Kirk McMillanAmerican DreamworldMile Marker 16 Records by Al Kaufman Kirk McMillan is an earnest guy. While listening to bands in Memphis in 2002, he decided something was missing from his life. So when he got back home to Atlanta, he quit his family’s food business and bought and learned how to play a guitar. He […]

WALTER MEEGOVoyagerSony BMGNoel Wurst I’ll admit it; I go to Wikipedia when I don’t know squat about an artist I’m reviewing. I’m not relying on it for absolute truths, I just like to see what’s there. For instance, I had no idea that the track “Forever,” which is really good, from Walter Meego’s new album […]

This has bugger all to do with music, but it’s ace… and even stranger than the first ad they did.

Our friends at Creative Loafing invited us to a preview of the Dialog In The Dark exhibtion at Atlantic Station – It was amazing. You spend an hour in the dark with only your senses (and some very cool guides) to get you through a series of different scenes. Here’s a $5.00 off coupon! Don’t […]

P Is for PandaMix Tape Vol. 1Hopeless Records by Al Kaufman Indie rock is alive and well, thanks to good folks like Chad Pearson. Pearson used to run The Militia Group label. Then he walked out on music altogether and worked in both baking and construction. But you never forget your first love, and in […]

by Al Kaufman You know what’s missing in music today? Guys who write great songs. It’s not missing per se, we just don’t hear about it because we’re too busy trying to find out which singers forgot their underwear when they left the house.Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack both wear underwear (or they may not, […]

Brantley Gilbert will be headlining the 4th Annual Pigskin Palooza, presented by Sports Radio 790 The Zone on Sunday, September 20th. The all-day “tailgate” is a celebration of the South including a “TV garden” broadcasting the day’s best college football match-ups (listed below), a beergarten, great “tailgating” food, and live performances by Slip Tripman , […]

  Locksley, MTV’s Artist Of The Week is coming to Vinyl on Wednesday October 29th as part of MTV’s Choose or Lose Tour. Tickets are only $10.00 each and available now! The band release their first CD Dont Make Me Wait on September 9th and you can check out clips on their myspace pace www.myspace.com/locksley

WAYFARERS OF SUMMER   I was in the car and Don Henley’s "Boys of Summer" came on. I’d forgotten how great of a song that was/ is, no matter how big a prick Don Henley was/ and probably still is. My Favorite line is near the end, "I can seee you. Brown skin shinnin’ in […]

Tickets for the Staind show at Lakewood Amphitheatre on October 19th go on sale Saturday Sept. 6th at 10am from www.ticketmaster.com  – Also appearing: Seether, Papa Roach and Red Pit tickets $42.50, reserved tickets $29.50 and $26.50 and lawn tickets $16.50Doors 5:00 PM / Show 6:00 PM Find tickets Click on the link below for […]

There’s a great new website called Regator that sifts through the millions of blogs out there and finds the best ones just for you! Regator threw a launch party last night at Paste Magazine’s HQ. Preston Craig from Kiss Atlanta DJ’d and about 200 media, bloggers and other invitees were treated to food, music and […]