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Tuesday March 31, 2009 10:12 PM EDT



Night of the Knife (Music Video) - by Cassavetes from Cassavetes Band on Vimeo.

The music video above, “Night of the Knife” by the local band Cassavetes, was included in the very first episode of “WonderRoot TV.” Expect more from episode two — including a spotlight on the Disregardables, a local punk act, and a visit with Dosa Kim at his recent Beep Beep Gallery opening —...

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Monday March 23, 2009 04:00 AM EDT
T.I.’s label won’t grind to a halt while the breadwinner serves his bid | more...

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 04:00 AM EDT
Atlanta’s metal behemoth gets ghostly on fourth full-length | more...

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Tuesday March 10, 2009 04:00 AM EDT
2096 N. Decatur Road, Decatur, 404-329-0020 | more...

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Tuesday March 10, 2009 04:00 AM EDT
2096 N. Decatur Road, Decatur, 404-329-0020 | more...

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Monday March 9, 2009 06:00 AM EDT
Years of Refusal features Moz in all his post-pubescent glory | more...

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Monday March 9, 2009 06:00 AM EDT
Alleged police drama comes with the territory for Subsonics’ lead | more...

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Wednesday February 25, 2009 04:00 AM EST
Too often, bands from Atlanta have to find success elsewhere before getting the recognition they deserve in their own back yard. | more...

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Why would anyone in his right mind open a record store in 2009? | more...

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Last week, Atlanta found out it’s losing yet another mom-and-pop record store when Ella Guru owner Don Radcliffe announced he’s closing up shop at the end of February. | more...

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Could multiple delayed releases and an ongoing CD-sales slump kill the project? | more...

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Wednesday February 4, 2009 12:04 AM EST
For many, music is as disposable as a pop can — a short sugary burst to soundtrack activities, provide momentary distraction, and possibly remind us we’re not alone in life’s tumult and ache. | more...

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Two and a half weeks ago, Fadia Kader returned from a two-month trip to the Middle East with a renewed spirit and a suitcase full of swag | more...

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 12:04 AM EST
It seems that the only way to find something new these days is to dust off something old. As a result, every few years an unheralded roots sound is rediscovered. It happened in 2000 when O Brother, Where Art Thou? ushered in the sound of mountain bluegrass. Similarly, interest in the sacred steel gospel-blues style has bloomed over the last decade, thanks to such artists as the Campbell... | more...

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Wednesday January 14, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Shortly before James Shaw, better known as the Mighty Hannibal, performed at the Earl on a Saturday night in January 2007, an entourage of Civil Rights activists gathered around him. | more...

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Wednesday January 14, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Songs that made her love her day job in ‘08 | more...

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Wednesday January 7, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Rarely has a band been blessed by one musical trend and cursed by another in such a brief period of time as the Long Ryders. | more...

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Wednesday January 7, 2009 12:04 AM EST
Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But... is a frustrating read. | more...

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Wednesday December 31, 2008 12:04 AM EST
From B.O.B to Wale, and from Coldplay to TV on the Radio | more...

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Wednesday December 24, 2008 12:04 AM EST
Sometimes Atlanta’s new wave of underground hip-hop seems like a motherless child. Or an alien that lost contact with the mothership. | more...

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 12:04 AM EST
At the memorial gathering for Johnny “Ether” Laubach, held at the Albert in Inman Park on Monday, Dec. 8, his father Garrett Laubach hovered near a table with a book of photos and newspaper clippings covering his adopted son’s life. He chuckled while thumbing over a high school prom photo in which Johnny’s date had been meticulously cut out of the picture. On another photo he paused. “That was... | more...

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Wednesday December 10, 2008 12:04 AM EST

British artists have a long history of bringing an outsider’s appreciation and interpretation to American music. Holly Golightly’s made an entire career of it, in fact, and after years of soaking up and reworking garage rock, electric blues and Southern soul, she’s making a bigger commitment to American music by picking up and moving to its birthplace.

After living in the UK and regularly...

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Wednesday December 3, 2008 12:04 AM EST
In all of its potential for presenting flawed and misleading information, Wikipedia pretty much hits the mark when it comes to math rock. The oft-vilified source for universal information calls the genre “a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music ... characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies,... | more...

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Wednesday December 3, 2008 12:04 AM EST

Cognito of Massinfluence – another mainstay in Atlanta’s late-’90s indie-rap scene – managed Jax during their days working at the now closed Atlanta record store Fat Beats on Mitchell Street. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

When Fat Beats opened up, cats would always be falling through. Just hanging out, listening to music, coming through, just checking to see what was new. Jax was one of...

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Wednesday November 26, 2008 12:04 AM EST
Merely a mention of the Mighty Hannibal evokes both reactions of fear and excitement from anyone who has crossed paths with the 1960s Atlanta soul man, and with good reason. He’s a handful, to say the least. Over the phone from his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., he barks with a cool and gravelly voice, “I may be blind, and I may be turning the big 7-0 come August, but I’m still the baddest mutha I... | more...