AMG Weekend Picks 6/20-6/22

Friday June 20th Prince Paul @ MJQ Concourse  Doors open at 11pm. Tickets are $15. Online and phone sales end at 4pm on the day of the show Mood Rings w/ Wild Mocassins @ Eastern Sea @ 529 Forming  from mists of solid-state polished chrome out of cavity closets, Mood Rings fought against the constraints of […]

Amplify Decatur: Concerts Combating Poverty

Amplify Decatur: Concerts Combating Poverty

Did you know that families make up 40% of the homeless in DeKalb county? Sadly, it’s true. That’s why its the mission of Amplify concerts to leverage the universal love of music to raise money and awareness for excellent charities fighting poverty at the local level. Amplify concerts strive to end homelessness and poverty by drawing […]

CD Review: Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes

By: Emily Jackson  Bruce Springsteen’s newest compilation of songs sounds like a sonic scrapbook of sorts. That’s because it is. For his eighteenth album, the Boss has taken his most recent years of touring, reinventing and sometimes writing and corralled them together under the wishful title “High Hopes.” The album officially came out today, January […]

CD Review: Faithless Town — American Refugee; Playing @ The Earl Wednesday, Nov 28th

Faithless Town American Refugee By Al Kaufman Atlanta’s Faithless Town harks back to the ‘80s, when people like Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp sang of small town struggles in the USA. At that time, millions of other bands tried to cash in on the sound, only to  fall as fast as the poor characters they […]

CD Review: Bruce Springsteen — Wrecking Ball; Playing Philips Arena, March 18

Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball Columbia By Al Kaufman The Boss is back. I honestly never thought I would get a chance to write those words. A Springsteen fan since before my teen years, I have watched as Bruce slowly grew into a caricature of himself. It was like he had read all the hype about […]

AMG Weekend Picks: Edens Edge, Theophilus London, Anvil and More!

Happy Super Bowl Weekend everyone! Looks like the weekend might be a bit quiet due to everyone revving up their eating and drinking engines for the big game on Sunday, but we still have some killer gigs to take the edge off if you’re not into the whole pigskin thing, with a healthy amount of […]

Bruce Springsteen, Odd Future, and The Fray, Oh My! New Shows Announced!

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will launch the first US leg of the 2012 ‘Wrecking Ball’ World Tour on March 18 in Atlanta at Philips Arena. Tickets are $ 99.00 and $ 69.00 for reserved seating and general admission standing floor. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 4th at 10AM at www.livenation.com, the Philips Arena […]

5GB w/ The Joy Formidable; Playing Music Midtown, 9/24

By Eileen Tilson One of the most buzzed about bands at Music Midtown this year, The Joy Formidable was conceived by music-obsessed friends Ritzy Bryan and Rhyddian Dafydd when they were both students in Wales. With rampant success in the U.K., the band came into the U.S. with a bang, playing sold out shows in […]

New ICANN Rules Make .Music Domain Names Possible

By Eileen Tilson Last May at the MUSEXPO conference in Los Angeles, I sat next to a young Greek man named Constantine Roussos, the founder of .Music, a company whose dream it is to legitimize music searches online. If passed, music companies, musicians, etc. , will have the ability to host their site as a “.music” […]

CD Review: Alejandro Escovedo — Street Songs of Love

CD Review: Alejandro Escovedo — Street Songs of Love

Alejandro Escovedo Street Songs of Love Factory Records By Eileen Tilson He has collaborated with Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown. He was in punk outfit, The Nuns, who opened up for the Sex Pistols. He counts Bruce Springsteen among his loyal fans, who also plays on his latest album, Street Songs of Love. So who is […]