In the technical world of music categorization, we ask: is it appropriate to call KISS a glam band? Or are they more heavy metal? We call them “Satanic glam rock,” but check out our latest photo gallery of their Monday night performance at Philips Arena, part of the KISS: Alive 35 Tour, to decide for yourself.
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SMOKE ONE: Decatur's own Bobby Ray gets lit Friday at Smith's Olde Bar.
(Photos courtesy Dustin Chambers. More after the break.)
By Kelli Goldman
The vivacious Juliette Lewis’ performance last night at the Drunken Unicorn was out of this world. Scantily clad and gyrating, off-the-wall Lewis brought to the audience a seductively captivating sexual freak show.
“When I started this music thing five years ago, I meant it,” said Lewis. And did she ever. Mostly playing songs from her new album Terra Incognita, but still revisiting her older tunes with the Licks, Lewis moved the audience with her heavy beats and breathing, heart-felt screaming lyrics and wailing guitar and drums. It was hard not to feel a personal connection with Lewis as she directly addressed the audience several times in the tiny venue.
Juliette Lewis is definitely a must-see when she comes back to Atlanta. She is currently on a world tour promoting her solo album, Terra Incognita.
See more photos from the Juliette Lewis show at the Drunken Unicorn
(Photos by Perry Julien)
Tattoos, sweet rides, mullets and the music make Starlight Six’s Drive Invasion the place to be every Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. This year was no different as the parking lot of the drive-in movie theater was packed with beer-guzzling, knife-swallowing good times on Sept. 6.
View photo gallery.
JASPECTS' JAMES KING ON TRUMPET
Art, Beats + Lyrics — an urban art and music show featuring performances from DMC and Jaspects, plus plenty of whiskey to go around — hit the W Midtown on Friday, August 7, bringing another year of the Gentleman Jack-sponsored free show to Atlanta.
See the photo gallery.
(Photos by Dustin Chambers)
Sonic Youth played the Variety Playhouse on Mon., July 13, in support of their latest album, The Eternal. The Entrance Band opened.
Within the first few seconds of pressing play on The Eternal, Sonic Youth’s 16th studio album in nearly 30 years, the band sounds like it has been recharged. “Sacred Trickster” tears the album wide open with a visceral intensity that surges into “Anti-Orgasm,” bringing the album to a frenzied climax of noise and chiming, art-punk dirge.
Sonic Youth hasn’t rocked this hard in years, and the fire was sparked in 2007 when the group went on tour playing the 1988 masterpiece Daydream Nation. “After reacquainting ourselves with Daydream Nation, we were really surprised by the energy of some of the songs,” says guitarist and vocalist Lee Ranaldo. “At first we didn’t think it was such a hot idea, but revisiting those songs really inspired a lot of what’s going on with this record.” Continue reading.
See a gallery of images of both Sonic Youth and the Entrance Band performing at Variety Playhouse on Monday night.
Sonic Youth’s “Sacred Trickster” mp3
(Photos by Perry Julien)
Last night’s scheduled Jay-Z concert, with special guest Ciara at Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheatre, was canceled due to heavy rain, lightning, and an otherwise impressive array of multi-colored rain gear.
No homo.
The date hasn’t been rescheduled despite Jay-Z telling DJ Drama on-air after calling into Hot 107.9 (WHTA-FM) last night that he might be able to return in August.
Per Live Nation:
Due to unsafe weather conditions, the Jay-Z concert scheduled at Chastain Park Amphitheatre on Sunday, July 12th was cancelled. The show will not be rescheduled at this time. Ticketholders should go to point of purchase to receive a refund.
His album, Blueprint 3, is due in stores on 9/11/09.
(Photos by Joeff Davis.)
From CL Fresh Loaf
On Saturday, July 4, 2009, 529 in East Atlanta hosted a funeral benefit for B Jay Womack, aka Bobby Ubangi. The benefit, planned while Womack was still alive, helped raise funds for his funeral. Womack died of cancer on Wednesday, July 1. This image is from the performance by Carbonas, of which B Jay was a founding member. Womack’s funeral was held this afternoon in Conyers.
More photos from B Jay Womack funeral benefit
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Van Hunt played Apache Café Friday and Saturday, July 3 and 4. Reader-shot photo submitted to CL’s You Shoot by one | two aka gudrun. Peep more of her Van Hunt photos on flickr.
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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT: THE BEST PLACE TO GET YOUR CONCERT PHOTO FIX IS clatl.com/photos.
We know you’ve been thinking to yourself, “CL should create a space for all the awesome photos they shoot.” And if you weren’t thinking that, then all the visual desires you never even knew you had have just been fulfilled.
We now have a spot where you can access all the latest galleries shot each week, a new Photo of the Day posted (you guessed it!) every day, and new videos going up every week. You can also check out the thousands of images uploaded by your fellow Atlantans to the CL Flickr feed or read up on what the deal was with each week’s Time and Place photo.
There’s international photo and video news, tidbits and gear updates, along with info on upcoming Atlanta photo community meet-ups and shoot-outs.
Missed the TV On the Radio concert? We’ve got the photos to make you feel just a little better about it.
Wondering how the hell they get all that sand out of the Decatur Square after the Decatur Beach Party? We’ve got the lowdown on that through video interviews.
Check it out at clatl.com/photos_video.
Of course, we want to hear your feedback. So give us your joys, your grievances, your Atlanta photo knowledge! Send it all our way to photos@cln.com.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Each summer, music festivals seem to try to outdo each other with line-ups, film series, logos, locations and ticket prices but few are as big and crazed as Bonnaroo. Held in Manchester, Tenn. every year since 2002 on a 700-acre farm called the Great Stage Park, this year’s 4-day festival featured Nine Inch Nails, TV On the Radio, Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Erykah Badu and dozens of others.
View Bonnaroo photo gallery.
(Photos by James Camp)
View more photos of Femi Kuti’s 2007 Atlanta performance.
Tonight one of my all-time favorite performers, Nigeria’s Femi Kuti, plays the Variety Playhouse. This photo comes from his ’07 performance at the Variety. It captures the spiritual nature of Femi’s show. His energy and passion comes across on stage as if he’s connecting with a force beyond himself — channeling his dead father Fela Kuti, perhaps. (more…)
Sonic Youth’s umpteenth studio album The Eternal hit the streets yesterday via Matador Records, and it is a monster. The gorgeous John Fahey painting on the album’s cover sums it up in one circular and rhythmic motion.
The Eternal is a swirling mass of stark, guitar textures where persistent, avant-garde movements lure the senses into a familiar place before opening up to reveal the truly bombastic nature of the album.
Over the last decade albums such as NYC Ghosts and Flowers, Sonic Nurse and Rather Ripped have upheld the group’s legacy, but The Eternal is easily Sonic Youth’s strongest record in years. “Sacred Trickster,” “Anti-Orgasm,” “Antenna” and “No Way” evoke the energy, the darkness and the noise wrought with such early staples as “EVOL,” “Sister” and “Daydream Nation.” But what sets The Eternal apart is a uniformly brilliant batch of songs that find the band thrashing through chiming melodies, chops, feedback and drones, butted against the vocal back-and-forth of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore who come across sharper and more energetic than they have sounded in quite some time. “Sacred Trickster” sets the machine in motion with urgency and an affinity for the noir side of bleak art for the sake of rock and roll, which is what Sonic Youth has always done best. More on this in the weeks to come.
Sonic Youth plays the Variety Playhouse with the Entrance Band on Mon., July 13. $25. 8p.m.
See photo gallery of Matisyahu’s June 2 performance at the Tabernacle.
(Photo courtesy Perry Julien)
Atlanta’s print media have been hit particularly hard by the national recession. Like the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Creative Loafing, Paste magazine is bearing the burdens of advertisers’ slashing budgets as well.
Paste is taking the unique approach of reaching out to readers to help ease its financial burdens. Last week the magazine launched a reader appeal campaign to generate funds.
Many of the artists the mag has covered, including Neko Case, the Decemberists, Of Montreal, She & Him, Josh Ritter, the Avett Bros., Brandi Carlile, the Indigo Girls and others have donated rare and exclusive songs to be given away to anyone who donates to the cause. There are other giveaways as well, and both R.E.M. and Band of Horses have donated signed posters to be given away to random supporters.
It’s an inventive and exceedingly graceful approach to solving such a dilema. Whether or not it works remains to be seen.
Nashville-based film maker Matthew Robison’s (Silver Jew) much ballyhooed, but yet to be released Atlanta rock documentary We Fun premieres at the Atlanta Film Festival this Saturday night (April 18.)
The film is showing on screen no. 4 at the Midtown Art Cinema on Sat., April 18 and again at 2:05 p.m. on screen no. 6 on Wed., April 22.
MONOTONIX
See our photo gallery of photographer Perry Julien’s SXSW 2009 pics. And read CL’s Best of SXSW 2009 wrap-up, with more photos.
(Photo by Perry Julien)
Like the Pied Piper rolling through town, every time King Khan shows up, his ability to charm the pants off this city grows increasingly stronger. The Canadian-Indian by way of Germany returns to the States with his psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll ensemble the Shrines for a victory lap in support of last year’s masterpiece, The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines. Local favorites Balkans, New York City’s trash-can cabaret-punk six-piece Golden Triangle, and Thomas Function open. $10. 9 p.m. Masquerade, 695 North Ave. 404-577-8178.
(Photo by Natasha Papadopoulou)
Photographer Ricky Powell (as in “homeboy throw in the towel…”) was notoriously hailed as the fourth Beastie Boy during the group’s Liscensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique era. Tonight (Tues., Feb. 24) Powell will be making two stops around town in support of a new book of photography, titled Oh Snap!
First he hits up Criminal Records for a quick DJ set from 3 to 4 p.m.
After that he’s making an appearance at El Bar behind El Azteca on Ponce de Leon Avenue to present a slide show discussion of some history and his photos, and spin some more records. Entry for the El Bar show is $5.
(Photo courtesy of Ricky Powell)
See CL photographer Joeff Davis’ photos from the Silver Jews’ final performance at Cumberland Caverns near McMinnville, Tenn. on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 31st).
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
