Everybody Was In The French Resistance … Now! Fixin’ the Charts Vol. 1 By Jennifer Gibson Art Brut’s Eddie Argos and his girlfriend Dyan Valdes of The Blood Arm may have made one of the most intellectually-stimulating records in recent memory. Stimulating, that is, for music geeks. For everyone else, it’s just one of the […]
Review & photos by Micah McLain Janelle Monáe and the rest of the Wondaland Arts Society took over Smith’s Olde Bar this week in order to preview both halves of her soon-to-be-released album, The Archandroid. As soon as you stepped into the upstairs room at Smith’s for the second half preview on Tuesday night, you […]
Gift Horse Mountain of Youth By Alec Wooden In many ways, Athens-based Gift Horse began the push behind its debut full-length, Mountain of Youth, with the odds stacked against them. Gift Horse has become something of a must-see on a local and semi-regional level, developing a worth of mouth buzz with a distinctive brand of […]
Nneka Concrete Jungle Epic/Decon By Jim Simpson Hope. Love. Peace. Political awareness. Passion. Intelligence. Singer-songwriter Nneka exudes all these things and much more. With the release of Concrete Jungle, her U.S. debut, she’s been touted as the next big thing, despite having critical success in Europe since 2007, and drawing high praise from critics and […]
A Soul Survivor: Sharon Jones on her new album, touring philosophy and why she’s not retro at all By Alec Wooden A word to the wise: don’t say the “r” word to Sharon Jones. That word, of course, is “retro.” Oh, and I wouldn’t recommend “revivalist,” either. Those are the two most common words used […]
The Temper Trap Conditions By Eileen Tilson Apparently there is more to Australia than Vegemite and AC/DC. Out of Melbourne comes The Temper Trap sailing high above the kangaroos and kuala bears, setting their sites on the U2-like dreams of grandeur. With their debut album, Conditions, music producer Jeff Abbiss, (Artic Monkeys’, Editors, Kasabian) cleverly […]
Ken Will Morton True Grit By Alec Wooden For those that follow the regional folk/songwriter circuit, here’s the least surprising sentence of 2010: Ken Will Morton’s got a new record out. Here’s the second least surprising: True Grit, the newest product from the Athens, Ga. workaholic, is yet another satisfying step forward in the catalog […]
The Atlanta Film Festival is one of those gems that can be easily forgotten in the giddiness of the first signs of spring warmth. Yet it features some amazing creations as well as thrilling guests. The festival kicks off this year with a screening of Stanley Nelson’s Freedom Riders, a phenomenal piece of work about […]
Atlanta’s very own all-lady punk quartet are back! The Coathangers, who have been non-stop touring lately, will be performing at East Atlanta’s hip and cozy 529 on Tuesday, April 6. Joining The Coathangers for a weekday night of debauchery are Suicide Squeeze labelmates Past Lives. Follow The Coathangers on Twitter at Twitter.com/TheCoathangers
Vonnegutt The Appetizer EP Purple Ribbon Records By Eric Chavez As we have seen in the past, the combination of rap and rock can be commercially successful, but those rarely made their mark and were quickly forgotten. The likes of Limp Bizkit, Korn, and Kid Rock are over for a reason: rap and rock don’t […]
South African alternative rockers Civil Twilight will be playing a free gig at The Loft with The Airborne Toxic Event and Trances Arc on April 10. But there’s a catch – you have to win the tickets! Here’s how you can do that: (1) Every day, 5 “Attendees” of this Facebook Event will be selected […]
Unshaken – charity: water’s campaign for Haiti from charity: water on Vimeo. We always love rocking out for a good cause. If you do too, then look no further than Vinyl on April 9, when Elevation will be joined by The Goodfight and The Less for a gig raising money for the fantastic Charity: Water […]
We finally have the video for Janelle Monae‘s first single of her debut album. “Tightrope” is just giddily exciting, with smooth rapping from Big Boi and dizzyingly marvelous singing from Monae. It’s enough to make you wanna start shuffling those feet under your desk. We can’t wait for her two shows next week at Smith’s […]
Judi Chicago Bright Lights, Fun City By Samantha Parvin In the spirit of true Atlanta indie rock, Judi Chicago’s second full-length album exudes an air of spooky, with funky keyboard and synth accents and a “mwa ha ha” kind of Dracula-esque vocal tone. These three multi-instrumentalists, Travis Thacker – AKA Baron Saturday – James Joyce […]
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