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Best Austin Albums of 2019

December 18, 2019 Greg Ackerman 211 Views Albums, Austin, best albums, Black Pumas, Gary Clark Jr, Jackie Venson, Megafauna, Moving Panoramas, Music, records, Sun June, Superfonicos, The Bright Light Social Hour, The Vapor Caves, top albums, Townes Van Zandt, vinyl

Two years ago, over 400 albums were released by Austin artists according to Kevin Curtin at
The Austin Chronicle. Curtin then released a list of Austin’s top 200 records. His point? The musical bar is set so high in Austin that half of that momentous number of releases were deserving of some kind of mention in a year-end list. While we applaud him for the effort in producing a massive list of worthy albums, we’re keeping it simple with a more manageable collection of best Austin albums we loved listening to in the past year.

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Top Austin albums of 2018

December 7, 2018 Greg Ackerman 185 Views album review, Austin Music, best albums, Black Joe Lewis, Como Las Movies, Curtis Roush, Ghostland Observatory, Molly Burch, new music, Otis Wilkins, Shakey Graves, Sun June, The Bright Light Social Hour, White Denim, year end list

With the end of the year in sight, we figured it was time to run down our favorite albums of

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Song Premiere: Walker Lukens’ Election Confession brought Bright Light Social Hour and Joi Chevalier together and it was magic

October 31, 2018 Greg Ackerman 285 Views Election Confession, Jim Eno, Joi Chevalier, live music, Native Hostel, new music, politics, Song Confessional, The Bright Light Social Hour, vote, voter initiative, Walker Lukens

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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Album review: The Bright Light Social Hour released first new music in three years Friday

September 30, 2018 Greg Ackerman 493 Views Afrobeat, Austin, Austin Music, Curtis Roush, Jackie O'Brien, Music, new music, psych-rock, shoegaze, TBLSH, The Bright Light Social Hour, The Cosmic Clash

After covering The Bright Light Social Hour for nearly a decade, since their debut album The Bright Light Social Hour dropped, I can honestly say I couldn’t be more excited for the group. If you clicked the link, you saw tens of thousands of plays their debut has on Soundcloud which isn’t even the most popular streaming platform they’re found on. The band was hot. You couldn’t turn on KUT (KUTX didn’t exist yet) without hearing one of the band’s singles.

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