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Athens, Georgia music fans have reason to rejoice. After a fire gutted the historic Georgia Theatre in 2009, the music venue has been rebuilt and will open its doors again with an August 1st concert by legendary Athens band The Glands (they put out Patterson Hood's fourth favorite album of all time). The official celebration continues for two weeks with Chuck Leavell, RJD2, J Roddy Walston and the Business, Reptar, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and more. Check the theater's site for more info.
If you happen to live in Georgia, catch a documentary on the rebirth on TV tonight (7/26)
In related, but sad news, Athens record store Schoolkids, which happens to be owned by Ross Shapiro of the Glands, is closing (Hopefully that will leave him more time to focus on making new music!). Some Glands videos below.
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Living Was Easy by The Glands
Glands surprise reunion in 2010
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The Glands need to come play New York!!!
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:18 PM
Great news! What, no theaters re-opening in Austin?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:36 PM
Georgia Theatre, not in NYC. So, who cares?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:39 PM
Yeah, Georgia?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:45 PM
Oh dear, I seem to have stumbled onto AthensVegan.com
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:52 PM
Allow me to reintroduce myself
My name is HOV
H to the O-V
I used to move snowflakes by the OZ
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 7:57 PM
You people are fucking clowns. The place was absolutely gutted by fire and has been resurrected. That's music news no matter where you live. Get bent, trolls
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 8:21 PM
The Glands are playing a show. That's news. Go buy their albums if you're not familiar. You'll see why its news.
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 8:25 PM
Brooklyn don't are about no theater in athens
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 8:58 PM
They're playing Savannah Friday. I checked them out due to my proximity and they are awesome. Also, you do realize that people from all over read this site?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 9:04 PM
I wonder if Athens Vegan will report on the re-opening of Silent Barn?
It's a silly question, I know. Why would a blog from Athens, GA report on a space in Brooklyn, NY re-opening?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 9:18 PM
"Legendary" band The Glands...fuck outta here with that noise.
Also ever have the hummus in Athens? No? Consider yourself lucky. It's Southern fried garbage.
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 9:45 PM
Athens is what Williamsburg would be like if it had a big college football stadium and lots of hot girls.
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 10:03 PM
North Brooklyn rules, bulldogs drool
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 10:23 PM
Oh thats right the world revolves around two neighborhood's in Brooklyn.
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 11:12 PM
^now you are on the trolly
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 11:15 PM
is that Ben Folds on drums?
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 11:28 PM
People from Brooklyn don't post things like "North Brooklyn rules, bulldogs drool". Spoiled white children with IQs in mid double digits write shit like that.
People from Brooklyn don't give a fuck.
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 11:30 PM
^it's obviously ironic
Posted by Anonymous | July 26, 2011 11:54 PM
What does this have to do with wavves?
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 12:26 AM
Everyone that wrote anything on this website in the last three years is so dumb.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 1:22 AM
hate to break it to you, but we read B.V. in GA...
Posted by D.D.D.Dave | July 27, 2011 5:02 AM
Yeah, Georgia? NOT BAD
Posted by Free Classifieds | July 27, 2011 7:13 AM
Athens in the 1980's was a musical paradise!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 7:22 AM
Perfect example of how commenters have me reading BV less and less. You've got a great site, Mr.Vegan but you ought to rethink the comments section.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 8:47 AM
Nobody forces you to read the comments, shit for brains.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 8:52 AM
^ nobody forces me to come to the site either, but the comments keep me away. It's part of the site, therefore part of the business. See you in a couple of weeks, BV. See if you can patrol the frat boy types w/ the small vocabulary, will you?
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 9:12 AM
^ I'll show you my SAT verbal score and my degrees if you show me yours, fuckwit.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 9:27 AM
Trances Arc covers Glands song, Straight Down.
http://youtu.be/S3qGzyYT39g
Posted by brad222 | July 27, 2011 9:45 AM
Anyone that mentions their SAT scores has not attained a degree, or held a job.
9:27 your mama's calling you, gotta clean your room again. Come back when you grow a pair.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 9:52 AM
"legendary Athens band The Glands"
hahahahahaha......yeah, they're practically the Velvet Underground
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:18 AM
Fuck all y'all. The Gland playing again would be news regardless of location. One of my all-time favorite albums. Still remember buying it outta the used bin at St. Marks. God, I hated that place...
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:29 AM
"Anyone that mentions their SAT scores has not attained a degree, or held a job."
Is that a fact? As a "frat boy type with a small vocabulary," it seemed a reasonable offering to some self-important jizz gargler who is butthurt over the rough and tumble nature of the comments here.
I'm not so crazy about bands that I like getting mindlessly crapped on, but I mostly find the back and forth here to be rather amusing. And even when I don't, on occasion, I simply get over it.
As far as I'm concerned, people who can't handle a little chaos - even if it sheds way more heat than light - should just go to brunch and keep their fucking mouths shut on an indie rock blog. Anarchy!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:34 AM
Oh, the return of Angry Boy. How is that search for psychiatric help coming, son? You really need help; your anger is going to continue to erode your life, and you will soon be bitter, alone and mumbling to yourself. You know that this is not the first time someone has told you that you need professional help - FIND IT!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:36 AM
As far as I'm concerned, ya can suck my dick nigga 10:34.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:37 AM
no one give a fuck about The Glands. Not in NYC at least. Sure, the might be a few record nerd types who are stoked, but the overwhelming majority of even the music community, really doesn't care. Sorry Athens. You had REM, and the B-52's. Can't think of anything you've produced since that I've given two shits about.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:38 AM
I wonder if 10:36 realizes that in 10:34 he's addressing a different person than the guy he was on some sort of psychotic crusade against yesterday?
Probably not. The fact that certain people have no ability to discern writing styles and thus think that every anonymous is the same person is one of the more amusing quirks around here.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:43 AM
I love with earnest Encyclopedia Brown types think they've got it all figured out. I can tell you for certain, that it was more than one person.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:46 AM
Yeah, you're not unduly angry though. Better to be on the safe side and ignore it as the bus of your life heads for the cliff. You'll end up just fine.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:50 AM
SAT, Encyclopedia Brown ... what is this, 11th Grade lit?
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:51 AM
ugh you're the one calling for the end of the comment section, like it's impossible ya'know, just not to read it. But yes, everyone else needs help.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:55 AM
11th grade if your are a retard like 9:27 / 10:34 / 10:43 / 10:46, etc. Bitch, you write the same way, the same word, the same anger. Child, you are as hidden as a pile of dog shit behind that Anonymous.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:56 AM
10:51 read Encyclopedia Brown in 11th grade! lulz
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:56 AM
^Georgia public schools. smh
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:58 AM
oh, the birch wrote posted soon ... now for more asinine droning from Angry Boy ...
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 10:59 AM
correction : birch => little whiny BITCH
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:00 AM
^you sound mad. Go enjoy the theater in your one horse town. no one is topping you...
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:01 AM
but I just topped you little man
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:02 AM
SATs, Encyclopedia Brown
yup, imbecile with IQ in middle double digits
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:04 AM
wait what does this have to do with wavves?
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:04 AM
"11th grade if your are a retard like 9:27 / 10:34 / 10:43 / 10:46, etc. Bitch, you write the same way, the same word, the same anger. Child, you are as hidden as a pile of dog shit behind that Anonymous."
One would have to be uncommonly stupid to not know that the first three that you cite were written by the same person. 10:46, let alone "etc," were not penned by the same person though. And what exactly is this anger of which you speak? I like salty language. Yay me, and fuck you!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:06 AM
11:02 what you proved is that you got trolled as fodder for jokes. No one in NYC really cares about any of this. Seriously not one way or the other.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:06 AM
Yay me?
fucking child
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:07 AM
Oooooh, we hit a nerve there didn't we 9:27 / 10:34 / 10:43 / 10:46 / 11:06?
Bwahahahahahaha
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:08 AM
Maybe I was taunting you, 11:07. I'm sure it isn't the first time you've been mocked, and it most certainly won't be the last.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:09 AM
"No one in NYC really cares about any of this. Seriously not one way or the other."
Yeah, we're too busy reading Encyclopedia Brown
hahahahhahahaahhahaha
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:10 AM
11:06 is the angriest guy ever to accuse other people of being angry.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:11 AM
Yup, Angy Boy is back and fuck you fuckers. You and your dogs.
and mohammed was not a prophet.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:11 AM
^go back to playing single A ball in Athens
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:12 AM
The funny thing, well not Ha Ha funny more pathetic funny, is that this angry guy thinks that he's trolling everyone, but he's the one that has to live with the anger and slime of his existence. You know he doesn't have a lady, and his mom probably beats him. Pretty predictable, really. A future welfare recipient, and a prime candidate for the eugenics line.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:14 AM
"11:06 is the angriest guy ever to accuse other people of being angry."
I've never accused anyone here of being angry. I just don't care. Well, aside from the fact that I kind of enjoy making other people here angry sometimes.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:14 AM
You guys should take it to Brooklyn Bowl and have it out once and for all. Stop prancing around like ballerinas and get down to it.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:15 AM
P U S S Y F I G H T
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:20 AM
like that rube could make it to the bowl. plz
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:25 AM
I'd be happy to meet Angry Boy. I'm free for the next 2 hours, let's dance. Step up.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:26 AM
in front of the bowl, 1pm
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:27 AM
Wai, I confuse
Hoo heeyah ohdah Chicken an Wice?
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:29 AM
you'll be waiting a long time 11:26. that child is never going to meet you. he's a full on textbook pussy behind his mom's laptop screen. not even worth it.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:29 AM
The rage-addled 11:26 still thinks he's "doing battle" with one person around here. Lulz.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:29 AM
11:29 I know, lulz
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:30 AM
1pm at the bowl. Let's get it on
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:31 AM
11:29 / 11:30 thinks we don't know they're the same person. THAT is truly sad. Delusional.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:31 AM
^ I thought you were free for the next two hours pussy
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:33 AM
How about 12:00 @ Avenue A and Essex? I'm ready.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:33 AM
?????
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:34 AM
Manhattan? Brooklyn vegan bra
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:35 AM
anyone calling Brooklyn Bowl "the bowl" is probably the same tool that used to use "bra" and "bro" all the time until he got publically embarrassed from that too. Just got to keep beating down these kids.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:35 AM
anyone calling Brooklyn Bowl "the bowl" is probably the same tool that used to use "bra" and "bro" all the time until he got publically embarrassed from that too. Just got to keep beating down these kids.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:36 AM
anyone calling Brooklyn Bowl "the bowl" is probably the same tool that used to use "bra" and "bro" all the time until he got publically embarrassed from that too. Just got to keep beating down these kids.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:37 AM
anyone calling Brooklyn Bowl "the bowl" is probably the same tool that used to use "bra" and "bro" all the time until he got publically embarrassed from that too. Just got to keep beating down these kids.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:37 AM
Yeah, Avenue A ... that kid gonna get cut up good, son YEAOOOOW
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:37 AM
ok, let me grab the L
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:38 AM
It's on! Pussy Fight!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:39 AM
Pussy Fight!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:40 AM
No way that this angry child is going to show
I'll put $20 on it
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:43 AM
All Talk
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:44 AM
If any of you crazy folks are ever in Athens, I highly recommend that you take time out from your indie shenanigans and visit the tree that owns itself. That's right. Owns itself. Ain't but a fart's distance from the 40 Watt Club either.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:44 AM
lulz
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:45 AM
all talk no action
total angry pussy
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:46 AM
Brooklyn Vegan HOF
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:47 AM
"Brooklyn Vegan HOF"
not even close
Tom from Brooklyn Bowl was so much more entertaining. This is just douchebaggery
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:49 AM
ok im on the corner now pussy. show yourseldf!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:51 AM
you're ten minutes early. You said 12pm
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:53 AM
ill be here where r u chicken littkle
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:55 AM
nice day fora pussy fight this is gonna ROCK
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:57 AM
i'm here. I don't see anyone. Unless that angry dude is an old black dude.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:57 AM
your so full of shit chicken i dont see you anywhree
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:58 AM
I can't speak for the other 20 people that this dude thinks are one and the same, but I'm a pussy. I had to dress up for a meeting today and the thought of getting pummeled by a dude who could equally crush me with his glare, his razor-sharp wit or his amply-muscled physique is simply too much to bear. Maybe on Casual Friday - when there isn't a Paul Smith suit at stake - I'll feel less like a pussy and take my beating.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:58 AM
Dude I totally told you he wasn't going to show. $20
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:59 AM
^ hahaha this dude is actually standing on the corner waiting for someone. You dumb asshole.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 11:59 AM
figures what a pussy NEVER POST AGAIN PUSSY
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 12:00 PM
^ hahaha this pussy is sitting is his office laughing at you
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 12:01 PM
funny thing about the internet, with a little skill and a little free time you can easily trace internet traffic by IP addresses and figure out, pretty definitively, where each of these posts are being made from. this may be an interesting afternoon after all.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 12:03 PM
damn, got pretty quiet in here all of a sudden. put the light on and the roaches scatter.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 12:51 PM
Boy howdy 12:51. If someone got their hands on my IP address I think I'd surely kill myself. But not before one last bacchanalia with a delightful spread featuring un-chicken salad, hummus with various toppings, falafel and many cases of PBR.
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 1:06 PM
LET ME CLEA MAH TROAT!!!
Posted by Anonymous | July 27, 2011 3:14 PM