Pride Parade gets hyped by Rolling Stone...

photo by mike white (deadly designs)

"Pride Parade, a hyperkenetic Athens band big on brawn and bellow."

So says Rolling Stone online's HYPE MONITOR. The blog named-checked Pride Parade on yesterday... their new album Dose will be officially released on vinyl on September 12th at Caledonia (featuring The Jack Burton and Black Skies).

Reward: GigWorn robberies

This is bizarre news from downtown Athens. GigWorn is a super-cool clothing shop a couple doors down from Cine and The National. The store is run by Sheridan Soileau, a Nuçi's Space volunteer and dedicated supporter of the Athens music scene.
For some strange reason, GigWorn has been broken into TWICE in the past week. Sheridan is offering a reward to anyone with ANY information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the perpetrator.

From the GigWorn Facebook:

Reward: $500 for any information leading to the arrest & conviction...

Gigworn was robbed August 7/8 and August 16 (9-midnight). If you have any information that can lead to the arrest and conviction of the people/person responsible, let me know. I will pay $500 when they are convicted. Thank you.

-Sheridan

Here's a link to the page: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=132070932744&id=539093323&ref=mf

Romanenko needs your help!

ROMANENKO, posing in front of the record wall at Nuçi’s Space

Local trio Romanenko has had a HUGE wrench thrown into their plans to release their first full length album. One of the bandmembers had her house broken into and money the band had saved to be used to press the album and pay the studio for recording wasa stolen.

If you are able to help support the band and pre-order the record, details are below.

From the band's Myspace page:

HELP SAVE OUR RECORD!

Thanks for stopping by our page! We have been in the studio working on our first full length record since April, and our cd release is scheduled for September 23, 2009. On August 2, Jessie's house was broken into and cash stolen. Money we had set aside for pressing the cd, paying our studio bill, and printing fliers for our release show now has to be used for rent, etc.

As you'd guess, this sets us back pretty damn far. We are reaching out to the community in hopes that we can go ahead with the release as planned-- which means we need to get the cd pressed, print fliers and posters to promote the show (September 23 at 40 Watt!), and make sure the wonderful people at dreamLab Recording get paid for all the hard work they've done for us. Whether you can give us ten cents, ten bucks, or just pass this along to your friends... every little bit will help us.

Any donation of $10 or more is considered preordering the cd.

Click here, or copy and paste this URL into your browser to make a donation:
http://rko.x10hosting.com/

Win all-inclusive trip to Voodoo Fest!

Enter our raffle here - a once in a lifetime chance to see Widespread Panic, Drive-by Truckers (and dozens of other bands) at Voodoo Fest in New Orleans from October 30 - November 2nd.
PLUS: 100% your donation goes directly to Nuçi's Space to help musicians and artists.

The winner gets:
AirFare
Hotel
Tickets (including VIP passes – see below)
Spending money: $300 cold hard cash!

* Total Value of Trip: $2,350
* Must be 18 years of age to enter

www.rocknraffle.com

VIP PASSES
Include exclusive swag from Widespread Panic and the Drive-by Truckers and Special Side Stage Viewing Access for the Widespread Panic performance!

VIP passes also include:
• Reserved parking in the LOA parking lot
• Line free entrance
• Raised viewing area
• Complementary classic New Orleans lunch buffet with signature drinks daily*
• Complementary dinner buffet with a Bourbon Street style 3 for 1 drink specials nightly
• Continuous full bar service
• Exclusive live performances
• Private bathrooms
• Much more to come

Dark Meat album release!

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* R.E.M.'s Bertis Downs and Dead Confederate's Dawson Morris get a nice shout-out in this blog post about the role of band managers in today's world.

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CAMP AMPED AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!

WHO: Young musicians ages 11-17
WHAT: An after-school music program by Nuçi’s Space
in conjunction with the Athens School of Music.
WHEN: August 13-November 15th

PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!!

Click here for more info!

download CAAS application
download CAAS scholarship application

Camp Amped 2009 Session I: Grand Finale recording

Recorded by the great Sloan Simpson (Southern Shelter), here's the final concert for this summer's first session of Camp Amped.

Download the mp3's here.

Randy Bewley Birthday Party

(Photo by Jordan Stepp/AthensMusicJunkie)

Nuçi’s Space was honored to be a part of the Randy Bewley Birthday Party held a few weekends ago at the 40 Watt. In honor of Randy's death, the concert was put together to give his friends and fans a chance to come together and celebrate his life. The bands Tunabunny, Everybody Everybody and Gold Party played - and before Flash To Bang Time closed out the night there was a special showing of some never-before-seen Pylon tour footage.

Nuçi’s Space volunteers were on hand selling a special edition Randy Bewley T-shirt designed by Pylon bassist Michael Lachowski. Proceeds from the sales of the shirt benefit our nonprofit mission.

Halfway through the show, members of Pylon - Lachowski, Vanessa Hay and Curtis Crowe - took to the stage to thank the attendees and to recognize the impact Bewley had on their lives, as well as the Athens music scene.

Please read Jordan Stepp's account of the Randy Bewley Birthday Party here.


* if you are interested in purchasing one of the remaining RANDY t-shirts, please email me at will@nuci.org.