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Case CockrellLive MusicReview

Live music review: Hotel Vegas NYE gave attendees a fun ride through the musical decades

New Year’s Eve 2023 at Hotel Vegas was something of a time machine. At the Austin East Side haunt, many chosen Austin acts came together to masquerade as bands of multiple genres across the eclectic periods of music’s past. This included but was not limited to covers of Judas Priest, Motorhead, Black Flag, Devo, and Bruce Springsteen by some of the best young musicians in the city

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Case CockrellLive MusicReview

Live music review: Atlanta garage punks Black Lips rocked Parish with Gus Baldwin and Death Party

Atlanta’s Black Lips have kept this dream alive since the label’s dissolution. Since embarking on numerous tours and album cycles since 1999, the garage outfit has been a musical binge since their inception. With a stage show that goes the lo-fi, rocking distance, there was never a dull moment on Friday night at Austin’s Parish in the city’s East Side. 

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Christina DeStefanoReview

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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