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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Queens of the Stone Age replaced for free ATL show
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Against Me! Photo: Sire/Warner Bros. Records
In March, organizers for the SoCo Music Experience announced that Queens of the Stone Age would headline this year’s Centennial Park edition of the free festival. Not anymore. No reason has been given, except for the usual “circumstances beyond our control” statement from the Queens’ spokesperson, according to a release from the festival’s publicists.
Nouveau-punk Floridians Against Me! will now occupy the show’s top spot when the fest returns for its third year at Centennial Olympic Park on May 17. Like the title sponsor, the event is for folks age 21 and over.
Support acts remain Ghostland Observatory, Supersuckers, Ryan Shaw and Bang Camaro.
Previous Atlanta editions of the festival have featured the Flaming Lips, The Roots, Son Volt, De La Soul, Sick Puppies, Cypress Hill, Mickey Avalon and Galactic.
Atlanta is one of six cities that will host the SoCo Music Experience this year, with Denver and New York being added for the first time. For more info and updates, check the event’s site.
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When Athens met China
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Blue Flashing Light (l-r): Joshua Schwarber, Ian Schwarber, JJ Bower, Adam Monica and Ryan Cattie. Photo: Chris McKay for ConcertShots.com. Stylist: Kim Singer.
“China was absolutely fantastic,” says Ian Schwarber, frontman of Athens’ band Blue Flashing Light. He and his band mates recently returned from a mini-tour of China, where they performed in Beijing and at the annual International Peach Blossom Festival in Chengdu from mid- to late March.
The anthemic rock quintet was selected to perform at the festival by the Atlanta-based US-China Cultural & Educational Foundation.
Schwarber was blown away by the response from the audiences. “I would come out and start clapping and they’d all start clapping with me,” he says. “We certainly had the experience of a lifetime.”
“It’s so humbling,” Schwarber says of the enthusiastic response the band received. “You might think your head could blow up over there, but in reality you know you’re returning to America where you have to work…to put people in seats, so you just enjoy it.”
In the village where the peach originated, Schwarber even received a peach blossom crown from the daughter of the local mayor. The crowning denoted that she would be amenable to a proposal of marriage. Schwarber graciously declined, and adds that the mayor was apparently none too keen on the match, either.
