• The ins and outs of getting your new band a gig at a local venue

    September 27, 2007

    Have you been wondering why your four-piece band still can't get a gig at any decent venue in Athens? You've dropped off your badly recorded cassette tape at every uptown bar but still no one calls. There is a reason and a solution. To separate your band from the rest, here's a few things you can do.>>

  • Louisiana jazz/trad/Cajun band to play at opera house

    September 27, 2007

    The Red Stick Ramblers will play at Stuart's Opera House tonight at 8.>>

  • Mainstay on local rock-music scene is flying the coop for Southern Cal

    September 27, 2007

    Blackcoin, an experimental indie-rock band that emerged on the Athens music scene over five years ago, is playing its last show at Jackie O's this Saturday before relocating to Southern California in November.>>

  • Local bands thrilled to be on bill with The Ataris

    September 27, 2007

    Cult-classic punk-rockers The Ataris make a stop on their intimate, small-venue tour tonight at the Union. According to a press release, the set list will be mostly older songs from their early records, "Blue Skies," "So Long, Astoria" and "End is Forever." Two local bands, Ohio University alums Six Gallery and El Fabuloso, are opening the show.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    September 27, 2007

    The ups and downs of human existence are a pain in the tush. I suppose that's why the Eastern religions strive for balance. We Americans love our drama and our ecstatic moments. We tend to medicate away the bad things. Since I have run out of my prescription of Repressitol(TM) and the doctor won't give a prescription of Effitol(TM), I guess I'll have to plow through the tough stuff. Oh well.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    September 20, 2007

    I love the fall - from grace, that is. Nothing like picking yourself up and dusting yourself off and jumping back into the game that is life. I also love the fall - autumn, that is. The heat dissipates and my brain starts to work again. It's nice to remember that my brain is occasionally useful - unfortunately not at times like this when I need to be clever and witty. So it goes, as Mr. Vonnegut would have said.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    September 13, 2007

    They - the infamous 'They' - say that "tomorrow is another day." I'll agree, like Fri-day. All the days of the week have "day" in them, so I think it's a stupid saying. Where do They get off saying stupid things like that anyway?>>

  • Veteran pop-rock band stops in Athens during tour promoting new CD

    September 13, 2007

    It's not surprising to figure that Robert Schneider has lofty goals for his band Apples in Stereo's records after noticing that on the new CD, "New Magnetic Wonder," he includes a snippet of a song using a new musical scale that he's invented.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    September 6, 2007

    We here at AMS HQ would like to extend a big hearty welcome to all of the folks just getting into Athens. This here is the Athens Music Scene, a weekly, somewhat entertaining article about the musical options available to you here in Athens and throughout the region. I am a working musician who daylights as a music writer, among other things. My job here is to notify, edify, obfuscate and irritate you into going out to hear live music.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    August 30, 2007

    This life seems to be a risky one, and as a person who is not exactly averse at taking certain risks, I will embolden myself toward this adventure: DJs. At the risk of stirring up a hornet's nest that will sting me like the one I ran over with the tractor this morning, I will let loose with a rant, but first, a preface.>>

  • Free festival celebrates arts and the blues

    August 23, 2007

    This Saturday's 2007 Foothills Blues & Arts Festival in Meigs County is offering both music and art, and all for free.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    August 23, 2007

    Hear ye! Hear ye! I hereby declare myself Emperor Norton III, ruler of Athens, Ohio. In keeping with my new title and the rights included therein, I hereby declare that summer shall not end.>>

  • Morgantown bandleader lets out his Frustrations in latest record

    August 16, 2007

    I first heard Billy Matheny a couple of months ago at a singer/songwriter benefit concert in Marietta. Like the other artists on the bill, Matheny did only two songs, but he managed to stand out even in a lineup of mostly fine performers. I bought a CD from him after the show, and popped it in the deck on the drive home; by the time I got to Athens, I was a hardcore fan.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    August 16, 2007

    Last week's feast of music was enough to sate the average individual - luckily we don't have too many average individuals in this town 'cause there is some other seriously great music to listen to in the upcoming week - including two shows on Tuesday. As the summer draws to a close, I can't say we are done with the picture yet. Please join me as we view the Athens Music Scene.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    August 9, 2007

    If it weren't for the fact that the water in my body is trying - successfully - to merge with the atmosphere, I would think it must be Christmastime in Athens; such are the bounties of our gifts this week.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    August 2, 2007

    In this day and age, we have a tendency to try to shake things off a lot quicker than we perhaps oughta. Life comes at us so fast that we are often at the next thing or two long before we have properly digested the last several things - if we even digested them at all.>>

  • Athen Music Scene

    July 26, 2007

    Last week's Ohio Brew Week culminated in the most successful Boogie on the Bricks ever. Man, do we know how to throw a party. With great bands just lifting people off the ground with their music and the very cooperative weather - not to mention boatloads of finely crafted ales from all over Ohio - I would have to say that we are really getting the hang of this summertime fun sort of thing.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    July 19, 2007

    I've had a lot of life coming at me lately. I'm fine with that; it's expected. I know that as you get older, people tend to die and end up in the hospital and get sick and all of that crap. I mean, Leighton's First Law is: "The only absolute is uncertainty, and I'm not too sure about that." That said, there are a few things that I do have trouble with.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    July 12, 2007

    Hello, folks. Sorry I was delinquent in my duties last week, but sometimes a bug has just gotsta get away. Back and rested and ready to start a new phase of life, I was stricken to find out moments ago of the passing of my friend Spencer Roberts, affectionately known as Spanky.>>

  • Athens Music Scene

    June 28, 2007

    They say that change is the only constant, and sometimes that leads you to look for some spare. Change, that is.>>

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