As we’ve mentioned before, Atlanta rockers Death On Two Wheels are kicking off their tour with The Rocketboys at The Masquerade on July 30. And we have a pair of tickets to give away for the show – just fill out the form below for your chance to win.

Vinyl has some great bands stopping in this summer, and we have tickets to giveaway for some of the shows. You can win tickets to the follow shows just by filling in the form below:

Thriving Ivory and Tim Brantley – July 28

Lydia and All Get Out – August 3

Nic Cowan – August 6

We have some tickets to see Australasia’s legendary musical export Crowded House at The Tabernacle. Neil Finn is still creating some incredible music and leading his band on this tour with great new stuff as well as the classics like “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” To win tickets, just fill out the form below. Tickets are also on sale HERE.

We have a good handful of great tickets to give away for The EARL! Alt-country band Clem Snide, Birmingham rocker Dan Sartain, New York Dolls side project Batusis, indie rock heroes Here We Go Magic and local rock band Trances Arc will all be gracing the EARL’s stage in the next couple of months. Sign up for the EARL’s mailing list here, and then fill out the form below to enter the competition.

Last week we told you about the special reissue of R.E.M.‘s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction. The two-disc set is coming out today, and we have a copy of the 180g vinyl edition to give away. The 25-year-old record has been digitally remastered and 14 more unreleased demos have been added to to the track listing.  Check out the whole track listing below, and enter to win yourself a copy of the record by filling out the form below – but act fast, we’ll be picking the winner at the end of the day!

Disc One: digitally remastered original album

1. Feeling Gravity’s Pull
2. Maps and Legends
3. Driver 8
4. Life and How To Live It
5. Old Man Kensey
6. Can’t Get There From Here
7. Green Grow The Rushes
8. Kohoutek
9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
10. Good Advices
11. Wendell Gee
Disc Two: “The Athens Demos”

1. Auctioneer (Another Engine) [demo version]
2. Bandwagon [demo version] [final version was B-side to "Can't Get There From Here"]
3. Can’t Get There From Here [demo version]
4. Driver 8 [demo version]
5. Feeling Gravity’s Pull [demo version]
6. Good Advices [demo version]
7. Green Grow The Rushes [demo version]
8. Hyena [demo version] [album version appeared on Life's Rich Pageant]
9. Kohoutek [demo version]
10. Life and How To Live It [demo version]
11. Maps and Legends [demo version]
12. Old Man Kensey [demo version]
13. Throw Those Trolls Away [demo version] [previously unreleased]
14. Wendell Gee [demo version]

Those New Jersey lads are creating quite a stir all over the country. There’s been some mighty fine things said about Steel Train, like this little quip from My Kentucky Blog:

Steel Train, aka the high-powered, anthemic New Jersey-based rockers who are not Gaslight Anthem, are back with a self-titled release and taking their show to the great unwashed masses. The record, produced by Steven McDonald (Be Your Own Pet, Imperial Teen), boosts no shortage of arena-ready numbers, including the hopelessly catchy Bullet, which we’re happy to share.

You can check out the track over on the blog HERE. And we also have a pair of tickets to give away for the band’s upcoming gig at Drunken Unicorn on July 13. Enter the competition by filling out the form below.

The EARL has some killer gigs coming up this month, and it’s the club’s birthday month no less! So raise a glass and go rock out with one of our favorite Atlanta venues. As always, be sure to sign up for the venue’s mailing list HERE first to make sure you are eligible.

The EARL’s 11th Anniversary Kickoff on July 8 will feature Atlanta star indie rocker Gentleman Jesse & His Men, who will also be celebrating the release of his Live at The EARL 7-inch single, the first of its kind from The EARL. Your admission even gets you a copy of the record. Celebrations abound!

Azure Ray’s Maria Taylor teams up with Now It’s Overhead’s Andy Lemaster for a night of epic indie proportions on July 13.

And finally, the spectacle that is Bob Log III will be rockin’ and rollin’ all over the stage on July 14.

To enter to win, just fill out the form below.

We’ve got a couple of tickets to give away for great shows coming up at The Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater this summer. World Class Rockers (featuring members of Journey, Steppenwolf, Lynryd Skynyrd and more) play on July 9. And Puerto Rican singer and virtuoso guitarist Jose Feliciano takes the stage on August 7. To enter the competition, just fill out the form below.

Peter Case
Wig!
Yep Roc

By Kevin Madigan

Thrown together in only three days, Peter Case’s new album Wig! is a no frills, raucous party celebrating his return from near death. Recorded live onto analog tape with minimal overdubs, Case presents a rowdy, strident manifestation of his vitality. He’s lucky to be alive, and he knows it. Case has had a tumultuous year, having had emergency surgery to correct a 99-percent blocked artery, something that might have felled lesser mortals.

Case produced Wig! himself and plays guitars, piano and harmonica. Lots of harmonica. There are only three musicians in this band, but they cover a lot of territory and make a fearsome sound. D.J. Bonebrake (great name) is on drums and other percussion instruments. He used to be in the band X. Then there’s Ron Franklin from Gasoline Silver on lead guitar (including a subtle slide guitar here and there).

“I’ve always been into dynamic emotionally charged music you could use to tell a story or paint a picture,” he states on his website. The album’s title, he says, is “not just a way of life; it’s an explosive reaction against the tension of living in an insane century.” When he fell ill last year, the fiasco that is this country’s health care system left him with six-figure bill for his operation. Good thing he’s got friends in high places. Joe Henry, T Bone Burnett, Richard Thompson and others of that ilk banded together and organized benefit concerts to pay off pesky creditors.

Founding member of both The Nerves and The Plimsouls, he is known to many for the latter’s hit “A Million Miles Away,” although he likes to remind people that there’s much more to his career than that song and that band. “I’ve been solo for … years now, have played a couple thousand solo gigs, I’ve been Grammy nominated as a solo artist, had a solo record named album of the year in The New York Times, put out eight solo cds to the Plimsouls three, won over audiences all around the world in places where the Plimsouls have never [been] heard of,” he states emphatically on his blog.

Case wears his influences proudly. His favorite singers are an eclectic bunch – Muddy Waters, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lucinda Williams, John Lennon and Sleepy John Estes, about whom he made a well-received tribute album a few years back. On this new album it’s no accident that “Ain’t Got No Dough” begins with the same piano riff that kicks off the old chestnut “Money (That’s What I Want).” You listen to “The Words In Red” and you would swear that Roger McGuinn stopped by the studio with his twelve-string. “Thirty Days In The Workhouse” is a swampy blues shuffle straight out of the Mississippi Delta, with its woeful protagonist pleading “Please Mr. Jailer/Unlock the door for me.”

But Case is not one to lament his plight. He is vigorous, energetic and raring to go. “It felt really good to rock again,” he says.

Peter Case plays Eddie’s Attic on July 16. Enter to win a pair of tickets by completing the form below

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Those lovely lads known as Rooney are coming back to Atlanta for a show at The Loft on July 10. And we have a pair of tickets to give away! Simply complete the form below  for your chance to win, and while you’re at it enjoy the video.