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Lumar LeBlanc: "The Soul Rebels Are One of the Greatest Bands Ever Created"

By John Hood
Dec 3, 2015

Lumar LeBlanc clearly doesn’t abide by the old adage “Show, don’t tell.” Oh, The Soul Rebels’ leader probably won’t bother to say so; not in so many words, anyway. He doesn’t need to. Because instead of fretting what shows, he’s already telling you how it is: “The Soul Rebels are...
Gang of Four's Andy Gill: "We Didn't Want to Talk Down to People From Atop Our Soapboxes"

By John Hood
Oct 27, 2015

In a just world, we would hear Gang of Four's "Damaged Goods" on American classic-rock radio as often as the Clash's "London Calling." Both songs take cues from varying aspects of the British day-to-day (a Morrison's supermarket slogan and BBC Radio's wartime broadcasts, respectively), and each puts enough post in...
The Psychedelic Furs Are Still Looking Pretty in Pink

By John Hood
May 28, 2015

Like talent, it can’t be taught. Like the wind, it can’t be caught. And like cool, it can’t be bought. Not at any price. It can’t be bottled, it can’t be boxed, and it won’t go in your pocket. It can’t be touched either, but it wants to be touching...
Gummdrops, Wynwood-based Booking Agency, Takes Over Third Thursdays at Stache

By John Hood
Nov 19, 2014

Wynwood during a Second Saturday art walk might poetically be described as a veritable Dionysian bacchanal of now sound and inner vision. Or, less poetically, as the loudest party in the largest outdoor street museum in the world. This night is unlike any other night anywhere ever, thanks to the...
Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull: "I Planned on Being in This Band Forever When I Started It"

By John Hood
Oct 21, 2014

Four years, three albums, and a good thousand shows later, Georgia's most roarsome quintet, Manchester Orchestra, returns to our neck of the hoods after last playing Revolution Live in 2010. But whereas it once performed back-to-back opening slots at that venue, supporting the likes of Silversun Pickups, this time, the...

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