Candler Park Music and Food Festival Know Before You Go

We can’t wait for a weekend full of live music and good food at this year’s Candler Park Music and Food Festival! The best part? It’s TOMORROW! Before you go, here’s everything you need to know! Tickets Festival tickets are exclusively available at www.candlerparkmusicfestival.com or Freshtix. All tickets are valid for both Friday, June 2 & Saturday, June 3. Ticket prices will […]

Atlanta Music Guide Shaky Knees Artist Spotlight: Mondo Cozmo

Here’s all you need to know: Mondo Cozmo is named after Josh Ostrander’s, Mondo Cozmo frontman, dog. Anybody who names a band after a dog is good people and Josh showed up to our interview and quickly proved my theory right. Fresh off a tour with Bastille (we’re talking literally the night before) he is sarcastic […]

Atlanta Music Guide Meets Run River North, aka, The Band That Got Stuck In Our Heads

I have a guilty confession. Outside of pre-req interview research and a quick listen “to get a feel for their sound,” I didn’t know much about Run River North when they showed up to meet me. Do you know what I’ve been doing ever since then? LISTENING TO THEM.     Without batting an eye, […]

Atlanta Music Guide Shaky Knees Artist Spotlight: PUP

I was admittedly pretty excited to sit down with PUP at Shaky Knees. I met them in the press room as much a fan as a writer, having seen them live a few (every) of the times they’ve played Atlanta. (RIP, Masquerade.) Speaking of, the band shared a fond anecdote with me about hanging out with Masquerade […]

Atlanta Music Guide New Song Spotlight: Knocking At The Door by the Arkells

Atlanta Music Guide got to sit down with Max and Mike of the Arkells at Shaky Knees, their last stop on a two-week run of US shows before a brief stint home in Ontario. From there, like many Shaky performers, they officially kick off their summer festival season.  First stop, Sasquatch. The Arkells recently did […]

Atlanta Music Guide Sits Down With Zipper Club at Shaky Knees. Accidentally Discovers Magic.

Every once in a while, you interview a band who brings you in, makes you family, inspires you to decidedly become their cheerleader. Every once in a while, you don’t get to your questions. You don’t talk much about their upcoming music. You don’t ask about their influences. Instead, you meet and ask about their […]

Tinsley Ellis and special guests honor Col. Bruce Hampton at Oakland Cemetery’s Tunes from the Tombs

 Tinsley Ellis and special guests honor Col. Bruce Hampton at Oakland Cemetery’s Tunes from the Tombs Former bandmates, protégés, and friends pay tribute at seventh annual summer music festival  ATLANTA – On Saturday, June 10 members of the late Col. Bruce Hampton’s Hampton Grease Band and Aquarium Rescue Unit will play a tribute concert at […]

Dogwood Festival to feature a live Instagram mosaic

Renaissance Atlanta Airport Gateway Hotel is engaging with social media technology company Luster to bring a live guest-driven mosaic to life at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, this Saturday, April 8 – Sunday, April 9. This Instagram-powered mosaic is created in real-time from festival guests’ photos, and the hashtag printers listen for event hashtags to print […]

Candler Park Food and Music Festival Line-up Announcement and On-sale TODAY!

Spring and Summer festival season in Atlanta is pretty much the best thing on Earth! One of our favorites each year is the Candler Park Food and Music Festival, which takes place annually in June in Atlanta’s awesome Candler Park neighborhood. In addition to bands and all the Terrapin beer you can drink, Atlanta’s best […]

The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival line-up has been announced!

The Atlanta Jewish Music Festival has announced the 2017 line-up! AJMF was created by native Atlantan Russell Gottschalk and a dozen visionary Jewish and community leaders in early 2009. It was created to feature contemporary Jewish music in an effort to entertain and educate the general public on Jewish culture and unite Atlanta’s young Jewish […]