ENTERTAINMENTpage 19 Technique • Friday, February 16, 2007 • 19 ON THE ROAD AGAIN... A FULL HOUSE? A list of six possible road trips for those RHA’s seventh annual poker tourna- ENTERTAINMENT procrastinators. A must-read for those ment drew approximately 100 partici- Page 17 Page 11 Technique • Friday, February 16, 2007 without spring break plans. pants last Thursday. Best-selling author Athens’ Tishamingo releases album speaks at SCAD Augusten Burroughs, the New York Times best-selling author The Pointshows what southern rock is all about of Running with Scissors will By Kenneth Baskett the band could do is play a grinding The Marshall Tucker Band had speak Wednesday, Feb. 21, at Senior Staff Writer guitar riff, you could not really call “Can’t You See,” The Allman Broth- Tucker Band. Still, those bands have long been gone, at least in their the Savannah College of Art and them a southern rock band. The ers had “Ramblin’ Man” and Skynyrd Design’s Atlanta campus located Listening to Athens-based band next song, “Are We Rollin?”, makes had “Free Bird”. Now Tishamingo original forms, and Tishamingo is here, recording new music. The band at 1600 Peachtree Street. The Tishamingo’s latest album, The Point it clear that they are, in fact, a true has “Tennessee Mountain Angel,” a event is free and begins at 7:30. is like a history lesson in southern southern rock band. The track has a beautiful, slow-opening ballad that’s is a lot like eating at Taco Bell—sure, rock. They have certainly done their great funky guitar groove reminis- carried by the chorus. About halfway they may have discontinued the homework, touring extensively both cent of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme through the seven minute track Chicken Enchilada Grilled Stuft Celebrate Chinese in the states and in Europe. They Three Steps” along with the requisite the song picks up in true southern Burrito, the best thing even appeared on the Gimme Three guitar solo that anything compared rock form and busts out in a killer on the menu, New Year at Silk Days cruise show alongside Lynyrd to a Skynyrd tune should have. guitar solo. but, they still Skynyrd. The band channeled Joe Walsh, The Point is a great album, but it have t he Sunday marks the beginning of From the moment you hear the both in guitar and vocally, on “Chest is not going to win any fans for the Double the new year according to the first song, you know you have found Fever”, a cover of a song done by genre. Though Tishamingo is good, Decker traditional Chinese Calendar. something special. The driving The Band on Music from Big Pink. maybe even great, they fail to com- T a c o For an interesting new date, or in guitars that Tishamingo ventures into country pare with the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the case you really screwed up your tear open rock on a couple of tracks, like the the Allman Brothers C h e e s y Valentine’s Day date, try taking the album steel guitar-heavy “Travel On.” The or the G o r d i t a her out Saturday for an evening at make it song is anchored by a pounding bass M a r- Crunch, so it Silk Restaurant. They will feature c l e a r drum on every beat and makes an shall is still worth going. fortune telling, Chinese calligraphy, this is amazing driving song. If you’re dying for some dragon dancing and a special New a rock But, all this aside, new southern rock, like Year’s menu. For reservations or more r e - everyone knows most of the genre’s fans information call 678-705-8888 or cord, that you can- probably are, visit www.silkrestaurant.com. a n d not really be pick this t h e a southern up. b l u e s y rock group Live reptile exhibit vocals and without a poetic lyrics trademark opens at Fernbank have a certain epic jam Gregg All- s o n g . Sixty live animals representing man feel to 26 of the nearly 8000 different them. species of squamates (a diverse But group of legged and legless lizards, if all including snakes) are on exhibit now at Fernbank. The exhibit focuses on the many adaptations of these animals, including projectile tongues, unusual methods of locomotion, deadly venom, and impressive camouflage. Admission is $12 for students, and the museum is open until 10 p.m. Fridays. More information is available at www.fernbank.edu . Metal Slug Anthology released Wii compilation a must for loyal fans By Nathan Garcia of all seven games in the series for of soldiers from the Peregrine Falcons Staff Writer the Nintendo Wii. specialized forces unit and fight At its core, Metal Slug is a familiar against the masses of the Rebellion Despite all of the advancements and easy to play game. Army. in graphics and game play that has One or two players While hopelessly outnumbered, evolved for video can take control of the Pelegrine Falcons forces have a games over the a series wide arsenal of weaponry at their past ten years, disposal that they obtained by there is still some- freeing captured prisoners. thing to be said for Everything from heavy games that are simple machine guns to laser and addictive. cannons is available, but Released almost the true equalizer is the ten years ago for powerful land tank, SNK’s Neo-Geo Metal Slug. console, Metal While the soldiers Slug is one of the can only take one best examples of hit each before buy- a franchise that ing the farm, the never seems to Metal Slug can take get stale. multiple hits before T h e t w o - exploding. d i m e n s i o n a l The Metal Slug dish- side-scrolling, run- es out a powerful Vulcan and-gun action has cannon and cannon shells collected a modest with a kamikaze attack fan base. for especially tight Now SNK By Jamie Howell / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS Playmore has released a mas- See Game, page 21 ne of the chefs at downtown’s newest restaurant, Thrive (101 sive compilation OMarietta Street), prepares sushi before the grand opening. 20 • Friday, February 16, 2007 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Taking Back Sunday begins North American tour By Abhinav Bhatnagar chart only a week after it’s release. writing and recording, we knew that seem to have harnessed that vi- fans to the issue and how to help. Staff Writer The 157,000 sold copies of the we wanted to make a rock record. tality into a rich, musically filled Rubano states “The main thing album sent it to RIAA gold-certi- The five of us knew what we meant soundtrack.” This record is the we’ve been doing is to try to use our Taking Back Sunday, the rock fied status. to one another and knew what we singular biggest accomplishment website and any opportunities we band whose album Louder Now has The band released their first DVD wanted to accomplish. The sound of of my life,” Rubano said. have available to us to direct people been voted “Album Of The Year” by titled “Louder Now: Part One”. our band has changed,” said drum- The upcoming tour, aside from to the issue. It’s a bit of giving back the prominent Kerrang! Magazine, The band will also be releasing a mer Matt Rubano. including the significantly more to the global community.” will begin 2007 with their tour of second, and possibly a third DVD to Taking Back Sunday is highly rock-influenced record, will feature Fans obviously have much to look North America. follow up live tour coverage. acclaimed for their energetic live older Taking Back Sunday songs. forward to in the upcoming tour, Beginning February 22nd in Louder Now, Taking Back performances. “Since Louder Now came out which, unfortunately, will not be Pennsylvania, the band’s tour will Sunday’s third album, contains In their we’ve played varying amounts of covering Georgia. lead them through many venues an intensity unheard in the band’s new al- songs from all the records. But on And as for new music from they have missed on previous tours, previous albums Where You Want To b u m , this tour we are getting ready to get the band, hopefully fans will hear including an extended foray into Be and Tell All Your Friends. t he y rid of our current live playlist and something in the next year or so. “I Canada. Producer Eric Valentine, who pre- play some things we haven’t played think we’ll probably be going into the Taking Back Sunday came into viously worked with Third Eye Blind in a long time,” Rubano said. studio maybe some point in the end the mainstream in August of last year and Queens of the Stone Age, was a Fans can look forward to songs of 2007, But we would with its third album and first major determining factor in the explosive from the band’s early stages, includ- like to tour on label release sounds of the new album. ing old EPs. L o u d e r L o u d e r The band’s faster, harder paced On their upcoming tour, look Now for Now. new record also contains tradi- to see Taking Back Sunday drawing as long as The tional Taking attention to the prevention of global we possi- a l b u m Back Sun- warming. bly can,” l a n d e d day in the In preparation, the band has R u b a n o Number hit single re-fitted their tour buses with said.