Tonight while driving home from seeing the fireworks at Lenox, I checked my Twitter stream to see what was going down in Atlanta and heard that there was a lot of smoke coming from somewhere near City Hall East. I continued through my stream and saw this photo by Matt ...
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Masquerade Music Park Fire Tonight, July 4 - Photos
Whynatte Kicks It At Smith’s Olde Bar
This weekend, local buzz beverage, Whynatte, is throwing down at Smith’s Olde Bar with two nights of Judi Chicago, Noot d'Noot, and Black Dominoes. It's upstairs at Smith's at the first 100 people get a free Whynatte bomb of Jager and mocha goodness.9-1030pm Black Dominoes/Judi Chicago vinyl DJ set1030-1130pm Noot ...
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Atlanta Not In The Dump, Bumpin’ It Up
Good news! We ain't so dangerous and according to the Atlanta Regional Commission, we are the second fastest-growing metro area in the US (behind Dallas).
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Benefits For Atlanta’s B Jay Womack (A.K.A. Bobby Ubangi)
Atlanta's "garage rock mascot", B Jay Womack (A.K.A. Bobby Ubangi), is dying of cancer and friends, journalists and scene alike are trying to raise money to cover the cost of his "green burial" at a Monastery about 20 miles south of Conyers, GA. B Jay played in the Gaye ...
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Atlanta Band, The Constellations, Suspended From Hype Machine
King of the music blog aggregators, Hype Machine, published a blog post yesterday detailing new security measures they have added to the site in an effort to reduce the potential for artist's and their promotional teams to abuse the charts on the site.The post ends with a list of the ...
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RIP B Jay Womack (A.K.A. Bobby Ubangi)
We reported yesterday about two benefits for BJ, an Atlanta garage rock fixture. Through a friend of Drive A Faster Car's at Drunken Unicorn, we heard he passed away around 9PM last night which was then confirmed by Henry over at Chunklet. RIP. Henry is also collecting donations via ...
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Free Magic Remixes Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun
As I'm sure you've gathered, I'm not often into the remix culture when it comes to casual listening unless I've got my heels on and an adult beverage in hand. I do make exceptions for a handful of dancey tracks including the latest remix from Free Magic. (You ...
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Corndogorama: Day Two In Review
A later start on Sunday meant the first act that I caught was This Piano Plays Itself on the second stage. Based solely on the soccer shorts that several of the members were wearing, their "wall of sound" post-rock hit be entirely by surprise. Via an overwhelming number of ...
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Earl Is Old
You best find you some indie rock scalpers to hit this great show tonight at The Earl. Snowden, Sealions and Abby Go Go kick off The Earl's 10th anniversary's weekend-long celebration.On the way to The Earl, swing by 529 for some other rad acts including the ever-fantastic Adron, brought to ...
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Bacardi B-Live Presents MSTRKRFT, A-Trak And Matt & Kim Tonight
Reminder! Tonight is MSTRKRFT, A-Trak And Matt & Kim at Opera![mp3] MSTRKRFT - Bounce (featuring N.O.R.E. & Isis)[mp3] A-Trak - Say Whoa[mp3] Matt & Kim - Daylight
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Cheap Ass Show At Star Bar
If none of the other options I've attempted to lure you to this evening strike your fancy, there's always the Cheap Ass Show at Star Bar tonight featuring Hollyweerd, Social Studies, Mach 5 and Niko Villamor. And by "cheap ass," they mean only $5 for the entire night.
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Corndogorama: Day One In Review
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The first band to play as I arrived at this years Corndogorama was Attractive Eighties Women. Front man Mack Williams (aka Phoebe Cates) made sure to apologize to any parents who happened to bring their kids along right before introducing a song as "for anyone who has ever drank ...
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Black Lips Tour Dates Announced
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July02 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl tickets18 Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Festival tickets23 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom tickets24 Seattle, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party tickets26 Brooklyn, NY @ East River State ParkAugust08 Montreal, QC @ Le StudioOctober28 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel tickets29 Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge30 Memphis, TN @ Young ...
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Wavves “No Hope Kids” Video
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New video for Wavves song "No Hope Kids" shot by Pete Ohs while Wavves were touring Europe and simultaneously hanging out at playgrounds, doing email interviews, smoking stuff, drinking other stuff, eating breakfast foods and generally rocking out...Wavves "No Hope Kids" from Pete Ohs on Vimeo.
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Depeche Mode Ticket Giveaway And Live Nation’s No Service Fee Wednesday
Live Nation continues with a promotion they've been experimenting with this Summer, "No Service Fee Wednesday," where music fans can purchase tickets (within defined limitations) without the obscene service fees that get tacked on to this big-box ticket retailer's normal sales. This Wednesday, July 1, they will be running the ...
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Parking Deck Collapsed In Midtown
This afternoon, part of the parking deck collapsed at Centergy on 5th Street, near Tech Square (Georgia Tech campus)! Follow tweets about the collapse on Twitter.Photo by Jelena CrawfordUpdate: Photo from WSB via twitpicUpdate: Official press release from Georgia Tech just publishedUpdate: Amazing picture of the Centergy parking deck collapse ...
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Athfest Picks: Saturday, June 27 Edition
Athfest Saturday is chock full of goodness. In fact, there is almost too much here to handle, so we'll just hit some highlights and say that you should just walk around and check out whatever, whenever, because odds are it's going to be pretty good. This is one ...
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Free In-Store Performances At Criminal Records
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With the summer music season in full swing, Criminal Records, my favorite Little 5 Points record/CD/comic store, brings a slew of in-store performances in the coming two months.Bukkake BoysSaturday, June 27 @ 4:30 PMAtlanta-based punk band, Bukkake Boys, fresh from the Richmond, VA's No Way Fest last weekend, will be ...
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