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72-667: The Olivia Tremor Control was formed in Athens, Georgia , and the line-up comprised Bill Doss , Will Cullen Hart , Eric Harris, and John Fernandes . Doss and Hart had been writing songs for a studio album as early as 1993, and Dusk at Cubist Castle was recorded at Pet Sounds Studio in Denver , Colorado . Childhood friend Robert Schneider served as the producer, and the recording sessions featured several other musicians, including fellow Elephant 6 (and Neutral Milk Hotel ) members Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster . The first few thousand copies of

144-601: A humid subtropical climate . Its climatic regime is in many ways typical of Southeastern United States with hot summers transitioning into cool winters, but with precipitation being consistently high throughout the year. Normal monthly temperatures range from 43.5 °F (6.4 °C) in January to 80.6 °F (27.0 °C) in July; on average, maxima reach 90 °F (32 °C) or higher and stay below 40 °F (4 °C) on 58 and 5.8 days annually, and there are 48 days annually with

216-529: A "Gold Standard Agency" in 2013. ACCPD's 911 Communications Center is also CALEA certified and has reached "Gold Standard" status. ACCPD is also the first law enforcement agency certified by the State of Georgia . Athens is home to a growing number of young technology companies including Docebo, Roundsphere, and Cogent Education. The city is also home to more established technology companies such as Partner Software, Peachtree Medical Billing, and Digital Insight. Athens

288-511: A government made up of a three-member commission. The university and town continued to grow with cotton mills fueling the industrial and commercial development. Athens became known as the " Manchester of the South" after the city in England known for its mills. In 1833, a group of Athens businessmen led by James Camak, tired of their wagons getting stuck in the mud, built one of Georgia's first railroads,

360-627: A hill outside town that would become the Athens-Ben Epps Airport . The last, and perhaps only, lynching in Athens occurred on February 16, 1921, when a mob of 3,000 people attacked the Athens courthouse and carried off John Lee Eberhart. Eberhart had been arrested for the murder of his employer, Ida D. Lee, with a shotgun in Oconee County. That night, he was driven back to the Lee farm where a mock trial

432-463: A little longer in pop music, stretching into the early 1970s. Psychedelic pop became a component of the neo-psychedelic style. There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in the genre, including Prince 's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz 's 1990s output, but it has mainly been the domain of alternative and indie rock bands. Animal Collective saw commercial success in the 2000s; their 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion featured

504-574: A lost Badfinger song, while "Define a Transparent Dream" is reminiscent of David Bowie 's " Changes ." Paul Thompson of Pitchfork does note that while the Olivia Tremor Control are heavily influenced by these bands, they interpose their songs with what he describes as: "weird left turns, with hooks that seem to bubble out of nowhere before receding into themselves." The second half of the album features more experimental songs, influenced by drone music and musique concrète . When asked about

576-498: A minimum at or below freezing. Official record temperatures range from −4 °F (−20 °C) on January 21, 1985 to 109 °F (43 °C) on June 29, 2012 ; the record cold daily maximum is 18 °F (−8 °C) on January 30, 1966, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is 79 °F (26 °C) as recently as August 11, 2007. Temperatures rarely fall below 10 °F (−12 °C), having last occurred January 7, 2014. The average window for freezing temperatures

648-483: A second album titled Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences . This album contains nine ambient songs, and in the liner notes it is suggested to play the two albums in synchronicity, as this would create quadraphonic sound . The songs "The Opera House" and "Jumping Fences" were released as singles . To promote the album, the Olivia Tremor Control served as an opener for Beck , and toured with Gorky's Zygotic Mynci in 1998. Keyboardist Peter Erchick

720-454: A television station, WUGA-TV (formerly WNEG-TV) from studios on the UGA campus, but maintained its transmitter near Toccoa , its city of license; what is now WGTA has since moved its studios back to Toccoa after being sold by UGA. Amateur radio has a long history in Athens. The Athens Radio Club 2-meter repeater operates on 145.330 MHz with a (-) offset and a PL tone of 123.0/123.0. Its antenna

792-438: Is "an embarrassment of pop riches, a mildly psychedelic, lavishly melodic quasi-masterpiece." Spin reviewer Chuck Stephens gave qualified praise, crediting the group for avoiding "parodic excess or overproduced pabulum" but much preferring the album's "silly pop songs", opining that "when OTC stop shaking   ... the mind candy starts to melt." Q ' s Johnny Black found the album largely derivative of 1960s acts such as

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864-454: Is November 5 to March 24, allowing a growing season of 225 days. Precipitation is relatively well spread (though the summer months are slightly wetter), and averages 46.3 inches (1,180 mm) annually, but has historically ranged from 28.61 in (727 mm) in 1954 to 71.39 in (1,813 mm) in 1964. Snowfall is sporadic, averaging 2.9 inches (7.4 cm) per winter, but has reached 13.6 inches (34.5 cm) in 2010–2011. As of

936-494: Is a genre of pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music . Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included " trippy " features such as fuzz guitars , tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars , and Beach Boys -style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight song structures. The style lasted into the early 1970s. It has seen revivals in subsequent decades by neo-psychedelic artists. According to AllMusic , psychedelic pop

1008-501: Is a similar drone piece, which Houle compared to the music of a bad haunted house . Houle does note that not every song on the second half of the album is experimental, and highlights the final song "NYC-25" as a "jaunty country rock number that leaves an aftertaste of the Beatles yet again." Dusk at Cubist Castle focuses on surrealist imagery, in particular dreams. Hart described the album as "dream music for your mind." Thompson identifies

1080-497: Is an alternative newspaper publishing weekly. Classic City News is a not-for-profit local news source. Local radio stations include: Athens is part of the Atlanta television market. Two Atlanta-market television stations, WGTV (channel 8) and WUVG (channel 34), are licensed to Athens, though their transmitters are in the Atlanta metropolitan area. WGTV broadcasts from the top of Stone Mountain . From 2009 until 2015, UGA operated

1152-523: Is dominated by a pervasive college town culture and music scene centered in downtown Athens , next to the University of Georgia's North Campus. Major music acts associated with Athens include numerous alternative rock bands such as R.E.M. , the B-52's , Widespread Panic , Drive-By Truckers , of Montreal , Neutral Milk Hotel , and Harvey Milk . The city is also known as a recording site for such groups as

1224-417: Is home to several pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotechnology companies such as Boehringer-Ingelheim and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The University of Georgia also hosts its own biotechnology research centers mostly from the lower east side of town bordering Oconee county. In May 2020, RWDC Industries, a company that develops alternatives to single-use plastics, announced its plan to invest $ 260 million into

1296-604: Is located at 390’ AGL on a tower in the northern part of the city. The Athens Radio Club is affiliated with the American Radio Relay League and sponsors four community events each year. The 1940 film The Green Hand was shot in Athens, using local townspeople and students and faculty from the University of Georgia as its cast. The film had its premiere in Athens in January 1940, at an event attended by Governor Eurith D. Rivers . The 1980 TV series Breaking Away

1368-413: Is now the old Macon Highway. A Confederate memorial that used to stand on Broad Street near the University of Georgia Arch was removed the week of August 10, 2020. During Reconstruction , Athens continued to grow. The form of government changed to a mayor-council government with a new city charter on August 24, 1872, and Henry Beusse was elected as the first mayor of Athens. Beusse was instrumental in

1440-515: Is the focus of U.S. Highways U.S. Route 29 (US 29), US 78 , US 129 , US 441 , and Georgia State Route 72 (SR 72), and near the eastern terminus of SR 316 and the southern terminus of SR 106 . Other state routes in Athens are SR 8 and SR 15 , which follow US 29 and US 441 respectively, SR 10 which follows US 78 east and west of Athens but deviates to US 78 Bus. to go through Athens, and SR 15 Alt. which starts at

1512-441: The 2020 United States census , there were 127,315 people, 51,640 households, and 23,615 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2010, there were 100,266 people, 39,239 households, and 19,344 families residing in the city. The population density was 851.5 inhabitants per square mile (328.8/km ). There were 41,633 housing units at an average density of 353.6 units per square mile (136.5 units/km ). The racial makeup of

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1584-713: The American Civil War , Athens became a significant supply center when the New Orleans armory was relocated to what is now called the Chicopee building. Fortifications can still be found along parts of the North Oconee River between College Avenue and Oconee Street. In addition, Athens played a small part in the ill-fated "Stoneman Raid" when a skirmish was fought on a site overlooking the Middle Oconee River near what

1656-650: The Athens Clipper , and the Progressive Era . In the 1880s, as Athens became more densely populated, city services and improvements were undertaken. The Athens Police Department was founded in 1881 and public schools opened in the fall of 1886. Telephone service was introduced in 1882 by the Bell Telephone Company . Transportation improvements were also introduced with a street paving program beginning in 1885 and streetcars , pulled by mules, in 1888. By

1728-556: The Base Realignment and Closure process. The 56 acre site is now home to the Health Sciences Campus, which contains the University of Georgia/Medical College of Georgia Medical Partnership, the University of Georgia College of Public Health, and other health-related programs. In 1961, Athens witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two black students to enter

1800-507: The Essential Air Service provisions. SeaPort Airlines provides commercial air service to Nashville International Airport , TN. Until 2012, Georgia Skies and Wings Air provided commercial air service to Atlanta , and until 2008 (before either airline's current AHN service), US Airways provided service to Charlotte . Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) is the primary point of departure and arrival for Athenians due to

1872-553: The Georgia , connecting Athens to Augusta by 1841, and to Marthasville (now Atlanta ) by 1845. In the 1830s and 1840s, transportation developments and the growing influence of the University of Georgia made Athens one of the state's most important cities as the Antebellum Period neared the height of its development. The university essentially created a chain reaction of growth in the community which developed on its doorstep. During

1944-697: The SR ;10 Loop interchange at Milledge Avenue and follows Milledge and Prince Avenues to US 129 which it follows to the north. The SR 10 Loop serves as a limited-access perimeter. The city is bisected east to west by Broad Street/Atlanta Highway (US 78 Bus. and SR 10) and north to south by Milledge Avenue (SR 15 Alt.). Lumpkin Street, Prince Avenue (SR 15 Alt.), North Avenue, and Oconee Street (US 78 Bus.) along with Broad Street are major thoroughfares radiating from downtown . College Station Road and Gaines School Road are major thoroughfares on

2016-528: The Twilight Series . One of these races is the Athens Twilight Criterium . In 2010, the average household rent in Athens was $ 962. The national average was $ 1,087. Of the Athens population 25 years of age or older, 39.3% have earned a bachelor's degree or higher. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has been, since 1982, the official state art museum. Culture coexists with

2088-499: The University of Georgia as the first state-supported university . Georgia's control of the area was established following the Oconee War . In 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals, in what was then Jackson County . On July 25, 1801, John Milledge , one of the trustees and later governor of Georgia, bought 633 acres from Daniel Easley and donated it to

2160-456: The humid subtropical climate zone, with hot, humid summers and mild to moderately cold winters. Annual rainfall averages 49.7 inches (1,260 mm). Light to moderate sporadic snowfall occasionally can occur in winter. In the spring, sporadic thunderstorms can occasionally become severe, rarely producing tornadoes . The city sits on a series of hills, unique to the Piedmont region . Athens has

2232-623: The Atlanta-based Indigo Girls . The 2020 book Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture describes Athens as the model of the indie culture of the 1980s. In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is today. On January 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for

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2304-527: The Beach Boys and the Beatles, though overall successful at reinterpreting their sounds "through a '90s filter". The album ranked at number 37 in The Village Voice ' s year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Writing in retrospect for Pitchfork , Paul Thompson lauded Dusk at Cubist Custle as a "stately, sumptuous, and slightly otherworldly" album "brimming with immaculate hooks and queries bound for

2376-408: The Beatles' 1968 self-titled album in sound and "unfettered creativity", dubbing it "an incredible facsimile". Tiny Mix Tapes said that while Dusk at Cubist Candle draws "unabashedly   ... from obvious sources", its primary strength "lies not in inventiveness or experimentation (which is not to say it lacks any), but in its ability to strike a dear balance between the temptation of emulating

2448-802: The Georgia Theatre, the 40 Watt Club, and the Morton Theatre. The first round of inductees included The B-52s , Danger Mouse , Drive-By Truckers, The Elephant 6 Recording Company , Hall Johnson , Neal Pattman , Pylon , R.E.M ., Vic Chesnutt , and Widespread Panic. The Clarke County School District supports grades pre-school to grade twelve. The district consists of fourteen elementary schools, four middle schools, and three high schools (one non-traditional). The district has 791 full-time teachers and 11,457 students as of 2010 . The Athens Banner-Herald publishes daily. UGA has an independent weekly newspaper, The Red & Black . Flagpole Magazine

2520-800: The Kids Who Rocked Athens, Rodger Lyle Brown described the indie rock scene in Athens. National acts that have come out of Athens include: The Whigs , Reptar , Danger Mouse , Dreams So Real , Nana Grizol , Jucifer , Servotron , Vic Chesnutt , Drive-By Truckers , Elf Power , Neutral Milk Hotel , Lera Lynn , The Sunshine Fix , Colt Ford , Brantley Gilbert , Harvey Milk , The Olivia Tremor Control , of Montreal , Widespread Panic , Perpetual Groove , Five Eight , Dead Confederate , Thayer Sarrano , Jet by Day , Mothers , and Humble Plum . R.E.M. members Michael Stipe , Mike Mills and Peter Buck still maintain residences in Athens. The photo book Athens Potluck , by Jason Thrasher , documents

2592-495: The Neon Philharmonic 's 1969 album The Moth Confesses is a prime example of this." 1966 1967 1968 By the end of the 1960s, psychedelic folk and rock were in retreat. Many surviving acts moved away from psychedelia into either more back-to-basics " roots rock ", traditional-based, pastoral or whimsical folk, the wider experimentation of progressive rock , or riff-laden heavy rock. Psychedelic influences lasted

2664-602: The University of Georgia. Despite the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling in 1954, the Athens–Clarke County school district remained segregated until 1964. According to the United States Census Bureau , the balance has a total area of 118.2 square miles (306.1 km ), of which 117.8 square miles (305.1 km ) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km ) (0.41%) is water. Athens lies within

2736-539: The album was recorded at Pet Sounds Studio . Doss and Hart had been recording songs on 4-track tapes for a studio album as early as 1993. Doss' ideas were more pop friendly while Hart wrote more experimental songs. Their dichotomous partnership during this era drew some comparisons to Lennon–McCartney of the Beatles , although Stereogum noted that both Fernandes and Harris retained creative input. Schneider played on several songs, and other musicians like Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster also contributed. Hart noted that

2808-406: The album were released with a bonus CD, Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences . It has been claimed that this album will produce quadraphonic sound when played at the same time as that disc. However, the two discs differ in length by approximately five minutes, rendering this an unlikely intention. The Flydaddy 017 release was reissued as a double album with Explanation II as

2880-500: The artists so highly revered, and the exigency and essential need to forge a new sound." All songs written by The Olivia Tremor Control. Instrumentation, vocals and production by The Olivia Tremor Control: Additional instrumentation and production by The Elephant 6 Orchestra: Athens, Georgia Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia . Downtown Athens lies about 70 miles (110 km) northeast of downtown Atlanta . The University of Georgia ,

2952-457: The band Chocolate USA . By 1996, Doss was losing interest in Chocolate USA, and wanted to record more music with Hart. The two reconvened in Athens, and recruited multi-instrumentalists John Fernandes and Eric Harris. With this lineup, the Olivia Tremor Control went to Denver to record their first studio album. Robert Schneider , a childhood friend of Doss and Hart, served as the producer, and

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3024-602: The centennial in 1901, Athens had experienced a century of development and growth. A new city hall was completed in 1904. An African-American middle class and the professional class grew around the corner of Washington and Hull Streets, known as the "Hot Corner", where the Morton Building was constructed in 1910. The theater at the Morton Building hosted movies and performances by black musicians such as Louis Armstrong , Cab Calloway , and Duke Ellington . In 1907, aviation pioneer Ben T. Epps became Georgia's first pilot on

3096-632: The city and the surrounding area and acquire an existing 400,000-square-foot facility. Independent publisher Hill Street Press is headquartered here. Authors with previous, or current, residence in the city include Pulitzer Prize winners Deborah Blum and Edward Larson , as well as Judith Ortiz Cofer , Reginald McKnight , Coleman Barks , and Jon Jefferson . Athens' music industry has also continued to grow as Tweed Recording acquired an 11,000-square-foot facility in downtown Athens to house their new recording studio, academy, and community space. Each spring, there are bicycle races collectively known as

3168-468: The city was 64.71% White , 27.37% Black or African American , 0.21% Native American , 3.15% Asian , 0.04% Pacific Islander , 3.11% from other races , and 1.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.39% of the population. The large population increase from 1990 to 2000 reflects the city's expanded boundaries that came with the consolidation of Athens and Clarke County, and not merely an influx of new residents. Since that time

3240-559: The city's rapid growth after the Civil War. After serving as mayor, he worked in the railroad industry and helped bring railroads to the region, creating growth in many of the surrounding communities. Freed slaves moved to the city, where many were attracted by the new centers for education such as the Freedmen's Bureau . This new population was served by three black newspapers: the Athens Blade ,

3312-485: The consolidated city-county (all of Clarke County except Winterville and a portion of Bogart ) was 128,711. Athens is the sixth-most populous city in Georgia, and the principal city of the Athens metropolitan area , which had a 2020 population of 215,415, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Metropolitan Athens is a component of the larger Atlanta–Athens–Clarke County–Sandy Springs Combined Statistical Area . The city

3384-406: The cosmos". In 2003, it was ranked at number 39 on the website's list of the best albums of the 1990s. In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide , Roni Sarig stated that despite "a serious need for editing", the album stands as the Olivia Tremor Control's "most cohesive recording, revealing a band clearly capable of creating solid retro-pop songs." Jason Ankeny, in his review for AllMusic, likened it to

3456-670: The early 1970s and later during the 1980s with the Georgia Theatre and 40 Watt Club as the aforementioned bands scored breakout hits. Other notable bands were Widespread Panic , Dreams So Real , Indigo Girls , Vigilantes of Love , Matthew Sweet , The Method Actors , Love Tractor , Pylon , Flat Duo Jets , The Primates , Modern Skirts , The Whigs , Squalls , Drive-by Truckers , Futurebirds , Bloodkin , Randall Bramblett , Vic Chesnutt , Tishamingo , Bubba Sparxxx , Dead Confederate , Corey Smith , and Humble Plum . In his insider book, Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and

3528-484: The east side of Athens, along with US 78 east (Lexington Road). On the west side, most major thoroughfares intersect US 78 Bus. (Broad Street/Atlanta Highway), including Alps Road/Hawthorne Avenue, Epps Bridge Parkway, and Timothy Road/Mitchell Bridge Road. Athens-Ben Epps Airport (FAA code AHN) has been operational since 1917. It is east of downtown outside Georgia State Route 10 Loop and north of US Route 78 . AHN qualifies for air service to be provided under

3600-405: The first half of Dusk at Cubist Castle to be the more immediate and easily accessible than the rest of the album. Zachary Houle of PopMatters describes these songs as " Beach Boys meets late-period Beatles in its take on psychedelica". "Jumping Fences" and "Define a Transparent Dream" are among the more notable songs that are indebted to 1960s and 1970s bands. Houle compares "Jumping Fences" to

3672-485: The group shortly after its formation, as he wanted to focus on a solo project that would eventually become Neutral Milk Hotel . Doss and Hart then decided to rename the group to the Olivia Tremor Control. Mangum suggested the name, which was intended to be a surreal sounding phrase with no further meaning. After the release of the first Olivia Tremor Control extended play — California Demise –in 1994, Hart moved to Denver , while Doss moved to New York City to play in

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3744-477: The inclusion of these experimental songs, Fernandes said: "We wanted to change the way people listen to music ... Make people who love the Beatles also appreciate John Cage ." An example of this experimentation is the suite of ten consecutive songs all titled "Green Typewriters". The eighth song in the suite is nearly ten minutes, and is a drone piece that features the sound of standing bells , typewriter keys, passing cars, and dripping water. The album's title track

3816-470: The influence of other genres, such as krautrock , noise music , and folk rock . While discussing the music as a whole, Stereogum described Dusk at Cubist Castle as a " maximalist analog production, sonically distended with so many different ideas that it sounds a little different every time you hear it." The album purports to be the soundtrack to an unfinished film titled Dusk at Cubist Castle . However, no such film ever existed. Some critics have found

3888-451: The opening song "The Opera House" as an example of lyrical surrealism, as it mentions going to the movie theater to simply watch the actors move their mouths. Other topics found throughout the album include a dream that features model headshots of Gertrude Stein , and a cosmonaut who is too transfixed on the thoughts in his mind to speak. Many of the lyrics found throughout Dusk at Cubist Castle are sincere and happy, which Stereogum noted

3960-431: The population has increased an average of 12.7% every ten years. There were 39,239 households, of which 22.3% had children under 18 living with them, 32.3% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 50.7% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

4032-405: The recording sessions were busy, and estimated that at least eight people played guitar on the song "The Opera House." Dusk at Cubist Castle is a 74 minute double album comprising 27 songs. Critics have described Dusk at Cubist Castle as an eclectic album that encompasses a variety of genres, including indie pop , neo-psychedelia , and psychedelic pop . Jason Ankeny of AllMusic also notes

4104-533: The relative lack of air service to AHN. Athens encourages the use of alternative transportation. Bike lanes are provided on major thoroughfares. A rail-to-trail redevelopment is being considered to connect Downtown with the East Side. Organizations such as BikeAthens support and encourage biking. Skateboarding and small scooters are also common sights around the UGA campus and Downtown. Psychedelic pop Psychedelic film Psychedelic pop (or acid pop )

4176-465: The second disc. This bonus disc was later re-released as a full album by Flydaddy in 1999 but the most recent Cloud Recordings reissues do not include the extra disc. The Olivia Tremor Control originated as a psychedelic band called Cranberry Lifecycle. This band was formed in Ruston, Louisiana in the late 1980s, by high school friends Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum . After graduating from high school,

4248-506: The second unified government in Georgia and the 28th nationwide. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) was formed by the merger of the law enforcement agencies of the City of Athens and Clarke County. As of October 2022 , Jerry Saulters was sworn in as the new Chief of Police. ACCPD is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and was named

4320-480: The state's flagship public university and an R1 research institution , is in Athens and contributed to its initial growth. In 1991, after a vote the preceding year, the original City of Athens abandoned its charter to form a unified government with Clarke County , referred to jointly as Athens–Clarke County where it is the county seat . As of 2021, the Athens-Clarke County's official website's population of

4392-488: The town's musical legacy. Every summer since 1996 the city has hosted AthFest, a nonprofit music and arts festival in the downtown area. In September 2020, the city launched the Athens Music Walk of Fame. The public art walk spans a two-city blocks loop around West Washington and Clayton Streets connected by North Lumpkin Street. Guitar pick plaques were laid on the sidewalk in front of significant music venues like

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4464-409: The two moved to Athens, Georgia , and reworked Cranberry Lifecycle songs under the name Synthetic Flying Machine. Fellow Rustonian Bill Doss joined in 1993, and the lineup consisted of Hart on electric guitar, Doss on bass guitar, and Mangum on drums. The band gained a small following due in part to the psychedelic-infused music, which differed from the prevalent grunge sound in the city. Mangum left

4536-566: The university in 1804, Athens consisted of three homes, three stores, and a few other buildings facing Front Street, now known as Broad Street. Completed in 1806 and named in honor of Benjamin Franklin , Franklin College was the first permanent structure of the University of Georgia and the city of Athens. This brick building is now known as Old College. Athens officially became a town in December 1806 with

4608-522: The university students in creating an art scene, music scene, and intellectual environment. The city has music venues, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops that cater to its creative climate. The music of Athens, Georgia, includes a wide variety of popular music and was an important part of the early evolution of alternative rock and new wave . The city is well known as the home of chart-topping bands like R.E.M. and The B-52s , and several long-time indie rock hip-hop groups. The Athens music scene grew in

4680-525: The university. Milledge named the surrounding area Athens after the city that was home to the Platonic Academy of Plato and Aristotle in Classical Greece . The first buildings on the University of Georgia campus were made from logs . The town grew as lots adjacent to the college were sold to raise money for the additional construction of the school. By the time the first class graduated from

4752-437: Was $ 28,118, and the median income for a family was $ 41,407. Males had a median income of $ 30,359 versus $ 23,039 for females. The per capita income for the balance was $ 17,103. About 15.0% of families and 28.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 25.2% of those under age 18 and 13.5% of those age 65 or over. In 1990, the City of Athens and Clarke County voters voted to unify their governments, becoming only

4824-401: Was 2.35 and the average family size was 2.95. In the city, 17.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 31.6% was from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 15.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.0% was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 25 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.4 males. The median income for a household in the city

4896-526: Was brought on as the fifth band member while on tour. In a contemporary review of Dusk at Cubist Castle for NME , Tom Cox called the Olivia Tremor Control "experts at combining the absurd with the uplifting." Alternative Press praised the band's "perfect hooks and strong, melodic singing", while Jason Cohen of The Austin Chronicle remarked that, with the exception of the "random bursts and transient noise" of "Green Typewriters", Dusk at Cubist Castle

4968-468: Was different from the prevailing ethos of 1990s indie music, which focused on disillusionment and irony. In a 1997 interview, Doss said he wanted the Olivia Tremor Control's music to instill a sense of "mystery or happiness" in listeners. "I'm sending out a positive message, because the world needs it ... We're reaching for something that's hard to explain." Dusk at Cubist Castle was released on August 6, 1996, by Flydaddy Records. Early CD pressings included

5040-561: Was filmed in Athens. The movie Darius Goes West was shot in Athens. In 2000, the fictional Ithaca University scenes in Road Trip were filmed on the North Campus of the University of Georgia. In 2012, Trouble with the Curve was partially filmed at The Globe in downtown Athens. In the same year, The Spectacular Now was filmed entirely in Athens and the surrounding area. The city

5112-552: Was held. Though he refused to confess, he was tied to a stake and burned to death. The lynching received widespread attention. During World War II , the U.S. Navy built new buildings and paved runways to serve as a training facility for naval pilots. In 1954, the U.S. Navy chose Athens as the site for the Navy Supply Corps school. The school was in Normaltown in the buildings of the old Normal School . It closed in 2011 under

5184-513: Was not too "freaky", but also not very " bubblegum " either. It appropriated the effects associated with straight psychedelic music, applying their innovations to concise pop songs. The music was occasionally confined to the studio, but there existed more organic exceptions whose psychedelia was bright and melodic. AllMusic adds: "What's [strange] is that some psychedelic pop is more interesting than average psychedelia, since it had weird, occasionally awkward blends of psychedelia and pop conventions –

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