• Flicker: Call It Radar, Cars Can Be Blue.
• Go Bar: Belaire.
• Tasty World: Synaesthetic Time Machine.
• Washington Street Tavern: Open Jazz Jam.

Finally getting our AthFest galleries online, though they’ve been available on Spotted. These are edited a bit from those galleries:

Here’s the Friday gallery.

Here’s the Saturday gallery.

Widespread Panic will extend its record this weekend with its 32nd consecutive sellout at Red Rocks ampitheatre in Denver. As this story mentions, at 9,250 tickets per show, that’s 296,000 tickets sold. Not bad for the house band from the Uptown Lounge, eh?

THIS WEEKEND IN THE CLUBS: Who’s playing where this weekend in Athens, featuring a song from Romanenko.

Friday
• 40 Watt: Harvey Milk, Tenement Halls.
• Alibi: Electrik Eelz.
• Caledonia: Bearfoot Hookers, Rails End.
• Farm 255: Kung-Fu Dynamite.
• Flicker: Nero and the Burning Violins, Stegosaurus, The Bee Governor Honky-Tonk Thrust Hammock.
• Georgia Theatre: Tony Clifton and His Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra.
• Melting Point: hope for agoldensummer, Rising Appalachia.
• Mercury Lounge: The Peabodies.
• Rye Bar: The Cubs, Monahan.
• Tasty World: Birds and Batteries, Language Arts, Romanenko, The Letmedowns.
• Wild Wing Cafe: Powers of Man.

Saturday
• 40 Watt: Maserati, The Buddy System, Summerbirds in the Cellar.
• Alibi: Dixie Mafia.
• Allen’s: The Ribs.
• Blind Pig Tavern: 4 p.m. - Avery Dylan Project, Betsy Franck and the Bareknuckle Band, Carla LeFever and the Rays, Ritalin Rejects, Some Saviors.
• Caledonia: Moon Taxi, Andrew Nelson.
• Downtown Commerce: City of Lights Festival from 11 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. with 16 Tons, Curley Maple, Fatback Deluxe, The Healers, Peter Aland and Some Good, The Solstice Sisters, Tommy Crain and the Crosstown All-Stars.
• Georgia Nature Center: Solar-Powered Music Festival from noon to 8 p.m. with Curley Maple, Grogus, Incatepec, Kate Morrissey, Gordon Stelter.
• Georgia Theatre: Boombox, Synaesthetic Time Machine.
• Go Bar: Allison Weiss and the Way She Likes It.
• Melting Point: Will Dailey, Joshua James, Lex Land.
• Rye Bar: Nerdkween, Romanenko.
• Tasty World: Cause Effect.
• Wild Wing Cafe: Loopmaster John.

It’s merely happenstance, but there should be an aroma of irony (that probably recalls stale Coors Light) present when celebrated Athens band Harvey Milk takes the 40 Watt stage on Friday. “We broke up on June 27 in 1998,” says Stephen Tanner, noting that Harvey Milk’s latest local performance falls on the 10th anniversary of the band’s original disintegration. “It might be something that we mention, but it wasn’t planned - it’s definitely not an angle. It’s just a very bizarre coincidence.” The correlation of years does, however, play into the collective persona of Harvey Milk, whose throbbing attack is rivaled only by its shared sense of humor, as evidenced by Tanner’s hilarious liner notes in the band’s latest album, “Life … The Best Game in Town.” Read the full story…

Jason Wilber (above) doesn’t have a problem playing second fiddle. In fact, he rather digs it. Wilber has released five solo CDs, but he’s probably best known as the longtime guitarist for distinguished singer/songwriter John Prine. Wilber will join David Jacques, Prine’s bass player, when folk singer Iris DeMent plays The Melting Point tonight. “You get to enjoy music in a totally different way,” he said of playing with other artists. “I find it a lot of fun.” Read the full story…

• 40 Watt: Glossary, Holy Liars, Sleepy Horses.
• Caledonia: Sound Houses, Sunking!, The Young Sinclairs.
• Farm 255: Kyshona Aarmstrong, G and the Live Oaks, Romanenko.
• Flicker: Cortez Garza, Midnight Riders, The Wading Girl.
• Georgia Theatre: Toubab Krewe, Matt McDonald, Seepeoples.
• Go Bar: Monotonix, Mouser.
• Melting Point: Iris Dement, Jason Wilber and David Jacques.
• No Where Bar: 3 Foot Swagger.
• Tasty World: The Dumps, Handsome Jack, Pride Parade, Lachie Black, Figaro, King Hill, Kowboy, Mr. Nasty, The Rattlers.
• Wild Wing Cafe: Dave Firmin.

R.E.M. was in top form as the band ended its North American tour Saturday at Lakewood Ampitheatre, ripping through 28 songs that spanned the band’s 26-year career. Here’s a photo gallery from the show.

And as I figured, there are already several videos on YouTube from their performance. This one isn’t necessarily the best video out there, but it has good sound. It’s from the start of the show with “These Days” (probably my favorite R.E.M. song of all time) and “Living Well Is the Best Revenge” from “Accelerate.”

Local musician Leslie Helpert performed a Tribute To Billie Holiday recently at Ashform Manor. Here’s a photo gallery from the performance.