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Live music review: Indie rock legends Pixies and Spoon played Moody Amphitheater

September 8, 2025 Case Cockrell 3567 Views Austin Music, Black Francis, Britt Daniel, concert, indie rock, Jim Eno, live music, Moody Amphitheater, Review, rock and roll, rock n roll, Spoon, The Pixies

Indie rock legends come in many forms. Whether you’re discussing the likes of Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, or Guided By Voices, someone in the room is going to eventually bring up The Pixies. Hailing from Boston and now entering their 40th year, the prolific songwriting of singer and guitarist Black Francis remains influential. For their 2025 North American tour, the Northeastern outfit enlisted the help of hometown heroes Spoon, making a sensible pairing of two leading musical entities in their respective birthplaces. For the Austin stop on the run, the double-headline bill made its way to Moody Amphitheater on Saturday, September 6, a sweaty occasion that made it all about the music.

Case Cockrell Live Music Review

Live music review: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs delivered bone crushing riffs

August 28, 2025 Case Cockrell 3713 Views 29th Street Ballroom, alternative metal, doom metal, heavy metal, live music, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Pigs x7, psych-rock, Review, rock n roll, sludge metal, Waxed

Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (or Pigs x7 to make things easier) has been on a steady barrage of bone-crushing riffs, a consistent stream of records, and travels throughout the world to deliver their flammable methodology of sludge metal to the masses. Fresh off the release of their 2025 full-length Death Hilarious, the Pigs quintet covers all their bases with down-tuned guitar strikes and relentless, raw vocal aggression. With Nashville alternative metal act Waxed in tow on this run of shows, the double bill wrapped their tour in Austin at the under-new-management 29th St. Ballroom, sending things off with a deafening display of power on Wednesday, August 27.

Live Music Review Robert Dean

Live music review: Tear Dungeon tour kick off at Radio East with stage dives

August 11, 2025 Robert Dean 4108 Views Austin Music, hardcore, live music, punk, Radio East, Review, rock n roll, Tear Dungeon, tear dungeon tour, tour kick off

I’ve seen a lot of things in my years of going to rock and roll shows. I have experienced a man in a rubber sex mask spit fake blood into a child’s face. Whenever Tear Dungeon plays, there is always a chance of something insane happening. Between roof climbs, the highest stage dives, a garage being ripped down to the studs (see: their show at the now-defunct Ghost Cat Lounge) the band has established a culture of chaos at their shows, that if you’re here, being an absolute psycho is A-OK. The band’s show at Radio East on Saturday, August, 9 was no exception

April Riggs Live Music Review

Live music review: My Morning Jacket got inducted into ACL TV Hall of Fame and I missed it

August 5, 2025 April Riggs 4460 Views ACL TV, ACL TV Hall of Fame, Americana, Austin City Limits, BLues, Cameron Crowe, Jim James, live music, My Morning Jacket, psych-rock, Review, rock n roll

I sent The Cosmic Clash crew a text about the upcoming Austin City Limits taping of My Morning Jacket, when I realized the band was being inducted into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame on Friday, August 1, by Cameron Crowe. Our editor responded to say it was all mine since I was the first to mention it. I had previous plans to see Dead cover band Deadeye play for Jerry Garcia’s birthday as well as catching the live streams for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and the 60th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead Money Grab happening at the same time, but I’m flexible and enjoy seeing MMJ and their bandleader Jim James anytime I can

Semihelix HSN 2025 13th Floor Troy Gonzales

Greg Ackerman Live Music Photos

Live music photos: Hot Summer Nights featured Andrew Cashen, Semihelix, Portrayal of Guilt and more

July 31, 2025 Greg Ackerman 3984 Views Andrew Cashen, Austin, Bruce, Como Las Movies, glam rock, gospel, hard rock, Hot Summer Nights, HSN, live music, metal, Mujeres Podridas, Pearl Z, photos, pop rock, Portrayal of Guilt, prog rock, psych-rock, Queen Serene, Red River Cultural District, rock n roll, Semihelix, Sexpop, shoegaze, Stop Motion Orchestra, Team Trust, The Bottomless, Troy Gonzales

The Red River Cultural District’s cover-free Hot Summer Nights event took place last weekend in venues all over the downtown neighborhood July 24-26. Nearly 150 primarily Austin-area artists took to the stage at Mohawk, 13th Floor, Elysium, Chess Club and a dozen other RRCD venues. This is the eighth year the neighborhood organization has organized the event which spawned from its original sister event, Free Week which takes place the first week of January each year. Resound Presents founder, Graham Williams is credited with originating that event while he was working as a talent booker at the original Emo’s on Red River and Sixth Street. featured in this photo story is Andrew Cashen and Disciples of Creation, shoegaze/psych rockers, Queen Serene, Pearl Z, Sexpop, Mujeres Podridas, Stop Motion Orchestra, Portrayal of Guilt, Semihelix and lots more.

Live Music Review Troy Gonzales

Live music review: Of Montreal sold-out Radio East for 20th anniversary of The Sunlandic Twins album

July 25, 2025 Troy Gonzales 4275 Views art rock, Cormae, garage rock, indie rock, Kevin Barnes, LBGTQA+, live music, Of Montreal, Pelvis Wrestley, Radio East, Review, rock n roll, The Sunlandic Twins

There comes a time in every music fan’s life, when the band or musical artist who they once viewed as hip and innovative, suddenly becomes seen as a nostalgic act. Which might be hard to argue when said band, of Montreal, founded by Kevin Barnes in 1996, is now celebrating the 20th anniversary of one of their most seminal and popular albums, The Sunlandic Twins with an ongoing tour. While it has never been my favorite album, (Satanic Panic in the Attic or Hissing Fauna and Are You The Destroyer both vie for that honor), I’ve rarely missed one of their live shows. There was no way I was going to pass up a chance to enjoy this 2oth anniversary celebration with new and old fans for what turned out to be a sold out show at Radio East on July 16.

Music News Robert Dean

Music news: celebrating Ozzy Osbourne in death is saying goodbye to an old friend

July 23, 2025 Robert Dean 4063 Views Black Sabbath, Death, heavy metal, King of Metal, metal music, music news, obituary, ozzy dead, Ozzy Osbourne, RIP Ozzy, rock n roll, tribute

Music is like an emotional sledgehammer to our lives; it’s the soundtrack to moments, to milestones. Everyone has those songs that, upon hearing them, transport them back in time. Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” is that time machine for many, a raucous small rip of mind fuck that fuels speeding cars, hot sex, or wild montages of cocaine and whiskey medicine. It’s a few moments of perfection, which the band never intended to be anything but album filler. That’s the majesty of the band – they created a genre: Heavy Metal. And the four lads from Birmingham experienced their fruits in real-time. Yesterday, Ozzy Osbourne, the King of Metal, passed on

Black Sabbath Back to the Beginning poster

Live Music Review Robert Dean

Live music review: Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath – The Tired King of Metal Gets His Final Bow

July 10, 2025 Robert Dean 5479 Views Alice In Chains, Back to the Beginning, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, Chad Smith, Disturbed, final concert, Geezer Butler, Guns n Roses, heavy metal, live music, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera, Review, rock n roll, Tom Morello, Tommy Iommi

Someone online said something profound about Ozzy’s final performance with Black Sabbath at Villa Park in their hometown of Birmingham, England on July 5: they called him a tired king. And as that tired king looked out over his court, with the whole world watching, he gave one last welcome to those still loyal to his heavy metal kingdom.

April Dawne Live Music Review

Live music review: Phish at Moody Center – Whatever You Do Take Care of Your Shoes

July 1, 2025 April Dawne 5545 Views concert review, jam band, Jon Fishman, live music, Mike Gordon, Moody Center, Page McConnell, Phish, Review, rock n roll, Trey Anastasio, whatever you do take care of your shoes

I’m still processing last weekend’s rollicking two night Phish run in Austin at the Moody Center. The last time the nerdy foursome from Vermont played Austin was on a sweltering July day in 2018 outside and I was in the midst of an on-again/off-again thing that was off who also happened to be at the show.

Amanda Quraishi Live Music Review

Live music review: A joyous solstice fest by The Bright Light Social Hour

June 25, 2025 Amanda Quraishi 4753 Views Curtis Roush, Endless Light Festival, funk, Grandmaster, indie rock, Jackie O'Brien, Juan Alfredo Rios, Megafauna, Mia Carruthers, mohawk, psych-rock, rock n roll, space rock, TBLSH, The Bright Light Social Hour, Zac Catanzaro

The summer solstice is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: a hometown performance by Austin’s The Bright Light Social Hour. This year, the band was joined for their one-night Endless Light Festival at Mohawk by four other outstanding Austin bands; Megafauna, Bruce, LLuvii, and Grandmaster on June 21 at the longtime downtown Red River Cultural District venue.

Greg Ackerman Live Music Photos

Live music photos: Pinky Fest by The Pinky Rings at Far Out Lounge featured eight bands

June 13, 2025 Greg Ackerman 3966 Views Cormae, Die Mart, Dregs, Far Out Lounge, indie rock, live music, Molly Ringworm, photos, Pinky Fest, punk rock, rock n roll, The Pinky Rings, Think No Think, Tied Up

On Saturday, June 7 Pinky Fest organized by Austin punk band The Pinky Rings took place at South Austin venue The Far Out Lounge and Stage. The event featured live music from eight local bands. Besides the all-female foursome hosts a raft of Austin acts including Molly Ringworm, Think No Think, Die Mart, Cormae, NSFWHO, Tied Up and Dregs performed on an unusually hot Spring weekend in Central Texas.