Vicki Powell hosts Edgewood Electronic Music Fest this weekend
As the front man of groundbreaking Icelandic band Sigur Rós, Jónsi (pronounced Yónsi), provided warmth and an ethereal quality to the band’s already atmospheric and lushly chilly songs.
In fact, it’s hard to imagine what Sigur Rós would sound like absent Jónsi, who is openly gay. However, on “Go” (XL Recordings), Jónsi’s solo debut disc, we get the chance to hear him without his longtime band.
Gay orchestral pop artist Nico Muhly assists Jónsi in giving the album a fresh and original style. Alternately wildly rhythmic and sumptuous, “Go” gives Jónsi room to stretch out in new and exciting directions. His fans would be wise to follow. Now, go!
Amy Ray has been speaking out for social justice as long as she has been a musician. But the lesbian folk rocker, one half of the beloved duo Indigo Girls, was still brought up short by a recent news report.
On Sept. 21, the U.S. Senate voted against moving forward on a measure to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on gay service members.
“I am amazed that we are so backward about something that is already as complex as war and military service,” says Ray in an interview the next day from her North Georgia home, in advance of Indigo Girls’ Oct. 15 show at the Buckhead Theatre.
An array of new and returning musicians will take to the Coca-Cola and Bud Light stages in Piedmont Park over Pride weekend to keep Pride buzzing with the energy of live music.
“We try to have an eclectic mix so that there is someone for everyone,” Colleen Wogan of Q&E Entertainment said. “We also want it so you might go to hear one band, but hear another one that you like and sort of turn people on to artists that way.”
Live music begins with Anye Elite at noon on Saturday and finishes with Antigone Rising on Sunday afternoon, before the stage is set for the girls of the Starlight Cabaret to close down Pride starting at 7 p.m. Like last year, setting the festival in fall means the music in the park will end earlier with the acts finishing before 10 p.m. both nights.