Blog: Mixtape Maestro

In recent months it has become increasingly difficult to wade through the Internet without being smacked across the face with some new corner of the Web touting Alabama Shakes as the best new thing ever; give a casual ear to any part of the Athens, Alabama-birthed four-piece's full length debut Boys & Girls though, and you'll immediately understand what the fuss is all about, while instantly becoming just as obsessed over the band and their refreshingly frills-free bluesy, Southern rock-soul comfort food-widely reported as something one must peep live-as everyone else. [...]