacks, dead tenants
ATHENS fri july 26 @little kings SLOPFEST 2013
w/everybody
Snippet of Lake HARTWELL, circa 2008/2012.
Test ROLL / Produced by WJAY GFF
WAX / THE HUMMS / “Close Your Ears”
Athens GA “Scooby Pop” outfit known as “THE ICE CREAMS” have released a music video in percolation to their long-over due Gypsy single “Everyone’s Got A Skeleton“, slated for release later this year.
The skeleton song in particular is a chop-charmed blend of 50’s pop that could be collecting dust on the shores of Leso Island, bound by it’s barbaric beat.
Folks first caught sound of the band via Myface in 2008 and later, making their debut on 2012’s GYPNOSIS compilation.
Watch and Share THE ICE CREAMS / “Everyone’s Got A Skeleton” Video :
Filmed 2012 at GYPSY FARM sound stage 666 in Lavonia, Ga
There’s a gruesome treat brewing up for you and your finest feline, this Saturday night at the GO BAR on Prince Ave. Opening the show, we have MOTHER THE CAR (fresh with stacks of their new Gypsy EP!) followed by our mothers from other utters, UNCLE SKUNKLE will be dropping in from Murfreesboro, TN to raise hell (with a temper to match!) Don’t miss their satanic version of SURFIN BYRD! Closing out the magical evening will be Athens’ originals CARS CAN BE BLUE reminding you that love can be pain, pain can be fun and fun can be blue, what are you gonna do. Don’t miss Nate Mitchell’s organic Belt-Whipping.
Doors 9 / Show 10
RSVP to the OFFICIAL EVENT PHAGE
Check out CCBB’s video of “Do You Remember”
At the lovely FARM 255 on Washington st in Athens GA, this Fryday FryDAY FRYDAY March Eighth.
Creeping into the year [2013], conjured up from the thick Georgia fog, we are pleased to bring you the OLD SMOKEY 7″ [GF005]
“Soothing”, “Strange” and “Stringy” could be the first impression of veteran gypsy ears, geared and callused from our previous “Rock, Raw and Pop” releases, this [OS 7″] marks the dizzy dawn of what we like to call our “country Strange” sector, by-way of the Gory Gospel truth being, that this fine piece of wax was summoned up, smoked out -if you will, in the summer months of 2012 by Athens native, Jim Willingham (Ham1, Infinity Cat Recordings).
Nestled comfortably behind a banjo, matched with his lyrical approach (for lack of more fitting slang) – melodies are plucked straight out of the mind’s darkest neighborhoods. Fellow stringers Jacob Morris, John Fernandes, Jason Trahan and Robert Lomax join in together, forming a mysterious musical cloud composing of strings, woodwinds and a 70+ year aged bass drum head.
Old Smokey’s debut 7″ release bares three-KUTS with Side A’s opener “Lazy Eye”, which sounds as if it were originally featured on “The Wickerman” Soundtrack (1973), but some how, rather found itself reincarnated -falling through the laws of time. . . and landing on your turntable, here in this strange modern world.
Allow your senses to fall into the cradle that is “The Natural”, the instrumental stand out of the release, hypnotizing at moments signaled ahead by bells, haunted by whistles.
The B side is totally consumed in the whopping 5+ min trance titled “Weeping Willow” – perhaps the most somber of the the three selections, featuring rhythmic “trap-doors of change” that complete the knot in this tangled memory of bliss.
Special editions of the 7″ will include an inner CD Sleeve (with art designed by Fernandes’ son) that includes Exxxtra tracks for your own exxxtended adventure into the mystical haze that is Old Smokey.
WJAY / Jan 18th 2013
BUY THE 7″ from GF store
ORRR why not go get one from the band in person?! That’s right chyld, they’re playing the 7″ RELEASE PARTY tonight at Athens’ newest venue, The World Famous, more info below :
As we approach the holy-day of LOVE, why not make your way down to Little Kings, this Thursday / February 14th (and drag your date along too!) — for an ALL OWT-CALL OWT of every monster ready to mash! Indie South Fair is presenting the Handmade Lovers / Zombie PROM this year, which begins at 4pm (prom at 9) and features Handmade Art, Up-Doo-Doins (courtesy of Honey’s), DJ ZZ Ryder, Tarot Card Reading, Zombie Make Up specialist. . .the list really goes on and on. . . find ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW by summoning :
“It’s time for the 6th annual ZOMBIE PROM! Raid the thrift stores and dress to depress! Fabulous trophies will be handed out, as always.” – ISF / Athens
Featuring Live Performances by:
MONSOON
The De Lux Interiors (Cramps cover band, TRIPPLE XXX!)
The HUMMS
Nasty Jams by Chamber Music
Valentines Day / 200013!
BE MY, BE MY BABYY
On the patio of Flicker Theatre, Johnny Tumble had fumbled his White Russian, resulting in an electric explosion of ivory that rained down on Zeb’s left slipper. As clockwork, we stumbled inside to catch The New Sound of Numbers‘ set, which was riddled with fiddles of the groove that left us in a trance and feeling some what tribal. Quickly out into the 31 degree Athens night and (approximately) 13 giant steps to the left and you will arrive at the 40 Watt club, and on this particular night they are hosting The Music Tapes’ performance of their “Traveling Imaginary” touring eXXtravagansa.
Julian, Robbie, and friends set up a circus tent inside the club, complete with flying bells, moons, horns, whistles and the bowing of a banjo. God help any poor soul that gets hold to a bad trip and much bliss can be expected to those settled comfortably underneath the ‘big top’ as something truly interesting and remarkable is happening before you. Then, all of a sudden – you count down from 5 and it’s over, the lights are out and the tent is gone.
Catch The Music Tapes and their Traveling Imaginary show soon in and town near you // TOUR DATES
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