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Friday, October 3, 2008
Video Countdown To Janet’s Arrival In Atlanta - Day Five
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the fifth and final installment of this week’s video countdown to part-time Atlantan Janet Jackson’s “homecoming” Sunday at Philips Arena, a special treat.
This YouTube post is from a California stop on her Rock Witchu Tour. Fair warning: If you’re planning to go this weekend and want her “audience participation” segment to be a surprise, don’t watch. And if you press play anyway, another warning: There is some profanity at the end.
OK — Here is her live version of “Discipline”. (And Jackson fans, after you wipe the sweat from your brow, tell us how you think it rates with her earlier, well, “audience participation” moments).
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Criminal Records moving to a bigger locale
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In this day and age of downloading and dwindling CD sales, most indie record stores are closing shop as well. Not Criminal Records, the now legendary Little Five Points store. It’s moving to a location with triple the space.
The current Criminal Records, a modest 1,800-square-foot space next to Junkman’s Daughter, will shut down October 12 after a weekend of concerts, a 25 percent off sale and “general shenanigans,” as manager Shannon Mulvaney described it to me Friday.
Soon after, the new Criminal Records will open about a block away at 1154A Euclid Ave. in a spot with 5,500 square feet. All CDs and DVDs will be on the floor instead of behind the register in a glass showcase. They’ll be a stage for bands to perform. And they’ll be plenty more vinyl, a surprisingly hot growth area for the store.
Owner Eric Levin is aware he’s taking a big risk but said “we’ve always done everything with no budget, seat of our pants, on a whim. I can’t think of a better time to invest more into our future, even in dark economic times.”
Criminal Records, which still generates about 70 percent of its income from music, has become a magnet for fans of local indie rock bands. “We really try to cultivate a sense of community,” Mulvaney said. “And you won’t find that snotty record store clerk attitude.”
Moby fan Amanda Jackson of Douglasville, GA, checks out a photo taken by Moby, as Jackson visited with the musician and asked him to take a photo of anything he wanted to shoot as they chat at Criminal Records in the Little Five Points neighborhood Thursday 3/24/05. CREDIT: Kimberly Smith/AJC.
A fair share of celebs have shopped and performed there, from Bruce Springsteen to the Indigo Girls to Beck. Our favorite visit? Techno musician Moby (above) in 2005, who spent nearly three hours sipping tea one on one with 200 fans to promote his oddball cookbook “Teany Book.”
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Raphael Saadiq In Atlanta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Twenty-one years into the business (professionally), R&B singer-songwriter-musician Raphael Saadiq still performs with the vigor of a 21-year-old.
As several women in the heavily-female crowd remarked, the clean-shaven and closely-shorn Grammy winner looks about 21.
But wow, when he performed Thursday night at Sugar Hill in Underground Atlanta, that’s when it all became clear that, you know, this guy has been around a long time — crafting a catalog of often underappreciated, still-resonant, soulful hits.
The founder of groups Tony Toni Tone and Lucy Pearl was in town promoting his latest solo CD, “The Way I See It”. And while the new Motown-inspired material melded well with the more familiar, it was earlier Tony (“Anniversary” ) Lucy (“Dance Tonight”) and Saadiq (“Ask Of You,” “Still Ray”) singles that had the audience often overpowering his two capable background vocalists — and electric band — to sing along.
Were you there last night? Listened to “The Way I See It” yet?
