The atmosphere felt less like a conventional concert and more like a gathering of kindred souls who happen to prefer their emotional catharsis dressed in black.
Interpol – Live @ The Eastern
Parcels – Live @ The Eastern
If musical chemistry were an Olympic discipline, these Australians would have departed Atlanta with enough gold to make customs suspicious. More importantly, their command of the room never required theatrical arrogance; their greatest flex was making everyone feel included in the performance.
Phoebe Bridgers – Live @ State Farm Arena
Phoebe Bridgers' The Lost Tour: Some memories deserve more than storage. They deserve to be lived.
Fuerza Regida – Live @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
The Música Mexicana trailblazers delivered a cinematic celebration of their improbable ascent, transforming a night of corridos, orchestral grandeur, and unapologetic extravagance into a testament to the distance between humble beginnings and stadium-sized dreams.
Festival Review: Shaky Knees 2026 @ Piedmont Park
There are music festivals that happen in a city, and then there are festivals that gradually become part of a city’s identity. Shaky Knees has managed the latter. From September 18–20, the festival returned for its 13th edition, and its second year in Piedmont Park, bringing more than 60 acts to four stages beneath Atlanta’s stubborn late-summer sun.
Juanes – Live @ Coca-Cola Roxy
Juanes was still able to stand in an Atlanta venue and make thousands of people sing as though they were one voice. The spectacle was impressive, but the deeper achievement was more difficult to manufacture — longevity without irrelevance, evolution without abandoning one's roots, and fame without losing the sense that music is ultimately about people.
MUSE – Live @ Lakewood Amphitheatre
MUSE turned Atlanta into something considerably more ambitious than a concert venue. Lakewood Amphitheatre became a launchpad, a theater, a science-fiction transmission station and, at various points, what appeared to be the control room of a very expensive alien invasion. The Atlanta stop of The Wow! Signal Tour arrived as part of the band tour... Continue Reading →
Franz Ferdinand – Live @ Buckhead Theatre
If there was one genuine problem with the evening, it was not Franz Ferdinand. It was physics. Buckhead Theatre’s general-admission floor was packed, and Franz Ferdinand are a band that practically demands more square footage than the average human body is willing to surrender. Their songs create an involuntary contradiction: your brain says, “Stand here and watch,” while your legs respond, “Absolutely not.”
Eagles of Death Metal – Live @ Center Stage
There are bands that arrive at a concert venue to perform, and then there are bands that seem to have wandered in from the nearest bar after somebody promised them electricity. Eagles of Death Metal have always belonged firmly in the second category.
Chance Peña – Live @ Variety Playhouse
His compositions have found homes on countless playlists because they articulate emotions that many struggle to express themselves. As contemporary folk continues evolving alongside indie and Americana influences, Peña has established himself as one of the genre's most compelling storytellers, balancing poetic lyricism with understated arrangements that never distract from the narratives at their core.
