Independent Atlanta label/collective associated with Father, Ethereal, Lord Narf, Abra, Archibald Slim, and others; Atlanta-wide. Its communal, self-directed model helped define Atlanta’s strange, abstract, cloud-rap and Southern-bass edge.
Brazilian baile-funk party and cultural platform; Grant Park / Buteco and rotating sites. It foregrounds baile funk’s sound, movement, and culture through community-focused, sometimes free events.
Atlanta queer label and mix series associated with DJ Vicki Powell; citywide. Femme, POC, and international artists connect Atlanta’s house/disco history to a longer queer dance underground.
Dedicated Instagram for Dirty Glove Bastard’s recurring interview/video series; Atlanta-based production operation. It is a practical daily pipeline to independent rappers, producers, and regional acts.
Atlanta rapper, producer, and Awful Records founder; Atlanta-wide. His oddball, minimal, internet-native rap remains a direct route to Awful collaborators and the collective’s art-school/DIY lineage.
Bi-monthly alternative drag competition; Lore on Edgewood and rotating sites. It foregrounds stranger character, presentation, and performance instead of polished mainstream pageantry.
Underground queer and femme alternative dance party; downtown / Edgewood-area venues vary. It explicitly welcomes people who feel too different for conventional queer spaces and asks DJs to push past boxes.
Photography organization advancing lens-based media through commissions, exhibitions, education, reading-room programs, and an emerging-artist fellowship; Edgewood/Old Fourth Ward; follow for photographers, alternative processes, talks, and professional support.
Buteco, on the Edgewood strip. Brazilian and Latin club programming, tied to the baile funk scene the main guide covers through @bratl___.
Recurring Atlanta darkwave, post-punk, EBM, goth, and dark-techno event brand; Atlanta citywide/LORE Atlanta activity; follow for the darker, queer-friendly edge between alternative music and themed rave culture.
LORE, 466b Edgewood Ave SE, 21+. Dancing, drag, and drinks; the other half of the Edgewood pairing with Pisces, and the venue where NO MESSES and other alternative drag programming happens.
Pisces, 483 Edgewood Ave NE, 21+. The room behind some of Atlanta's best pop-up party crews, now permanent on the Edgewood club strip. Program runs most nights Wed to Sat until late, covering open decks, after parties, visiting selectors, and underground-leaning club sounds. One of the most important single follows in the city right now.
Carl Janes’s former DIY studio/performance space at Underground Atlanta; downtown / Edgewood lineage. The Underground location closed at the end of 2024; use the account only for current successor-space information.