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Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ Album Review
May 21, 2013
Electronic music duo Daft Punk release one of the year’s most anticipated albums in Random Access Memories, their fourth full-length and first since 2005’s Human After All. The duo are noted for their patience between releases, and hearing the vastness that is Random Access Memories makes that approach entirely understandable. This is a jam-packed, 74-minute
Hangout Festival: The Photographers Perspective
May 20, 2013
We started the morning ready to give you a traditional review of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Trey Anastasio and Stevie Wonder, but the course of the days events made that impossible. Instead of giving you half baked coverage, I thought we’d take a different approach instead, giving you a day in the life of a
Hangout Fest Review: Tom Petty, Black Crowes, The Roots
May 19, 2013
We enter day two of our Hangout Festival coverage. Yesterday, we had a fantastic first day, highlighting the musical styling of The Shins, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kings of Leon. On Saturday, the heat we’d heard so much about finally arrived to Gulf Shores. It wasn’t quite the suffocating variety, but you finally knew
Review: Kings of Leon, The Shins, Macklemore at Hangout Fest
May 18, 2013
I’m sitting here on a lawn chair in the sand, watching the waves crash against the sand, as Jim James’ psychedelic musings drifted over from the Hangout Stage. Now that’s the way to see a concert. Today we come to you from sunny Gulf Shores, Alabama. It is the site of the 2013 Hangout Festival
Smashing Pumpkins Concert Review at Chastain Park in Atlanta
May 11, 2013
It seems like almost yesterday that I went to my first rock concert. It was actually 1997. The Smashing Pumpkins were touring on their smash double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. They stopped at Atlanta’s old Omni Arena for a robust rock show. The cost was a whopping $29 for a lower level
Phoenix Concert Review at the Tabernacle in Atlanta
May 10, 2013
Phoenix’s latest album Bankrupt! has only been out of the stables for a few weeks, but the band is already hard at work sharing their new vision to the masses. The French group has signed on for numerous summer festival appearances on both sides of the pond (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Reading) as well as
Carolina Rebellion Cancellation Edition Plus Sevendust, Buckcherry
May 6, 2013
Sometimes you begin typing up an article with something completely unexpected. When the day started, we had lots of rain, but the promise of Soundgarden, Bush and Rise Against were enough to pull our sorry butts off the couch to brave the harsh elements. A strange thing happened along the way. The fans showed they
Review: Alice in Chains, Limp Bizkit, Deftones at Carolina Rebellion
May 5, 2013
What a difference a year makes. This weekend last year, I was sweating my balls off in Memphis, taking in the bevy of acts at Beale Street Music Festival. Last night, I was freezing my nips off at Charlotte Motor Speedway. I wasn’t watching the stock cars endlessly circle the Nascar track. I was here
10 Famous Musicians Afflicted with Hearing Loss
May 4, 2013
Even more so than vision, a musician’s hearing is considered essential to his songwriting for obvious reasons. Constructing even a basic melody can be an obstacle with hearing loss, even if only affects one ear – as is the case with most of the musicians below. While it is incredibly rare for a successful musician
Stillwater, Led Zeppelin & Cameron Crowe: The True Story Behind ‘Almost Famous’
April 21, 2013
Almost Famous is one of the finest music-oriented dramas ever. In addition to its brilliant casting and superb original soundtrack, its success hinged largely on director and writer Cameron Crowe, who used a hefty amount of anecdotal inspiration to create characters like William, the bright-eyed protagonist, and Penny Lane, the mysteriously beautiful groupie of the
