Blog Party: Tweet & Greet Wednesdays with MauriceGarland.com
May 20th, 2009 by Rodney Carmichael in Music news
Tweet & Greet Wednesdays w/DJ Q-Storm. Free. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Tonight. $3 Tweet shots. $20 all-you-can-drink house red and white wine. The Wine Loft, 300 Marietta St. 404-225-2105. www.thewineloftatl.com.
For editors, the kind of music journalist who stays plugged into his scene is an invaluable resource. Forced to spend hours slaving away at our desks (cue the violins), we rely on writers who keep both ears to the streets and know the difference between what’s worth repeating and deleting.
Maurice Garland certainly fits that bill.
His byline regularly graces the pages of Vibe, XXL, Giant and Ozone magazines. The Atlanta-based writer also finds time to contribute to CL now and again. But it’s his blog that’s been getting recognition lately.
Earlier this month, Vibe included MauriceGarland.com in its list of the 50 Best Rap Blogs. Apparently, they dig it for the same reason I do:
Within the last year alone, Garland broke Big Boi’s “Royal Flush,” featuring Raekwon and a renewed Andre 3000, collaborated with rapper Killer Mike for a weekly freestyle series called “Sunday Morning Massacre,” and witnessed firsthand Big Boi and Killer Mike’s reconciliation, a meeting Garland caught on video and then shared with the world.
Unlike a lot of hip-hop focused blogs that feed off the hype of the moment, you get a true sense of Garland’s Decatur-bred background and how its influenced his overall taste. For a recent post regarding the July XXL cover — which features current Atlanta artists Gucci Mane, Shawty Lo, OJ da Juiceman and Soulja Boy — he juxtaposed it against a 1998 XXL cover with Atlanta legends Goodie Mob and borrowed their second album title to question whether Atlanta hip-hop is: Still Standing or Standing Still?
Aside from all the blogging and writing, dude has somehow found time to become pretty prolific on Twitter, too. And tonight he kicks off Tweet & Greet Wednesdays, in conjunction with Kuhvet.com, at the Wine Loft.
Rather than B.Y.O.B, he suggests you fall through with a “LOL and :-)”
Tweet & Greet Wednesdays w/DJ Q-Storm. Free. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Tonight. $3 Tweet shots. $20 all-you-can-drink house red and white wine. The Wine Loft, 300 Marietta St. 404-225-2105. www.thewineloftatl.com.
(Photo courtesy Vibe.com)
May 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
nice
May 21st, 2009 at 10:41 pm
You forgot the “http://” before linking to his Twitter profile ;)