Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: Girl Talk

  Ludacris, Elton John, Gwen Stefani, Lil Wayne, Beyonce, Nirvana – all greats in their own right, but you probably wouldn’t expect to find them all on one album, unless, of course, that album is the product of Girl Talk. Since the early 2000’s, Gregg Gillis, the mastermind behind Girl Talk, has been creating music […]

AMG Weekend Picks: Party in the Park, Funk Fest, Gladys Knight, and more!

  [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. […]

Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: MGMT

  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 […]

Live Music for Thursday May 15th

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 […]

Interview with Bill Taylor of The Bitteroots; Playing 6th Anniversary Show at Eddie’s Attic May 17th

The Bitteroots, a local Atlanta band that has shared the stage with a who’s who list of legendary musicians, are celebrating 6 years of awesome music this Saturday at Eddie’s Attic. Atlanta Music Guide sat down with Bill Taylor,one of the founding members, and chatted about the band’s musical influences, Atlanta’s awesome music scene and […]

Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: The Joy Formidable

  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 […]

How To Have An Awesome Festival Season

The summer festival and outdoor concert season is upon us! With Shaky Knees blowing our collective minds last weekend and Party in the Park preparing to do the same this weekend, it’s sure to be quite a season, so we thought we’d offer up a few helpful hints on how to make your festival-going experiences go as […]

Live Music For Wednesday, May 14

  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 […]

The Twitterverse is Abuzz Over WRAS Format Change

The Twitterverse is Abuzz Over WRAS Format Change

  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 […]

Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: Minus the Bear

  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 […]

Live Music for Tuesday 5/13

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 […]

Atlanta Jazz Festival: Late Night Love Riot with Jon Batiste & Stay Human

“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 […]

AMG’s Pro Guide to Party in the Park

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 […]