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Vic Chesnutt defies description. Heck, he defies everything. His life has been devoted to making music and he has made more than one world-famous and world-renowned artist stop to listen and collaborate.
He will be traveling from his outpost in Athens to our dogwood town on the first day of November. His very latest project is [...]
If you are into real metal, then you need to head to The Earl tonight for Torche. For our dime, these Florida rockers are making some of the best heavy music out there right now. They do not trade melody for grind but instead find room for both – check out 2008’s Meanderthal for more. [...]
Bound to Be Read Books in East Atlanta is hosting another Scandalous Book Club on September 13. This time the book is Vladimir Nabokov’s often banned and always controversial tale of intergenerational desire – Lolita.
Few authors make their way into a rock n’ roll song, but Nabokov did for this tale when Gordon Sumner [...]
Legendary honky-tonk singer/songwriter/outlaw Billy Joe Shaver visits Eddie’s Attic on Thursday, August 6. If you’ve ever spent more than three minutes listening to Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or Merle Haggard, then you need to know about Billy Joe Shaver.
Billy Joe’s story is romantic only in the country music context – run-ins with violence and [...]
Monday, August 3rd, A Cappella Books will be open all night (we don’t know exactly what that means, but at least we looked for the fine print this time). We do know that at the least they will be open after midnight to allow for Thomas Pynchon fans to grab a copy of his latest [...]
Even if we didn’t earn it…
We need a week off – even if you don’t – and we’re taking it this week. No rant. Don’t think the site will be down though. We have all kinds of A-List Advance posts teed up and ready to go this week but you have to come back every [...]
Hip Hop is not our first inclination here at Atlanta’s A-List, but we do have an appreciation for the classics. De La Soul is playing together again and will be at the Masquerade on Friday, August 7. We love the recent remix that Posdnous did with Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (see the vid [...]
