The UGA Performing Arts Center is deep in the midst of its 22nd season, and coming up this week is a performance from the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. This is the first time that Greg Anderson and Elizabeth Joy Roe will perform for UGA. The pair will perform at the concert hall on September 16. Many millions of fans have enjoyed the duo’s video presence on YouTube, and their performance consists of a diverse set of work ranging from Mozart to The Beatles There are tickets available for $30–$60 and can be found at pac.uga.edu/ event/anderson-roe-piano-duo. The box office is open Monday–Friday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. or by phone. You can see all of the other information at the pac.uga.edu.
Space Brother released a new set of highly incongruous tracks. There is a full 20 of them on the man’s new collection called Waves, and the incongruity comes from these first appearing to be inwardly focused but, in the end, actually working well as hushed, outwardly projected suggestions. Working through a set of sounds including clipped beats, glitch samples, echoes, turntable needle static and too many other unidentifiable things to attempt naming, this collection is like an aural set of writing prompt encouraging the listener’s own creativity. It’s listenable to a certain audience. Its fractured nature, and individually short run times, are more akin to peeking into someone’s sketchbook than seeing the whole of their work. It’s at spacebrother.bandcamp.com.
I have been checking out the work of Athens artist Josey for a few years now and have always been intrigued by it. There is a new set of tunes called Guitar demos, which may or may not be accurate, and it is available to check out. They retain the amateur quality that I enjoy with Josey’s music, but they are also quite catchy and tuneful with a sorta-PSYCH style. Songs such as “Mind Blip” and “Today” would not be out of place on early releases from either Sebadoh or Guided By Voices. If you want to take a test drive, you can go to Joseytwallace.bandcamp.com.
Athens garage punk rockers The Agenda have old releases online. This was garage rock made back in the day when the cost of a garage was reasonable. The band was loud, bratty, combative, kind of out of control, and the recipients of a huge amount of praise and applause in a very short amount of time. The group’s full catalog can be found online with the exception of imported single or two. Start The Panic!, Strike A Viper, and Only The Young Die Young are the band’s initial releases. All of these can be found at theagenda.bandcamp.com.
The Athens/Moultrie band has been making and releasing music for at least 18 years. It took one of the members to send me a private message, which is a highly un recommended way to grab my attention, and mostly a miss. Having missed out on a lot of their music, it is nice to have a lot to check out now. They tipped me to their recent triple-disc set called Poltergeist: The Athens Albums which is noted online as having been released in 2020, but who really knows, right? The college rock tradition is alive and well with the keeping in mind that such designation were always fluid within reason. The song “Not Like Me” owes more to Motown than to Merge. There are some top tracks that channel the rock-pop language of the 1960s. In any universe, the song “Movie Moonbeams” would position Wickets as peers of both Elf Power and theOlivia Tremor Control. There is a lot of material here, not to mention the group’s back catalog, so make sure to settle in with these guys. You can find The Athens albums on the internet. If you like it, you can follow along at Facebook.com.
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