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CONTENTS • JULY 2012 • VOLUME 20, NO.12 Atlanta’s

Entertainment Monthly

INTERVIEWS 06 10 12 12 15 18 18 22 23 26 27 27 28

Linda Gray Wladimir Klitschko Eddie Izzard Clay Harper Abigail Klein KISS Identity Festival Kevn Kinney Killer MIke Men Without Hats Motion City Soundtrack Callaghan The English Beat

FEATURES 08 09 21 24 29 30

Guide to Little 5 BBQ Music Venue Guide Summer Music Preview Travel to Dominica Olympics Preview

COLUMNS 04 05 06 07 13 15 16 19 19 20 30 31

Around Town On Tap On A Dime Events Under The Lights Movie Reviews Vidiots Concert Calendar Road Warriors We Got Next Album Reviews Fanatic Favorite Things

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Friday, July 13: 10 am – 4 pm, for camps and groups only, pre-registration is required. Saturday-Sunday, July 14-15: 12 noon – 4 pm raDIo DISneY opens the village and the fun continues with performances by Zulu connection, giwayen Mata, Success Stars pan Sounds, Youth ensemble of atlanta, Soweto Street Beat and more!

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Around Town

The Chastain Park Summer Movie Series will take place at sunset every Thursday in July at the Hill Top Meadow Green Lot at Chastain Park. This year’s line-up consists of: “The Artist” (July 5), “Mirror Mirror” (July 12), “Letters from Juliet” (July 19) and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (July 26). Check out chastainparkmovies.com.

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The Great Backpack Giveaway is underway this month. Agape Community Center is seeking Backpack and school supply donation for over 1,000 kids in low income / high crime neighborhoods in Northwest Atlanta. Filled backpacks donations are accepted at Agape Monday through July 25. For more information or to schedule delivery please contact Jared at jsulc@agapecc.org.

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Flags Over Georgia brings ALL Six the dance-in-the-dark show JUL iLuminate as seen on “America’s Got Talent” to its theme park this summer. The show runs through August 12. For more information, visit sixflags.com/ overgeorgia. Shakespeare’s “Much ALL William Ado About Nothing” comes to JUL the Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University this month. Ticket prices range from $13-$45. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit www.gashakespeare.org or call the box office at 404-504-1473.

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The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform two free “Summer Concerts at Symphony Hall.” On July 7 guest conductor Ward Stare of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will lead the Orchestra in a program. The second concert on Aug. 11. Admission is free to the general public, but tickets for general admission seating are required. Complimentary tickets are available online at atlantasymphony.org, by calling 404-733-5000 or at the Woodruff Arts Center box office.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform with Classical Mystery Tour – a popular Beatles tribute band – at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park on July 21 at 8pm. Guest conductor Martin Herman, who provided all of the orchestral transcriptions for the Classical Mystery Tour show, will lead the Orchestra in the all-Beatles program. Visit verizonwireless.com for more details.

JUL 07

The Fulton County Free Saturday will be offered July 7 from 10am to 5pm at the High Museum of Art. Admission is free for Fulton County residents with a valid I.D. on the first Saturday of each month. Visit high.org.

JUL 07

Looking for a change of pace for your night out? Here you go. The Earl presents the Atlanta Air Sex Championships on July 9 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $8, and the rest is self explanatory. Visit badearl.com for more information.

JUL 09

The Alliance Theatre’s High School Collision Project will present public performances of student made plays on July 13-14 at the Hertz Stage. The theater is located at 1280 Peachtree Street. For tickets, go online to alliancetheatre.org.

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Don’t miss the biggest movie of the summer on the biggest (nonIMAX) screen in town. The Fox Theatre screens “The Avengers” on July 14 at 7:30pm as part of the CocaCola Film Festival. For more information on tickets, go to foxatltix.com.

JUL 14

The Center for Puppetry Arts JUL presents the Dinosaur Show 17 from July 17-29 in a family friendly show about two daring paleontologists who discover bones deep in a desert canyon. For tickets and times, go online to puppet.org. Grammy winner and seven-time JUL nominee Paula Cole visits Variety 20 Playhouse on July 20 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $27.50 in advance or $30 day of show. Go online to varietyplayhouse.com for details.

Don’t miss the Chattahoochee River Summer Splash on July 28 in Sandy Springs. The float begins at 9am at the Morgan Falls Dam just 10 minutes north of Atlanta and winds down to Powers Island. Call 678-538-1280 to register or go to www.visitsandysprings.org for more information.

JUL 28

Zoo Atlanta’s “Keeper for a Day” focuses on “Australia and Carnivores” on July 28. Hang out with our Australian animals in the morning, then head to carnivores for a fascinating afternoon. Participants must be 14 or older. Book a program today on zooatlanta.org.

JUL 28

The Gwinnet Arena brings American Idol Live! to Atlanta on Aug. 5. Tickets are on sale now at www.aeglive.com. This is a unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Idol finalists Colton Dixon, DeAndre Brackensick, Elise Testone and more.

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CardiovasCular disease researCh Emory University, Department of Psychiatry is currently conducting a research study on Cardiovascular Disease and Depression. Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, Psychiatrist, is investigating the brain mechanisms through which depression increases the risk of death in patients with cardiovascular disease. If you would to participate in this study, you must have a current diagnosis of cardiovascular disease either with or without depression. If you think you may have signs of depression, but have never been assessed, we can provide an assessment for you.

To learn more about this study, call Emory’s Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at 404-712-2059 or kelly.tracey@emory.edu. Procedures involve health and mental health assessments, MRI, PET and SPECT scans conducted at Emory University. Volunteers will receive compensation for their time.

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PEACHTREE ROAD RACE

An Atlanta tradition returns for the Fourth of July weekend. The annual AJC Peachtree Road Race hits the streets of the city on July 4. Watch as thousands of men and women push themselves in the Georgia heat in this 10K race. The event is regularly one of the largest 10K races in the world and has been in existence since 1970. Official entries are currently closed, but for more information on places to view the race or volunteer, go online to peachtreeroadrace.org.

July 4: All Over Atlanta

FOURTH OF JULY FIREWORKS

Atlanta will offer several fireworks options during the patriotic holiday. Stone Mountain Park (stonemountainpark.com) will offer its mix of fireworks and a lazer light show, while Lenox Square Mall (lenoxsquare.com) will offer a contrast to the fireworks downtown at Centennial Olympic Park (centennialpark.com). Also don’t miss special a Fourth of July show by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (atlantasymphony.org), that comes with airborne explosions and music.

July 12-15: Centennial Park

NATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL

Join the 2012 National Black Arts Festival at Centennial Park, July 12 - 15, as it kicks off its annual summer festival. Families and children will enjoy hand-on, interactive activities, live youth performances and the child-size replica of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s boyhood home. The NBAF Main Music Stage features three days of unforgettable music. This year’s gala event honors the legendary actress Ruby Dee (July 14) at The St. Regis Atlanta. Visit nbaf.org for more.

July 14: Atlanta Symphony Hall

MATRIX LIVE

The Matrix Live brings the Oscar-winning film to Atlanta Symphony Hall on July 14 in an outstanding musical and visual experience. This live film concert combines visionary science fiction imagery with the sound of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The Matrix is a science-fiction action film starring Keanu Reeves that was released in 1999. No one can be told what The Matrix is… You must see it for yourself. For ticket information call 404-733-5000 or visit atlantasymphony.org.

July 14-22: Atlantic Station

BB&T ATLANTA OPEN

The 2012 BB&T Atlanta Open returns July 14-22 to Atlantic Station. Last year Mardy Fish battled John Isner for the second year in a row in the final. While both matches went to a third set, Fish cruised easily 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-2 in the third set. In 2010 he won the crown in a third-set tiebreak. This year John Isner returns to challenge top ranked players including Andy Roddick and Jack Sock. Visit bbtatlantaopen.com or call 866-840-8822 for tickets and information.

July 17-19: Turner Field

BRAVES HOST GIANTS

The Braves are recovering from interleague play and making another push in the National League East. Can Atlanta make a move in the division or the NL Wildcard? It will have to start against teams like the San Francisco Giants, who come to Turner Field for a three-game set this month. The Giants have been one of the most improved teams of late and will be a sure test for the Braves. Don’t miss this series. Go online for tickets at braves.com.

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SHADES OF (LINDA) GRAY

Actress Linda Gray is back as iconic Sue Ellen Ewing on TNT’s Dallas BY LEE VALENTINE SMITH

N A COZY ROOM AT THE FOUR Season Hotel in downtown Atlanta, actress Linda Gray seemed to defy time and define the magic of television. At 71, she looks remarkably the same as in the summer of 1980, at the height of “Who Shot J.R.?” mania. “J.R.” of course, was the nickname of her TV husband, played by veteran actor Larry Hagman, on the long-running drama Dallas. The CBS series ran from 1978-89 and spawned not only a pop-culture catch-phrase, but solidified the careers of Gray as Sue Ellen, the alcoholic wife of J.R., Hagman as the scheming tycoon and Patrick Duffy as hunky Bobby Ewing. Now all three have returned to their original roles on TNT’s version of the show. Along with a new generation of actors, they’re revisiting Southfork Ranch and the soapy scheming of greedy oil and cattle barons. Dressed in a sleek, snakeskin-print jacket, with those big, piercing eyes peering out from under the same shaggy hairstyle she’s known for, the actress discussed all things Dallas. How did the new Dallas happen? And were you hesitant at first to revisit such a familiar show? We got a call two years prior to getting an actual script from Warner Brothers. We all three got the call and they asked if we were interested. We were rather stunned, but then

we heard nothing for two years! Then, when we got another call, I was skeptical: “Are we gonna have to wait another two years?” But they followed through with a lovely script. We all liked it very much, so we said we’d be interested and when do we get to shoot this thing? That was it. How did you approach the Sue Ellen Ewing character this time? I like to work from the inside out. I knew Sue Ellen, but I didn’t know who she was, now that it’s 20 years later. So I really wanted to know who she was, where she’d been. What is this woman like? Had she addressed her demons or had she swept them under a rug? I wanted to be the best Sue Ellen I could be. Not that she wasn’t before, but she was rather a victim, a reactor to the things J.R. was doing. So how did you find her, two decades later? I felt that now she would be a much different Sue Ellen. I felt she had addressed the demons and wrestled them to the ground. So I did a lot of research. I wanted her to be independent, powerful and the best mother she could be now. She wasn’t before. What sort of changes did you make? She doesn’t seem like such a causality this time out. Well, I researched and found that there

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BY THE END OF THAT SUMMER, I WAS SO OVER IT, EVERYBODY WAS ASKING ME, “WHO SHOT J.R.?” THEY WERE ASKING EVERYBODY IN THE CAST. WE COULDN’T WAIT FOR THE SHOW TO AIR SO WE COULD TAKE A BREATH!

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are more women CEOs in Texas than any other state. So I wanted her to be one of those women. She was an ex-Miss Texas, so I wanted her to represent those women in a very powerful way. She has money, she has power, she’s gonna have to run into J.R. somewhere along the line, and she’s going to have to deal with her feisty, wonderfully aggressive son. I met with the writers and said, “I have some ideas about Sue Ellen.” And they listened. When you began shooting this series, how did it feel? Had the cast components changed in two decades? I keep quoting Patrick Duffy. He says it feels like year 14 for us -- and that’s exactly how it feels. There wasn’t a glitch, there wasn’t an awkward moment. There still isn’t and we’ve shot ten episodes now. It flowed seamlessly as if 20 years had just been condensed. That’s a lovely feeling, a confidence that it’s right. It always felt right in the original show. And now it still feels very right. There’s an obvious bond with the three original cast members, a comforting familiarity. I think one of the things that made the original so good, was that we were playful. We played off-camera. You should have seen the new directors that would come in, in the ‘80s. They’d be intimidated, “Oh my God, how are we gonna get these crazy people to work? Iit’s like rounding up chickens! How are we gonna get them together and get them to perform?” They were getting crazy with us. They’d see us running around the set and doing weird things. But then when they’d say “action,” they’d get a performance that would be staggering because we are professionals. You were right in the middle of one of the biggest TV-related pop-culture moments of all time, the whole “Who Shot J.R.?” thing was a worldwide sensation around this time in 1980. It was really a phenomenon and I don’t think it was meant to be, at first. I think at the end of that particular season, they didn’t know what to do with him, so they said, “Well just shoot him!” That was one of the best-kept secrets in television history. It wasn’t even in the script, correct? Nothing was written down. They took me into a sound booth and said, “This is what we

want you to say.” I said, “Whoa, ok…” So I did know who shot JR because I had to say it. Those words “Kristin, it was you who shot J.R.” were spoken off-camera in the show, in voiceover and the camera was on her face. You had to hang on to that secret for months. I couldn’t tell anyone! So I had to live a very long summer. That was the summer of the [Screen Actors Guild] strike, so it delayed everything. Larry and Patrick laugh, “Man, are you a friend, you can hold a secret for a long time!” I thought that was one hell of a secret to have to hold! The show wasn’t even broadcast in September, as planned, it was finally on two months later, in November. By the end of that summer, I was so over it, everybody was asking me, “Who shot J.R.?” They were asking everybody in the cast. We couldn’t wait for the show to air so we could take a breath! Now, of course it would be on TMZ a few minutes after you recorded the line. Times were different. Now, I definitely think somebody would have come out with it, either from the sound booth, some of those guys, or someone would have happened to leak it someway. I know Larry was offered a lot of money to reveal who shot him. But he didn’t know! What is Larry Hagman like on the set? He loves to have fun and he really sets the tone. He’ll kill me, but I’ve said this several times, so I don’t care. To me, he’s the most consummate actor I’ve ever worked with. When they say “action,” you better be on the same playing field as he is or he’ll bury you in a scene, so fast. Not being mean, he’s just that good and that qualified to play that particular role. He’s just “there.” And you’d better be “there,” too. Do you think the first-generation fans embrace the new version? I think so. We had a screening of the first two episodes in Dallas. The audience was responsive and receptive and with it. You could hear them gasp when J.R. would do something, or there was some surprise. I don’t think the original fans will be disappointed. Dallas airs weekly on the TNT network. Check local listings for time and channel.

Under The Lights THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

July 5 - August 3 Oglethorpe U. Box Office (404) 504.1473 gashakespeare.org

Georgia Shakespeare presents its first-ever play by the great Oscar Wilde with the truly fun farce The Importance of Being Earnest. Two young friends, Jack and Algernon, both masquerade as a libertine named Earnest in order to win the hearts of their two unsuspecting loves. When Jack and Algernon are caught in the act, chaos and hilarity erupt and a very true Ernest is revealed in this comedic masterpiece by one of the world's greatest playwrights.

Thomas W. Jones II is a raucous comedy set in an Atlanta backyard. Mr. Jones plays the patriarch Walt who along with his jazz loving cohorts has orchestrated a surprise for son Trane, just home from his first international hip hop tour. What Trane expects to be a welcome home party turns into a bid by Walt and his sidekicks to star as Trane’s opening act. Sheddin’ is a side-splitting story of family, love, and following your dreams. “In the tradition of jazz improvisation, Sheddin’ riffs on the politics, marriage, and dysfunction of 21st century black life.”

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Theatre of the Stars opens their 60th Season flying high with the Tony® Award winning play Peter Pan! The magic begins as Broadway star and fan favorite Cathy Rigby takes flight in this unique, family friendly attraction of spectacle and fantasy. Peter Pan offers the thrill of flying, timeless magical moments and a captivating hook that will mesmerize young and old alike. Since 1990, PETER PAN starring Cathy Rigby has made four stops on Broadway, garnering four Tony® Nominations including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical.

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Guide to Little 5!

The Vortex

438 Moreland Ave. 404.688.1828 thevortexbarandgrill.com

Explore Atlanta’s most eclectic Neighborhood Junkman’s Daughter 464 Moreland Ave 404.577.3188 Mon-Thu 11-7; Fri 11-8; Sat 11-9; Sun 12-7 thejunkmansdaughter.com

No place better encapsulates the raw edgy pulse of Little 5 Points like the alternative super store known as Junkman's Daughter.; now celebrating their 30th anniversary. The 10,000 sq. ft. store is crammed full of far-out fashions and groovy accessories for men and women, unique and unusual gifts, house wares from around the world, cool collectables, retro nick-nacks and toys. They also offer terrific hard to find, unusual books and a fully stocked tobacco shop. Make sure to check out Junkman's this Halloween for the most irreverent and original wigs, masks and costumes in town.

women, keeping our stock fun and fresh." says the owner Angie McLean. "I travel and shop all over for one-of-a-kind clothing items, close outs, any items I can bring back to my customers to mix and match their wardrobe." Whether shopping for back to school, a hot date, the club, a family reunion, a movie, any holiday or any special event to attend and want to make a BIG presence, Psycho Sisters is a sure bet for any occasion. And don't forget, the Halloween selection at Psycho Sisters is outrageous!!

Savage Pizza

484 Moreland Ave. 404.523.0500 savagepizza.com

The Corner Tavern 1174 Euclid Ave 404.521.0667 www.thecornertavern.com

Rag-O-Rama

1111 Euclid Ave. 404.658.1988 Mon-Thu 11-8, Fri-Sat 11-9, Sun 12-7 ragorama.com

Psycho Sisters 428 Moreland Ave. 404.523.0100 Sun-Wed 10-9; Thu-Sat 10-10 psycho-sisters.com

Friendly staff, fun funky, unusual and outrageous Psycho Sisters has been the #1 consignment boutique in Atlanta for more than 20 Years. "We Buy, Trade, and Sell cool current clothing from men and

tacular men's and women's fashions and accessories. They carry an ever changing inventory of new and second-hand merchandise; including name brands, designer labels, vintage styles and one-of-a-kind wears. Rag-O-Rama buys daily, without appointments, during all hours of operation and offers cash and store credit on the spot for modern and vintage styles that reflect the current season. Also check out their new location in Sandy Springs. So, stop in whether it is to Buy, Sell or Trade!

Rag-O-Rama is a resale clothing store in the heart of Little Five Points. The enormous space is filled to the brim with spec-

Recently celebrating their 20th anniversary, this family run restaurant has earned a reputation for serving Atlanta's best burgers along with an excellent beer and liquor selection. Great food and spirits, rockin’ music, and collection of kooky decor have become hallmarks of The Vortex. Their 20foot high "Laughing Skull" facade at the front of the restaurant is an Atlanta landmark and identifies Little 5 Points like no other. The store front has appeared in music videos, commercials, even a video game, not to mention the thousands of snapshots taken by tourists.

Savage Pizza is a hip, eclectic restaurant that fits right in with the Little Five Points neighborhood. On Savage's menu you'll find homemade sauces, fresh dough and prepared dishes made from scratch every day. Savage's hand-tossed crusts are thrown with real hands and get enough air to make Tony Hawk jealous. In addition to their famous pizzas, they also have calzones, salads, subs and pasta. Savage serves lunch and dinner with indoor and outdoor seating and offers catering and delivery. Also visit their other location on Laredo Drive in Avondale Estates.

At the intersection of Euclid and Moreland resides The Corner Tavern; Little 5 Points most happening spot. Tuesdays and Wednesdays offer Trivia while Thursdays offers Darts and their Backyard BBQ Night. Come in for Brunch on the weekends and enjoy Bottomless Mimosas for just $11! The Little 5 Points location has “All You Can Eat Crab Legs” for $18.75 at 6pm on Sundays. There is also Poker here (check listings on their website).

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Taste of the Month-Barbecue! Fat Matt’s Rib Shack 1811 Piedmont Rd. 404.607.1622 fatmattsribshack.com

An Atlanta institution for more than 20 years, Fat Matt's keeps packing them in. On most nights you will find a line out the door of people eager to get to their famous barbecue. Not limited to the North Carolina or Kentucky styles, Fat Matt's uses their own seasoning and cooking technique. These ribs are smoked to perfection and literally falling off the bone. Fat Matt's ribs have been voted Best Of Atlanta by INsite readers and other publications. The ribs can be ordered as a whole, half slab, or on a sandwich. They also serve great barbecue chicken and pork. The signature side is their Rum Baked Beans, but they also have delicious Brunswick Stew, Mac & Cheese, Roasted Peanuts, Collards, Potato Salad, and Cole Slaw. Fat Matt's serves nine beers on tap and more in bottles. They feature live blues seven nights a week. Fat Back Deluxe performs every Sunday night and has a huge following. The rest of the week’s schedule is as follows: Mondays-Dry White Toast; Tuesdays - J.T. Speed; Wednesdays - The Hollidays; Thursdays – Chicken Shack. Check out their website for weekend performances as well as catering information and online purchases of such things as BBQ Sauce, T-Shirts and CD's.

Dreamland Bar-B-Que 5250 Peachtree Parkway 770.446.6969 10730 Alpharetta Hwy. 678.352.7999 dreamlandbbq.com

In 1958 John “Big Daddy” Bishop began serving his signature ribs and sauce when he opened Dreamland. Over 50 years later his signature style and recipe have become legendary and are still used today. Mr. Bishop treated everyone like family and at Dreamland you’ll be surrounded with that unmistakable Southern hospitality. You’ll start every meal with a Dreamland tradition: white bread and sauce. Then it’s on to the main dish. Dreamland’s ribs are grilled over a hot hickory fire and basted with Big Daddy’s southern-style sauce that has just a hint of a kick. You can also get bar-b-que sandwiches topped with chicken or pulled-pork to pair with traditional southern sides. Their sides include baked beans, Cole slaw, potato salad and house salads served with their very own BBQ house dressing. Don’t forget their famous banana pudding or Big Daddy’s Iced Tea, sweet or unsweet it will knock a few degrees off of a hot Southern Day. Can’t dine in? Dreamland offers carry-out and catering for any occasion! Visit Dreamland Bar-B-Que at 5250 Peachtree Parkway Northwest in Norcross or 10730 Alpharetta Highway in Roswell and you’ll get that legendary taste that “ain’t nothing like ‘em nowhere.”

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pignchik.net 4920 Roswell Rd. 404.255.6368 5071 Peachtree Ind. Blvd. 770.451.1112 1815 Briarcliff Rd. 404.474.9444

PigNChik.net The ribs at Pig-N-Chik come St. Louis cut, are cooked for 16 hours until they show a pink smoke ring. All the meats here are served naked without sauce so the true flavor of the meat comes through. They offer tasty homemade BBQ sauces on the tables and their barbecue is served accompanied with a slice of thick white bread to mop it up. Pig-N-Chik is a family friendly barbecue restaurant that offers something that everyone will like; all at affordable prices. From barbecue ribs and barbecue pork to turkey, beef brisket, chicken wings, smoked salmon and a variety of salads, they’ve got a menu filled with irresistible dishes. Your children will love their kid's menu, featuring a tasty selection of chicken fingers, corndogs, beef and pork sandwiches and pork ribs. What’s great about their menu is that there are so many different options. Interested in pulled pork? You can get it on a sandwich by itself or up to three sides; on a plate in three serving options; or ordered by the half-pound. Be sure to check out their newest location next to the Sage Hill shopping center on Briarcliff Rd. It offers a large patio out front with view of a flat screen TV for you Braves fans and is easily accessible to the Emory and Virginia Highland areas. All three locations offer Dine-in, Delivery and Catering.

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Buckhead Barbecue Co. 3100 Highlands Pkwy. 404.792.9388 buckheadbarbecueco.com

SUNDAY SOUTHERN BRUNCH LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY NIGHTS ON THE DECK If you’re hankering for ribs, pulled pork, pulled chicken or the best brisket this side of Texas…along with dozens of homemade sides and 8 different regional BBQ sauces, Buckhead Barbecue Co. has you covered! They also offer great starters like BBQ tacos, quesadilla’s and nachos. Fresh salads, smoked wings or an order of Burnt Ends may be just what you need before you dive into one of their knife & fork sandwiches like the Sweet Cornbread Pork Loaf Sandwich which comes drizzled in honey, stuffed with pulled pork and slathered in their own Memphis Sweet BBQ Sauce. If you’re ready to tie your feedbag on, order up The Big Pig! Move your hips to the Thank You Very Much Sandwich: a twist on The King’s favorite, with its peanut butter, bananas and hardwood smoked bacon. Join them for Sunday Southern Brunch. Huge buttermilk biscuits, fluffy pancakes, house cured ham, loaded omelets along with some grits to start your day. Or hang out on the deck, enjoy a cold beverage and listen to local music on Friday nights. Check Buckhead Barbecue Co. out on Facebook for Chef Jim’s weekly specials.

Find us on Facebook.com/BuckheadBarbecue Buckheadbarbecueco.com • (404) 792-9388 3100 Highlands Parkway #8 Smyrna, GA

One Star Ranch 25 Irby Avenue 404.233.7644 onestarranch.com

Owner Frank Bonk has been running this favorite Barbecue establishment for 25 years. Once known as the Rib Ranch, you will find it just off Roswell Rd. in Buckhead. One Star Ranch’s menu offers multiple barbecue options to choose from. These include Baby Back Ribs, Pork Ribs and their famous Beef Ribs.

The ribs come on the bone, pulled served on a plate or on a sandwich. You can also find wings served medium, hot and bbq of course. Great appetizers including: Fried Pickles, BBQ Quesadillas and Chicken Tenders can be found here. They have nine great side dishes each made from scratch daily including Brunswick Stew, Baked Beans and Corn on the Cobb. One Star Ranch also offers a Child’s Plate for just $5.99 offering choice of one meat, side and small drink. If you're already one of their customers, you know when it comes to bbq and ribs, it doesn't get any better than this. If you've never been to One Star Ranch, what are you waiting for? One Star Ranch is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner and offers a full bar including $6 Margaritas! There is plenty of free parking for dine-in or take-out and catering is available for parties large and small. insiteatlanta.com • July 2012 • PG 9

SPORTS

TRUE BLOOD

INsite goes a few rounds with Heavyweight Boxing Champ Wladimir Klitschko BY DEMARCO WILLIAMS

UR FIRST SCHEDULED interview with reigning heavyweight boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko didn’t work out because of time-zone confusion. (Wait, how many hours ahead of Atlanta is Klitschko’s native Ukraine again?) The second interview didn’t pan out because training for Wlad’s July 7 title defense against American Tony Thompson ran well into the night. Frustrations started building on this end. My deadline was approaching, but I knew Klitschko (57-3, 50 KO’s) had so many boxing-related items (controversial Pacquiao-Bradley decision, boxing’s fragile overall state, retirement rumors) to get off his chest. This third interview just had to come together. Thankfully, it did because nobody would have wanted to see my mean side as I labored to set up a fourth interview, not even Mr. Klitschko… Kidding, champ, kidding.

especially on the U.S. side. We don’t have good prospective fighters. There are some good fighters in the States, but they are not just famous enough to make it exciting. Unfortunately, from the times of the 70s, when Mohammad Ali Ken Norton and Joe Frazier were doing great, [things are different]. So, I wish I could be the same weight division as Pacquiao and [Floyd] Mayweather to make things more exciting, you know? Right. Or if Pacquiao and Mayweather [were] allowed in the heavyweight division, so I wish they could be heavyweights. Then it is going to be, of course, a different story. ut definitely there are a lot of good names, for sure.

Now, Wlad, with your brother, Vitali, there were rumors about him retiring. I think those were proven untrue. How long do you think he will continue fighting? That is a good question for my brother, because, I mean, he is older, five years older than I, but he feels pretty good and he is challenging young opponents, but he is fighting them pretty good. I’m impressed with his performance, even at this stage. And I think he is going to fight next sometime in September. (Editor’s Note: The fight is September 8 versus German Manuel Charr.) But I think it is a good question for him. I cannot speak for him.

Your sport is in the news for some bad things right now, with a lot of the negative discussion centered around the Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley bout. Do you agree with them investigating the results? I haven’t seen the fight, because in Europe it wasn’t broadcast. And it seems like it is a big issue in the States. I have to tell you, whatever it takes to investigate and make sure that all the results and all was clear is good for the sport. Of course, I heard about this fight. Unfortunately, I couldn’t see it. But I I FEEL ACTUALLY think, in general, it’s not BETTER THAN I USED a bad idea. I think it’s a TO FEEL AT 26. I’M good idea. Investigation is always good to make the 36 NOW. AND THERE sport better.

How much longer do you think you will fight? Oh, please don’t ask me those questions, because I’m going to start to cry. It is very that I’m getting IS A CERTAIN SAYING sad to those questions, IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT because that means I live in Atlanta, Georgia, the home of DIVISION IN BOXING, I’m not the youngest. Evander Holyfield. When I’m not, but I don’t YOU’RE REALLY he was popular, the feel this. I feel actually “JUICED.” SO, I’M heavyweight division had [that I’m] improving. a lot of excitement with REALLY JUICED NOW. I’m getting my shape, guys like Mike Tyson and my conditions and and Lennox Lewis. That everything else, and I feel actually better excitement is gone now. How can we rethan I used to feel at 26. I’m 36 now. And energize the heavyweight division? there is a certain saying in the heavyweight Well, we have different point of views in division in boxing, you’re really “juiced.” So, the heavyweight division right now. It is I’m really juiced now. I don’t think about funny to see from both sides of the world, retirement, but I’ve been thinking about because I do live in the States, in Florida, other life, another life out of boxing and out and I’ve been in Atlanta in 1996, actually, of sports. I’m thinking of it and preparing so I know the city. I remember the city myself for the life afterwards, I mean after pretty good. And if we are talking about the sports. But it’s something that I’m not heavyweight division, it’s going to be the considering right now. ninth stadium in a row for Vitali and me in combination [to fight in]. And it is going Don’t take that question in the wrong way. to be another sold-out stadium. So, fights I think you still look great and you still in every division are staged in stadiums deserve to be the champ. But what are and TV ratings are up in the sky on the some of your other interests? What else do European side. But the U.S. is definitely an you love besides boxing? issue and the feeling that the heavyweight Well, there’s a lot of different things that I division is going down the hill, which on can do pretty well in life. I can snowboard, one side you’re right. On the other side, if or wakeboarding, or kiteboarding, or you take a look from the European side, it golfing, or playing chess, or whatever you is like, “What are you talking about?” The name it. But the best I do boxing so far. ratings are high. TV ratings are high. And I’m even good at the charitable work, if I sold-out stadiums is also something usual have to mention it. It is really exciting to and incredible. But I have to give credit me, because I’m getting energy out of it if for you on that: Yes, there are some issues, I do something good. And I’m really happy

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that it’s an Olympic year. The Olympics are going to be staged in London. But I sold my Olympic gold medal in March this year, and I’m very happy about it, because it was sold for $1 million dollars. And a high percent of it is going for the kids, for the Klitschko Brothers Foundation and for the children in need, especially the projects of education and sport. So, I’m happy about that. I’m not going to politics, as my brother, so I’m out of politics. But there is a lot of other fields to take care of besides boxing. Let’s talk about the Hollywood aspect with your documentary, Klitschko. Why was it so important to put that movie together? There were different directors that were trying to make a documentary of us and we didn’t understand why we should do it. But [director] Sebastian Dehnhardt made a good point. He said, “Guys, you gotta do it because it is a good answer for a lot of fans, a lot of questions that they have. You are letting them take a look behind the curtains of the sport and also the Klitschko brothers. I think it is a great way of answering a lot of questions that possibly Klitschko fans or boxing fans could have.” And I think he was dead right about it. And he convinced us. So, over two years, [he] was the shooting of the documentary, which was running in the States in theaters and still running in Europe. We just had the premier in Great Britain and we are going to have another one in Russia in July. So, I think the main point is that it is an answer a lot of questions that possibly could be by the fans.

Would you consider doing more Hollywood-type acting? Well, it wasn’t Hollywood. It was a documentary. Right, right. I’m saying… I have made my experience with Ocean’s Eleven and two other productions with German movie and the other one that I recently had. I mean, it’s fun, but I’m not really excited about it. It’s definitely fun. And I had a great time shooting with Mark Wahlberg this March in Pain and Gain, this new film of Michael Bay. I mean, one more time, it’s fantastic. It’s a great experience. I enjoy it and I like it. It is something that I would say is a hobby but nothing more than that. Among boxing fans, how do you want to be remembered five or six years from now? You’re talking about legacy? I respect legacy, but to be honest with you, I don’t think about it right now. I don’t care about it. I care about the competition and I care about the man facing me in the ring and actually conquer the man’s will and break the will of winning, because the man goes to win this fight and that is the attitude every boxer has. But to break it, physically and mentally, that makes me excited about the sport and that is actually what I enjoy. And the legacy and all the possible records or whatever it’s going to be, it’s secondary to me. At this stage, I am not really thinking of it. I am living right now in today, and who knows how I’m going to be remembered?

EVENTS

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS BY MARCI MILLER ASO’S ALL-AMERICAN CELEBRATION

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the Fourth of July with an AllAmerican Celebration at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, the Orchestra’s summer home, on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. Guest conductor David Abell, joined by Broadway vocalist and Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte, will lead the Orchestra and U.S. Army Chorus in a program of patriotic sing-a-longs and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. The 94th Airlift Wing Dobbins Base Honor Guard will also join the Orchestra at the beginning of the concert to Present The Colors. The evening will conclude with a post-concert finale featuring fireworks produced by Pyrotecnico. This summer, the Orchestra celebrates its fifth season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park. Tickets start at $15. Please visit www.atlantasymphony.org or Ticketmaster. com for more information.

CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK’S 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION

Come celebrate Centennial Olympic Park’s 4th of July Celebration with a night of fun and entertainment for the entire family, including downtown Atlanta’s best fireworks display. Park gates open at 6 p.m. and fireworks start at approximately 9:40 p.m. The finale of the evening is Centennnial Olympic Park’s Fireworks Spectacular, Atlanta’s best fireworks display synchronized to a special selection of patriotic and popular music. Each year, thousands of people come to Centennial Olympic Park to celebrate Independence Day. MARTA is strongly encouraged for transportation. For more information, please visit www.centennialpark.com.

JULY ALL AMERICAN FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR @ TURNER FIELD

Celebrate 4th of July with the All-American past time, baseball! Cheer on the Atlanta Braves as they take on the Chicago Cubs at Turner Field, beginning at 7:10pm. The game on July 4 will be followed by a special All-American Fireworks display. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit http://atlanta. braves.mlb.com.

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LEGENDARY 4TH OF JULY AT LENOX SQUARE

Preparations are under way for one of the city’s beloved summer traditions – Legendary Fourth of July at Lenox Square. For over half a century, Lenox Square has celebrated ASO the patriotic pastime in grand tradition with activities for the entire family, including games for children, musical entertainment, food concessions and the largest fireworks display in the Southeast. Lenox Square shops and restaurants are open from 10 am - 6 pm. Musical entertainment begins at 6 pm. The Jimmy Buffet tribute band Sons of Sailors takes the stage at 6 pm followed by Party on the Moon at 7:30pm. Fireworks scheduled to begin at approximately 9:40pm. Visit www.lenoxsquare.com for more info.

FANTASTIC FOURTH CELEBRATION AT STONE MOUNTAIN PARK

Don’t miss the 45th Annual Fantastic Fourth Celebration! Enjoy the Lasershow LENOX SQUARE Spectacular in Mountainvision each night on July 3 & 4 followed by a special, patriotic fireworks finale on both nights. Please come early and prepare for large crowds. The lasershow and fireworks are free with paid parking. Vehicle entry to the park is $10 for a one-day permit or $35 for an annual permit. The lasershow and fireworks will take place at 9:30pm on the Memorial/Laser Lawn. For further information please call (770) 498-5690 or visit www.stonemountainpark.com.

MALL OF GEORGIA’S FABULOUS 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION

Mall of Georgia’s 10th Annual Fabulous Fourth of July Celebration will kick off at 2:00pm with three live bands, Vintage Boogie Band, Norwood and The Woody’s. The annual fireworks show STONE MOUNTAIN begins at 9:15pm followed by a showing of Sherlock Holmes 2 on the big screen. The fireworks display will launch from the Nordstrom Overflow Lot and as such, attendees are not permitted to park or sit in sections of the Nordstrom Parking Lot, which will be clearly marked. For the easiest entrance and exit, it is recommended that families park in the Dillard’s lot. For more information, visit www.mallofgeorgia.com.

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ACTOR EDDIE IZZARD

Takes on Long John Silver in Treasure Island BY LEE VALENTINE SMITH

ELIGHTFULLY IRREVERENT character actor Eddie Izzard (“The Riches,” Ocean’s Thirteen) stars in the new Sci-Fi original miniseries Treasure Land. Offering a fresh take on the oft-told tale, the modern epic will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD this month. The movie stars Izzard in an inspired bit of casting as the infamous pirate Long John Silver, helming the rousing action/ adventure with co-stars Donald Sutherland and Elijah Wood. Known for his standup comedy and roles in “United States of Tara” and “Valkyrie”, the gregarious, occasionally crossdressing Izzard spoke with INsite by phone from his current home in Los Angeles. Long John Silver has been portrayed so many times. Who or what was your inspiration for a fresh look at the character? Churchill was my inspiration. It sounds kind of weird, but obviously you’re looking for a fresh take. And the interesting thing is with Silver is that he keeps changing sides, shifting the ground. Churchill has been voted by the British people as the greatest British person ever in a television poll program that they did. This is someone who changed his political party twice, which is called “Ratting.” So Winston Churchill was not only a rat, he was a double rat. He changed from the conservative party to the liberal party, and then back to the conservative party. That’s definitely a different take. Robert Louis Stephenson based Silver upon a friend of his who was an editor and a journalist, and a poet who actually wrote the Invictus poem. So the writer of the Invictus Poem, which is the one that influenced Nelson Mandela when he was in prison, is in fact the basis for Long John Silver. And it’s about the indomitable spirit which is in that poem, so it’s this spirit, this changeability, this determination to get the gold and the treasure. I’m a determined bastard and I like to bring that to my characters. You mentioned the gold; approximately how much was the elusive booty? We worked out the treasure was the equivalent of something like $500 million. It‘s 300 pounds, so about $500 million. Imagine what you would do to get $500 million if it was buried on a treasure island? How do you personally relate to John Silver? I’d say the determined bastard bit is very central to me, as a transvestite who’s gotten this far in my career. Out transvestites who are doing okay in their careers is not a big group. So obviously I’m determined. I run marathons, I’m going into politics, I do productions, I’ve played the Hollywood Bowl, I do gigs in French language, so that I shoved all this into him on the chassis. But also his fallibility, and that’s at the center of all of us. To be weak and to be greedy, it’s a potential for all of us there.

What convinced you to take the role in the first place? I feel the story has been portrayed in a somewhat lighter fashion over the years and has gotten watered down. So I said, “It’s got to be harder than Pirates of the Caribbean, it‘s got to be gritty and have teeth.” It is indeed gritty. It’s almost a punk version. I feel it’s like a 1700s punk thing, yeah. The colors, the skin colors of the actual actors, is very important because we feel that’s what the pirates would have been like. In a lot of films through the last century, you had a lot of white pirates, a lot of white things, a lot of white people. And this is people with oriental skin colors, black, brown, white, just a whole mixture. I really liked that.

Your accent doesn’t mimic the stereotypical movie pirate. The accent I that I use is a London accent. Long John Silver, if you listen to him, he actually has a West country accent which is Bristol, which is to the West of England. And it’s much more of the “Ooh-aarr, Jim lad,” and all that, the West country accent. But I had this idea of, “Why not make him more London?” London was huge at that time, as this is the 1700s. It became a city of a million people; the last city before that of a million people was Rome. So if you could imagine that, there was Rome, everything collapsed after Rome and then it builds all the way back up. And then the 1700s, early 1800s, London becomes the size of what Rome was. So it was a really pumping city. And out of that, a lot of villainy was coming. Since it originally aired as a miniseries, is there a possibility this could turn into a regular series or another spin-off? Yes, we’re already talking about Treasure Island Two. It’s a dangerous thing to do a follow up to a classic. You can fall flat on your face. How did you endure working with the crutch? I must say, it’s tricky. I didn’t actually have my foot strapped up in the back, but the green screen took it out. But I never used my right foot; it never actually touched the ground in any scene. Even if they said, “Oh, we’re shooting you from the waist up,” I just never put it down. And it’s very hard to use just one crutch so the toughness of doing that added in to the character. You are well-known for your comedy but now you seem to be heading more toward dramas. There’s just a fine line between the two. Yes, but the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you’re not truthful in a drama, the audience leaves you. They go, “I don’t believe in what he’s doing.” You try to do that in every scene. I’D SAY THE DETERMINED BASTARD BIT IS VERY CENTRAL TO ME, AS A TRANSVESTITE WHO’S GOTTEN THIS FAR IN MY CAREER.

PG 12 • July 2012 • insiteatlanta.com

COOLIES KITCHEN

Fellini’s Founder Clay Harper Continues To Combine His Love of Rock & Restaurants BY BRET LOVE

were on– it was a big deal. Radio stations were more open to indie labels because there weren’t so many of them. If you got on a decent record label, radio stations were going to play it, people were going to write about you, and you were going to get some notoriety. You only had to be 18 to drink, so people who were more typically interested in music were able to enjoy it more. The 688 club was a hell of a scene. It was an exciting time, because people were interested in what was happening artistically, and this was a perfect venue to find your tribe.

HOUGH WE’VE NEVER SPOKEN on a personal level before, I’ve been a fan of Clay Harper for years. His Fellini’s Pizza was a mainstay of my Little 5 Points hangout back in the ‘80s, and the paella at his La Fonda Latina chain is simply out of this world. And did I mention he also happened to rock? Perhaps better known today as one of Atlanta’s coolest independent businessmen, Harper has also played an influential role in the city’s alt-rock scene, first with iconic Do you think being a part of that tribe fueled ‘80s band The Coolies and later alongside the success of your restaurants? Rob Gal (now Actually, I think better known it was the other for producing way around: The Sugarland) in food helped the Ottoman Empire. bands! I knew He and his so many people brother Mark from working have also released at Fellini’s. several children’s When we got records, and a really popular, few years ago he I think it was a wrote/produced snowball down a critically the mountain acclaimed on both sides. concept album The band got featuring vocals popular and from Drivin’ ‘n’ the restaurant Cryin’s Kevn got popular. Kinney. WHEN WE GOT REALLY POPULAR, I THINK IT WAS A Thank god... Now, Harper is SNOWBALL DOWN THE MOUNTAIN ON BOTH SIDES. about to release his THE BAND GOT POPULAR AND THE RESTAURANT How did your GOT POPULAR. THANK GOD... first proper solo restaurant album in well over a success benefit decade, Old Airport Road, an eclectic collection your music? It seems like it would be a relief of tunes that finds him surrounded by some of not to worry about the financial side of the Atlanta’s coolest musicians. We recently spoke music business. with the rockin’ restaurateur about food, music, The financial success of the restaurant is a money, and the connection between them. double-edged sword. Never in my life did I think of music as an avenue towards money. Tell me about your early interest in music. I just think of it as what I like to do. It’s very My brother and I were really into music and fulfilling to take an idea and take it to fruition always explored a bunch of new stuff. We used that way, but I never had to worry about to see every punk band that came through the having to support myself. One time I started a Agora Ballroom or wherever they happened to 45-of-the-Month club with Cosmo Vinyl, who be playing. That’s what really inspired me. In managed The Clash for a while, and the first the early ‘80s, when Fellini’s first got started, one was named single of the month by MTV. we placed local music and then the local This record company guy called me and I musicians started coming in to eat. I started thought, “Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if I made a making friends, and eventually started The pile of money doing this crap?!” Then I started Coolies with four other guys. fantasizing about it and, of course it didn’t happen. Now, I don’t think about money at all. How did you get onto the restaurant path? To me, the success of a record is whether I like When I was 12 we moved to Carrolton from the way it came out or not. Philadelphia, and there was nothing to do there. It was a real culture shock. I wanted to What can you tell me about your make some money, so I got a job at a French new record? restaurant in Carrolton as a busboy. I always I think it’s very good. It’s called Old Airport tell my daughter, “Be careful where you work Road, and it’s been in the works for three first, because you usually can’t shake it!” When years. On the last few records I’ve done, I’ve I was 18 (circa 1977) I moved to Atlanta and been more of a writer and producer rather worked at Franco’s Pizza, which was across than a performer. This is the first record I’ve from Brookwood Station. That was when I done in years where I’m the singer. I worked realized that I really liked the pizza business. with some great people, and nobody was interested in getting it done if it wasn’t done When did you start Fellini’s? right, which took quite a bit of time. It’s May 5, 1982. So we just had our somewhat eclectic–definitely a departure 30th anniversary! for me– and has beautiful songs with a despairing look at the world. It comes out What was the Atlanta the music scene like on Terminus Records around the same time when the Coolies first started out? this article comes out, and it features guests In a way, the vetting process was a lot harder such as Col. Bruce Hampton and blues singer back then. If you got a little record deal– even Sandra Hall. I really feel great about every if you got on DB Records, which the Coolies aspect of this one...

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN “All we’re certain of is that the web-slinger’s flights are awesome. The behind-the-mask action shots are dynamic. The lovebirds’ chemistry is evident. But as a franchise reboot, there’s just not enough about this Spider-Man for it to be considered truly amazing.” Our review:  of Notre Dame. A dog named Rufus supplies comic relief and there’s also motherdaughter stuff to tug at the heartstrings. –Steve Warren

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has to choose whether to do what he knows or to venture into something unknown, safer, and potentially more gratifying. The film is predictably full of buff bodies and booty shaking, but thankfully there’s more to it, including character arcs one would not expect from the previews. It will never earn an Oscar, but it did have a decent storyline and was not a complete waste of time. –Justin Patterson

This was a lovely romantic comedy starring Greta Gerwig (Damsels In Distress) and directed by Daryl Wein. The story follows 29-year-old Lola, who is unexpectedly NATURAL SELECTION dumped by the love of her life just weeks  before their wedding. Trying to make sense out to a good phrase, It was a of herIt lifeturned and her emotions with Be the help One of those indie But gems that’s appreciated FLuke. durIng the very FIrst show I was a LIttLe of her friends and family, she haphazardly all the more in a summer with little to cheer embarks on new relationships hilarious about,contestants Natural Selection is the debut feature exasperated wIthwithone oF the and I used and life-changing consequences. 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source book, “Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy.” The idea is that the “breast cancer culture” has been coopted by commercial entities using “the tyranny of cheerfulness” to further their own agendas. Environmental factors are downplayed because companies that raise money to fight breast cancer make products containing carcinogens that may cause it, or expose workers to them in their factories, or they maximize publicity for minimal donations. Prevention is said to be underfunded because it’s less profitable for drug companies that make money off treatments, but it’s admitted that the causes are unknown and less than half the women with breast cancer have what are considered the major risk factors. Some want to bring back old-fashioned activism, saying anger will do more good than cuddly pink fundraising walks, races and products; others object to using “militaristic metaphors” like “fight” and “survivor.” The film was completed before last year’s kerfuffle over Susan G. Komen for the Cure pulling funding from Planned Parenthood. The point that should be emphasized is that you should research charities before giving them your money. –Steve Warren

PROMETHEUS 

This would seem to offer the perfect recipe for genre cinephiles: it showcases some of the movie industry’s most sought-after international stars (Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace); it’s a sci-fi/horror epic with eyepopping special effects; and it’s the first time in his 35-year film career that director Sir Ridley Scott has revisited one of his groundbreaking films (Prometheus is a sort-of prequel to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien). With ingredients like that, how can it lose? Unfortunately, it’s a muddled mess infested with many of the fatal flaws of lesser, lazier flicks. Subplots sprout and wither with equal suddenness; character motivations are downright mystifying instead of teasingly mysterious; and all too often the story is moved forward via pointless stupidity, inexplicable inconsistency and cursory decision-making. Were this a freshman effort by an unknown director, one might forgive the film its flaws. But this is from the knighted auteur who gave us Blade Runner, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. There’s no excuse for such sloppiness. ** –John C. Snider

ROCK OF AGES 

This ‘80s flashback, clad in aqua net and heavy on the eyeliner, was a musical smash on Broadway before its turn on the big screen. The plot is familiar- a young heroine, fresh off the bus, enters California’s seedy Sunset Strip looking for fame and fortune. Julianne Hough is beautiful and fun to watch as Sherrie, the young woman looking to make it big. Sherrie falls for her co-worker at the Bourbon Room, Drew (Diego Boneta), and musical magic ensues. The Bourbon Room is in financial danger, and only one star can pull in the kind of money needed to save the bar– rock god Stacee Jaxx. Played by Tom Cruise, Jaxx steals the show. He’s ferocious and cocky while somehow endearing and earnest. The other star players– Alec Baldwin as the club owner, Mary J. Blige as a strip club owner and Catherine Zeta-Jones as a religious zealot– pale in comparison to the eerie magnetism of Mr. Cruise. He captures the pain, decadence and glory of the era in his every nuance. The movie is deliciously campy, showering attendees in power ballads like “Keep On Lovin’ You” by REO Speedwagon, “I Want To Know What Love Is” by Foreigner and “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” by Poison. The story is not heavy in plot, but that fits the fluffy Rock of Ages perfectly. The movie is not meant to be taken too seriously, but rather to be enjoyed. –Amanda Miles PG 14 • July 2012 • insiteatlanta.com

SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED

script takes it to a much higher level, but Williams’ performance raises it further still, suggesting the men may be competing for Safety Not Guaranteed details what happens damaged goods. Where this grown-up movie when a magazine writer and two interns find a goes and how it gets there should surprise story in a personals ad. “WANTED: Someone everyone. to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. –Steve Warren You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once TED before. Safety not guaranteed.” Though labeled  a comedy, this film is a quirky and touching drama that is occasionally funny and always Seth MacFarlane’s directorial debut film is interesting. Mark Duplass plays Kenneth, a filled with moments where a teddy bear uses hurting and hopeful man who is desperate to a bong and has sex with hot women, paid and travel through time (again?) for reasons that unpaid. Depending on how you feel about that are closely guarded. He needs a companion or, say, random references to Flash Gordon, but is reluctant to trust. Fearing the men who Family Guy and Van Wilder in the middle of a are following him but desperate to succeed, story about a guy choosing between his loser he finally chooses to trust magazine intern best friend and his hot girlfriend, you’ll either Darius (Aubrey Plaza). From the producers of love Ted or patiently wait in silence for the end Little Miss Sunshine, this film bring much of credits trying to find something, anything to the same off-balance feel along with the vague like. This is not hypothetical: My roommate sense of quietly being far deeper than viewers loved this movie, but I spent most of it wishing had anticipated. Like other films that are not that someone would set the damn bear on fire. easily categorized, Safety Not Guaranteed The premise is that, in 1985, a little boy from bring viewers through a myriad of sensations: Boston named Johnny wants a friend and being amused, disturbed, touched, inspired and makes a Christmas wish that his teddy bear genuinely perplexed. Though not for everyone, were a real friend. The wish comes true. When this is a film for those who demand a good story it moves to the present, 35-year-old Johnny (Mark Wahlberg) still has Ted around and a and want to think while being entertained. –Justin Patterson not-so-understanding girlfriend (Mila Kunis). MacFarlane voices the bear as it drinks, insults, SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE curses and screws, predictably ruining Johnny’s relationship. Then, midway through, the movie WORLD had moments of genuinely inspired lunacy,  including one of the craziest party montages This film is about what happens to people when I’ve ever seen; game cameos from Norah Jones, they know the Earth will be destroyed in three Tom Skerritt and others; and a hotel room fight weeks by an asteroid. Steve Carell plays Dodge, scene that’s pretty damn funny. If you’ve seen an insurance man whose wife literally got out E.T. or You, Me & Dupree, you can tell where of the car and ran away from him forever when the movie is going. This is not my kind of they heard on the radio that the asteroid hadn’t comedy, for 30 fart jokes is 20 too many in my been stopped. He wants things to just keep book. But Mark Wahlberg seems to be having going until they stop so that he doesn’t have more fun in this movie than he ever did i n to face that he’s utterly alone. Keira Knightley The Happening, so we can all be grateful plays Penny, a neighbor Dodge never met for that. before he found her weeping on the fire escape –Benjamin Carr outside of his apartment. She missed the last trans-Atlantic flight to be with her family at the end, and he wonders whatever happened to “the One That Got Away.” The quiet square and the free-spirited, impulsive young woman find themselves travelling together. While they pursue their final goals and social order crumbles around them, the two find a deep and unlikely love that both wish had come along sooner. The movie is funny, though not a comedy. By only focusing on two people, we come to know why they are who they are and what importance everything has for them. It’s amusing, somewhat disturbing, and very touching at times. A good date movie, this will entertain while also making viewers think. **1/2 –Justin Patterson 

TAKE THIS WALTZ 

If someone doesn’t give Michelle Williams an Oscar, she’s just going to take it! She deserves one for her performance as Margot, one of the most intimate portrayals of a woman ever captured on celluloid. If there’s a problem, it’s that Williams brings more to the character than exists in the script, leaving some of the viewer’s questions unanswered. Five years into a generally happy marriage to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer and “the kindest, gentlest person in the world,” Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), a wannabe artist who pulls a rickshaw for a living. That they meet in Nova Scotia but live across the street from each other in Toronto seems too much of a coincidence, but what it really represents is inevitability. They flirt with each other until Daniel has the bluest balls in Canada, but emotionally fragile Margot is really teasing herself. If Hollywood had made this, Katherine Heigl would be trying to decide between Mr. Right and Mr. Right Now. Sarah Polley’s (Away from Her)

THAT’S MY BOY 

That’s My Boy is Adam Sandler doing what he does best– bringing juvenile humor to the masses. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sandler’s character Donny became infamous by fathering a child with his teacher when he was still in middle school. She became pregnant and still swore she loved him as they took her to prison. Donny’s son Todd (Andy Sandberg) moved out the moment he turned eighteen, changed his name and his life. Now, Donny needs money and has been offered a lot if he can manage a prison reunion with himself, his son and the imprisoned Miss McGarricle. Recently engaged Todd wants nothing to do with his man-child father but Donny just won’t go away. That’s My Boy isn’t a good film, but it’s what Sandler fans want when they go to the movies. It’s definitely funny, even belly-laugh funny at times. Cameos from James Caan and Tony Orlando actually add to the film, while the presence of Vanilla Ice appreciably improves the entertainment. In a film partly about a man realizing that he needs to grow up and that others need for him to, it even gets a bit touching here and there. It’s not good, it is funny, but wait for it to hit DVD in a month. –Justin Patterson

YOUR SISTER’S SISTER 

It’s fascinating to see how complicated the relationships between three people can become. In Your Sister’s Sister how they become complicated isn’t always interesting, because it involves long conversations. Still this is one of the better “mumblecore” films, which set up situations and let actors talk their way out of them, and it’s a step up for writer-director Lynn Shelton after Humpday. Iris (Emily Blunt) and Jack (Mark Duplass) are best friends. Jack’s late brother Tom had been in a relationship with Iris until she dumped him. Jack is going through a bad patch and Iris intervenes, sending him to her dad’s remote cabin to get some “headspace.” When Jack arrives he finds Iris’ older sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) already in residence. They talk a lot and drink a lot and you think you know what’s going to happen, except that Hannah’s just coming out of a sevenyear lesbian relationship. It happens anyway. In the morning Iris shows up unexpectedly. It shouldn’t be as awkward as they make it, but then there wouldn’t be as much drama – or comedy. Everyone has secrets they gradually reveal to us and more gradually to each other. There are worse ways to kill 90 minutes than watching three reasonably attractive people (and good actors) sitting around talking. –Steve Warren

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daughter] goes to jail, he raises the son -- but not in the best way. So he comes back to resurrect their relationship. It’s funny and a little heartwarming, too. I played one of Leighton’s bridesmaids.

How is Adam Sandler as a boss? That sounds funny to say, but it is his production company. Adam’s Happy Madison Productions is like a summer camp! For the most part, the set was very laid back and relaxed, but at the same time, Adam and Sean Anders, the director, were very professional and kept things on track. It was really amazing to see that things can be funny and you can break for laughter, but then you get right back in it because you want to finish the scene the best way possible. He was so welcoming and kind. How did you get the role? I went in and auditioned last June. Then I went home to Texas for the Fourth of July and enjoyed the holiday with my family; didn’t think anything more of it. I always leave auditions like, “Oh great, that was fun, now on to the next one.” When I got back to LA, I got a call that I had a movie offer! I thought, “What?! Oh my gosh, this is crazy!” With all the comic actors in the film, was there a lot of improv going on? That to me, was one of my favorite things: learning how this particular kind of comedy was executed. Mostly, everyone stuck to the script. If they were to do a different take, Adam would have a suggestion like, “Maybe say it with this in mind…” He’d

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have some pointers, but it was pretty much up to the actor how they would interpret it. It was really cool to see how the whole process works.

Tell us about the hot tub scene. That was probably the funniest scene we got to shoot! Meagan Fay is in it, and she plays Leighton’s mom. She is hysterical. And there’s a funny surprise at the end of the scene! But all the bridesmaids, the minute they yelled “Cut,” we were all were like “Where’s the pizza, where’s some food?” because we had been gearing up for that scene. We had to be in bikinis so once we got out of that hot tub, all we wanted to do was go chow down! This is Sandler’s raunchiest film to date. What do you think of the decidedly crude genre: the R-rated low-brow comedy? It is popular and it is his first “hard R” movie and it is pretty raunchy -- but in a good way, a hysterical, funny way. In my life, I don’t normally curse, so that’s a little different. But it’s two hours that you laugh and enjoy other peopl’s performances. It’s a summer movie. But I had to warn my mom, “It is rated R, mom,” and she was like, “You know I’ll support whatever you’re in and I can’t wait to see it!” Let’s talk about your three years as a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. Is there a code or a secret handshake or some sort of Armylike camaraderie? Oh my gosh, that’s so funny you said

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Allstars Tour featuring:

Suicide Silence & Unearth

The Word Alive / I See Stars / Attila A Skylit Drive / Winds of Plague / Stick To Your Guns / For The Fallen Dreams Stray From The Path / Obey The Brave Make Me Famous Betraying the Martyrs Wed Sep 26 7:00 PM 17.00 ADV

Frank Turner Larry and His Flask

Rockstar Energy Drink

Mayhem Festival

Sat, July 21

311 & Slightly Stoopid

Tues, July 24

Kiss and Motley Crue The Under The Influence of Music Tour

Wiz Khalifa / Mac Miller

Thur, July 26

Vans Warped Tour

Thur, Aug 2

IDentity Festival

Fri, Aug 10

Carnival of Madness

Sat, Aug 11

KISS 104.1 Flashback Festival

Sat, Aug 18

Jason Mraz w/ Christina Perri

Fri, Aug 24

Tue Aug 21• 7:00PM • 20.00 ADV

Def Leppard & Poison Big Time Rush w/ Cody Simpson, Rachel Crow

Set It Off / Patent Pending

Kevin Devine / Buried Beds

Concerts take place rain or shine. Artists and schedules are subject to change. All sales final. No exchanges or refunds.

Tues, July 10

Wed, July 25

Sat Oct 20 • 6:30 PM • 28.00 ADV

Big head Todd & The monSTerS and cake

liT and marcy Playground

Delta ClassiC Chastain PaRK aMPhitheateR FRiDay, July 13

Delta Classic Chastain Concerts promoted by ASO Presents support the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park is owned and operated by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Wed Aug 1 • 3:00 PM • 25.00 ADV Wed Aug 29 • 5pm • $40 ADV

Tickets also at the venue box office (M-F: 10am-6pm; Sat: 10am-2pm; closed Sunday). The venue is conveniently located off GA-400 in Alpharetta.

Sat, Aug 25 Wed, Sept 12 Sat, Sept 15 Sat, Oct 6

Ford F-Series Presents

Toby Keith w/ Brantley Gilbert Phish Rockstar Energy Drink

Uproar Festival Brad Paisley w/ The Band Perry &

Scotty McCreery

Journey w/ Pat Benatar, Loverboy

4pack lawn tickets available for select shows

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KISS AND MOTLEY CRUE

Presented By

Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood July 24

LEXUS SOUTH ATLANTA

BY DAVE COHEN

G G Spotlight Concert The Swingin’ Medallions

July 7

Richard Marx Solo Tour with 20 Strings

July 14

Spotlight Concert The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra

July 21

Billy Ocean

August 11

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NE OF THIS SUMMER’S HOTTEST rock tours promises to deliver a “Bang for your Buck” and with the masked marvels of rock and roll, KISS, and Motley Crue they mean it in the literal sense. Simply called “The Tour,” these two iconic bands are joining forces on a 40-plus city tour that will bring them to Atlanta on July 24th at Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood. It’s the first time the two bands have toured together since 1982 and KISS’ Paul Stanley told Billboard.com, “Seeing them on stage, it was obvious back then that this was the next big thing. We talk about bang for buck, this will be the definition of bang for buck on this tour. If you want to see more bombs and artillery, you’ll have to check out the military.” From Motley Crue’s lead singer Vince Neil, “These guys are the baddest band in the world. Our very first tour was with KISS and to be able to do it now is amazing.” While longtime KISS Army members have an idea what to expect, first-time concert goers just need to remember to heed the warning and buckle up and hang on for the ride when that curtain drops at Lakewood. Stanley and Gene Simmons, each sporting new costumes as well as their classic seven inch leather heels, lead the bombardment along with guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer. One of KISS’ mottos has always been, “If it’s too loud, you’re

too old!” Says Stanley, “I want people to hope for the legend that they’ve heard about and find out it’s greater than that. I think that the longer we’re around the more invincible we become.” Motley Crue, the opening band during this tour, is still intact with Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee. Try not to get too dizzy when Lee goes into his roller-coaster drum solo, a real spectacle to see. Singer and Thayer were not members of KISS back in 1982 and now that they are, they are looking forward to touring with the Crue for the first time. “I wasn’t there. I was in the crowd watching,” Thayer said of the previous tour three decades ago. “Both bands are fans of each other,” Singer added. “Everyone in KISS is a fan of Motley, big time. I remember when ‘Dr. Feelgood’ came out. If you’re planning on going to the Atlanta concert and want to double the experience then you can also catch the show over in Birmingham, Alabama on July 31st at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater. “You wanted the best, you got the best. The hottest band in the world… KISS!”

IDENTITY FESTIVAL’S ERIC PRYDZ

Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood Aug. 2 BY ALASTAIR DUNCAN

DM IS CLEARLY HAVING A moment in the US at present. You’re back on a major tour for the first time here since 2007. Typically I feel like America has always looked to Europe for dance music. Is that changing now, is the rest of the world looking at what’s going on here at the moment? Did you feel like you needed to come back and see what was happening in America? Is that what prompted you to get involved with IDENTITY? Commercial dance music has really blown up in the States over the last 3 years and I think that’s great! The last time I was here was in 2010 so I am really looking forward to seeing what has happened since I was gone.

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DJs in the US are making the transition out of clubs to larger venues. I feel like that’s something you’ve done for some time, especially with your EPIC shows. How much of an adjustment is that as an artist? We made the EP/IC show because we wanted to take my shows to the next level using technology that had never been used in electronic music productions before. Most of

the bigger productions at that time was a big stage with LED walls, co2 canons and confetti. We felt that we wanted to make a show that was different from all that and really try to push the limits.

With this transition to larger venues, there is more and more pressure for DJs to play their ‘hits’. Do you feel that there is a danger that the skill of DJing, building a set over sometime and introducing a crowd to new music, is in danger of dying? Or is the DJ’s role just changing? I see that a lot in Europe at the moment. Many clubbing people are tired of just hearing the same radio hits in all the big djs sets and are looking for alternatives.This is why the deep house and techno scene have exploded over the last year and is now bigger than ever in Europe. I’ve seen this happen before, 10 years ago in Europe. People moved on from the commercial music and went back underground. It all goes in circles with trends and hypes. Your PRYDA album dropped earlier this summer. What can people expect from that, and how does it differ from an Eric Prydz artist album? Pryda has always been Pryda. The album is a triple disc box and 2 of the discs include all the back catalog tracks from the Pryda label while the 3rd disc is all new material. What can fans expect when you play in Atlanta and other dates on the IDENTITY tour? We have done a special show for the identity tour that I hope people will love! Come down and check it out.

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Road Warriors

This Month’s Hottest Shows BY SACHA DZUBA

JULY 10 – GIRL IN A COMA

The Earl Named after a song by their hero Morrissey, Girl in a Coma is anything but the shoe gazer indie shimmer that might come to mind from their name. Swampy rock, pop, punkish psychedelia, doo-wop, indie rock influences their diverse and eclectic sound. A trio of tough Latina ladies, this band is ablaze with passion, fire, and depth of emotion. One of Joan Jett’s favorite bands, they are signed to her label Blackheart Records. I became aware of them through a Robert Rodriguez directed video for their cover of David Bowie’s “As the World Falls Down”. Pounding drums, a solid baseline, wailing guitars and an incredibly versatile voice allows their music to easily switch from aggressive punk to pop to heartbreaking ballad. These girls are anything but comatose.

JULY 14 – CROSBY, STILLS, & NASH

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Some may feels that Crosby, Stills, & Nash are an anachronism, that these musicians are stuck in a haze of hippie ideology. They formed one of rock’s first supergroups in the late sixties, with their first concert appropriately being at Woodstock. David Crosby was in The Byrds, Steven Still in Buffalo Spring-

field, and Graham Nash was in The Hollies. Though CS&N emerged during the tempestuous climate of the Vietnam war, the group’s anti-war messages still resonante with our present. All three still support activist causes, even serenading protesters at the Occupy Wall Street camp. Expect an evening of intricate vocal harmonies intermingled with Americana rock, rounded out with a full backing band. There will be plenty of classic songs such as “Teach Your Children”, “Love the One You’re With”, and maybe even “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. An evening of classic rock, a concert event not to be missed.

JULY 14 – ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL

Lakewood Amphitheatre A powerful concert event full of energy and energy drinks, the Rockstar Mayhem Festival will bring together a massive amount of metal mayhem. Headliners Anthrax, Motorhead, Slayer, and Slipknot will be the big draw, but the rest of the supporters such as The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, and Asking Alexandria, round out this festival to embody its namesake. Anthrax combine the vocals and guitar of heavy metal with hardcore punk to create their genre defining thrash sound. Motorhead are fast, loud, and groundbreakingly famous…along with Lemmy’s mole. Slayer are extreme and distinctive with all the horrors of hell and a pentagram to match. Slipknot are the alterna-metal post-Marilyn Manson/ Korn rap-metal that fostered the nu-metal wave of the 90’s. Expect a lot of energy and requisite amounts of parent-free anarchy on a

long, hot July day. Lots of great hard rock and metal bands, bring those metal horns and be prepared to raise ‘em high!

JULY 15 - REFUSED

The Masquerade The long awaited reunion of fantastic punk band Refused! Despite numerous emphatic statements that they would never reform, 14 years later, here they are! A Swedish hardcore punk group, they are best know for their incredible album The Shape of Punk to Come. In this album, Refused meshed their grating, jagged guitars with cello, violin, flute, and a jazz mindset. Refused was initially a hardcore punk band with political lyrics. They blended a myriad of genres and shellacked the sound with their rough and ready punk veneer. Expect a mosh pit of massive proportions, but go see this once in a lifetime reunion show. The shape of punk to come IS Refused.

JULY 19 – HE’S MY BROTHER, SHE’S MY SISTER

The Earl He’s My Brother She’s My Sister are an eccentric blend of musical styles, swaggering and flamboyant with a vaudevillian flair. Brother Robert and Sister Rachel harmonize their vocals along with playing guitar and tambourine, respectively. Stand up bass, lap slide guitar, and cello round out the rest of the band; along with the glorious Lauren Brown, who adds full-body percussion and energetic tap dancing as their rhythmn section. “Flamboyant Folk”, “Psych-Acoustic”, with their unique instrumentation and a bent to the theatrical, these performers have a sound that is joyous and infectious. Their audiences tend to erupt in a flurry of dancing, embracing the unusual melding of the modern, the antique, and the bizarre. A great band to be seen in the intimate setting of the Earl.

JULY 24 – MOTLEY CRUE AND KISS Lakewood Amphitheatre

WE GOT NEXT CARAVAN OF THIEVES

JULY 26 – AEROSMITH

Philips Arena Aerosmith are one of America’s living musical legends. These Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-ers have countless awards, 4 Grammy’s, 8 America Music Awards, 6 Billboard awards, 12 MTV Music Video awards, etc. etc. They even have an award for Best Rap Single when they remixed Run DMC’s “Walk This Way”. Their 15th album, Music From Another Dimension features their first new material in 11 years. (Out this Aug.) While the band will play a few songs from the new album, Joe Perry assured “We have a catalog going back 40 years, and every classic we take out of the set is going to be missed by some kid who hasn’t heard it live yet, whether it’s ‘Walk This Way’, ‘Dream On’ or ‘Jaded’. We have to honor that. It’s going to be a real rock ‘n’ roll show.” So get your wings, get a grip and just push play with Aerosmith.

Artists on the verge of making it big

Latest Project: The Funhouse (United for Opportunity) For Fans of: Gypsy Bordello, Dresden Dolls, DeVotchKa Why You Should Care: Because this couple makes the finest Gypsy Punk Rock since… well, ever.

BY JOHN B. MOORE

Motley Crue and Kiss together, two dynamic and spectacle oriented showman bands ready to blow minds and eardrums. The press leading up to “The Tour” (as it has been named) has had multiple quotes from both bands criticizing the latest pop concerts that focus on dancing, lip-synching, and karaoke tapes. Paul Stanley says “I want people to leave and go, so this is what rock & roll is.” Both bands are bringing their full legendary stage shows. Kiss are well known for their intense and mind exploding live performances featuring blood, smoke, rockets, pyrotechnics, fire breathing, outrageous costumes, and signature makeup. Motley Crue are notorious for girls, drugs, and rock and roll. Both bands have enjoyed renewed interest as classic metal and outrageous rock are being revisited by current nostalgic trends. What can you expect? Gene Simmons probably best summed up what this show will be all about, “Come out, we’ll blow sh*t up, go home and fu*k your girlfriend, that’s it.”

AND PERSONALITIES CAN BE kind of hard to take at times. You spend weeks and months on end pouring your heart out in a studio with those band members and then spend months – in some cases years - on the road crammed into a van with those very same people. So all that time with your fellow band members can grate after a while. But imagine if your spouse also happens to be one of those band members? That’s the case for Fuzz and Carrie Sangiovanni, the husband and wife founders of Caravan of Thieves, a beautifully eclectic fourpiece that is part gypsy swing and part folk rock band. But the duo – who are joined in the group by violinist Ben Dean and bassist Brian Anderson - have managed to make it work. As a result, they are quickly moving from the music world’s best kept secret to becoming everyone’s favorite new band. They’ve already

toured the globe with everyone from Nanci Griffith to the Decemberists. And, with a stage show that has to be seen to be explained, Caravan of Thieves is spending most of the rest of the year on the road touring in support of The Funhouse, their second album. Fuzz and Carrie spoke recently about making that album, buying props for their shows and how the couple manage to separate band life from home life. So to start, were you in a band first or a couple first? Fuzz: Couple first, but just for a little while. Our first gig together as a duo came about three months after we started dating. We did do a little singing and strumming together the first night we met, though. Carrie: Yea, Fuzz had a gig opening for Dickey Betts at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut. He asked me to join him on it and we put together a set of music the week of the show and pulled it off! That’s when we discovered that there was a real chemistry both on and off the stage. A few months after that we were planning our wedding and our first west coast tour as a duo. Seems like family members have a tough time keeping it together in a band. Do you two have any ground rules to keep things separate? Carrie: It can be tricky since we tour a lot and when we’re home we always have work to

do for the band, either writing or practicing or the business end. We don’t argue much but when we do, it often has something to do with work. So we both remember that that’s all it is and we don’t take it personally. I think when you collaborate with someone, especially if you’re in a relationship as well; you need to have a thick skin and confidence in your relationship. Fuzz: Yea, we always keep solid communication open and resolve issues right away. Been in too many bands and relationships where problems smolder for too long and become much bigger problems than they need to. In addition, we have one important rule: whether we are on the road or home, we try to have at least a few times a month where we do something together that doesn’t involve the band and where we won’t talk about the band. Science and philosophy are usually more interesting to discuss anyway. What can you tell me about the songs on The Funhouse? How did this writing and recording process compare to Bouquets? Carrie: On both records we intended to capture the live energy and feel of the band. Funhouse just has a few more layers and a bigger sound, but still all acoustic. Just more junk and kitchen appliance percussion and wider variety of string instruments (like resonator guitar, banjo, ukulele) played aggressively and recorded at hot levels to add some character and intensity to the record.

Your stage show is a bit more than just four musicians running through the songs off their album. How would you describe it? Carrie: The show is first and foremost musical. And we make sure the playing, arrangements and songs are very well rehearsed and thought out. But it is also humorous, visual and interactive. Fuzz: We’ve spent the last four years developing ideas and concepts for our show on the stage as we go. Some things work and some don’t. So we abandon them. But the things that seem to resonate with our audience most are the interactive moments. This is something Carrie and I first developed from doing outdoors, free form street performances, from trying to grab the people’s interest as they pass by, without a stage and production to rely on. And we find when there’s less of a barrier between us and the audience there’s a synergy there that’s just amazing. In that way it’s more or less a street performance brought to the stage. What was the hardest thing to get used to going from a duo to a full band? Carrie: More opinions and having to adapt to new personalities and dynamics. Fuzz: Definitely, but that could also be the answer to what was the best thing about going from a duo to a full band. We find the band and group dynamic inspiring, sometimes insane, but always exciting. insiteatlanta.com • July 2012 • PG 19

MUSIC

Album Reviews

Reviews by B. Love, DeMarco Williams, John Moore & Lee Valentine Smith

The Dean’s List B.o.B. – Strange Clouds (Rebel Rock/Grand Hustle/Atlantic) A smashing smorgasbord of sounds BL: There was a time in the ‘70s when radio was fun to listen to. You could turn on Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40” and hear everything from Willie Nelson and James Brown to ELO, Blondie and the Bee Gees… all on the same station! For a kid who grew up listening to that smorgasbord of sounds, today’s narrowly-defined niche stations seem like a boring box of chocolates where you ALWAYS know what you’re gonna get. At 23, Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr. is too young to remember Kasem’s heyday, but he obviously grew up listening to a similarly diverse mixture of sounds. Though he made his name on the underground hip-hop scene, B.o.B.’s debut also featured rock, pop, folk and electronic influences. With a list of guest stars that includes Nicki Minaj, Ryan Tedder and Taylor Swift, his sophomore album promises more of the same. Opening with a foreboding voiceover by Morgan Freeman, “Bombs Away” starts things off with a funky fury, as B.o.B. spits venomous rhymes (just in case you’d forgotten his ability to blaze a mic). “Ray Bands” is a summertime party track about a gold-digger eager to catch his eye (and wallet), but the title track carries more weight, with B.o.B. and Lil Wayne trading verses over a slammin’ beat. Few artists use guests as smartly as B.o.B.: “Both Of Us” featuring Taylor Swift is this album’s “Airplanes,” “Arena” featuring Chris Brown and T.I. is its “Past My Shades,” and the country-inflected “Never Let You Go” featuring Ryan Tedder is an oddball track a la “Magic.” But Bobby Ray is at his best when he gets introspective on the folksy “So Hard To Breathe,” a deeply personal rumination about the high price of fame. Not every single track here works, but the ones that do work extremely well, and should be shooins for Top 40 rotation. The Adventures of Bobby Ray was a showcase for B.o.B.’s promise as a rapper /singersongwriter/ producer, but Strange Clouds delivers on that promise in spades. EAMON McGRATH – Young Canadians (White Whale) Stellar collection of punk/folk from Canadian soloist JM: Eamon McGrath is a bit like the Canadian version of Chuck Ragan. There are obvious comparisons between McGrath and PG 20 • July 2012 • insiteatlanta.com

Hot Water Music’s frontman: Both share a voice that comes out like a beautifully direct bark, straining at times, but powerfully emotive; both can slide between genres such as punk, folk and alt-country effortlessly; and both are impeccable songwriters, stingy with their words, avoiding clichés and managing to weave impressive stories with the three minutes they are allotted per song. Nowhere is that better illustrated by McGrath than on “Saskatoon, SK,” the album closer on Young Canadians. The song starts off with a slow, steady build from a lap steel, telling the first-person story about being worn out and running away, before it builds up to a wall of distorted chords with lyrics that are almost screamed with a vengeance. It’simply sublime. But, to be fair, you could grab just about any track off this 23-yearold’s album and realize just how much talent lies here waiting to be discovered by a bigger audience. Young Canadians is McGrath’s third formal release, but it’s rumored that he’s written well over 200 songs in his brief, but sure-to-be-brilliant career. Can’t wait to hear his next collection of tunes! KILLER MIKE – R.A.P. Music (Williams Street Records/Grind Time Official) Making killer musical connections DW: Williams Street Records is the avantgarde recording d i v i s i o n of Turner Broadcasting . The tiny label is known for experimental hard rock and quirky stuff related to Adult Swim shows. So, at first gander, it doesn’t seem like the best fit for a sixth album from huffy Atlanta rapper Killer Mike. A deeper look, however, shows that Williams Street has a thing for hip-hop; indie rap label Definitive Jux and underground duo Madvillain partnered with the imprint some years back. But without question, Mike’s 12-track thumper is its most lethal project to date. Still, we know some Killer Mike fans have questions about the collabo. Mike teaming with a zany indie will water down the lyrical venom we’ve grown to love on past tracks like “Burn” and “Ric Flair,” right? No, sir. If anything, this partnership has granted the MC even more freedom to explore topics pertinent to ‘hoods across America. On the b-boy banger “JoJo’s Chillin’,” Kil shares an inner-city tale that makes Slick Rick’s “Children’s Story” seem like a fairytale. On the box cutter-sharp “Anywhere But Here,” he paints a picture so grim of the ghetto that Anderson Cooper would have second thoughts about a visit. And on the CD’s lyrical apex, “Reagan,” he truly cuts loose, giving a detailed explanation as to how the 40th president’s shady practices had a trickle-down effect on the black community. But Mike’s roaring commentary would

have come off preachy had it not been packaged the right way. That’s where El-P, the legendary Company Flow MC/producer, comes in. Adult Swim officials introduced the Brooklyn beatsmith to the A-town rapper, and the two went on to create an album that’ll remind you of Amerikkka’s Most Wanted Ice Cube and Let’s Get Free dead prez. El-P’s ‘90s-era percussions (“Ghetto Gospel”) and sinister synthesizers (“Willie Burke Sherwood”) perfectly punctuate every killer line from Mike. This CD is angry, aggressive and, yes, even a little animated. Thanks for the connection, Adult Swim.

Rest of the Class UFO – The Chrysalis Years: 1980-1986 (Chrysalis/EMI) Classic British Metal pioneers get grand re-release JM: Unless you’re a student of British hard rock, chances are you probably know little about UFO, but bands like Dokken, Tesla, Megadeth and yes, even Metallica, owe plenty to these heavy metal pioneers. Founded in 1969, London’s UFO started out as first generation head bangers and continued with that sound throughout most of the following decade, but by the time they hit the ‘80’s they had settled into a more mature, hard pop-focused sound, complete with keyboards and the occasional hook. The five-disc box set The Chrysalis Years: 1980-1986, the second box set devoted to this influential band, covers a fairly prolific period where the band released five albums almost back to back (it also marks their period without former Scorpions guitarist Michael Schenker). Along with all five full lengths (No Place to Run; The Wild, The Willing and the Innocent; Mechanix; Making Contact and Misdemeanor), this collection is a trove of rare B-Sides, 7” singles never released on CD and a slew of live tracks from shows in 1980 and 1983. Apparently the band thought they were packing it in circa ’83, so they became fanatical about recording their performances. But much like Kiss and every other band that still saw a great deal of cash was being left on the table, they decided to soldier on. Thanks to the live concerts included on this box set, the collection also passes as a best of with hits like “Doctor, Doctor,” “Lights Out” and “Too Hot to Handle” finding their way on the CDs. While a little pricy and dense for the casual fan, The Chrysalis Years: 19801986 is a must have for longtime followers of the group and anyone who still proudly calls themselves a head banger. GRADE: B+

THE CORDUROY ROAD – Two Step Silhouette (Self-released) A quirky Southern twist on the Avett/Mumford sound LVS: Athens’ Corduroy Road doesn’t follow that well-worn path to sepiatoned countryrock. Instead, they’ve paved their own boulevard. The band – Drew Carman (vocals, banjo, guitar, harmonica), Elijah NeeSmith (vocals, bass), Matt Dyson (banjo, guitar), Garrett Chism (drums) and Russell McCumber (fiddle) – isn’t wildly prolific, but their 2008 debut Love Is a War only hinted at the refreshing cohesiveness of the new Two Step Silhouette. Featuring quietly engaging songwriting and only their liveset instruments, they take the best of the often-tiresome Avett and Mumford formula and filter it through a deliciously quirky Southern take on the Buffalo Springfield mindset… that is, if Stills and Young worked at the Baxter Street Kinko’s. The folk-infused “My Dear Odessa” and the best track of the bunch, “Love You Can’t Shake,” are stylistically book-ended by the shambling “Smokehouse Whip” and the penultimate Americana tune of the first half of 2012, “Struggle and Strain.” GRADE: B AGE/SEX/OCCUPATION – This Side of the Fence (Self-released) Great concept, weak execution from Portland trio JM: Turns out the folks in Fitz & the Tantrums aren’t the only new band with a jones for Hall & Oates and a slew of other white boy soul records. Based on This Side of the Fence, the debut from the Portland trio Age/Sex/Occupation, there was apparently a whole scene out there just waiting for one band to break to get them the attention they needed. The result is a nice attempt, but there just aren’t enough solid songs here to prop up an entire album (even with only 10 tracks, the bare minimum to constitute a full length record). The band starts of well enough with the catchy, brass-heavy “Dirty Isn’t Dirty,” complete with call and response vocals, but it rolls out of steam pretty shortly thereafter. The album stumbles a bit on the thinsounding “Volcano,” with airport lounge crooning, and there are some bright spots here and there (like “Glass Slippers”) but not nearly enough to keep your attention. Maybe an EP would have been a better start? GRADE: C-

See it Live! Atlanta Venue Guide The best places to hear live music in Atlanta OUTDOOR VENUES Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood

2002 Lakewood Way 404.443.5000 livenation.com

Atlanta's largest dedicated concert venue in the Southeast. Superior sound reproduction, advanced lighting capabilities and clear, unrestricted sightlines make Aaron’s Amphitheatre the favorite summer concert site for the avid music fan. Some of their hotly anticipated upcoming shows include: 311 (July 21); IDentity Festival (Aug 2); Carnival of Madness (Aug 10)and Flashback Festival (Aug 11).

Chastain Park

4469 Stella Dr. NW. 404.733.5012 deltaclassicchastain.com

Chastain Amphitheatre is one of the great outdoor concert venues in the country. It is an ideal setting to combine dining al fresco with a diverse range of musical talent. Among the top performances for the 2011 season include: Diana Krall (July 11); Joe Cocker & Huey Lewis and the News (July 25) and Seal (July 28).

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

Encore Park in Alpharetta 404.249.6400 vzwamp.com

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre has quickly become the entertainment destination for music lovers across the region. Set on 45 acres of beautifully-landscaped wooded land in Alpharetta, the 12,000seat Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park provides a unique setting. 2012 summer line-up includes: Further (July 10); Crosby, Stills & Nash (July 14); Yes (July 31) and Linkin Park (August 19).

The Arena at Gwinnett

6400 Sugarloaf Pkwy. 770.813.7600 gwinnettcenter.com

As part of the 80 acre Gwinnett Center campus, The Arena is a state of the art 13,000 seat facility. It boasts widened seats, a high-end sound system along with acoustical enhancements and versatile lighting. Upcoming concerts include: Flo Rida (July 5) and American Idol Live (August 5).

Masquerade

695 North Ave. NE 404.577.8178 masq.com

Masquerade offers three rooms for dancing and lounging to accompnying their indoor concerts along with outdoor concerts in their Music Park. Outdoor shows include: Refused Off! (July 15); Matisyahu (Aug 23) and Sublime (Aug 29). Indoor shows: Radio Moscow (July 22) and Hoobastank (July 25).

The Tabernacle

152 Luckie Street livenation.com

404.659.9022

This turn of the century church turned concert venue attracts some of the biggest national acts. Check out Collective Soul (July 7); Kaskade (July 12); Yeasayer (Sept 8); Fiona Apple (Oct 3).

Center Stage

1374 W. Peachtree St. 404.885.1365 centerstage-atlanta.com This multi-level music complex houses Center Stage, The Loft and Vinyl. Center Stage is the largest of the three and books national acts including: Sleigh Bells (July 16); Frank Ocean (July 22) and Lindsey Buckingham (July 28).

Frederick Brown Amphitheatre

Variety Playhouse

Located in Peachtree City, "The Fred" offers a unique and intimate concert experience. It has established itself as one of the leading outdoor entertainment venues in the metro area. Anticipated shows this summer include: Richard Mark (July 14); Glenn Miller Orchestra (July 21).

This is Little Five Points' largest music venue, but it can also be one of its most intimate. The Variety has great acoustics and sound combined with an eclectic mix of artists. Some of the great shows appearing this summer include: Paula Cole (July 20); Little Feat (August 3) and Elvis Royale (August 18).

201 McIntosh Trail Peachtree City 770.631.0630 amphitheater.org

Mable House Barnes Amphitheatre

5239 Floyd Rd, Mableton 770.819.7765 mablehouse.org

Located in south Cobb County, Mable House Amphitheatre seats 2,400 people for everything from country to rock to plays to symphony orchestra performances. This year they are offering a free summer of Candlelite Concerts that start at 8pm. Check website for details.

INDOOR VENUES Philips Arena

100 Centennial Park 404.584.7825 philipsarena.com

Home to the Hawks and Atlanta Dream, Atlanta's largest indoor entertainment venue also showcases some great concerts. Highly anticipated concerts this year include: Coldplay (July 2); Aerosmith (July 26) and Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez (August 29).

The Fox Theatre

660 Peachtree St. 404.817.8700 foxtheatre.org

The city's oldest and most revered venue is best known for its theatrical performances. However they do house musical acts from time to time and many say it is among the best concert atmospheres they have experienced. Upcoming concerts include: Ringo Star (July 6); The B52’s (July 21) and Nicki Minaj (July 22).

Cobb Energy Center

2800 Cobb Galleria Pkwy 770.916.2800 cobbenergycentre.com

First major performing arts facility built in metro Atlanta in four decades. Anticipated summer shows include: Son by 4 (July 14); Dead Can Dance (Sept 5).

1099 Euclid Ave. L5pts 404.521.1786 variety-playhouse.com

The Earl

488 Flat Shoals Ave. 404.522.3950 badearl.com

An East Atlanta institution for great live music. Anything and everything can be heard at The Earl and the crowd varies with the bands. National acts and the best of the emerging Atlanta music scene grace the stage nightly to packed crowds. In July catch: Jungol (July 13); Blair Crimmons (July 20); Eleni Mandell (July 26); The Corn Dog Apocalypse (July 29).

Smith's Olde Bar 1578 Piedmont Ave smithsoldebar.com

404.875.1522

Expect to see the best national, regional, and upcoming acts while enjoying the laid-back, intimate atmosphere. Check out The Jompson Bros. (July 6); Moontower (July 8); The Kicks (July 27).

The Peachtree Tavern

3179 Peachtree Rd. 404.842.1700 peachtreetavern.com

The Peachtree Tavern is known for their awesome tribute bands and up and coming national acts. This month check out: Gary Ray (July 13); Soutbound (July 14); The Eric Dodd Band (July 21).

Wild Bill's

2075 Market St. 678-473-1000 wildbillsatlanta.com

Duluth complex is one of the largest country-music dance club and concert halls in the country. Upcoming shows include: Atlanta Rhythm (July 13); Rehab (July 21) and Viasava (July 27).

Five Spot

1123 Euclid Ave. 404.223.1100 fivespot-atl.com

The Five Spot is Atlanta’s most inclusive

music and arts venue and features acoustic acts every Monday, a diverse Musician's Jam on Tuesdays, monthly Bluegrass Jam’s and many touring and national acts Wednesday through Sunday. Upcoming music shows in July include: Apretrio (July 14); Ayatolla Gold (July 27) and Donna Hopkins (July 28).

Eddie's Attic

Decatur Square. 404.377.4976 eddiesattic.com

Decatur's most prominent music venue features some of the best acoustical music in the city. Made famous by the frequent appearances of the Indigo Girls, they still offer some great acts. Upcoming performers include: Mindy Smith (July 13); Neulore (July 21) and Eric Litwin (July 28).

Fat Matt's Rib Shack

1811 Piedmont Rd. 404.607.1622 fatmatts.com

You like ribs? You like the blues? You can get both seven nights a week. Live music begins at 8pm and come often, because you never know what blues legend is going to stop bye. Coming up in July is The Radio Ramblers (July 14); Fat Back Deluxe (July 15); Chickenshack (July 19).

Star Bar

437 Moreland Ave. 404.681.9018 starbaratl.com

This Little Five Points music cathedral keeps packing them in. The Elvis Shrine is still alive and well. Upcoming July shows include: Bigfoot (July 7); Stone Rider (July 19); The Billygoats (July 21).

Tin Roof

2591 Briarcliff Road 404.329.4700 tinroofcantina.com

This popular Tex-Mex Cantina also boasts a indoor stage and huge outdoor patio. They feature live music nightly and are open late, 'till 4am. Popular regular acts include: Brian Wiltsey, Fransico Vidal and Mike Veal.

East ATL Village | badearl.com THU. JULY 05, 2012 | 8:30PM

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THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW LIVE THURSDAY, JULY 19 8:30PM

HE’S MY BROTHER, SHE’S MY SISTER • GOLDEN ANIMALS FRI. JULY 20, 2012 | 9:00PM

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DENT MAY • LEVEK LITTLE TYBEE FAUN AND A PAN FLUTE WED. JULY 25, 2012 | 8:30PM

THE INTERNS THROUGH THE SPARKS TEDO STONE THU. JULY 26, 2012 | 8:30PM

ELENI MANDELL HENRY WOLFE THE GOOD GRACES

FRI. JULY 27, 2012 | 9:00PM SMITHSONIAN (SMITHS TRIBUTE)

THE B-53S

SATURDAY, JULY 28 & SUNDAY, JULY 29 CORNDOGORAMA 2012:

THE CORNDOG APOCALYPSE WED. AUGUST 01, 2012 | 8:30PM WORDPRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:

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10 High

816 N. Highland Avenue 404.873.3607 darkhorseatlanta.com

The 10 High is located directly below the Dark Horse Tavern in the heart of the Virginia Highlands neighborhood. The venue is a favorite spot for local music lovers and bands as well. Friday, Saturday and Tuesday nights feature live band karaoke with Metalsome Inc.

Northside Tavern

1058 Howell Mill Rd. 404.874.8745 northsidetavern.com

Legendary blues and barbecue keeps them coming to the Westside. Regular acts include: Uncle Sugar; Nathan Nelson; Mudcat; and The Breeze Kings.

529

529 Flat Shoals Ave 404.228.6769 529atl.com

This popular East Atlanta venue has been attracting a large following. Highlighted shows in July include: Thick Paint (July 18); Parlour (July 21); and Worn in Red (July 28).

The Georgia 120 Tavern 1440 Roswell Rd. 770.509.3320 120tavern.com

Formerly operating as Sidelines, sports have given way to live music. Upcoming shows include: Mark Chesnutt (July 5); Love & Theft (July 12) and Michael Graves (July 16).

Buckhead Theatre

3110 Roswell Rd. 404.843.2825 thebuckheadtheatre.com

Embracing the deep musical heritage of Georgia and the Southeast, The Buckhead Theatre has been the site of sold-out shows of every musical genre, rock, country, hip hop alternative, and more. Upcoming shows include: Glen Hansard (Sept 23); First Aid Kit (Oct 4); and Godspeed You! (Oct 5).

LIVE MUSIC LINEUP FOR JULY Sundays Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays

FAT BACK DELUXE DRY WHITE TOAST J.T. SPEED THE HOLLIDAYS CHICKENSHACK

FRI 6 – KERRY HILL BAND SAT 7 – BEVERLY “GUITAR” WATKINS FRI 13 – LEONARD BLUSH SAT 14 – THE RADIO RAMBLERS FRI 20 – THE WAY BACK BAND SAT 21 -–THE JUMPIN’ JUKES FRI 27 – JIGSAW JOHNSON SAT 28 – LARRY GRIFFITH 1811 Piedmont Ave. NE

404-607-1622

For Booking: 404-325-8846 insiteatlanta.com • July 2012 • PG 21

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THE FREEWHEELIN’ KEVN KINNEY The drivin’ ‘n’ cryin’ Frontman Wings It BY LEE VALENTINE SMITH

FTER A QUARTER CENTURY OF CREATING some of the best-loved southern rock of the late ‘80s and ‘90s, local heroes drivin’’n’cryin’ have released records in nearly every format. Singles, EPs, LPs, CDs, vinyl fan club records, promo videos, you name it. Now the band is a quarter of the way into a proposed four-EP series. The rockin’ debut, Songs From The Laundromat, released on the band’s own New! Records, takes dnc back to their earliest days of D.I.Y. marketing. Bassist Tim Nielsen, drummer Dave V. Johnson and new guitarist Sadler Vaden join founding member Kevn Kinney on the record and on the road. The band never uses a setlist and no list of questions was needed when the Dylanesque singer-songwriter called Insite from his home in Brooklyn for a long conversation -- interrupted only by occasional background noise from The Bells Of St. Anthony and low-flying jets. How did this series of EPs happen? Kevn Kinney: I was at the computer one day working and one of my songs came on our iTunes. My wife said, “Did you ever put that out?” I said. “Yeah, it was the last song on our last record!” You spend a lot of time with the build-up to each album, and there’s a lot of work and time to get to it, and then, maybe nobody hears it. A lot of people just listen to the first five songs anyway. I don’t know if even I want to hear eleven songs at one time from somebody. But we have a lot of people who want to work with us, a lot of friends who say, “Come on over to the studio.” I don’t know if I have seven albums in me, but I might have seven EPs! To capture the immediacy of the moment. I like the fact that right now this one is out. And then in three months another one will be out, but it’s not even done yet. It’s gonna be a really fresh four or five songs, and maybe it wont be perfect, but I don’t even know what perfect is anymore anyway. You worked fast in the ‘80s. Scarred But Smarter was done in three or four days in ‘86, MacDougal Blues was done in four days a few years later. The whole idea of drivin’ ‘n’ cryin’ taking two months to make a record is counterproductive to me. It’s like what you do. You’re writin’ this article, and it’s coming out. You could wait two years and put it out, maybe research it and make it a small pamphlet, but the fact is, you’re gonna do it. And we’re just talking, just wingin’ it and you’re gonna wing it and throw it out there. That’s what makes it fun.

So Sadler lives in Nashville and Tim and Dave live in Atlanta? Well it’s funny. Tim uprooted and moved his family to Charleston a while back. Sadler moved from Charleston to Nashville and I’ve been up here since maybe seven years ago. But you’re considered an Atlanta band. Oh yeah, the spirit and the company, we’re always an Atlanta band. You have quite a commute from Brooklyn, though. You know, I lived in Athens since ‘92, before I moved here. And take-off to touchdown, it takes me about as long as it did to go from Athens to Atlanta, with traffic. If I’m leaving here at 3, I’ll be in Atlanta at 5. It’s pretty much the same commute, except one’s in a van and one’s in an airplane.

You must be rackin’ up the frequent flyer miles. Does having a new member make the band feel more My kids are still there, my productive? granddaughter is there, so I’ll come The Great American Bubble Factory IF I’M LEAVING HERE AT down and stay for a couple of weeks [released in 2009] era was over, we’d and do some shows from there. I fly 3, I’LL BE IN ATLANTA AT documented out times with Mac; he about 30 times a year, something like did a great job, it was a great record. 5. IT’S PRETTY MUCH THE that. It’s not like I’m flying to every Like in ‘93, with Smoke, after that, show, I just try to loop it all into one SAME COMMUTE, EXCEPT Buren [Fowler] did a great job on run. But its nice to be here too. it, but I wanted to change gears. I ONE’S IN A VAN AND ONE’S long I play up here a lot. At least once or wanted to do Wrapped In Sky, which, twice a week, somewhere. It’s more IN AN AIRPLANE. two years later, was a whole different for me to practice songwriting or approach. So a while back, I wanted to tweak things than actual shows. go back to being a trio. That lasted one show! How did you add Sadler to the band? He gave Tim a ride up to Asheville. He sat in on the last song that night and in the morning, at the hotel, we were like, “I think maybe you should just join the band.” I’d known him for years. His old band had opened for us a lot. But they were breaking up and he was moving to Nashville. So we’re like, “Let us help you out and you can help us out.” That’s been the sort of organic spirit of the band all along. Yeah, well it’s like when me and Peter [Buck] were on tour [in 1989], we ran into Nikki Sudden from the Swell Maps. We ran into him in Hoboken and Peter was like, “Ok you’re on the tour, jump in the van.” There wasn’t any discussion with management or anything. “We’re the musicians and now you’re in our band.” PG 22 • July 2012 • insiteatlanta.com

What’s your fan-base like up there? My friend was playing up here on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, doing a little show in the open window of this club. He asked me to do a few songs and I did. He loves [one of dnc‘s biggest Southern crowd-pleasers] “Straight To Hell.” He said, “Hey man, will you play it?” I did, but I’d probably never do it in the South, just for fun like that. But here, it’s great because no one’s ever heard of it! People were going, “You should record that, man!” We had the whole street singing it. You could have a whole new hit with it up there, like a regional single in the ‘60s. Yeah, they’ve never heard of it, so they love it. But we were never that big in New York anyway. If we played a Long

Island Hard Rock, we might sell it out. But in the New York, hipster scene? Not so much. That’s gotta change your perspective a bit. It makes me appreciate when we do, like, a festival in McDonough Georgia and there’s two or three thousand people just really into it, or filling up The Tabernacle in Atlanta. I’m very thankful for it, maybe more than if I lived there all the time. Scenes are strange and so isolated. Where I grew up in Milwaukee, there’s people who were in bands but haven’t played in forever. They’ve lived off the fact that they did 30 shows, 30 years ago. Like, if we’d broken up in ‘88 and I didn’t do the 3000 shows I’ve done in-between. Maybe I should have quit back then but, you know, I needed a real job. Those old scenesters can be the most annoying people in music. I had a rant the other day, I don’t know why I started it, but I was on this “there are ‘do-ers’ and ‘did-ers‘” rant. You know what I mean, there’s this local mentality of “I did it, man.” Ok, well that’s cool, but I think it’s a different art form than people who continue. R.E.M. weren’t about what they did, they were about what they were doing. Is that where the “R.E.M” song on the new EP came from? I was just reflecting on when the announcement came that they’d broken up. I wanted to tell how it was, back when I moved to Georgia in the early ‘80s. My girlfriend at the time worked at Record Bar, and I got the cassette of Reckoning. I was working construction where every day I’d get up at 4 am to drive to the Roswell sewage plant. Every morning, I’d listen to Reckoning. I wanted to document that feeling. Every line in that song has some sort of reference to a memory. It’s very evocative and it sounds like an R.E.M. song, yet it’s about them. It’s kinda like what you said about the regional single, a song like you’d hear on a Nuggets album, or a weird record you’d just find somewhere. Some band doing a song about another band, and maybe you’ve never heard of either one, but it’s still cool. Since 1990, whenever people ask me where I fit into Southern rock, I always say, “the biggest Southern rock band that I know is R.E.M.”

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POLITICS AS USUAL

A Candid Talk with Killer Mike, the Mayor of Underground Atlanta’s Rap Scene BY DEMARCO WILLIAMS

F YOU MENTION A-TOWN RAPPER Killer Mike (@KillerMikeGTO) in a tweet, there’s a good chance the downto-earth lyricist will re-tweet you. That’s not the case for 90% of elitist rappers. But then again, 90% of rappers can’t say they’ve built a career off unflinching prose about crooked cops, broken judicial systems and shady street hustlers. 90% of rappers wouldn’t have stepped out of their comfort zone on their sixth studio album to work with backpack hip hop icon El-P like Kill did on the sensational R.A.P. Music either. But 37-yearold Michael Render isn’t most rappers. Never has been. So, the next time you’re on Twitter, tell Mike that you appreciate him for being in that other 10%. Don’t be shocked if he hits you back. Mike, do you ever worry about saying too much in your rhymes? The question is answered in the first verse of [R.A.P. Music’s] “Untitled.” So, I would say listen to that. But the only thing that makes me safe is that the rap audience is not proactive enough to do anything yet. I said a comment like that on [the website] HipHopDX, and people were like, “Aww, you take yourself too seriously. Aww, who’s gonna kill a rapper?” They’re used to rappers being fake and false and not about it. No real threat. Yeah, no real threat, because there is no reality in rappers. I’m not a rapper. I’m not. What are you? I love rap, but I’m not [a rapper]. If you read my high school yearbook, if you listen to my father’s and grandmother’s description of me, you hear people who’ve known me for over 20 years of my life, they are going to tell you the guy on the record is the real guy. You know, when I walked in that barbershop today, I greeted those men like men. And

those men treat me as a man. And they’re like, “This is the man that leads us.” So, I guess that, yeah, I could be killed for the shit I say. The “rap” audience, you know, they don’t take that as seriously. But the shit I say, put next to Dick Gregory, put next to Cornel West, put next to the people who delegate Al Sharpton, the people who delegate the black agendas, your Tavis Smileys, Michael Eric Dyson, Louis Farrakhan, you show me where my path ain’t on the same theirs. I’m just rapping to a group of people, or talking to a group of people who don’t always take they life as seriously as they could or should. In a few years, some will get it, as some have. But those that don’t, you know, God bless ‘em. You know, God help ‘em. How much longer are you going to talk to them? As long as…I’m gonna talk, because I gotta talk the truth. I don’t have the ability not to. I rap to and for the bottom, ya know, the working man. The brothers. That’s who I’m doing it for. I’m gonna rap until I die. I’m gonna say this shit until I die. You know, when I say rap, I mean in the sense, my dad. The first person who rapped to me was my old man. Ya know, my old man still talks in rhymes: “How you doin’? I’m pretty fair for a square.” Ya know what I mean. He was a cop. My old man was a cop. I think I just picked up that. And then the guy who, you know, the world calls a stepdad but I call dad too, he was one of the best men [in my life]. So, I’ve just been around good men, you know, so I don’t ever see me stopping saying the message I say over a beat, because it’s for the brothers. And I think that’s why you have such a strong grassroots following. The word “grassroots” is so overused but… Yeah, because most people are bullshit.

There you go. I embrace it because I’m that for real. I know I’m not that because I decided this is marketing ploy. When I embrace and hug Jeezy, or Tip or Nelly or [Rick] Ross, when I meet these people, [they say] ‘We value what the fuck you doing.’ That’s why I get the guest features. I don’t have the money to afford the guest features I get. You know, it’s off that. Let’s talk about the new direction you went with El-P on R.A.P. Music. Yeah, I’m gonna keep going. Yeah. Hell yeah. I want to put out 3-4 albums a year, so I’m gonna put out 3-4 albums. I’m independent and, even though I’ve been putting out an album or a project every year, I still been in the box of [being] on the major [label] thought process of who’s dropping that month and what’s a good time to land. And I’m like, “Nah, I need to be dumping out three, four a year.” I need to be dumping out one with this sound, one with that sound. I need to be doing that. So, now look forward

YOU KNOW, WHEN I SAY RAP, I MEAN IN THE SENSE, MY DAD. THE FIRST PERSON WHO RAPPED TO ME WAS MY OLD MAN. to two, three, four projects a year possibly. Of [R.A.P. Music’s] quality. We did this whole album in a month. A month and a week. Word? That’s amazing. And literally, the creativity was flowing so, I would write three lines and just say, ‘I’m up.’ And the rest just poured out. So, man, if this is the vibe me and El got, this is what I’m gonna keep doing over and over. You find what your successful or good at and you replicate it. You know you’re making some folks uneasy with some of the album’s lyrics, right? I ain’t trying to make nobody mad as much as I’m just telling the truth. You know, why bite your tongue when it is so gratuitously obvious. Listen to the first verse of “Reagan.” Y’all niggas don’t give a fuck about your audience. And at the end of the day, the audience know it, so now they don’t give a fuck about you. And my thing is, I give a fuck about people. And I rap about it. And I live that shit. So, I should wear this shit as big as y’all wear them lab diamonds y’all wear and the fake-ass sterling silver chains y’all got, gold and shit. Ya know, all that fake shit. My thing is if the fake niggas is loud, why not be loud? My albums are comparable to the superstars. When you hear the sound of my record, the lyrical contents of the records. My records are comparable to superstars, and I ain’t got no major [deal], so you know I don’t have no swagger. I’m just arrogant because I truly, truly know my shit is doper than these niggas. And they know it.

But aren’t you mad that you’re dope but still considered criminally underrated? Shit, I’m cool. Like, I managed to forge out this weird place that’s kept me here. Ten years later, I’m here. Anticipating. Evolving. Getting better. You gotta be careful what you ask for. I said I wanted a career like Scarface. You get what you ask for, so I can’t complain. Scarface has been slept on. Scarface has been a huge star. Scarface has been an inspiration to who you consider the greatest rapper ever in Jay-Z. Scarface has accomplished [goals] on every tier that a rapper is supposed to in an epic journey toward greatness. And I feel like my journey has just begun in terms of what he went through, what Pimp C, Chad Butler, what Bun B has went through, what 8Ball and MJG [have endured]. In order for me to be considered amongst one of the greats of the South, this is the path God put for me. So, I enjoy it and I’m blessed to be here and not be wack. I listen to a lot of niggas I grew up, man, and them niggas is wack now. That ain’t hatin’ on them. That’s just sayin’ that whatever sets in and kills that confidence or don’t push you to go hard on the bars no more, I’m glad I ain’t got that rigamortis, because I’ve seen my idol go 24 years and not have it. I’ve seen Scarface be dope 24 years. I ain’t even been rappin’ half his career, ya know what I mean? He hit me on Twitter and, like, he just put out, ya know, how dope I was on Twitter. I was like, “Oh my God!” Like “Oh my fuckin’ God!” Now that’s a co-sign. So, yeah, man, if I emulate what the greats of the South have done, you know, I’m blessed. insiteatlanta.com • July 2012 • PG 23

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16th Annual

Music Issue

SUMMER LOVIN’ INsite’s Guide to the Season’s

Best Concerts, Albums & Festivals

BY B. LOVE, DEMARCO WILLIAMS, JOHN B. MOORE & JON LATHAM

UMMER TURNS ME UPSIDE DOWN/ SUMMER, summer, summer… It’s like a merry-go-round.” These immortal words from The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek could just as easily be used to describe the way summer heat can boil your brain, the way scantily-clad lasses distract even the most well-meaning gentleman’s mind, or the way the crowded summer album and concert schedule impacts a die-hard music fan hell-bent on keeping up. The economy may still be in a downturn, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a gazillion summer destination festivals competing for your hard-earned disposable dollars, from Chicago’s Lollapalooza and Pitchfork Music Festival to the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, the 3-city Rock The Bells Tour, and the Americana Music Festival closer to home in Nashville. Meanwhile, electronic-centered newcomer Identity returns for a second year, trying to earn a spot alongside the venerable Vans Warped Tour and the metalhead-friendly Rockstar Mayhem Festival among the most successful touring music festivals in the world. Album-wise, the dog days of summer will bring new releases from a bevy of the most beloved artists in the music industry, including Nas, T.I., Aerosmith, Soul Asylum, Alanis Morrisette and the Zac Brown Band. Check out our guide to the biggest and brightest summer music offerings, then prepare your credit card for some serious fiscal damage, because, as we all know, music = magic.

ALBUMS THE ZAC BROWN BAND

Uncaged (Southern Ground/ Atlantic) Uncaged marks the third studio album for the Georgia band and the debut of its new member, percussionist Daniel de los Reyes. The Zac Brown Band is known for their dynamic live shows, artistic integrity and passionate drive for evolution. Their third album will show their growth sonically while revisiting some of their island-tinged jams from the past. Something tells us the third time will prove a charm. (July 10) –AM

NAS

Life Is Good (Def Jam)

The Zac Brown Band PG 24 • July 2012 • insiteatlanta.com

The King of Queens seems to be in a creative zone right now. The second single from his 10th effort, “The Don,” is just mean. The third, “Daughters,” is moving. The fourth, the Rick Ross-rocked “Accident Murderers,” is damn near a movie. We’re not sure what the fifth single will be, but we do know Salaam Remi and No I.D. sponsor most of the tracks. Any time you match those kinds of drums with Nas’ insatiable pen, you already have all the makings of a hip-hop monster. (July 17) –DW

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW

Carry Me Back (ATO) They may be based in Nashville, but Old Crow Medicine Show is about as far from the modern country scene’s cookie-cutter sound as they could be. Instead, like alt-country icons Gillian Welch and Mumford & Sons, the string band traffics in old-timey folk, bluegrass and Americana, recalling a simpler time in music’s evolution. With the recent return of founder Chris “Critter” Fuqua, the band seems reinvigorated and ready to hit the road. Expect Carry Me Back to reflect the reignition of their collective creative fires. (July 17) –BL

SOUL ASYLUM

Delayed Reaction (429 Records) The first Soul Asylum album since 2006 finds founders Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy joined by fellow Minneapolis scene vet Tommy Stinson (Replacements, Guns ’N’ Roses) on bass with busy session drummer Michael Bland (Prince, Paul Westerberg, Dixie Chicks). The disc includes ten songs by Pirner, presented in the SA tradition of ragged post-punk clamor, with the band’s penchant for jagged yet deceptively catchy melodies thankfully still intact. (July 17) –LVS

JIMMY CLIFF

Rebirth (Universal) Forty years after The Harder They Come made him a bona fide legend, Jimmy Cliff returns with an aptly-titled comeback record clearly designed to put back on top of

Old Crow Medicine Show

the reggae music throne. Rebirth was produced by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong (who also produced last year’s Sacred Fire EP, which Rolling Stone hailed as “Cliff’s best music in decades”), who has often described Cliff as one of his early musical heroes. The album will feature a mixture of original tunes and cover songs steeped in sociopolitical consciousness, including a version of The Clash’s “The Guns of Brixton” that was fueled by the Arab Spring uprisings as well as riots in London during the recording process. In short, this should easily be Cliff’s most inspired work in decades. (July 17) –BL

REEL BIG FISH

Candy Coated Fury (RRGD) For Reel Big Fish’s eighth full-length (and first in three years), expect plenty of horns, sophomoric (but funny) sing-alongs and an ironic 80’s cover or two (like “The Promise” by When in Rome) from these Southern California ska punk stalwarts… so, pretty much same old, same old. And that’s not a bad thing. The suburban ska kings have been at it since 1991 and have managed to amass quite a loyal following over the past couple of decades. The group will be playing plenty of songs off of Candy Coated Fury on a summer tour with Goldfinger and Big D and the Kids Table. Keep skankin’ to the beat. (July 31) –JM

JOSHUA RADIN

Underwater (Mom & Pop Music) A true overnight success story in every sense of the word, this Cleveland native stumbled into stardom when a friend gave his demo to a producer on Scrubs, who used the song on the show immediately. In no time at all, Radin’s music was ubiquitous, heard on over 75 TV shows, movies and ads. His sound is like a kinder, gentler cousin to alt-folkies Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne, but with little of the former’s fondness for tragic love stories or the latter’s gruff, gravelly voice. His latest album shows him spreading his artistic wings a bit, with the title track expanding on his appreciation of orchestral arrangements. But his relentless positivity remains, especially on the track “Tomorrow Is Gonna Be Better.” Fans will rejoice. (July 31) –BL

JOSS STONE

Soul Sessions Volume 2 (S-Curve) The U.K. beauty with the pipes of someone who grew up

Joshua Radin

REDD KROSS

Researching the Blues (Merge Records) Active (on and off ) since 1980, Redd Kross has been quite busy in the past few years. Currently the line-up revolves around founders Jeff McDonald and Steven McDonald, with Robert Hecker and Roy McDonald rounding out the quartet, with ties to many of the Los Angeles punk scene’s finest moments and performers. The band has played a full slate of festivals and club shows but finally revisited the studio recently to record their first proper release since the late ‘90s. Researching The Blues treads the spiky landscape that roughly blends pop hooks and pop-culture humor with their fiercely determined punk attitude. (August 7) –LVS

SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER

Lost in Transition (Credential Recordings) Long delayed release by the former darlings of the cleancut side of the 99X set in the ‘90s, Lost In Transition has actually been a bit of a lost project. The unashamedly (yet decidedly low-key) Christian band reunited a few years ago, released a Christmas album and then slowly began working on tracks for this one. Originally titled Strange Conversation, when or if it finally arrives, it’ll be over two years since the first announced release date. Hopefully it’ll be worth the wait. (August 7) –LVS

RY COODER

Election Special (Nonesuch) Roots and guitar legend Ry Cooder will put out his 16th solo album this summer and if past songs and the album’s title are any indication, expect plenty of political rants. In a recent interview with American Songwriter magazine Cooder is quoted as saying the songs on this one are aimed squarely at the “deacons in the High Church of the Next Dollar.” Wonder who that could be? The song “Mutt Romney Blues” may be a hint. With six Grammys already linings his mantle, he may need to start building a new trophy shelf. (August 21) –JM

BLOC PARTY

Four (Frenchkiss) The title of this beloved British post-punk band’s latest album has a numerous meanings: It’s their fourth album, there are four members in the band, and it’s been four years since their last album was released. While Bloc Party’s star seems to have faded a bit since the buzz-band days when their debut album, Silent Alarm, was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, the intensity of their sonic attack– razor-sharp guitars, subterranean bass, rat-a-tat machine gun drums, and frontman Kele Okereke’s punk-

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inflected vocals– hasn’t grown any duller with time. With three New York shows sold out 6 weeks in advance, clearly their fans are still enamored. (August 21) –BL

ALANIS MORISSETTE

Havoc & Bright Light (Collective Sounds) The follow-up to her largely overlooked 2008 release Flavors of Entanglement finds ‘90s poster girl Alanis once again working with producer Guy Sigsworth (Bjork, Madonna). Though unavailable for review at press time, Rolling Stone described the new disc as containing a plethora of “monster chorus” songs and cited the track “Celebrity” as “a scathing takedown of America’s obsession with fame.” Morissette has always been an interesting, engaging performer, if not particularly a crowd fave in the aughts. Perhaps Havoc can shine a new Light on the often underrated and too-easily dismissed singer-songwriter. (August 22) –LVS

AEROSMITH

Music From Another Dimension (Columbia) Go ahead and get your jokes out of the way now. Yes, they are getting older and have pretty much replaced The Stones as the punch line for AARP-centered jokes about aging rockers; yup, even his own band members cried “sell out!” when Steven Tyler took the role as an American Idol Judge, but the fact remains Aerosmith is one of the most influential, straight ahead, balls out American rock bands ever to hang scarves on a mic stand. And every new album holds the possibility that a new “Mama Kin” or “Dream On” is waiting to be discovered. (August 28) –JM

T.I.

Trouble Man (Atlantic) Hip-hop icon Tip Harris’ recording career is in an odd space. Though the A-Town legend still packs respect in spades, even his diehard followers would admit the dude hasn’t dropped a dope album since King in ’06. This eighth release promises to be a gritty return to the former trapper’s intellectual ignorance. A-listers like Kanye West, Usher, Drake and Andre 3000 might stop by with bars, and the likes of Drumma Boy, DJ Toomp and (maybe) Dr. Dre should provide beats, meaning Trouble Man could get T.I. out of his troubling creative lull once and for all. (September 4) –DW

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FESTIVALS

in the black church was a bit of a novelty back in ’03. But America has since fallen in love with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Adele. So how’s Ms. Stone to regain folks’ attention? By going back to what worked in ’03, of course. And that’s just fine with us. Joss’ husky vocals, a few earnest keys and 11 tracks of soulful covers from the ‘60s and ‘70s is all a fan could ever ask for. (July 31) –DW

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VANS WARPED TOUR

(Through Aug. 5, various cities) Punk rock has seen better days, but that hasn’t stopped the granddad of all traveling festivals from trying to cobble together another solid lineup for suburban punk rockers. The Warped Tour, blowing out 17 candles this year, brings along some of the genre’s great vets this year like AntiFlag, Rise Against and Taking Back Sunday, as well as a dozen or so other groups that haven’t been together quite as long. Be sure to check out Hot Water Music front man Chuck Ragan (simply brilliant), Twin Atlantic and Bayside, playing at various stops along the route. – JM

ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL

(June 30-Aug. 5, various cities) This sister festival to the Warped Tour may be a little younger and a little leaner on bands, but their lineup can kick any lineup’s ass… literally. Summer camp for the metal kids, the five-year-old traveling Mayhem Festival, complete with its own corporate sponsor, boasts some of metals biggest names this year including Motorhead, Slayer, Anthrax and Slipknot. The side stages will host bands like As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada (which is still the worst metal band name ever), Betraying the Martyrs and others. –JM

PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL

(July 13-15, Chicago, IL) It’s only been around since 2005, but the influential Pitchfork Music Festival, organized by the tastemakers at HYPERLINK “/wiki/ Pitchfork_Media”Pitchfork Media and held over a long 3-day weekend in Chicago’s Union Park, has grown to be your annual one-stop shop of hip. A veritable convenience store of the best of the buzz is always here: rock, rap, hip-hop, EDM and a scattering of punk and experimental, as well. Supposedly it’s already sold out, but crafty concert-goers will find a way to see the solid line-up, continues on page 26

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including The Olivia Tremor Control, Atlas Sound, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells and Vampire Weekend. This is the place to be if you want to see today’s hottest acts. –LVS

IDENTITY FESTIVAL

metropolis has been hammered by homicides this year. Lolla –Hell, any music festival, really- is a welcomed distraction from the nightly news. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White and Florence + The Machine headline the 2012 installment. The Google+ Lounge, Toyota Prius Playground and Playstation Loft are there for folks who need a break from it all. And in this roughest of years for the Chi, that pretty much means everybody. –DW

(July 19-August 19, various cities) Touted as the first-ever touring electronica-only music festival, Identity taps into the modern ROCK THE BELLS dance music craze by (August 18-19, offering top-tier techno San Bernadino, artists performing on CA; August 25-26, different stages from Mountain View, the afternoon until late CA; September 1-2, into the night. The main Holmdel, NJ) stage will include current The world’s biggest scene-leaders such as one-day hip-hop event Eric Prydz, Excision, is arguably New York’s Wolfgang Gartner, annual Summer Jam. Hardwell, Madeon TICKETS ON SALE NOW! But the most important and Paul Van Dyk; also multi-day spectacle is this colossal concert performing will be up ‘n’ comers such as tour. With two stops in Cali and one in Arty, Audrey Napolean, Bingo Players, New Jersey, this year’s cross-country jaunt Doctor P and Le Castle Vania. Will the promises to be its most impressive to date. trendy club kids turn out in droves to dance The marquee includes rap icons (DMX, in the daylight? Only their glowsticks know Bone Thugs-N-Harmony), hot youngsters for sure! –BL (Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar), and those

NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL

(July 28-29, Newport, RI) Now in its 53rd year, the undisputed king of music festivals is still going strong, celebrating all things indigent to American folk, with a touch of rock, country and blues added for flavor (and box-office appeal). Held at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, the event is famous for being the cradle of Bob Dylan’s “electric” phase, but over the years the festival has plugged into sets by the most legendary artists of the folk movement. The 2012 festival is a diverse lot, headlined by My Morning Jacket and Jackson Browne, with performances by the hirsute Iron & Wine, Rhode Island’s own Deer Tick, the ubiquitous Alabama Shakes, the venerable Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the mannered brood of Conor Oberst and the irascible ire of Tom Morello. –LVS

LOLLAPALOOZA

(August 3-5, Chicago) Chicago needs a break. The Midwest

who fall somewhere comfortably in between (Pusha T, Jada). –DW

AMERICANA MUSIC FESTIVAL

(September 12 – 15, Nashville, TN) Plan now to end summer in Music City with the always enjoyable Americana Music Festival. The four-day orgy of country, pop, folk and all the hybrids thereof is now in its lucky thirteenth year and includes seminars, panels, awards presentations and a ton of showcase performances at a slew of venues throughout Nashville. The centerpiece is the 11th Annual Americana Honors and Awards ceremony at the historic Ryman Auditorium, with host Jim Lauderdale. The sprawling festival features more than 100 Americana showcases. At press time, the final line-ups weren’t available, but Booker T. Jones and Richard Thompson will be honored at the awards ceremony and it’s a safe bet both will perform during the festival. Look around, you may see such luminaries as Robert Plant or Emmylou Harris standing next to you, enjoying the music just like regular people. –LVS

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IS IT SAFE TO DANCE? Men Without Hats Return—With Hats! BY LEE VALENTINE SMITH

EN WITHOUT HATS WAS formed in Montreal in the late ‘70s but didn’t achieve significant success until the irresistibly catchy 1983 hit “The Safety Dance” and ‘87’s synth-heavy sequel, “Pop Goes The World.” After taking time off to be a stay-at-home dad, singersongwriter-founder Ivan Doroschuk has revived the quirky pop outfit and issued the band’s first widely-distributed album in over two decades. Love In The Age Of War, produced by Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson ), continues the MWH penchant for danceable, political punk, presented in the new wave format. The day before the new album was released, Doroschuk spoke with Insite from his home on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia. “Pop Goes The World” is getting massive airplay again -- in a Tide detergent ad of all places. In a way it’s appropriate because at the core, it’s a very commercial pop song. Yes, that’s it! That was always the goal of Men Without Hats, to get a message across in a format to be delivered to the most people possible. If they use it in a soap commercial, I think it’s good. Regardless of the way it’s delivered, it’s still the same message of ecology. When I wrote that song, it was the beginning of the Green Movement, but it’s still valid today. And it’s a great connection to the new album. It’s been twenty years since the last one was in stores, why a new one now? We put the band together last year, and did some shows with the B-52’s, the Human League, and even Devo; 50 or 60 shows total. But we were just revisiting the catalog, the ‘greatest hits.’ We had a blast, but I just started writing songs on my iPad in the back of the bus, immersed in the whole thing. By the end of the tour, I had this iPad full of songs!

Was it your concept? It was me, along with director Tim Pope (The Cure, Neil Young), and you know, this was well before email and such, even phone calls were cost prohibitive. So we often communicated by mail and we both wrote the script. “PEOPLE NEEDED The ideas crossed the ocean, he was in England and I TO HEAR THAT The lead track, “Head was in North America, Above Water” sounds like THEY COULD DANCE and it turned out to be the it’s still 1983. same idea! But Tim was IF THEY WANT TO, That was one of the goals responsible for the arm this time, to make a record AND PEOPLE STILL movements, the big “S” that sounds like it came NEED TO HEAR movement as I was leading right after “Safety Dance.” the procession down to the THAT.” We went back and got the village. And again, like with same instruments, and a “Pop Goes The World, ” the message remains. whole bunch of analog synthesizers. People needed to hear that they could dance if they want to, and people still need to Every year at SXSW it seems there’s a heritage act that makes a big comeback and hear that. last year it was your band. I’ve heard a number of unusual meanings of The crowd was a lot of 20-somethings, and it was the first show we’d done in the states in the song, including nuclear apocalypse. There are a lot of interpretations but the about 20 years. A lot of the kids told me they nuclear one actually came from the black and could hear our sound in the modern music white stills at the end of the video. they were listening to. So you’re sort of the Bo Diddley of ‘80s music, quoted and influential, but never quite recognized for it (Laughs) Oh, that‘s great. Well really, MTV was a big part of our success, and the videos that were out there were in heavy rotation, so I got to be physically recognized pretty much everywhere I went. And I hear our songs in so many places, and that’s enough appreciation for me.

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That surprised a lot of people. They weren’t expecting a Medieval setting for the song. They were expecting spiky hair, zippers and pointy shoes but yeah, they got the Pied Piper with long hair! It didn’t really look “new wave.”

The “Safety Dance” video portrayed you as a sort of New Wave Pied Piper.

What does it actually mean? The song was the result of me being told to stop slam dancing and pogo dancing. This was back when punk first came out, the dying days of disco. People weren’t really used to it so the bouncers would kick us out, every time I tried to do it, so that’s it. It’s a protest. I’m sure you’re tired of the irony at this point, but now you actually do wear a hat. Well, we’re on Vancouver Island, and it’s cowboy country out here, so there’s no shortage of hats!

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LIVING IN THE USA

British-born Callaghan Is Atlanta’s Hottest New Act BY LEE VALENTINE SMITH

N A DARK BASEMENT DRESSING room at Duluth’s Red Clay Theater, softly illuminated by the glow of white lights from the make-up mirror is a strikingly attractive woman. Stylishly clad in black, with wild cascades of dark hair, she‘s a statuesque cross between Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anne Hathaway. Meet Callaghan. Prior to her CD launch party and performance, she takes time to sit down with INsite to discuss Life In Full Colour, her debut album. It’s already garnering almost completely favorable reviews and surprisingly prominent play on the air and the net. The Lincolnshire-born Callaghan recalls that she had been living in London for a decade, releasing indie EPs and gigging at a number of respected venues. “I had a batch of songs ready for my first full record. And I was sittin’ in my apartment in London, thinking, ‘Well, I can either carry on here, or I could just email Shawn Mullins and see where that takes me.’ I really thought, ‘If there’s one person who would get my music in an instant, it would be Shawn Mullins.’” To her surprise, Mullins replied asking for one song to check out. “I had a really terrible demo. It was me in my bedroom and I had terrible recording equipment. Shawn later said he was listening through all this background noise; ‘I think I can hear a really good tune in there …somewhere.’” He produced three songs for Callaghan in Atlanta a few months later. Mullins continues the story. “I gave Kris Kristofferson a CD of mine, in ‘94. He called me a few months later, and really encouraged me. That gave me the idea that, if I’m ever in the position where people need me to listen, I’m gonna listen, too.” After three songs were completed, Callaghan decided to move to Atlanta in order to complete the album with Mullins. “It was a scary time; I was taking a huge chance but things were going so well, I knew I had to live here.” Her journey is main theme of the hopeful “Best Year,” the first featured track

from the album. “I wrote it just a couple months after moving here. It was a time of, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna earn any money or be living on the street in a few months!’” But what if the rest of the album didn’t turn out as good the first three songs she recorded? “Well I think we had a good idea, because those three songs I picked out from about 40 or 50 I had on a short list,” she says. “All the three we first recorded ended up on the final album, and then Shawn and I wrote a couple for the album, as well. So there are some new ones, and some old ones as well.” The co-writes with Mullins were a bit daunting at first, she admits. “That was kinda scary,” she laughs. “But he’s pretty open to writing, and of course he writes pretty much all his own material. It was a natural progression eventually. It seems to tie the whole thing together and whenever we go out on the road together, we sing a bit and it’s good fun.” During the sessions in 2010, Callaghan and husband / manager Steve Massey moved to Atlanta in an apartment off Piedmont Park. Both Callaghan and Mullins thought the move was necessary. “I just had a feeling that America would be a good home for the music that I do. I love the music scene. I don’t know if it’s the space, the vastness of the country as compared to the UK or what, but there are so many good singer-songwriter venues here.” “If she was willing to move over here,” continues Mullins, “The least I could do was produce some tracks for her, because I liked all the songs. And I couldn‘t get over there, especially at that time.” Mullins’ band of veteran musicians—including guitarist Davis Causey (Sea Level and Randall Bramblett) and Marty Kearns -- played on the album and occasionally accompany her at shows. The completed record resonates with a warm, early ‘70s pop-folk sound that combines the intelligence of Laura Nyro, the soulful interpretational skills of Eva Cassidy and the subtle grace of Gail Garnett—all without the tedious pretense of Sarah McLachlan,

I JUST HAD A FEELING THAT AMERICA WOULD BE A GOOD HOME FOR THE MUSIC THAT I DO. I LOVE THE MUSIC SCENE.

an artist who is frequently cited in comparisons to Callaghan. “Well, I’ve heard many comparisons, yes. But I’ve just always thought my music would appeal to those maybe 30 and above, people who’ve been through some stuff and want to hear songs about experiences. Not only about how great life is but the crap side of life: when things go wrong or someone you love dies. Those kind of emotions.” Mullins tempers her enthusiasm with a bit of realism. “I’ve told her, ‘You know, it might not be this record [that breaks through to mainstream success], I know you want it to be, but this one might be the thing that just opens a few doors. You’re only gonna get better. I still think there’s growth there, and she’ll be finding her voice a little bit more as she develops. I love being a part of it but she‘s doing all the hard work.”

BACK WHERE WE STARTED Motion City Soundtrack Returns To Epitaph, The Label That Launched Their Careers BY JOHN B. MOORE

OR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY a decade, the guys in Motion City Soundtrack went into the studio to record their latest album without any idea which label would be releasing it. Having parted ways with Columbia Records, Go ended up covering some heady topics, such as death and growing old. The Minneapolis-based pop punk band left the studio with the 11-track record complete and began plans to release this one on their own. Then came the calls. They heard from a number of different labels, including Epitaph, the indie punk stalwart that put out their first three records. After catching up with their old friends, they decided, what the hell, you can go home again. On the eve of Go’s release, frontman Justin Pierre spoke with us recently about rejoining the Epitaph roster, the themes that drove the new record and a new side-project with The Receiving End of Sirens’ Brian Southall. Do you guys have any regrets about the time you spent on Columbia? No. The people were great and the company was good to us.

How did things end with that label? Very amicably.

Did you know right away that you would go back to Epitaph or did you consider other options? Initially our only concern was writing and recording the next record. From there we started looking into self-releasing it. We came up with a record label, The Boombox Generation, but before we got too into the inner workings of it all we began to get calls from labels showing interest in hearing our new album. Rather than say “No” outright, we figured we’d hear what they had to say. We met with many labels, each having something appealing about them, and one of those labels was Epitaph. After meeting with Brett and hanging out in our old stomping grounds it was unanimous that we wanted to work with them again. What was it like creatively - an emotionally - working on Go without knowing who was going to put it out? I don’t believe any of us thought about it. We just focused on the work and hoped that we’d figure that part of the equation out later. You went into the studio after some intense reflection on your catalogue having just

played every song of every album live night after night. Did that impact the direction you took at all with this record? Actually we recorded it before that tour. My Dinosaur Life came out in January of 2010 and I was coming up with ideas for Go by August. We’re always writing, but this time we knew we were going to be heading into the studio early 2011.

Ok, what else can you tell me about the songs on Go? As simply as I can put it, the songs are about Life and Death, with Love or the lack of it being the glue that holds the whole thing together. A possible point of interest may be that we have songs on this record that came from ideas we had all the way back in 2004 and throughout the following seven years. We wrote upwards to 50 ideas along with those songs that just weren’t ripe yet and filtered through them all until we came up with the 11 that made the final cut. In the press materials you mention you were a bit obsessed with Death in working on this one. What brought that about? Aging; Friends having kids; Parents becoming Grandparents; not understanding how modern technology works or why a lot of people seem to like music I can’t stand. The death of what interests me; the actual literal death of friends and family. Things of that ilk. Living in Philly, I’ve been hearing a bit about the relationship you guys have with Drexel University’s label. Can you tell me about that partnership? It was an adventure for sure. We teamed up

with them to co-release a handful of 7 inches this year by bands that we’re into. We produced the band’s recordings, but the students at the school played many different parts in the creation of this idea through to the execution of it. It was a lot of work and we’re very happy with the results. Are you actively looking out putting out records by other band? Personally, at this point no. My only focus is our record, but the hope is that at sometime in the future if we find a band that we can help get to that next level, whatever that is, we’ll try to do just that. What can you tell me about the project The Company We Keep? Any plans for recording more with that group? That is the brain child of Brian Southall (The Receiving End of Sirens). I was always hearing his crazy electronic music on our tour bus when he was tour managing us and loved it. I asked him if I could take a shot at writing melodies. He said yes, and after about three years, we had a dozen or so songs and finally a singer. The Drexel project was a perfect way to introduce the world to his new project. As far as more recording goes, I am actually supposed to be writing lyrics for a handful of new songs but am choosing to slack instead. The goal is to record a full length at sometime. Hopefully late this year or the beginning of next? I have no idea. You’ll have to ask Brian for actual information. Those are all the questions I have. Anything else you want to add? Thanks for asking me such lovely questions. insiteatlanta.com • July 2012 • PG 27

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THE BEAT GOES ON

Ska Legends The English Beat On Their History, New Boxed Set & the Possibility of a Reunion BY JOHN B. MOORE

ESPITE ONLY HAVING THREE full-length albums to their name, The English Beat have wielded an incredible amount of influence in the music world. Along with The Specials and Madness, the band pretty much introduced ska to masses, blending reggae, punk rock and even a bit of the Motown sound along with the message of peace and unity. The irony of those themes are not lost on singer/co-founder Dave Wakeling, who admits the band members– who had a falling out in 1983– didn’t always adhere to their own lyrical advice. For the past five years or so, Dave and his crew have played in the U.S. as The English Beat, while co-founder and vocalist Ranking Roger has played occasionally in the UK simply as The Beat. There was an ill-fated attempt to get all 7 original members to reunite for a VH1 show years ago, but they couldn’t get everyone to agree. Regardless of the internal issues over the years, everyone from The Bosstones and Fishbone to No Doubt and Operation Ivy have talked about listening to songs like “Mirror in the Bathroom” and “Save it for Later” while growing up. Thanks to an unrelenting tour schedule (30 years after their last album was released) and the release of an impressive box set this summer, the current incarnation of the band could very well be winning over yet another generation of fans. Wakeling was kind enough to wake up early recently somewhere in Middle America to discuss the band, their new boxed set and whether a full reunion will ever happen. Ska was not that well known before bands like yours came around. How did you discover reggae and ska music? Well, the first time I heard it was at the soccer matches. They used to play the music in the stadiums. My interest in Reggae grew from that and I discovered music like Toots and The Maytals and the like. When we started the group, what we wanted to do was mix up reggae and punk and then we brought in Motown and some of the classics and we had a nice hybrid, all of our favorites in one place.

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When you were putting together that first album, did you ever imagine that this sound would last? That you’d be playing these songs 30 years later? I had no idea. Then again I had no idea that my dreams would come true and I’d ever be in a group at all. For me, the more the merrier. When we started we thought, “Oh, this might last three months,” and it’s been 33 years. But it’s been very satisfying. I couldn’t think of doing anything else more enjoyable or that would have taught me more than this would have taught me. I got to see the world without having to kill people. It’s been terrific. Ska as a genre has always ebbed and flowed, and there have been plenty of bands that have cited you as an influence like Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger… Yeah, it always goes back to that first wave from Jamaica in the late 60’s and early 70’s. That’s what people might call the original start and every few years people go digging back into that and become influenced and I think there’s probably been about five or six waves – I can hardly keep up with the waves – and every time a new wave comes in someone dusts me off and checks me out, so that’s good. Do you have a lot of opportunities to play with some of those younger bands? Well yes, we did a whole tour with Reel Big Fish and that was really good and we got to meet a lot of younger fans, people who were meeting us for the first time and they came to our later shows when we toured on our own. We also came on as a surprise guest at the (LA Radio Station KROQ) Weenie Roast and did “Here in My Bedroom” with reel Big Fish. That was a lot of fun. When you look out into the audience, do you see several generations out there? It’s very moving I’ve got to say to see people 16 and then people in their early 60’s and they are all dancing in step with each other. That actually frees you when you see anything in our society besides sports games where there are people of different generations. We usually separate ourselves demographically, but it’s great that we have people of all different colors and sizes and ages. That makes it all the more real to me and why I started the band in the first place. How did the box set project come about? It was very interesting meeting the people from Shout Factory (the label releasing the set), who are very famous for their box sets. Our box set is very compact. I wanted to be able to take it on the road and sell it at

WHEN WE STARTED WE THOUGHT, “OH, THIS MIGHT LAST THREE MONTHS,” AND IT’S BEEN 33 YEARS. BUT IT’S BEEN VERY SATISFYING. I COULDN’T THINK OF DOING ANYTHING ELSE MORE ENJOYABLE OR THAT WOULD HAVE TAUGHT ME MORE THAN THIS WOULD HAVE TAUGHT ME. I GOT TO SEE THE WORLD WITHOUT HAVING TO KILL PEOPLE. IT’S BEEN TERRIFIC. shows and I didn’t want people to have to walk around with something looking like a shirt box. They also had some fans of the band at the label and they made the type of collection that they thought real fans would like, in particular with the rarities. We were given CDs to listen to, so we got everyone engaged... They did a really good job at finding the right tracks and putting them in the right order. So was Roger or any of the other original members involved in putting this together? Oh yeah, everybody was absolutely involved. We had to be very careful and delicate and everybody had to give their opinion, even if you thought it was rubbish. There are some bands that once they go their own way, that’s it; All communication ends. You two seem to have come to an agreement on how to coexist well together. Well I think we had our moments when we split up. There was some misunderstandings, some rancor, but as the music continued to be popular it became obvious to us that as we were the love and unity boys we couldn’t be fighting all the time while recommending love and unity to everyone else. So if we haven’t got anything nice to say we keep it to ourselves, which is terrific. If only politicians had the same philosophy. Like many, I had watched the VH1 show Reuniting the Band years ago when your group was the subject. When that was being filmed did you think that this could be what puts you guys back together or did you know

it was likely never going to happen? I really knew that it wouldn’t work out because regardless of our feelings, I knew full well the majority would never work together. There are many layers of the onion. You have to peel back layers of Fine Young Cannibals and General Public (both, post English Beat bands) to get to the heart of the beast and enough things have happened with those bands that I already knew that it was impossible to imagine a whole unit. I thought we’d get most on board, but we never got seven out of seven (members). In their defense (Andy Cox and David Steele), each said to me under different circumstances they might be willing to play a few shows together for old time’s sake, but I don’t think either would get over the troubles they have. You played recently at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Do you think you would ever reunite on stage as a band if The English Beat were inducted? I wonder? I don’t know. When some things have gone on for as long as they have, people sometimes forget the reasons why. It’s almost like breaking a family tradition if we could all work together again, that might change things. I know a growing number of artists who have been waiting (to be inducted) for quite a number of years and they are actually quite happy that they aren’t on the list because it’s also seen as the kiss of death. You get on the list and you’ll be dead within two years... I think I’d survive though because my work here is not done. There are still corners of this great nation that I have yet to play. I cannot rest.

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Getting In Touch With Nature On The Caribbean Island of Dominica great day there learning about Kalinago history and culture, exploring the Kalinago Territory, dancing (hilariously) with HE’S ARGUABLY THE MOST beautiful Kalinago women, trying freshgorgeous thing I’ve ever seen on a made cassava bread and shopping for beach. A bit larger than my usual traditional arts and crafts, including the taste, perhaps, but there’s something artfully designed hand-woven Larouma tremendously compelling about her sheer baskets for which the Kalinago are known. mass that refuses to let my eyes be drawn A boat tour (guided by a hilarious away from her body. Her legs are thick character nicknamed James Bond, as tree trunks, but solid with muscle; her supposedly so named by Johnny Depp when neck tense from the strain of her efforts. he filmed the Pirates of the Caribbean As the light of the full moon illuminates movies there) down the INDIAN RIVER her backside, I realize I’ve rarely been provided spectacular views of the dramatic so excited. mountain scenery, close-up shots of ghost I’m standing on the black sand beach crabs and herons, and a bar at the end at ROSALIE BAY RESORT (rosaliebay. offered a refreshing beverage of choice com), an ecotourism haven tucked away (try the mango smoothie with a splash of on the east side of the Caribbean island chocolate) in an idyllic jungle setting. of DOMINICA, right where the tranquil On a trip to CHAMPAGNE REEF, we Rosalie River meets the crashing waves of saw a handful of other travelers there the Atlantic Ocean. It’s around 8:30PM, upon our arrival. But they left within 15 and my partner Mary and I came rushing minutes, and for nearly down from the resort’s an hour we had the entire restaurant after being DOMINICA OFFERED A WIDE RANGE OF INCREDIBLE place to ourselves. The told about this beautiful OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES WE’VE NEVER HAD ANYWHERE reef got its name because behemoth. The lady in the water is filled with question is a 6-foot long, ELSE, AND A SENSE OF PRISTINE EXCLUSIVITY THAT’S tiny bubbles, fed (and 1000-pound Leatherback heated) by underground TAILOR-MADE FOR THOSE TRAVELERS SEEKING turtle, and she is currently fumaroles that belie the PLEASURES OFF THE BEATEN PATH. in the process of laying her island’s volcanic history. eggs in a hole she dug in The area provided betterthe sand, approximately 12 inches across than-average snorkeling opportunities, the most pressing of which was a tour with and 18 inches down. ANCHORAGE WHALE WATCH & DIVE with numerous parrotfish, boxfish, eels, We’re here with two volunteers from the angelfish and squid swimming around… but CENTER, which is based in the capital ROSALIE SEA TURTLE INITIATIVE, watch out for jellyfish! city of Roseau and run by Andrew Armour which was launched by the resort in 2003 In a trendy country like Costa Rica, an of Kubuli Watersports. Andrew earned to help protect these endangered species attraction such as SCREW’S SULPHUR local notoriety as “The Whale Whisperer” from poachers (who eat turtles and their SPA would be swarming with tourists. thanks to his ongoing relationship with a eggs), and which has proven a leading But when we visited, we were the only sperm whale named Scar and his ability to light in environmental conservation on people there. It was an incredible place in communicate with the whales underwater. Dominica. As “Nature Enhancement Team” the middle of nowhere, with lush tropical The company has a 90% success rate with leader Simon George notates the turtle’s gardens, roots reggae music on the stereo, spotting cetaceans, and our experience size and distinguishing marks in a journal, a series of volcano-heated pools that varied didn’t disappoint. his assistant sits near her rear end, waiting in heat from near-scalding to tepid, and a After going a few miles out, the captain for the tennis ball-sized white eggs to begin waterfall-fed freshwater pool for cooling off stopped the boat and a hydrophone was dropping. As they do, he gathers them up at the end. If we’d visited it on the first day attached to a long pole, which the crew and puts them into a plastic bag so they can of our journey instead of the last, we’d have would lower into the water. The sounds be moved further up the beach (above the insisted on going back. were transmitted to a speaker on the boat, high water line) and buried in a safer spot Even the food in Dominica is exceptional, and every so often we’d hear the clicking until they’re ready to hatch and be ushered with an emphasis on locally sourced farmsounds by which whales communicate. down to the sea. to-table freshness. From the inner-city Then off we’d head in that general In the course of an hour, she drops more style of OLD STONE GRILL, to the more direction. But the sperm whales we were than 100 eggs, including a few smaller homey approach of RIVERSIDE CAFÉ, to tracking proved frustratingly elusive. “spacers” that help prevent them from the intimate upscale dining at Rosalie Bay’s Finally, we discovered why when we getting crushed. Once she’s finished, she ZAMAAN RESTAURANT, nearly every spotted a pod of about 20 pilot whales. uses her massive front flippers to throw meal we had on the island was exceptional. One of the smallest cetacean species, sand over the hole, moving in a complete pilot whales are notorious for feeding on circle around it to completely camouflage Despite its many pleasures, Dominica young or weak sperm whales, so our guides the fact that she was ever there. Then, faces numerous hurdles in its bid to suggested that the sperm whales had dived breathing heavy and pausing every few become one of the world’s great ecotourism down to avoid this obviously hungry pod. steps to rest, the monolithic mama makes destinations. There’s the lack of name We soon realized the whales were working her way back into the sea, with us and 4 recognition, for one thing: More than together to hunt flying fish, swimming other lucky spectators cheering her on half the people we told about our trip just below the surface to herd them to the every step of the way. mistakenly assumed we meant the top, then bursting out of the surf to gobble Dominican Republic. But slightly more them down in an eruption of spray. It was It was a remarkable experience I’ll never problematic is the island’s remote location incredibly exciting to watch, especially forget, but hardly the only memorable since there seemed to be pilot whales on all between Guadaloupe and Martinique: moment from our extraordinary week on With only one major air carrier flying in sides of us. the Nature Island. We’d been told that, if sporadically, it required three flights for us Christopher Columbus were alive today, to get there from our home in Atlanta. Wherever we went in Dominica, amazing Dominica is the only Caribbean country But, in the end, the arduous journey is experiences seemed to follow: he’d still recognize. In our experience, definitely worth it. Dominica offered a wide On a visit to the KALINAGO BARANA that’s not mere hyperbole: This tiny island range of incredible outdoor experiences AUTE we learned about the island’s (population 71,000) in the Lesser Antilles we’ve never had anywhere else, and a sense original inhabitants, who in 1903 were is as unspoiled as any destination we’ve of pristine exclusivity that’s tailor-made for relegated by the British to a reservation ever visited, with a full 2/3 of its 290 square those travelers seeking pleasures off the on the mountainous Atlantic coast. Today miles completely undeveloped. As a result, beaten path. the area is home to around 3,000 Kalinago we had incredible experiences nearly (a.ka. Carib Indian) people. We spent a

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everywhere we went in Dominica, most of them with virtually no other people around. On our first day, driver/guide Oris Campbell took us into the MORNE TROIS PITONS NATIONAL PARK (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and along a brief section of the 114-mile WAITUKABULI NATIONAL TRAIL. Our ultimate destination was EMERALD POOL, which we got an incredible overhead view of as we hiked along through the dense jungle. The pool is a stunning romantic spot, named for the gorgeous green color of its water (which reflects the lush, verdant flora surrounding it) and fed by an impressive waterfall. When we arrived there were three other people there, but all left within 15 minutes, giving us the entire place to ourselves for over half an hour. It was as Eden-like as you could possibly imagine, and we hated having to bid it farewell. But other incredible activities beckoned,

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(BlakeWrap-up Griﬃn, L.A. Clippers); Coach of the Year (Gregg Monthly BY DEMARCO WILLIAMS Sports Preview to the 2012 Summer Olympics A Popovich, San Antonio); Most Improved Player (Kevin

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HERE IS SO MUCH ACTION scheduled during the 2012 Summer Games that some events will have already started by the time the Opening Ceremonies kick off on July 27. Needless to say, NBC has its hands full broadcasting the 17-day spectacle, but we give them credit for deciding to show every second of excitement live on its family of television networks and website, NBCOlympics.com. (For those counting at home, that’s 5,535 hours of coverage!) Over that time, familiar names like LeBron James, Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt will be heard time and again. But there are literally hundreds of other athletes around the globe with fascinating stories to tell. Here are 10 slightly under the mainstream radar we’ll be keeping up with over the spirited days ahead in London.

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CASSIDY KRUG

(United State, Diving) There are actually a couple of cool stories in the U.S. waters this year –The Dumais Family will be sending two or three representatives to the London- but this one about Krug, a talented young lady making a splash in the same sport as both parents once did, is pretty damn sweet.

HIROSHI HOKETSU

(Russia, Volleyball) Tina Charles and Brittney Griner are impressive physical specimens on the basketball court, but even they have to acknowledge that this 6-8 net assassin is a site to behold. We’d watch her matches just to see how towering she can smash it.

CAROL HYUNH

(Canada, Wrestling) Hyunh’s message during competition is “Courage and Confidence,” words she’s lived her whole life by. The freestyle wrestler’s parents are Vietnam immigrants who moved to the little town of New Hazelton, British Columbia. She won Canada’s first women’s gold medal in the sport in ’08. With courage and confidence in spades, she aims to repeat.

ANDY MURRAY

(Great Britain, Tennis) If Murray can parlay any Wimbledon successes into a long Olympics run, that would be great for the sport. Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic

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“He’s a beast. What can you say? Some of the shots he made, I was like, ‘Wow. Did he just make that in my face?’ A player like that, you have to live and die defending him one on one. If he makes big shots, you have to go to the other end and stay poised.” –New Mexico guard Dairese Gary, on JIMMER FREDETTE, BYU star and college’s leading scorer

Chuck Neinas, after BCS presidents “I feel like a better player now than I was three years ago, “St. Louis was fourth in baseball last year in attendance, formally approved a four-team playoff because I think that physically I’m stronger, faster, mentally but only 13th in payroll. In other words the Cardinals for 2014 I’m more motivated on the court. I know how to react in certain moments, and I know how to play on a big stage. have money to burn, and it’s time to light the match. So b-ball agree No. here’s what you do if you’re St. Louis: Whatever [Albert] I haveMost been more focusedpundits and dedicated to thethat sport than Pujols wants, within reason, you give it to him. What’s 1I have DRAFT PICK Anthony Davis and ever been before.” -2011 MEN’S AUSTRALIAN within reason? No idea. The closest baseball has had to a lottery choicesNOVAK like Thomas Robinson and free agent like this was Alex Rodriguez in 2001, when he OPEN WINNER DJOKOVIC Michael Kidd-Gilchrist are on their way to received $252 million for 10 years. That was $25.2 million brilliant NBAmy careers. do goal too.wasBut we annually, and that was a decade ago. And Pujols is better.” “When I signed contract, We my main to earn it. Oncebelieve I started that to realize I wasn’t earning my money, I –CBS SPORTS’ GREGG DOYEL also these five lesser-known felt bad. have I was making amountinof the moneyLeague for not studs brighta crazy futures even pitching. Honestly, feel like I 2) deserved it. I And ﬁnally… too: 1) Festus Ezeli,I didn’t Vanderbilt: Andrew didn’t want to have feelings again.” –GIL Nicholson, St.those Bonaventure; 3) MECHE, Arnett Hawaii pays $4 million to host the NFL’s annual Pro Bowl 32, who retired Mississippi instead of taking aState; guaranteed million at Aloha Stadium… If early estimates are accurate, Super Moultrie, 4)$12Jeffery to pitch for Kansas City this season Taylor, Vanderbilt; 5) Kris Joseph, Syracuse. Bowl XLV should be Stub Hub’s top-selling event ever… At press time, the Cleveland Cavs were in the midst of a 1-29 February, of course, marks the NBA’S halfway point. stretch, the NBA’s worst since 1996… If there’s an NFL work “I would never sit out a football season. With that landmark also comes Fanatic’s midseason stoppage next season, it’s reported that Las Vegas casinos Iawards: love this I love my team MVP game (Derricktoo Rose,much, Chicago); Defensive Player would take an $850 million hit on unplaced betting… A too much, but obviously there’s a of the Year (Dwight Howard, Orlando); Rookie oflot thethat Year can happen between now and then, so record 56 underclassmen declared for the NFL Draft. let’s just hope we can get a long-term deal done… Over the last month, [talks have] picked up. There was a dry spell there for a bit.” –NEW ORLEANS SAINTS QB DREW BREES, on the slim prospects of contract negotiations taking an ugly turn(Feb. 20, 8PM, TNT) to seeplaying me next week.” –ARIZONA We don’t know if there will be more celebrities oncoming the hardwood or celebrating courtside at L.A. ’s Staples Center. Over the next month, you’ll be inundated DIAMONDBACKS MANAGER KIRK with numbers surrounding the LONDON GIBSON, after missing the high school OLYMPICS. So, we’re guessing you won’t graduation of his son, Cameron (Feb. 13, 1PM, ABC) mind As a few more: 1) An estimated 200,000 much as Chicago and Orlando fans hate acknowledging the fact, this is probably your paid Eastern workers, contractors and volunteers And Finally… Conference Finals preview. Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee (0-4 in 12 starts) are necessary for the start-to-finish process; 2) London organizers expect four is the first former Cy Young winner since billion people worldwide will watch the Vida Blue in 1983 to start a season with 12nation or more Pepsi has been 12, 2PM, 9PM, ESPN) The top3)twoThere’s teams in the go onwinless the roadstarts… to very, very July (Feb. 27 Opening Ceremonies; environments. only hostile one event where the U.S. has medaled named the title sponsor for the next four just once—the triathlon; 4) Conversely, Super Bowls… Pittsburgh Steelers Chair track and field is the sport (730 medals) Emeritus Dan Rooney is very interested (Feb. 20, 12PM, Fox)in taking a regular-season NFL game to where America has most flourished; 5) If Gentlemen, start your quest to stop Jimmie Johnson from winning an unprecedented Dublin, Ireland… Golfer Philsixth Mickelson four straight votes had gone the other way during Sprint Cup championship. the selection committee’s final round of is a part of a San Diego-based group with voting, we’d be prepping for the start of hopes of purchasing the Padres franchise… the Olympics in Paris, France.(Feb. 9, 9PM, ESPN) NFL.com writer Michael Fabiano’s fantasy Chargers’ Ryan Matthews, This big meeting (and another on March 5) goes aRB longsleepers: way in deciding North Carolina bragging rights andtothegraduate. ACC crown. “You’re supposed His mom Browns’ Trent Richardson and Cowboys’ and the rest of his family will be there. He’s DeMarco Murray.

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(France, Judo) Weren’t you just saying the other day how the sport of judo needed an outspoken, Jay-Zlistening, Akon-texting contender to take the world by storm? Well, here’s your guy.

IM DORG-HYUM

(South Korea, Archery) Though he has 20/200 vision, which is considered legally blind in most circles, DorgHyum doesn’t look for any special attention or wear any constructive eyewear on the range. All he wants is your respect and total quiet while he does his thing with the bow.

2. Miami at Boston

3. Ohio State at Wisconsin, Pittsburgh at Villanova 4. Daytona 500 5. UNC at Duke

Top 5 Games This Month

RANI RAMPAL

(Japan, Equestrian) When you turn 71, we bet you won’t be participating in the Summer Games. But guess who is? Hoketsu, the 2012 Olympics’ oldest athlete, has won numerous honors on a horse. Merely qualifying here, while most his age contemplate their next nap, might be most impressive.

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1. NBA All-Star Game

and Roger Federer will be favorites, of course, but the world’s No. 4 has one advantage over the tennis trio—the roar of the home crowd.

(India, Field Hockey) We don’t know a lot about field hockey, but we do know the seven goals Rampal scored in the 2010 Women’s Hockey World Cup at just 15 were pretty impressive. Now a wrinkly old 17, the super quick stick is ready to smash even more international marks.

you let NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tell it, a new “This bargaining was timely, had to be done. was collective agreement is imminent. But[It listen to in] to the and public, response othersresponse close to the situation they’ll say it’s not suchtoa sure thing. While in oﬃcials work out theFOOTBALL. numbers, Fanatic the interest COLLEGE knowsBCS three things that’ll happen, lockout no lockout: 1) The has done a great dealor in helping An SEC defender (Auburn’ s Nick Fairley or LSU’ s Patricka promote college football, and there’s Peterson) will be the No. in thetoDraft; An 18-game general feeling we1 pick need do 2)something season will be approved; 3) Super Bowl XLVI will kick-oﬀ” better to determine a national champion. as planned on Feb. 5, 2012 in Indianapolis. –Former Big 12 Interim Commissioner

Love, Minnesota); Sixth Man of the Year (Jamal Crawford, Atlanta); Most Surprising Team (New Orleans Hornets); DREW Biggest Disappointment (Phoenix Suns).

Must-See TV

OSCAR PISTORIUS

(South Africa, Track & Field) At press time, Pistorius hadn’t officially qualified for the South African team. But the young man’s fairytale of a story has us already rooting for him. Oz, as he’s affectionately called, is a double amputee. His inclusion in the Games wouldn’t just be inspiring; it’d be historic.

Now that SUPER BOWL XLV is over, football fans

BY DEMARCO WILLIAMS can get to the real issue: Will there be a 2011 season? If

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(Brazil, Soccer) The only thing missing from the female Messi’s trophy case is Olympic gold. If the five-time World Football Player of the Year can work her magical feet against soccer powers like Germany and U.S.A., this may reach her goal.

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