Live Photos: Mike Geier's Kingsized Holiday Jubilee @ Variety Playhouse 12/13/08
Driving home Dec. 13, the streets of Little Five Points were filled with people looking exceptionally festive-- even for this holiday season. So many Santa costumes traipsed up the sidewalks, it felt like the North Pole had been uprooted, cloned and deposited in the center of Atlanta. Really, though, what had arrived was Mike Geier, his Kingsized Orchestra and the Dames Aflame burlesque troupe for another spectacular show at the Variety Playhouse. Paste:Local photographer Chad McFarlin was there to capture it all.... read more
Informer:Atlanta 12/16/08
Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's 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! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists. ... read more
Live Photos: Can Can, Tenth To The Moon, The Swear @ Drunken Unicorn 12/6/08
[Above: Can Can's Patrick A.]When Can Can celebrated the release of their first LP, All Hell, at the Drunken Unicorn with fellow Atlanta bands Tenth To The Moon and The Swear, Paste:Local's photographer was there to capture all the pop-punk craziness. (Note: Trial By Fire also performed, but unfortunately none of us arrived in time to see them play.) It was a night celebrating the lead singer, the front-person of every act looming larger than life. Elizabeth Elkins led The Swear with a thundering certainty. Same goes for Mitchell Foy, who fronted Tenth To The Moon in face paint and strategically... read more
Informer:Atlanta 12/9/08
Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's 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! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists.... read more
Village Theatre oozes comedy onto Decatur Street: A conversation with co-owner Blair Holden
The storefront of the two-month-old Village Theatre looks out across Decatur Street toward the railroad tracks and the train yard that have for so long set the backdrop for the Lenny’s Bar shows upstairs. Since Lenny’s moved into the dilapidated shopping center at the Boulevard intersection, it’s been up to the arts alone to bring any color into the immediate surroundings, and in October, a new venue arrived to help light up the evenings. Friends Blair Holden and Mike King co-founded the new improv theatre along with a large group of other actors, the majority of which performed with them... read more
Win tickets to Can Can's CD release this Saturday
[Above: Can Can performs at The Earl on July 31, 2008.]You can win a pair of tickets to see Atlanta's Can Can celebrate the release of their first full-length record, All Hell, this Saturday, Dec. 6 at the Drunken Unicorn! The band will be supported by fellow local acts Tenth To The Moon, The Swear and Trial By Fire. To win, be the first to email atlanta@pastemagazine.com. The Paste:Local Atlanta-sponsored show is 18+, and promises to be punk-rocking good time.... read more
Win tickets to see The Whigs with Band of Horses Dec. 30 or 31
The party starts early at the Variety Playhouse this New Year's, as Athens, Ga.'s The Whigs open two consecutive nights for Band of Horses on Dec. 30 and 31. Both nights are sold out, but don't fret: To enter to win a pair of tickets to one of the two sold-out shows, visit RedMusic.com.WhigsRedeem and enter your phone number. You'll be texted a code to enter the contest, and every entrant into the drawing will get a free download of The Whigs' "Like a Vibration." What are you waiting for? Good luck!... read more
Informer:Atlanta 12/2/08
Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's 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! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists. ... read more
Live Photos: Noot d' Noot, All The Saints, The Coathangers @ The Earl 11/21/08
[Above: All The Saints take the stage at The Earl.]When Stomp and Stammer celebrated their 12th birthday with a free show at The Earl featuring three of Atlanta's best live acts, Paste:Local photographer Kate Eldridge was there to catch all the action.... read more
Nophest 5.0 comes to WonderRoot this Thanksgiving Weekend
Here's something to be thankful for: Friday, Nov. 28 through Sunday, Nov. 30, WonderRoot will host the fifth edition of Atlanta's Nophest Music Festival. To get you up off the couch, away from the holiday football and burning off all those turkey calories as soon as possible, shows begin at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m., Sunday, and the schedule features almost every excellent small local band, including Nerd Parade, Sunday Drive Bye, Lindsay Appel, Tealights, It's Elephant's, Pistolero, Gift Horse, Wighat and many more. Paste:Local recently spoke with Nophest co-founder and local musician Randy Garcia about... read more
Photos: Atlanta Downhill Challenge soapbox derby
On Saturday, Nov. 15, hundreds of people converged on the Starlight Six Drive-In in Atlanta to explore one of life's great questions: Just how fast can humans travel downhill in a non-motorized vehicle of their own creation? Paste:Local photographer Chad McFarlin was there to capture the creativity, the speed and, of course, the soapboxes. Full race results are available at MySpace.com/DownhillChallenge.... read more
Live Photos & Review: Atlanta Mess-Around, Day 2 (Gentleman Jesse, NOBUNNY, Hex Dispensers and more) @ The Earl 11/15/08
[Above: NOBUNNY plays the second night of the Atlanta Mess-Around.] Like Day One of the Mess-Around, Day Two got off to an unusually early start for the Earl. But despite numerous warnings the previous evening that Saturday's festivities would get underway promptly at half past eight, the crowd was still unfortunately thin as Oxford, Mississippi's The Black and Whites kicked off the festival's second, poppier night.... read more
Paste and Wordsmiths Books unite for Amanda Petrusich, Georgia Fireflies and free beer
This Saturday, Nov. 22, Paste senior contributing editor Amanda Petrusich will make the trip from Brooklyn to Atlanta to read from and discuss her new book It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for The Next American Music, at Decatur's own Wordsmiths Books. And we can think of no better way to celebrate her cross-genre hybrid-- equal parts memoir, travelogue, music history, and music criticism-- than with some free beer and Americana jams.... read more
Live Photos & Review: Atlanta Mess-Around, Day 1 (Blade II, Carbonas, Baby Shakes and more) @ The Earl 11/14/08
[Above: Baby Shakes play the first night of the Atlanta Mess-Around.]Though the three Atlanta labels behind the two-day Atlanta Mess-Around have released a diverse array of music, their punk and power pop offerings have evolved into the unquestionable centerpieces of the scene, as evidenced by the Mess-Around's line-ups: The second night would boast a strong pop sensibility, but the first was almost all about punk rock. ... read more
Informer:Atlanta 11/18/08
Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's 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! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists. ... read more
Mastodon plans box set, keeps touring despite health setbacks
This Tuesday, Nov. 18, Mastodon fans will be able to wrap their giant tusks around a vinyl box set of the Atlanta band's entire discography. Hitting stores via Relapse Records, the collector's edition will be limited to a one-time, 1,000-copy pressing, complete with nine 180-gram LPs spanning the group's entire career, including the final vinyl pressing of the band's debut EP, Lifesblood, as well as covers of songs by the Melvins, Thin Lizzy and Metallica. Bonus swag includes an embroidered logo patch and a custom Mastodon turntable mat. ... read more
Catching Up With... Noot d' Noot
[Above: Noot d' Noot performs outside Criminal Records this year on Record Store Day.]After a busy summer with the International Hits release of their first album/mixtape Goofer Dust, followed by a short stint up the east coast in September, the crazy collective of Noot d' Noot is back to playing shows and writing new music in Atlanta. Paste:Local recently sat down with four of the eight-to-ten band members, the interchangably named Bimbi Garraux, Dream Sanitation, Dr. Kinje and Circuit Diva (or was that Electro Siren?). And while we're still a little confused about who's called what and why, we... read more
Live Photos & Review: AIDS Wolf, Vera Fang, Thy Mighty Contract @ The Earl 11/6/08
[Above: AIDS Wolf's Chloe Lum]It would be easy to call last Wednesday at the Earl a theme night: All three bands were intentionally loud and messy, all three led by female singers (none of whom played an instrument, the star-shaped tambourine wielded by Vera Fang's Zopi Kristjanson) and all three women gripped the microphone alone and howled into the audience. But that's where the similarities stopped.... read more
Informer:Atlanta 11/11/08
Welcome to Informer:Atlanta! Each Tuesday, we bring you the very best in the coming week's 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! All events are recommended, but italics indicate an editor's pick. (L) indicates local artists. ... read more
Guest List: Eliot Johnson, Decatur CD's vinyl curator
Welcome to Paste:Local Atlanta's Guest List, where we invite members of the local community-- artists, writers, business folks and others-- to share their top five anything about living and creating in our fair city. Our first entry comes courtesy of Eliot Johnson, a Paste:Local Atlanta writer, lifelong Atlanta resident and vinyl curator at Decatur CD, who shares with us the top five ways Atlanta bands are different from other bands. Enjoy, and share your own!... read more
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