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The Cool Kids to Play The Basement East Feb. 18 with Pell & Jung Youth
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It’s been a decade since Chicago hip hop duo The Cool Kids erupted onto the scene, their contemporary meets old school, eclectic, expansive sound primed for the MySpace generation. After gaining fast and widespread buzz with their debut EP The Bake Sale, a slew of mixtapes, and their one and only studio LP, 2011’s When Fish Ride Bicycles, the…
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Atlanta’s Wrecking Ball to Skip 2017, Return For Third Installment Next Year
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If you read our glowing review of last year’s second annual Wrecking Ball festival in Atlanta, which also served as an early farewell to the original home of long-running, famed club The Masquerade, then you already know how much we’re looking forward to its return. Originally intended to be a 25th anniversary bash for The Masq in…
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Queen + Adam Lambert to Play Bridgestone Arena Aug. 2
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Comparions to the late Freddie Mercury have surrounded Adam Lambert since the moment he first rose to national prominence in season nine of American Idol in 2009, during which remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor also first joined him for a televised performance, sparking the genesis of what would become a more permanent pairing. A few…
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[REMINDER] Catch Chancellor Warhol w/ Zach Taylor, ESCPE, & Billy Cave | Saturday, Jan. 28 @ The High Watt
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One of our absolute favorite local musicians, and one we’ve been covering since our earliest days, multifaceted hip hop artist Chancellor Warhol released his highly-anticiapted new EP, Until the Light Takes Me, last fall, and seems to be diving headfirst into a busy 2017, teasing more new music and multimedia ventures, and celebrating a prominent national commercial…
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Coheed and Cambria to Play ‘Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV’ in Full May 3 at Marathon Music Works
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Though their first two albums earned them an unprecedented indie following, it was inarguably Coheed and Cambria‘s third full-length, the weird, sprawling, proggy, emo-tinged, spaced-out concept album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, that catapulted the group to the national spotlight, setting the course for them to become festival…
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New Found Glory to Play ‘Catalyst’ & ‘Sticks and Stones’ in Full May 18 at Exit/In
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Pop punk pioneers New Found Glory are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a lengthy spring run of shows where, each night, they’ll perform two of their classic albums, rotating a different combination for each city. Though at least some of the group call Music City home these days, and we spotted them around town frequently…
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[REMINDER] Catch Carl Broemel w/ Everest & Nicole Atkins | TONIGHT @ The Basement East
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It’s been nearly half a year since Carl Broemel celebrated the release of his third album, 4th of July, at The Basement East. In the months since, the buzz surround the My Morning Jacket member’s latest effort has only continued to grow, and we’re incredibly excited that he’ll return to the same spot once more for a performance…
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Pixies to Play The Ryman May 5
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At this point, seminal alt rock icons the Pixies have been reunited longer than the the 11 years they were broken up, and much longer than the seven that comprised their original, prolific run. It wasn’t until 2014, however, a decade after they first got back together, that the group finally released a new full-length (at first,…
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The Decemberists to Play The Ryman April 12 with Julien Baker
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A couple years removed from their 2015 seventh full-length, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (in support of which they made a 2015 stop at The Ryan and appearance at the inaugural Pilgrimage Fest), long-running Portland indie rock outfit The Decemberists have announced a short run of springs dates, where they promise to play songs from “every dusty…
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Chris Rock Is Playing Third Man Records (But You Probably Aren’t Getting Tickets)
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Following in the tradition of comedians like Conan O’Brien, Reggie Watts, and Aziz Ansari, famed standup and actor Chris Rock has announced a surprise, last minute performance at Third Man Records tomorrow evening, Jan. 24. Unsurprisingly, within minutes of the 5 p.m. announce through Third Man’s Twitter, tickets to the intimate, Blue Room affair had entirely sold out. Rock has been…