Unplugged in the Park is back and celebrating its 11th year of completely FREE music at Park Tavern! Every Sunday starting April 28th through September 15th, Park Tavern will host a great headliner along with top Atlanta bands and musicians. This year’s lineup includes scheduled performances by Ed Roland & Sweet Tea Project, GRAMMY nominee [...]
Get ready to fill up on tasty, finger-lickin’ crawfish & cold beer this Saturday! Park Bench is hosting the Buckhead Crawfish Festival. Dance to live music from Pistol Town, Alex Guthrie, Like a Locomotive, & Kevin Kos. Save $$ with advance tickets or take your chances and enter to win here!
A warm summer day, a dozen great local bands, and the Historic Oakland Cemetery are all coming together on Saturday, June 8th for one of our favorite events: Tunes from the Tombs! This fundraising event features musicians performing in and among Oakland’s extraordinary monuments, mausoleums and renowned gardens. All genres of music will be represented: [...]
By Molly Segers Record Store Day – that most joyous time of the year – is upon us again! Saturday, April 20th more than 700 independent record stores around the country will be stocked with a sampling of hundreds of special releases exclusively available for Record Store Day. Atlanta is lucky enough to be home [...]
Just around the corner, Saturday, April 27th, you’ll want to wear your beer drinking clothes! You know what I’m talking about, those looser fitting shirts and pants with a little stretch! Get ready to fill up on some delicious craft brews at the Heritage Sandy Springs BeerFest. Here’s a sneak peek of some of the [...]
Today, Twitter released a new music app that uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to help you find music that is the most popular on Twitter, as well as discover emerging artists. The new app brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity to the forefront: you can visit their profiles to see which music artists they [...]
There are 3 stages at Magnetic Music Festival this Saturday: Magnetic Force Field, Digital Distortion, and the Enchanted Village Stage! Be sure to take a look and plan out your day. With so many great artists and DJ’s, you’ll practically need to clone yourself. Be sure to tag @AtlantaMusic in your photos this weekend and [...]
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with their 4th album release, Mosquito and it’s another solid hit. Quite different from the 80′s pop-sounding, 2009 It’s Blitz, Mosquito is more rock oriented. The instrumentals are experimental and Karen O is sassy with title-track, “Mosquito” and the sexy, “Sacrilege”. “Slave” is fun and edgy, but single, “Sacrilege” [...]
Don’t get lost at Magnetic Music Fest! Use their venue map to find your way to the multiple stages, bars, concession booths, restrooms, merch booth, vendors, VIP areas, art installations, and everything else! MMF is filled with lots of attractions for you to explore – study up and check out the things you won’t want [...]
This past Friday night, local Atlanta band, The Roycrofters, played their hearts out for a chance to represent Atlanta in Hard Rock Rising – The Global Battle of the Bands 2013. The fans and judges agreed that The Roycrofters had the talent to move on to the final round! The Roycrofters will now need your [...]
This Saturday, Vinyl is celebrating the birthday of their legendary talent buyer Brandon Mize and they want you to join the party! In honor of Brandon turning the big 4-0, they’re offering 2 tickets to Rusted Root + a $25 Vinyl bar tab for $40! We’ll drink to that! Sales begin Friday, 4/12 at noon [...]
Outlaw’s favorite son Shooter Jennings is currently on tour in support of his latest release The Other Life. Check out Atlanta Music Guide’s Album Review, enter to win tickets to his show at The Masquerade on April 19th, and scoop up this FREE download!
Your average Tuesday night in Atlanta pretty much guarantees a decent show at one of our local venues. Last night, I headed to the The Drunken Unicorn to check out On An On and Savoir Adore. With only a little blog chatter to go by and a few listens, I was interested to see what [...]
We love a good concert announcement, especially one that involves our favorite Atlanta Garden! Today, Atlanta Botanical Garden released their Concerts in the Garden lineup and it has some huge names! The popular outdoor music venue is celebrating its 11th annual season with eight great acts – all performing on the beautiful Great Lawn: Pat [...]
Want to surprise your mom with a truly memorable Mother’s Day outing? Celebrate Mother’s Day a little early this year with the legendary “Empress of Soul”, Gladys Knight, singing classic hits on Friday, May 3rd at Wolf Creek Amphitheater. Wine and dine your mom by packing a lovely picnic with snacks and her favorite beverages [...]
Interview: Imagine Dragons; Rocked Out @ Hangout Fest 5/19
After the last note played on the last song of a marathon set a few years ago, Dan Reynolds, frontman for Las Vegas based rockers Imagine Dragons, realized it was all starting to come together. Reynolds and his bandmates – guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and drummer Daniel Platzman – independently released three EPs, [...]
Picture Book & Review: Party in the Park, 5/18
Photo Credit: CatMax Photography, LLC, Review by Gini Strobel If you couldn’t make it to Hangout Fest, like AMG’s Katie Caccavale, you still had your chance to see some of the awesome artists that played the popular beach festival. Back for year 2, Centennial Olympic Park packed in a sweet festival lineup for Party [...]
Picture Book: Avett Brothers @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 5/17
Photos by: CatMax Photography, LLC
Picture Book: Clutch @ Center Stage
Pictures & Review By Deidra Pinion If you were coming to see Clutch at Center Stage, you probably noticed that almost, if not every seat, was filled. Clutch started touring in March 2013 in support of their new album, Earth Rocker. People of all ages lined the theater. I was told that I was in [...]
Picture Book: Titus Andronicus @ The EARL 5/14 & Criminal Records 5/15
Photos by Hillery Terenzi: So So Glos: Titus Andronicus: Criminal Records In-Store Performance:
Picture Book & Live Review: Justin Furstenfeld @ Center Stage 5/14
Photos and review by Jenna Hughes The atmosphere at Center Stage was quiet and calm on Tuesday night as fans eagerly awaited the stripped down solo performance of Justin Furstenfeld (of Blue October). The standing room floor was transformed into a seating area and those seats filled up fast with dedicated fans. Strangers chatted and [...]
5GB Interview: Shockwave Riderz; Playing with !!! @ The EARL 5/22
Shockwave Riderz are a three piece from Pittsburgh consisting of Phil Boyd, Sara Mac and !!! drummer Paul Quattrone who make fuzzy garage rock. The band started making music roughly a year ago, but they are already on a roll. They guys are starting a tour with !!! this week and were super stoked to [...]
5GB Interview: Cosmonauts; Playing 529 Thursday, May 16
By Jhoni Jackson Orange County outfit Cosmonauts boasts a blend of chaos and comedowns in their forever-fuzzy rock ‘n’ roll repertoire. Last year’s If You Wanna Die Then I Wanna Die (Burger Records) hits both amped-up, anxious highs and droning, lost-in-lament lows with equal intensity. Nailing an energetic, raucous jam like “Motorcycle #1” is a feat in [...]
5GB Interview w/ Twin Sister; Playing TONIGHT (5/15) @ 529
Twin Sister trade in a brand of dreamy pop that’s equal parts Galaxie 500, Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac, and Lynchian weirdness. They claim it will make you feel good enough to hook up with that one person you’re not supposed to hook up with. UH-OH! We caught up with the band before they hit the road [...]
5GB with Beth Hart – playing Smith’s Olde Bar Tuesday May 7
By Ellen Eldridge Beth Hart brought her life experiences, both positive and negative, together for her April 2 release, Bang Bang Boom Boom, which was produced by Kevin Shirley (Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Joe Bonamassa, Jimmy Page/The Black Crowes, Dream Theater). The Kennedy Center Honors show-stopping performance of Jeff Beck and Beth Hart’s “I’d Rather Go Blind” [...]
5GB Interview: Telekinesis; Playing @ The Drunken Unicorn 5/4!
Telekinesis is Michael Benjamin Lerner, an indie rocker based out of Seattle who is currently signed to Merge Records. The band was signed to Merge Records in early 2009, and shortly afterward released the eponymously named debut album Telekinesis! on April 7, 2009. With the recent release of their third album, Dormarion, Telekinesis was ready [...]
5GB Interview w/ Device – Playing @ Center Stage 5/3!
By Ellen Eldridge David Draiman of Disturbed, and ex-Filter guitarist Geno Lenardo recently collaborated together to construct Device. The self-titled debut released April 9, taking strands from hard rock, industrial and electronica to form a focused, fierce and fiery new machine. It all started while the Grammy Award-nominated multiplatinum powerhouse Disturbed was on hiatus. Lenardo [...]
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