An Ode To The Masquerade

Ticket Alternative’s Marketing Manager, Jenn Ciccarelli, shares her thoughts on the future of the Masquerade. Photography by Hillery Terenzi of Hillymonster Photography. Whether you’ve lived in Atlanta for a year or for your entire life, one fact remains irrefutable: Our city is changing. Everywhere we look, cranes dot the skyline, symbolizing the next wave of condo-over-saturation […]

Music That Rocks At Food That Rocks!

For the first time, our friends at Taste of Atlanta are bringing us Food that Rocks: A Celebration of Sandy Springs! Saturday, May 14 from 7-11pm, over 20 of Sandy Springs’ best restaurants will offer food tastings, wine, beer, and cocktails! And the fun doesn’t stop there! An all-star line-up of local artists are also taking the […]

Atlanta Botanical Gardens Concert Series On Sale Now!!

Tickets for the 14th annual Concerts in the Garden are on sale! This season’s exciting lineup includes five great shows on the Great Lawn in Atlanta and three shows at the Ivester Amphitheater in Gainesville.  Become a Garden member and get discount tickets. Tickets are available in person at Garden admissions or online at concertsinthegarden.org.  

Wolf Creek Goes Country!

Wolf Creek Amphitheater is excited to announce their expansion into the country music genre with the addition of a major country act to the 2016 line-up. Presented by KICKS 101.5, duo Big and Rich (with Friends) are set to take the stage on May 14, 2016!! Ticket Alternative spoke to Wolf Creek’s Entertainment Director, Sandra […]

Today is Georgia Music Day!!

Georgia Music Partners (GMP) cordially invites you to attend the Georgia Music Day Event! Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM At the State Capitol in downtown Atlanta.     Georgia Music Day is your opportunity to be a part of the collective voice of Georgia Music Partners as we address our lawmakers on the key […]

Atlanta Jewish Music Festival Boasts A Little Something For Everyone!

The 7th Annual Atlanta Jewish Music Festival (AJMF7) kicks into full swing this Spring with a diverse line-up of local, national and international Jewish musicians. This year’s festival runs March 10th through March 27th and features 16 events in Jewish and public venues across the Greater Atlanta area. From Opening Night Jazz sets by the […]

5GB interview: The Shadowboxers, playing Terminal West Jan. 9

  The Shadowboxers band is based in Atlanta, where founding members Scott Schwartz, Matt Lipkins and Adam Hoffman experienced an almost-instantaneous musical compatibility when they first started jamming. Together with drummer Cole McSween and bassist Carlos Enamorado, they’ve forged a cohesive sound based on a shared reverence for the strong, taut harmonies of Simon & […]

Time-lapse video of Incendia’s Fire in the Sky

Incendia is a concept borne of the love, appreciation for, and possibilities that lay within the nature of a simple flame, its website says. “Marrying the worlds of design, art, and science, a breathtaking environment has been created, thanks to the mathematical grace and precision of the geodesic concept coupled with the application of a […]

Mastodon’s ‘Asleep In The Deep’ named Best Metal Video of the Year

  Loudwire announced its top ten list of best metal videos produced in 2015 and Mastodon’s “Asleep in the Deep” topped the list. “Mastodon are truly in a league of their own, not only creating music that beckons labeling them as their own genre, but crafting brilliant music videos like ‘Asleep in the Deep,’” Loudwire […]

‘The Sound of Silence’ gets Disturbed, hits #1

Disturbed’s take on the class Simon & Garfunkel tune “The Sound of Silence” hit number 1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Digital Songs chart. Maybe it’s the weather. Or the holidays. Maybe frontman David Draiman was just high when he sang the haunting lyrics, as he told Blabbermouth. But “The Sound of Silence” has always held […]

Maisy Kay Receives 2015 ASCAP Foundation Desmond Child Anthem Award

Maisy Kay is the 2015 recipient of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Desmond Child Anthem Award. Kay accepted the prestigious songwriting award during a ceremony last night at New York City’s Lincoln Center, where she also performed the new song “Don’t Ask Me to Love You.” Kay launched onto the music […]

DJ Shadow’s Liquid Amber imprint gears up for DJ Harrison cassette release

DJ Shadow has taken yet another young artist under his wing for a release with the burgeoning Liquid Amber imprint. The first taste of DJ Harrison’s Songs From The Black Water EP, out Friday Dec. 18 exclusively on a limited run of cassettes, is now available in the form of a Soundcloud sampler featuring several […]

The weight of Scott Weiland’s death

I fell in love with a boy for the first time while listening to Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple.   The album was released in June 1994, less than two months after Kurt Cobain’s tragic death. I was 15 years old.   Purple consoled my high school sweetheart and me from the immense loss; the album […]