Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: MGMT

  Best known for their hits like, “Your Life is a Lie,” “Kids,” and “Electric Feel,” MGMT has been in the game since 2002. Well, they kind of accidently stumbled into the game. Ben Goldwasser, one of the founding members of the group, put it like this, “It just came from us hanging out, messing […]

Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: The Joy Formidable

  SPIN called The Joy Formidable’s music “ambitious… drenched in fuzzy bass, propelled by… driving percussion… the album transforms ear-stabbing reverb into something pretty, airy, girly, and sometimes dark.” While The Guardian praised the band as “darkly joyous soft-loud racket.” There’s no doubt that reviewers LOVE The Joy Formidable and if you don’t yet, you will […]

Party in the Park Artist Spotlight: Minus the Bear

  Minus The Bear is a Seattle-based,  indie-rock band that has earned quite a name for themselves in the festival circuit, playing high profile fests across the country, including: Riot Fest, Lollapalooza, Sasquatch, Coachella and Bonnaroo. The group emerged on the indie music scene in 2001 with the release of their EP titled, This is […]

Atlanta Jazz Festival: Late Night Love Riot with Jon Batiste & Stay Human

“Jazz music is America’s only original art form, and…Atlanta, with its growing reputation as an international center of the arts and education, has both the opportunity and the responsibility to promote an art form whose roots are indigenous to the South.” Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson spoke these words when he founded the original Atlanta Jazz […]

Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta Recognized with “Top of the Rock” Award

  Hard Rock Café Atlanta has been recognized with the company’s “Top of the Rock” award for its exemplary performance, community activations, as well as its other above-and-beyond accomplishments. Hard Rock Atlanta attributes its success to stellar engagement in the community, solid local business relationships and stellar event activations, including its successful live music program. […]

One Love Stach Dash

Save $5 off your Stache Dash registration

Run for the Border! One Love Stache Dash Returns May 3, 2014 – Fiesta Driven 5K Celebrates Cinco de Mayo and Benefits One Love Generation It is time to rock the mustache and man the maracas. Atlanta’s most irreverent and fun-filled 5K is back on Saturday, May 3 as One Love Stache Dash returns to […]

Atlanta Studio Tour

Tour Atlanta’s Top Recording Studios

If you’ve ever wanted a sneak peak inside Atlanta’s top recording studios, here is your chance. The Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy is organizing a bus tour on Sunday, May 4th which will take you to Silent Sound Studios, Southern Tracks, ZAC Recording and Crossover Entertainment. In addition, they are giving away over $10,000 […]

The Pizza Underground Ft. Macaulay Culkin @ Mammal Gallery, 3/19

Recently, the Internet has been fixated upon the Pizza Underground, a New York City band that plays Velvet Underground covers with pizza-themed song titles and lyrics. An initial hook to this pie-based news was that Macaulay Culkin plays kazoo and vocals. Little is known about the band, except that, according to their Bandcamp page, they […]

Party in the Park 2014 Lineup Announced!

Party In The Park Is Back! GIRL TALK, MGMT, THE JOY FORMIDABLE and STOKESWOOD are coming to rock CENTENNIAL OLYMPIC PARK on May 17! Presale tickets are available THIS WEEKEND ONLY (February 21-23) using the promo code AMG. *Presale price is available from 2/21 at Noon until 2/23 at 11:59pm.       Tickets go […]

Q&A With Kirk Waldrop of Nine Times Blue; Playing Smith’s Olde Bar 2/21

By Al Kaufman Atlanta’s Nine Times Blue have made quite a name for themselves. Besides their raucous live shows at Smith’s Olde Bar, they released Falling Slowly in 2012. The Grammy-winning Don McCallister-produced album garnered the hit single, “Falling Slowly.”  The guitar fueled, power-pop quartet follow that up with a six-song EP, Matter of Time. […]

Nick Monaco @ The Sound Table TONIGHT!

What’s happening ATL? Come hang out at The Sound Table TONIGHT with Nick Monaco from Dirtybird Records, Soul Clap Records, and Wolf + Lamb! Nicavitch and IRL resident Elio Stereo will be open up the night for Nick Monaco. Don’t miss this! You still have 3 hours to score your $5 tickets! Check out the […]

Interview with Paul Thorn; Playing @ Eddie’s Attic, February 2

Paul Thorn has been pleasing crowds for years with his muscular brand of roots music – bluesy, rocking and thoroughly Southern, yet also speaking universal truths. The Tupelo, Mississippi native worked in a furniture factory, jumped out of airplanes, and was a professional boxer before sharing his experiences with the world as a singer-songwriter. Pimps […]

Shaky Knees 2014 Lineup Announced!!

As soon as we could spread the word about this year’s stellar CounterPoint lineup, the Shaky Knees lineup dropped! And it’s just as stellar, despite its blatant lack of OutKast. Now in its second year, Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival moves to a new location, Atlantic Station, for 2014 with an incredible alternative lineup. The National and Modest Mouse […]

CounterPoint 2014 Lineup Announced!

  Move over Coachella. You’re not the only festival gettin’ some Andre 3000/Big Boi love come spring festival season, stank you smelly much. Atlanta’s own OutKast will headline CounterPoint Festival in Rome, Georgia, April 25 – 27. 2014. Their reemergence into the live music scene has been called the most anticipated musical comeback of the […]