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THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Alt-J w/ Hundred Waters Wednesday, March 6 Masquerade - 695 North Avenue NE in Atlanta 30308 SOLD OUT! The annual music migration to Austin and SXSW has begun which means there's a crazy amount of quality live music in town this week. It's insane, really. Which kind of makes me feel like an asshole for highlighting a sold out Alt-J show for my top pick considering, well, unless you already have a ticket you're sort of shit out of luck. [...]

There is every promise that Nigredo's long-anticipated debut, Collapse & Resurrection , will be one of the major musical highlights of 2013. All the signs are there. The double vinyl release, the beautiful and mystical cover art, the corporeal vs. metaphysical connotations of the album title and the fact that Nigredo have established themselves as one the city's most talented and compelling live acts, all point to a highly ambitious and painstakingly crafted work that will likely come to define the band's burgeoning career in one way or another. In order to pay [...]

There is every promise that Nigredo's long-anticipated debut, Collapse & Resurrection , will be one of the major musical highlights of 2013. All the signs are there. The double vinyl release, the beautiful and mystical cover art, the corporeal vs. metaphysical connotations of the album title and the fact that Nigredo have established themselves as one the city's most talented and compelling live acts, all point to a highly ambitious and painstakingly crafted work that will likely come to define the band's burgeoning career in one way or another. In order to pay [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Circa Survive w/ Touché Amoré, Balance and Composure Friday, September 21 Center Stage - 1374 West Peachtree Street in Atlanta 30309 Admission $19 / Purchase Tickets On their fourth full length, Violent Waves , Philadelphia's Circa Survive continue to push the boundaries of their spacey prog-punk experimentation, tastefully blending ethereal melodies with soaring riffs and pseudo-psychedelic flourishes. It's likely the band's most ambitious work; everything sounds big and bold and the group displays a ready willingness [...]

Nigredo have quietly become one of the city's most intense live acts, but very little recorded material from them exist, and their debut record has seemingly been just on the horizon for years. But finally last Friday they gave us a first taste of that future release, and it was well worth the wait. Check out some of the best instrumental rock to ever come out of this city. Nigredo soundcloud [...]

Up until now, any mention of an impending Nigredo record seemed to be mere conjecture—there were hints and innuendos, but never anything truly definitive. But here at last we have finally have some hard evidence in the form of first available track from the album, "Last of Our Kind." And while it's not the first time we've heard the song before—we posted a live video of the band performing this very track back in April—it is our initial opportunity to hear how the band's dense and atmospheric post-rock will translate in the recording studio (to put [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: IndieATL 5th Anniversary Party w/ Cousin Dan, Clan Destined, From Exile, Great American Breakdown Saturday, May 5 Star Bar - 437 Moreland Avenue in Atlanta 30307 Admission $5 This pick isn't so much about the lineup (although it's a good one, no doubt) as it is about indieATL who will be celebrating its fifth anniversary this Saturday night at Star Bar . In that time, Matt Rowles and his production team at the Digital Arts Entertainment Lab at Georgia [...]

If you didn't make it out to the last Atlanta Music Roundtable showcase, you missed some undoubtedly great performances from the Electric Nature and Lucy Dreams . But most of all you missed out on Nigredo pushing the envelope and taking their live show to another level. Instead of cluttering the stage with equipment and personnel, the Atlanta six-piece spread themselves across the back of the Earl , taking over not only the stage, but also the entire right corner next to the soundboard. In addition to their unusual takeover of the [...]

Photos of Nigredo performing for the Atlanta Music Roundtable showcase at the Earl on March 24, 2012. All photos by Brandon Funk. Click on a photo to enlarge. [...]

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THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Atlanta Music Roundtable Showcase w/ Nigredo, Lucy Dreams, The Electric Nature Tuesday, March 27 The Earl - 466 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 $5 / Purchase Tickets When we first came up with the idea for the Atlanta Music Roundtable to host a local showcase, the concept was simple: bring together a diverse range of artists that we felt represented the best in Atlanta music. We didn't necessarily have the intention of a recurring event, but [...]

The Atlanta Music Roundtable is at it again. Always seeking to expose our fellow Atlantans to new exciting sounds cultivated and grown in the red clay of Northern Georgia, the Roundtable is hosting another showcase set of local artists at the EARL: Nigredo, Lucy Dreams and the Electric Nature. $5 in advance. Get your tickets here . Join us and enjoy.

Hey kids, we had so much fun and the turnout was so fantastic for 20112s year-end Atlanta Music Roundtable show that all us local music writers got together and decided it would be a good idea if we expanded the event and put on a few more showcases this year. So on March 27th, AMR will host our second ever showcase at the Earl and we've crafted another rad lineup to celebrate all that's great about Atlanta music. Headlining the show will be experimental post-rockers Nigredo with Lucy Dreams and the [...]

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Photos of O'Brother , Nigredo , Big jesus and Manray performing at the O'Brother Garden Window release show the Masquerade on January 6, 2012. All photos by Bobby Russell. Click on a photo to enlarge. [...]

Nigredo bassist Aaron Hendrickson has spent 2011 quietly putting out records from his ambient project Tree Witch . He released his third installment of the year, a four song EP called Mintaka , a couple weeks ago, and it's a really nice collection of soundscapes. Here's a taste, and then go explore his bandcamp page . Tree Witch : "Alkyone" Download/Stream Mintaka [...]

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For just over the past year, Aaron Hendrickson, bassist for experimental post-rockers Nigredo , has been crafting ambient electronic soundscapes under the moniker Tree Witch . His latest record, the four-song Mintaka EP, was released earlier today and it features icy sheets of droning synths and eerie, ghostly tones drifting across windswept fields of atmospheric white noise. It's moody, entrancing music made for staring pensively into the distance and getting lost in one's thoughts. If I was forced to choose a single composition that best communicates Hendrickson's cinematic aesthetic it would be the [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Purge ATL One Year Anniversary Party w/ All Night Drug Prowling Wolves, Barreracudas, COPS Sunday, August 28 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $10 / Purchase Tickets With such a wealth of local bands performing for Nophest 2011 , there is no shortage of excellent shows this week, any one of which could rightfully make a case for this here top spot. The Ohmpark and Chad Radford-curated shows, occurring simultaneously on [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Book Club (Album Release Show) w/ Madeline, Jeremy Ray and the Gonzo Orchestra Thursday, August 4 The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission $7 / Purchase Tickets Folk is not my genre of choice. What little folk I do listen to is arrived at mostly through accidental discovery or through friends. But Ghost , the debut LP from Atlanta quintet Book Club encapsulates everything that I enjoy about the genre — a [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Wu-Tang Clan with DJ Kash Tuesday, December 14 Center Stage - 1374 West Peachtree Street NW in Atlanta 30309 Admission is $41.50 / Purchase Tickets THE BEST OF THE REST: Atlanta, get ready to throw your Ws up y'all, the Wu is coming to town! Almost 20 years in the game and, still, for my money, nobody does it better. Individually, they've enjoyed an incredible amount of success with classic solo joints dropped from [...]