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[STREAM] Wowser Bowser – “E Dialeda Ho”

Wowser Bowser traffics in fun. There’s a high level of craftmanship in everything they do, but the end result is a distilled shot of dance-pop bliss. It’s not something that should really be overanalyzed. “E Dialeda Ho” is the fourth single to surface from upcoming debut To the Pleasant Life!, which is looking like it [ READ MORE ]

Savannah Stopover Releases Initial Lineup

The Savannah Stopover Music Festival has just released its initial lineup , and there’s some seriously good stuff on that list.  The festival started last year as a way of taking advantage of the glut of touring bands making the annual pilgrimage to SXSW, positioning the Stopover as an excellent alternative for regional residents who won’t be [ READ MORE ]

This week’s shows (1/17/12-1/22/12)

I’m bringing back weekly show previews.  Each week I will preview between three and five shows, with an additional list of other shows that I feel are worth a look.  These will typically go up on Monday, but I’m giving myself a pass this week since yesterday was a national holiday and all that.  Here’s [ READ MORE ]

[MP3] Spirits and the Melchizedek Children – “Land Tied”

I’m a little late on this one, but I couldn’t just let it pass without posting.  Spirits and the Melchizedek Children played a killer run through the entirety of their 2011 album We Are Here To Save YOU! at our Atlanta Music Roundtable show at The Earl last month, but before they did, frontman Jason Elliot opened [ READ MORE ]

[LIVE REVIEW] O’Brother at The Masquerade, 1/6/12

I’ve got to come clean here and admit that I slept on O’Brother for way too long. They just didn’t seem like something I would be interested in. I had them pegged as an Alternative Press kind of a band, if that makes any sense at all. The kind of outlets that were covering them [ READ MORE ]

Atlanta Music Roundtable ’11: Best Local Albums of 2011

In case you haven’t heard by now, the Atlanta Music Roundtable is a series of collaborative posts covering the past year in music. Ten local music bloggers came together to discuss ten music-related topics, and we’ve been posting the results of that collaboration all week long. Today is the last day of AMR2011, and our [ READ MORE ]

Mea Culpa Mixtape ’11

In reviewing the year’s local releases for list making and roundtable purposes, I realized that I never got around to writing about some of my favorites.  The 14 songs on this mix are all from releases I wish I had blogged about earlier, with at least 3 of the represented albums holding down spots in [ READ MORE ]

AMR ’11 Albums and EPs Poll: We Want Your Help

You’ve probably heard about the Atlanta Music Roundtable by now.  If you haven’t, you can get the gist from that graphic above.  Basically, 10 local writers will be talking about the year in music, and we’re throwing a big show on 12/21 to celebrate.  What we haven’t really told you yet is that we will [ READ MORE ]

[MP3] Christ, Lord – “I Was”

Christ, Lord sounds like a band out of time. They dress up dusty folk music with sounds borrowed from vaudeville and jazz, creating something that can’t be tied to the current decade (or any other decade, for that matter). The closest modern references are fellow appropriators Tom Waits and Beirut, but Christ, Lord establish an [ READ MORE ]

[STREAM] Mediocre Machine – “Nannaboozhoo

I referred to Mediocre Machine as “something-rock” when they played my house back in June because I couldn’t come up with an accurate, succinct way to describe them. After listening to the new Chunk. EP, I’m still at a loss. The EP is broken into five tracks, but it plays out like one continuous piece [ READ MORE ]

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