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Album review: Tearjerk, Face to Face (EP)

June 12, 2023June 13, 2023 Joeyalbum review

Perhaps knowing that Vanessa Jollay is part of Sailor Poon, and seeing this project branded under the forceful, punk-ish sounding name Tearjerk, you might expect Face to Face to offer something along the lines of[…]

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Album review: Van Mary (self-titled EP)

February 19, 2023 Joeyalbum review

Little by little, one or two choice tracks at a time, Van Mary has seemingly climbed toward the top tier of Austin rock. If quantity is less of a relevant criterion than quality, then perhaps they’ve officially arrived[…]

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Album review: A. Sinclair, South Padre

June 20, 2022 Joeyalbum review

The last 30 seconds or so of “Lean Into It,” the opening offering on A. Sinclair’s new album, are an awakening, gravel-coated cannon shot of noise-rock tacked onto a standard-issue, slow-burn acoustic tune. It emerges[…]

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Album review: Spoon, Lucifer on the Sofa

February 21, 2022December 31, 2022 Joeyalbum review

Britt Daniel is 50 now, about to be 51 pretty soon. And it’s hard not to look at that age, for an indie rock legend/general rock should-be-legend, and wonder how much he and his otherworldly[…]

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Album review: James McMurtry, The Horses and the Hounds

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Joeyalbum review

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[…]

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Local reviews (Sweet Spirit, Tameca Jones, Heartless Bastards) and a brief tribute to One-2-One Bar

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Joeyalbum review

(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography)   Last spring, when it became clear that COVID was going to grab the throat of some number of Austin music venues and force their heads into a filled bathtub[…]

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