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January City Skies 09 Electronic Music Event

The City Skies 09 Electronic Music events showcase the region's best electronic musicians at our favorite venue, Kavarna, for listening to a great range of electronic music styles in a chillout environment with a crowd of appreciative musicians and fans.

The next City Skies 09 event will be held on Saturday, January 10, 2009, with performances starting at 8pm. Confirmed performers include:

The Synthetix
Klimchak
Kevin "KalimbaMan" Spears
Sensitive Chaos

More information on the events and performers can be found at cityskies.com and the City Skies MySpace page. Tickets for all events can be found at Brown Paper Tickets here.


Future show dates include (shows start at 8pm):

February 14th, 2009: Sensitive Chaos, Diskeyes-SaNa-Positron, Don Hassler, Burning Artist (Sale)

March 14th, 2009: Sensitive Chaos, Michael Wynne, Mi.T-Richard Coker, The Subliminator

April 11, 2009: Harold Timms, The Fabric, Indigovox, Sensitive Chaos

May 7 – 9, 2009: City Skies 09 Festival featuring Broken Symmetry, citizenGreen, Richard Devine & Joshua Kay, Different Skies All-Stars (Jim Combs, Kevin Haller, Jonathan Mills, John Rossi III), Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel, Earthgirl, Don Hassler, Klimchak & Paul Vnuk Jr, Richard Lainhart (workshop and performance), Mark Mahoney, Masik, Shane Morris & Kevin Spears, Ivan Schwartz, and Xeriod Entity (Howard Moscovitz, Greg Waltzer, Bill Fox)

And if you can't attend in person, all City Skies performances are broadcast live on StillStream.com (on iTunes radio, look under Ambient).
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Atlanta Songwriters Series 2009

The Atlanta Songwriters Series at Kavarna in the historic Oakhurst area of Decatur happens on Saturday nights, from 8pm-midnight. The Atlanta Songwriters showcase series is a regular performance event for all types of music, including folk, alternative, electronic, americana, jazz, blues, and others.

Kavarna is a great location for ATL Songwriters, with more room for fans and performers, a great menu of tasty and inexpensive food, a nice wine and beer menu, and a large selection of specialty coffees and teas. Kavarna is a no-smoking venue with a cool vibe and great sound for all ages. Future shows include:

Saturday, January 3, 2009: Just-Jo (Jo-Anne Carlson), Xela Zaid, Lavender & the Old Folk, Paul Hedges
Saturday, January 10, 2009: City Skies Electronic Music Event- The Synthetix, Klimchak, Kevin "KalimbaMan" Spears, Sensitive Chaos
Saturday, January 17, 2009: Eskimo Kiss Records Presents Mary O. Harrison, Ramon Wals, Andy Bilinski, Tracy Clark
Saturday, January 24, 2009: Michael C. Smith, Alan Dynin Trio, Morgan Rowe
Saturday, January 31, 2009: Brad Jones/Muleskinner, JL McGee, Brothers Marier, Sea of Existance

The Atlanta Songwriters Series @ Kavarna
8pm-12am
http://www.myspace.com/atlsongwriters

Kavarna is located at:
707 East Lake Drive
Decatur GA 30030
http://www.myspace.com/instantkavarna

Saturday, February 7, 2009: Sean McMorris, Heidi Pollyea, Sean Kagalis, Jason Waller
Saturday, February 14, 2009: City Skies Electronic Music Event- Sensitive Chaos CD Release Party, Diskeyes-SaNa-Positron, Don Hassler, Burning Artist (Sale)
Saturday, February 21, 2009: Brad Jones, Mule Skinner MacQueen, Cue The Sun, Dylan Kight
Saturday, February 28, 2009: Marcellus, Fisheye, Haji Basim, Max Forstater

Saturday, March 7, 2009: Heiskell (former lead singer for the JudyBats)
Saturday, March 14, 2009: City Skies Electronic Music Event- Sensitive Chaos, Michael Wynne, Mi.T.-oR, The Subliminator
Saturday, March 21, 2009: Marcellus, Wayne Fishell Experiment
Saturday, March 28, 2009: Brad Jones, Mule Skinner MacQueen, Allison Weiss, Barrow Boys

Saturday, April 4, 2009: The Good Graces, Dare Dukes Band, & Mike Boutté
Saturday, April 11, 2009: City Skies Electronic Music Event- Harold Timms, The Fabric, Indigovox, Sensitive Chaos
Saturday, April 18, 2009: Marcellus, Vito, Lindsay Appel, Dylan Kight
Saturday, April 25, 2009: Brad Jones, Mule Skinner MacQueen Read more!

Athens Pop Fest, August 12 - 16, 2008

The annual Athens PopFest, produced and presented by HHBTM Records, is more than an event where people passively consume entertainment. Now in its fifth year, the Athens PopFest has proven to be both a facilitator of and catalyst for a renewed international community spirit among discerning rock and pop fans.

International fans plan their entire Summer around the event and fans from the US often travel hundreds (for some, thousands) of miles to attend. Sure, they want to see the bands but what separates the Athens PopFest from the average summer festival is that each year friendships are made and deepened. It is, in many ways, an annual reunion which adds more 'family' members each year. Hence, the festival has been referred to for years as "Indie-Rock/Indie-Pop Summer Camp". From our first year which drew 800 attendees to last year which drew over 3,500 the Athens PopFest continues to grow exponentially in both size of audience and quality of entertainment presented.


What we have always sought to do with the Athens PopFest is present a high quality, multi-day and night event where people not only see their favorite bands but also those bands they would never get a chance to see otherwise; Where they meet and form lasting bonds with people and fans from around the world, each of whom has decided to make Athens a do-not-miss destination.

Full festival passes are on sale now in the Athens Popfest Store.

Tuesday, August 12
Cine
8:00 PM - Fish Schticks
8:35 PM - Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars
9:10 PM - Allison Weiss
9:45 PM - Titans of Filth

Wednesday, August 13
Little Kings
2:00 PM - Boy Genius
2:35 PM - the Hotwalls
3:15 PM - Amo Joy!
4:00 PM - Afternoon Naps
4:45 PM - Nervous Systems (not yet confirmed)
5:30 PM - Oh Sanders
8:00 PM - Supercluster
8:35 PM - Blondie-Grunt
9:10 PM - Nana Grizol
9:45 PM - Hot Pants Romance
10:20 PM - the Coathangers
11:00 PM - Whistling School for Boys
11:30 PM - Judi Chicago
12:00 AM - Spring Tigers
12:35 AM - the Selmanaires
01:15 AM - We Versus the Shark

Thursday, August 14
The 40 Watt Club
8:00 PM - Patience Please
8:30 PM - Velcro Stars
9:00 PM - Bunnygrunt
9:30 PM - Cars Can Be Blue
10:15 PM - Great Lakes
11:00 PM - the Love Letter Band
11:45 PM - Dark Meat
12:30 AM - Roky Erickson & the Explosives

Little Kings
2:00 PM - That's My Daughter
2:40 PM - Little Birds
3:20 PM - A Faulty Chromosome
4:00 PM - Panda Riot
4:45 PM - Averkiou

Flicker Theater and Bar
6:00 PM - Night Driving in Small Towns
6:45 PM - Good Graces
7:30 PM - Mary O Harrison

Caledonia
8:30 PM - the Ocelots
9:30 PM - the Besties
10:30 PM - Twin Tigers
11:30 PM - Dead Confederate

Friday, August 15
The 40 Watt Club
8:00 PM - Cryptacize
8:30 PM - Secret History
9:00 PM - the Faintest Ideas
9:30 PM - Ruby Isle
10:00 PM - the Buddy System
10:30 PM - the Lolligags
11:00 PM - Fishboy
11:30 PM - the Apes
12:15 AM - Boyracer
01:00 AM - TBA

Little Kings
2:00 PM - Railcars
2:40 PM - Tendaberry
3:20 PM - One Happy Island
4:00 PM - Hat Company
4:30 PM - Fat Planet

Flicker Theater and Bar
6:00 PM - Oh Fortuna
6:45 PM - Noisycrane
7:30 PM - Gospel Gossip

Caledonia
8:30 PM - Laminated Cat
9:30 PM - Ham 1
10:30 PM - My Teenage Stride
11:30 PM - Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies

Saturday, August 16
The 40 Watt Club
8:00 PM - the Smittens
8:30 PM - Big Fresh
9:00 PM - Thee American Revolution
9:30 PM - Pipes You See Pipes You Don't
10:00 PM - Andy from Denver
10:30 PM - Casper & the Cookies
11:00 PM - Circulatory System
12:00 AM - Elf Power
01:00 AM - the Music Tapes

Little Kings
2:00 PM - Lognhalsmottagningen
2:15 PM - Bad Animal
3:00 PM - the Young Untold
3:30 PM - Bright Lights
4:15 PM - American Cheeseburger

Flicker Theater and Bar
6:00 PM - Oh Fortuna
6:45 PM - Marc with a C
7:30 PM - Hot Lava

Caledonia
8:30 PM - Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
9:30 PM - Thrushes
10:30 PM - the Sterns
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Four Questions: Kim Ware of The Good Graces

Kim Ware has operated an indie label called eskimo kiss records since 2000 as well as played drums in countless bands (most recently Mary O. Harrison and Chickens and Pigs, and best known for her time spent in the Wilmington, NC indie trio Pacer), and now also fronts The Good Graces, which she started in early 2007 after acquiring a $90 guitar from a flea market. Ephemeral Radio checks in with the indie powerhouse.

Question 1: What's up with The Good Graces?

Wow, lots. But I'll give you the short version and resist trying to be clever and/or saying something silly like "fighting crimes." We're playing shows... a few coming up in town at Kavarna and also in Athens for the annual Athens Popfest. Also releasing our debut CD Sunset Over Saxapahaw this fall.


Question 2: What's it like going from the back of the drum kit to the front of the band singing and playing guitar?

Oh wow it is SO different. I had gotten really comfortable on drums, having been a drummer in different bands for about 15 years now. I guess for me the main difference is with drums I never feel like I'm the main focus, I'm more just the gel that holds everything together.

But singing and playing guitar, I'm really putting myself out there; I think for most people the main thing they focus on when listening to music is the vocals and melody, so for me the biggest difference is just getting accustomed to feeling like what I'm doing is the bigger focus rather than something that is sort of in the background.

Don't get me wrong, I think the drummer really is integral to the band keeping it together and things sounding good. So that's a little bit of pressure I guess but it's nothing compared to being up there playing MY songs, singing words that I wrote about my own experiences.

Question 3: What's your favorite thing about the Georgia music scene? Your least favorite thing?

My favorite thing is the diversity. On any night of the week you can go to a different bar, hear something completely different than the night before but walk away impressed by what you just heard. I don't even get out that much, but when i do I'm blown away by all the opportunities there are here to see some really great music. It's really hard for me to pick a least favorite thing, because I really do see so many positive things going on with the scene here.

So I guess I'd say maybe my favorite thing is also my least favorite. Sometimes there's so much going on that I get overwhelmed. I'm the type of person that feels like I have to take advantage of all the cool stuff going on, otherwise I'll feel like I'm missing out on something. So I think that's the curse of living in a larger city; sometimes it can just wear me out!

Question 4: Tell us about the recording process for your new CD.

Well, I did a portion of it with Jerry Kee at his studio in Mebane, NC. Jerry is amazing and has produced records for practically anybody who's anybody in the NC indierock scene... Superchunk, Polvo, Kingsbury Manx, all sorts of folks. I did a few songs with him and John McNicholas, who plays guitar with me, joined me for that session.

The rest I recorded with Jay Manley, also in NC. Jay plays guitar for an awesome power pop band called Velvet, he and his wife (and band-mate) Jane used to live in Wilmington where I'm from, and I put out their first record on eskimo kiss.

Anyway, they have this amazing home studio in an old farmhouse in the middle of the woods. It was such a relaxed, fun experience hanging out with them, I ended up doing a few more songs there than I had planned because the whole experience was just very inspiring.

For both sessions I laid down the foundation of the songs, which is vocals and the acoustic guitar. Then we all added various bits and pieces to sort of bring the songs to life...that was the funnest part, adding some of my ideas and seeing what the others could bring to the table. I'm really excited about it; some songs stay sort of stripped down and true to how they originated, but some of them really did venture into new territories that I had not even imagined, which I think is the coolest part about collaboration.
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