Atlanta’s National Women’s Soccer League expansion team will play as Atlanta City FC. AMB Sports and Entertainment revealed the name, crest, and colors on September 28, 2026. The crest shows a rising phoenix framed by a dogwood blossom, and the club begins play in 2028 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium as
By: Andrew Hollister The first line of Gary Pratt’s “4th of July” tells you that it isn’t the Fourth of July. It’s February. That seeming contradiction is more than a cute opening gambit. It contains the whole song. Pratt, joined here by Kate Szallar, isn’t interested in commemorating a
By Jack R. Delaney There is an old lie buried somewhere in rock ’n’ roll: that the music belongs to the young. You know the story. Get the band together before you know better. Make the record before responsibility catches you. Sing about escape while there is still somewhere
The Atlanta Braves clinched the National League East division title on September 20 with a 4-2 victory over the Houston Astros at Daikin Park, securing their seventh division crown in the last nine
Afrobeats has grown from the sound of West Africa into a global cultural movement, and some of hip hop and R&B’s biggest African American artists have helped introduce that sound to even wider
By: Mark Lewis Atlanta has never been a city that cared about musical boundaries. Country, Southern rock, gospel, blues, hip-hop and soul have spent decades rubbing shoulders here, sometimes colliding and sometimes borrowing
By: Adrian Keller There is an appealing lack of tidiness to Cello’s Singing to Serpents, an album that behaves as though emotional consistency might itself be a kind of dishonesty. Across nine songs,
By: Stephanie Terr Most people who follow pop music careers see the finished product, the polished performances and the carefully managed public image and the chart positions and the dedicated fan base, and
By Scotty Richter There is a particular pleasure in hearing a song that knows exactly what it wants to be. It does not have to announce its importance. It does not have to
By: Tasha Monroe Atlanta knows what happens when gospel meets the blues. This is a city where Sunday-morning testimony and Saturday-night soul have never been as far apart as people pretend. From neighborhood
By: Marcus Ellington Atlanta understands the difference between polish and soul. This is a city where immaculate studio craft has never meant much without feeling underneath it. From the gospel voices that filled
By: Lennard James Austell, Georgia, is preparing for a night where soul rises, stories breathe, and live music takes its rightful place at center stage. On Saturday, September 26, 2026, Alonia “The Silky
By: Maya Ellington Atlanta understands trees. For all its highways, glass towers, recording studios, soundstages and relentless construction, Georgia’s capital remains famously wrapped in green. Trees crowd neighborhood streets, rise behind downtown buildings
Scottie Scheffler erased a three-shot final-round deficit with a 4-under 66 on Sunday to win the 2026 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, claiming his second FedExCup title and the
The 2026 Tour Championship tees off today at East Lake Golf Club, bringing 30 of professional golf’s top-ranked players to Atlanta for the FedEx Cup Playoffs finale. The four-day tournament, running August 27
By Andre Mitchell Atlanta knows something about hometown pride. This is a city where artists do not merely mention where they come from; they carry their neighborhoods into the studio, onto the stage
By: Caleb Monroe Atlanta understands what happens when musical borders start disappearing. This is a city where gospel can become soul, blues can become rock, country can rub shoulders with R&B, and almost
Dubbed “The Apollo of the South,” the live talent experience invites singers, actors, comedians, and musicians to perform before a real audience and get on the radar of Palmer House Studios. ATLANTA, GA.
By Marcus Ellington Pam Ross has made a career out of refusing to fit neatly into one genre, moving between country, Americana, roots rock and singer-songwriter territory with the confidence of an artist
The Atlanta Falcons brought their AT&T Training Camp to Lanier High School’s Longhorn Stadium in Sugar Hill on Saturday evening, August 8, hosting a packed crowd for a “Saturday Night Lights” open practice
Chris Sale was ejected before the Atlanta Braves’ game against the Yankees even started on Sunday, August 9, 2026, after a dugout confrontation with umpire Dan Merzel. The Braves still won 2-1 in
By: Caroline Maddox The four-leaf clover has always occupied a curious place in our collective imagination. It is a symbol of luck, certainly, but also of longing, the belief that somewhere, hidden among
Black Restaurant Week returned to Atlanta on August 2 for its 10th anniversary edition, launching a two-week celebration that runs through August 16 and spotlights Black-owned restaurants, food trucks, caterers, and culinary professionals
By: Gus Schock There is a specific quality of professional disillusionment that Danielle M. Wong captures in The Lines Between with accuracy and emotional intelligence: the particular experience of discovering that the system
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