Live Music Review: Austin Went Dark for Phoebe Bridgers, and Nobody Complained
Somewhere between the skeleton suit and the arena rigging, Phoebe Bridgers stopped being anyone’s secret. It was the first night
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Live music review: Chat Pile played like demolition crew at Radio East
Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile named themselves after the gray hills of mine tailings that still sit over northeast Oklahoma. The Picher field supplied more than half the lead and zinc used in World War I, and the waste, called chat, was left in the open for decades. Families picnicked on it. Kids sledded down it. Nobody tied the piles to the lead in those kids’ blood until much later, and by then Picher was on its way to becoming a ghost town. The OKC quartet sounds like that debt being collected. At Radio/East on a Thursday night, they played like demolition crew, and Austin, a city that has always made room for bands willing to inflict pain, took every hit. Who Loves the Sun is the latest in a catalog that keeps getting heavier and angrier, and nothing about this set suggested they plan to let up.
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Live music review: Die Spitz returned to SLC for make up show at Soundwell and conquered
Last night, October 12 fast-rising Austin act Die Spitz returned to Salt Lake City for a make up show at Soundwell from August that had to be rescheduled due to member Ava Schrobilgen injuring her shoulder. The SLC date was one of a few shows the group had to reschedule. The sold out Monday crowd at the downtown spot that caps out at 650 seemed unfazed and respectfully watched Farmer’s Wife the indie rock band Die Spitz had brought along from Austin as their support act. The front row appropriately reflected the young female makeup of the foursome as the rail was lined with of age and underage young women ready to live out their rock and roll dreams with the ladies from ATX.
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Live Music Review: Jack White Turns Moody Amphitheater Into Detroit Garage
Detroit’s Jack White has spent close to three decades treating rock and roll like a contact sport. He locks your phone in a pouch at the door, keeps young bands pressing vinyl through Third Man Records, and lately has had less patience than most of his peers for keeping his politics to himself. Frozen Charlotte, his seventh solo record, picks up where 2024’s surprise-dropped No Name left off: blown-out blues, short fuses, garage rock with the grime left on. The band hasn’t changed, and that’s the point. Patrick Keeler on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, Bobby Emmett on organ. On a Wednesday night at Moody Amphitheater, Austin turned out again for Jack White, and in numbers. he gave them a set that hit hard, turning Moody Amphitheater into a Detroit garage and left fans with something to chew on afterward.
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Live Music Review: Built to Spill Carries the Zero in East Austin
Built to Spill has been a reference point for indie rock music for more than three decades. The Boise band helped write the 90s indie rock playbook, and bands a generation younger are still working from it. Doug Martsch has been the singer, guitarist, chief songwriter, and only constant since 1992. Ten albums in, the songs hit as hard as they did the first time fans heard them. On Friday, September 25, Martsch brought the current trio, with Melanie Radford on bass and Teresa Esguerra on drums, to the Central Machine Works stage built last year. The show sold out. The crowd was split between lifers and newcomers, and both got 90 minutes of indie rock loyalty for their trouble.
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Live music review: Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s My Sex Pistols Review
Getting your first copy of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols is a rite of passage for kids getting into punk rock. Somewhere around 13–16 years old, everyone manages to get a copy of that record, either as a gift, a burned CD, or because someone’s hot older sister shoved it into your hands. Well, that’s how it went in my day. Now we’ve got playlists and Spotify, so the natural order of things has changed. But whatever. Kids are still finding out about the Sex Pistols, and that’s always a good thing like they did September 12 at Emo’s.
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Live Music Review: Pond Brings the Fuzz to Mohawk, Then Kevin Parker Crashes the Encore
There’s something in the water in Perth, Australia, maybe the whole country. Psychedelia runs deep down under, and a wave
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Live music review: Social Distortion Sang Their Hearts Out at Moody Amphitheater
Attending Social Distortion’s show at the Moody Amphitheater, on August 28, it was probably my tenth time seeing the band. I know what to expect at one of those shows: lots of gray hair, lots of parents trying to pass on their music to their kids, and those on the come up looking back to the classics as something of their own. Catching Australia’s The Chats was a plus;
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Live music review: Diary of a Perimenopausal Gal at King Gizzard’s Field of Vision Festival
It’s almost 1 a.m. and our ride is coming at 4:30 a.m. My chest is tight from not knowing if I have everything done at home and at work, but it is what it is. When I wake up from my short nap, it’ll be go time to head from Austin to Colorado for King Gizzard’s second Field of Vision Festival in Buena Vista August 14-16. The psych rock, metal, electronic and rock n roll band from Australia has become a touring phenomenon.
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Live music review: Day one at Kilby Block Party 2026 featured Turnstile with up and coming acts
It was a picture perfect day in Salt Lake City at the Utah State Fairplex on Friday as Kilby Block Party geared up for its seventh edition of the mid-tier sized music festival with a lineup heavy on up and coming acts. Ireland’s Newdad, Austin’s Die Spitz and L.A. via Boise artist, Gelli Haha all turned in impressive performances as the schedule moved towards red-hot, melodic hardcore rock band Turnstile’s incredible main stage set to close night one of KBP. Fans enjoyed a silent disco featuring local DJs, art installations and came dressed for fun.
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Live music review: Austin Blues Fest aims to preserve Antone’s legacy
There are few homegrown Austin events left as of 2026. We still have HAAM Day, Austin Psych Fest and Levitation, Eeyore’s Birthday, and a handful of others, but times are tough, and the good folks that organize all these great things need the community to keep the traditions going. For Austin institution, venue and record store, Antone’s Austin Blues Fest, a gathering of adoring locals flocked to the Moody Amphitheater to experience both Texas Blues classics and other legacy acts to build a festival slate with so much talent in one weekend, it proved to be a must-see. On Sunday April 26, a stacked bill commenced for a day of showcasing undeniable fun with an experience that was uniquely Austin.
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