Heroes x Villains, Lyonnais, Wowser Bowser, Rasta Root, and more weigh in on the coming year

• Heroes x Villains

For this week's CL music feature, 13 predictions for Atlanta's music scene(s) in 2012, I got together with a pretty wide assortment 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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Read "More ATL predictions for 2012."

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... And read "Mudfish, Mood Rings, Coathangers, and more weigh in on the year ahead."

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Heroes x Villains
One of the main trends I see gaining momentum in Atlanta and worldwide is the growing popularity of post-dubstep; the inevitable, more subtle backlash to the heavier “brostep” sound ... Together with local “curator of cool” BLKKMORRIS, we're pushing our own version of this type of sound, half-jokingly named "luxury trap" where we take inspiration from Southern trap music, chopped/screwed, post-dubstep bass music and throwing it all together.

There's a new creative class of young kids doing really interesting music in this city that doesn't sound like anything before, but you can see the influence of not only Atlanta history but the influence of Atlanta's influence in LA's “jerk” music scene which has come full-circle back to here.

I see Future and Tity Boi, aka 2 Chainz being next to really break out of the Atlanta bubble to nationwide and hopefully worldwide success. This sounds ridiculous living here because if you go out to any club, you'll hear songs that either of them are on for 30% of the night but they are just now really catching on across the country. The lifespan of a record is on hyper speed inside of 285. It's a completely different timeline....

Another thing that would greatly help the Atlanta music scene is coverage more in tune with the creative community here....

I miss the days when Creative Loafing felt dangerous, like back in high school when I felt like I'd get in trouble for reading it. Now it just panders to yuppies and its advertisers.