Dead Sara: Masquerade-Hell, Atlanta, GA, September 14, 2018
“Rock is dead.” That’s what they tell us. That’s what they keep saying. “Rock is dead.” Music journalist, aging rock stars, even fans all regularly profess the demise of guitar driven music. Apparently none of them have seen Dead Sara live. While Billboar ...
Slayer Final World Tour
Fifteen thousand metal-heads, ninety degrees of Georgia heat, five thrash bands, and one dixie storm was the formula for the Atlanta stop of Slayer’s current tour on Friday, August 10. Luckily the rain ceased before the beginning of the show, but an early ...
How I Got into THAT band: Soundgarden
Sometime around Christmas of ’88 I wandered into Manifest Discs and Tapes in Columbia, South Carolina, looking for new music. As I perused the racks of albums, I stopped to listen to the song that began playing in the store. It was heavy, but not like any ...
Baroness plays Atlanta’s The Earl Dec. 13
It’s been over two years since Baroness was in Atlanta. Last Sunday, Dec. 13, they played to a sold out crowd at the Earl in anticipation of the release of their fourth album, Purple. Savannah’s Earthling had van trouble and was unable to make the show as ...
Live Review: Acid King at Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn Oct. 23
After a 22 year career, underground rock pioneers Acid King made their Atlanta debut Friday, October 23, at the Drunken Unicorn, in support of Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere. This is their first album since 2005’s Acid King III. With Sleep and Ne ...
Live review: Chelsea Wolfe at Aisle 5 in Atlanta Sept. 14
California based artist Chelsea Wolfe brought her Abyss tour to Aisle 5 in Little Five Points in Atlanta Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. On her latest release Abyss, Wolfe plunges to darker musical and lyrical depths than on her previous four albums. Although met ...
Concert Review: Faith No More comes to Atlanta July 30
"HELLO MOTHERF**KER!" is the chorus of Faith No More's most recent single and the words they chose to reintroduce themselves to American audiences. It was a welcomed greeting. With the exception of a handful of shows in 2010, Faith No More has not mounted ...