(via athensview: Veteran. Memorial Park. May 2008.)
It’s Ole! What a beautiful portrait of him!
From the archives. Great blue heron. Memorial park. May 2008.
Jim McKillip on the keys, Chris Enghauser on bass, and Tony McCutchen on drums are PrimeTime Jazz, and they are the house band Wednesdays at 7 at the Porterhouse Grill downtown.
It’s the last day to donate to help out the new locally organized GameCamp! Athens. Here’s the lowdown:
This is a children’s camp set to be launched this month at the University of Georgia (exclamation point is intentional, btw!). GameCamp! is part of a proven program in Texas and Louisiana that teaches participants about video game design, helping them gain 21st century skills in the process. The kids will be designing games based on social issues to help give their work further relevance to the world around them.
Teaching kids mad skills by way of video game design? And with social issues to boot? BRILLIANT!
We’ll be running a story on this written by April Moore Skelton shortly.
Really amazing piece. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this until recently, and I’m glad it’s out there for all to see. Catch more of Harrison’s critical writing and visual art here.
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
via: shorterexcerpts: “Moya” - Godspeed You! Black Emperor — In honour of Canada Day, here’s my favorite song by a Canadian (Montreal, ON) band.
I love the Montreal bands. I hope to visit there one day … soon.
a silver mt. zion - “Stumble then rise on some awkward morning”
Trippy video.
From the archives. Young Kaden Campbell, who skates at the Skatepark of Athens (SPOA) on the east side near Wal-Mart, flies out of the deep end of SPOA’s bowl during an August 2008 competition.
This just in:
R.E.M. will release a live digital EP, entitled Reckoning Songs From The Olympia, through iTunes and all digital service providers on July 7th, 2009.
The EP features live versions of four songs from the band’s beloved second album Reckoning that were recorded during R.E.M.’s “working rehearsals” at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre in July 2007. The track-listing is “Harborcoat,” “Letter Never Sent,” “Second Guessing,” and “Pretty Persuasion.” In its five-star live review, Q magazine said: ” Eleven new songs are played each night, while the remainder are a changing complement of oldies that pointedly contextualize the virgin material.” (http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=585).
The EP will give fans a preview of what’s to come when the band release R.E.M. Live At The Olympia as a two-CD set this fall. R.E.M., which is singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, and bassist Mike Mills, performed a special five-night residency — dubbed “working rehearsals” — at the fabled Irish venue to test out new songs for their 2008 studio album Accelerate, which was produced by Grammy-Award winning producer Jacknife Lee and topped multiple charts its first week of release.
Reckoning Songs From The Olympia comes on the heels of the 25th anniversary of Reckoning, which was released on April 9th, 1984. On June 23rd, the band released a deluxe edition of the album, featuring a bonus disc with eight of its 10 songs recorded live in Chicago in 1984, to celebrate the occasion.
Watch Maria Taylor’s Tiny Desk Concert
The Omaha [by way of Athens]-based folk-pop duo Azure Ray was built around the tension between its two very different halves: the playful experimentation of Orenda Fink and the straight-to-the-heart melancholy of Maria Taylor. Ever since Azure Ray went on hiatus in 2004, Fink and Taylor have released solo records and side projects — Fink popped up as half of O+S earlier this year, while both have performed in Now It’s Overhead and Bright Eyes — that play to their respective strengths. In the case of Taylor, that’s meant three terrific albums (11:11, Lynn Teeter Flower and the new LadyLuck) that bleed wistful beauty.
Azure Ray just announced a short reunion tour, with an album on the way thereafter, so it’s a good time to revel in the quiet, sweet sadness of Taylor’s solo side. It’s clear from this Tiny Desk Concert, recorded without amplification at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen while Bob was on vacation, that Taylor has never made a go of it as a busker: In terms of volume, she’s closer to Laura Gibson than Tom Jones. But hers is a wonderfully warm presence, and the setting brings out her songs’ winsome essence.
This three-song set features a pair of highlights of LadyLuck — the title track and the first single, “Time Lapse Lifeline” — before closing with a devastating song from Lynn Teeter Flower. Given a spare acoustic reading, “Clean Getaway” closes the set on a tender, reflective note. Amplification wouldn’t have done it justice.
Nice video from Richard Hamm featuring some of Saturday’s bands at AthFest —
Also check out some of our audio recordings — through the soundboard — by way of Allie Goolrick at onlineathens.com/athfest
