Check out Loud Fast Lives, my oral history project about how Georgia's underground music changed lives. Episode 1: Randy DuTeau from the iconic ATL punk band Neon Christ. 🤘 Into the permanent archives, but also streaming at rss.com/podcasts/lou... and on your fave evil corporate platforms.

Big news from Atlanta Roller Derby today -- they've bought Golden Glide skating rink in DeKalb as a permanent home. Historic community venue. 🤘 goldenglide.com

Celebrated July 4 with two of the USA's real contributions to the world -- Elvis and Danzig. Elzig at Moonshadow. 🤘

Also, aptly named Bruce Treasure is a totally underrated guitarist/songwriter of fertile, fantastic weirdness.

Seeing legendary punk band Subhumans again tonight was like re-reading a favorite book and considering the wisdom from an older perspective. In this case, the wisdom that the Trump era is the Reagan/Thatcher era on tax breaks, lip filler, and blow. 🤘

A couple more from Saturday's LungBurner show at 529: openers Dayglo Mourning and Dead Vibes Ensemble 🤘

Why is the 'serving suggestion' for anything vanilla-flavored 'learn the medieval art of alchemy to reduce this food to its elements and eat a flower'

ATL's mighty LungBurner at 529 last night for the record release party for 'Dogma' as sludge/doom/stoner continues to rule the metal scene. lungburner.bandcamp.com/album/dogma They tell me they're already recording the follow-up -- with Bill from Mastodon producing. 🤘

Don't miss this very cool concerts/scene photos exhibit by Chunklet Music Preservation Project -- plus many repros on sale. Amazing punk/new wave/rock/drag archives you won't see anyplace else. June 27, 4-7, The Imperial, Decatur. Just the start of more and bigger Chunklet stuff coming soon.

For fans of nightmare Ponce intersections and human guinea-pig experimentation, last night in this classic cluster, I got stuck behind a Waymo that insisted on trying to make that insane left-hand turn into traffic. Who could I honk at? It finally gave up and wandered off into Decatur someplace.

Tom Cheshire sings along at his own fundraiser for his America-sized medical debt at Star Community Bar last night. There's a reason 'community' is in the name of this precious institution.

Congrats 2026 on being officially shitty enough to rationalize 2010 nostalgia. 'The attitude.'

Anyone investigating GDOT for the crime-ridden federally funded transportation system known as Georgia's highways? 285 alone had more wild violent crime in the past six months.

Last week was a hell of a time to be in Louisiana and visiting Homer Plessy's tomb.

Records custodian:

Bumped metal horns with Jinx from Coven, who just maybe invented 'em, last Saturday at Aisle 5 in L5P. And don't sleep on local opener Drugula, which is like Xena fronting Sabbath and has an album on the way... 🤘🤘

A couple years into Hollywood's fad of tedious, corny, overbudgeted, dad-joke versions of B-movies (and self-congratulatory Oscar binges), it is such a joy to go back to a real master like Larry Cohen.

Very cool talk about the South's oldest punk house, 309, last night at MODA, cosponsored by Chunklet Music Preservation Project. Proud to be working with Chunklet, which you will hear a lot more of this year, on punk/metal/subculture preservation. 🤘

When the going gets weirder than the weird, the weird get even weirder. Untouchable to the end. 🔥✊

A belated RIP to Marshall Barnes, who saw cowtown Ohio as an inherently magical place, and thus made it so. Thanks, man. 🤘

The 'Surrender to Death' ATL underground metal comp is total metal up your Beltline. Thanks to whoever this is. (And RIP Marco, Hallow's Eve, et al.) 🤘 borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surren...

Cool & kind that not only did Faith No More's Roddy Bottum sign his new memoir (www.acappellabooks.com/pages/books/...) for me at Criminal Records yesterday, but he also asked about my own book. When a FNM guy thinks your cover art is wild, you know to stay weird... 🤘 www.amazon.com/Arrowmask-Ag...

As always, instructive to contrast TV news weather forecasts (focus on max possible outcomes) with NWS forecast (focus on probable outcomes and detailed explanation of modeling) www.weather.gov/ffc/

Relatedly, here's a mini memorial to Mastodon's Brent Hinds, who I won't have those convos with anymore, on the taps at at Elmyr, which is place with cultural respect and memory. RIP and long live 'gritty' non-'live/work/play' non-'upzoned' ATL.

In a surprise for anyone who reads only tech-bro-owned media, a horn-impervious Waymo blocking Moreland tonight in one of Atlanta's few non ruined neighborhoods

L5P pro tip: The new Little 5 Pub (ex Corner Tavern/9 Lives) has former Highlander chef Ice running the kitchen -- and he still makes the giant chicken pot pie of yore

I still can't believe how close this place came to giving up the ghost for the suburban wealth extraction project du jour ✊

A highlight of last night's Elzig Xmas show at Star Bar (benefiting Toys for Tots and Lifeline animal shelter) was Evil Jim shredding on a Squire then giving it to a kid in the crowd. 🤘

The new metal as fuck L5P plaza sports a pentagram 🤘

The Chunklet Music Preservation Project had a cool and important ATL punk/rock/no-wave history event last night featuring unseen photos of Sex Pistols' ATL show and early RuPaul, plus Gordon Stevenson/Lydia Lunch stuff we apparently will soon read about in the Guardian. 🤘 www.chunklet.org