Live music review: Built To Spill thrilled a sold-out Antone’s Wednesday
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”27″ display=”basic_slideshow”]After catching Built To Spill‘s performance at the Hi, How Are You Benefit Tuesday at ACL Live,
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Live music review: Bear on Bear, The Mystery Achievement and Mohawk Bends at Free Week
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”26″ display=”basic_slideshow”]When The Cosmic Clash decided to re-up for Free Week this month, we set out with the
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Live music preview: Special Free Week show at Velveeta Room takes place January 2
The Cosmic Clash has successfully produced Free Week events in the past, but this year we wanted to try something
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Photos: Gary Clark Jr. concluded three sold-out nights at ACL Live last week
All photos: Mike Manewitz Austin heir-apparent to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. played three sold-out nights at
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Live music review: Kris Kristofferson and The Strangers at the Golden Nugget
The show was four minutes late, house lights still on and I was waiting outside the door marked with the section I’d secured seats. To my right, on the other side of the hall, were five places to buy beer, wine, or something harder if the spirit took you. My bride and I had crossed the Louisiana border with two of our best friends, who share the same interest in music, politics and nearly everything else.
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Festival review: Second Saturnalia Festival gets mixed weather, lots of psychedelic music
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”24″ display=”basic_slideshow”] The second Saturnalia Festival took place last weekend at The Sahara Lounge and neighboring Webberville Baptist
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Live music preview: The second Saturnalia Festival begins Friday in East Austin
November is a bittersweet month for music fans like us. While Fun Fun Fun Fest and its successor, Sound on
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Song Premiere: Walker Lukens’ Election Confession brought Bright Light Social Hour and Joi Chevalier together and it was magic
The Bright Light Social Hour can geek-out with the best of them. Case in point, when the band was invited to participate in Walker Lukens’ Election Confession project which aims to mobilize younger voters, they met Texas Comptroller candidate Joi Chevalier and wrote a truly geeky song relating her story of meeting her Australian husband online in the early days of the internet. The interview and session took place at Native Hostel.
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Live music preview: Luscious Heaven Shoegaze show and The Nothing Song label launch
There are probably more small, independent, local record labels in Austin than you’d expect. That fact isn’t stopping The Nothing Song owner, Trish Connelly from launching her own label on 7″ featuring talented newcomers, Blushing. The Cheer-Up Charlie’s booker is announcing the newly formed label at her Luscious Heaven: A Night of Shoegaze and Dreampop on Saturday, November 3 (this weekend) at the aforementioned Red River club.
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Live music review: White Denim played stellar tour finale at Mohawk Friday
When White Denim lost 40 percent of their roster to Leon Bridges’ tour, things looked uncertain for talented founder, James Petralli. The path to the sound the virtuosic guitarist is constantly seeking was temporarily muddled. What was never in doubt is Petralli’s ability to make exceptional music. White Denim’s sound was largely built around former drummer Josh Block’s unorthodox technique who left to tour with Bridges full-time as did guitarist Austen Jenkins.
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Live music review and photos: Bob Moses played Emo’s with Mansionair
Vancouver-via-Brooklyn-based electronic group Bob Moses brought their Battle Lines tour through Austin at Emo’s last Friday, October 19 supported by Mansionair. Bob Moses is actually a duo comprised of Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie, their pop-electronic work was filled out with a lineup of live drums, bass, keys, guitar and vocals for a set list that drew heavily from their latest album, “Battle Lines.”
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