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Ticket Alternative's owners Iain Bluett and Jamie Dwyer spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday about the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger. Here's a snippet: Ticket Alternative, which sells 250,000 tickets to events nationwide, prides itself on significantly lower service charges. A $33.50…

Want to Rock Turner Field?

Well here’s your chance. The Braves are looking for bands to play at the Fan Plaza during games. From the team’s website: Your band could perform on the Fan Plaza Stage at Turner Field for a Braves game this season!…

Ella Guru Closes Its Doors

Sad news in the world of indie record stores. Right after our announcement of Trail of Dead's support of Record Store Day we got news that one of our ticket outlets and favorite music stores Ella Guru will be closing…

Second Shift Chat About Reunion

On February 20 one of Atlanta's best local acts will be reuniting for a one-off show at Star Bar. Courtesy of Team Luis, Second Shift will play after years of being apart, accompanied by fellow ace acts, Y-O-U (Atlanta), Hot Pipes…

Congratulations to All Our Atlanta Grammy Winners!

We were pretty bummed that Janelle Monae didn't win the award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance (it went to Chrisette Michele Featuring will.i.am for "Be OK." Pah), but Atlanta was well represented among the Grammy winners last night: Male Pop Vocal…

The Coathangers Start Star Bar Residency

The Coathangers are starting up a weekly residency at The Star Bar for the whole of February. The band will be playing every Wednesday starting tonight, when they'll be playing with The Customer and Baby Dinosaurs vs. Extinction.

Yo! Majesty Split, Jwl B Serves Jail Time?

Reports are coming through from various blogs (Brooklyn Vegan and Miami New Times) and the band's PR firm Biz 3 that Yo! Majesty's Jwl B has left the band and has been serving jail time. The band will carry on with…

Razorlight @ The Loft on March 17

Razorlight returns to America to play a string of dates in support of the band's latest release, Slipway Fires, released late last year. The band will hit Atlanta on March 17 to play a gig at The Loft. Tickets are on sale now here. 

New Mastodon Cover Art Revealed

Those crazy Mastodon boys. The metal-heads just released the insane-as-usual art for their new album, Crack the Skye, this Monday. Due for release sometime this spring on Reprise, the record was produced by Brendan O'Brien and features long-time collaborator Scott Kelly…

Butch Walker to Make National TV Debut with Pink

We've all known about Butch Walker for what seems like (and could be) decades now, so it seems shocking that it has taken this long for his national television debut to finally happen. Butch will be appearing on "The Ellen…

India Might Not Be Ready for The Black Lips

   We're not entirely sure that The Black Lips shows in India are going as planned. Pitchfork recently ran a report from Arjun S Ravi, editor of Indian independent music website Indiecision, which implies that both the band and the…