Ken Carson Brings a Chaotic Homecoming to State Farm Arena
On September 13, Atlanta’s State Farm Arena was packed with fans ready for Ken Carson’s hometown show. Before he even took the stage, the floor was already restless. Fans pushed into each other, pits opened throughout the crowd, and whenever someone went down, there was almost always someone reaching in to pull them back up. It was chaotic, but there was a real sense of community in the middle of it.
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Where Intimacy Meets Intensity: The Yuronono Effect
Many of the songs that make up Yuronono’s latest release were written during some of the darkest stretches of her life. Watching You Float feels like the shedding of an old skin. And if this album is the product of what they’ve survived, the next body of work is sure to be the shimmering scales underneath.
Innocence: A Modern Version Of What Makes Nocturne’s Kiss, Nocturne’s Kiss
“Innocence” his latest single, arrives as a distillation of that identity. He describes it as “a modern version of what makes Nocturne’s Kiss, Nocturne’s Kiss”. Where previous work has explored wide ranges of emotions and overarching concepts, “Innocence” arrives with clarity, heavy, dark, dreamlike and drilled with momentum. It feels less like a pivot than a tightening of focus.
Zija’s Covert Maximalism: Organized Chaos from ATL
Atlanta’s underground seems to reinvent itself every few years, mutating around a new network of artists who care more about the art of gathering rather than the confinements of genre attribution. Right now, a band at the center of that motion is Zija, fronted by Danny Griffin and Holden Fincher on guitar. Over the last year the group has turned glitch, hardcore and shoegaze into something that feels equally volatile and intentional.
