It’s gonna be a lot quieter around here for a while. With the panic over COVID-19 spreading quicker than the virus itself, one has to wonder whether any music venues, or public businesses of any sort, will remain open by the end of this week. While there are still holdouts, the current trend suggests not.… Continue reading Coronavirus Cancels Concert Culture
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Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969, Part 1
Changing Perceptions: Six Weeks Before Woodstock, the First Atlanta International Pop Festival Brought a Similar (and Some Might Say Better) Experience to Georgia. Bobby Moore Tracks Down Participants for a Fond Look Back During his speech at the Tabernacle’s Jan. 9, 2016 memorial service for longtime business partner Alex Cooley, Atlanta-based concert promoter Peter Conlon… Continue reading Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969, Part 1
Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969, Part 2
Things got better once Artigue and friends arrived at the Atlanta International Raceway – a place where like-minded outcasts gathered and, for one weekend only, cops turned a blind eye to unscrupulous behavior. “That was the first place I ever really got high on pot. I was trying hard in New Orleans, but that was… Continue reading Atlanta International Pop Festival 1969, Part 2
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
I saw the best minds of my generation shrivel to irrelevance, forced to rely on Wall Street, lawyers, the American military and upstate New York Republicans to salvage a poorly planned, shoddily executed mud pit of delusion on par with Guyana. With roads blocked from what was expected to be 20,000 attendees but turned out… Continue reading Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Levitation Announces First Wave of 2019 Acts
Forget South by Southwest, it burst at the seams years ago. Forget Austin City Limits, too – at this point it’s not noticeably different from most other interchangeable outdoor music festivals. Nah, Levitation is the Austin, Texas music fest that should be on your to-do list. (Assuming you dig cool music, that is.) Since its… Continue reading Levitation Announces First Wave of 2019 Acts
Wu-Tang Clan to Topline A3C 2018
A3C organizers pulled quite the coup for their 14th annual event, hosted this October at the Ga. Freight Depot. Wu-Tang Clan, a classic group in the Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon category of rappers every rock fan seems to dig, descends on Atlanta that weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers. The collective,… Continue reading Wu-Tang Clan to Topline A3C 2018
Altamont
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day By Joel Selvin [Dey Street/William Morrow] OK, I’m going to go ahead and assume that all you super-hip readers of Stomp and Stammer already have a pretty good idea of what went down at Altamont: A shitload of people showed… Continue reading Altamont