Are You Willing To Put In Your 10,000 Hours?

Are You Willing To Put In Your 10,000 Hours?

By Eileen Tilson There has been many blogs, dinner conversations, talk of the Intelligentsia of the enlightening author Malcolm Gladwell, and his bodies of work, The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink; however, how many of Gladwell’s allegiance are actually following his ideas? It recently has struck me that in the wonderfully magical world of music, […]

What’s Up Tuesday?

-According to their Twitter, The Most Successful All Girl Rock Group of All Time (say that three times fast), the GoGo’s will be rocking it out with Tom Tom Club tonight at Chastain Amphitheater.  Spandex Shorts Are NOT Required. -Irish+electronic= Shit Robot. Marcus Lambkin‘s project will be getting the party going down at the Masquerade. […]

What’s Up Monday?

Well I know it’s late, but hey, by this time you are probably ready to be hittin’ the quitting time button. Here are a few things to keep you cool this Monday. -If it’s true what they say that everything that comes out of Brooklyn is automatically awesome, then you definitely do not want to […]

Live Review & Picture Book: The Accidents, Coliseum, Corrosion Of Conformity at The EARL, August 3

Review and photos by Ellen Eldridge Full gallery after the jump. The Accidents posted their bluesy-rock set, which introduced their newest vinyl EP, on YouTube. William Duvall (Neon Christ, Alice In Chains), who produced the EP, joined his friends on stage for the finale, “Big Girls,” and then Coliseum took over. Both openers fit well […]

Five Ways Dolly Parton Can “Better” Your Day

By Cory Albertson I imagine optimism incarnate to look somewhat like Dolly Parton. This past Wednesday, Parton burst onto the Verizon Amphitheatre stage, glittering fiddle in hand and decked out in a blinding white satin dress smattered in silver sequins. Seeing her gleefully flounce around to a mashup of Katrina and the Waves’ infectious “Walking […]

Live Review: Gilt City Presents Tinie Tempah at The Loft, August 3

Review by Garrett Webster; photo by Ben Rose. In the midst of filling out college applications, Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu makes a decision to forget everything else and pursue his music career. Thousands of hours and millions of YouTube hits later – along with some chance encounters with Snoop Dogg and Diddy, who turned out to […]

What’s Up Thursday?

I love nights like this is Atlanta! There are tons of great music events happening around the city tonight, so get on your shiniest shoes, and get out of the house… you can DVR your episodes of “Hammerhead Histories.” And check out below to find out just exactly why the woman in picture is still […]

What’s Up Wednesday?

A couple of oldies but goodies are descending upon our little city tonight, so make sure you spend your hump day doing something fun! -There might be a lot of blonds in Tinseltown, but no one can command the stage like Ms. Dolly Parton. Check out the Queen of Twang herself at the Verizon Wireless […]

Picture Book & Live Review: Furthur at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, July 31

Review and photos by Ellen Eldridge. Full gallery after the jump. The scene out in front of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre held a magical nostalgia with too-young-to-be-hippies camped out with babies and dogs waving fingers in the air to signal the need for a free ticket in. To a casual observer, it would appear a […]