Tony Paris

Managing Editor and Columnist

Tony Paris has been covering Atlanta music, news, and culture since 1975, becoming Creative Loafing’s music editor in 1980, a position he held until being named managing editor, 1994 - 1998. Leaving the paper in in 1998, Paris worked in Jerusalem, Tokyo, and New York, before returning to Creative Loafing as a music columnist in 2017. In 2018 Paris again assumed the duties of managing editor. Check out Tony Paris’ regular column here

Contact Paris at tony.paris at creativeloafing.com for editorial inquiries and submissions or freelance work, as well as for any and all music-related correspondence, information. Any correspondence sent through Messenger, iMessage, or via social media will not be acknowledged. Please send an email.

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Monday February 5, 2024 09:57 AM EST
Genre-blending artist to perform two shows in Atlanta | more...

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Monday January 29, 2024 10:40 AM EST

Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, collectively known as Heart, have announced plans for the band’s first tour in five years. For the Royal Flush Tour, they will be joined by late ‘70s rock ’n’ roll stalwarts Cheap Trick. Tickets for the Friday, May 10, show at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena go on sale in two installments:

  • Tuesday, January 30, at 10 a.m. local time until Thursday, February 1 at 10...
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Wednesday November 29, 2023 04:52 PM EST
The Stones, The Beatles, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience — what year is this, anyway? | more...

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Tuesday November 21, 2023 04:59 PM EST
SOB ATL owners honor club’s cofounder | more...

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Thursday July 20, 2023 03:47 PM EDT
The English singer is ready to scorch the South | more...

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Tuesday June 27, 2023 06:34 PM EDT
Art by The Real Frank Tee, music by Kevn Kinney and Clay Harper | more...

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Thursday February 9, 2023 09:19 AM EST
Multi-hyphenate creative has two shows planned for Atlanta | more...

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Wednesday October 26, 2022 02:31 PM EDT
Musicians celebrate the 40 year anniversary of R.E.M.’s debut EP | more...

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Tuesday July 12, 2022 05:53 PM EDT
Peter Conlon has been an integral part of Atlanta’s music scene since the days of CL’s founding.  | more...

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Monday June 20, 2022 10:34 AM EDT
What a long, strange trip it’s been | more...

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Tuesday March 22, 2022 12:27 PM EDT
Things aren’t what they were — thank God | more...

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Monday November 8, 2021 03:37 PM EST
Atlanta is the venerable rock ‘n’ roll band’s fourth to last stop | more...

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Monday September 20, 2021 11:59 AM EDT
“The Art of Banksy: Without Limits,” now through Jan. 9, 2022. Underground Atlanta. | more...

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Tuesday September 7, 2021 04:24 PM EDT
Kendall Keeling’s latest project with Laurie Segars Morrison | more...

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Thursday August 12, 2021 04:44 PM EDT
L5P store celebrates its 30th anniversary | more...
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Monday September 13, 2010 10:03 AM EDT
Restaurants packed on Sunday | more...

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Thursday March 25, 2010 01:06 PM EDT
I started collecting Hendrix records when I was 9 years old after hearing “Third Stone From the Sun” on WPLO-FM, Atlanta’s original “underground” radio station. | more...