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Album Review: Ben Folds Five ‘The Sound of the Life of the Mind’
October 3, 2012
That’s one heck of a title. It could be interpreted any number of ways, but being that this is a Ben Folds Five record I think the simplest explanation makes the most sense: This is an album of modest expression from a group of people who are both introspective and celebratory about life, and all
Concert Review: Big Boi at CounterPoint Festival in Atlanta
September 30, 2012
The rain clouds loomed large over the CounterPoint Festival grounds on Saturday, but somehow the skies failed to open up to sour the revelry. The rain-shortened Friday session was dominated by the electronic acts, and Saturday featured heavy weights like Skrillex, Pretty Lights and Steve Angello. In addition, festival organizers carved out a block of
Concert Review: Skrillex at CounterPoint Festival in Atlanta
September 30, 2012
Saturday night at Atlanta’s Counterpoint Festival, belonged to Sonny Moore, better known as the Grammy award-winning Skrillex. From the first beat, he completely owned the crowd, whipping everyone into frenzy with his well-known hybridization of scratches and screeches. Following Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia (also a crowd-pleaser), Skrillex wasted no time getting down to
Concert Review: Avicii at CounterPoint Festival in Atlanta
September 29, 2012
Atlanta welcomes electronica in a big way with the advent of the first annual CounterPoint Festival just south of the airport in Fairburn, Georgia. Literally tucked in the middle of nowhere, the festival takes root on an expansive farm that sits on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Unlike last weekend’s Music Midtown, CounterPoint has
Album Review: The xx ‘Coexist’
September 25, 2012
The xx gained a little bit of notoriety leading up to the release of Coexist by first streaming the album from their own website, with a map to show the way that the music spread over the Internet and the world. A nifty idea, albeit the map really just showed a nuclear explosion of lines
Concert Review: Pearl Jam at Music Midtown in Atlanta
September 23, 2012
We have come to the final night of Atlanta’s 2-day music festival Music Midtown. Saturday, we rolled back the clock to revisit Garbage, had a bizarre visit from swashbuckling Adam Ant, saw one-hit-wonder Neon Trees and was blown away by the vocal acrobatics of Florence + the Machine. There was no rest for weary ears
Concert Review: Florence + The Machine at Music Midtown in Atlanta
September 23, 2012
The 52,000 music fans who came out for the second day of Atlanta’s newly resurrected Music Midtown festival were treated many times over to the musical delights of 90s rockers Garbage, hometown rapper Ludacris, Adam Ant, and Neon Trees. As the sun began its decent, the Electric Ballroom Stage prepared for arguably England’s best offering
Concert Review: T.I. at Music Midtown in Atlanta
September 22, 2012
It has been a year since Atlanta was reintroduced to Music Midtown. Largely left for dead when promoters Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon abandoned the cash hole seven years ago, music festivals in Atlanta became a large taboo for the better part of a decade. Pretty much every large market in the US could boast
Concert Review: The Avett Brothers at Music Midtown in Atlanta
September 22, 2012
While Atlanta’s mid-day heat slowly faded into a lovely autumn evening at the Meadow at Piedmont Park, the Friday afternoon crowd that had gathered to hear Grammy-winning R&B artist Van Hunt, eighties rocker Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and hometown hip-hop extraordinaire T.I. easily doubled in size, just in time for the 90-minute set of
Album Review: Animal Collective ‘Centipede Hz’
September 20, 2012
Few bands are able to realize mainstream success with a formula as unlikely as that of Animal Collective, who have defied all expectation now for over a decade. It’s a world of wanton extravagance, but also careful measure and calculation– at least when at its best. While it shouldn’t be surprising, with the level of
