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Sean Renner at Smith's Olde Bar

Atlanta native and Denver based musician Sean Renner will perform at Smith's Olde Bar on Tuesday, May 21 as a part of Jack Daniel's Honey Concert Series. Renner will be joined by punk rockers Some Kind of Nightmare and country band Six Time Losers.

It's been three years since Renner last played Atlanta, and his eclectic sound of electronic, acoustic, folk and experimental music has only strengthened.

Check out Renner at Smith's at 8PM sharp! Tickets are only $5 at the door.

500 Songs for Kids 2013- Finale Weekend - Friday Artist List

This weekend 500 Songs for Kids returns to it's original home of Smith's Olde Bar. The lineup and countdown is sure to remind you of home, as they count down 100 of the Greatest Songs by Georgia Artists. Doors open at 7PM and tickets are $20 at the door with all proceeds benefiting Songs for Kids Foundation. Check out the list of confirmed artists for Friday below!

A CELEBRATION OF GEORGIA MUSIC: 100 OF THE GREATEST SONGS BY GEORGIA ARTISTS- Friday, May 17

JOHN DRISKELL HOPKINS PERFORMS R.E.M.’s “DRIVER 8”
LEFT FRONT TIRE PERFORMS LEFT FRONT TIRE'S "BRING YOU DOWN"
ANDY BIRDSALL PERFORMS ANGIE APARO’S “GREEN INTO GOLD”
RADIOLUCENT PERFORMS THE BLACK CROWES' "TWICE AS HARD"
ADAM KLEIN PERFORMS VIC CHESNUTT'S "GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION"
ALAINA TERRY PERFORMS INDIGO GIRLS' "GALILEO"
AN ENGLISH PLACE PERFORMS OF MONTREAL'S "REQUIEM FOR O.M.M."
THE BARRICADES PERFORMS OTIS REDDING'S "FOR YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE"
CHRONIC NOT SERIOUS PERFORMS TLC'S "NO SCRUBS"
CINCH PERFORMS OTIS REDDING'S "A CHANGE IS GONNA COME"
THE DREADED MARCO PERFORMS OTIS REDDING'S "THESE ARMS OF MINE"
ELIZA KELLEY PERFORMS ELTON JOHN'S "TINY DANCER"
GALYNNE GOODWILL PERFORMS AMY GRANT’S “BABY, BABY”
GOODNIGHT BUFFALO PERFORMS VIC CHESNUTT'S "SUPERNATURAL"
JIMI CRAVITY PERFORMS RAY CHARLES' "GEORGIA"
JUSTIN KERENYI PERFORMS DEAD CONFEDERATE’S MEMORIAL DAY NIGHT
LP PERFORMS OUTKAST'S "ELEVATORS (ME AND YOU)"
NICKIE JON PERFORMS PHILLIP PHILLIPS 'S "HOME"
NOBODY'S DARLINGS PERFORMS OUTKAST'S "HEY YA"
PARKER SMITH PERFORMS ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION'S "GEORGIA RHYTHM"
SANJAY KOTHARI PERFORMS DREAMS SO REAL’s ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO
JOHN FROM BEST BROTHERS PERFORMS EAST BOUND AND DOWN BY JERRY REED
SEED AND FEED MARCHING ABOMINABLE
SHAWN MICHAEL HANEY (BROWN*APPLE^) PERFORMS R.E.M.'S "DAYSLEEPER"
SHOOK FOIL PERFORMS NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL'S "KING OF CARROT FLOWERS"
STEPHANIE MMA PERFORMS THE BLACK CROWES' "SHE TALKS TO ANGELS"
THE STILETTOS PERFORMS SUGARLAND'S "BABY GIRL"
THE SUNDOGS PERFORMS GRAM PARSONS' "OOH LAS VEGAS"

Shaky Knees Music Festival

Coming up this weekend, May 4 and 5, is the first ever Shaky Knees Music Festival. Using the stage in the Masquerade Music Park combined with two stages to be set up in the beautiful and adjacent Historic Fourth Ward Park, the Shaky Knees Festival is a full all-day event on both Saturday and Sunday. The festival lineup includes local favorites like Death on Two Wheels and Shovels and Rope as well as two huge daily headliners: Band of Horses and The Lumineers.

The festival was organized by Tim Sweetwood, a longtime Atlanta promoter and talent buyer. Shaky Knees promises to be different from all the other summer music festivals out there, and we are hoping it will be the first year of many. Sweetwood's goal was to appeal to all kinds of music fans and to maybe introduce them to a band that they never would have discovered had they not attended this festival.

In addition to the daytime concerts there is a late-night show on Saturday with GOAT and The Black Angels. Get your tickets soon because two-day passes are already sold out and the one-day passes are soon to follow.

We'll see you there!

Chloe Childs

500 Songs for Kids 2013- Night 6 Artist List

This weekend 500 Songs for Kids takes up residency at The Earl, and Saturday's lineup is as entertaining as Friday's. Plus, with so many musicians in town for other festivals who knows who might stop by. So grab your friends, skinny jeans, and head to The Earl to see great music for an awesome cause. Doors open at 7PM and tickets are $12 at the door with all proceeds benefiting Songs for Kids Foundation. Check out the list of confirmed artists for Night 6 below.

GREATEST COLLEGE RADIO SONGS- Saturday, May 4

LITTLE TYBEE performs Particle Man by They Might Be Giants
TODAY THE MOON, TOMORROW THE SUN perform Hang Me Out to Dry by Cold War Kids
CUTE BOOTS perform Devil Town by Daniel Johnston
JUNGOL performs Paranoid Android by Radiohead
THE HEAD performs You're Pretty Good Looking by the White Stripes
KENNY HOWES AND THE WOW perform Can't Get There From Here by R.E.M.
UNDEAD VIKING MAFIA performs Stars by Hum
THE SEXUAL SIDE EFFECTS perform Radio Free Europe by REM
HE SANG SHE SANG performs Just by Radiohead
THE SUNSET DISTRICT performs Cut Your Hair by Pavement
SPIRITS AND THE MELCHIZEDEK CHILDREN perform Horses In My Dreams by PJ Harvey
SEX BBQ performs Pretend We're Dead by L7
SMALL REACTIONS performs 12XU by Wire
NOOT D' NOOT'S ELECTRO SIREN performs Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes
NO KOMMENT performs Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
TIKKA performs Cherry-Coloured Funk by the Cocteau Twins
SUMMER MORE THAN OTHERS performs It's The End of The World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) BY REM
NEW TERMINUS performs Left of the Dial by the Replacements
BRAIN performs Come Together by Spiritualized
Hey Alligator! Performs Rock Lobster by THE B-52S
BEN TRICKEY performs To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey
AN ENGLISH PLACE performs Race For The Prize by Flaming Lips
Waking The Bates performs I Got Mine by The Black Keys
GOODNIGHT BUFFALO performs Whirring by The Joy Formidable
BLAKE GUTHRIE & GETAWAY CAR performs Panic by the Smiths
THE INTOXICOLOGISTS perform Under the Milky Way by The Church
THE ROTATING POINT SOURCE performs Loser by Beck
MICHAEL C SMITH performs Waitress In the Sky by The Replacements

500 Songs for Kids 2013- Night 5 Artist List

500 Songs for Kids heads to East Atlanta Village this weekend to countdown the 100 Greatest College Radio Songs of All Time at The Earl. Checkout the confirmed artist lineup so far for Friday, May 3.

GREATEST COLLEGE RADIO SONGS- Friday, May 3

CARNIVORES perform Dance This Mess Around by B-52's
COUSIN DAN performs Nightcall by Kavinsky
MOOD RINGS perform Coffee and TV by Blur
FIVE EIGHT performs Celebrated Summer by Husker Du
THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS perform If I Can’t Change Your Mind by Sugar
CHRIST, LORD performs Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies
SHOOK FOIL performs King Of Carrot Flowers by Neutral Milk Hotel
SUSPECT RAPTOR performs Lie To Me by DEPECHE MODE
BOOK CLUB performs Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt. 1 by Flaming Lips
86TH NOISE BATTALION performs Salesmen, Cheats, and Liars by Lowest of the Low
DEL VENICCI performs Rip It Up by Orange Juice
BRAIN BOX performs Sugar Kane by Sonic Youth
HIP TO DEATH performs Still Life by The Horrors
THE PREAKNESS performs Web In Front by Archers of Loaf
DARLING NORMAN performs Monkey Gone to Heaven by The Pixies
RICER performs My Friend Goo by Sonic Youth
NOT FROM HERE performs Lithium by Nirvana
HOTELS perform Rude As Jude by Dom
SYDNEY ELOISE performs Skinny Love by Bon Iver
WILL MITCHELL performs Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
THE OLD FOURTH performs Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
CONCORD AMERICA performs MTV Makes Me Wanna…. by Beck
SUSI FRENCH CONNECTION performs Message of Love by the Pretenders
THE FIRST STONE performs The One I Love by R.E.M.
LEXI STREET performs Kiss Them For Me by Siouxsie and the Banshees
SLIM CHANCE AND THE CONVICTS performs Don't Go Back to Rockville by R.E.M.
NEIL CRIBBS performs Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might be Giants
AL SHELTON performs Pillow Talk by Guadalcanal Diary
XYLAH performs Trouble by Ray LaMontagne

InstaRecap: 500 Songs for Kids Weekend 2

500 Songs for Kids continued its musical marathon on Weekend 2 of the five weekend charity event. Departing Smith's Olde Bar for the first time in seven years, The Loft hosted the second weekend of songs focused on VH1's Greatest Hits from the 1980s and 1990s.

Local musicians including Sonia Leigh, Ben Deignan, Joshua Fletcher, David Dalton, and many more belted out their assigned songs. Sonia Leigh's cover of the Alanis Morissette classic and jilted girl anthem "You Outta Know" had the entire crowd screaming along.

This weekend, 500 Songs for Kids takes over The Earl while the countdown continues with 100 Greatest College Radio Songs.

Follow Mixtape Atlanta on Instagram and Twitter for instant updates and photos. Check out all our Instagram photos from Weekend 2 of 500 Songs For Kids, here.

Flicks on 5th Lineup Announced

All the details can be found here!

Reagan Rock Prom Photos 2013

Last Saturday, Yacht Rock Revue fans flooded Park Tavern wearing their finest polyester and sequins for the Annual Reagan Rock Prom. Trading their traditional 70s soft rock set for 80s dance favorites, the gents from Please Rock had partiers having the time of their lives under the Park Tavern tent.

If you and your breakfast club friends snapped a photo in the Mixtape Atlanta photo booth, download them here.

Don't miss Yacht Rock Revue's next show at Variety Playhouse on April 26. They will be performing hits from U2 and the Anchorman Soundtrack. Get tickets here.

InstaRecap: 500 Songs for Kids Weekend 1

500 Songs for Kids 2013 kicked off last weekend at Smith's Olde Bar. The theme varied each night from Friday's Greatest Soundtrack Songs to Saturday's Greatest Break-Up Song countdown, but what did not vary was the intensity. Seasoned and new performers belted, danced, and sometimes rapped their way through each night's song list.

Mixtape Atlanta was front and center both nights capturing the acts and sharing photos instantaneously via Instagram. Check out all our Instagram photos from the weekend here.

Join us this upcoming weekend- April 26 & 27- for more great performances at The Loft, when the countdown theme of the weekend is VH1's Greatest Songs of the 80s and 90s. Also be sure to follow Mixtape Atlanta on Instagram and Twitter for updates throughout the next four weekends of 500 Songs for Kids.

500 Songs for Kids 2013- Night 4 Artist List

For the second weekend of 500 Songs for Kids, the musical charity will be stationed at The Loft counting down VH1's Greatest Songs of the 80s (Friday) and 90s (Saturday). Below is the confirmed lineup for Saturday, April 27 with more bands to be announced. Tickets are $15; buy them in advance here. Doors open at 6:30PM, but the fun lasts all night.

Artists lineups for 500 Songs for Kids upcoming shows at The Earl, Red Clay Theatre, and final weekend at Smith's Olde Bar to come.

VH1'S GREATEST SONGS OF THE 90'S- Saturday, April 27

Amsterdam Station Performing Destiny'S Child's "Say My Name"
Gypsypearl Performing C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"
Bad Bad Lola Performing Christina Aguilera's "Genie In A Bottle"
Black Rose Performing Salt-N-Pepa With En Vogue's "Whatta Man"
Chris Case Performing U2'S "One"
Chuck Huels Performing Hootie & The Blowfish's "Only Wanna Be With You"
Claudia Kelly Performing Shania Twain's "You'Re Still The One"
Danger Will Robinson (Chris Weiser) Performing Matchbox Twenty's "3 Am"
Danielle Fiondella Performing Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"
Deanna Dawn Performing TLC's "Waterfalls"
Dillon Maurer Performing Eminem's "My Name Is"
Everybody And The Whatevers Performing MC Hammer's "U Can'T Touch This"
G Force Performing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Hartwell Brooks Performing Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time"
Involution Performing Collective Soul's "Shine"
Jack Preston Performing Dr Dre's (Featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) "Nuthin' But A 'G' Thang"
Jeff Schuelke Performing Oasis' "Wonderwall"
Joshua Fletcher Performing Counting Crows' "Mr Jones"
Judith Franklin Performing Mariah Carey's "Vision Of Love"
Migrant Worker Performing Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under The Bridge"
Milyssa Rose Performing Madonna's "Vogue"
Mnemosyne Performing Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"
Nicolas Duncan Performing Radiohead's "Creep"
No Komment Performing Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca"
Number Exchange Performing Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life"
Prisca Performing Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Red Letter Performing Pearl Jam's "Jeremy"
Reed Ferguson Performing Jewel's "Who Will Save Your Soul"
Reuben Bidez Performing Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris"
Sailing To Denver Performing Blackstreet's "No Diggity"
Sky Hy Performing Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back"
Squinting Patrick Performing House Of Pain's "Jump Around"
The Beastly Boys Performing Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"
The Frame Performing The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Wowser Bowser Performing R.E.M's "Losing My Religion"

Make sure to follow Mixtape Atlanta on Instagram and Twitter for full 500 Songs for Kids coverage and news.