(Photos: Hannah Claire Smith) There was no mistaking who the wraparound lines up and down Coca Cola Roxy’s sidewalks were there to see on April 30th. PinkPantheress’s fans were giddy with anticipation, dressed in their best Y2K and singing her most viral hooks as they entered her sold out performance. And perform she did—she and her dancers put on a dazzling performance with a screen as their backdrop, transporting them from an airplane to a house to a club all in the span of

The sensorial world here is disorienting, spiraling, cyclical. Drums clash in time with a riffing guitar, striking like the second hand of a clock. It breaks down and rebuilds itself repeatedly, balancing chaos and calm on a knife’s edge.

If you’ve never seen someone scream into the hollow of an acoustic guitar mid-song, then you clearly weren’t at Friko’s sold out show celebrating the release of their newest album, Something Worth Waiting For.

New York rapper Lexa Gates was in and out of Hell at The Masquerade last week. The show started less than an hour after doors, and Gates wasted no time coming onto the stage after Vayda’s short-and-sweet opening set. She wrapped things up by 9:30 p.m., sprinting her way through a 16-song setlist. Her few words to the audience were to express gratitude for them and love for Atlanta.

Ahead of their North American tour that kicked off earlier this month in Milwaukee and goes through until next month with Sharp Pins, Snail Mail, the solo project of Lindsey Erin Jordan, released her third album, Ricochet.