Photos: Gary Clark Jr. concluded three sold-out nights at ACL Live last week
All photos: Mike Manewitz Austin heir-apparent to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. played three sold-out nights at
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Review
Album Review: The Smoking Trees The Adventure Continues
Los Angeles based The Smoking Trees latest album The Adventure Continues… moves forward into soothing sounds and pop-psych dreaminess. The
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Top Austin albums of 2018
With the end of the year in sight, we figured it was time to run down our favorite albums of
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Live music review: Kris Kristofferson and The Strangers at the Golden Nugget
The show was four minutes late, house lights still on and I was waiting outside the door marked with the section I’d secured seats. To my right, on the other side of the hall, were five places to buy beer, wine, or something harder if the spirit took you. My bride and I had crossed the Louisiana border with two of our best friends, who share the same interest in music, politics and nearly everything else.
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Album Review – Deep Under Part Time’s New Spell #6
Part Time’s sixth studio album “Spell #6” is an ambitious follow up to the 20-track “Virgos Maze.
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Festival review: Second Saturnalia Festival gets mixed weather, lots of psychedelic music
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”24″ display=”basic_slideshow”] The second Saturnalia Festival took place last weekend at The Sahara Lounge and neighboring Webberville Baptist
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New music review: New Zealand post-punks Swallow the Rat debuted EP
At The Cosmic Clash we’re constantly searching for great, new music that satisfies our urge for the heavy, distorted guitars
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Music Festival Review: 10th Utopiafest featured Lukas Nelson, Patty Griffin, STS9
Last weekend’s 10th Annual Utopiafest held for the first time at Reveille Peak Ranch just outside of Burnet saw ideal weather conditions perhaps for the first time in the festival’s history as the event dates moved to their latest time of the year thus far. The limited-attendance festival featured performances by Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9), Patty Griffin, Lukas Nelson and John Medeski’s Mad Skillet among other acts that followed in the Americana / Jam band slant the festival bookers lean toward.
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Song Premiere: Walker Lukens’ Election Confession brought Bright Light Social Hour and Joi Chevalier together and it was magic
The Bright Light Social Hour can geek-out with the best of them. Case in point, when the band was invited to participate in Walker Lukens’ Election Confession project which aims to mobilize younger voters, they met Texas Comptroller candidate Joi Chevalier and wrote a truly geeky song relating her story of meeting her Australian husband online in the early days of the internet. The interview and session took place at Native Hostel.
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Live music review: White Denim played stellar tour finale at Mohawk Friday
When White Denim lost 40 percent of their roster to Leon Bridges’ tour, things looked uncertain for talented founder, James Petralli. The path to the sound the virtuosic guitarist is constantly seeking was temporarily muddled. What was never in doubt is Petralli’s ability to make exceptional music. White Denim’s sound was largely built around former drummer Josh Block’s unorthodox technique who left to tour with Bridges full-time as did guitarist Austen Jenkins.
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Live music review and photos: Bob Moses played Emo’s with Mansionair
Vancouver-via-Brooklyn-based electronic group Bob Moses brought their Battle Lines tour through Austin at Emo’s last Friday, October 19 supported by Mansionair. Bob Moses is actually a duo comprised of Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie, their pop-electronic work was filled out with a lineup of live drums, bass, keys, guitar and vocals for a set list that drew heavily from their latest album, “Battle Lines.”
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