2021 Year in Review
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Hotel Fiction bring Soft Focus home to Atlanta with special guests Dinner Time.
Auburn takes over Birmingham when The Vegabonds come to town.
Milky Chance bring their 2021 North American tour to Atlanta at the historic Tabernacle.
David Shaw, frontman for NOLA rock band The Revivalists, takes on Atlanta on his debut solo tour.
The Brummies return to Atlanta on their "Fall Tour" with special guest Vlad Holiday.
Birmingham natives The Brook & The Bluff return to The Magic City for their annual Thanksgiving Eve concert.
Manchester Orchestra returns to The Fox for their annual Thanksgiving concert, The Stuffing. Always bringing some friends along for the show, this year's lineup featured Paris Jackson, slothrust, Briston Maroney, FOXING, Andy Shauf, and finally a headlining set by Manchester Orchestra. After missing their show in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 11th Stuffing was a special one.
There are a few reasons as to why the evolution of rock music has yielded some of the most influential, creative, and unique albums and artists of any genre. Whether it be for the simple fact that rock music sees no instrumental bounds, can be enjoyable in any context, and can be independent from or wholly dependent on technology and electronic production, it is undeniable that rock music is a constantly changing spectrum of sounds and emotions filtered through the lenses of different musical geniuses throughout the last 100 years. Of all the genres and subgenres contained within the realm of rock music, few have as distinct of a sound as shoegaze. Dubbed “shoegaze” due to guitarists and singers being known for standing in one spot, sometimes staring at the ground or “shoe-gazing” for the majority of a show, the layered, fuzzy, reverb packed guitar tracks, pounding drums, and touches of ambient synth make this a timeless form of rock music since its original conception in the late 80s and early 90s. With major pioneers of shoegaze-like instrumentation dating back to the 60s with creative minds like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and the Beatles, followed by the sounds and styles of The Cure, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr., and eventually brought into true form with groups like the Cocteau Twins and the Jesus and Mary Chain, it is debatable if any band captured the true essence of shoegaze-rock better than My Bloody Valentine.
Adam Melchor brings his Fall Tour to Atlanta's Terminal West with special guests Hotel Fiction.
Johnny Manchild and The Poor Bastards are the greatest band you’ve never heard of. The band consists of a piano, trumpet, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums create a sound that you can’t here anywhere else. They mix jazz, rock, punk, alternative, and more. The Oklahoma city band has up to ten members or “bastards” that can rotate in and out. They have produced 2 studio albums with a third that arrived today. They are even innovative in their approach to releasing music. They released a single a month in 2019 until ultimately compiling all the songs together on “One Big Beautiful Sound”. At the start of this year, the band had a crowdfunding effort for their new album which raised $36,000. At the forefront of it all is Johnny Manchild. Johnny is the guy who writes the lyrics and helps compose a lot of the music. The band started because Johnny decided he wanted a band and picked guys from his college to be in it. I got the pleasure of interviewing Johnny on the morning before the band’s new album, “We Did Not Ask For This Room” released. This is the result:
Smallpools return to Atlanta with special guest morgxn on the "Life in a Simulation Tour."
Blue October take on The Big A with a headlining show on The Masquerade's Heaven stage.
COIN kick off their Rainbow Dreamland Tour in Birmingham last night to a sold out crowd.
Lake Street Dive take on the Magic City on their Fall 2021 tour.
Dayglow overcomes a rough day to perform a sold out show at Atlanta's Center Stage Theater.
The best way to describe By the Time I Get to Phoenix is as a smoking room in a burning house. In their first album since their self-titled record in 2019, Injury Reserve deviates from their normal high energy rapping to create an album that twists that structure into a claustrophobic, intense expression of grief. It would be difficult to discuss this album without mentioning the loss of band mate Stepa J. Groggs. Groggs was one third of Injury Reserve since their founding in 2013. Expectedly, this loss has taken a toll on the group, and this can be felt in every aspect of this album. From the lyrics to production, By the Time I Get to Phoenix utilizes music’s capabilities to fully immerse the listener in the mental state of Injury Reserve’s members.
Moon Taxi returned to Avondale Brewing Company last Friday to an energized crowd, continuing their Silver Dream tour.
Phoebe Bridgers rocked out a sold out crowd of 3,000 in Birmingham last night with support from Taylor Hollingsworth. The show celebrated Birmingham Mountain Radio's 10th (+1) Anniversary.