Michael Maly

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Live music review: Courtney Barnett and Here and There Festival at ACL Live

This past Thursday evening in Austin, found the Courtney Barnett curated, Here and There Festival planting it’s all female fronted bands version of the revolving lineup on the ACL Live Moody stage. While the constantly changing touring artists has featured the likes of Wet Leg, Fred Armisen, Lucy Dacus, Snail Mail, Japanese Breakfast, Bartees Strange, just to name a few of the many diverse artists making some of the most impactful music today, Austin fans were treated to support acts Ethel Cain and Indigo Souza on this night as they were warmed up the audience for the main act, Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett. 

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Live music review: UK indie rock heroes Echo and the Bunnymen played ACL Live on Saturday

Echo and The Bunnymen took the ACL Live at the Moody Stage in Austin this past Saturday night, executing a show that could easily be titled, “A Tale of Two Types.”  Essentially the Bunnymen pulled off what any experienced act should be able to execute… a set that pleases everyone.

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Live music review: Boy Harsher thrilled a sold-out Empire Garage

The sold-out crowd at Empire Control Room last Friday night was treated to an electronic, ambient music voyage by composer, performer Hiro Kone as the anticipation for headliners Boy Harsher was slowly increasing as the hour grew closer. The band last took the stage in Austin, in this same venue during the 2021 Levitation Festival and the hearty reception they received less than a year ago indicated the band’s rise in popularity.

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Live music review: Sigur Rós at ACL Live night one left our writer speechless

Sigur Rós brought this music experience to life at ACL Live Moody Theater Monday night, the first of two appearances at the venue, and if you ask those in attendance what took place on that stage and in that room, the answers could be as diverse and mysterious as the band itself, but only in the best way. Fan or no fan, the emotional push and pull of this band live is hard to deny

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Live music review: Phoebe Bridgers the kid just might be alright

The world is a scary place these days. A real fucking scary place. The world is also a beautiful, amazing place, and we are all in this big, scary, beautiful place together. At least that is how Phoebe Bridgers makes us feel with her progressive brand of folk, indie-pop music that permeates the current emotional climate that most of us are experiencing in these tumultuous times. Despite Bridgers’ young, female fan-base, the kid just might be alright.

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Live music review: Oblivion Access Festival slayed Austin last weekend

Just when you think that there isn’t any room for another music festival in Austin that has the strength and originality to be taken seriously, enter Oblivion Access Festival. Formerly known as Austin Terror Fest, Oblivion Access Festival took over six venues in the downtown area over the course of four days last weekend and provided a diverse lineup that showcased some of the best artists of metal, hardcore, shoegaze, rap, electronica, experimental and DJ.

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Live music review: Car Seat Headrest and Bartees Strange played Stubb’s on May 4

On Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Car Seat Headrest brought their tour to Stubb’s BBQ with opener Bartees Strange for an eagerly awaited performance that brought a sold-out crowd to the venerable Waller Creek Amphitheater on a night that traditionally sees music fans in front of Latin bands

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