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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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Ear Traffic’s top 10 albums and the HI-35 for 2022

February 14, 2023February 15, 2023 Joeymusic news

The competition was absurdly tough in choosing Ear Traffic’s top 10 overall albums of 2022 and (especially) for picking the top 35 tracks of the year, aka the HI-35. I suppose that from my perspective,[…]

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Ear Traffic’s best local albums and tracks of 2022

December 31, 2022 Joeymusic news

Real quick, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it yet again: The year doesn’t end on Nov. 30. It drives me up … not a wall, but perhaps an easily scalable chain-link fence …[…]

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have given us the Song of Anti-Summer. Now, hearts like mine need the comeback to be completed

August 21, 2022August 22, 2022 Joeymusic news

For an ardent-but-realistic Yeah Yeah Yeahs appreciator, it’s a little surprising how astoundingly this comeback has gone — so far. Nearly a decade after one of the best bands of the 2000s left us with a barely-worth-any-trouble[…]

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SXSW Thursday: Yard Act and We Were Promised Jetpacks give Brooklyn Vegan some British variety

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Joeyconcert review

It was a heavy internal dilemma for, oh, perhaps 72 hours — where was my return to South by Southwest going to occur this year? On Thursday afternoon, I finally decided to cheer myself up[…]

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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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