The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that’s somehow pulls off refined incoherence.
In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls [...]

Often lauded for its sophisticated pop/rock style, Atlanta-based music collaborative Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun continues to gather accolades, having quickly become one of the city’s more favored bands. 
Featuring vocalist Lauren Gibson, guitarist Cregg Gibson, bassist Micah Silverman and drummer Jeremy Cole, the band is known for its powerful live show, and played [...]

Club Awesome began as a rotating cast of musicians and instruments in 2004, finally settling around founders Errol Crane and Rick Kemp, joined by Blair Gainous and Lance Warner.  The band soon became known for inventively self-aware stage pranks like stopping mid-set to read aloud from their suggestion box, staging impromptu “battles” with other bands [...]

Musician Adam Franklin has never been one to sit still. The man has about three dozen releases through the revered Swervedriver,  Magnetic Morning and his own solo projects, including Bolts of Melody, his latest endeavor.
The Oxford-based Franklin put the final touches on an upcoming album — “I Could Sleep a Thousand Years” — just before [...]

Karen Shacham is a photographer specializing in portraiture, conceptual, and documentary photography. Her work examines how culture and society inform individual identity, and seeks to expose a truer sense of self-expression. The trapeze series documents several acrobats in Baltimore, Md., peeling back the layers of otherness that confine the performers by merging the [...]

Using photography as a medium, Alana Goldstein tells visually compelling stories that are emotional in manner and reflect moments in time, a trait directs her lens to issues that dominate the news and those that are easily forgotten. Goldstein has always been drawn to telling the stories of those that don’t have a voice or [...]

Dave Batterman is a photographer and graphic designer who specializes in revealing the surreal aspects of ordinary life. His work spans portraiture, music, travel and abstract subjects, often incorporating field recordings and tangible artifacts to break down the traditional dialogue between a two dimensional print and our three dimensional world.
We recently chatted with Batterman [...]

The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that’s somehow pulls off refined incoherence.
In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls [...]

Often lauded for its sophisticated pop/rock style, Atlanta-based music collaborative Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun continues to gather accolades, having quickly become one of the city’s more favored bands.
Featuring vocalist Lauren Gibson, guitarist Cregg Gibson, bassist Micah Silverman and drummer Jeremy Cole, the band is known for its powerful live show, and [...]

A violin sneaks from behind the guitar, soft at first, then bolder, until soon the song sings with the strings, and what was before a quiet melancholy becomes an anthem.
And that, at least to us, is the Book of Colors.
Listen to their song “The Sound of What You Leave Behind.”

Members are: Andre Paraguassu (guitar and [...]

The catalyst for Los Buenos was informal at first – neighbors Justin Sias and Stephen Rafter would play a few songs together on lazy afternoons and late nights. Soon, drummer Todd Morrison began to join the casual sessions, tapping on the back of an acoustic guitar, providing the backbeat to the songs that quickly emerged. [...]

Grand Prize Winners from Last Year packed out the basement of the Star Bar at a recent show, their lights cutting through the fog from the machine they brought, the audience’s hands in the air moving to the strong beat. The showmanship, top notch. The energy, amazing, as everyone was incredibly into the sound. And [...]

Playing to packed clubs almost every appearance, Atlanta’s Selmanaires have become a local favorite since their inception six years ago. Their albums are consistent best sellers at local outlets, and the band recently signed on as both a tour mate and a backing band for Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox’s project Atlas Sound, a tour that’s [...]

Tom Cheshire and Ben Thrower R Just Us are an original, charismatic cover band that bends and breaks the usual perception of a two-piece almost-acoustic band. They’re playing songs from bands they like and bands they were in, making the melodies all their own. We really like it. You will too.
Listen to the interview below, [...]

The charm of Jeffrey Butzer emanates from the stage, his audiences often thoroughly engaged as he alternates between banter and song, jokes and serenades. It’s clear he’s comfortable before the crowd, an audience that grows with each show. He’s become one of the city’s more beloved entertainers, and as his popularity grows here, as it [...]