Concert Reviews Archive

It has been a year since Atlanta was reintroduced to Music Midtown. Largely left for dead when promoters Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon abandoned the cash hole seven years ago, music festivals in Atlanta became a large taboo for the better part of a decade. Pretty much every large market in the US could boast

While Atlanta’s mid-day heat slowly faded into a lovely autumn evening at the Meadow at Piedmont Park, the Friday afternoon crowd that had gathered to hear Grammy-winning R&B artist Van Hunt, eighties rocker Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and hometown hip-hop extraordinaire T.I. easily doubled in size, just in time for the 90-minute set of

The Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival rolled into Atlanta’s Aaron’s Amphitheatre Wednesday, bringing into town hard hitting muthas like Adelitas Way, Godsmack and Shinedown. It was an all-day event that began with the gravel lot transformed into a duel stage, and later moved the fun into the amphitheater for the evening’s main events. The hard core

We have come to the end of a fantastic weekend at the Firefly Music Festival. Its been a busy day of musical acts ranging from the Cold War Kids and AWOLNation to Fitz and the Tantrums and The Head and the Heart, and its safe to say that nothing quite prepared the audience for what

The crowds flooded in for day two of Dover’s Firefly Music Festival. Not since NASCAR invaded in the spring has the capital of Delaware seen its town overrun by fanatics. The promise of rain couldn’t keep the masses away. Luckily, downpour never materialized, though the lurking cloud cover considerably cut through the heat that has

Jack White has been a very busy man. Since the White Stripes officially disbanded in February of last year, he seems to have answered the nagging question of what was next. In the time since Icky Thump was released (2007), White has been occupying himself with side projects (Racounteurs, The Dead Weather), producing albums for

The crowds at Atlanta’s Mayhem Festival survived the onslaught of heavy hitting bands who rocked the Jaegermeister and Sumerian Records stages. As evening crept closer to Slipknot’s closing bell, the crowd found their feet and displayed the horns when friggin’ Slayer mounted the stage. I can’t think of a better band to setup the closer