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Cirque Du Soleil: Micheal Jackson The IMMORTAL World Tour

By Catrina Maxwell Are you an MJ fan? It doesn’t really matter if you are a fan or not, Micheal was a part of your life if you grew up in the last few decades! Micheal Jackson, The IMMORTAL World Tour has been touring North America since October 2011. The show captures Micheal’s music and […]

AMG Weekend Picks! Vince Gill, Robert Flack and Peabo Bryson, Lower Dens, Matthew Perryman Jones, and More!

AMG Weekend Picks! Vince Gill, Robert Flack and Peabo Bryson, Lower Dens, Matthew Perryman Jones, and More!

We’re always on the lookout for great new artists and this weekend you can certainly check out a variety of bands in many different settings! If you’re feeling the summer heat, and we are, then you must see and hear the legendary artists at Atlanta Botanical Garden and The Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater! Dread these […]

5GB With Lower Dens; Playing The Earl, June 22nd

Based out of Baltimore, MD, Lower Dens is one of many side projects from singer/songwriter Jana Hunter. Hunter is also joined by guitarist Will Adams, bassist Geoff Graham, and drummer Abram Sanders. Together, the freak folk quartet has a sound that is psychedelic and murky, embodying the experimental nature of the Baltimore music scene with […]

5GB With The Corduroy Road; Playing Their CD Release Show Tonight At Smith’s Olde Bar

These days, it is not uncommon to find a band bio that reads “Americana folk-rock,” in fact, if you grow a beard and start wearing plaid you pretty much would fit right in to the hipster East Nashville scene. However, few of these bands are actually from the South, and certainly less than that have […]

Preview: The Big Bang Ball, Saturday, June 23 at The Goat Farm

By Gini Strobel When most of us think about carnivals and circuses, cheesy clowns and lion tamers come to mind.  While the major circus companies have taken on more of a Disney-like spin, there are a few groups trying to recreate the original sideshow style, dust bowl, carnival attractions.  Circuses were created hundreds of years […]

What’s Up Thursday?

You know, honestly I don’t have much to say this morning, so instead of trying make some cheesy joke, I’ll just tell ya what we got going on in this little city of ours: -Since its inception by Drew Carman and Dylan Solise in early 2006, The Corduroy Road has melded bluegrass, Americana, folk rock, […]

Interview with Phil Jones of Dog Bite; Playing the EARL, tonight, June 21

By Jhoni Jackson Dropping out of art school and moving back home could do well to clog an 18-year-old’s creative flow. But when Phil Jones left the SCAD’s Savannah campus four years ago, he stumbled upon a new medium for materializing his ideas: music. “I was bored because all my friends were still in Savannah,” […]

5GB With Roberta Flack; Playing Frederick Brown Amphithteater With Peabo Bryson, Saturday, June 23rd

5GB With Roberta Flack; Playing Frederick Brown Amphithteater With Peabo Bryson, Saturday, June 23rd

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, Roberta Flack remains unparalleled in her ability to tell a story through her music from pop to soul to folk to jazz. In 1972, a re-release of her song, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” from her first LP, zoomed to number one and […]

5GB With Matthew Perryman Jones; Playing Vinyl, Friday June 22nd

  Matthew Perryman Jones is no stranger to our city. An Atlanta native, he got his beginnings at Eddie’s Attic during the great songwriter decade in Atlanta. “MPJ (as he is lovingly referred as…)” has been featured in numerous television shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, and One Tree Hill, and most recently in […]

Live Review: The Inaugural GA Music Awards Show At The Buckhead Theatre

  Review and photos by Ellen Eldridge After a rousing rock performance by Blind By Sight, the band that later won the award for Best Alternative Band, GA Music Awards co-founder Christi Chambers welcomed the audience of the Buckhead Theatre to the inaugural show. GA Music Awards founder Omar McCallop stood at the podium and […]