Wrecking Ball Festival

After a successful first year in 2015 and then again in 2016, Atlanta's Wrecking Ball Festival will be taking 2017 off but returning in 2018.

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...

This stacked fest already included Thursday, Piebald, Milemarker and Hey Mercedes reunions, plus Quicksand, L7, Dinosaur Jr, Drive Like Jehu, American Football, The Julie Ruin and many more.

Thursday and Piebald reunions and the first Hey Mercedes show in years. Also The Julie Ruin, The Bouncing Souls, American Nightmare, Deafheaven, Touche Amore, Rainer Maria, CIV, Tigers Jaw, Burn, Good Riddance, Joyce Manor, Ceremony, The Menzingers, Maritime, Milemarker, and more.

They're playing the second annual Wrecking Ball festival in Atlanta.

'90s spacey alt-rockers Failure reunited in early 2014, which has now resulted in a new album due out this summer. It's called The Heart Is A Monster and is due June 30 via INresidence...

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 ...