At age 59, James McMurtry still has the fire. The Austin Americana-rock institution still has the voice full of command, pessimism, jaundice and sometimes disgust. His pen comes reliably loaded with stories, observations, and mitigated[…]
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Barring a cancellation, I’ll be at Weekend 1 of Austin City Limits, my fifth consecutive year at the festival (as you’ll recall, there was no 2020 edition) and my third straight as[…]
At this moment, David Shaw boasts rock’s most impressive man-bun. I don’t anticipate a lot of wrangling or pushback over this opinion. When Shaw elects to bun up, it’s a colossus of bunmanship- in its own[…]
Look at the joy at the photo above. Kind of infectious, isn’t it? That’s what it looked like during the finale of Hotel Vegas’ American Girl show on the Fourth of July, when Jolie Cota[…]
Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) A South Austin kind of show, is what it was. The sprawling Far Out Lounge patio, where you could fit roughly four to five structures the size of the physical[…]
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) “This world don’t cherish truth, my spirit’s been mad for days,” sings Jackie Venson in the first verse of her newest single. From there, “‘Til This Pain Goes away” carries a[…]
