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Variety Playhouse, the Glossary

The Variety Playhouse (originally known as the Euclid Theatre) is a music venue in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.^[1]

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Music venues completed in 1940
Music venues in Georgia (U.S. state)
Theatres in Atlanta

Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter.

Alejandro Escovedo

Pedro Alejandro Escovedo (born January 10, 1951) is an American rock musician, songwriter, and singer, who has been recording and touring since the late 1970s.

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Amy Ray

Amy Elizabeth Ray (born April 12, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls with Emily Saliers.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Animal Collective

Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band formed in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ansley Park

Ansley Park is an intown residential district in Atlanta, Georgia, located just east of Midtown and west of Piedmont Park.

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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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At the Roxy

At the Roxy is an 8-disc box set from American rock band Phish, which was recorded live over the course of their three-show run at the Roxy Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, from February 19 to February 21, 1993.

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Athens, Georgia

Athens is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Atlanta (magazine)

Atlanta is a monthly general-interest magazine based in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by Hour Media Group, LLC.

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Augustana (band)

Augustana is an American rock band based in San Diego, California.

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Basia

Barbara Stanisława Trzetrzelewska (Polish:, born 30 September 1954), better known by the mononym Basia, is a Polish singer-songwriter and recording artist noted for her Latin-inspired jazz-pop music.

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Ben Kweller

Benjamin Lev Kweller (born June 16, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Benevento/Russo Duo

The Benevento/Russo Duo (or The Duo for short) is an American alternative jazz/rock band from New York City, featuring Marco Benevento on keyboard instruments and Joe Russo on drums.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Blues Traveler

Blues Traveler is an American rock band that formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987.

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BoDeans

BoDeans is an American rock band formed in Waukesha, Wisconsin who came to prominence in the 1980s.

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Brazil (1985 film)

Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science-fiction black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.

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Breathless (1960 film)

Breathless (lit) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Brooke Fraser

Brooke Gabrielle Ligertwood (née Fraser; born 15 December 1983), professionally known as Brooke Fraser, is a New Zealand singer and songwriter.

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Buckethead

Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Buckhead

Buckhead is the uptown commercial and residential district of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city.

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Built to Spill

Built to Spill is an American indie rock band that formed in Boise, Idaho, in 1992.

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Butch Walker

Bradley Glenn "Butch" Walker (born November 14, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Camper Van Beethoven

Camper Van Beethoven is an American rock band formed in Redlands, California in 1983, later based in Santa Cruz and San Francisco.

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Candler Park

Candler Park is a 55-acre (223,000 m2) city park located at 585 Candler Park Drive NE, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Carbon Leaf

Carbon Leaf is a quintet from Richmond, Virginia, known for their alt-country, Celtic, and folk-infused indie rock.

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Carrie Rodriguez

Carrie Luz Rodriguez (born July 31, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and the daughter of Texan singer-songwriter David Rodriguez and Texas painter Katy Nail, and is the granddaughter of prolific Texas essayist Frances Nail.

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Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit

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Colbie Caillat

Colbie Marie Caillat (born May 28, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (C2B3) was an experimental rock supergroup featuring bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Buckethead, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and drummer Brain.

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Count Basie Orchestra

The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies are an alternative country and folk rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1985 by Alan Anton (bassist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Margo Timmins (vocalist).

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Cracker (band)

Cracker is an American rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman.

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Dan Zanes

Daniel Edgerly Zanes (born November 8, 1961) is an American former member of the 1980s band the Del Fuegos and is now the frontman of the group Dan Zanes and Friends.

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Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes.

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Dark Star Orchestra

Dark Star Orchestra is a Grateful Dead cover band formed in Chicago, Illinois.

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David Grisman

David Jay Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Dawes (band)

Dawes is an American folk rock band from Los Angeles, California, composed of brothers Taylor (guitars and vocals) and Griffin Goldsmith (drums).

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Dead Confederate

Dead Confederate was an American alternative rock band, formed in Augusta, Georgia and based in Athens, Georgia.

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Decatur, Georgia

Decatur is a city in, and the county seat of, DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.

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Desert Hearts

Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch.

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Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984.

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is an American brass band based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Disco Biscuits

The Disco Biscuits are an American jam band from Philadelphia.

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Donna the Buffalo

Donna the Buffalo is a band from Trumansburg, New York.

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Dorothy Lamour

Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton; December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer.

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Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band based in Athens, Georgia.

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Eddie from Ohio

Eddie from Ohio is an American folk band.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003), known as Elliott Smith, was an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Fox Theatre (Atlanta)

The Fox Theatre (often marketed as the Fabulous Fox), a former movie palace, is a performing arts venue located at 660 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, and is the centerpiece of the Fox Theatre Historic District. Variety Playhouse and fox Theatre (Atlanta) are concert halls in the United States, music venues in Georgia (U.S. state) and Theatres in Atlanta.

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Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)

Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 American Civil War drama film produced and directed by William Wyler.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gabby La La

Gabby La La (born Gabriel Lang on May 23, 1979) is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (including sitar, ukulele, accordion, theremin and toy piano), signed to Prawn Song Records.

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Galactic

Galactic is an American funk band from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Gary Louris

Gary Michael Louris (born March 10, 1955) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music.

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George Lefont

George Lefont (1938 – 5 September 2023) was an American movie theater industry businessman from Berkeley, California.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Georgia Theatre

Georgia Theatre is a live music venue and event space in Athens, Georgia. Variety Playhouse and Georgia Theatre are music venues in Georgia (U.S. state).

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Ghostface Killah

Dennis David Coles (born May 9, 1970), better known by his stage name Ghostface Killah, is an American rapper and a member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.

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Gnarls Barkley

Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo composed of singer-songwriter CeeLo Green and producer Danger Mouse.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock band that originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994.

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Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring.

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HammerFall

HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band from Gothenburg.

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Hampton Grease Band

The Hampton Grease Band was an American rock band, beginning as a blues rock group in the late 1960s in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Hayes Microcomputer Products

Hayes Microcomputer Products was a US-based manufacturer of modems.

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Hot Tuna

Hot Tuna is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and Jack Casady (bassist).

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Howie Day

Howard Kern Day (born January 15, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Ike Stubblefield

Isaac Larry Stubblefield (June 7, 1952 – June 20, 2021) was an American musician, who performed with a wide array of artists on Hammond B3 organ.

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Impersonator

An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another.

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Indecision (band)

Indecision was an American hardcore punk band that was started in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1993, and officially disbanded in the summer of 2000 though they still play shows occasionally for charity.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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Inman Park

Inman Park is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, and its first planned suburb.

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Israel Vibration

Israel Vibration are a reggae harmony group, originating from Kingston, Jamaica.

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Jack Lemmon

John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor.

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (or JFJO or The Fred) is an American instrumental music group started in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1994.

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Jakob Dylan

Jakob Luke Dylan (born December 9, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Jane Russell

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011) was an American actress and model.

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Jason Mraz

Jason Thomas Mraz (/məˈræz/; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Jay Farrar

Jay Stuart Farrar (born December 26, 1966) is an American songwriter and musician currently based in St. Louis.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jeff Mangum

Jeffrey Nye Mangum (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of The Elephant 6 Recording Company.

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JJ Grey & Mofro

JJ Grey & Mofro (formerly Mofro) is an American Southern soul-rock band from Jacksonville, Florida.

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John Butler Trio

The John Butler Trio were an Australian roots-rock band led by guitarist and vocalist John Butler, an APRA and ARIA-award-winning musician.

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José González (singer)

José Gabriel González (born 31 July 1978) is a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Gothenburg.

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Jump, Little Children

Jump, Little Children is an American indie rock band that formed in 1991 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States.

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Karl Denson

Karl Denson (born December 27, 1956) is an American funk and jazz saxophonist, flutist and vocalist from Santa Ana, California.

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Kate Nash

Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 1987) is an English singer-songwriter and actress.

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Lea DeLaria

Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer.

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Leftover Salmon

Leftover Salmon is an American jam band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 1989.

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Leon Redbone

Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian; August 26, 1949 – May 30, 2019) was a singer-songwriter and musician specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George, keyboardist Bill Payne, drummer Richie Hayward and bassist Roy Estrada in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Little Five Points

Little Five Points (also L5P, LFP, Little Five, or Lil' Five) is a district on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, east of downtown.

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Live at Budokan (2005 film)

Live at Budokan is a DVD by pop rock singer-songwriter Butch Walker, released on December 13, 2005, by Epic Records.

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Locksley (band)

Locksley is an indie four-piece pop rock/power pop band from Madison, Wisconsin.

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Lucky Dube

Lucky Philip Dube (pronounced duu-beh;, luckydubemusic.com, Retrieved 19 October 2007 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian.

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Magnapop

Magnapop is an American rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Martin Sexton

Martin Sexton (born March 2, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and music producer.

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Mass Appeal (film)

Mass Appeal is a 1984 American comedy-drama directed by Glenn Jordan and starring Jack Lemmon.

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Matisyahu

Matthew Paul Miller (born June 30, 1979), known by his stage name Matisyahu, is an American reggae singer, rapper, beatboxer, and musician.

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Matt Nathanson

Matthew Adam Nathanson (born March 28, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter whose work is a blend of folk and rock and roll music.

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Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is an American alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician who was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990s as a solo artist.

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Maynard Jackson

Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. (March 23, 1938 – June 23, 2003) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 1974 to 1982, and again as the city's 56th mayor from 1990 to 1994.

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Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Mezzanine

A mezzanine (or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls.

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Michael Schenker Group

The Michael Schenker Group (often abbreviated as MSG) is an English hard rock band, formed in London in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker.

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Minus the Bear

Minus the Bear was an American indie rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2001, and comprising members of Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving.

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Modest Mouse

Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon.

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Moe (band)

Moe (stylized as moe.) is an American jam rock band, formed at the University at Buffalo in 1989.

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Moonalice

Moonalice is an American rock band, formed from previous members of the Flying Other Brothers.

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Movie theater

A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment.

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Muzsikás

Muzsikás is a Hungarian musical group playing mainly folk music of Hungary and other countries and peoples of the region.

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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife, is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin.

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Natasha Bedingfield

Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is an English singer and songwriter.

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National Black Arts Festival

The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) is an organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1987.

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Nile (band)

Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, formed in 1993.

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North Mississippi Allstars

North Mississippi Allstars is an American blues and southern rock band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996.

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Odetta

Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December 2, 2008), known as Odetta, was an American singer, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement".

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Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American indie pop band from Athens, Georgia.

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Off! (brand)

Off! (stylized as OFF!) is an insect repellent brand from American corporation S. C. Johnson & Son, produced in Finland.

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Old 97's

Old 97's is an American rock band from Dallas, Texas.

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Overkill (band)

Overkill is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey.

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Particle (band)

Particle is an American jam band formed in Los Angeles in 2000.

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Perpetual Groove

Perpetual Groove (or PGroove) is an American rock band that originated in 1997 in Savannah, Georgia.

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Personal Services

Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and written by David Leland, about the rise of a madam of a suburban brothel which caters to older men.

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Phish

Phish is an American rock band formed in Burlington, Vermont, in 1983.

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Pnuma Trio

The Pnuma Trio was an electronic musical group, bringing classical, jazz, funk, hip hop, and drum and bass influences.

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Quasi (band)

Quasi (phonetics 'kwa - zee') is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by former spouses Sam Coomes (vocals, guitar, rocksichord, various keyboards, bass) and Janet Weiss (vocals and drums).

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Railroad Earth

Railroad Earth is a bluegrass-influenced Americana band formed in Stillwater, New Jersey in 2001.

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Ray Davies

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies (born 21 June 1944) is an English musician.

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Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley was an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles, California.

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Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rooney (band)

Rooney is the primary musical project of singer-songwriter Robert Schwartzman, evolving from its origin as an American rock band formed by high school friends in Los Angeles.

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Ryan Adams

David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American rock and country singer-songwriter.

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Sara Bareilles

Sara Beth Bareilles (born December 7, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Scrapomatic

Scrapomatic is an American blues trio, consisting of Paul Olsen, Mike Mattison and Dave Yoke.

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Shawn Mullins

Shawn Mullins (born March 8, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter who specializes in folk rock, instrumental rock, adult alternative, and Americana music.

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Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne (born Shelby Lynn Moorer, October 22, 1968) is an American singer and songwriter and the older sister of singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.

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Soulive

Soulive is a funk/jazz trio that originated in Woodstock, New York.

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Sound Tribe Sector 9

Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is an instrumental band whose sound is based heavily on instrumental rock and electronic music, funk, jazz, drum and bass, psychedelia, and hip hop, originating in Georgia, United States.

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Southern Voice (newspaper)

Southern Voice (commonly known as SoVo) was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender newspaper in Atlanta and the Southeast United States.

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Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks is an American rock band consisting of Stephen Malkmus, Mike Clark, Joanna Bolme, and Jake Morris.

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Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock (born October 5, 1955) is an American rock guitarist.

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Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s.

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Sun Ra

Le Sony'r Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993), better known as Sun Ra, was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Tea Leaf Green

Tea Leaf Green is an American four-piece jam band from the San Francisco Bay Area, composed of Josh Clark (guitar and vocals), Trevor Garrod (keyboards, vocals, guitar, and harmonica), Scott Rager (drums), and Eric DiBerardino (bass).

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Technique (newspaper)

The Technique, also known as the "Nique", is the official student newspaper of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and has referred to itself as "the South's liveliest college newspaper" since 1945.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is an American daily newspaper based in metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a 1982 American Western film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Edward James Olmos as Gregorio Cortez.

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The Blue Nile (band)

The Blue Nile were a Scottish band which originated in Glasgow.

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The Bridges (band)

The Bridges is an American folk rock band that formed in Oxford, Alabama in 2005 consisting of cousins and siblings Brittany Painter (lead vocals/acoustic guitar), Natalie Byrd (keyboard/ rhythm guitar), Stacey Byrd (lead guitar), Issaca Byrd (bass guitar), and Jeremy Byrd (drums).

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The Codetalkers

The Codetalkers were an American jazz fusion and rock and roll band from Savannah, Georgia, active from 1999 to 2009.

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The Derek Trucks Band

The Derek Trucks Band was an American blues rock group founded by young slide guitar prodigy Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with some of the blues and rock music's elite when he was just nine years old.

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The Detroit Cobras

The Detroit Cobras are an American garage rock band from Detroit, Michigan, which was formed in 1994 by guitarist Steve Shaw, guitarist Mary Ramirez, bassist Jeff Meier, drummer Vic Hill, and singer Rachel Nagy.

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The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Faint

The Faint is an American indie rock band.

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The Grapes (band)

The Grapes were an American jam bandGrapeful head, Fort Worth Star-Telegram - March 17, 1995 - 8 STAR TIME and southern rock band band from Atlanta, who performed from 1986 to 1997.

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The Greyboy Allstars

The Greyboy Allstars are an American soul-jazz band from San Diego, California, United States, whose current members include Karl Denson on Saxophone, Robert Walter on Keys, Mike Andrews (under the pseudonym Elgin Park) on guitar, Chris Stillwell on bass and Aaron Redfield on drums.

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References

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