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Live music review: Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA packed Stubbs for collaborative rager Friday

August 29, 2023 Case Cockrell 1304 Views Danny Brown, Hip Hop, JPEGMAFIA, live music review, Peggy, rap, Scaring the Hoes

The new album also brought out fans in droves at Stubbs which was sold out for Brown and JPEGMAFIA for a live collaborative rager on Friday. For relentless music fans that chomp at the bit for weird music and what lies beneath the surface, Danny and Peggy have brought their unending creativity to the forefront, which comes as an attempt to make the underground and mainstream collapse on top of each other.

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Video Premiere: Exotic Fruitica continues release cycle with new track Cowboy

August 4, 2023 Case Cockrell 1245 Views DAIISTAR, Exotic Fruitica, hard rock, new music, OFF!, post-punk, video premiere

Austin noisemakers Exotic Fruitica are ramping up their upcoming EP release with a new track and video that pushes the band’s noisy antics to 11. For the Austin act, they’ve been releasing one song after another that always go the deafening distance. Choosing sun-baked hooks and fuzzy guitars to sculpt their catchy yet chaotic approach, the Austin noise act has been making a mission statement to rattle listeners into blown-out exhaustion. To celebrate the release of “Cowboy,” They have also dropped a video that embodies the same chaos that the music evokes. Directed by Cameron Kisel, Exotic Fruitica is quickly catching fire as one of Austin’s most exciting bands.

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Live music review: Hot Summer Nights 2023 delivered FOMO-worthy lineup to Austin music fans

August 3, 2023 Case Cockrell 2079 Views Big Bill, Hot Summer Nights, John Dwyer, live music, Marry Cherry, Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band, Nuclear Daisies, Osees, Queen Serene, Red River Cultural District, Review

Red River Cultural District’s Hot Summer Nights 2023 returned July 20-23 with a bill that was too hot (figuratively and literally) to pass up. With bands such as Exotic Fruitica, Grandmaster, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, and Nuclear Daisies all rounding out the lineup, HSN delivered a FOMO-worthy event that was not to be missed for local fans of a wide variety of musical genres from heavy to mellow.

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Live music review: Austin act Being Dead enlisted friends to celebrate release of debut album

July 20, 2023 Case Cockrell 2237 Views Being Dead, Big Bill, Borzoi, live music, Play to the Plants, post-punk, Redbud, Review, rock n roll, Sagebrush

For Being Dead’s Bayonet Records debut, the Austin powerhouse act not only goes the distance, but torches any doubt that anyone might have had that Being Dead would miss the mark for their first full-length outing which was celebrated with a release party at Sagebrush last Friday.

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Song review: Austin Noise Pop act Daiistar announced new album, released new song

July 14, 2023 Case Cockrell 1639 Views DAIISTAR, Fuzz Club, new music, noise pop, song review, The Black Angels

Texas band Daiistar is back in full psychedelic force. On new track “Star Starter,” the Austin act wastes little time in getting down to potent, psychoactive business. The reverb-drenched production makes for a vision quest-type listen, allowing the listener to sit back and bask in the production magic of Alex Maas, frontman of Austin Neo-Psych legends, The Black Angels.

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Live music review: Lil Yachty was an ardent completionist at his debut ACL TV taping

July 7, 2023 Case Cockrell 1834 Views ACL TV, Austin City Limits TV, Hip Hop, Lil Yachty, live music, rap, Review, taping

“I did what I wanted to do, which was create a body of work that reflected me,” Yachty explained in a Billboard cover feature. “My idea was for this album to be a journey: Press play and fall into the void.” This was his position before recording his debut Austin City Limits (ACL TV) taping last week.

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Live music review: Wavves brought their Summer shenanigans to Mohawk

July 2, 2023 Case Cockrell 1652 Views Cloud Nothings, live music, mohawk, power pop, punk, Review, rock, Ultra Q, Wavves

Since seeing frontman Nathan Williams’ strong attachment to the venue, he likes to end each Mohawk appearance with a backflip into the crowd from the venue’s 2nd level overlooking the stage left, I was sure never to miss another show, including last week’s tour stop at Mohawk.

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Live music review: Drone Metal legends Earth performed quadraphonic show at Oblivion Access Fest

June 21, 2023 Case Cockrell 1503 Views Central Presbyterian Church, doom metal, Earth, live music, Oblivion Access Fest, Review, stoner metal

Have you ever seen a show in a church? What about a show in a church equipped with a psychedelic light display while a classic drone metal band plays their classic album in its entirety? For Seattle’s Earth, the drone legends did just that, which included a performance of their classic 1993 debut album, Earth 2, in its full glory for the record’s 30th anniversary at Central Presbyterian Church.

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Live music review: Against odds Lil Ugly Mane performs in Austin at Oblivion Access Festival

June 20, 2023 Case Cockrell 2168 Views Empire Garage, Hip Hop, Lil Ugly Mane, live music, Oblivion Access Fest, rap, Review, RXK Nephew, Travis Miller

Lil Ugly Mane, aka Travis Miller, has always been an elusive figure. The underground hip-hop world that Ugly Mane spawned out of might call the Virginia native an enigma, so much so that Lil Ugly Mane’s many pseudonyms meant to take the prolific music creator outside of the SoundCloud rap box that he was painted into with his breakout 2012 debut album Mista Thug Isolation.