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From Americana to Metal, these bands will be covering classic songs. How can you not be curious about a band called Seed and Feed Marching Abominable? Head to Smith’s Olde Bar tonight to see any or all of these bands. $10 cover goes to 500 Songs for Kids Foundation:
Amy Gerhartz, Angela Lavine, [...]

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Apr 30th, 2009 | Filed under Local (events)

Flow
When the words don’t flow and the ideas seem to be captured somewhere in the atmosphere, our solution here at Atlanta’s A-List is a malted combination of barley and hops. It has been suggested that this is the cause of – and the solution to – all of life’s problems. When it doesn’t [...]

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Apr 26th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

Here’s what happens when you drop a copy of your latest effort into the hands of your A-List author – you might just have to read about it. Atlanta’s own Alex Brenner is strong out of the gate on his second release under the moniker Swingset. As he is wont to do, Alex [...]

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Apr 24th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

Post to PostTime to step back for a minute. It’s the 39th anniversary of our first posting (I know it’s not paper, silver, or gold; is it iridium?) Nonetheless, it seems as good a reason as any to take a moment to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going. This [...]

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Apr 19th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

Blogger as Fanboy – by Rube Ambler

The idea of the fanboy is certainly not something new here at Atlanta’s A-List. We love Junot Diaz’s beautiful tribute to the grandest of all fanboys, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao“. I mean, we get it. But we see lots of shows. When I hear somebody who [...]

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Apr 16th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

Better than Festivus

There are few things that could be better than feats of strength, but that’s a winter holiday and spring is gloriously here. If you need proof of that you can go to the 73rd Annual Dogwood Festival or the 2nd Annual 420 Fest. But take our word for it, there really is [...]

Apr 14th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music)

The Confessional

Your fearless author has never really been in a band. Really. I mean there was that summer that a few of us spent a week getting an abandoned room in an abandoned apartment (that my buddy’s dad owned) ready to be our practice space. We swept it out, replaced the light bulbs, found a [...]

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Apr 6th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)