Live music review: Xiu Xiu brought unbridled experimentation to Elysium Friday
California’s Xiu Xiu is a band transcending many different musical concepts and genres. Xiu Xiu brought their unbridled experimentation to Elysium on Friday.
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Live music review: finding hope with Weyes Blood at Stubb’s
As the sold-out crowd at Stubb’s BBQ performed the standard between set activities, beverages, restroom breaks, locating friends in the crowd, etc. in preparation for the highly anticipated headline act of the evening, Weyes Blood, a familiar and widely underestimated beauty of a tune piped in over the PA.
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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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Live music review: full moon, Venus and Hotel Vegas with Being Dead and Transy Warhol
As a full moon aligned with Venus in the Friday night sky, down below, on March 24, cosmic forces further
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Live music review: Black Flag at Mohawk and Combichrist at Elysium Saturday
I wanted to clown on this current incarnation of Black Flag. I really did. Going into the show on Saturday at Mohawk, my expectations were low. When a legendary band has gone through a cadre of lineups over the years, it’s hard to get excited when Greg Ginn is the only original member up there chugging away on the hits that are so influential to our lives.
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SXSW review: Hair of the Dog Showcase at Mohawk
On Tuesday, March 14, Mohawk hosted the Hair of the Dog SXSW showcase, featuring a plethora of talent and diverse sounds.
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Live music review: 41st Austin Music Awards featured Jackie Venson, Como Las Movies, Kathy Valentine and more
On a springlike evening Sunday at Mohawk, the Austin Chronicle hosted the Austin Music Awards for the 41st time to a sold-out venue that saw a lineup that truly ran the gamut of the Austin musical landscape.
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Live music review: Big Thief played to a full house at ACL Live
This past Wednesday night the hallowed Austin music venue, the ACL Live Moody Theater, slowly filled to its full capacity in anticipation of the evening’s agenda featuring the indie-folk roots music of Big Thief.
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Live music review: White Reaper rocked Scoot Inn Asking for a Ride tour stop
Louisville natives White Reaper rocked Scoot Inn on Tuesday, stopping in Austin in support of January release, Asking for a Ride. The record is perhaps the band’s best. That’s say something as their previous release produced their most popular song thus far, “Might Be Right.”
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Live music review: Bass Drum of Death shredded Empire
February 11 marked the third night of the Say I Won’t Tour for Bass Drum of Death at Empire Control Room and Garage. While February may be an unusual time for bands to tour through Austin, too cold for larger crowds and too early for SXSW, fans hungry for a show to tide them over until the Sx avalanche of bands
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Live Music Review: Dry Cleaning Sold-Out Mohawk last week
Dry Cleaning was back in Austin for a sold-out show in the Red River Cultural District at Mohawk on Friday, January 27. The South-London, post-punk band displayed a great deal of synchronal growth almost eight months to the day after a sold-out performance at Hotel Vegas
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