Paste magazine’s Best of What’s Next list features two Atlantans
August 21st, 2008 by Rodney Carmichael in Music news
It’s easy to forget the good folks at Paste magazine are based in Atlanta since they’re so good (too good, perhaps) at avoiding hometown favoritism.
But in Paste’s September ’08 cover issue, Best of What’s Next: 26 Emerging Artists You Must Know, two local yokels actually made the cut: Janelle Monae and Andy Hull.
Both are artists we’ve talked up (and sometimes down) in the pages of CL. Hull is best known as the lead for Atlanta indie rock act Manchester Orchestra. But his solo set, Right Away, Great Captain is a stripped-down concept album about a sailor from the 1600s, with each song representing journal entries to his captain and family.
Monae, whose Metropolis: The Chase suite was re-released last week, was the topic of CL’s music feature last week, along with her Wondaland Arts Society label. Metropolis is another conceptual release that tells the story of an android from the future who must be destroyed when she falls in love with a human.
But Atlanta has no monopoly on fresh talent. Check the full list for such artists as Wale (Washington D.C.), the Everybodyfields (Tennessee), Black Kids (Jacksonville, Fla.), Mugison (Iceland) and more.
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August 21st, 2008 at 10:38 am
three of my own mag’s (performer) cover stars in there! hurrah!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Ok, I’m pretty sure J. Monae and Andy/Manchester Orchestra are one and two. Who’s the third, Leila?
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Too good at avoiding its hometown, huh? Is that why the magazine launched Paste:Local in Atlanta?
August 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Creative Loafing(/Rodney?), you’re getting so lazy. Between the magazine and the website, I’ve read about Black Lips, Deerhunter, Snowden, Gentleman Jesse, The Coathangers, Outkast, Atlas Sound, Gringo Star, Howlies, Janelle Monae, Indigo Girls, Manchester Orchestra, Cabonas and countless other ATL artists. How many do you really need in a national publication, anyway? Try doing your homework next time, CL.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Every single link in this article is broken. Well done, folks.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Thanks peeps, we fixed those links.
August 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
black kids! they weren’t on the paste cover but were in that issue’s cover story. we had them on the cover in january. nice to see them doing well =)