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Signs of Life 2008: Best Music
Check out Paste's top 50 albums of 2008... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesGuest 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
Found in: Local:AtlantaThe Black and Whites tour, Mess Around
"I need a good girl," go the very first words of The Black and Whites self-titled debut, "one who will not make out with her friends." It's a not-very-rock-'n'-roll sentiment from a quintessentially rock 'n' roll band, one that seems to pull equal influence from the poppiest moments of bands like Weezer and Guided by Voices and the punkiest moments of bands like the Ramones and Black Flag. Some of their songs are fast, some of them are slower. Many of them, such as "That Girl Ain't No Good," are about the ladies.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsWild Weekend in store for Austin power-pop fans
The great irony of power pop acts is that, well, most of them aren't all that popular. Most of them are outsiders, even unabashed nerds like Cheap Trick or Weezer, trying to take over the airwaves with a skewed version of Top 40 songcraft. They're far too often the kids with big dreams and bigger hooks, left wondering why they can't break through to the big time.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsLive Review: Apache, Electric Shadows @ The Earl 8/16/08
For all the buzz surrounding Atlanta’s rock scene in the wake of the Black Lips and Deerhunter, out-of-town bands on ATLien labels have garnered comparatively little attention. So it was sans fanfare that San Francisco's Apache and New York City's Electric Shadows rocked The Earl on Saturday night in support of The Hiss.... read more
Found in: Local:AtlantaLive 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
Found in: Local:AtlantaArtist of the Week: Gentleman Jesse
Crafting a lyrical hook to stimulate crowd participation is feat enough for most musicians, but Atlanta power-pop maestro “Gentleman” Jesse Smith extends his art to guitar solos. “My rule is that you should be able to sing them,” he says. “That's why I don't like Jimmy Page..." read more
Found in: Music, Features
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Blind Pilot - The Story I Heard
Kim Taylor - Days Like this
B.O.B. - Put Me On
Gregory Alan Isakov - The Moon Song
Punch Brothers - Punch Brothers at CMJ
Anya Marina - Whatever You Like
David Bazan - Hard To Be
