As a 9 to 5’er, every weekend is like a mini-Christmas. After five days of early mornings and painful traffic jams, I get two days to sleep in, stay out late, and drink ungodly amounts of cheap beer while watching bands! So what’s on the books this weekend? Alex Chilton Tribute – Friday, April 30 – Star Community Bar Sort […]
One man band Bob Log will soon be slipping into his cannonball man jumpsuit, signature motorcycle helmet and hitting the road for his North American summer tour. Bob Log and his onstage performance has probably been best described by Tom Waits: “He’s this little kid – nobody even knows how old he is – wears […]
NW Apt. Band Of Horses | MySpace Music Videos Atlanta has quite a strong bond with Band of Horses – we’ve seen them grow in favor every New Year’s Eve, going from The EARL to the Tabernacle. We like their new song “NW Apt.” and are looking forward to the new record Infinite Arms, coming […]
It might take a minute to remember Wheatus, but just seconds into the band’s 2000 hit “Teenage Dirtbag” and it’ll all come rushing back like a pair of bright yellow tinted sunglasses and a top-down Chevy Tracker. The band has since continued to release music, including 2009’s Pop, Songs & Death The Lightning EP available for […]
Attention Atlanta bands: It’s time to start looking for those big fall gigs, which includes the marvelous Next Big Nashville. The festival, which runs October 7 – 10, showcases bands from Nashville and beyond. Atlanta bands can get a good cut of the action, like Ponderosa did last year. At only four years old, Next […]
South African rock trio Civil Twilight and rock/funk/electric seven-piece band Paper Tongues takeover Vinyl on Wednesday, May 19. Civil Twilight, who has been getting some major loving from Atlanta’s 99X, recently recorded a LIVE X session and has a consistently growing fanbase all across Georgia. Heavily influenced by some of the world’s biggest bands – including U2, […]
Plants and Animals La La Land Secret City Records By Chris Homer La La Land, the second album from Montreal trio Plants and Animals, marks a major shift in the band’s sound. While Plants and Animals’ 2008 debut, Parc Avenue, was anchored by quiet folk melodies interspersed with huge choir choruses, blasts of brass horns […]
San Diego based ambient-music project The Album Leaf is scheduled to perform at the Loft alongside folk-rock artist Sea Wolf on Thursday, May 6. Celebrating 10 years of releasing music as The Album Leaf, Jimmy LaValle, mastermind behind the project, has gone from initial improvised home recordings to having released five complete studio albums, while […]
Whenever our friends at Paste Magazine endorse a band, we tend to check them out immediately. We weren’t surprised to be extremely pleased to find out how cool Louisiana band Givers are, but we were happy and probably a little obsessed. They’ve got Vampire Weekend pop combined with a free-spirit Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros freshness mixed […]
Indie math-rockers The Life and Times are packing up and hitting the road. They’ll be on tour starting this weekend – through the beginning of June with This Will Destroy You. Currently working on new material to follow up their 2009 LP Tragic Boogie, The Life and Times are promising some life changing, mind-blowing new […]
B.o.B. (Bobby Ray) released The Adventures of Bobby Ray today, Tuesday, April 27. The local Atlanta rapper, signed to T.I’s Grand Hustle, under Atlantic, was originally scheduled to release his debut full-length in late May, but because of the commercial success of his song “Nothin’ on You” the release date was pushed up a month. […]
Our very own Black Lips will be showcasing a hidden “talent” of theirs when they display their basketball skills to raise money for Auditory Verbal Centre Inc., a charity helping deaf children. They’ve put out a little video challenging bands to step up and play, and to give their earnings from the May 1 tournament […]
Findlay Brown Love Will Find You Verve By Jim Simpson Looking like the love child of K.D. Lang and Morrissey — like that’d ever happen; maybe he’s Jesus, miracle birth and all — the young Brit has been touted as this century’s Roy Orbison, Truth be told, Findlay Brown sounds more like Nick Lowe crooning […]
Indie hip-hop artist MURS is scheduled to perform at the Drunken Unicorn on Wednesday, May 26. Signed to the independent label Record Collection, MURS has been releasing muisc since the early 1990s. Since his first release, MURS has performed on more than 20 records, EPs, singles and collaborations as a solo artist or as part of the seven […]
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