Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » After Dark » Critics Pick
T.I. calls himself “king of the South” with some justification. Much like Jay-Z, he takes commercial rap to its zenith. On each of four albums, the native Atlantan assembles glittery, infectious beats as a canvas for smooth and effortless flows, resulting in inescapably accessible hits. After its spring release, his latest album, King, dominated Atlanta’s urban radio and nightclubs by drawing together a cavalcade of sharply defined bangers like “What You Know” and “Why You Wanna.”
www.trapmuzik.com.
Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » After Dark » Readers Pick
Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
Best Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick
Any given performance from BLAME GAME offers a glimpse of a group driving toward complex, tonal perfection. Along with bassist Chris Ware, guitarists/vocalists George Asimakos and Andrew Wiggins construct a grid of gigantic arches that are pounded into place by drummer Alex Lambert’s swagger from rapid-fire precision to loose improvisation. On stage, Lambert and Ware are stationed front and center while the rest of the group follows their extravagant hybrid of jazz and hardcore. Stage presence, wardrobe and personality are secondary to the shimmering and ever-thickening sounds of a group that relies on the chemistry of intellect.
www.sunrevolver.org/blamegame/.
Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick
Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
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MastodonA churning maelstrom of sonic pain, Atlanta's MASTODON collapses traditional heavy music boundaries to breed dirty Southern sludge with mind-bending technical metal and innovative grindcore grooves that will humble nearly any drummer who listens. With the addition of sinister guitar harmonies and the occasional deviation into classic rock riffage, Mastodon craft a jagged, filthy metal machine that manages to gleam with modernism while still embracing the tried-and-true formulas that were birthed in the days of Sabbath. A brutal marriage of tradition and innovation.
"www.relapse.com/mastodon."