Live music review: Xiu Xiu brought unbridled experimentation to Elysium Friday
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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Live music review: finding hope with Weyes Blood at Stubb’s
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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SXSW 2023 recap: The best things we saw at festival this year
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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Live music review: Black Flag at Mohawk and Combichrist at Elysium Saturday
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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SXSW: Danny Brown invited JPEGMAFIA and Hannibal Burress to his Dr. Martens party
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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SXSW Strikes Again: Day Two and Three in Review
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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SXSW: The Madness of Day One
I ventured into the bucket head-wearing throngs for night one. Accompanied by my spiritual advisor, the comic Trevor Keveloh, we dared to see what this year’s SXSW festival had in store for us, even though it was supposed to be only the “tech week.”
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Album review: Leche releases new EP, “Gas Powered Guillotine”
Just in time for Austin’s busiest music season, hometown punk band Leche return with a new EP, Gas Powered Guillotine.
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Live music review: 41st Austin Music Awards featured Jackie Venson, Como Las Movies, Kathy Valentine and more
On a springlike evening Sunday at Mohawk, the Austin Chronicle hosted the Austin Music Awards for the 41st time to a sold-out venue that saw a lineup that truly ran the gamut of the Austin musical landscape.
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Live music review: Big Thief played to a full house at ACL Live
This past Wednesday night the hallowed Austin music venue, the ACL Live Moody Theater, slowly filled to its full capacity in anticipation of the evening’s agenda featuring the indie-folk roots music of Big Thief.
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Live music review: White Reaper rocked Scoot Inn Asking for a Ride tour stop
Louisville natives White Reaper rocked Scoot Inn on Tuesday, stopping in Austin in support of January release, Asking for a Ride. The record is perhaps the band’s best. That’s say something as their previous release produced their most popular song thus far, “Might Be Right.”
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