Dean Roland finds a new way to shine

Atlanta’s music community is so vast an industry veteran can get lost in the mix. That’s not exactly what happened to Dean Roland, rhythm guitarist for the multiplatinum Stockbridge, Georgia band Collective Soul (and baby brother to its lead singer, Ed). But when Dean’s side project–the Britrock-influenced Magnets and Ghosts, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Ryan Potesta–released its debut album, Mass, in 2011, few trumpets sounded up and down Peachtree.

A Beatle, a Rock Lobster, and how John Lennon got his mojo back

Six months before his 1980 assassination, John Lennon took his four-year-old son Sean on vacation to Bermuda while wife Yoko Ono ran the family business back home in New York. For nearly five years, Lennon’s guitar had hung, unstrummed, on a wall above the couple’s bed. He canceled his subscription to Billboard, learned how to bake bread, and became a househusband and stay-at-home dad for Sean.
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Mumford, Sons kicked out of Clermont Lounge

They may have performed in front of thousands of adoring fans in Centennial Olympic Park Tuesday night, but Mumford & Sons later got unceremoniously booted from Anthony Bourdain’s fave Atlanta hang out after breaking the Clermont Lounge’s cardinal rule — absolutely no photos. Complete with grainy video of the ejection, TMZ.com first broke the story online early Thursday morning. Apparently, the skirmish occurred after the band’s triumphant Instagram selfie-inducing show for fans in the downtown park and Ben Lovett and the boys boarded the Fur Bus for the Ponce de Leon Avenue club.

Jagged Edge Makes a Comeback

Known for smooth ballads and mellow love songs, such as 2000’s chart-topper “Let’s Get Married” and 2001’s “Promise,” multiplatinum R&B group Jagged Edge has returned from a three-year break with a new album on a new label. The Grammy-nominated quartet’s seventh studio a

Patty Loveless

At fifty-four, country songstress Patty Loveless can still belt out tunes in a rich, Kentucky-bred lilt and shimmy blithely around a stage, her strawberry-blond shag swinging. But the Paulding County resident and Georgia Music Hall of Famer doesn’t take for granted that she can breathe well enough to do so. Her older sister, Dottie—a spunky singer herself, whose gumption first inspired a young, shy Loveless to perform—died at forty-eight because she couldn’t b

Zac Brown protege Nic Cowan steps into the spotlight with “Hardheaded” debut

Cabbagetown singer-singwriter Nic Cowan's Southern accented growl of a voice immediately conjures up vintage visions of John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. So, it's a little jarring when you come face to face with a 28 year old, tatted up skinny white boy. "I get that a lot!" says Cowan. "A lot of people think I sound a lot different than the way I am."

Corbette Jackson

It was weeks before Corbette Jackson heard his own song on the radio, but not because “Heart of a Champion” wasn’t getting plenty of airtime. The nineteen-year-old Newnan native—who still has the bashful Ashton Kutcher smile and linebacker shoulders of a high school athlete—and his manager, Stokes Nielson, have bee

Former R&B artist Montell Jordan takes to the pulpit

On a drab Saturday evening inside the 1,500-seat auditorium of Victory World Church in Gwinnett County, a boom-mounted camera sweeps the crowd. Six screens glow blue above the stage, each ticking with a countdown clock. Finally the lights dim, the crowd rises and sways, and a towering figure in a checkered cardigan and baggy leather pants takes center stage, flanked by four singers, four guitarists, a drummer, and a keyboardist. Behind him is a massive white cross, built of wavy tiles.

Stomp and Stammer’s Jeff Clark may be the most hated man in Atlanta today

On a day with a -5 wind chill, the temperature throughout the city managed to plunge even further south on Tuesday once Atlantans got a look at the January issue of Stomp and Stammer magazine. The 17-year-old monthly ‘zine published and edited by veteran Atlanta writer Jeff Clark, is a self-described hodgepodge of “news, music, noise, opinion and garbage.” Across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr posts, friends, family and fans of Atlanta chef and restaurant owner Ria Pell are using the latter term to describe Clark’s 2013 In Review wrap up in the new issue.

Laughing Pizza

Lumping in a Lilliputian wheelchair in a hotel ballroom near the airport, six-year-old Abby Gilmore could not be coaxed to talk. Not even on the radio, by members of Q100’s The Bert Show, not even though she was about to leave for Disney World on Bert’s Big Adventure, a nonprofit that gives chronically and terminally ill children and their families a vacation. Minnie Mouse and Captain Jack Sparrow wandered the room, dancing with other kids, but Abby, who has spina bifida,

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