Posts tagged Live Music

“We are here for one reason and one reason only – to rock!” That’s what Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top declared, and that’s exactly what …

Life is full of tough decisions.  Where do you go to college?  What job offer do you accept?  Do you decline both and move back …

Concorde 2 is worlds away from Pharoahe Monch’s hometown district, Queens, New York. Walking through Brighton’s answer to a Queens hip-hop scene, the audience was …

If you haven’t heard of the Pennsylvania-bred king of rockabilly-folk-rock-roots-pop yet, you’re severely behind the curve. Despite burning down clubs, festival stages, and concert venues …

For those of you familiar with the Drive-By Truckers out of Athens, you may already be well acquainted with their former member Jason Isbell. If …

I have long held a deep appreciation for Kanye West, as a musician, artist and general shit-stirrer. In the time Kanye has been Kanye, he’s never …

With hundreds of rappers, producers, artists, and educators, coordinated across a dozen venues in four distinct areas of Atlanta’s sprawling, illogical metropolis over five days, …

Atlanta’s A3C Hip-Hop Festival is the Randy Moss of festivals (and for the record, Austin’s South by Southwest is the Jerry Rice). That is to …

It’s that time of year again, and America’s best-kept festival secret returns to Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA this weekend with the third installment of …

It’s 3:32pm PST, and I’m sitting on the back deck of a house on Lake Washington in Seattle, in nothing but sunshine, looking across a …