Live Review: Lower Dens @ The Earl – June 22

Live Review: Lower Dens @ The Earl – June 22

By Margaret Price Texas-born Jana Hunter has been all over the musical map. In addition to being a classically-trained violinist and the first person to release an album on Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic (her 2005 solo debut album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom), over the years she […]

Picture Book & Live Review: These United States @ The Earl – June 30

Photos and Review By Chandler Mays When These United States began their show at the Earl, they got right down to business, and buddy, business was a-boomin’! The room was only half full, and many were still ordering drinks at the bar, discussing methods on enduring the summer heat, but by the end of the […]

Cirque du Soleil: Michael Jackson

Cirque du Soleil: Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour @ Philips Arena

By: Lauren Holle with CatMax Photography Photos: Courtesy of Cirque du Soleil Cirque Du Soleil is back, and this time it’s all about MJ. The show premiered in Atlanta Friday, June 29th and continues Saturday and Sunday at 8pm in Phillips Arena. This ninety-minute performance showcases a wide range of Michael Jackson’s legendary music, from […]

Live Review & Picture Book: Roberta Flack & Peabo Bryson @ Frederick Brown Ampitheatre June 22nd

                          Photos and review by Jenna Hughes Love was in the air at the Frederick Brown Amphitheatre on June 22nd, as the crowd anxiously awaited the reunion of legendary singers Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. Though it was a sweltering evening in Peachtree […]

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 […]

Live Review & Picture Book: Childish Gambino @ The Tabernacle June 10

By Justin Lyons: Photos by Lisa Keel Peachtree Images   Hometown performances typically carry added pressure to deliver for friends, family and fans that have championed an artist’s cause from the start. When Donald Glover’s rap project Childish Gambino announced a March show at the Tabernacle, it wasn’t a surprise that the show quickly sold out. […]

Live Review: Grass Backards @ Grand Opening of Steve’s Live Music June 12

By Jaime Lin Weinstein Desiring a musical outlet in the city of Sandy Springs and inspired by venues such as Decatur’s Eddie’s Attic and the Red Light Cafe in the Virginia Highlands, music lover and longtime Sandy Springs resident Steve Grossman has created Steve’s Live Music, offering a home for live music in the heart […]

Live Review – Childish Gambino – Tabernacle – June 10th, 2012

By Justin Lyons Hometown performances typically carry added pressure to deliver for friends, family and fans that have championed an artist’s cause from the start. When Donald Glover’s rap project Childish Gambino announced a March show at the Tabernacle, it wasn’t a surprise that the show quickly sold out. Unfortunately, a fractured foot would postpone […]

Live Review: Bon Iver – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park – June 8th

By Justin Lyons After one listen to Bon Iver’s most recent self-titled album last Summer, it was quickly apparent that Justin Vernon had aspirations for being known for more than the lonely solitude of For Emma, Forever Ago. In the early days when Vernon began performing mostly solo, he passed lyric sheets to fans to […]

LIVE REVIEW: The Fixx at Summerfest, June 3, 2012

The hottest (free) ticket of the weekend belonged to the Virginia-Highland Summerfest! 80’s alternative enthusiast and 92.9 DAVE FM DJ, Steve Craig, introduced the festival’s headlining band at approximately 4:30pm on Sunday’s scorching afternoon. The Fixx launched into their set with “Red Skies” from the 1982 release, Shuttered Room. The audience of young and older […]

Live Review: Damien Jurado – The Earl

By Margaret Price “Have you heard the new Damien Jurado album?” I asked my friend on a chilly March afternoon. “Nope, I don’t think so. But I did love the crocheted poncho he wore at Pickathon. Every. Day,” she replied, and I instantly knew I needed to see this man live. Fortunately for me, I […]

Live Review: Bush at Philips Arena

Review by Ellen Eldridge My initial excitement waned as I took my seat during the end of Seether’s set, while they closed with “Remedy,” because the drafty arena and the not-yet-full seats left me with a feeling that the show wouldn’t be worth it; I could barely see the tiny band on stage from where […]

Live Review: Bear in Heaven – The Earl

By Margaret Price For anyone who was fortunate enough to see Bear in Heaven at the Earl on March 11, 2010, the band that took the same stage on April 27, 2012, just two short years later and now playing to a sold out audience , had clearly grown into their own. The once-mustachioed lead […]

Live Review & Picture Book: Dreams SO Real at Smith’s Olde Bar

By Scott Roberts; Photos by Sue Volkert Nostalgia can be a cruel mistress, and though most of us know this to be a fact (especially those of us who find themselves a little grayer and creakier than we’d like to admit), there seems to be an innate human instinct to routinely want to revisit one’s […]

Tom Petty

Live Review & Picture Book: Tom Petty at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

      Review by Molly Segers When you go see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, you don’t go in expecting any surprises. With a 30 year catalog of hits to pull from, the odds of a fan getting their favorite album cuts are more or less nonexistent, especially if your favor a record like, […]