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Hotter and Hotter

August 9, 2014Fun, Music, The Elder Houseadmin

Did the Old Lady say it was hot, last time there was a show at the Elder House in Valdosta, GA?

Tonight was savagely hot. The Elder House sweated, and stunk, and smoked.

John Weeks stepped up when one of the scheduled bands flaked out. John puts out a big sound for one man and a guitar, with a heaping helping of angst in his lyrics. This was his last acoustic set; he promises he’ll be back in September with a full band. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, you can sample his acoustic history at http://www.reverbnation.com/johnweeksplays

In Life’s Wake is also in transition; after tonight a couple of the guys are moving on to other places. Tonight’s grinding set sent them off in fine style. Good luck, boyz! They’ve left a legacy for us to remember them by at https://www.facebook.com/InLifesWake/app_2405167945

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Dying Whale finished the night, playing dark metal hardcore. They put in a pretty energetic set for such a hot night. Check’em at https://www.facebook.com/dyingwhale/app_204974879526524

Seems that Elder House is in transition too. The band Hall of the Elders is losing at least one member, and the future of this venue is up in the air. Everything changes, nothing remains the same, but it’s all okay kids.

SUPPORT LIVE MUSIC, NO MATTER WHO THE HELL IS PLAYING. Listen to the Old Lady!

Red Door Records ROKZ!

August 5, 2014Fun, Music, Red Door Records, Valdostaadmin

Red Door Records hosted another superb show tonight.

Aughtsong: Joel Dion aka Oikut Kaye — Aughtsong: Joel Dion aka Ouikut Kaye

Aughtsong, formerly of Tallahassee but now right here in Valdosta, played first. Right now Aughtsong is a solo act, just Joel Dion (aka Ouikut Kaye) and his guitar. The sound is melodic and dreamy, just fine as a stand-alone but it would be interesting to hear Joel with some backup. The guy has a sweet insecurity about his performing which adds to his charm. He played a song from a group he used to play with – Little League – and at one point forgot the words. He apologized, saying “The song’s about drinking to forget, so I was just pushing the point.” It’s worth pushing the point of getting this guy out to perform more often, he’s well worth listening to. Find his stuff online at http://aughtsong.bandcamp.com/

Next up: Balloon Assembly Line. Kelby Clark is one of the most innovative musicians in south Georgia; everything he touches turns to music! The telephone handset used as a mic is inventive and has a nostalgic, hallucinatory sound.

Kyle Keller came in from busking on the Georgia coast in time to take up his capable bass, and Derek Barkalow is back from basic training and back on the drum set. They’ve got out a brand new 7” EP, with the disk etched onto a square clear piece of polycarbonate material… this EP looks exactly like the band sounds. You can hear it at http://balloonassemblyline.bandcamp.com/album/aerosol-fumes-ep

The Old Lady can’t wait to hear what Balloon Assembly Line turns out next!
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Headliner tonight was Buffalo Buffalo, just hitting the road from Tallahassee for a two and a half week tour. They’ll be in Savannah tomorrow night at the Bomb Shelter, but as the lead singer said “Playing packed little record stores like this are some of the funnest shows – awesome!” Buf Buf’s new CD, Coping Systems, has some great punk tunes that edge nervously toward hardcore. Live is always preferable, but if you can’t make any of the tour shows (check their Facebook page for the schedule) then get your fix at http://buffalobuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/coping-systems

The Old Lady sends a BIG shout out to Jessica of Red Door Records, who is the local music scene’s BFF! Jessica also gave the Old Lady her first shot at print in Valdosta with the Glass Onion street rag. That column morphed into the blog that you are reading now. Thanks, Jessica!

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! It’s what Jessica does!

Hot Valdosta Night

July 30, 2014Ashley Street Station, Fun, Music, Red Door Records, VENUESadmin

Valdosta, in extreme south Georgia, July, nighttime. Temp: about 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity: about 90 percent.

Red Door Records. Free show. Thanks, Jessica. Love the new location; the parking lot scene is much more urban and better lit.

First up: The Caution Children, from north Florida. Singer: “This one’s in the key of F, it runs about 5 minutes and 30 seconds, and it’s got a couple of time signature changes.” They play melodic ambient hardcore, and he does some interesting things with the mic and with one of the guitar players’ heads. Listen to them here: https://myspace.com/thecautionchildren/music/songs

Next: Gillian Carter, also from Florida, more hardcore than melodic. They call themselves post punk. I guess that’s pretty accurate. A sample: https://myspace.com/gilliancarter

Then: Fear and Loathing from Moultrie, Georgia. Definitely hardcore. The mosh pit opened up and the Old Lady fled for her life. Check it out if you dare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgHWjXHbEM

This is what shows often look like to those who are short.

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The afterparty was at the Ashley Street Bar, which of course is now on Baytree Road. Cody Gibson was playing when the Old Lady walked in, high powered country. She couldn’t find any links to his music other than with the Southern Gentlemen, and they weren’t in attendance tonight just some dude named Kevin on keyboards who was very good.

Then Mylo Ranger, with a big multilayered alt-country-rock sound that occasionally slid into blues. The same Kevin that played keyboards with Cody Gibson joined them on sax, and again was very good. Who is this guy? Hear Mylo Ranger at http://www.myloranger.com/#!music/c10tw

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC. IF YOU DON’T GO, IT WILL GO AWAY.

Tunes in Tally

July 26, 2014Musicadmin

The Old Lady had some business in Tallahassee on a Saturday morning, but ended up with a little time to kill.

So she checked out the Downtown Market which is held every Saturday at 115 E Park Avenue.

After sampling some excellent curried goat from a vendor, she stopped to enjoy some tunes from Quanta.

Quanta is a duo consisting of Jack Quine on keyboards and Richard Bertram on alto and tenor saxophones, bass guitar, and various percussion.
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Quanta’s jazzy, bluesy, folksy sound is a perfect accompaniment for a laid-back street market on a cool, cloudy summer Saturday… and excellent curried goat.

You can check out the music of Quanta at http://home.comcast.net/~jquine/QuantaAudio.htm

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC. It’s the soundtrack of our lives.

More Metal & Mosh

July 17, 2014Music, The Elder Houseadmin

Another hot summer night at the Old Lady’s favorite house venue in Valdosta, Elder House. Another crammed lineup. Another stoked crowd.

It just doesn’t get much better than this.

Hot Barrel 45 got the ball rolling with originals that are intricate, both melodically and rhythmically, as well as heavy.

Artifacts threw some slamming hardcore at an in-your-face audience.

The host band, Hall of the Elders, was impeccable as always.

In Life's Wake... seriously, this band sounds like this picture looks. Really. — In Life’s Wake… seriously, this band sounds like this picture looks. Really.

In Life’s Wake ground out some major metal.

Meridian, a hardcore band from New York, wrapped up the show just before midnight.
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Meridian’s lead singer gave a shout out to Reese, one of the Valdosta kids, who responded to a desperate Tweet and let the band crash at his place.

This is what the Old Lady really likes about this local metal scene: these people really care about each other, and take care of each other. The music may sound raw and mean, but there’s love in this scene, y’know what I mean?

Summer Survival

July 7, 2014Fun, Health, Musicadmin

(This blog is dedicated to Keven)

It’s sum-sum-sum-sum-summertime, the perfect season for outdoor music festivals and fun in the sun. But if you want to party hearty and still hang all day and night, the Old Lady has a little advice for you:

DRINK WATER. Seems obvious, so why isn’t everybody swigging H2O? Because beer is better, of course. But here’s the deal, kids: if you’ll chug a full bottle of water between every two or three beers you can stay upright longer and feel better the next day.
EAT FOOD. Another obvious tip, but easy to neglect. Carry some high protein snacks in your pockets, like nuts; they’re cheap and salty and will make you want to drink more water. Chunks of raw cucumber and watermelon will actually help you tolerate the heat better (this is Chinese medicine, proven over the centuries). Chips… well, if you just won’t eat anything else, okay at least it’s something, but make it corn chips or something multigrain. Here’s the bottom line, kids: if you keep some food in your tummy, you can actually drink more beer before you pass out or throw up. The Old Lady should know. But…

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DON’T EAT BEFORE YOU PERFORM. Eat earlier in the day, but nothing during the hour before your band goes on. The Old Lady never eats right before she performs (you say you didn’t know the Old Lady performs? “There’s a lot you don’t know,” snapped the Old Lady peevishly, “whaddya think, I spill ALL of my secrets here on this dadgum blog?”). Food in the stomach weighs down your mind, your vocal cords, and your body. Save that burger until later, to celebrate your stellar performance.
WEAR SUNSCREEN. At the recent Elderfest the Old Lady photographed some tattoos that were more faded than they should have been. Protect your investment in ink with sunscreen. Sunscreen on the rest of you will prevent sunburn (it will NOT keep you from tanning, chickies!); sunburn dehydrates you and keeps you from partying on into the night.
IF THERE IS A LAKE JUMP IN IT. Immersing your body in the nearest body of water helps cool you and invigorate you. Take advantage of it!

The Old Lady wants everybody to have as much fun as humanly possible, so think about these tips and take care of your body so you can mosh like a mo-fo. LISTEN TO THE OLD LADY!

The Mickee Faust Club

June 27, 2014Fun, Music, Traveladmin

Tonight the Old Lady enjoyed a truly bizarre performance.

(NOTE: Performances don’t have to be bizarre to appeal to the Old Lady, but it certainly helps.)

The Mickee Faust Club in Tallahassee, Florida, is in its twenty-seventh year of performing “community theatre for the weird community” which certainly hits the Old Lady’s demographic.

Tonight’s show titled “Queer as Faust VII” included a song-and-dance number about the “A-Gays”, an original video about the gay threat to traditional marriages, and a death metal performance titled “Heterosexual Extinction” that involved the abuse of stuffed animals. A song titled “The Trouble with Andre” told the story of a man who cross-dresses in the privacy of his home but who has to lose the dress and don “business drag” to appear in public; the refrain is “The trouble with Andre is he lies” and this piece broke the Old Lady’s heart. More upbeat was the skit “Telling Mom” in which a young man imagines all the worst case scenarios of coming out to his mother, but when he actually does he finds that she reacts by embracing him and saying “Finally!”
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While at the Mickee Faust Club, the Old Lady met artist Nancy who took her on a private tour of the art that Nancy has created to adorn the inside and outside of the clubhouse.

Titled "How Baby Rats Are Made." It's subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow. — Titled “How Baby Rats Are Made.” It’s subtle, but note how the late evening sun casts a real shadow strategically onto the painted shadow.

The Mickee Faust Club is a little like a cousin of the Capitol Steps, that eccentric cousin who moved to Florida and came out and is subject to hallucinations and spiritual visions tempered with borderline mental illness caused by pollution from overpopulation, overdevelopment, and corporate exploitation.

It’s worth a drive to Tallahassee. Find out about their upcoming performances at http://www.mickeefaust.com/

ElderFest 2014

June 22, 2014Fun, Musicadmin

“There ain’t no such thing as too much fun, or too much metal.” — The Old Lady

ElderFest 2014 at the Valdosta Wake Compound was a BLAST! So many bands, please forgive the Old Lady because she could not keep up with who was who and as the Bud kicked in, quite frankly, some of her photos sucked. So, if a picture is worth a thousand words… here’s several thousand words:

A big SHOUT OUT to Keven, who worked his ass off to put ElderFest together and who is not only a great guitar player, he is a real trooper in the old school “SHOW MUST GO ON” tradition… if you were there, you know what this means.
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Summer Music on the Farm

June 21, 2014Fun, Musicadmin

Summer. Evening. Live music. In the country.

Everything the Old Lady loves.

The show tonight was on a farm, somewhere between Thomasville and Coolidge, Georgia. There were maybe fifty people there, max. Five local bands, playing on the back deck of somebody’s parents’ house.

Kicking it all off was <lessthan3, which is the name under which Raymond Estes of Tallahassee performs. This 17-year-old with an acoustic guitar is full of teenage angst, writing and singing songs of heartbreak and unrequited love, and he is excellent. A little more hardcore than folk, but lowkey nonetheless. Raymond is looking for venues in Tallahassee; find him on Facebook and offer him a gig!

... with Caroline Kelly — … with Caroline Kelly on phone.

Alyssa SeRine borrowed Raymond’s guitar, because she misplaced her power cord and couldn’t bring her keyboard. She has a sweet folky sound, but she can rap too. The Old Lady especially liked her rap about the old video game Zelda for which Alyssa was accompanied by herself on keyboard doing chords based on the game soundtrack, recorded and played back on her phone which was held to the mic by her friend Caroline Kelly. Kewl.

ROBOTURNER then took the stage. Literally. This Moultrie group is flatout hardcore, no apologies. This was when the pit opened up and the crowd got crazy. You can hear a sample at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Qb0jCDKG0&app=desktop or, you can hear ROBOTURNER live tomorrow at the ElderFest – Outdoor Metal Festival at the Valdosta Wake Compound (exit 13 off I-75, Saturday June 21 2014, 1 p.m., don’t miss it because the Old Lady sure as heck won’t miss it!).

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Koctok is a brand new band, consisting of well-known local Kelby Clark on guitar and new-in-town Bradley Gandy on drums. SUPER combination! The Old Lady came about as close as she has lately to jumping into the pit herself when these guys played. AND, she likes their philosophy.

Keep an eye on Koctok! They are sure to make their mark!

Last on the bill was Stay Home, the hosting band. Pure punk, just like the Old Lady likes it, hard and sweaty and full of love. You can check out an acoustic version of their “Broken Glass” at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=686946308019945&set=vb.643551205692789&type=2&theater but you really need to hear them live.

South Georgia is the best kept secret on the national scene, a music mecca!

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Hardcore Happiness

June 7, 2014Music, The Elder Houseadmin

“DO THE THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY, OTHERWISE YOU WIND UP WORKING FOR SOMEBODY ELSE’S DREAMS!”

The lead singer for Nebraska Bricks was screaming it, and everybody at Elder House was doing it!

Hot summer nights are made for hardcore shows in the cramped quarters of Elder House.

Carrier kicked it off; they’re sorta south-Georgia local since they’re from Columbus and have been on tour with Nebraska Bricks for 35 days. You’d think these guys would be fried by now, but oh no! They’re ready to go! And go they did! “Just some gnarly, sweaty dudes” they say, but if you can’t savor the sweat in person then listen to a free sample at https://www.facebook.com/CarrierBand/app_178091127385

Nebraska Bricks came on like a ton of their namesake bricks (their name comes from the title of a track on an album by Save the Day). HOLD ON TO YOUR TRUTH! the singer shouted, then took hold of his own with both hands and slung it around the tiny room! Their upcoming record is titled LIVE IN PAIN, DIE IN VAIN, but if you just can’t wait you can download their album REDEMPTION for free at https://www.facebook.com/CarrierBand/app_178091127385 Free, folks, that means no charge!

STRENGTHEN WHAT REMAINS with borrowed drums and a rented minivan, plus they laughed about it! These guys are troopers!

Strengthen What Remains rolled in town in a rented minivan just in time for their set. These guys are hitting the road for a several weeks’ long tour and their van immediately broke down in Tampa. Still they showed up, no whining just killing it as they shared their tunes from the album TURNING A BLIND EYE which you can check out gratis (that’s another synonym for free) at https://www.facebook.com/strengthenwhatremains/app_204974879526524

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Sorry, MACHINIST! The Old Lady's camera ran out of battery power after this single sorry shot. Y'all deserve better! — Sorry, MACHINIST! The Old Lady’s camera ran out of battery power after this single sorry shot. Y’all deserve better!

Then finally, the band the Old Lady has been waiting for! Machinist doesn’t play locally much, they’re pretty much a touring band since only lead singer Jeff Hill lives in Valdosta. And the homeboys hit home hard with their short fast to-the-point songs, even though by now Elder House was about a zillion degrees hot and the storm kept blowing the power out and Jeff had been working the door all night as well as spending weeks pulling this show together. Get their albums digitally at http://machinistga.bandcamp.com/ and order the BIRTHRIGHT 7″ at http://constantrotation.bigcartel.com/ or listen to the METHTEETH album for nuthin’ (that means free, too; shouldn’t you have paid more attention to your English professor?) on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/machinistga/app_204974879526524

Jeff is a guy who DID pay attention to his English professor.

And, he’s probably the hardest working musician in town. He plays, he promotes, he puts together shows… and he does it for the same reason they all do it, because he loves the music.

Machinist is fixing to go on tour. If you didn’t turn up for this show, you missed out big time and you just ought to mail them a check to help make sure they eat while on the road. Or hand the cash to Jeff; you can find him most nights working the door at Ashley Street Station.

All four of the bands on this show played for pretty much no more than gas money. They do this because they love to play, they’d probably do it even if they had to pay to play!

SUPPORT LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! IF YOU DON’T SHOW UP THEN YOU ARE JUST PRETENDING TO BE A FAN! LISTEN TO THE OLD LADY!

THE OLD LADY AND THE PURPLE DRAGON

Yours for Love, Light, & Laughter