Ruby Isle and The Buddy System will be representing Kindercore at this year’s Athens Popfest. Check out the just announced line-up!

Full Festival Schedule
www.Athenspopfest.com

CINE 8.12.08
8:00 - Fish Schticks
8:35 - Bob Hay & the Jolly Beggars
9:10 - Allison Weiss
9:45 - Titans of Filth

LITTLE KINGS 8.13.08
2:00 - Boy Genius
2:35 - the Hotwalls
3:15 - Amo Joy!
4:00 - Afternoon Naps
4:45 - Nervous Systems (not confirmed yet)
5:30 - Oh Sanders
(Break time!)
8:00 - Supercluster
8:35 - Blondie-Grunt
9:10 - Nana Grizol
9:45 - Hot Pants Romance
10:20 - the Coathangers
11:00 - Whistling School for Boys
11:30 - Judi Chicago
12:00 - Spring Tigers
12:35 - the Selmanaires
1:15 - We Versus the Shark

LITTLE KINGS 8.14.08
2:00 - That’s My Daughter
2:40 - Little Birds
3:20 - A Faulty Chromosome
4:00 - Panda Riot
4:45 - Averkiou

FLICKER 8.14.08
6:00 - Night Driving in Small Towns
6:45 - Good Graces
7:30 - Mary O Harrison

CALEDONIA 8.14.08
8:30 - the Ocelots
9:30 - the Besties
10:30 - Twin Tigers
11:30 - Dead Confederate

40 WATT CLUB 8.14.08
8:00 - Patience Please
8:30 - Velcro Stars
9:00 - Bunnygrunt
9:30 - Cars Can Be Blue
10:15 - Great Lakes
11:00 - the Love Letter Band
11:45 - Dark Meat
12:30 - Roky Erickson & the Explosives

LITTLE KINGS 8.15.08
2:00 - Railcars
2:40 - Tendaberry
3:20 - One Happy Island
4:00 - Hat Company
4:30 - Fat Planet

FLICKER 8.15.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Noisycrane
7:30 - Gospel Gossip

CALEDONIA 8.15.08
8:30 - Laminated Cat
9:30 - Ham 1
10:30 - My Teenage Stride
11:30 - Violet Vector & the Lovely Lovelies

40 WATT 8.15.08
8:00 - Cryptacize
8:30 - Secret History
9:00 - the Faintest Ideas
9:30 - Ruby Isle
10:00 - the Buddy System
10:30 - the Lolligags
11:00 - Fishboy
11:30 - the Apes
12:15 - Boyracer
1:00 - TBA

LITTLE KINGS 8.16.08
2:00 - Lognhalsmottagningen
2:15 - Bad Animal
3:00 - the Young Untold
3:30 - Bright Lights
4:15 - American Cheeseburger

FLICKER 8.16.08
6:00 - Oh Fortuna
6:45 - Marc with a C
7:30 - Hot Lava

CALEDONIA 8.16.08
8:30 - Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned
9:30 - Thrushes
10:30 - the Sterns
11:30 - Man Factory

40 WATT 8.16.08
8:00 - the Smittens
8:30 - Big Fresh
9:00 - Thee American Revolution
9:30 - Pipes You See Pipes You Don’t
10:00 - Andy from Denver
10:30 - Casper & the Cookies
11:00 - Circulatory System
12:00 - Elf Power
1:00 - the Music Tapes

Tickets available HERE.

Posted by ryan on 10 Jun 2008 at 01:20 pm

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So today is the anniversary of my lovely wife’s D.O.B. and as part of her present I got my Buddy System bandmate and all around buddy Lauren Gregg to paint a Lewis Fambly portrait. The resulting painting is far cooler than I could have imagined so I am sharing it here for all to see.

Please to enjoy the Lewis Fambly…

Posted by ryan on 22 Apr 2008 at 01:02 pm

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Click it to make it all big and stuff:

Posted by ryan on 05 Mar 2008 at 04:09 pm

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A few months ago, when this whole crazy blog first started, I made a post about go-go, DC’s club music of choice. I was about to move away from the Washington Metropolitan Area, and I guess I was feeling a little sentimental about that subgenre of hip-hop unique to DC.

OK, so technically unique means “existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics,” and for a while I thought that was the right word to use for DC go-go. After coming down here to Georgia, I found out that Atlanta’s got its own burgeoning go-go scene.

XO Band - I Love It
First, we’ve got the XO Band, whose name shows they’re willing to keep in the go-go tradition of groups such as the Junkyard Band, Backyard Band, Total Control Band, and Take Over Band. With this song, they pull another classic go-go move and take somebody else’s track (Young Jeezy’s “I Love It,” in this case) and make it their own. Sure, a song about dealing drugs is, ya know, cool and all, but why not just rap about how much you like go-go and namecheck DC? Cuz you know I love that.

Gucci Mane - My Chain (Mr. Singh’s Go-Go Remix)
It shouldn’t be any surprise that go-go bands play covers like this, since taking something else and making it your own is a big part of what hip-hop’s all about. Atlanta DJ Mr. Singh finds another way to do this, making go-go remixes of some of his favorite Dirty South tracks. A go-go remix of a song by Atlanta native Gucci Mane struck me as a good way of summing this whole thing up.

Posted by Mat on 04 Sep 2007 at 01:25 pm

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