Mudfish, Mood Rings, Coathangers, and more weigh in on the year ahead
Still more ATL predictions for 2012 from local music artists
For this week's CL music feature, 13 predictions for Atlanta's music scene(s) in 2012, I got together with a pretty broad swath of local artists to talk about their New Year's resolutions, predictions for the upcoming year, and what they would like to see happen in 2012 that could make Atlanta's music scene better and stronger. This week we're releasing a handful of outtakes from the rest of these conversations we've had over the last two weeks.
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DJ Mudfish
In 2012 I’d like to see promoters and venues getting behind some different DJs and artists. It’s very cliquish out there right now, and with no disrespect to the promoters and venues, I'm kind of tired of seeing the same line-ups. I'd also like to see DJ's grow a pair every once in a while. We are supposed to be breaking records and molding the music scene, not become carbon copies of each other. On a Friday and Saturday night, you can tour the Atlanta nightlife, and hear the same soundtrack everywhere you go. "That ain't right!!!" (In my Chris Rock voice). Throw some zingers!
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Jack Shaw, drummer for the Head
Q: What do you wish would happen that could make Atlanta’s music scene better and stronger in 2012?
A: Less PBR and less reverb.
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Singer / guitarist Joseph War
What could make ATL better and stronger? I’m still a bit on the fence about free shows. I have a tendency to think Atlanta is better off without them in the established venues. I’m about to play my first "free show" at a popular club and I gotta tell ya, I don't know how I feel about that. Maybe I’ll gain some insight after doing it or maybe I’ll never want to do it again. The free shows I did as a kid were at a venue with five punks drunk on cheap cognac sleeping on the floor. That venue was a house on Moreland Ave. in the “Wizard district.”