About this Event
Beggar Weeds + The Cadets Live!
"BEGGAR WEEDS are three energetic country-blues bumpkins whose jolting swamp-bop combines angular Beefheartian twang with Gram Parsons soul. In short, a delightful surprise that flies in the face of fashion."
David Fricke, Melody Maker
"In the 1980s, Beggar Weeds were Jacksonville punks sleeping under trucks, opening for X, recording with Michael Stipe, and skinny-dipping with David Berman. In a new, career-defining reissue, they’re the long-missing link between R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo."
Casey Epstein-Gross, PaSt€ Magazine
“Beggar Weeds couple keening voices with authentic lyrics that echo with the tradition of rural southern storytelling.”
Michael Stipe, R.E.M.
"The band plays a scrappy guitar pop that's part country, part garage rock and part early-sixties abandon in the spirit of, say, the Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man."
The New Yorker
"Revelatory... grounded in punk and twang as though connecting the dots between the Allman Brothers and The Minutemen"
UNCUT
Teagedy in U.S. History, the album on Strolling Bones Records, 2026
"The Cadets build a frenetic, thundering drum style around fast-twitch searing lead rhythms and melodies fertile with nervous energy...brilliantly color washing in the open spaces of a delicately balanced collage of daydreams and found sounds dangling on the hilt of a steel edge. The Cadets’ music continues to be delightfully peculiar and full of immediacy, arriving at your ear having skidded briskly across the table yet perfectly upright and nary a drop wasted. Their sonic experiments produce songs that possess a rare energy that conjures the early days of rock & roll, sci-fi adventures, and diary entries never intended for the light of day. Lyrics filter larger themes through a tilted and tinted lens of wide-eyed fantastic reverie. Brainwashed spies, mythical chimera, desperate refugees, and jilted lovers all become protagonists and truth tellers."
The Cadets - Exile In Marginalia Vol. 4 Bar/None Records
Event venue & nearby stays
Nowhere Bar, 240 North Lumpkin Street, Athens, United States
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