Everyone needs a nice bit of bass-heavy dance music in their lives. Getting the Drunken Unicorn's speakers vibrating and the dance floor buzzing in Atlanta this June 23 will be Trouble and Bass, the Brooklyn DJ crew presenting a free event (with RSVP) to celebrate their CD release.
Carley TanchonPeridot By Al Kaufman Carley Tanchon is one of those young women who is as fat in voice as she is lithe in body. There are plenty of pictures on the accompanying booklet of her exposing her long, limber arms. Just as there are plenty of moments on this album that allow her to […]
Tomorrow night Smith's Olde Bar will be oozing with love and happiness with Little Joy, a band usually made up of Fabrizio Moretti, Rodrigo Amarante and Binki Shapiro. Though Fabrizio will be off recording with The Strokes, the other two thirds of the band will be there with Todd Dahlhoff and Matt Borg (from The […]
It’s Elephant’s Gets Along By Julia Reidy The danger latent in having a frontman with such a recognizable voice — in this case one with a crackling, blues-rock bent that bends and scoops from pitch to pitch — is that everything else will go unnoticed. But Brent Jay’s vocal performances, for Atlanta band It’s Elephant’s, […]
The EARL has just announced a slew of incredible shows coming up this summer and fall. Top of our list is Cat Power, who will be playing one of the awesome EARL 10th Anniversary shows on July 12. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, June 12 at 10 a.m. on Ticket Alternative. Following closely […]
Broken Promise Keeper Ice Cold Pop By Scott Roberts In the recent movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the wide-eyed, backwards-aging title character is asked about whether he’s too old to be working on a tugboat. “There’s no age limit,” he innocently replies, “as long as you can do the work.” I suppose the […]
The Morakestra Witness To Connection Stratking Records By Chris Homer On their sophomore album, Texas’ The Morakestra creates a record of hook-filled rock songs built around multiple soaring guitar riffs and the haunting vocals of Will Mora. The LP’s tracks range from the acoustic folk sound of “Angel” to the upbeat Franz Ferdinand-style rhythms of […]
Todd Snider The Excitement Plan Yep Roc Records By Noel Wurst I was 16 years old when Snider’s first album, Songs for the Daily Planet, came out. “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues” was a hidden track on it (remember how awesome hidden tracks were?) and it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard in my […]
Foma Inverness By Eileen Tilson Sitting right on the cusp between EP and LP at eight tracks and 25 minutes in length, Inverness is full of complexities in its design and build yet is very organic in its execution. Listing contributions from six musicians (Edward M. Burch, Chani Hawthorne, Jeffrey Schmidt, Hun Kim, Charith Premawardhana […]
I'm a big fan of North Carolina's L.A. Tool and Die, a brilliantly quirky indie rock band that can rock the hilarity as well as the tender. Falling on the hilarity side is their new video for "Don't Touch My Mustache," which features a host of singing and dancing unicorn hand-puppets as well as a […]
Country Line StrangersHeartbreak Motel By Eileen Tilson Lead singer Matt Megrue needs to take up unfiltered Camels and Jeremiah Weed straight out of the bottle. His vocals are too smooth for the intentions of the band; in fact, his lyrics bring you to places you have definitely been… middle school dances, seedy bars and rural […]
We've just got word that the Devin the Dude, 88 Keys, B.O.B. etc gig originally scheduled for June 5 at Ambient Plus Studios has been reschedules for June 19 at Apache Cafe. Tickets bought for the original show will be honored for the new date.
Ben Folds Presents:University A Cappella!Epic By Al Kaufman Leave it to Ben Folds to make geek chic. A cappella music has been the butt of jokes on everything from The Office to Scrubs. But Ben Folds, who is not adverse to meeting cheese head on (the guy produced a William Shatner CD for crying out […]
Big Boi will be headlining the Crown Royal Stewey Awards' (named after The 2 Live Stews' 790 The Zone show, hosted by the two brothers of the same name) after party. Hosted at the W Midtown on Saturday, July 11, the party will also feature Kid Capri on the decks, not to mention an open […]
Deleted Scenes Birdseed Shirt What Delicate Recordings By Ben Grad “Turn to Sand,” the first track from Deleted Scenes' Birdseed Shirt, is the best track on their new album. By itself, it's enough to make a listener very very eager to see their Star Bar show tonight. The Washington, DC-based band plays a (on first […]
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