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Live Photos: The Other Sound Festival 9/11/08-9/13/08

By Jason Reed (photography) on 1:54 PM on September 17, 2008

[Above: The Booze play Saturday night at The Earl.]Atlanta's Other Sound Festival took place at WonderRoot, The Star Bar and The Earl over three days last weekend. Musicians, mostly from the ATL but some from other towns around the Southeast, played on main stages and in club corners, celebrating everything outside of the norm. Behold!... read more

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Other Sound Festival kicks off tomorrow night, avoids "trendiness" for fourth year running

By Julia Reidy on 2:15 PM on September 10, 2008

This year's Other Sound Festival takes place over three days in three venues, and promises to be an exploration of the city's truly independent music, featuring the best bands in Atlanta and beyond. Local labels, publicity firms and non-profits have their hands in the mix, including Containment Theory Records, Eskimo Kiss Records, Industrial Strength Promotions, Sopo Bicycle Co-op and more. We've got the full schedule of events, plus a Q&A with festival organizer Kat Colohan of Containment Theory Records, to start the fest off right.... read more

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Live Review: The Features, The Long Shadows, The Redcoats @ The Earl 8/30/08

By Kristen Shaw, photo by Erik Dixon on 5:06 PM on September 9, 2008

[Above: The Redcoats]A typical Saturday night opening act at The Earl often functions as a backdrop for crowd members to consume their first rounds of PBR tallboys and greet friends, but on this night The Redcoats captured the audience in a way that many openers fail to do.... read more

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Live Review: Apache, Electric Shadows @ The Earl 8/16/08

By Eliot Johnson, photo by Danny Gold on 5:00 PM on August 21, 2008

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

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

By Julia Reidy; photos by Ken Lackner on 6:00 PM on August 13, 2008

[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

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