Picture Book & Live Review: Marshall Crenshaw and The Bottle Rockets @ Locos Grill & Pub 1/24

Photos by Rhiannon Bradley, Review by Scott Roberts Originally scheduled at The Peachtree Tavern, Locos (just across the parking lot) became the unlikely venue for veteran alt-country-esque rockers The Bottle Rockets and venerated singer/songwriter Marshall Cresnshaw on Thursday night. But both acts made the most of the last-minute change and filled the small attached room […]

Big Freedia @ The Earl – January 21, 2013 – Picture Book and Live Review

Photos and Review by Chandler Mays Let’s face it, no matter your race, gender, creed, culture, or geography, all of humanity can come together and celebrate a single commonality: We all have asses… And they can shake. Big Freedia (pronounced “Freeda”) is an artist out of New Orleans that has played the largest role in […]

Picture Book: Culture Shock @ High Museum of Art Atlanta, 1/19

Photos by Andre Keichian The Culture Shock event at the High Museum of Art was certainly the place to be this past Saturday. The “typical” museum experience was turned upside down for a night filled with great musicians, bands, and of course cocktails! The exhibitions included Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913>>2013 which featured art from […]

CD Review: Phinehas – The Bridge Between

By Ellen Eldridge Once again, I find myself trying to explain that fine and shrinking line between gratingly abrasive and heart-poundingly cathartic—the kind of music that lets you unleash a day’s worth of intolerable bullshit from an unrelenting boss or a lifetime’s worth of oppression and misunderstanding. Granted, I less often feel the need for […]

CD Review: Adam Ant – Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter

On Tuesday, Adam Ant released his first album in 17 years – a collection of songs that are largely autobiographical in nature, with several nods to places and people he’s encountered along the road to pop stardom. After cutting his teeth at some of the UK’s toughest punk clubs,  Adam’s first gigs gave way to a striking Top of […]

Live Review and Picture Book: Rain Parade @ The Earl 1/19

Rain Parade with Tim Lee 3 The EARL-January 19, 2013 Review by: Scott Roberts Photos by: Sue Volkert Anticipation was palpable at The Earl last Saturday as the mostly middle-aged crowd awaited California’s Rain Parade to hit the stage for only the second time in 25 years (the first was a low-key warm-up gig in […]

Picture Book: Stroke 9 with Best Brothers Band and The Static @ Peachtree Tavern, January 19, 2013

Photos by Ken Lackner.

Picture Book: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with JD Wilkes and The Dirt Daubers @ The Earl 1/18

Photos by Hillery Terenzi

PartyLive Review & Picture Book: Bloc Party @ Tabernacle – January 16, 2013

Bloc Party Tabernacle – January 16, 2013 By Justin Lyons Photos by Codi Glancy London outfit Bloc Party hadn’t been back to Atlanta in more than five years and gave fans a little bit of everything on Wednesday night at Tabernacle. The foursome has experimented with their sound over the years and recently came off […]

Picture Book & Live Review: Emilie Autumn @ The Loft January 19th

Photos and review by Jenna Hughes Emilie Autumn brought her burlesque theatrics to The Loft on January 19th in support of her latest album, 2012’s F.L.A.G. or Fight Like A Girl. Devoted fans—lovingly dubbed ‘plague rats’ by Autumn—eagerly anticipated the appearance of their idol as the stage went dark and smoky and old time music […]

Picture Book & Live Review: Jessta James @ Vinyl January 15, 2013, Part of a 3 Week Residency

Photos and review by Jenna Hughes Every once in a while an artist comes along that is refreshingly different from the norm, and Jessta James certainly is that. The Montana native brought his unique blend of country, hip-hop and rock to Atlanta this past Tuesday night. Playing with an impressive backing band that included a […]