We’ve got a beauty brewing for fall 2018…We’re bringing Janet Jackson’s Control back to life at Venkman’s on October 13th. This is Jackson’s third studio album, her chart-topping 1986 release that features “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” “Nasty,” and “When I Think of You.” The album earned four Grammy nominations including one for […]

Elliott Smith never much cared for attention. His engineer Larry Crane once recalled, “He told me once, ‘I want to write songs, I want to record. The interviews and the tours are things I have to do in order to do the first two.’” In October 2018, it will be 15 years since Elliott Smith’s […]

Though expectations for Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill were modest, the international debut by the young Canadian songwriter won four Grammies (including Album of the Year) and has sold over 30 million copies to date. The alt-rock masterpiece has even been recently turned into a musical. So many of us grew up with these tunes […]

He was born Marvin Burns. But he’s better known as Lil Louis & the World. If you know him, you love him. We’ve got Khari Cabral curating and Jamal Ahmad hosting our recreation of his phenomenal Journey With the Lonely. If you believe music wasn’t meant to be heard sitting down, there’s nowhere better to […]

ATL Collective brings Funk to the People, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of James Brown’s Historic 1968 Boston Concert. It was the day after Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, and cities around the country were bracing for riots. Boston was one of the few cities that kept the peace thanks largely to James Brown and the […]

Let the sounds of Sade’s Lovers Rock surround you. This is the British band’s fifth album, released in November of 2000. It followed (after eight years of waiting, and lots of critical scrutiny) Love Deluxe. In those eight years, Sade had her first child and several of the band members began working with Maxwell on […]

Prince’s 1987 masterpiece, Sign O’ the Times was his first release after disbanding The Revolution. Only three of the sixteen tracks have co-writers. In many ways, this is a solo tour de force. Prince’s engineer Susan Rogers said that Prince cared greatly about sequencing his albums. On Sign O’ the Times, “each side was like […]

Each month, ATL Collective picks a classic album and collectively covers the track list in sequence, often complimenting the performance with multi-media presentations about the album and the historical/cultural context of its release. Now, we announce Sounds of Muscle Shoals: A warm Georgia Tribute to an Alabama Legacy. Indeed, we’re showing some overdue love to […]

According to Carl Jung’s theory of synchronicity, coincidences are often the result of invisible forces and dynamics. They may actually be meant to be. In The Police’s case, Synchronicity brought them a Grammy for Song of the Year in 1984, and “Every Breath You Take” took the top of the charts in 15 different countries. […]

Jamiroquai’s sophomore album, released in 1994, two years after their UK-chart topping debut Emergency on Planet Earth and two years before their American breakout release Traveling Without Moving. Tracks from Space Cowboy have been sampled by Missy Elliot and Tupac Shakur and used in the video game. Despite the party-friendly sonic veneer, there is lyrical […]