Optical Atlas » Je Suis France http://opticalatlas.com A Home for Friends of the Elephant 6 Recording Company Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:36:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny to Reunite Masters of the Hemisphere and I Am the World Trade Center http://opticalatlas.com/2009/09/kindercoreowl-scooters-hootenanny-to-reunite-masters-of-the-hemisphere-and-i-am-the-world-trade-center/ http://opticalatlas.com/2009/09/kindercoreowl-scooters-hootenanny-to-reunite-masters-of-the-hemisphere-and-i-am-the-world-trade-center/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:03:37 +0000 Jeff Kuykendall http://opticalatlas.com/?p=2341 hootenanny

Starting tomorrow, Athens welcomes a new pop festival: the Kindercore/Owl Scooters Hootenanny, which over three days and two venues (the Caledonia and the 40 Watt) will feature an impressive roster including Kindercore bands old and new.  Among those are a reunited Masters of the Hemisphere (I swoon!), which means, naturally, that offshoots Still Flyin’ and Je Suis France are playing as well.  Also reuniting for the festival: dance pop icons I Am the World Trade Center.  Plus the lovely Venice is Sinking, Ruby Isle, The Young Sinclairs, Maserati, The Agenda, Allison Weiss, and more.  Win a scooter, get a free scooter oil change, or just enjoy great music.

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Here’s their excellent video to “That Don’t Work That Well For Us,” from their full-length Afrikan Majik, on Antenna Farm Records.


Je Suis France – That Don’t Work That Well For Us
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