The Masquerade

Quicksand, Thursday, Dinosaur Jr, The Promise Ring, American Football, American Nightmare, CIV, Foxing, Burn, Tigers Jaw, Antarctigo Vespucci, Rainer Maria, Mothers and more played the Atlanta festival's final day...

After a successful day one, Atlanta's second Wrecking Ball music festival wrapped up on Sunday (8/14). Like Saturday, the lineup had so many artists worth seeing that it was really impossible to catch everything you wanted to...

Tons of great stuff went down on Saturday that I wasn't able to see, like Deerhunter, The Julie Ruin, The Bouncing Souls, Cold Cave, Ceremony and Good Riddance, but the highs of what I did catch were very high. My favorite set of the day hands down was Gorilla Biscuits, who played last on the Heaven stage...

Atlanta venue The Masquerade celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with the inaugural Wrecking Ball Festival. The lineup was just announced and its loaded with punk and punk-related bands from several generations, including Descendents, Judge, Desaparecidos, The Get Up Kids, The Movielife, Title Fight, Modern Life Is War, American Nightmare, Samiam, Braid, The Appleseed Cast, Knapsack, Thrice, Glassjaw, Blacklisted, Small Brown Bike, Cave In, The Lawrence Arms, Pianos Become The Teeth, Yuck, Beach Slang, Girlpool, Frankie Cosmos and so ...