Austin glam rocker Jeremiah Jackson released a new single “Wet Dream” on May 1. The song was written by the British indie rock group Wet Leg led by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. Some of Wet Legs’ hits include “Chaise Longue” and “Ur Mom.”
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Little Brother Bar on Rainey Street is an Oasis against the throngs of shitheals with popped collars and bad manners. It’s a tiny closet of a bar that brings big fun with strong drinks, a bartending crew full of characters, and of course, the beloved Bummer Burritos. But for the last year or so, the bar would partner up with the Bad Larry Burger crew and throw the best free shows in Austin that were the thing of legend. And then they were forced to stop.
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One band she loved was Built to Spill. “Hey, play that song about going out of your mind,” she’d request. Translated from mom-speak, that was the band’s standout ‘Goin’ Against Your Mind.’ At Austin’s Mohawk on April 8, I thought about the drives with her as the drums launched into the 10-minute six-string odyssey.
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Being Dead is an Austin band, but to say they’re simply a local indie rock band would be selling them short. When songwriting duo Falcon Bitch and Gumball plug in to play, their voices go together immaculately. With the songwriting chops and dynamic chemistry displayed on every song the band has ever recorded, “Muriel’s Big Day Off” revitalizes and hones what makes Being Dead something to watch in 2023.
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The Residents are proud freaks, and the fans are too. They showed up for their performance in Austin last Sunday.
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California’s Xiu Xiu is a band transcending many different musical concepts and genres. Xiu Xiu brought their unbridled experimentation to Elysium on Friday.
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As the sold-out crowd at Stubb’s BBQ performed the standard between set activities, beverages, restroom breaks, locating friends in the crowd, etc. in preparation for the highly anticipated headline act of the evening, Weyes Blood, a familiar and widely underestimated beauty of a tune piped in over the PA.
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Without big tech NFT and crypto currencies funding parties with high profile headliners and free booze mixed with the fact there was no grounding social media platform to share secret sets, the playing field had become more advantageous for up and coming bands to procure an audience. Here are the best things we saw at SXSW 2023.
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I wanted to clown on this current incarnation of Black Flag. I really did. Going into the show on Saturday at Mohawk, my expectations were low. When a legendary band has gone through a cadre of lineups over the years, it’s hard to get excited when Greg Ginn is the only original member up there chugging away on the hits that are so influential to our lives.
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With a seminal day-time appearance at the 2023 edition of South By Southwest (SXSW), Danny Brown delivered a set that made a statement for what the artist has planned for the future.
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across Austin, cool (and SXSW ) is something we’ve been monetizing since the first hip dude slipped on a Bob Seger shirt and a cowboy hat way back in the Nixon administration.
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