Sat, May 4 On Sale: Feb/7Shaky Knees Music FestivalThe Lumineers | Band of Horses | Jim James | Drive-By Truckers | Gary Clark Jr. | Dr. Dog | The Joy Formidable | Lucero | Delta Spirit | Kurt Vile & The Violators | The Black Angels | Goat | The Heavy Pets | The Aquards | J Roddy Walston and the Business | Moon Taxi | Murder By Death | Oberhofer | Vintage Trouble | Shpongle | Robert Ellis | The Orwells | Frontier Ruckus | Hanni El Khatib | Roadkill Ghost Choir | T. Hardy Morris | You Me and Apollo | Death On Two WheelsMasquerade Music Park & Historic 4th Ward ParkTickets12:00 PM | 2-day Ticket - $99.00 ADV | 2-day VIP Ticket - $265.00 ADV All AgesTweet Shaky Knees Music FestivalAtlanta will welcome a brand new music event, Shaky Knees Music Festival, to the Historic Fourth Ward Park and the Masquerade Music Park on May 4 and 5th. The two-day festival will feature 28 bands across three outdoor stages as well as local food trucks, artisans and vendors. Two-day general admission tickets as well as VIP passes go on sale on February 7 at Ticketmaster.The lineup for Shaky Knees includes everything from up-and-comers The Orwells to “Best New Artist” Grammy nominees The Lumineers, with an eclectic lineup that includes Band of Horses, Jim James, Welsh rockers the Joy Formidable, Kurt Vile & the Violators and more.  Curated by longtime Atlanta promoter…Read More The LumineersThe Lumineers “Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, ‘I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good ‘cause I’ve been practicing a lot.’” -The New York Times, 3/15/92 Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw the future. Back then, growing up in the New York City suburb of Ramsey, New Jersey, Wesley spent his days drawing side by side with his best friend, Josh Fraites. Today, as bandleader of The Lumineers, Wesley’s replaced his pencil with a guitar, his drawings with songs, and plays side by side with Joshua’s younger brother Jeremiah. He still practices a lot, and it still turns out good. But…Read More Band of Horses“Now it’s hard to remember it any other way.” Band of Horses singer Ben Bridwell’s compellingly evasive lyrical style will never let the listener on to the exact intent of this line as it appears in “Neighbor,” the expansive Infinite Arms album closer, but taken out of the context of the song it becomes a sentiment of currency. The present state of the band is as close to ideal as rock n’ roll can be. Having assembled a true creative and personal collective, designed and signed the record deal of his dreams, and made a fantastic new album free of any influence other than his onstage brothers in arms, it’s hard to imagine that Bridwell cares to dwell on any time but the…Read More Jim JamesJim James is the lead singer for Kentucky-based band My Morning Jacket. As singer, frontman, producer and lead song-writer, he is often seen as the main creative force behind the band, (?)especially in defining their sound, notably on critically acclaimed album Z. James occasionally plays solo shows (often with Carl Broemel on Guitar & Pedal Steel), showcasing “bare-bones” versions of My Morning Jacket songs along with various covers. Notably, James (with Broemel) supported John Prine for several shows in late summer 2006. James is also a member of the Indie super group Monsters of Folk.Read More Drive-By TruckersFar more than on any of the Drive-By Truckers’ previous albums, Go-Go Boots rises like smoke from the old Muscle Shoals country-and-soul sound. Having recorded with Bettye LaVette and Booker T. Jones, and having spent a lifetime listening to classic soul albums by Bobby Womack, Tony Joe White, and especially Eddie Hinton, it was inevitable that the Truckers eventually produce this album.We knew they were pin-your-ears-back rock and roll. But here in Go-Go Boots, the Truckers are country, and here, too, the Truckers are soul and rhythm and blues. It looks funny, on paper—the words country/soul mashed up like that—but maybe in the end it comes down to this one shared ethos:…Read More Gary Clark Jr.The only thing growing faster than Gary Clark Jr.’s acclaim—among fans, critics and iconic musicians alike—is the scope of his talents and tastes.But nothing you have seen, heard or read can prepare you for the power and scope of his debut album, Blak And Blu. Not the buzz from his Run-The-House tour through the 2012 festival season which included Coachella, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Bonnaroo, Metallica’s Orion Fest, and Lollapalooza, to Jay Z’s Made in America Festival (the only artist invited to play both nights) and continuing through the upcoming Neil Young curated Bridge School Benefit, Austin City Limits gathering and NOLA’s Voodoo Fest. …Read More Dr. DogDr. Dog is a psychedelic rock group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which formed in 1999. The current lineup consists of Scott “Taxi” McMicken (vocals, guitar), Toby “Tables” Leaman (vocals, bass), Zach “Text” Miller (keyboards, guitar), Frank “Thanks” McElroy (guitar) and Eric “Teach” Slick (drums).“There’s a little folk, blues, indie rock, soul, bluegrass—and a whole lot of down-home harmonizing. It conjures images of old friends sitting on a porch swapping instruments and just letting the tape recorder run.” - Doug Wallen Dr. Dog has been creating music in various incarnations for four years now. Beginning with The Psychedelic Swamp,…Read More The Joy FormidableNot a lot goes down in Casco, Maine. In the winter months, this sequestered hamlet around 30 miles from Portland in the North Easternmost tip of the United States acquires a Siberian stillness as suffocating snow descends and carpets this eerily remote and reclusive region.Yet it was to a forest just outside Casco that The Joy Formidable singer/guitarist Ritzy Bryan and bassist Rhydian Dafydd retired at the start of 2012 to dream up their magnificent second album, Wolf’s Law, a record that teems with imagination, yearning and a Carpe Diem restlessness.“It was just the two of us in this isolated spot where we hardly saw anybody else all the time we were there,” says Ritzy.…Read More LuceroWomen & Work is a love letter from Lucero to its hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. “Having a band in Memphis puts you in a tradition,” says Lucero frontman Ben Nichols. “We started at punk rock shows, not necessarily playing punk rock, but coming from the outside, from a bohemian place.” The bohemian tradition is just as strong in Memphis as the city’s series of international hits. The popularity of Sun, Stax, Elvis, and Al Green doesn’t diminish the influence of the blues, Jim Dickinson, and Alex Chilton. The bridge between the shadows and the spotlight has become the heart of Lucero: Unafraid to mix pop with their anti-pop, they always charge into new territory. As…Read More