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OFTEN Turns Restless Uncertainty into Latest Sad Bop "Deep Sleep"

Genre-bending Atlanta artist OFTEN (who uses she/they pronouns) describes their project as “the queer love child of Donna Summer and Fiona Apple.” Such a description articulates the many intersections where the artists finds themselves: between their queerness and an intense Seventh Day Adventist...

Mandy Brownholtz

PREMIEREK Michelle DuBois Dodges Self-Consciousness with "On the Run Again"

As humans, we crave being seen and acknowledged by other people — but the irony is that often, once someone else's eyes are on us, we dodge their gaze out of fear that they won't like what they see. Atlanta-based indie-pop singer/songwriter K Michelle DuBois gives a sound to this debilitating...

Annie White

PREMIERENikki and the Phantom Callers Share "Motor Run"

The Atlanta quartet's latest single, "Motor Run," embodies this eclectic style; the band refers to it as a "sunny garage-pop anthem with Southern rock...

Annie White

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AF 2019 IN REVIEWThe Best of Playing Atlanta

Pip the Pansy may change everything you know about pop music. There’s only one day left in the decade, y’all. Like it or not, 2020 is almost here. Whether you’re ready to send it out with a bang or trying desperately to figure out where the last twenty years went, there’s no denying: the time has...

Luci Turner

ROBIN & WADE PROMOTIONAL HIGH RES PICTURE

PREMIEREThe Endangered Species "A Thousand Years Away"

Global warming, nationalism, consumerism, addiction... the human race is having to address its own greed head on. Brothers Wade and Robin Divver formed The Endangered Species as an act of activism, the music becoming a pathway to speak their minds and encourage others to fight back. It's also, in...

Ashley Prillaman

Soulful Songbirds Wren and the Wravens Debut EP

A little bit funky, a little bit pop and soul. If you read that to the tune of Donny and Marie's "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock 'n Roll," then one of two things must be true: you've got a truly unique sense of humor combined with an encyclopedic knowledge of music, melody, and...

Luci Turner

PLAYING ATLANTAThe Pinx Reinvent Rock 'n' Roll with Music Video for "Mercy!"

That is all. Okay, that's not all, but the Atlanta-based rock quartet truly does rock...and roll, and boogie-woogie, and power-pop all night long. Drawing on influences as varied as Duane Allman, MC5's Fred "Sonic" Smith, and the lush Stax catalog, as well as...

Luci Turner

PLAYING ATLANTAShepherds Explore Toxic Nostalgia with "Your Imagined Past" Video

For Atlanta sextet Shepherds, "genre" is a worn name tag hanging on by its last thread as theme and experimentation take prominence, rapidly setting the art-rock group apart in an ever-changing Atlanta market. Since the release of their 2011 debut EP, Holy Stain, the band has been in a state of...

Luci Turner

PLAYING ATLANTASam Burchfield Reminisces on His Folk Roots with "Colorado"

Luci Turner

PLAYING ATLANTACicada Rhythm Brings It Back Home with "Cecilia"

I'm a nostalgic person. I love anything that reminds me of the classic rock, country, and introspective singer-songwriters, like Joni Mitchell or Simon and Garfunkel, I listened to growing up. Having wiled away many a day to the sound of harmony-laden songs playing through a radio, the overwhelming...

Luci Turner

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ALBUM REVIEWMicrowave Solidifies Lyrical Superiority on Death is a Warm Blanket

It’s inevitable that your favorite bands will eventually release an album that challenges you in some way. Georgia band Microwave’s newest release, Death is a Warm Blanket, is certainly one of those albums for me. Their 2016 LP, Much Love, a heartrending thirty minutes of beautifully written and...

Sophia Vaccaro

PLAYING ATLANTALesibu Grand Discuss Debut LP The Legend of Miranda

Founded by lead singer Tyler-Simone Molton and bassist...

Luci Turner