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America’s latest, greatest band, Wilco (yep, that’s our take on it) will return to Atlanta on March 26 at the Fabulous Fox Theater. Presale starts Wednesday morning at 10:00, but to take advantage of that you have to register in advance with Frontgate Tickets. So get busy people, there’s not much time.
If you [...]

Jan 4th, 2010 | Filed under Live (more music), Local (events)

By Rube Ambler
Let’s just start by saying we were inspired to create this post this way by Paste Magazine’s Josh Jackson. Like Mr. Jackson we’re only going to list those shows where we can post some kind of YouTube video stream from the show.
We know from friends, and rumors, and the interwebs that there [...]

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

Alex made this sort of easy for us. His best of the year include a lot of records he has already written about. We’ll try to give you a link to his initial impressions whenever we can. It’s his usual 10, in reverse order now.
10. The Thermals- Now We [...]

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Dec 12th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

By Rube Ambler
We let Alex have his crack at this and we have to admit his taste is good. (We rediscovered Jets to Brazil since that post…wow). But we (which is to say me [rube]) wanted to take a shot at our favorite records of the past 10 years or so.  Fortunately, Alex knocked off [...]

Dec 5th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

By Alex Brenner
[All the cool kids are doin' it, so we decided to do it too - the best albums of the decade.  We've called in our resident music maker and record reviewer to give us his perspective on this trending topic.  We dropped a couple sample tracks in there too.  Enjoy. - Rube]

Jets to [...]

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Nov 1st, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

By Alex Brenner

I’m not going to lie to you. Wilco lost me for a moment. Just when I thought they had hit their peak with Being There, Jeff Tweedy and Co. dropped out of the alt-country scene (which admittedly has languished) with the release of Summerteeth. I still loved the band but was not ready [...]

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Jul 18th, 2009 | Filed under Indie (music), Record Reviews

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)