Live music review: Cult icons The Residents brought career-spanning set to Austin on Easter
The Residents are proud freaks, and the fans are too. They showed up for their performance in Austin last Sunday.
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Essay: A SXSW 2023 true tale of heartbreak
I’m an unreliable narrator – SXSW passes and all. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned about new bands, new places to eat, new bartenders to meet to serve you a drink. I hope you got an inside track about what the Austin music scene has to offer. But it was never about you.
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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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The Lost Well: Austin Punk’s Last Stand
Many of the bars and venues of the past are now alive thanks to a savvy marketer coupling with new construction Svengali, giving the names of their suites like the “Armadillo World Headquarters” or “the Trudy’s Room,” offering a gross impression of what was in a place steeped in so much cultural history. Yet some places remain – like The Lost Well.
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Live music preview: Strand of Oaks at 3TEN at ACL Live this Saturday
This Saturday, December 17 finds Strand Of Oaks taking the 3Ten ACL Live stage for a performance that promises to bring an appropriate mix of Showalter’s songwriting ability to traverse folk, country, and rock in a live setting.
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Live music preview: Final Club X show at 13th Floor with Montaz, Galactic Protector, Pagoto and Queen Serene
The Final Club X show presented by Mas Music, of their month long residency at 13th Floor Bar comes to a close tomorrow with a lineup that on the surface looks unassuming until you know that Pagogo features Ellie English of L.A. Witch
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Interview: Mike Cosmic talks with Bonnie Bloomgarden of Death Valley Girls at LEVITATION
When we heard Death Valley Girls were on the bill at LEVITATION, Mike Cosmic immediately reached out to Bonnie Bloomgarden, founder and soul of the Los Angeles-based band that had become a Cosmic Clash favorite years ago. Bloomgarden apparently replied right away, letting our founder know their founder couldn’t wait to sit down and talk DVG music with us. The interview we recorded runs at just under ten minutes
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Live music review: Dinosaur Jr at ACL Live rocked it loud
Dinosaur Jr played Austin’s ACL Live Moody theater this past Sunday, a rescheduled appearance originally booked for late 2021. The show was rescheduled as a result of the live music thorn in the flesh, COVID. A relatively unknown, Ryley Walker opened the show with a somewhat offsetting style to Dinosaur Jr’s wall of sonic sludge.
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Live music preview: L.A. Witch and Blushing to rock Parish August 17
That is why when Resound Presents asked us to co-present some upcoming shows, the L.A. Witch / Blushing bill jumped out at us. Not only are the West Coast garage rockers great live performers, Austin act, Blushing falls right into that same category of mesmerizing live band. The two groups sharing the bill together at the Parish on August 17 is too perfect for us to pass up
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Video premiere: Austin’s Scott Collins dropped Be Alright clip yesterday
Austin singer-songwriter, Scott Collins released the video for his song, “Be Alright” yesterday, partnering with The Cosmic Clash to premiere the video on our homepage as our “Video of the Week.”
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