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Austin Music Awards 2022: The return of the Dive Bar Grammys

March 13, 2022March 13, 2022 Joeymusic news

Yes, I did miss this. Two years away from the ragtag, buttons-loose, buzzing, not-even-faux-formal feel of the Austin Music Awards made the heart grow fonder. The AMAs, which I’m christening the Dive Bar Grammys as[…]

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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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Shows: KVN, Lena Luca @ Mohawk

January 27, 2022 Joeyconcert review

(Photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) Supergroups are historically a hit-or-miss proposition, if we’re being honest. The indie ones, generally featuring musicians who’ve had more modest career success, tend to turn out better than the ones[…]

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Ear Traffic’s top tracks of 2021: The Local 20 and the HI-35

December 30, 2021December 31, 2021 Joeymusic news

(Photo of James McMurtry by Nicole Berlin Photography)   In my ranking of my 10 favorite albums of 2021 (for historians, Ear Traffic’s first year-end album ranking), I mentioned how difficult it was to narrow[…]

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Ear Traffic ATX’s top 10 albums of 2021

December 29, 2021December 31, 2021 Joeymusic news

Maybe it’s overly typical to remember a year glowingly in year-end review material. Still, I’ll say it without devolving into broad fawning: I really enjoyed the music of 2021. Picking my 10 favorite albums of[…]

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Tameca Jones says goodbye with music; when’s the right time to “call it a year” for year-end lists?

December 17, 2021December 18, 2021 Joeyconcert review

It was loud and raucous enough inside the sold-out Continental Club for what was billed as Tameca Jones’ final Austin show that I can’t say with 100% certainty that she didn’t explicitly say goodbye in[…]

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