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Shows: The Bad Lovers, Rattlesnake Milk, the Crack Pipes and Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs @ Hotel Vegas

September 28, 2022September 29, 2022 Joeyconcert review

If this lineup for the Bad Lovers’ single release party was “all like 2014,” as Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs said near the start of her solo opening set, well … take me back? Simpler[…]

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Shows: Vandoliers @ 3Ten ACL Live

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Joeyconcert review

Pretty much as soon as Vandoliers began playing Thursday night, I thought about when the last time was that I’d heard anything that could be described as “cowpunk,” or even heard the term. Even in[…]

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Shows: Y’all Out Boy’s Far Out party makes pop-punk feel like the perfect genre it definitely isn’t

July 9, 2022 Joeyconcert review

If I wanted to detail my complicated personal relationship with pop-punk, I could probably go on for awhile. I might even bore the ever-loving crap out of you in the process. For concision — because I really[…]

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Shows: Snail Mail @ Moody Theater

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Joeyconcert review

“You guys wanna know something crazy? We’ve never played a bad show in Austin,” Lindsey Jordan — aka Snail Mail — told fans early in her show at the Moody Theater on May 2. “I[…]

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Old Settler’s recap: “Hippie festival” offers four days of people and performers being themselves

May 7, 2022May 8, 2022 Steve Levineconcert review

A riddle: If you’re watching a Tejano band play Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” at an Americana music festival, where are you? It’s got to be the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival, the Austin area’s longest[…]

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Shows: girl in red, Holly Humberstone @ Emo’s

April 13, 2022April 14, 2022 Joeyconcert review

During ACL last fall, I noted that Marie Ulven isn’t literally a girl in red. But – and this can’t be overemphasized enough in understanding Ulven’s appeal as a live performer – she’s not a figurative[…]

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