• Journey with the Lonely – Lil Louis and the World

    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 […]

  • Live at the Boston Garden 1968 – James Brown

    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 […]

  • Lover’s Rock – Sade

    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 […]

  • Sign o’ the Times – Prince

    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 […]

  • Sounds of Muscle Shoals

    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 […]

  • Synchronicity – The Police

    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. […]

  • The Return of the Space Cowboy – Jamiroquai

    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 […]

  • The Stranger – Billy Joel

    Welcome to Billy Joel’s magnum opus, The Stranger. Recorded in 1977 in New York City and produced by legendary producer Phil Ramone (Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Bono, The Band, Madonna, John Coltrane, Pavarotti, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Paul Simon, the list goes on), this was Joel’s breakthrough album, and it catapulted his career […]

  • Thriller – Michael Jackson

    ATL Collective presents: Michael Jackson’s Thriller w/ Ruby Velle + Chris Cauley + Jason Eskridge + Shook Foil Here we are. Halloween 2013. The soundtrack: Michael Jackson’s epic Thriller. Released in 1982, (the year Uncle Rico wants to return to in Napoleon Dynamite, incidentally), the album was produced by Quincy Jones, won 8 Grammies and […]

  • Wildflowers – Tom Petty

    Welcome to Wildflowers, the late great Tom Petty’s second solo record. Released in 1994, It was a rough time for Petty. At age 44, he was on the verge of divorce with the mother of his two daughters, and he was in the clutches of a hardcore heroin addiction. The intensity and desperation come through […]