Thursday and Friday day shows at South by Southwest have been my standard intake each year for about nine years now. Some year, I’ll finally plunge all the way into the SXSW experience off the[…]
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Shows: Hovvdy, Cold War Kids @ Stubb’s
Last Friday, a day before I was set to go see Hovvdy at Stubb’s, I heard MGMT’s recent single “Mother Nature,” and it occurred to me how much it reminded me of the ascendant Austin[…]
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Artist interview: Blakchyl rolling into SXSW as East Austin’s most dedicated ambassador
(Courtesy photo: Blakchyl) She’ll appear at South by Southwest in a month, but if Te’aunna Moore ever wrests control of the festival — or puts on one of her own — it’s safe to wonder if[…]
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Shows: Chance Peña, Hayd @ Antone’s
Should it have been surprising to see what appeared to be nearly all of Chance Peña’s sold-out crowd already filled in at 8 p.m., in place at Antone’s one hour before he was scheduled to go on? Perhaps it[…]
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Ear Traffic’s 10 best albums and HI-35 (best tracks) for 2023
As I effectively said when I did my local best-ofs, for this writer the best thing about 2023 was that it ended. But one of the runners-up, surely, is the collective impact of the year’s[…]
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Shows: Toadies, Local H @ Emo’s
Without benefit of a time machine, the throwback materialized pretty remarkably: it was 1996, maybe ’97, all over again at Emo’s. Unfortunately, there was just a hint of Woodstock ’99 thrown in there, too — but[…]
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