Music Midtown to return in the fall
Music Midtown will return this fall, this time for a two-day engagement.
The Live Nation-produced event, which was resurrected last year for the first time since 2006, will take place Sept. 21-22 at Piedmont Park.
Last year’s show – also at the park – featured Coldplay and The Black Keys, as well as alt-rock acts Young the Giant and Manchester Orchestra.
The all-day event drew a crowd of about 40,000.
Who are you hoping to see at this year’s show?
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StottsEra
April 4th, 2012
4:47 pm
not coldplay
There's a Sickness In GA
April 4th, 2012
4:51 pm
Willie Nelson
BRICKSQUAD
April 4th, 2012
4:56 pm
WAKA FLOCKA FLAAAAAAAME and MGK
E-Roll
April 4th, 2012
4:58 pm
The Roots, Five Finger Death Punch and Frankie Beverly and Maze!!!
Smarty
April 4th, 2012
5:00 pm
Van Halen, The Shinns, The Roots, Widespread, Of Monsters and men, Black Keys
UGADawg7
April 4th, 2012
5:01 pm
Dave Matthews Band!
BigCountry
April 4th, 2012
5:02 pm
Dolly Parton and Johnny Mathis
NAACP
April 4th, 2012
5:02 pm
At least one african american artist since metro atlanta is > 50% african american. in addition, v103 is located not from piedmont. I am sure they would not mind sponsoring an artist.
Christopher Lowell
April 4th, 2012
5:03 pm
EDDIE MONEY, GO WEST, BILLY OCEAN, BALTIMORA, JERMAINE STEWART, HALL & OATES, and PETEY PABLO
ed
April 4th, 2012
5:10 pm
widespread panic
BigCountry
April 4th, 2012
5:12 pm
NAACP – Why bring race into it? Simply state the artist(s) you would like to hear. Thanks.
dale
April 4th, 2012
5:15 pm
NAACP – wonder what % of the >50% would just be a bunch of thugs waiting to stir up crap at an event like this???
BigCountry
April 4th, 2012
5:18 pm
Dale – Please behave and play nice. Thanks.
BFS
April 4th, 2012
5:20 pm
Little Feat, Marshall Tucker Band, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Allison Krauss and DELBERT MCCLINTON!!!
Atlien
April 4th, 2012
5:21 pm
Outkast
trey
April 4th, 2012
5:22 pm
phish
ACE
April 4th, 2012
5:22 pm
Whitney Houston
GT Jow
April 4th, 2012
5:23 pm
Jimmy Hedrix
Wish
April 4th, 2012
5:24 pm
Volbeat and Thrice!!
ACE
April 4th, 2012
5:25 pm
Mike Patton with any of his projects.
Bongo
April 4th, 2012
5:25 pm
Ok NAACP, how about Sevendust?
MUSYKLUVAH
April 4th, 2012
5:26 pm
@ Christopher….If Jermaine Stewart shows up, I’m getting the hell outta dodge. The word is out – he’s been dead since ‘97!!!
stacy
April 4th, 2012
5:27 pm
butch walker,journey, styx,def leoppard
Baddabing
April 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
Kool & the Gang, Hall & Oates, Huey Lewis & the News, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Sammy Kershaw and Nickelback
Dave Mustaine
April 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
Megadeth.
Frank from MusicNerdClub.com
April 4th, 2012
5:28 pm
Mastodon. They’re touring anyway, they’re Atlanta’s own, and they’re ready to play an event like this.
ACE
April 4th, 2012
5:29 pm
I second Mastodon!!!!
Artie
April 4th, 2012
5:34 pm
Culture Club and Duran Duran!
Jain
April 4th, 2012
5:35 pm
Outlast, Tom petty, white stripes
Travis
April 4th, 2012
5:36 pm
Muse, Avett Brothers, Pearl Jam, should I go on homies?
blazerdawg
April 4th, 2012
5:41 pm
Goatee?
Robert
April 4th, 2012
5:41 pm
I second the Avetts… that would be amazing…
Travis
April 4th, 2012
5:47 pm
I forgot…Foo Fighters, Ben Rector, Needtobreathe, U2, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Kenny Chesney,
OliohTheVapidHo
April 4th, 2012
5:48 pm
Bay City Rollers, Jessica Black and Megadeath!
Randy
April 4th, 2012
5:50 pm
UK Queen of Soul Mica Paris
Da Analyst
April 4th, 2012
5:51 pm
John Legend
Midtown123
April 4th, 2012
5:57 pm
Who cares about the race of the people playing!? Just get damn good artists to come and people will show up.
Rock Fan
April 4th, 2012
6:05 pm
The Whigs!!!!!!!!!! They have a new album coming out!
brock
April 4th, 2012
6:06 pm
Dylan, Mark Knopfler and the Allman Brothers. Ok, anybody and the Allman Brothers.
BFS had some good choices too.
Mike
April 4th, 2012
6:10 pm
Gov’t Mule, Allman Brothers, Tinsley Ellis, Delta Moon, Little Feat, North Mississippi Allstars, Trombone Shorty, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Willie Nelson, Eric Kresno and Chapter Two, Mothers Finest. Rock, Funk and Jazz, this line up would bring the suburbanites back to down town.
Veronica
April 4th, 2012
6:16 pm
The Avett Brothers and/or Mumford and Sons would be sweet!
Getaway
April 4th, 2012
6:19 pm
In the past, most of the big stations in town have had their own stages. Is that not how it is done still?
Kings of Leon, Train, Matt and Kim, Flaming Lips, Collective Soul, Metric, Black Keys
Don’t live in ATL so I’m not sure if any of these have been in town recently. But I’d gladly drive in from Durham to do Music Midtown again.
CrazyDiamond
April 4th, 2012
6:32 pm
ELVIS
ATLnative
April 4th, 2012
6:41 pm
porcupine tree!
reality check
April 4th, 2012
6:42 pm
last years lineup sucked. This is not the music midtown of the 90’s and into the 2000’s. Garbage acts now. For that matter, most current music is garbage. Bring some classic acts like they used to have at music midtown: willie nelson, def leppard, kid rock, black crows, etc, etc.
ross turner
April 4th, 2012
6:51 pm
EARTHA KITT!
Joe
April 4th, 2012
6:56 pm
Taj Mahal, Leon Redbone, David Bromberg, John Prine, Hootie,
Crazy Horse
April 4th, 2012
7:04 pm
Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Levon Helm, Elvis Cosello, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, and The Who.
Epic.
The Vishual
April 4th, 2012
7:07 pm
Coheed
Enemas for Easter
April 4th, 2012
7:10 pm
John Lennon
curly_cue
April 4th, 2012
7:20 pm
FFDP!
Nicole
April 4th, 2012
7:20 pm
Rage Against the Machine, The Fray, Thrice, Beyonce, MUSE, Kings of Leon
fat old rocker
April 4th, 2012
7:28 pm
Chicken and Pigs…Meat Loaf…REM…Shathouse Rats…Kingsized
fat old rocker
April 4th, 2012
7:28 pm
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Megan
April 4th, 2012
7:30 pm
Paul simon
EMs
April 4th, 2012
7:51 pm
Butch Walker & The Avett Bros
Beelz
April 4th, 2012
7:53 pm
Florence + The Machine!
ed
April 4th, 2012
8:11 pm
Collective Soul and LIVE
fisHERMAN
April 4th, 2012
8:13 pm
The White Stripes
Pongo
April 4th, 2012
8:17 pm
Little Feat, Dr. John and Dan Auerbauch together, Coheed and Cambria, Mumford and Sons, Frank Turner, Sigur Ros, Gaslight Anthem
Jason
April 4th, 2012
8:24 pm
Deadmau5 would rock!!!
ATL buckhead
April 4th, 2012
8:38 pm
Foo Fighters
music girl
April 4th, 2012
8:45 pm
Avett Brothers!!
None
April 4th, 2012
8:47 pm
Please no rap or R&B. Look what happened to Screen on the Green.
Sluggo
April 4th, 2012
9:12 pm
Train
The B52’s
Rupal
flaneur
April 4th, 2012
9:12 pm
THE PET SHOP BOYS!
me
April 4th, 2012
9:19 pm
bjork. over the rhine. sigur ros.
please and thanks.
Buddy Greene
April 4th, 2012
9:20 pm
i think this years music midtown should feature all bands from Georgia!Allman Brothers,Widespread Panic,B-52s and sevendust as well as georgia resident Elton John
10dogmom
April 4th, 2012
9:21 pm
Ignore ignorance like NAACP’s. Likely not a musical note of intelligence in that body. Moving on….let’s see Georgia artist. Stage 1-Outkast-TOGETHER!!! Cee lo & Goodie Mob, Luda! Stage 2-Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan. If none of them are available then please bring back No Doubt or Kid Rock. One of the best MM ever.
Default Settings 2.0
April 4th, 2012
9:24 pm
QOTSA and Cambria, Lucero, ARS, Wet Willie, T-Rex, Mother’s Finest, Marv Three and a host of defunct (no pun intended) bands and dead rock stars. We could get Don Cornelius and Don Kirshner to MC5.
jals
April 4th, 2012
9:29 pm
PHISH
Tyler Durden
April 4th, 2012
9:31 pm
The Black Crows and Hole were some of my favorite music midtown acts.
D-Shay
April 4th, 2012
9:31 pm
Grouplove, AWOLNATION, Evanesence, Jet, The Killers
g unit
April 4th, 2012
9:46 pm
Motley crew
The GOOD Stuff
April 4th, 2012
9:47 pm
EVERY AMERICAN IDOL WINNER!
Tim
April 4th, 2012
9:56 pm
Fela Kuti would be cool; but, he’s dead. I would like to see Interpol, Cat Power and Michelle Malone.
Ga born
April 4th, 2012
10:00 pm
Whitney Houston? And other dead artists? Wow,never under estimate the power of stupid people in a public situation !
Jason
April 4th, 2012
10:01 pm
UGA has a home SEC game on the 22nd so it’s an odd day to have a music festival. College football Saturdays in general are a bad time to plan an event.
kj
April 4th, 2012
10:03 pm
Music Midtown suck. Check out the line up for the Beale St. Music festival.
Default Settings 2.0
April 4th, 2012
10:11 pm
Wow, never underestimate a person’s inability to sniff sarcasm. I agree kj, Memphis would be fun.
30326Sic'em DOGS
April 4th, 2012
10:14 pm
Robert Plant and the Band of Joy…saw them at the Fox last Feb. and it was a really, really good show!
lucinda fan
April 4th, 2012
10:42 pm
Lucinda Williams
Shelby Lynne
lucinda fan
April 4th, 2012
10:44 pm
@Buddy Greene-Justin Bieber lives in Buckhead. Just sayin’.
BigTimeTECHFan
April 4th, 2012
11:54 pm
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins
Really!?
April 5th, 2012
12:06 am
Did someone really say Nickelback? Gawd NO! How about some Ray Lamontagne (?sp), Jack Johnson, Damien Rice, and David Gray on one stage…Rage against the machine, Van Halen, P.O.D. on another. And those that want some local artists, how about B.O.B., T.I., maybe bring back some Lil’ John and the Ying Yang Twins.
Poor planning
April 5th, 2012
7:13 am
What kind of idiot plans a weekend concert festival in Atlanta during football season?
Gary
April 5th, 2012
8:20 am
moe.
Greg
April 5th, 2012
8:34 am
Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, Mumford & Sons, The Decemberists, Cee-Lo, Outkast
Little 5 points mike!
April 5th, 2012
9:37 pm
Lionel richie,,,lady antebellum,,Jackson browne,,,shawn mullins…
Leah
April 5th, 2012
9:59 pm
Luda
Bon Iver
Robin Thicke
Robyn
Janelle Monae
Keyshia Cole
John
April 5th, 2012
10:08 pm
Sheena Easton and Sinead O’connor
Praveen
April 5th, 2012
10:15 pm
Last year’s MM was not a real music fest. It was a Coldplay – Black Keys double bill with a couple of opening acts. They need to have a mix of the old and the new. How about Foster the People, Vampire Weekend , Shins, Bruno Mars, a few 60s soul or R&B classic performers and a couple of classic rockers, a couple of rappers who are more suitable for a live outdoor event, A couple of pop singers.
musicme
April 5th, 2012
10:26 pm
gaga, britney and madonaa! can britney and madonna get some more action together?
JAM
April 5th, 2012
10:42 pm
Rehab, Muse, Radiohead, Rhianna, Aloe Blacc, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, to name a few.
MusicFan
April 5th, 2012
10:55 pm
Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Train
Buster Hymen
April 5th, 2012
11:08 pm
Buster Hymen and the 9 Month Melody.
BD
April 6th, 2012
12:11 am
Soundgarden
Toadies
Traci
April 6th, 2012
12:12 am
Anthony David
Congressional Black Caucus
April 6th, 2012
4:55 am
In a city, like Atlanta, that is over 50% black, the artists appearing should reflect a majority of the population.
Additionally, Music Midtown should have a “Justice for Trayvon” rally highlighting injustices blacks face on a daily basis.
Stevereeno
April 6th, 2012
5:35 am
MGMT, Foster the People, Death cab for Cuties, the Machester Orchestra, Zack Brown Band, Youth lagoon.
lucinda fan
April 6th, 2012
5:49 am
@Congressional Blck Caucus-Sounds like a plan.
I’ll be at the Miami-GT game.
david c
April 6th, 2012
6:16 am
It doesn’t matter who plays. The cool kids will show up, text each other all day, drink too much, and then watch everything they missed on YouTube.
Aaron
April 6th, 2012
3:37 pm
Green Day or Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stan
April 6th, 2012
5:25 pm
It would be nice if Outkast and the Dungeon Family on stage…
Music Fan
April 6th, 2012
6:00 pm
Tears for Fears!!!
I love music
April 6th, 2012
10:19 pm
GWAR
megan
April 6th, 2012
10:27 pm
Incubus
Honey
April 7th, 2012
4:33 pm
Allman Brothers , Leon Russell, One Eskimo, Doc Watson…
musicjunky
April 9th, 2012
11:38 am
Blair Crimmins and The Hookers, Black Keys, Jack White, Dr. Dog, The Beatles and The Animals
Coachurly
April 10th, 2012
4:20 pm
Morris Day and the Time, J Geils Band, Sheila E., and Stone Temple Pilots.