Atlanta Underground Film Festival kicks off

The Fifth Annual Atlanta Underground Film Festival started last night and continues through Sunday, and will feature a wide variety of experimental, ground-breaking and generally out-of-the box films, from local shorts to documentary features (including Song Sung Blue, the story of a husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute duo), comedy, animation and more....  read more

Paste:Local launches in Atlanta

When Paste decided to expand our coverage of signs of life in music, film and culture to the local level in vibrant cities around the U.S. with a new initiative called Paste:Local...  read more

Informer:Atlanta 8/19/08

Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the best in upcoming music, film and culture events in and around Atlanta. Think we missed something? Wanna tip us off to something cool over the horizon? Let us know! (Italics indicate an especially recommended event.)...  read more

Catching Up With... Amy Ray

Indigo Girl Amy Ray released her third solo studio album, Didn’t It Feel Kinder, on Aug. 5. Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson recently spoke with Ray about her songwriting, her experiences as a label head and the Indigo Girls’ first album as independent artists...  read more

Live Photos: Fringe Binge @ Star Bar 8/1/08-8/2/08

[Above: Gentleman Jesse and His Men, 8/1/08]Atlanta's second annual Fringe Binge, a two-day punk festival, took place the first weekend in August at the Star Bar in Little Five Points....  read more

Bradford Cox accidentally leaks new Deerhunter, Atlas Sound material

[Above: Deerhunter performs at Atlanta's Vacation Gallery, 8/15]Bradford Cox's uncensored blog posts can be informative, whiny, excited, grateful, often apologetic, and frequently (very frequently) include free downloads of mix tapes, virtual 7" singles and individual tracks from one of his two main projects, Deerhunter and Atlas Sound. The site reads like stream of consciousness, letting every fan in on his every musical and emotional move....  read more

Gringo Star announces debut LP release, tours

Without a doubt, Gringo Star was the most dramatic act at Atlanta's 2008 Corndogorama. When they overshot the end of their set time by more than 20 minutes, the sound technicians at the outdoor stage pulled the plug on all their equipment-- microphones, amps, P.A., lights, everything. The fit that followed seemed justified to the enthralled audience: It was an unfairly premature end to one of the most enjoyable sets of the weekend, but it certainly was a spectacle....  read more

Deerhunter to complicate your Friday night plans

[Above: Deerhunter perform at the Variety Playhouse, 11/30/2007]You were probably going to lay low tonight, watching (or, uh, re-watching) NBC's re-broadcast of last night's women's gymnastics all-around competition (go Nastia!). That's fine, but if you're searching for a less depressing option than comparing your own utter inathleticism to that of "16"-year-old Chinese girls, allow us to suggest Deerhunter's free show at Vacation Gallery & Boutique. It starts at 7 PM at 674A N. Highland Avenue (right next to San Francisco Coffee, the band says) and costs nothing but a few ounces of your hard-earned sweat. And if you just can't...  read more

Live Review: Thee Crucials, Can Can @ The Earl 7/31/08

[Photos: Can Can's singer and guitarist in front of their floodlights.]On the way to the Earl on the night of the 31st, the creepy musical swells provided by Album 88's ambient show eerily coincided with the branching lightning bolts shooting, forking across the clouds above East Atlanta. Inside the venue, the pre-show scene was similar: The low lighting in the Earl's back room revealed a glowing red on the walls and a muffled flurry of browns and grays everywhere else. People traversed the wide floor, ambling back and forth like so many slowed down flashes of electricity in the sky...  read more

Live Review: Judi Chicago, Noot d' Noot @ Lenny's 7/26/08

I should've known something was up when people started driving the wrong way in the emergency lanes up GA-400 South. When I finally saw the truly epic traffic jam that awaited me and thousands of my fellow Saturday night revelers on the Connector, I assumed I was having an unlucky night. I was both right and wrong.An hour and a half later (on a drive that usually takes 15 minutes), I reached Lenny's Bar to attend an edition of Judi Chicago and Noot d' Noot's summertime monthly collaboration they're calling Worming the Starhole (whatever that means). After fretting for an...  read more