The 11th Annual Little Five Points Halloween Festival and Parade is taking place on Saturday, October 22nd and Ticket Alternative  and Atlanta Music Guide is going to be there with lots of awesome treats.

TA and AMG will be doing a raffle for a huge prize pack that includes: $100 gift card from Criminal Records, Wrecking Bar gift certificate, Paste Magazine subscription, Wild Heaven Beer goodies, Team Clermont swag (CDs, t-shirts from their bands), Kingsized prize pack (including tickets and CDs), Alon’s gift certificate, Abbadabba’s gift certificate, Zombie ATL prize, four passes to Netherworld AND Ticket Alternative awesomeness. Raffle tickets are $1 each. $1!

Throughout the day TA and AMG will be giving away other cool swag to people with the coolest costumes.

So, this Saturday get an awesome costume together and come on down to the L5P Halloween Festival and Parade. It’s going to be loads of fun!

For more information about the L5P Halloween Festival and Parade, please visit http://www.l5phalloween.com

By Eileen Tilson

In less than two years, California’s Foster the People have topped the charts with their insanely addictive hit “Pumped Up Kicks.” With non-stop touring and radio spins non-stop, Foster the People have only just begun. This was their first time in Atlanta, and Atlanta Music Guide was their only interview. If you missed their incredible sold-out show last night, make sure and catch them when they return to The Masquerade on September 21; this is a show you will want to say “I saw them back when…” As a first for Atlanta Music Guide, check out our live interview by clicking on the link below.

Atlanta Music Guide Interview with Foster the People

Foster the People play The Masquerade on September 21.

From the article in the November edition of Atlanta Magazine
By Charles Bethea

Long before Ticketmaster’s merger with Live Nation was proposed last February, Iain Bluett was a stocky, lilting Brit hawking Polo at Lenox in 1992. “The Buckhead women would come in for their boyfriends, and I’d end up taking them out. The accent, you know,” he laughs. Now in his “mid-to-late thirties,” Bluett operates Midtown-based Ticket Alternative, a company that provides tickets for 400 venues nationwide. Most clients are music-related (though minor league baseball and college basketball have lately joined the roster), and three-quarters of them are based in Atlanta. First came Vinyl, then the Loft. Dozens followed.

Founded in 2004, Ticket Alternative did $6 million in revenue last year with a staff of about twenty employees. Bluett’s David slings rocks at the Ticketmaster Goliath—widely despised for its 40 percent surcharge and for controlling ticket sales for roughly 80 percent of U.S. entertainment venues. Where Ticketmaster or Live Nation can make about $5 off a $10 ticket, Ticket Alternative earns around $2.75. “It’s not hard to be cheaper than Ticketmaster,” Bluett says. “But we also have an in-house call center that does real client support. You can call and ask about parking or bringing booze.”

Bluett is also a former keyboardist for Atlanta band Film (originally fronted by Michael Johns of American Idol fame), whose taste tends toward pop and British rock. It was his love of the music industry—coupled with a distaste for Ticketmaster—that provided the impetus for the company. Also, Bluett’s online Atlanta Music Guide (with album reviews and concert updates) now gets some 70,000 page views per month. “Iain isn’t some CEO in a penthouse that can’t be reached,” says Patrick Hill, a concert promoter at the Earl who’s used Ticket Alternative since 2006. “I can actually call and talk to him. Ticketing services are often the first interaction a customer has with a venue, and we like the interaction Iain offers.”

Read the article here