April 27, 2006
Bubba, Lake City, Explorers Club
Sparxxx ready to give back to the place where he was 'made': Women looking for a finer, more curvaceous booty to shake on the dance floor need only look for that white-boy, big-cheese of hip hop named Bubba Sparxxx. Come tonight at the Georgia Theatre, this Georgia guy with a football lineman's body and a backwoods snarl will belt out the hit song "Ms. New Booty" from his third album, "Charm." "It's the biggest record I've ever had," Sparxxx said in a recent telephone interview from his home in Suwannee. Full story.
Former Grand Fury members see Lake City: Songwriting, and the general art of bringing the rock, are not skills and gifts learned or obtained through simple osmosis. If only it were that easy. We'd fall asleep with "Blood on the Tracks" and "Who's Next" LPs under our pillows and wake up ready to offer the world thought-provoking lyrics, interesting chord progressions and something to pump a fist to. With wingman experience in bands fronted by the likes of Will Johnson (South San Gabriel), Don Chambers (GOAT) and Zachary Gresham (Summer Hymns), no doubt Lake City (Friday, Caledonia) frontman Matt Stossel benefits from the unconscious process of assimilation or absorption. Full story.
Charleston's The Explorers Club rides the wave of '60s psychedelia: If you missed the Beach Boys or the Zombies back in the 1960s and regret it, perhaps Charleston's The Explorers Club (40 Watt, Friday) can fill the void. Jason Brewer, guitarist and one of the band's singers, says the sound should appeal to fans of 1960s rock 'n' roll. Full story.