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We don’t have many rules here at Atlanta’s A-List.  If you’ve been reading for a while you figured that out already (but somebody might be new here).  One rule we do have, being the neophyte blog we are, is that anybody who hands us an actual, physical, pressed into vinyl, record (or book for that [...]

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Aug 31st, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

Brooklyn Vegan will be streaming David Bazan’s live house show from NYC tonight at 8:00 EST.  This is one of only a handful of sold out east coast house shows that Bazan is doing before starting a tour that will bring him to the Drunken Unicorn on October 14.  Bazan’s new LP on Barsuk Records, Curse Your Branches, drops tomorrow.  Our [...]

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Aug 31st, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music)

Sorry Folks, Park’s Closed

It didn’t exactly sneak up on us, but summer’s end did seem to get here before we were quite ready.  We tend to juggle through the summer months and this season was no different.  We spent a fair amount of time underground working out some technical stuff and now we’ve come out [...]

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Aug 30th, 2009 | Filed under Literate (books)

By Yankee Rose
Tom Robbins started writing novels years before us A-Listers learned to read. Nearly forty years after publishing his first novel, Robbins’ tenth book, B Is For Beer (2009 ECCO Books), is written specifically for the generation that missed Robbins the first couple times around. Although Robbins really meant B Is For Beer to [...]

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Aug 30th, 2009 | Filed under Book Reviews, Literate (books)

Nophest is starting as we ti type.  Like Atlanta’s A-List, it’s all DIY.  Unlike us, there’s some serious talent out there (really).
It all happens at WonderRoot (982 Memorial Dr SE) and they will be going all weekend (’til 1:00 AM Sunday).
It’s cheap too – $5/day.  Don’t know if you can still get the $10 weekend [...]

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Aug 29th, 2009 | Filed under Live (more music)

Nebula is unabashedly old school.  They happily skipped two decades of musical progress and will drop you right back into the 1970s with their psych rock.  If you listen to Atlanta’s A-List on blip.fm, then you know that our little playlist there features lots of big 70s rock.
This is big heavy stoner rock that isn’t [...]

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Aug 28th, 2009 | Filed under Local (events)

Back again. Continuing what has become a tradition for the band, Charleston’s Band of Horses will play back to back nights in Atlanta on New Year’s Eve and for the truly intrepid (or is it insipid?) New Year’s Eve Eve.
Two years ago, they sold out The Earl. Last year, they packed the Variety Playhouse. [...]

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