Gordon Lamb

KEEP ‘EM COMING: The yet-to-disappoint Julia Nyunt has a new single, “Ballad,” out now on major streaming services. It starts off by immediately diving into a syrupy, slow R&B melody with an attendant rhythm. The track, one of longing and resolution, is pure old school, checkerboard tablecloth, Chianti-bottle-candle-holder lounge music. This will slot well next to any slow jams in your collection. If you missed her earlier this week at Flicker, she’ll next play Athens at Ciné on Friday, Sept. 20. Strange Orchard and Solstice are also on the bill this night. For more information, please see julianyunt.bandzoogle.com.

Derek Almstead and Emily Growden are both longtime partners and established artists in their respective rights. Both worked, recorded and performed in Athens for many years with multiple groups, including between them The Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power, The Glands, of Montreal, Faster Circuits and Marshmallow Coast.

WHAT THEY DID: Congratulations are due to both decades-long Athens artists Five Eight as well as director Marc Pilvinsky. His documentary film on the group, Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight, is finally ready for audiences. He lived in Athens during Five Eight’s 1990s superstar days; this is where he began his filmmaking journey, and is himself a former

I don’t know that I’m ever going adjust to this new era of rock and roll that insists on getting to bed at a decent time. It’s happening everywhere and not just with legend-stacked bills like this that attract a decidedly older audience. So, I was laughing all the way to the Ameris Bank on Sept. 12 when my Flagpole compatriot Mike White and I were already in our seats as Cleveland, OH’s Filter took the stage at the early bird special time of 6 p.m.

TURN THE PAGE: Few rock bands, all things considered, are as reliably consistent as Little Gold

Words by Gordon Lamb and photographs by Mike White Even though Los Angeles-via-Bakersfield, CA’s Korn has been through Georgia multiple times over the past 30 years, including one notable stop in Athens back in 1997, the only other time I’d seen them before this night was at the Phillips Arena on Apr. 13, 2000. That’s both a show I saw by convenient accident as well as a date I had to actually look up because I couldn’t remember. This night on Monday, Sept. 16 in Alpharetta, they were on their 30th anniversary tour. When I first saw them way back when, that was my first real exposure to what was really being sold to the most diagnosed and medicated ADD […]

SIX JAZZ FUNK GREATS: Marcel Sletten is certainly getting no sleep these days between his impressive live show and release schedule. Last week he released his new album Heather And Birch on his Primordial Void

PASTORAL, NOMADIC: A couple of months ago Cloud Recordings boss John Fernandes was nice enough to give me a gorgeous vinyl copy of the label’s release of the self-titled full-length album by Dhana Jeera.

LITTLE LOVE LETTERS: Kimberly Morgan York is releasing her newest full-length album, Fun, on Friday, Oct. 11. That same night she’ll celebrate its release when she and her band open for Stewart & Winfield at Terrapin Beer Co

DOOT DOOT DOO, LOOKIN’ OUT HIS FRONT DOOR : It’s been a while but the always anticipated Kurt Wood Front Porch Record Sale will happen once again