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Live music preview: Halloween Freakend by Levitation is coming to Far Out Lounge

October 16, 2025 Case Cockrell 1540 Views Bitchin Bajas, Black Lips, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Clown Core, concert, experimental music, Far Out Lounge, garage rock, glam rock, Halloween, Halloween Freakend, hardcore, J'Cuzzi, Levitation, Lightning Bolt, Lip Critic, live music, Machine Girl, Porcelain, post rock, preview, psych-rock, punk rock, Resound Presents, rock n roll, Stereolab, Viagra Boys

Levitation and Resound Presents have teamed up again for a Halloween weekend two-day festival in South Austin. The mini-fest will take place at The Far Out Lounge & Stage on October 31 and November 1, the current site of the Spring edition of Austin Psych Fest. The Freakend lineup kicks off on Halloween night with Bitchin Bajas, J’Cuuzi, Stereolab, Black Lips, and Viagra Boys arriving for their first Austin headlining excursion.

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Live music photos: Hot Summer Nights featured Andrew Cashen, Semihelix, Portrayal of Guilt and more

July 31, 2025 Greg Ackerman 3723 Views Andrew Cashen, Austin, Bruce, Como Las Movies, glam rock, gospel, hard rock, Hot Summer Nights, HSN, live music, metal, Mujeres Podridas, Pearl Z, photos, pop rock, Portrayal of Guilt, prog rock, psych-rock, Queen Serene, Red River Cultural District, rock n roll, Semihelix, Sexpop, shoegaze, Stop Motion Orchestra, Team Trust, The Bottomless, Troy Gonzales

The Red River Cultural District’s cover-free Hot Summer Nights event took place last weekend in venues all over the downtown neighborhood July 24-26. Nearly 150 primarily Austin-area artists took to the stage at Mohawk, 13th Floor, Elysium, Chess Club and a dozen other RRCD venues. This is the eighth year the neighborhood organization has organized the event which spawned from its original sister event, Free Week which takes place the first week of January each year. Resound Presents founder, Graham Williams is credited with originating that event while he was working as a talent booker at the original Emo’s on Red River and Sixth Street. featured in this photo story is Andrew Cashen and Disciples of Creation, shoegaze/psych rockers, Queen Serene, Pearl Z, Sexpop, Mujeres Podridas, Stop Motion Orchestra, Portrayal of Guilt, Semihelix and lots more.

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Song review: Upcoming single by Jeremiah Jackson Soul Power drops July 2

June 27, 2025 Becky Rodriguez 3966 Views blues rock, glam rock, Hotel Vegas, Jeremiah Jackson, LBGTQA+, new music, Review, song, soul, Soul Power

What is Glam Daddy Blues? Texas’ own Jeremiah Jackson keeps the spirit of this self-invented genre alive in their upcoming single, “Soul Power” set for release on July 2. Along with members, drummer Mikey Uptmore, and bassist/producer, Dylan “Pickle” Fischer, the trio concocts a dreamy narrative that begs us to fall into the awe-inspiring influence of “Soul Power.” Glam Daddy Blues is Jeremiah Jackson’s answer to nourishing the soul and keeping it alive and thriving.

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Live music review: Sweet Spirit returned to Hotel Vegas Saturday

June 28, 2021 Greg Ackerman 1514 Views A Giant dog, Andrew Cashen, Britt Daniel, glam rock, Hotel Vegas, live music, Prince, rock n roll, Sabrina Ellis, Spoon, Sweet Spirit

Two weeks to the day Sweet Spirit members Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen played Hotel Vegas’ famed backyard with A Giant Dog, the writing duo returned Saturday with Sweet Spirit to do it all over again, but with glam-rock style in spades

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Video Premiere: The Cuckoos new single I’ll Be Ur Tramp

July 6, 2020 Brian Hillsman 840 Views Austin Music, David Bowie, glam rock, new music, punk rock, rock n roll, The Cuckoos, Video

In what now feels like ancient history, this past January, The Cuckoos put on a show at one of Austin’s most intimate venues, Cheer Up Charlie’s. On June 29, the band dropped a new single and video. The new clip depicts a man (Frost), sitting alone in a chair, in black and white with a vintage color TV playing footage from the aforementioned show. This is the premise for the Austin-based The Cuckoos’ latest music video and single release “I’ll Be Ur Tramp.”

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Album Review: Trinidad from Sweet Spirit signals new approach

June 3, 2020 Greg Ackerman 1832 Views A Giant dog, album review, Austin, glam rock, new music, rock n roll, Sweet Spirit

Like many bands, Austin’s Sweet Spirit has seen a number of iterations. The band has swelled and contracted in size over the years. The current (smaller) formation lends itself to a different direction with Trinidad that is still glam rock we know and love, but a more spare sound emerges. It’s darker in tone than the previous two full-length albums the band has released.