Empire Garage is one of the many participating venues, and their opening-night Hip Hop, R&B, and Soul showcase Austin Chronicle party on Thursday evening did not disappoint with performances by Moody Banks, Daniel Fears and hip-hop artist, David Shabani.
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Nowhere could this phenomenon be better illustrated than at FLAKEFEST Vol. 1 on Friday, June 28, 2024 at Mohawk. Two bands – Como Las Movies and Starflake – took to the stage along with a handful of other local music luminaries and brought us an evening of homegrown, Latin-infused, experimental music that defies expectations and crushes definitions.
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May is a big season for any city like Austin. College students are closing the book on school, prom kids are, well, prom-ing, and the city of Austin has its usual everyday festivities going in full force. Austin’s Grandmaster Orchestra has been at it for over a year, assembling a lineup that spans some of the best artists the local music sphere offers. The members of the Grandmaster ensemble, honorably dubbed “Zealots,” take their leader, the Grandmaster’s mission, to heart. The local nonet, turned duodecet for the Austin act’s album release show at Stateside Theatre in downtown Austin, featured a star-studded bill that delivered musicianship and auras of longtime friendship that showed a pivotal moment for the Austin music scene of the current era
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On the evening of Friday, September 29 2023, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily took to the stage at Bass Concert Hall to perform their spellbinding collaborative project Love in Exile. What transpired over the course of the next hour was, in every sense of the word, art.
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New York City-based roots act, The Wood Brothers performed at Red Butte Garden Thursday in Salt Lake City. The trio consisting of siblings Chris (Medeski, Martin and Wood) and Oliver Wood along with multi-instrumentalist, Jane Rix are touring in support of their forthcoming release, Heart is the Hero.
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It has been a little over a week since the release of Being Dead’s debut album When Horses Would Run. The Austin band (featuring bandleaders, Falcon Bitch and Gumball) has offered a refreshing take on alternative music.
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Originally hailing from Chicago, Mild High Club founder Alexander Brettin began the project as a solo act, expanding the group into full band, live act as the project gained fans Brettin studied jazz at Columbia College in the Windy City and shortly after began his work on MHC. The Neo-jazz / shoe gaze / psych rock act will appear on the Mohawk stage September 24 with support from Shy Boys.
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At Mohawk on October 29th, black midi displayed their sky-high musical endurance and tested the audience’s as well at the 2021 verison of LEVITATION Fest.
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We’re always searching for new and interesting music that intends to create sounds that haven’t been heard before. Be it experimental, psychedelic or in today’s review, jazz and world music fusion. The singles we listened to are Nazuk by Austin’s Atlas Maior featuring famed ghazal singer, Ali Pervez Medhi.
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To that end, we’ve chosen to highlight The Bird Barn’s killer psych-rock, punk and straight up rock n roll lineup at Empire Control Room Saturday. The stacked, all-local bill features Billy King and the
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