March 12th - Sky City - Augusta, GA
DEAD CONFEDERATE With Special Guests FUTUREBIRDS + GIFT HORSE
Doors 8pm | Music 10pm | $8 adv - $10 day of

Sky City website
Dead Confederate website
Futurebirds website
Gift Horse website

Gift Horse Update

• • Saturday February 6, 2010 playing some MY BLOODY VALENTINE songs @ Tasty World (Athens, GA) with Futurebirds
  • Tuesday March 16, 2010 @ City Tavern (Dallas, TX)
  • SXSW--Wednesday March 17, 2010 (Austin, TX)
  • SXSW--Thursday March 18, 2010 (Austin, TX)
  • SXSW--Friday March 19, 2010 (Austin, TX)
  • SXSW--Saturday March 20, 2010 (Austin, TX)
  • Thursday April 1, 2010 "MOUNTAIN OF YOUTH" ALBUM RELEASE @ 529 (Atlanta, GA)
  • Friday April 2, 2010 "MOUNTAIN OF YOUTH" ALBUM RELEASE @ Caledonia (Athens, GA)
  
  

Merry Christmas

Dead Confederate's new sound

Posted below is a video clip of Hardy Morris, singer and guitar player for Dead Confederate, playing two songs that just may be on the next DC album. Both songs are undeniably akin to the works of singer/songwriter Elliott Smith. Unsurprisingly, DC lists Elliott Smith as one of the band's key influences. These new songs evidence the fact that DC is shifting from the sound of Wrecking Ball; DC's scream grunge and 8 minute pysch songs may be a thing of the past. I expect the next album to be a more concise and consistent effort.

A complete Beatles rip-off, but it's still pretty good.

New Vic Chestnutt

Vic Chestnutt's new cd At the Cut was released September 22. Click to listen to the song "Philip Guston." And check out a few more of the new songs off of Vic's Myspace Page

There were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things...

Sorry to the enormous Gavel and Tone nation for the long hiatus. I hope to keep posting when I can, so check back at least once every couple weeks.

Deer Tick

I've been praising these guys since their first Album War Elephant. It seems they'll be playing a Halloween show with some band called Dead Confederate. Here is a song off Deer Tick's new album Born on Flag Day.

Gift Horse- the band

The beauty of Gift Horse is...the atmosphere the band swallows you in. Prepare to be transfixed in an aural array of psychedelic grunge and indie rock."
-Flagpole

For Gift Horse, it started in a large, empty, plain white room in downtown Athens, GA. This was the venue for Gift Horse's soon-to-be-released debut album. I, for one, am intrigued to see what the boys conjured up in that white lab they called the recording studio. I'm at least certain that those white wall's are now forever stained by the band's blood, sweat, & tears.

Go to Gift Horse's WEBSITE to check out a few of the new songs and for show dates.

Acoustic DC

 

Enjoy the acoustic version of "As Able, As Well" as well as the acoustic version of "Wrecking Ball." Ha.