Blake’s Fake News Local Music Features
- Local punksters the Anti-Heroes, who are currently embroiled in a legal battle with New Line Cinema over the misuse of the band’s logo in the film “American History X,” are now suing the makers of the film “SLC Punk” for not including a false representation of them in that movie. But, since hardly anybody saw “SLC Punk,” hardly anybody cares.
- Steve Craig, the host of 99X’s “Locals Only”...
Sharp Notes April 15 2000 Local Music Features
Kelly Shane, drummer for Kenny Howes & the Yeah!, and his wife Jeannie Shane are celebrating the birth of daughter Phoebe Rose Shane. Daddy is taking “baby time” off from the band.
Scary rockers Pineal Ventana contribute to the soundtrack of a new, yet-to-be-titled horror movie directed by Atlanta filmmaker Chad Rullman. The movie features PV members Clara Clamp as an evil nurse and Mitchell...
| more...Local Releases April 15 2000 Local Music Features
D-DAY, Survivors (Iroko); dancehall/highlife duo of Nigerian-born brothers Chukwuka and Gwamnishu Okwumabua; produced by Eric Slaughter; contact: gatewa at aol.com
EJ DA WITCH DOCTOR, 9th Wonder of the World (Dezonly 1/SMD); second CD by Dungeon Family member; features local rapper Back Bone; “Year of the Dragon” produced by Organized Noize; contact: somudist at mindspring.com
LITTLE RED ROCKET,...
| more...Bulletin Board April 15 2000 Local Music Features
- High hopes: The Ninth Annual Great Atlanta Pot Festival, scheduled for May 6 at Centennial Park, is looking for bands with “extreme talent” and/or the drawing power to bring in 10,000 people. For more info, call 404-522-2267.
- Electronica: A Benefit for Amnesty International is a first-year free event set for June 17 in Candler Park with a promising lineup of artists employing a varying...
In The Studio April 15 2000 Local Music Features
CEILING FAN, at Magic Foot Studio with Jason NeSmith, for a planned self-released CD to be called either Movements, Soundscapes for Times of Wonder and Reflection or What’s up Yer Craw?
THE STIMULANTS, at Snack ‘n’ Shack with Rob Gal, for their yet-to-be-named second full-length CD due in early summer.
DIESTRA ACUSTICA, at Exocet Studios with producer Bruce Bennett on their yet-to-be-named...
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