Picture Book: Music Hates You, Atlas Moth, Dark Castle @ Lenny’s, November 7
By Kevin Griggs Music Hates You:
Picture Book: Tealights, Trees on Fire @ Goat Farm, November 6
By Kevin Griggs Tealights:
Live Review: King Khan and BBQ, Those Darlins, GG King @ Star Bar, November 4
By Bryan Aiken To paint a picture, it’s three o’clock in the morning, I’m recently returned home from a veritable debacle at a too-packed Star Bar, my shirt is in shreds, and I have beer-hair. Beer-hair, you understand, is similar to the unclean stiffness of beach-hair, except the ocean I crowd-surfed tonight was one of […]
Live Review: Kurt Vile and the Violators, Lovvers, Carnivores @ 529, November 3
By Julia Reidy Carnivores are my new favorite local band. After rising from the ashes of the now-defunct Chainestereo, they’ve re-formed with renewed vigor and have plenty to show for it. Tuesday at 529, the group pulled about half the set from its surprisingly awesome debut LP, All Night Dead USA (released locally this July […]
Live Review: Islands, WHY?, Gemina Pearl Band, Au @ Lenny’s, October 31
By Kenny Crucial "Sugar, honey, honey, you are my candy girl…" Thanks to Jemina Pearl, both the stage and the headliner, Islands, were indeed covered in powdered sugar. She pounced on the stage and doused everyone with a bag of sugar. And Islands celebrated the event with a partial rendition of The Archies classic. In […]
Live Review: Y-O-U’s Last Show, October 10 @ Smith’s Olde Bar
By Leila Regan-Porter I really should have written this weeks ago. But it's been a bit of a tough one to write. It's fair to say that I have been putting it off. Let me begin by saying I don't like reading "personal" reviews with first person references. Unless it's on your own blog, or […]
Live Review: Sea Wolf and Port O’Brien @ The EARL, October 23
By Micah McLain The packed back room of The EARL welcomed two of campfire indie's most promising up-and-coming bands to Atlanta Friday night. California-via-Alaska-based Port O'Brien was first up in support of their most recent LP, Threadbare. The five members of the band employed everything from acoustic guitar and percussive banjo to screamed vocals and kitchen […]
U2 360 Tour lands in Las Vegas.
So, part of the Atlanta Music Guide team went to Vegas this weekend to catch the U2 360 Tour at the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Somehow the Black Eyed Peas had blagged their way on to this leg of the tour, so no Muse tonight. I'd caught the show at the Georgia Dome […]
Live Review: Fran Healy & Andy Dunlop of Travis @ The Loft, October 17
By Scott Roberts; photo by Sue Volkert How often do you go to a highly anticipated event only to be let down by your own inflated or unrealistic expectations? After interviewing Travis frontman Fran Healy last month about his upcoming stripped-down tour with fellow Travis guitarist Andy Dunlop (please see my October 9 “Q&A” on […]
Live Review: Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions @ The Loft, October 16
By Adam Trimble; photo by Luz Gallardo For years Hope Sandoval's heavyhearted velvet voice has been a method for my friends and I to find beauty in our darker moments. The members of my first band came together as moody, morose teenagers because of our affinity for Sandoval's former band Mazzy Star. Having never seen […]
Picture Book: Dan Deacon @ Eyedrum, October 2
By Ben Grad
Picture Book: Wye Oak, Blitzen Trapper @ The EARL, October 8
By Matthew Smith Wye Oak:
Live Review: Asher Roth Aaron’s Amphitheatre @ Lakewood, October 7
By Sam Parvin Asher Roth, famous for his beer-guzzling, bongalicious tune “College”, joined the Blink-182 Reunion Tour just a few weeks prior to their Wednesday show at Lakewood. And, while Roth’s style is certainly not punk-rocker like Blink’s, the combination is complementary. Roth sings about his “glory days,” as a 20-something (currently) with two years […]
Picture Book: Grizzly Bear, Beach House @ Variety Playhouse, October 5
By Matthew Smith Beach House: Grizzly Bear:
Live Review: Hawks, Whores, DD/MM/YYYY, These Arms Are Snakes @ Star Bar, October 1
By Bryan Aiken As if moving with the cloud of fall’s first chill, so came the national tour of eccentric indie-rock stalwarts DD/MM/YYYY and These Arms Are Snakes to Atlanta’s Star Bar. An unlikely pairing already, if not for the bands’ loose common ground of spastic performance, the lineup was made even more disparate by […]
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