By Sam Parvin Asher Roth, famous for his beer-guzzling, bongalicious tune “College”, joined the Blink-182 Reunion Tour just a few weeks prior to their Wednesday show at Lakewood. And, while Roth’s style is certainly not punk-rocker like Blink’s, the combination is complementary. Roth sings about his “glory days,” as a 20-something (currently) with two years […]
By Scott Roberts The idea of a phone interview with Fran Healy scared me. For two reasons. One, having the opportunity to talk to one of my honest-to-goodness musical heroes – the angel-voiced, principal songwriter of Travis, a band who has created some of the most consistently melodic and engaging pop-rock of the last 12 […]
'60s pop flavored indie rockers The Dutchess and the Duke will be returning to Atlanta for a show at The EARL on December 16. We'll be welcoming them back with warm arms, as they certainly do well in this city. As delightful proof, we've offered up this video of them performing at a Criminal Records […]
We're sad to announce that Mother Hips has had to cancel their performance tomorrow night at Smith's Olde Bar. Instead, Olde Dog will play two sets, and Mother Hips will be rescheduling their show at a date to be announced.
By Matthew Smith Beach House: Grizzly Bear:
We're very sad to have to announce, as many of you have already heard, that Y-O-U's show at Smith's Olde Bar this Saturday will be their last. Here's a message from the band: We have decided to retire Y O U as a performing and recording group. It has been our focus since we moved […]
Popster Jessie James has canceled her entire tour. That includes her Atlanta show at The Loft on October 27. Tickets will be refunded in the next 24 hours, or take your tickets back to point of purchase if you got them from an outlet.
Lou Barlow Goodnight Unknown Merge By Scott Roberts Don’t let the urgency of “Sharing,” the opening cut on Lou Barlow’s new solo CD Goodnight Unknown, fool you. This track’s incessant beat, provided by The Melvins’ drummer Dale Crover, and Barlow’s washed-out and tension-filled vocals may lead you to believe that you, my naïve listener, are […]
Supercluster Waves Studio Mouse Productions By Scott Roberts NOTES: In the world of astronomy, superclusters are large groups of smaller galaxy groups and are among the largest structures of the cosmos. In the world of music, Supercluster is a relatively new aggregation of Athens musicians who have just released their debut CD Waves, and with […]
The Pinx Look What You Made Me Do Self-Released By Beverly Bryan Can we interest you in a big dumb hot flat slab of undifferentiated, unreconstructed rock? The Pinx’s Look What You Made Me Do, perhaps? It appears to be an album constructed from the sweaty, cheesy end of '70s rock and the sweaty, cheesy […]
The Inner Banks Songs from the Disko Bay DAG! Records By Beverly Bryan Pretty but warped in places like a tape left outside on a hot day, The Inner Banks’ second album Songs from the Disko Bay takes indie music back to some of its most beautiful and thoughtful moments from around the turn of […]
HockeyMind ChaosCapitol By Eileen Tilson Attention Attention, all ye New Wave kids! There is a new band in town that will seriously start making dance night at MJQ intensely aerobic. Hockey, the four piece hailing from a basement in Portland, Ore., are only interested in making music that will help you channel your inner Reverend […]
By Bryan Aiken As if moving with the cloud of fall’s first chill, so came the national tour of eccentric indie-rock stalwarts DD/MM/YYYY and These Arms Are Snakes to Atlanta’s Star Bar. An unlikely pairing already, if not for the bands’ loose common ground of spastic performance, the lineup was made even more disparate by […]
By Alexandra Edwards If the critics peg you as the next big insert-seminal-indie-band-here, is it all downhill from there? Is there any way to step out of a shadow you never meant to get under in the first place? These were the questions that The Rural Alberta Advantage were most definitely not contemplating this past […]
By Eileen Tilson If you haven’t heard of Alberta Cross yet, you will. Having recently played with Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, and John Paul Jones) at Austin City Limits, the band is just at the start of their tour in support of their debut album, Broken Side of Time (which we reviewed […]
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