Finally! It may be a bit late, but our guide to Music Midtown 2004 is up, complete with pictures, reviews, and all. Check it out right here.

The Atlanta Braves and Turner Field are introducing a concert series in the Plaza, entitled My South Rocks , before select Braves games. Remaining acts include Kingsized , Jump Little Children , Mandorico , Satisfaction , and Five Star Iris . www.atlantabraves.com

Check out our CD review of The Streets' new release.

Summerfest , the Virginia Highlands Civic Association festival, will take place June 5th and 6th. The free festival offers activities for everyone, including an artist market and 5K run. The 99X Music stage will feature local acts such as Five Eight , Michelle Malone , Bain Mattox, Y-O-U, and more. The stage is located in John Howell Park on Virginia Avenue. For more information and the full lineup, visit www.vahi.org.

99X and Park Tavern bring back Unplugged in the Park this Summer. The free concert series takes place Sunday evenings at 7pm on Park Tavern's patio overlooking Piedmont Park. Performers include The Lost Trailers , Red Letter Agent , Jump Little Children , and more. www.unpluggedinthepark.com

Seminal Athens rock band Five Eight were recently added into regular rotation at 99x. The track “Square Peg” is the first single off their highly acclaimed self-titled album. The record is their first release since 2000’s ‘The Good Nurse’ and was mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, The Breeders, Jay Farrar) and co-produced by Five Eight and Geoff Melkonian (of the Josh Joplin Group).

JaD recently signed with Budweiser True Music for a 12 month sponsorship/promo campaign. This follows the March 2004 release of their new EP, More Than Coincidence , a follow up to the bands full length debut Lose Your Mind . JaD has also recently announced Steve Sidman of Greenberg Traurig as the band's new attorney.

The artists that will showcase during the 2004 Atlantis Music Conference have been selected. You can check out a full line up at www.atlantismusic.com. The conference takes place from July 21st to July 24th and as well as the bands playing there are 18+ hours of extensive panels including information for artists wanting to tour, legal information, publishing rights, help with how to get press coverage, a Demo Derby and information regarding distribution. This years key note speaker will be TVT Records President Steve Gottlieb.

Summer is here, and it's time once again for Screen on the Green, a series of free movies to be shown on a giant screen in Piedmont Park. Admission is free and the movies begin each Thursday night at Sunset. Check out the lineup on our Concerts section. www.turner.com/screenonthegreen

Vinyl, located next to Earthlink Live, is now hosting "Tuesday Night Live," an open mic night for the whole band. The venue provides the backline while bands are invited to come onstage and rock out. Tickets are $3.00, and doors are at 8pm. For more information and directions, visit www.vinylatlanta.com.

Atlanta Music Guide's featured artist for April is Slowearth .

The 4th Annual On The Bricks concert series will kick-off May 28th and run every Friday night through August. The concerts, held downtown in Centennial Park will cost $5 each this year and Train, Liz Phair and Gavin McGraw are scheduled to be the acts on opening night.
The rest of the line up will be announced shortly. Rockers Live will close out the festivities on August 28th. www.onthebricks.net. For the lineup, check the Concerts section of the Atlanta Music Guide.

Check out our guide to Music Midtown 2004 's Locals Only Stage.

Correction - Heavy MoJo will be showcasing for Warner Brothers A&R on Thursday May 6th. Minamina Goodsong and Civil Circuit are also on the bill that night at the Hard Rock Cafe's Velvet Underground. Music Starts at 9pm with Minamina Goodsong kicking things off. The show is FREE to all those over 21 and only costs $3 for kids 18-21. www.minaminagoodsong.com | www.heavymojomusic.com | www.civilcircuit.com

The Orphins will release a new CD called Drowning Cupid in April on Goodnight Records (www.goodnightrecords.com). The release show will be at The Earl with Elf Power and Zumm Zumm on Thursday April 29th.

Supafuzz will release their next 2 records in May. A 13 track full length called Vertigo and an EP entitled Gimme Gimme. The band will play Nine Lives on June 4th and 5th. For more info visit www.supafuzz.net

Kingblind is celebrating their 1 year anniversary on Wednesday, May 12th 2004 at The Echo Lounge. The free night includes THE MC5 (A True Testimonial) a full length documentary feature film of the life and times The MC5, a Rock and Roll poster and photo show by Methane Studios, photos from Frank Mullen of Matteblack.com, poster art by former Flipside columnist Mr. Jim Hayes, as well as music and giveaways. For more info visit www.kingblind.com.

Ripe Atlanta Arts Festival takes place on Saturday May 15th at City View Sculpture Park. For one night they'll radically alter the night-time urban environment with an event that is open to anything that you feel like doing...as long as it's creative and doesn't hurt anyone else. The proceeds benefit MPAC, the most dynamic advocate for public art in Atlanta. For more info visit www.ripeatlanta.com and for tickets visit www.ticketalternative.com

Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose is helping fans who want to own a piece of Atlanta rocker memorabilia - and he's fighting hunger at the same time. Rose is contributing a portion of proceeds to Atlanta's Table, a project of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, every time a fan purchases a set of autographed drumsticks for $25 through his official Web site, www.morganrosesevendust.com. Rose says he felt obligated to help Georgia's hungry people when he realized how many citizens are in need of food. Statistics show that more than 900,000 Georgia households don't have access to enough food at all times to ensure healthy lifestyles (Center on Hunger and Poverty, 2002). Atlanta's Table retrieves donations of excess prepared food from the hospitality industry and delivers it to about 30 metro Atlanta nonprofit, hunger-relief agencies every day.

British band the Music turned up at the BRMC/Rapture show at the Roxy on Friday night. The band are apparently in town working on their sophomore record with Brendan O'Brien. The band have been here for about a month and have recorded about 15 new songs at Southern Tracks studios. They expect to be finished in a couple of weeks. www.themusic.co.uk

More artists have been added to the 2004 Music Midtown line up. The newest additions to the bill include The Strokes , Gary Jules , Big Boi of Outkast, and Ween . For the full line up click www.musicmidtown.com

Good News/Bad News. The bad news is that Matt Bellamy, lead singer of the band Muse, smashed his face so hard with his mic last Friday at the Cotton Club, that the band had to cancel the sold out show just three songs in. The good news is that he will be ok, and the date will be rescheduled. www.muse.mu

The Darkness brought their sold out US tour to Atlanta this past Thursday, and the Atlanta Music Guide was there to catch it. Check out our show review in the Features section.

Bob Guiney, otherwise known as Bachelor Bob, plays Vinyl this Friday night along with Atlanta's own 13 Stories. After getting turned down by Trista on the Bachelorrette he was given his own show starring in ABC's The Bachelor. His debut record 3 Sides is out now on Wind Up Records. A few tickets still remain for the show.
www.ticketalternative.com | www.bobguiney.com | www.13stories.com

Pedro the Lion comes out with a new album in May (Achilles Heel, Jade Tree) and will visit Atlanta twice - first on April 21st at Variety Playhouse and then again in mid-May. The band's ebullient press gal, Jessica Hopper, says the new record is "brighter, less laden with moral parables than the last two, but it's equally as loaded with Bazan 's bearded genius."

Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores and Mahi Mahi roll up to the Eyedrum in Atlanta on April 15th.