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 […]

Matt KeatingQuixoticKealon Records by Al Kaufman Matt Keating is what would happen if Crowded House’s Finn brothers wrote a bunch of songs and gave them to Lou Reed to sing. Quixotic is a bunch of nicely polished, somewhat dark pop songs delivered in a slighly flat vocal (although one that is often more melodious than […]

I listen to music for a living. It’s rad…but not always. Ever go fishing when you were younger? I did, and I liked it a lot, except on the days when there was absolutely nothing in the lake, those days were pure boredom. But on a good day, fishing could be amazing (even though most […]