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THE FAYE WEBSTER INVITATIONAL RETURNS TO ATLANTA

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/17/25

Singer, songwriter, and multi-hyphenate Faye Webster is bringing her one-of-a-kind Faye Webster Invitational back for its highly anticipated second edition—this time in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. The multi-sport showcase and cultural event will unfold over the weekend of October 25th and 26th, highlighting three of Faye’s favorite pastimes: chess, LVBL (LiveBall) tennis, and yoyo. While the Invitational spans several events, only the yoyo showcase, and concert will be open to ticketed audiences. Details below.

YOYO SHOWCASE & CONCERT – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ THE EASTERN

On Sunday, October 26, The Eastern will host an unforgettable yoyo exhibition, where twelve of the world’s best yoyo masters will unleash their most daring, intricate, and mesmerizing tricks in a no-rules, no-limitations showcase. The evening will be hosted by Faye Webster and Benét, with a rare solo performance from Faye herself and special guest Erika De Casier.

Presale: Opens Wednesday, September 17 at 12pm EDT. Register at https://laylo.com/fayewebster/m/FWI2025.

General Sale: Begins Friday, September 19 at 10am EDT.

LVBL TENNIS TOURNAMENT – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 @ SHARON LESTER TENNIS CENTER, PIEDMONT PARK

The Invitational’s opening day will kick off with the inaugural Faye Webster LVBL Tennis Championship, an afternoon that blends tennis, music, food, and fun. The LiveBall format tournament will be open to intermediate and experienced tennis players. Entry details for participants will be announced on Monday, September 23rd HERE

CHESS TOURNAMENT – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 @ THE EASTERN 

For the first time, Faye will host a chess tournament as part of the Invitational. The event will bring together 100 competitors in a Swiss-System with knockout format, taking place on the morning of Sunday, October 26 at The Eastern. Participant application details will also be shared on September 23 HERE

This fall, the ‘An Evening with Faye Webster’ tour will kick off where she’ll be live in concert performing songs from her discography and her most recent fittingly titled album, Underdressed at the Symphony, with full symphony accompaniment. The tour includes a hometown show at the Atlanta Symphony Hall, and shows in Los Angeles at the famed Walt Disney Concert Hall and Oakland at the Paramount Theater. For more information visit fayewebster.com.

Earlier this year Webster arranged some of her most beloved songs with her 5-piece band and a string quartet for NPR’s Tiny Desk, reuniting with musicians who also contributed to her orchestral EP Car Therapy Sessions. Webster’s Underdressed at the Symphony was released last year to wide critical praise and fan adulation. The album landed on year-end lists at Rolling Stone, Vulture, Consequence, The AV Club, SPIN, UPROXX and more. 

Tour Dates

09/27 – Washington, DC @ All Things Go Festival

10/28 – Atlanta, GA @ Atlanta Symphony Hall

11/1 – Los Angeles, CA @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

11/5 – Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST MOLLY TUTTLE AT VARIETY PLAYHOUSE IN ATLANTA – OCTOBER 4

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/17/25

Grammy Award-Winning Artist Molly Tuttle at Variety Playhouse on Atlanta October 4th.

On the heels of two Grammy-winning albums in succession, with her band Golden Highway—2022’s Crooked Tree and 2023’s City of Gold—plus a nomination for Best New Artist, Molly Tuttle returns with a solo album that’s her most dazzling to date: So Long Little Miss Sunshine. 

Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Cage the Elephant), the fifth full album from the California-born, Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist features twelve new songs—eleven originals and one highly unexpected cover of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It.” 

Tuttle’s career, which began at age fifteen, has charted a course between honoring bluegrass and stretching its boundaries. On this album—a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad—she goes to a whole new place. Her stunning guitar work is more up-front on this album than ever before. (One of the most decorated female guitarist alive, Tuttle was the first woman to win the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award’s Guitar Player of the Year in 2017, at age twenty-four, and won again the following year, with nominations nearly every year since; she has also won Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year award.) So Long Little Miss Sunshine also features Tuttle playing banjo, something she’s never done on one of her albums before. 

“I like to be a bit of a chameleon with my music,” she says. “Keep people guessing and keep it full of surprises.” 

Tuttle has been slowly building this collection of songs over the last five years, while also writing and releasing two hugely successful albums and a six-song EP (last year’s Into the Wild) and playing more than 100 shows each year with Golden Highway. Along the way she’d send songs to Joyce, who she first started talking to about collaborating on the album a few years ago. 

“I’ve been wanting to make this record for such a long time. Part of me was scared to do such a big departure, and that went into the album title So Long Little Miss Sunshine. It’s like, ‘You know what? I’m just not going to care what people think. I’m going to do what I want.’” 

The album was recorded with a group of musicians that includes drummer/percussionists Jay Bellerose and Fred Eltringham, bassist Byron House, and Joyce on multiple instruments. Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) also plays banjo, fiddle, and harmonica, as well as singing harmony. 

Tuttle also conceived the artwork for So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which features multiple Mollys, each wearing a different wig except for one with nothing on her head at all. (“I probably own as many wigs as I own guitars,” she says.) Tuttle has been bald since she was three years old due to the autoimmune condition alopecia areata; she acts as a spokesperson for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.  

“I love raising awareness,” she says. “I talk about it onstage a lot and broaden it to include anyone who’s ever had something that makes them stick out and look or feel different from others. Playing my song ‘Crooked Tree’ live is very meaningful to me, because it’s a moment where sometimes I’ll take off my wig and talk about my struggles with self-acceptance.” 

One album track, “Old Me (New Wig),” is “about leaving all these things behind that don’t serve you anymore,” she says. “Parts of yourself that really aren’t in your best interest, like low self-esteem, anxieties, and not feeling confident. Learning to own these different aspects of my personality but not letting them control me is another theme of the record that inspired the album title and the cover art. Those are all things I’ve struggled with through the years—just feeling like an impostor, like I wasn’t good enough. I like singing this song because there are days when I still have to tell myself to leave that stuff behind.’”  

Most of the So Long Little Miss Sunshine songs were co-written with Secor, who is also Tuttle’s partner. “We spend so much time together, we live together, and anytime I have a song idea, or he has one, it’s just so easy to transition from whatever we’re doing into writing a song.” 

Although they were written in different times and circumstances, Tuttle found to her surprise that the songs were all tied together by interwoven themes. The opening track, “Everything Burns”—a dark, intense, big-guitar song—was written in 2020, during the chaos and division of the start of the Covid pandemic. It might as easily refer to the current chaos and division in America since Election Day 2024, though. In fact, they recorded it the day after the election. 

There are several songs about traveling—sometimes down the open road, like “Highway Knows” and “Oasis”—but also back in time, as on “Easy” and “Golden State of Mind.” 

The record also tells “a kind of coming-of-age story,” Tuttle says. “‘Golden State of Mind’ is one of the songs I feel is a through-line to that. It makes me think about people I’ve been close to in the past that I’ve drifted away from, and about growing up and figuring out who you are.” 

That theme is in turn picked up in the beautiful ballad “No Regrets,” one of the last songs Tuttle wrote for the album. “It’s about looking back on your life and thinking, ‘Well, maybe I could have done things differently, but if I hadn’t made certain mistakes or gone down certain roads, then I wouldn’t be here.’ And I really like where I am now!” 

So Long Little Miss Sunshine closes, as her last two albums did, with an autobiographical song, “Story of My So-Called Life.” “This is me looking back on my life, from growing up to going to school in Boston to moving to Nashville to where I am now—taking stock of all these pivotal moments throughout my life that made me who I am. I feel like after I’ve said so much in all the other songs, it’s just kind of nice to end it on a note of, ‘Here’s how this all came to be,’” she says. 

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Earlier this year, Tuttle played guitar and sang on Ringo Starr’s new country album, Look Up. She also played with him and a host of other stellar musical guests at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and Grand Ole Opry as part of his televised Ringo & Friends shows. She was inspired by his fearlessness in following his passion for country music. “It is cool to see someone like that who has done everything you could imagine doing in a music career and he’s still just so psyched and still has a list of things that he wants to accomplish,” Tuttle says. 

Looking back on her own career, Tuttle admits that she also has pursued what interests her: “It has never been a cookie-cutter thing where I’m just going down a straight road. I always had this crooked path.” 

RISING STAR JAKE MINCH PLAYING VINYL ON WEDNESDAY 8/20!

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/13/25

HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF IN AUGUST

“Jake Minch is Your Favorite Songwriter’s Songwriter”—TMRW Magazine

“Love this so muchhhh”—Gigi Perez on “Fingers and Clothes”

“My favorite”—Chelsea Cutler on “Fingers and Clothes”

“best song I’ve heard in a while”—Daniel Seavey on “Fingers and Clothes”

“Soundtrack of my summer I feel”—Billianne on George

“Love this one soooo much”—Ella Jane on “Say Uncle”

“This has been on a loop for so long im so obsessed and scared”—Sadie Jean on “For Leaving”

“Brilliant”—Noah Kahan on “handgun”


George, the highly-anticipated debut album from rising singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Minch is out today via 2for2 projects/Mercury Records—listen HERE.

“George is about my two years in LA and my experience falling victim to my ‘middle-of-the-country-syndrome,’” says Jake. “It’s about being a martyr with nothing to die for and needing to fuck up some great things in order to see that.”

In celebration of his full-length debut, Jake will embark on an extensive run of headline shows this August, with stops at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right, Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge, Chicago’s Schubas Tavern, Toronto’s Velvet Underground, Nashville’s Cannery Hall and more. See below for a complete list of dates and purchase tickets at shop.jakeminch.com.

Recorded and produced between Los Angeles and Connecticut by Jake and Tony Berg (Taylor Swift, Boygenius) with contribution from Mason Stoops (Lizzy McAlpine, Role Model), George finds the 22-year-old storyteller exploring grief, guilt and identity through the complexities in his personal relationships. Titled after Jake’s birth name, George captures the angst and discomfort of growing up and leaving home with a disarming vulnerability that traces the album’s 12 tracks—including previously shared singles “Fingers and Clothes” and “Drawing a Tattoo,” released earlier this summer to critical acclaim.

Born and raised in Connecticut, Jake Minch burst onto the scene in 2023 with his hit single “handgun” racking up 1.3 million views on the song’s initial teaser and earning support from the likes of Noah Kahan, Lizzy McAlpine, Zach Bryan, Gracie Abrams, Fletcher and many more. Over the last few years, the 2for2 projects/Mercury Records artist has garnered a dedicated fanbase through his deeply personal lyrics on love, growing up and grief. Jake has toured the world over, sharing stages with the likes of The Head And The Heart, Jeremy Zucker, Ben Abraham, Holly Humberstone, Grace Enger and Sadie Jean. He’ll set off on an extensive North American headline tour this summer / fall.

GEORGE TRACKLIST
1. Nostalgia Act
2. Drawing a Tattoo
3. Fucked Up
4. Fingers and Clothes
5. Dad’s Song
6. Unicef
7. First I Was
8. Say Uncle
9. Changed Things
10. For Leaving
11. A mistake you only make once
12. Twice

JAKE MINCH LIVE
August 3 /// Constellation Room /// Santa Ana, CA
August 4 /// Moroccan Lounge /// Los Angeles, CA
August 5 /// Cafe Du Nord /// San Francisco, CA
August 7 /// Madame Lou’s /// Seattle, WA
August 9 /// Polaris Hall /// Portland, OR
August 12 /// Lost Lake /// Denver, CO
August 15 /// 7th St Entry /// Minneapolis, MN
August 18 /// Schubas Tavern /// Chicago, IL
August 19 /// Cannery Hall /// Nashville, TN
August 20 /// Vinyl /// Atlanta, GA
August 22 /// Songbyrd /// Washington, D.C.
August 23 /// The Lounge at World Cafe /// Philadelphia, PA
August 25 /// Velvet Underground /// Toronto, ON
August 27 /// The Middle East – Sonia /// Cambridge, MA
August 28 /// Baby’s All Right /// Brooklyn, NY

SAMIA PLAYING ATLANTA AT TERMINAL WEST ON 9/8

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/7/25

SHARES “POOL” (STRIPPED) AS NPR TINY DESK PERFORMANCE GOES VIRAL 

Bloodless out now via Grand Jury Music & North American Tour Continues This Fall

Praise for Samia: 

“[Samia] possesses a remarkable knack for specificity in her songwriting…charisma, vocal talent and deftly detailed lyricism.” – NPR Music 

“No one writes a lyrical knockout like Samia…one of indie rock’s most poignant songwriters” – Rolling Stone

“An album held taut between the introspective and the spectacular, a record of self-discovery that takes audible pleasure in discovering new frontiers for her sound.”- Pitchfork

“The sound of a talented artist achieving clarity: Samia Finnerty has released intriguing albums before, but nothing comes close to the stylistic command and singular point of view she demonstrates on her third album, which oscillates between alt-folk and indie-pop to study gender norms in modern society and present Samia’s full self without compromise” – Billboard

“Bloodless is the work of a poet at the top of her game.” – Paste

“Bloodless, Samia’s third and best LP, affirms her as a true talent deserving of her place in the firmament of accessible, alt-slanted singer-songwriter music” – Stereogum

“…some of the most compelling pop instrumentation of the year.” – The Needle Drop

“Three albums into her career, Bloodless feels like a major level up for Samia, with songs that have both immediate appeal and layers of meaning to uncover.” – Brooklyn Vegan

Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter Samia released her breathtaking third album, Bloodless, earlier this year to widespread critical acclaim, countless top 10 chart debuts and millions of streams. But it’s a gut-wrenching and tremendously poignant NPR Tiny Desk performance of “Pool,” the opening track of Samia’s debut album from 2020, that is having a major moment right now. Samia is going viral on TikTok, thanks to a user post highlighting a particularly heartbreaking part of “Pool” as Samia sings: “How long do I have left with my dog / ’til I start forgetting shit? / How long ’til we’re rich / and then we’re not and then we’re rich? / How much longer ’til I’m taller? / How much longer ’til it’s midnight? / How much longer ’til the mornin’? / Are my legs gonna last? / Is it too much to ask?”

The viral “Pool” audio has been used nearly 25,000 times across TikTok & Reels in the past week, with Samia earning over 75k new followers and 1 million new streams, with 90% of those streams being active and intentional listening, rather than through playlists or the algorithm. While this is a nascent but rapidly-growing viral moment, the connection fans are experiencing to the song is already massive. Given the reaction to the song and performance from 2023, Samia has gone back into the studio to meet the demand for a stripped version of the song, akin to the performance. Out now is “Pool (Stripped)” – listen HERE. 

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Samia will continue her North American tour this Fall – see below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE. 

Tour dates

09-08 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West +

09-09 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn +

09-11 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall +

09-12 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn +

09-13 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater +

09-16 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom +

09-17 – San Diego, CA – Music Box +

09-19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre + ^

09-20 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore ^

09-22 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom ^

09-23 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre ^

09-24 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre ^

09-26 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell ^

09-27 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre ^

09-29 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room ^

09-30 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall ^

10-01 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl ^

10-26 – Glasgow, UK – G2 * SOLD OUT 

10-27 – Manchester, UK – Yes (Pink Room) * SOLD OUT 

10-28 – London, UK – KOKO *

+ w/ Hank Heaven

^ w/ Renny Conti

* w/ Sarah Julia

Bloodless, out now, is Samia’s  follow-up to her 2023 breakout and award-winning record Honey. Recorded in North Carolina and her new home of Minneapolis, Bloodless is a richly layered album that was made with longtime collaborators co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaella.  

“It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible,” says Samia. With Bloodless, she seeks comfort in absence, and explores the allure of existing as fantasy. Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries – inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of femininity – Samia examines how shadows can loom larger than their source.  “I noticed a pattern in my life of wanting to live up to the person I became in someone’s head; you become a lot bigger with distance.” Bloodless, which shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop epics, adorned with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, seeks a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence. Samia would like to be both, to be whole, to be impossible. 

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PERFUME GENIUS ON TOUR – ATLANTA AT VARIETY PLAYHOUSE ON JUNE 5

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/22/25

Perfume Genius show on June 5 at Variety Playhouse, Glory out now.

Today, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his new single “No Front Teeth” featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is full of tension bolstered by time changes throughout the song and the haunting, ethereal chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe (who directed Perfume Genius’ legendary “Queen” video) and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member and co-writer Alan Wyffels. Watch the video HERE

Last month, Perfume Genius announced his new album, Glory, coming out March 28th on long-time label home Matador Records. Glory was produced by Blake Mills and marks the 7th studio album in Hadreas; immaculate body of work. Along with the announcement, he released the first single, “It’s a Mirror,” which received near unanimous critical praise and Pitchfork’s “Best New Track” distinction.”Hadreas ushers in a muscular and direct sound that feels like a decisive pendular swing back from the diffuse ambiance of 2022’s Ugly Season. Hadreas himself has never sounded sexier or more confident as a frontman, and while this isn’t Perfume Genius’ first foray into twang—’It’s a Mirror’ stakes its claim in a musical tradition that, though it’s always been home to outlaws, can just as often breed a festering myopia,” they said.

On his new album Glory, Perfume Genius re-teams with long-time producer Blake Mills and keyboardist and co-writer Wyffels along with an incredible group of musicians who have played previously with Hadreas on the road and in the studio including guitarists Meg Duffy (Hand Habits) and Greg Uhlmann, drummers Tim Carr and Jim Keltner, and bassist Pat Kelly as well as a special appearance from New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. After approaching writing as an insular practice for much of his career, in the process of making Glory. Hadreas welcomed more collaboration from the musicians working on the project. The result is a more wiry and driving musical underbed to Hadreas’ stories. The album contains themes that he’s wrestled with artistically throughout his career – themes of the body and its decay, of domesticity and love, and of inescapable history and damage. There is also a return of some of his characters including Jason. But Glory is written from a new vantage point – on the other side of struggle, where one is left to contend with all that has happened but also has to learn to live in a still and uncharted place. An album bio, on Glory, by Daniel Felsenthal, can be found after the tracklist below

Perfume Genius has also announced an extensive North American tour in support of the album. The shows kick off in Healdsburg at Little Saint on May 12th and wrap up on June 27th at Revolution Hall in Portland, OR. Highlights include The Fillmore in San Francisco on May 13th, the Brooklyn Paramount on June 10th and the Showbox in Hadreas’ hometown of Seattle on June 26th. Tickets are on sale now.

Hadreas, a Seattle native, began his music career in 2008 and released his debut album, Learning, in 2010 via long-time label home Matador. The album immediately captured critics’ attention, with Pitchfork praising its “eviscerating and naked” songs, marked by “heartbreaking sentiments and bruised characterizations delivered in a voice that ranges from an ethereal croon to a slightly cracked warble.” These descriptors became the hallmarks of Perfume Genius – Hadreas’ unique ability to convey emotional vulnerability not only lyrically, but with his impressively nuanced vocals.

In 2012, Perfume Genius released Put Your Back N 2 It, further growing his audience and critical acclaim. His 2014 album, Too Bright, marked a bold evolution in production and confidence. Co-produced by Adrian Utley of Portishead, it featured the standout single “Queen,” which quickly became a queer anthem and powerful statement of identity. Hadreas later performed the track on Late Night with David Letterman.

In 2017, Perfume Genius released the GRAMMY-nominated No Shape, a breakthrough album that expanded his global fan base and brought mainstream recognition to his art. Produced by Blake Mills (Fiona Apple, Alabama Shakes), the record earned high praise, with The New Yorker noting, “The center of his music has always been a defiant delicacy—a ragged, affirmative understanding of despair. No Shape finds him unexpectedly victorious, his body exalted.” During the album’s campaign, Hadreas appeared on multiple late-night shows and graced the cover of The Fader.In 2020, Hadreas released Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, a critical masterpiece on Matador Records that garnered worldwide acclaim. Produced by GRAMMY winner Blake Mills, the album featured contributions from Phoebe Bridgers, Jim Keltner, Pino Palladino, Matt Chamberlin, Rob

Moose, and longtime collaborator Alan Wyffels. It explored and subverted concepts of masculinity and traditional roles, introducing distinctly American musical influences.Hadreas promoted the album with performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He followed with Ugly Season, a project born from his collaboration with choreographer Kate Wallich on The Sun Still Burns Here, a dance piece commissioned by Seattle Theatre Group and Mass MoCA and performed across major cities in 2019.  The release included a stunning 30-minute film, Pygmalion’s Ugly Season, created with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite, blending surreal visuals with Hadreas music.

Track Listing – Perfume Genius – Glory

  1. It’s a Mirror
  2. No Front Teeth (feat. Aldous Harding)
  3. Clean Heart
  4. Me & Angel
  5. Left For Tomorrow
  6. Full On
  7. Capezio
  8. Dion
  9. In a Row
  10. Hanging Out
  11. Glory

Tour Dates

*New dates in bold

03/29/25 – 6 Music Festival – Manchester, UK

05/10/25 – Just Like Heaven – Los Angeles, CA

5/12/25 – Little Saint — Healdsburg, CA

5/13/25 – The Fillmore — San Francisco, CA

5/16/25 – Kilby Court Block Party — Salt Lake City, UT

5/24/25 – C6 Fest — Sao Paulo, BR

5/30/25 – The Van Buren — Phoenix, AZ

5/31/25 – 191 Toole — Tucson, AZ

6/2/25 – Emo’s — Austin, TX

6/3/25 – The Studio at The Factory — Dallas, TX

6/5/25 – Variety Playhouse — Atlanta, GA

6/6/25 – Haw River Ballroom — Saxapahaw, NC

6/7/25 – 9:30 Club — Washington, DC

6/8/25 – Union Transfer — Philadelphia, PA

6/10/25 – Brooklyn Paramount — Brooklyn, NY

6/12/25 – Royale — Boston, MA

6/13/25 – Electric City — Buffalo, NY

6/14/25 – The Concert Hall — Toronto, ON

6/15/25 – Globe Iron — Cleveland, OH

6/17/25 – The Vic Theatre — Chicago, IL

6/18/25 – First Avenue — Minneapolis, MN

6/19/25 – The Truman — Kansas City, MO

6/21/25 – Gothic Theatre — Denver, CO

6/23/25 – Treefort Music Hall — Boise, ID

6/26/25 – The Showbox — Seattle, WA

6/27/25 – Revolution Hall — Portland, OR

DOPE LEMON IN ATLANTA AT CENTER STAGE ON JUNE 13

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/22/25

Dope Lemon is returning to North America supporting new album Golden Wolf. They’ll bring their show to Center Stage on June 13th 

GOLDEN WOLF 

NEW ALBUM FROM ACCLAIMED MUSICIAN ANGUS STONE 

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NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR KICKS OFF THIS MONTH

Today, DOPE LEMON — the award-winning project of acclaimed Australian musician Angus Stone—releases their highly anticipated fifth album, Golden Wolf, via BMG. Along with the album, DOPE LEMON also shares the album’s focus track, “She’s All Time” ft. Nina Nesbitt – LISTEN & WATCH. Later this month, DOPE LEMON also returns to North America for his Spring headline tour and festival stops at Bonnaroo and Bottle Rock – see the full list of tour dates below! 

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Golden Wolf blends reflective introspection with wild sonic landscapes. If Kimosabè felt like a classic road anthem album for a cosmic journey, Golden Wolf opens the door to a wilder, more uncertain frontier. The songs here are still anchored by Stone’s trademark grooves, but they feel looser, more windswept, capturing the heat of endless desert days and the cool mystery of moonlit nights.

Songs like “Electric Green Lambo” swagger in with confidence—smooth, effortless, and undeniably cool. “She’s All Time” conjures visions of sun-soaked dreams, poolside dancing with an ethereal, unknowable muse. “Sugarcat” slinks through shadows, playful yet elusive, leaving only traces of its presence behind. And then there’s “John Belushi,” stirring up a whirlwind of reckless energy, arms wide open in the chaos. It’s big, bold, and impossible to pin down, echoing with laughter and wildness, though its true meaning always seems just out of reach. Each track invites you deeper, without ever fully giving itself away.

‘GOLDEN WOLF’ TRACKLISTING

01 – John Belushi

02 – Sugarcat

03 – Electric Green Lambo

04 – Golden Wolf

05 – Yamasuki – Yama Yama

06 – We Solid Gold

07 – She’s All Time

08 – Maggie’s Moonshine

09 – On The 45

10 – Dust Of A Thousand Stars

This new chapter reveals Stone at his most open yet—peeling back layers of silky sheened memories, imagination and thought-provoking insights. It unveils what he’s built over the many years of the Dope Lemon Temple, where so many listeners go to dip their minds in the music, only to find themselves in another land. In Kimosabè, we saw Stone reflect on his youth and the roads that shaped him. Now, in Golden Wolf, he’s grappling with the question of where the road leads next.

DOPE LEMON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

May 19 Vancouver, BC – Malkin Bowl

May 20 Seattle, WA – Showbox

May 21 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater

May 23 Napa Valley, CA – Bottlerock Festival

May 24 Los Angeles, CA – The Novo

May 25 San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park

May 27 Phoenix, AZ – Van Buren

May 28 Santa Fe, NM – Lensic Performing Art Center

May 29 Denver, CO – The Fillmore

May 31 Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater

June 01 Chicago, IL – Metro

June 03 Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl

June 04 New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel

June 06 Boston, MA – Royale

June 07 Montreal, QC – MTELUS

June 08 Toronto, ON – History

June 10 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

June 12 Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore

June 13 Atlanta, GA – Center Stage

June 14 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo

THE HEAD AND THE HEART ON TOUR – ATLANTA COCA-COLA ROXY JUNE 9

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/22/25

Beloved Seattle band The Head and The Heart will embark on a North American tour with a stop in Atlanta on June 9 at Coca-Cola Roxy in support of their gorgeous forthcoming sixth studio album, Aperture, out tomorrow, May 9 on their new label home Verve Forecast.  Aperture brings the band back to a DIY approach as it’s the first record self-produced by the band since their self-titled debut album in 2011. Read more about the new album via their Rolling Stone profile where they call the album “their best album in years.”

The band has established their status as a touring powerhouse, having landed prime time mainstage slots at Coachella, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. The band has performed on multiple national television including appearances on Ellen, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Austin City Limits and more. SPIN Magazine boasts, “Performing live is where The Head and The Heart’s distinctive sweep truly blossoms.” NPR praises, “Voices, rhythms and personalities come together with The Head and the Heart, always proving that the best rock bands exceed the sum of their parts.”

The Head and The Heart have released several singles off the new album, most recently “Blue Embers” which followed singles “After The Setting Sun,” “Time With My Sins,” and their own record setting #1 AAA single “Arrow.” After 6 months at Alternative Radio “Arrow” is approaching Top 5 this week moving 7-6*, with only one other song on the alternative chart that has been on longer.

ATHDAY AT WESTSIDE MOTOR LOUNGE 2025

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/19/25

Saturday, May 24th

Paint the town red and black for ATHDay at Westside Motor Lounge, a celebration of all things Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, May 24, 2025. The Westside Atlanta venue will kick things off at noon with a full-on takeover featuring local food, Creature Comforts beer, artists, and giveaways—all straight from the Classic City and America’s best college town. The energy kicks into high gear from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. when five Athens-based musical acts take the stage to put on an electrifying show that gives audiences a taste of Athens’ legendary underground music scene. Featuring the southern twang of Peach Ice Cream Bluegrass, the bluesy folk sensibilities of Cannon Rogers, the groovy psychedelic funk rock of Patio, the unbridled chaos of electronic hard rockers Alien Funk Academy, and the reimagined jam band classics of Grateful Dead cover band Dire Wolf, Westside Motor Lounge’s ATHDay celebration is sure to have something for any and every concertgoer. Tickets are $15 per person and can be purchased at www.westsidemotorlounge.com.

For more information, call 678-388-9536. Westside Motor Lounge is located on the corner of Northside Drive and Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway at 725 Echo Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. Stay connected on Instagram @Westside_Motor_Lounge.

RIVAL ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS BIG NIGHT OUT FEAT. LAKE STREET DIVE & MARVELOUS 3

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 5/12/25

Hosted at the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark, the Event is Part of a Series of Concerts Under the Stars in Public Spaces

Call off your dogs and grab your freak of the week because Big Night Out is back as a two-part story featuring Lake Street Dive and Marvelous 3, October 03 and 04 at the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark. Presented by Atlanta festival producer Rival Entertainment, Big Night Out is a series of concerts under the stars in public places, which has included last year’s An Evening with CAKE, Big Boi, Futurebirds, Marcus King Trio, Moon Taxi, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, and others. 

Lake Street Dive, the genre-blending band with a sound described as “if the Beatles and Motown had a party,” will get the party started- headling night one. Hometown heroes Marvelous 3, who have recently enjoyed a resurgence and have recently played three sold-out nights at The Tabernacle to celebrate their 25th anniversary, will close out the festivities on night two. Additional details, including special guests, will be released soon.

Located at the Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark on the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail, which hosted last year’s near-capacity crowd, organizers are encouraging fans to take advantage of the proximity of the venue to several landmarks such as Inman Park (.3 miles), Ponce City Market (.5 miles), Krog Market (.6 miles), and Piedmont Park (1.2 miles). While the event will be walkable for many, there will also be a complimentary bicycle valet, ride-share drop-off locations, and nearby parking.

General Admission and VIP ticket options for Big Night Out will go on sale Friday, May 16, through Rival Entertainment at Big Night Out. Lake Street Dive has partnered with PLUS1, donating $1 per ticket to First Peoples Fund and their work supporting artists and culture bearers helping Native communities heal and thrive, and the PLUS1 LA Fires Fund, providing critical relief and long-term recovery support for individuals, families, and communities impacted by the devastating LA wildfires.  Big Night Out is an all-ages event. Free admission for children under seven with a ticketed adult.

Big Night Out is produced by Rival Entertainment. Visit www.BigNightOutATL.com for the most up-to-date information. Stay connected on Facebook @RivalEntertainmentATL and Instagram at @RivalEntertainment. Historic Fourth Ward Skatepark is located at 830 Willoughby Way, Atlanta, Georgia.

TWO URBAN LICKS ANNOUNCES JANUARY LIVE MUSIC LINEUP

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 1/19/25

Artists Include: Amy Jones, Brandon Reeves, Alex Graey, Francisco Vidal, Matt Wauchope, Dark Star Brothers, Larry Griffith, Jason Pastras Trio, Billy Brennan, Avery Chaffin

Free Live Music Every Tuesday through Sunday in January 2025

TWO urban licks is striking a high note as it celebrates two decades of culinary excellence and unforgettable live music. Nestled along the Atlanta BeltLine, this iconic venue has become synonymous with bold flavors, fiery vibes, and a soundtrack that keeps guests coming back for more. Known as the city’s premier spot to pair wood-fired cuisine with an ever-evolving lineup of local and regional talent, TWO urban licks invites music lovers and food enthusiasts alike to turn up the volume this January.

Whether it’s a midweek melody or a weekend crescendo, TWO urban licks strikes the perfect chord for every occasion. The January music schedule kicks off with Larry Griffith every Tuesday evening and Sunday brunch; Jason Pastras Trio every Wednesday; Billy Brennan every Thursday; and Avery Chaffin during Saturday brunch. In addition, guests can look forward to standout performances every Friday and Saturday night, including Amy Jones (1/3-1/4); Brandon Reeves (1/10, 1/18); Alex Graey (1/11); Francisco Vidal (1/17); Matt Wauchope (1/24-1/25); and Dark Star Brothers (1/31).

From smooth jazz to acoustic melodies, TWO urban licks provides a dynamic setting for date nights, group gatherings, or casual evenings out. To make a reservation or for more information, call 404.522.4622 or visit  twourbanlicks.com. TWO urban licks is located in the Old Fourth Ward at 820 Ralph McGill Blvd. Atlanta, GA 30306. Stay connected on Instagram and Facebook at @TwoUrbanLicks.

JANUARY LIVE MUSIC SCHEDULE: 

10-Jan:  Brandon Reeves

11-Jan:  Alex Graey

17-Jan:  Francisco Vidal

18-Jan:  Brandon Reeves

24-Jan:  Matt Wauchope

25-Jan:  Matt Wauchope

31-Jan:  Dark Star Brothers

Every Tuesday:  Larry Griffith

Every Wednesday:  Jason Pastras Trio

Every Thursday:  Billy Brennan

Every Saturday Brunch:  Avery Chaffin

Every Sunday Brunch:  Larry Griffith

* Schedule subject to change.