Accessibility and affordability increasingly create barriers: “You can’t have a scene when you don’t have a place for people to experiment and explore.” :: Long before Ruqiyah was opening sold-out rooms for CupcakKe or commanding packed dance floors from Banshee’s DJ booth, the practice of music as memory began in the stillness of her grandmother’s…
The Montana native found the creative company and self-discovery needed to write, record and release her first fully self-produced album. :: Folk music, in its simplest iteration, is the great connector. It is the red string theory of music history, connecting the self to the collective, the successor to the ancestor and the intimate to…
Your dad can’t believe they sell vinyl at Urban Outfitters now — or that Improvement Movement isn’t a long-lost ’70s band. Since releasing their 2022 debut Don’t Delay, Join Today!, Improvement Movement has quickly emerged as one of Atlanta’s most promising acts. Comprised of Marshall Ruffin (The Mount, RUFFIN), Clark Hamilton (klark.sound, Safari Williams), Tony…
For Sudie, being a multi-hyphenate isn’t just about creative expression. It’s about sustaining it. :: When it comes to Sudie, “aria” and “anthem” aren’t so sonically far apart. A musician and DJ trained in classical, jazz and musical theater, Sudie Abernathy (or, simply, Sudie) fuses traditional and contemporary disciplines to create soundscapes that reference Sade…
For the first time in 12 years, the much-loved festival will take place in Piedmont Park, in the slot that Music Midtown vacated. Pre-sale ends Thursday, February 27, at 10 a.m. :: Shaky Knees Music Festival is returning for its 12th year this year, bringing an impressive array of more than 50 indie, hip-hop and…
Zoe Bayani, Playytime and Girlpuppy were among the Atlanta artists making noise at The Masquerade’s Purgatory to celebrate unity and hope. :: Inside The Masquerade’s Purgatory, the air was thick with both tension and hope. On Saturday, January 25, Atlanta residents gathered in support of reproductive rights at Noise For Now’s 3rd Annual Abortion Access…
Producer Damon Moon encouraged Bailey Crone, aka Bathe Alone, to dive deeper into the heartbreak of infidelity and divorce for the new, almost-never-released single ‘The Avenues.’ :: Sometimes, it hurts to be right. Such is the case for Bailey Crone aka Bathe Alone’s sophomore record, I Don’t Do Humidity. Released earlier this year, I Don’t…
An Atlanta couple has digitized more than 50,000 recordings, from barnstorming preachers to early rock ‘n’ roll, saving the sounds for generations to come. :: Sometimes, we preserve history to avoid its repetition; other times, we do so with the express intent of invoking it stalwartly, a single idea becoming a guide rope, bread-crumbing our…
When Atlantic Records released Collective Soul’s first album and picked “December” as the single, the band wasn’t happy, but it turned out to be one of the definitive songs of 1995 and the band’s favorite to perform. :: Editor’s Note: Atlanta Soundtrack is getting a new look, starting today. Now renamed “The Backstory,” the series…
We were supposed to have flying cars by now. Instead, we have obsolescent supercomputers deep-faking their way through election cycles and metaverse Burberry. Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Lesibu Grand Here to make those times a bit more tolerable comes indie-punk outfit Lesibu Grand with “Anarchy.” Anthemic and punchy, “Anarchy” grounds its chugging verses with…
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