CALENDAR Concerts
UPCOMING CONCERTS CONTINUED ...
Anthony Smith’s Trunk Fulla Funk
CD release, Rhythm Room, May 15,
8 p.m., $6 (show only), $10 (includes
CD)
Kinch, The Loft, May 15, 8 p.m., $5
Tramps & Thieves, Last Exit, May
15, 9 p.m., $5
Al Jarreau and Sinbad w/Everette
Harp, Celebrity Theatre, May 16,
8 p.m., $56-$101
The Soldiers Ball feat. Ivory,
Realizm, Span Phly, The Sets,
May 16, 7:30 p.m., $10
Inkult CD release w/(sic)monic,
Lurid State, Jason Society, Detox,
Sins Reflection, Marquee Theatre,
May 16, 6:30 p.m., $10 adv, $12 dos
The Hard Lessons, Rhythm Room,
May 16, 6 p.m., $8
Fight the Quiet w/Out of Reverie,
Sleepwalk a Robot, The Phix,
May 16, 7:30 p.m., TBA
Rhythm Room All-Stars, Rhythm
Room, May 16 & 17, 8 p.m., $7
Jesse Cook w/Sahnas Brothers,
Celebrity Theatre, May 17, 8 p.m.,
$55-$100
The Cave Singers, Modified,
May 17, 7 p.m., $10
Billy Currington w/Nick Nicholson,
Venue of Scottsdale, May 17,
7 p.m., $25
Where Eagles Dare w/Heroes Dead
And Gone, Vineland, Run With The
Hunted, Antietem, Brickhouse,
May 17, 5 p.m., $5
Amo Joy w/Cardiac Party, Trunk
Space, May 17, 8 p.m., $6
Bomb Threat w/80-D, XIII Black,
The Fed-Ups, Hollywood Alley,
May 17, 8 p.m., $5
The Spider Hole w/Astari Night,
Swell Chemistry, Nachash, The
Sets, May 17, 7:30 p.m., $12
Kole at Rising Crest Photography
Mojo Farmers CD release, Last
Exit, May 17, 9 p.m., TBA
Eisley w/The Myriad, Vedera,
Bickhouse, May 18, 7 p.m., $13 adv,
$15 dos
Destroyer w/Devon Williams, Vine
Land, Rhythm Room, May 18,
8 p.m., $11 adv, $12 dos
Harptallica, Hollywood Alley,
May 18, 8 p.m., $5
The Dirtbombs w/Dan Sartain,
Terrible Twos, Rhythm Room,
May 19, 8 p.m., $10 adv, $12 dos
Fall Of Troy w/The Dear Hunter,
Foxy Shazam, Tera Melos,
Clubhouse, May 19, 7 p.m., $12
Fleas And Lice w/Mouth Sewn
Shut, Doomsday Hour, The
Prosthetics, Modified, May 19,
7 p.m., $10
Mount Righteous w/Dangerville,
Hello Mind Control, Hooves, Trunk
Space, May 19, 8 p.m., $7
The Phenomenauts w/The A.K.A.s,
Maldroid, Brickhouse, May 20,
7 p.m., $10
CPC Gangbangs w/Tokyo Electron,
The Vivian Girls, Subvacuum of
Nothing, The Tightholes, Modified,
May 20, 7 p.m., $8
Too Slim & The Taildraggers,
Rhythm Room, May 20, 7 p.m., $10
adv, $12 dos
Blake/e/e/e w/Hell-Kite, Vine Land,
Tungsten Lights Up, Trunk Space,
May 20, 8 p.m., $6
Mindless Self Indulgence w/The
Birthday Massacre, London After
Midnight, Marquee Theatre, May 21,
6:30 p.m., $20 adv, $25 dos
Murder By Death w/Dios Malos,
Gasoline Hearts, Clubhouse,
May 21, 7 p.m., $12
BLVD w/MC Souleye, DJ Seduce,
Rhythm Room, May 21, 8 p.m., $7
Floater, Hollywood Alley, May 21 &
22, 8 p.m., $5
Megadeth w/In Flames, Children of
Bodom, Job For a Cowboy, High
On Fire, Mesa Amphitheatre,
May 22, 5:30 p.m., $39 adv, $42 dos
The Kills w/Child Ballads,
Brickhouse, May 22, 7:30 p.m., $12
adv, $14 dos
Graveyard BBQ w/Ghengis Con
Jon, Hole Hog, Hollywood Alley,
May 23, 8 p.m., $5
Gettin’ Whiggy with it
Sistah Blue, Rhythm Room, May 22, Souless w/69 Sins, Split the
7 p.m., $15 Enemy, Kill Me Courageous,
Black Carl, The Loft, May 22, Santorum, Anatomy of Suffering,
8 p.m., $5 The Sets, May 23, 6:30 p.m., $11
Monadnoc w/Paper Box, The Police w/Elvis Costello and
Florescent Pastries, Trunk Space, the Imposters, Cricket, May 24,
May 22, 8 p.m., $6 7 p.m., $40-$225
God Forbid w/Death Angel, Soilent The Medic Droid w/A Cursive
Green, Light This City, Howitzer, Memory, Chronic Future, Breathe
Foul Mouth, The Sets, May 22, Carolina, Brickhouse, May 24,
6 p.m., $15 adv, $17 dos 7 p.m., $10
The Brother Unconnected, Johnny Rawls, Rhythm Room,
Modified, May 23, 7 p.m., $10 May 24, 8 p.m., $8
Dresden Dolls w/Smoosh, Marquee Brodie Hubbard w/Page the
Theatre, May 23, 6:30 p.m., $21 adv, Village Idiot, Hands on Fire, Young
$22 dos Mother, Mark the Righteous,
Tracy Lawrence, Celebrity Theatre, Modified, May 24, 6:30 p.m., $7
May 23, 8 p.m., $40 J Holiday, Celebrity Theatre,
Big Nick & The Gila Monsters, May 24, 8 p.m., $35
Rhythm Room, May 23, 8 p.m., $7 The Rocketz w/Grave Danger, The
Foot Village w/Soft Shoulder, Trunk Faraway Boys, Hollywood Alley,
Space, May 23, 8 p.m., TBA May 24, 8 p.m., $5
Local Spotlight
Courtesy Big Hassle PR
Georgia garage rockers hit the road
in support of new album
By Mike R. Meyer • College Times
The Whigs have come a long way in a short The album has a pretty wide array of sounds.
period of time. After recording their 2005 debut Was there a conscious decision to make a
album in an empty frat house in their hometown of really diverse album or did it just kind of turn
Athens, Georgia, the group caught the ear of ATO out that way?
DIGITAL SUMMER GRADE Records, who signed the band in 2006. I don’t think we tried. It wasn’t contrived that way.
Hollow B Their sophomore effort, Mission Control, was
recorded in slightly more professional conditions
I think even from the beginning, we’ve always
been a band that’s always written different types
(Self-released) at Sunset Sound in LA and was released earlier of songs. The moment that we write one type of
this year. song, it might inspire us to write something a little
For the follow-up to their 2007 debut, Cause and Effect,
College Times recently spoke with The different than that one and then continue to push
local hard rockers Digital Summer decided to go several different
Whigs’ drummer Julian Dorio about the album, ourselves and tackle different types of songs and
directions at once. The band’s new release, Hollow, is a two-
touring and being good role models by staying in ideas and sounds. So it ends up that our albums
disc CD/DVD combo that presents the band in several different
lights. The first four songs on the CD are billed as “acoustic,” school. have sort of this variety. I like that. I hope that
would mean that you have to listen to the record
although terms like “unplugged” or “stripped down” don’t really
apply to the textured production of these songs. Digital Summer College Times: You guys have spent a big part more than once, take some time to sort of get all
might’ve traded in their electric guitars for acoustics on these of the last three years on the road. Do you ever these different things.
songs, but they’re still a far cry from coffee shop fare. The band get tired of touring?
reworks a pair of songs from their debut, “Whatever it Takes” Dorio: We really enjoy it. For us, it’s kind of the Cities like New York, LA and Austin seem to get
and “Suffocate,” and throws in a pair of new songs, “Use Me” point of being in a band. To get to play live all the the lion’s share of media attention, but Athens
and Sweet Misery,” for good measure. The sound is mellower time and play different towns in front of different has a strong musical history of its own. What
than their debut, but the band’s signature wall of sound remains people is sort of what we love. It can be exhaust- was it like starting out there as a local band?
intact with drums, layered vocals and multiple guitars. The CD’s
ing and we try to get home every once in a while There are an amazing amount of bands for such a
last two tracks, “Rescue Me” and “Worth the Pain,” are new
to kind of rejuvenate ourselves. small town, a lot of great bands and a lot of bands
songs that more closely resemble the band’s prior work. The
songs probably veer a little too close to Nickelback territory to
that we’re definitely fans of. I think the competition
connect with hardcore metalheads, but there’s no denying Digital You were all students when you started. Did is healthy. It’s a very supportive community. We
you finish school or just put it on the back- definitely like being from here and coming home
Summer’s knack for writing catchy hooks. The DVD features
a video for “Rescue Me” that might seem a little corny if you burner to pursue music for a while? here. You can go out any night and see shows
weren’t aware of the band’s firefighting background, a live video We all went to the University of Georgia and have and there’s a lot of great venues. It kind of keeps
of “Disconnect” from their debut and behind the scenes footage since graduated and hope to make (music) a thing you on your toes, because I think a lot of people
from the video shoot. All in all, Hollow is a comprehensive, if that we can do full time. Really, we had finished around here (who) go out to shows, if they don’t
somewhat schizophrenic, overview of Digital Summer’s many that record, the first one, and still had some school love your band, you’re not the only band in town.
sides. left … so we kind of juggled the two. We tried They’ve got a lot of things to choose from.
to tour as much as we could but also finish up
Digital Summer w/One Last Peace, Vistalance, Signs of
school. We were pretty close, so it seemed like The Whigs w/What Made Milwaukee Famous,
Betrayal, Denial Method, Giantkiller, 32 Leaves, Asperity,
it was worth our time to get the degrees out of The Dead Trees, Modified Arts, 407 E.
Versed in Grey, Venue of Scottsdale, May 9, 7 p.m., $10 adv,
$12 dos the way. The moment we were done with school, Roosevelt, Phoenix, 602.462.5516, May 13,
we’ve been pretty much touring ever since. 7 p.m., $10
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