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Half A Decade

Today marks exactly five years since I first launched this music blog. That’s kind of a long time. Over the last half a decade, I’ve put so much of my life into this website, studying and evaluating music, writing and blogging, navigating this ever-sprawling local music scene. It’s been exhausting. So, I’m celebrating this year’s anniversary with a little break. I’m going to take the next couple months off from Ohmpark and work on other projects. I wouldn’t call it a hiatus precisely, as I may occasionally post something here and there, but blogging will be rather infrequent for a little while.

Thanks for five fun years, y’all.

Atlanta Music Roundtable 2011 Concert

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Atlanta Music Roundtable 2011

As you may remember from last year, many of us Atlanta music bloggers teamed up to do a collaborative year end discussion of 2010 music called the Atlanta Music Roundtable. If you missed it, you can read through it all here. Well, we’re doing it again this year, expanding the roundtable to include some new voices, and we’re even throwing a show at the Earl December 21st with some of the 2011′s best local artists, Little Tybee, Today the Moon, Tomorrow the Sun, New Animal, and Spirits and the Melchizedek Children. This year’s roundtable will include Little Advances, Latest Disgrace, Atlanta’s A-List, BeAtlanta, Hijacking Music, I’m A Bear Etc, Wholly Roller, Promising Chord, Max Blau of Paste Magazine, and myself. The roundtable discussion will sprawl out across all of our websites the week leading up to Christmas.

Atlanta Music Roundtable 2011 website

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[Contest] Free Year At The Earl

Scoutmob is running a contest where you can win $800 in concert tickets to The Earl. That’s a pretty awesome prize. For a chance to win, go sign up:

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[Video] Wowser Bowser: “Water Story” (Acoustic Live)

Water Story by Wowser Bowser from LoganSayles on Vimeo.

Nothing Is Beyond

As many of you already know, over the last few years, I’ve branched out from music blogging and started writing science fiction. Today, I finally released my first piece of work. I know that many people who come here looking for local indie music suggestions aren’t necessarily going to want to read science fiction, but for those of you interested, this new project is called Nothing Is Beyond. It is an Internet series of science fiction prose, a website featuring an ongoing story with a new chapter each week. If you’d like to check it out, click on this link:

Nothing Is Beyond website

Tonight, I’ll be celebrating this new project with a launch party at the Goat Farm. Ambulances and Derek Burdette of New Animal will be performing music, and local writers Myke Johns, Andrew Page, Melysa Martinez, Lindsay Oberst, Matthew Gnann, and myself will be performing readings. And Ohmpark’s Joe Ennis will even be doing a little stand-up comedy. It’s free, and you’re invited.

Nothing Is Beyond Launch Party

Thanks, Again

I just wanted to thank everyone who cast a vote for us and helped us win Best Music Blog for the third year in a row. There are so many great local music blogs around here these days, so it’s an honour to continue to have so much support. Thanks, y’all.

Creative Loafing’s Best of Atlanta 2011

Third Atlanta SOUL Project

The Atlanta SOUL Project, a community building fundraiser and local music showcase that happens every two months, returns to the Goat Farm August 14 with New Animal and Small Reactions. For those of you not familiar with how this works, three Atlanta community building projects make a presentation, and then a vote is held deciding which project wins the door money. Also, dinner is provided, so don’t miss out on a great lineup for a good cause.

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