Atlanta has been home to Alternative “Urban” or Urb-Alt music for decades. This episode I speak with Cufrock, formerly of Atlanta-Based Major Label (Virgin/Arista)group El Pus. We talk about the beginnings of his sound, the early 90s Atlanta scene and how his sound graduated into fusion from Hip Hop.
We talk about connections to Tony Rock (Atlanta Hip Hop pioneer), Anthony David, Proton, Hollyweerd, The Dolldaze, Heavy Mojo, 100 Monkeys, K.I.N (Sol Messiah, Saul Williams, et al), The Micronauts and more…
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]]>Been aware of these guys for a minute, but just discovered this video. Haven't heard their album yet, but this morning got a tweet from fam in ATL (thanks Gudrun!) that the band's live show kills. By the looks of this video, it looks like these guys can show and prove.
From what I see on their MySpace page, it looks like they'll be at SXSW. In the meantime, I'm sure our ATL contributor Dom Brady has them in his sights for an interview in the near future.
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Contributor: Dominick Brady
Boldaslove caught up with Atlanta Electronic musician Ethereal. Originally from College Park, GA., Ethereal took time to talk with me about his sound and his projects just before playing a show at Apache Cafe in Midtown Atlanta.
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Contributor: Dominick Brady
We catch up with TheDollDaze to talk to her about her sound, her new EP “The Acid Report” and to get a sense of her journey as an artist in the Atlanta scene.
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Atlanta Afro-Punk quartet Tendaberry stops by the studio to talk about their experience as a group forming and beginning to come into their own in the Atlanta music scene. In this pod we talk at length about the Atlanta Indie Rock scene, the AUC (Morehouse, Clark-Atlanta & Spelman) music and arts scene and about what it means to them being Black Post-punk musicians.
We discuss their rubbing shoulders and working with ATL-scene acts like Jaspects, Deep Cotton, Janelle Monae, London, Spree Wilson, Lmarr the Great, Smalleyez & now defunct group The Slack Republik.
The interview is a walk through the gritty streets of Atlanta’s west end, a re-introduction into the University of Georgia’s college-town music scene in Athens and a discussion of what it takes to persevere as musicians toeing the line of soul and punk.
For more interviews on Atlanta’s literary, art and music scene please check out dominickbrady.com
Music heard in this pod from Atlanta groups:
-Tendaberry
-Jaspects ft. Janelle Monae
-Small Eyez
-The Slack Republic
Tendaberry has also been kind enough to share a song with us, “Prophets” from their EP Am I Still Illmatic?:
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]]>Monica Arrington is Nerdkween from Rob Fields on Vimeo.
I met Monica at the 2007 URB Alt Festival She’s interesting to me because she’s an example of how the "rock" attitude doesn’t always mean guitar-driven volume. In this interview, she talks about how she came to her ethereal and experimental sound despite having a father who loved and introduced her to Motown.
Another great example of the range of Black interests.
The track that you hear at the beginning and end of the video is her song "Icon" taken from her new album Synergy. Check it out below.
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