“Lucky to have people in my life with the power to break my heart”. After many months in quarantine, this opening line from Dehd’s song “Lucky” succinctly captures the time I’ve spent scrolling through Instatherapy accounts and reading Brene Brown. The band played Antone’s on May 13 to full-house with support from tour mates, Pixel Grip.
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Sigur Rós brought this music experience to life at ACL Live Moody Theater Monday night, the first of two appearances at the venue, and if you ask those in attendance what took place on that stage and in that room, the answers could be as diverse and mysterious as the band itself, but only in the best way. Fan or no fan, the emotional push and pull of this band live is hard to deny
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The world is a scary place these days. A real fucking scary place. The world is also a beautiful, amazing place, and we are all in this big, scary, beautiful place together. At least that is how Phoebe Bridgers makes us feel with her progressive brand of folk, indie-pop music that permeates the current emotional climate that most of us are experiencing in these tumultuous times. Despite Bridgers’ young, female fan-base, the kid just might be alright.
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Just when you think that there isn’t any room for another music festival in Austin that has the strength and originality to be taken seriously, enter Oblivion Access Festival. Formerly known as Austin Terror Fest, Oblivion Access Festival took over six venues in the downtown area over the course of four days last weekend and provided a diverse lineup that showcased some of the best artists of metal, hardcore, shoegaze, rap, electronica, experimental and DJ.
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On Saturday, May 14, Austin rockers The Bright Light Social Hour along with Lolita Lynn and DJ Cassandra entertained SIMS Foundation supporters at Central Machine Works. The concert and fundraiser sponsored by The Zebra, Storable and CMW has already raised over $7,000 to help SIMS Foundation
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Amazing shows are frequently measured by how loud a crowd can get. The Antlers created a special evening at Antone’s May 9, not by eliciting roars from the floor, but captivating the room into a quiet trance. The faithful crowd wasn’t rowdy, but respectful to the point where you could hear a pin drop, if not the bustling traffic outside of busy 6th Street.
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On Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Car Seat Headrest brought their tour to Stubb’s BBQ with opener Bartees Strange for an eagerly awaited performance that brought a sold-out crowd to the venerable Waller Creek Amphitheater on a night that traditionally sees music fans in front of Latin bands
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Where most artists deliver the runtime of a long HBO episode, a My Morning Jacket set is an epic Peter Jackson film. On April 29 in Austin, the band played a two-hour, 45 minute marathon, with nearly as many songs (22) as years they have been together (24). In other words, it was your typical, kick-ass MMJ set.
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On Tuesday, April 26, New York indie rock legends, Interpol, graced the ACL Live stage at the Moody Theater turning it into their own indie-rock cathedral.
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The lights went down just after 8 p.m. on April 20 (420 Day), and Japanese Breakfast filed onto the Moody Theater stage in an orderly manner, appearing more like a mild-mannered group of software engineers in business casual than one of the hottest ascendant bands on the face of the earth.
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Lauded post-rockers, Japan’s Mono played the first official live music performance at the new The Parish venue which had a soft opening over the weekend with Mono on Saturday and prog rock act, Battles filling the recently renovated room Sunday evening.
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