• We’re partnering with Atlanta History Center to commemorate The Allman Brothers “Eat a Peach” album and Alex Cooley’s 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival. (Who was there???) We will perform “Eat A Peach” and hit-packed set of music originally performed by legends B.B King, Jimi Hendrix, and Richie Havens who, like the Allman Brothers, all performed […]

  • Even though MTV eventually called the “Thriller” video the greatest music video of all time, it didn’t win Video of the Year at the VMAS. The Cars’ video for “You Might Think” got the honors. Brush up on your moves before our Halloween extravaganzas at Aisle 5. We’ve got Thriller top to bottom for you […]

  • Ring the bells and hang the mistletoe, Collective. It’s that time again. There are a lot of great Christmas albums out there, with many a classic (and roasted) chestnut. But we’re keeping Nat King Cole and the Bing Crosby and the Harry Connick on the shelf this season. Instead, we’re spinning the Godfather himself. Mr. […]

  • Lineup Yani Mo Adan Bean PRISCA Lola Cole Cleveland Jones Side A 1.Intro-Lude Adan 2.Creep Cleveland P. Jones, Lola Cole, Prisca 3.Kick Your Game Prisca, Adan, Yani Mo 4.Diggin 5.Case of the Fake People Cleveland P. Jones 6.CrazySexyCool (Interlude) Lola Cole, Yani Mo 7.Red Light Special Prisca 8.Waterfalls Cleveland P. Jones Side B 9.Intermission Lude […]

  • Lineup: Maleke O’Ney Ingrid Sibley Jill Rock Jones Zema Lovefire Ruby Velle Chanda Leigh Side A 1.Rim Shot (Intro) 2.On & On 3.Appletree 4.Sometimes 5.Next Life Side B 6.4 Leaf Clover 7.No Love 8.Sometimes… 9.Certainly (Flipped It)

  • Paul Simon says he wrote the title track, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” so quickly he didn’t know where it came from. It went on to win the Grammy for Song of the Year (and the album won Album of the year). It’s also one of the best-selling singles of all time Lineup: Takenobu Cleveland P. […]

  • D’Angelo wrote the song “Brown Sugar” while messing around on the piano while the computer crashed in the recording studio. He was working with Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad. Muhammad asked him what he was playing and asked him to play it again. He programmed a quick beat, and D’Angelo replayed the progression. In […]

  • Welcome to the Hotel California. Released on December 8th, 1976, this is the Eagles’ sixth album (fifth studio) and the follow up to Their Greatest Hits (which was the best-selling album of all time until Michael Jackson died and Thriller sales spiked, thus beating it out). The band was already huge by this point, though […]

  • Maxwell released his debut “Urban Hang Suite” 21 years ago. 1996. That’s when we hosted the Olympics. That’s when a lot of you youngsters were still using training wheels. The album is sexy. It’s smooth. It’s lush. And though it took critics a minute to catch on (it only went gold in its first year) […]

  • It’s been 26 years since Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory changed the hip hop playing field. It’s been a year and a half since Phife Dawg passed. We’re paying our respects by covering this landmark album August 19th at Terminal West. Lineup: D.R.E.S. tha BEATnik Damone Tyrell Lingua Franca Small Eyez Bobby Handley […]