Picturebook: Midsummer Music Fest @ Candler Park June 15th!

Photos by: Rhiannon Bradley Photos featuring: The Whiskey Gentry, Soul Rebels and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Picture Book & Live Review: Matthew Mayfield @ Eddie’s Attic June 14th

By Lindsey Borders Ever since Matthew Mayfield began his journey over 11 years ago, his performances get better with each live show he performs, acoustically or with a full band. I prefer him acoustic because he’s genuine, raw, and vulnerable with his audience; especially if there’s a great turn-out. Which there was with Matthew’s CD […]

Picture Book & Review: Billy Idol @ The Tabernacle June 11th!

By: Hillery Terenzi Billy Idol still has it…sneer and all. 80’s MTV icon Billy Idol played to a packed Tabernacle audience on Tuesday, June 11th. The crowd consisted of former rockers and suburban housewives with their teenage kids, proving to them that mom was once “cool”. If you came to hear the “Billy Idol Experience”, […]

Picture Book & Review: Sting @ Chastain Park Amphitheater June 10th!

Photos & Review by Hillery Terenzi I admit that I was a little concerned Monday morning when dark clouds were covering the Atlanta sky, but the music gods must’ve known Sting would be playing Chastain Amphitheater that night. The nearly sold out crowd was a mixture of young and old, tattooed and preppy and I […]

CD Review: Misery Loves Chachi – Long Live the Lazy Choir

By Ellen Eldridge Nathan Sadler, the musical voice behind Misery Loves Chachi, spent more than three years experimenting and commiserating among his keyboards to compose 25 songs, of which four tracks representing the lighter and more hopeful side of displacement and unemployment emerged. These four songs are being released today (June 11) as the debut […]

Picture Book: Noot D’ Noot with Sailing to Denver @ The EARL, June 7th

Photos by Ken Lackner. Noot D’ Noot Sailing to Denver

Picture Book: Tunes from the Tombs @ Oakland Cemetery June 8th!

Photos by Ken Lackner. Blair Crimmins and the Hookers Rod Hamdallah 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra The Bonaventure Quartet featuring Amy Pike Wasted Potential Brass Band The Deadfields Rolling Nowhere

LL Cool J (Kings of the Mic Tour) @ Fabulous Fox Theatre June 4th

Photos and Review by Matthew Smith (Shadowboxer Photography) Groundbreaking hip-hop artists LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, and De La Soul performed at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Thursday, June 5th, one of the stops on the Kings of the Mic Tour.  Grammy award-winner and multi-platinum artist LL curated the lineup, saying he […]

CD Review: Megadeth – Super Collider (Released TODAY June 4th)

By Ellen Eldridge Leave it to me to completely miss the countdown, slow stream of singles and sneak peaks leading to one of my favorite bands’ 14th album, Super Collider. I had seen flashes of criticisms and the typical call outs “MegaDave” on Facebook, but as I powered through the laundry list of things in […]

Picture Book & Live Review: Fall Out Boy with New Politics @ The Tabernacle 6/2

Review by Molly Segers. Photos by Ken Lackner. Every show has a spark of feeling like you’re experiencing something special that the world is missing out on. This was especially true of Fall Out Boy’s show at The Tabernacle Sunday, June 2. Tickets sold out in just a few hours and thanks to the paperless […]

Picture Book & Live Review: OURS @ Drunken Unicorn May 29th

Photos and review by Jenna Hughes OURS returned to Atlanta on May 29th, playing at The Drunken Unicorn as part of their Ring The Bell tour in support of their new album Ballet The Boxer. The album, which drops June 11th, was widely funded by fans of the band via Pledge Music. Boxer is their […]

CD Review: Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

By Ellen Eldridge Upon hearing the first grungy bend of “Hollow” on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, the fifth studio release by Alice In Chains, fans will quickly need to reconcile their feelings on whether or not the band is stretching its musical wings enough, but the future looks bright for this group of survivors […]