Atlanta’s own metal sweethearts Mastodon have a new video for the “The Wolf Is Loose,” a single from the forthcoming “Blood Mountain.”

I’ll be damned if the first verse of this song at the very least doesn’t channel the Cro-Mags in their prime. This makes me want to slip on the punk rock body armour [...]

This weekend, Aug 26-27. Food, Art Markets, Croquet, and best of all, FREE. How can you go wrong with that? Magnapop will be playing at 7:30pm, Saturday.
Saturday, August 26 - Acoustic Stage
12:00 Stil True
1:00 [...]

I need a band name for a new rock project. Contest begins now. Winner will announced on stage by aforementioned rock band, at first gig, most likely at the prestigious Lennys, or The Earl, or similar ATL venue. Winner will be invited backstage to party and do beer bongs with aforementioned rock band, and may [...]

Atlanta’s own Criminal Records is mentioned in the NYT piece on struggling independent record stores.
Some independent owners are resisting the demographic challenges. Eric Levin, 36, who owns three Criminal Records stores in Atlanta and oversees a trade group called the Alliance of Independent Media Stores, representing 30 shops nationally, said that businesses losing [...]

This gets me all geek in the knees:
A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. “Livecoding” practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade programming architectures to build compositions from the ground up, replacing instruments and samples with raw code authoring before [...]

That very special event know as Corndogorama is upon us. If you haven’t been, it may be time to tattoo that “L” on your forehead. It’s about the coolest, raunchiest, drunkenest, smelliest, rockinest event this side of the Chattahoochee with all the best in ATL underground sounds. It’s like Burning Man, only the robots are [...]

I’m going back to my Black Metal roots. After an early Metal apprenticeship of Motley Crue, WASP, Grim Reaper, and Iron Maiden, I was won over by a more intelligent and nimble lady by the name of Punk Rock. Later I was grossly disappointed when bands like D.R.I. began to crossover into speed metal land. [...]

Oh, please, the top 50 Conservative songs? As if. Granted, it doesn’t surprise me that one may come across a conservative idea in a song, but to treat these songs as if they were written from a conservative perspective smacks of desperation. It’s also simple minded and fails to recognize the complexity in lyrics, and [...]

Found this little gem on youtube, Naked Raygun’s “Vanilla Blue,” a single released in ‘87, two years after ALL RISE. I still have the 7″, blue and white marble vinyl.

Ah, the memories. First punk show, first mosh pit, first snatched while trying to stage dive and thrown down a flight of stairs by [...]

Last night I hopped on the ol’ mountain bike and pedaled it through the not so mountainous neighborhoods of Atlanta, from Peoplestown to Centennial Park, for the big freebie concert of the summer, Big Star and the Flaming Lips (and others earlier I missed) all brought to you by Southern Comfort (”No moshing, crowd [...]