Sideshow Atlanta

When hip-pop acts the likes of these industry contenders come together, it is almost always a loud, colorful and beautiful thing. Janelle Monae jump-started Wednesday night’s performance at The Tabernacle with her signature antics and stomach-humming voice. N.E.R.D. followed it up with so much jumping around that, between them and the also height-achieving crowd, the floor rarely stopped shaking.

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(Photos by Tara-Lynne Pixley)

The two bands rocked The Tabernacle Thurs., Oct. 2.

The Kills

The Raconteurs

(Photos by Perry Julien)

The Tabernacle’s August 19 party was purely for those who were able to get
their hands on free tickets for Nelly and company at the Samsung AT&T Summer
Krush concert.

(Photos by Perry Julien)

Ed Roland and Collective Soul closed out their summer tour in their hometown August 17 at Chastain Park Amphitheater. It was their first Atlanta show in over two years.

(Photos by Perry Julien)

A fifteen-hour block party at The Five Spot in Little Five Points brings out all kinds of people ready to love, laugh and dance together. And that was the point of the We Are All One Block Party held August 16. With film screenings, live bands, poets, DJ’s spinning, masseuses on hand and a live graffiti creation going on, the block was defnitely hot. And unified.

(Photos by Tara-Lynne Pixley)

Oldies but goodies were in large supply as Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick took the stage at Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Buckhead Aug. 3. Though the decades of each band’s popularity and the style of rock varies, all three groups share the knowledge of how to make a crowd happy.

(Photos by Perry Julien)