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Danny Brown at Empire 3 Caitlin Clark
Case CockrellLive MusicReview

Live music review: Danny Brown threw down a rager at Empire Garage

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Sometimes, live music crowds can be major downers. Austin, Texas’ vibrant music scene has a massive influx of live shows that draw a variety of different crowds, some good, some bad. For Detroit-turned-Austin oddball rapper Danny Brown, an unforgettable live spectacle made sure to cancel out the entitled personalities that attempted to harsh the triumphant vibes of Danny’s homecoming for yet another Austin appearance, this time at Empire Garage on Thursday, April 11.

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Live podcast review: The Danny Brown Show and Hannibal Buress celebrated 100 episodes

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Detroit-turned-Austin rapper Danny Brown has been hosting podcast The Danny Brown Show with YMH Studios since the emcee’s big move to the Austin, Central Texas area. For Brown’s 100th episode after a whole year on the air, the rapper-comedian-host took to the vibrant local comedy club The Creek And The Cave for a celebration.

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Mick Jenkins
Brian HillsmanLive MusicReview

Live music review: Mick Jenkins and TOBi delivered stellar hip hop shows at Come and Take It Live

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Around 9 p.m. on Saturday, February 3, hip hop artist Mick Jenkins took the stage at Come and Take It Live. The Chicago native opened his set with what is possibly the strongest opening track of any album, in any genre, of 2023.  

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Danny Brown Quaranta
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Album review: Danny Brown delivered reflective Warp Records solo record Quaranta

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With a blockbuster collaboration and tour with experimental Hip Hop powerhouse JPEGMAFIA under the Detroit-turned-Austin artist’s belt, the modern rap icon has ceremoniously unveiled his most personal album to date, Quaranta. For those who aren’t fluent in Italian, the record’s title means 40, showing Brown’s vulnerability as he ages into a seasoned rhyme sculptor who still feels like he has lots to prove despite his glowing resume. On Quaranta, he treats like Hip Hop has been a double-edged sword, and he is finally seeing destiny as he has painted it over his long, fabled career.

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Kendrick Lamar
Case CockrellLiveReview

Live music review: Kendrick Lamar shocks ACL Festival with 65-minute delay, abbreviated 31-minute set 

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Compton’s Kendrick Lamar is billed as the headliner for each Friday of the 2023 Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Festival), a big draw for most attendees at Zilker Park on Friday night. Upon approaching the stage, fans were told on the American Express Stage’s screens that Lamar’s set would be delayed due to “Plane Issues.”

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JPEGMAFIA Danny Brown Scaring the Hoes tour art
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Live music review: Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA packed Stubbs for collaborative rager Friday  

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The new album also brought out fans in droves at Stubbs which was sold out for Brown and JPEGMAFIA for a live collaborative rager on Friday. For relentless music fans that chomp at the bit for weird music and what lies beneath the surface, Danny and Peggy have brought their unending creativity to the forefront, which comes as an attempt to make the underground and mainstream collapse on top of each other. 

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Lil Yachty ACL TV
Case CockrellReview

Live music review: Lil Yachty was an ardent completionist at his debut ACL TV taping

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“I did what I wanted to do, which was create a body of work that reflected me,” Yachty explained in a Billboard cover feature. “My idea was for this album to be a journey: Press play and fall into the void.” This was his position before recording his debut Austin City Limits (ACL TV) taping last week. 

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Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access
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Live music review: Against odds Lil Ugly Mane performs in Austin at Oblivion Access Festival 

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Lil Ugly Mane, aka Travis Miller, has always been an elusive figure. The underground hip-hop world that Ugly Mane spawned out of might call the Virginia native an enigma, so much so that Lil Ugly Mane’s many pseudonyms meant to take the prolific music creator outside of the SoundCloud rap box that he was painted into with his breakout 2012 debut album Mista Thug Isolation.

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ReviewRobert Dean

SXSW: The Madness of Day One

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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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Bright Light Social Hour Riders Against the Storm
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Live music preview: Bright Light Social Hour, Riders Against the Storm play Parish Friday

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The Bright Light Social Hour (TBLSH) and hip-hop duo, Riders Against the Storm (RAS) play Parish this Friday, September 30. The show will feature a song collaboration, “The Sheriff” which is a new version of the original TBLSH song, released September 7.

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