AMG Weekend Picks 5/8-5/10

Friday, May 8  Snowden & The Shadowboxers @ The Loft (Shaky Knees Late Night Show!) Genre: Indie/Soul/Pop Sounds Like: French Kicks, John & Jacob, Film School Tickets are $16 in advance, $18 at the door. Doors open at 10:30 pm, show starts at 11:30 pm. Find Tickets Here! Graveyard @ The EARL (Shaky Knees Late Night […]

Live Review and Picture Book: Hopscotch Music Festival 2012 Friday Night Plaza Show featuring Zammuto, Built to Spill and The Jesus & Mary Chain September 7th

Hopscotch Highlights – Day 2 – Article By Kim Ware The very best thing about festivals such as Hopscotch is walking in to a random show, not really knowing who you’re about to see, and finding a new favorite band. Enter The Wigg Report, who kicked off Day 2 with a bright and early (noon-fifteen) […]

Hopscotch Music Festival Returns To Raleigh Sept. 6-8; Featuring The Roots, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo & More!

                            It’s gonna get a bit rowdy in September in Raleigh! The Independent Weekly announced its third annual Hopscotch Music Festival, N.C.’s biggest music festival. Scheduled for Sept. 6-8, 2012 in downtown Raleigh, the festival will feature 175 bands in 15 venues- […]

What’s Up Monday?

I WANT MY MTV!!! Well, even with the return of Matt Pinfield’s famed “120 Minutes,” MTV still isn’t what it used to be, but we still wish a happiest 30th birthday to the network that made it cool to rock some spandex and hypercolor tees… While you are doing keg stands celebrating, here are some […]

AMG’s Weekend Picks: Cyndi Lauper, President Clinton, Here We Go Magic and More!

AMG’s Weekend Picks: Cyndi Lauper, President Clinton, Here We Go Magic and More!

We hope everyone is making it through this baking-hot week. Speaking of the temperature, this fall’s upcoming show schedule is really “heating up” (oh dear…), as evidenced by our list of fabulous on-sales at the bottom of this post. Sounds like it’s going to be a rock ‘n’ roll autumn.

Buckhead Theatre Opens with Shows by Deer Tick with Dead Confederate and Built To Spill

We’ve missed the Roxy Theater. Despite all the things working against it – the expensive parking, Buckhead traffic, Buckhead in general – it was a venue of a certain size that was not too small (The EARL) or too big (The Tabernacle) for acts like Echo and the Bunnymen and Flogging Molly. But there was […]