Anna Daugherty

The Yot Club show at Terminal West played out like a nostalgic indie-pop dream, enveloping the audience in a continuous, hazy soundscape of smooth melodies and chill energy.

What happens when you combine three classically-trained cellists with some of Metallica's greatest hits? You get an electric night of symphonic metal at Buckhead Theatre, courtesy of the high-energy Finnish band Apocalyptica.

It takes a real artist to turn a concert into a whole other universe, and that's exactly what Ashnikko did when she transformed a sold-out Coca-Cola Roxy into a surreal wonderland known as "Smoochie World." The night was a masterclass in maximalist theater, with an audience dressed to the nines in DIY outfits crafted from every object imaginable, perfectly feeding into the "trinket" theme of the Smoochies era.