[Friday, May 16] The Electric Sons, NovaKord & Cousin Dan (Party in the Park pre-party) @ The Loft Get pumped up for Party in the Park with this pre-party show featuring local legends The Electric Sons, Cousin Dan, and NovaKord. The Electric Sons are an Atlanta electronic/alternative band founded by vocalist/guitarist, Andrew Miller, and keyboardist/vocalist, Ben Richards. […]
Best known for their hits like, “Your Life is a Lie,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel,” MGMT has been in the game since 2002. Well, they kind of accidently stumbled into the game. Ben Goldwasser, one of the founding members of the group, put it like this, “It just came from us hanging out, messing […]
Happy Thursday, Atlanta! You’ve made it over the hump of the week and for that you deserve a reward. Treat yo’self with one of these awesome almost-the-weekend shows. KONGOS w/ Is Pls Pls @ The Loft The brothers KONGOS–multi-cultural, multi-faceted, multi-instrumentalists—craft a unique and irresistible sound spawned from shared DNA, diverse influences and spot-on melodic […]
SPIN called The Joy Formidable’s music “ambitious… drenched in fuzzy bass, propelled by… driving percussion… the album transforms ear-stabbing reverb into something pretty, airy, girly, and sometimes dark.” While The Guardian praised the band as “darkly joyous soft-loud racket.” There’s no doubt that reviewers LOVE The Joy Formidable and if you don’t yet, you will […]
Go Down Moses with special guests MamaDear @ Eddie’s Attic Go Down Moses first met each other at college in Nashville, TN back in 2010. Since then, they’ve been writing, recording, and touring the southeast, opening for acts such as Love & Theft and Mac McAnally, among others. Following a sold out show at […]
On Tuesday, May 6th, Georgia State University announced a new partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting. The agreement states that, as of June 2nd, Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) will begin broadcasting using the University’s radio station, WRAS-Atlanta, signal during daytime hours. The format shift will allow GPB to broadcast its programming, which will primarily be focused on news and […]
Minus The Bear is a Seattle-based, indie-rock band that has earned quite a name for themselves in the festival circuit, playing high profile fests across the country, including: Riot Fest, Lollapalooza, Sasquatch, Coachella and Bonnaroo. The group emerged on the indie music scene in 2001 with the release of their EP titled, This is […]
Marshall Ruffin and Life is a Flower, Life is a Gun feat. Angie Aparo & McKenzie Eddy @ Eddie’s Attic Twenty-five year old roots-rock and blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Marshall Ruffin grew up in typical Americana. After finding a guitar in his attic at age thirteen, Marshall taught himself to play. Just several short years later, he […]
“Jazz music is America’s only original art form, and…Atlanta, with its growing reputation as an international center of the arts and education, has both the opportunity and the responsibility to promote an art form whose roots are indigenous to the South.” Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson spoke these words when he founded the original Atlanta Jazz […]
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If you haven’t had it Sharpie’d into your schedule for four months like we have, Party in the Park is happening this weekend which means it’s time to start figuring out how you’re gonna spend your weekend. We’re planning on going all out in a celebratory fashion and we hope to see you all there. To […]
In 2013, Creative Loafing Atlanta voted Stokeswood “Best Local Rock Act”- and rightfully so. The group has recently performed music festivals like Counterpoint, The Rock Boat and AURA Music Festival with the likes of M83, Skrillex, Outkast, Sister Hazel and P Groove. Band Members include Adam Patterson, Mark Godwin, Jon Joiner, Justin Mullinix […]
The Aquabats! w/ Koo Koo Kanga @ The Loft With 16 years and album sales of over 270,000 under their belts, SoCal’s The AQUABATS! are back with their brand new album HI-FIVE SOUP!, ready to shine a much-needed light into our lives, and prove once again that The AQUABATS! – led by the fearless MC BAT […]
Stu Larsen w/ special guest Adam Burrows @ Eddie’s Attic [Saturday, May 10] STU LARSEN has no home. Three years ago he made a decision to leave behind normality, security and comfort, choosing to live as simply as possible and to follow the opportunities that would lay themselves down in front of him. A bold […]
Whether you’re spending your Friday afternoon groovin’ at Shaky Knees Fest and looking for something to do after or maybe you’re just too cool for the festival scene, this Friday’s Atlanta concert itinerary has a little something for everybody. Man Man w/ Black Cadillacs @ The EARL Man Man is a fearlessly unique band […]
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